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Public resources meant for legislative work were used to amplify culture-war crusades while core issues like affordability and health care went unanswered

For six months, taxpayers have forked over roughly $300,000 in public funding to a political entity that did not exist on the ballot last October. That works out to $50,000 a month. All of it because MLA Dallas Brodie got fired from the BC Conservatives for mocking residential school survivors, and colleague Tara Armstrong decided to quit and join her.

Along the way, OneBC spent public funds to produce a documentary infused with residential school denialism. The film was promoted using legislature caucus resources, but featured interviews almost exclusively with their own staff, party supporters and future candidates. Asked how much money was spent producing the film, Brodie dismissed the use of taxpayer dollars as a “private” matter.