Another MLA has announced they are leaving the BC Conservative Party.
Bruce Banman, MLA for Abbotsford-South, issued a statement on Thursday saying that “after numerous conversations with many of my constituents, it has become clear under the new leadership and direction of the Conservative Party of BC, an NDP win is becoming increasingly likely. For the sake of the future of this province, we must defeat this NDP government.”
He said that since the leadership race concluded and Kerry-Lynne Findlay was selected to lead the party, he is hearing from constituents and “seeing with my own eyes, the political tent needed to defeat the NDP getting smaller, not larger.
“The goal in politics is to make the tent bigger. To listen to the majority. It’s not about left or right. It’s about doing what’s right.”
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Banman joins Brennan Day, Teresa Wat, Rosayln Bird, Ian Paton and Peter Milobar as recent defectors from the BC Conservatives.
They have all cited concerns about Findlay’s leadership as a reason for leaving the party.
“People of all walks of life tell me we need a group to pull together, defeat this NDP government, open up our vast resources again and bring prosperity back to the province they and I so deeply love,” Banman said in a statement.
“Person after person has informed me they have decided that our new leader is unelectable. So, with a heavy heart, I am announcing today I am joining an ever-increasing number of MLAs to sit as an Independent MLA in the BC Legislature. I would encourage my fellow MLAs, regardless of political affiliation, to join me.”
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Only four days ago, Findlay posted this tweet and a photo of her and Banman together.
“Anonymous
August 29, 2026 at 2:33 pm
She is being setup this stories on the news every ten minutes.”
Another brainless Conservative conspiracy theorist. Can’t handle the truth so she must’ve been set up by Global…. LOL what an idiot
If anybody is unelectable it is him.
She is being setup this stories on the news every ten minutes.
Correction: ANOTHER “CLOSET LIBERAL” HAS LEFT THE BC CONSERVATIVE PARTY. KLF is making them uneasy the rats are running away.
One thing for sure, this Province isn’t getting any better .. Time for the citizen’s to take a hard look at what direction they want this Province to go ..
A fractured Conservative Party will doom BC to a dismal Liberal or NDP future!
another added bonus, my grandmother passed away at 72, and this woman is changing careers, give me a freeking break
Just an added bonus to my last comment, what the hell is she thinking, this is not a short term project!!!!!, where the hell would she be in ten years, OH thats right, she will be 81 and still a MAGA suporter
“Anonymous
August 28, 2026 at 4:20 pm
Jay V,
Are you building a campfire with all the door trim off the Luugat Hotel?. Asking for a friend.”
Nah bro I live in a condo down in the River District in South Van. I bet it’s a lot nicer than the trailer park you live in. So how’s the weather in Maple Ridge these days anyways?
Jay V,
Are you building a campfire with all the door trim off the Luugat Hotel?. Asking for a friend.
all liberals, more left definitely not centre, do not seem to appreciate family values, or progression with a slighly centre right pary, the conservatives are not right wing, they are a center party with values!
Interesting that when MPs cross the aisle from federal Con to Lib, PP trolls cry about it being “illegal” or “treason” (it’s neither by the way), but when MLAs leave the BC Con party and decide to sit as independents, which only helps the BC NDP, somehow that’s not the same thing? Hypocrisy abounds.
Why does Global not report on Eby and the 1.5 billion dollars that he lied and said he did not know about in the budget error.
LOL the BC Conservative circus just lost another clown. Karen-Lynne Findlay is losing MLA’s faster than she’s gaining wrinkles on her face. It’s gonna be a good Friday night at the BC NDP camp tonight! Nothing but smiles and high fives all around 😀😀
Just another liberal has-been.
He has got something there. The political parties seem to have for gotten the people. BC should get rid of the NDP because they are out for themselves and definitely do not represent the people of this province.
So, looks pretty dire for BC. The mass exodus begins. No one wants to be under the NDP anymore and Eby the idiot. I’m gone in less than two years when my contract expires at work. I know a ton of people who are moving out. Some to other parts of Canada, some to other countries. This country is a failed experiment in fascism, quickly morphing to communism.
Where in God’s name did they ever dig this woman up. She is embarrassing just to look at. Should be sitting in a bar smoking cigarettes.
Alberta…just move back to your own country and get this over with !! It’s never gonna happen. Give it up.
HAHAHAHA you couldn’t write this script any better. BC Lieberals trying to change their stripes and can’t even agree on a leader much less keep a party together. Here is to hoping for a minority with whatever these parties call themselves
What is with these Clowns your either in or out.
Another Liberal.
Eby wins by doing nothing