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Incumbent MLA Á'a:Líya Warbus Returns to Conservatives - The Interior News - Smithers BC
Warbus said the party’s direction no longer reflected her values and confirmed she will seek another term in the provincial election.
- On Tuesday, Á'a:líya Warbus, incumbent MLA for Chilliwack-Cultus Lake, announced her return to the Conservative Party of BC and will seek re-election, hours after Premier David Eby called a snap election for October 24.
- Warbus left the party on August 31, criticizing then-leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay for a "breakdown in communication" between MLAs and leadership, then joined a new group that merged with CentreBC on September 18.
- Kerry-Lynne Findlay stepped down as leader on Sunday, with Lorne Doerkson, Cariboo-Chilcotin MLA, appointed interim leader the next day. Warbus said the party can now "reset" and return to a "responsible, progressive-conservative approach."
- Returning to caucus, Warbus emphasized B.C. needs "authentic Indigenous voices with lived experience" in reconciliation discussions and stressed legislation addressing Title must be practical and transparent, questioning if DRIPA offers an acceptable framework.
- With Warbus's return, all sitting MLAs who previously left the Conservatives and joined CentreBC have now rejoined the party. Warbus stated the work is "bigger than any one person, any one disagreement or any one chapter.
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Chilliwack-Cultus Lake incumbent Á'a:líya Warbus returns to B.C. Conservatives - 100 Mile Free Press
Á’a:líya Warbus, incumbent MLA for Chilliwack-Cultus Lake, has returned to the Conservative Party of BC. Warbus made the announcement in a statement made to social media on Tuesday (Sept. 22), hours after Premier David Eby called a snap election for Oct. 24. “I left the BC Conservative caucus because I believed I had to. I could not stay silent when the direction of the party no longer reflected the kind of principled, responsible and centre-rig…
·100 Mile House, Canada
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