OneBC is a provincial political party in British Columbia, Canada. It was registered with Elections BC on June 9, 2025.[1][2] Independent MLAs Dallas Brodie and Tara Armstrong launched the new party, with Brodie serving as interim leader[2] and Armstrong as house leader.[3]
Brodie and Armstrong were elected as Conservative MLAs in the 2024 election.[4] On March 7, 2025, Brodie was removed from the Conservative caucus for comments she made about residential schools on a podcast.[5] Later that day, Armstrong voluntarily left the caucus.[6]
On June 12, 2025, the creation of OneBC was announced.[7] The party held its first town hall meeting in Abbotsford on September 13, 2025.[8] The party's subsequent town hall meeting in Penticton was moved to a private art studio after their request to book the publicly-owned Penticton Trade and Convention Centre was rejected by the city.[9]
On October 6, 2025, OneBC proposed a bill against gender-affirming healthcare. The bill would have prohibited doctors from providing puberty blockers to minors, public funds from being used for gender transitions, and misgendering in schools from being punished. It would have also given parents and children 25 years after gender transition treatments to sue their doctors. The bill was defeated before its first reading, a rare occurrence, by a vote of 48 to 40.[10] Later that same month, on October 23, the party proposed a bill that would have banned public institutions and employees from making land acknowledgements; the bill was defeated 88 to 5 in the first reading.[11]
Policies
OneBC outlined a number of its policies in a press release on June 12, 2025. The party proposes cutting income taxes, allowing private healthcare, ending "mass migration", defunding "the reconciliation industry" and banning teacher strikes.[12] It has also called for an end to mail-in voting and early voting, as well as for all votes to be counted by hand.[13][14] Michael MacKenzie, a professor of political science at Vancouver Island University, described OneBC as similar policy-wise to the federal People's Party of Canada (PPC), comparing their shared support for "big tax cuts, private health care and socially conservative policies".[15]Kelowna columnist Wilbur Turner, writing for The Tyee, opined that Brodie's rhetoric is "the classic populist playbook".[16]
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