I entered the political arena for one reason: to deliver as many knockout punches as it took to bring down this NDP government and to finally return the province to the people of British Columbia. Over the past two years, I introduced 14 bills and fought 17 battles in Question Period. I took on issues other MLAs would not touch. Abolishing the Human Rights Tribunal. Closing drug consumption sites. Defunding Aboriginal title claims over privately owned land. I asked questions that David Eby wouldn’t answer. What is a woman?
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Why won't you condemn far-left ANTIFA violence? But fighting against bad ideas was never enough. I also put forward ambitious new policies. This included major reforms to: - lower taxes on housing and income earned by young people; - require foreign residents to contribute toward the cost of healthcare; - protect children from harmful gender ideology and medical procedures; and - make pharmaceutical corporations financially accountable for the harms caused by experimental drug products, among many others. Through all of it, I was fortunate to have one brave ally beside me in the House. Thank you, Jordan Kealy. I also had an extraordinary team in both my legislative and constituency offices. They had my back every step of the way. What I hadn't anticipated was that the fiercest resistance would come from within the BC Conservative Party. Too often, my own former “conservative” colleagues stood in the way of the changes I was fighting for. Changes that aligned with the platform that we all ran on. I left the party to sit as an Independent last year after its AGM left me concerned that the party didn’t respect the democratic rights of its members. That conviction only deepened this summer with the wave of MLA resignations protesting the leader chosen by those same members. I simply can’t stand behind a party that won’t respect the fundamental democratic rights of British Columbians. As for OneBC, I won't rehash last year. What I do want you to know is that we tried to work with Dallas. We really did. And we tried to reconcile with her before the election, too. My team reached out to her through a mutual friend before the writ drop with an offer to put differences aside and to work together as partners through the general election and until OneBC could finally hold its first AGM and leadership review. We received no response to that request. After the writ drop, we saw OneBC announce that they were running a candidate in my riding despite having publicly committed not to split the vote against principled conservatives. If I were to run now as an Independent, with a three-way vote split on the right, a likely outcome would be another NDP MLA. In an election this tight, that could be enough to doom BC to another Eby majority. I'm not going to do that to my fellow British Columbians. I have decided, therefore, not to seek re-election on October 24th, 2026. To my constituents: thank you for trusting me with your stories, your challenges, and your ideas. Serving you has been one of the greatest honours of my life. To my team: thank you from the bottom of my heart. I could not have done any of this without you. You went from acquaintances, to colleagues, to friends, and ultimately to an extended family for which I will always be grateful. To my kids: thank you for all the times you shared me with this job, and for your patience, your love, and your unwavering support. And to my husband and best friend: thank you for standing beside me through every day of this journey, for believing in me, and for giving me the strength to carry on. You were there on the hard days, and there were many. The truth is that the change BC needs won’t arrive on October 24th. It will take a fight, both inside and outside of our Legislature, for many months and election cycles to come. Ours is a long struggle, but with integrity, courage, and determination, we will prevail.