Victory in Kamloops has Conservative MLAs switching to government side for first time

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As the count stands Monday morning, the BC Conservatives are set to control a super majority in the BC Legislature with 63 MLAs. 

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“It’s been a very crazy and strange last 36 days for me, but you know what, we are all where we needed to be, and that was to find a way to get together as one party to defeat David Eby, regardless,” said Milobar.

That crazy summer led Milobar to leave the Conservatives, sit as an independent, be named leader of CentreBC for all of 48 hours and then return to the Tories following Kerry-Lynne Findlay’s resignation. Stamer, for his part, remained within the once-splintering party.

“Not this culture war stuff,” Stamer told CFJC News. “I think everybody realized it was important for us to come together as a group. We were able to come together as a group in a short period of time, and we collectively made sure we stayed on message, on point and didn’t bring up all this other stuff.”

After years of advocating to government, the capital wish list in Kamloops is not small – including a PET-CT scanner for the incoming cancer centre at Royal Inland Hospital.

“The operational design might have changed in terms of dealing with where the pharmacy is located or not and some of those other changes,” said Milobar. “I think we need to take a good hard look at that and figure out just how do we make that a properly functioning cancer centre like every other cancer centre being designed in British Columbia.” 

“We’ve got to finish that cancer clinic and we’ve got to make sure we get a PET-CT scanner. That has to be part of the package,” added Stamer. “Peter Milobar and I have been lobbying for that from day one. If you are going to build it, to have to build it right. Red Bridge – it’s ridiculous that we are still talking about this. They already should be building it. It should already be built by now. We are going to be able to have those conversations.”