Ward Stamer (Image Credit: CFJC Today)

By Michael Reeve

BC POLITICS

BC Conservatives staying focused on leadership contest amid OneBC drama

Dec 15, 2025 | 5:41 PM

KAMLOOPS — The BC Conservatives are funneling comment regarding the collapse of OneBC toward interim leader Trevor Halford, with MLAs staying focused on their own leadership contest.

But with one right-of-centre party in turmoil, it will be important for the BC Conservatives and whoever becomes their next leader to attempt to unite as much of the right as possible under a single goal.

“We are a right-of-centre party, we are not a centre-of-right party,” said Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Ward Stamer Monday (Dec. 15). “There could be far right, there is already far left — those people are going to gravitate to the parties they align with. Again, it doesn’t matter if other parties spring up. I still think the core group of people who are right-of-centre are going to be supporting the BC Conservative Party. Whether we have an election today or tomorrow, we are very confident we will be able to get our messaging out.”

Stamer is hoping the leadership contest will bring new energy and ideas to the Tories, with the leaders proposing new policies that could help swing the next general election.

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“It is a positive and it is a springboard. And with all that turmoil with leader (John) Rustad stepping down, we had more donations that week than we had in the entire month of November,” added Stamer. “Obviously, we are getting that excitement, we are getting that cohesiveness that we need in a party.”