Findlay Resignation Turns OneBC’s Independent Lane Into a Serious Leadership Test
September 22, 2026 · iVoteOneBC research desk
The B.C. centre-right map shifted again this week: public reporting says Kerry-Lynne Findlay resigned as BC Conservative leader, the party board appointed Lorne Doerkson interim leader, and John Rustad returned to the Conservative caucus.
What is verified today
Global News reported on September 20 that Findlay had stepped down as leader of the Conservative Party of British Columbia. CityNews and CKPG Today then reported on September 21 that Cariboo-Chilcotin MLA Lorne Doerkson was appointed interim leader.
CityNews also reported that John Rustad returned to the Conservative caucus. That matters because the same movement that spent months arguing about leadership, defections, expulsions, by-elections, and reunification now has another public reset to test.
The OneBC supporter frame
For Dallas Brodie and OneBC supporters, the positive frame is not chaos for its own sake. It is discipline. Brodie kept an independent lane when the old structure fractured, stood OneBC down in Abbotsford-Mission as a concrete anti-NDP unity gesture, and continues to lead a party whose official pages still list her as Vancouver-Quilchena MLA and Interim Leader.
OneBC’s official candidate page still lists Jim McMurtry in Delta South and Warren Hamm in Penticton, Summerland and Naramata. That is the clean claim: a small but real public candidate list, not an invented province-wide slate, membership number, polling surge, caucus agreement, or seat projection.
What supporters should watch next
- Whether Doerkson publishes a clear unity or candidate plan before the Legislature returns.
- Whether Findlay’s Abbotsford-Mission by-election campaign changes its message after the leadership resignation.
- Whether OneBC adds new official candidates, events, petitions, or policy pages.
- Whether any party publishes actual alliance terms instead of vague “work together” language.