'Unite the Right'? BC Conservative and OneBC leaders hold dinner together

BC Conservative Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay and OneBC Dallas Brodie had a dinner together over the weekend, leading to speculation of a party merger, or simply Brodie rejoining the BC Conservative Caucus.

Both leaders publicly posted about their dinner, with Brodie posting first, saying they “had a long talk about the challenges facing B.C. and how to tackle the road ahead” while adding that they are united in the goal of defeating the NDP.

Findlay then re-posted, adding that they “share a lot of common ground.”

Brodie was elected as a BC Conservative in the 2024 provincial election, before being ejected from the Caucus for public comments on residential schools.

In explaining Brodie’s banishment from Caucus, then-BC Conservative Leader John Rustad specifically pointed to a podcast interview where, in Rustad's view, Brodie used a “mocking, child-like voice to belittle testimony from former residential school students.”

Prior to this, Rustad had already faced calls to remove Brodie for speaking on residential school graves.

BC Conservative MLA Tara Armstrong followed Brodie in leaving the Conservative Caucus, going on to found OneBC as a new right-of-centre party. Armstrong later left OneBC as well to sit as an independent.

At the time of Brodie’s removal from Caucus, MLA Jordan Kealy also left the BC Conservatives to sit as an independent, which he remains today. In June, Kealy was charged with sexual assault, for which he denies the allegations.

John Rustad himself resigned as BC Conservative Leader in December 2025, ushering in a leadership contest that Findlay eventually won.

During that race, leadership contender Yuri Fulmer, following discussions with Brodie, proposed an agreement wherein the BC Conservatives and OneBC would not run candidates against one another in ridings, while OneBC would only run candidates in five ridings.

A recent Research Co. poll showed OneBC polling at two per cent, although Pallas Data had the party at 7 per cent in February and Mainstreet Research at 11 per cent in April.