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By The Canadian Press

Provincial Politics

Cariboo-Chilcotin MLA Doerkson joins BC Conservatives

May 31, 2024 | 1:23 PM

VICTORIA — The caucus chair for the BC United party is defecting to the BC Conservatives, adding to the woes of the province’s official opposition.

Lorne Doerkson, who represents Cariboo-Chilcotin, and BC Conservative Leader John Rustad announced the move that increases the party’s numbers in the legislature to three.

The move comes after talks between the two right-of-centre parties broke down amid failure to settle on a deal to avoid vote splitting in the fall provincial election.

Doerkson says in a statement that he made the move because the election set for October is “simply too consequential” and his constituents want to see a Conservative government.

He says the BC Conservatives are the only party capable of defeating the current NDP government.

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Doerkson was first elected in 2020 and has served as BC United’s shadow minister for water, land and resource stewardship and rural development, and emergency management and climate readiness.