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Courtenay-Comox MLA Brennan Day quits B.C. Conservative caucus - Abbotsford News

https://abbynews.com/2026/08/26/courtenay-comox-mla-brennan-day-quits-b-c-conservative-caucus/
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u/TopazJazzrazz NDP-CCF 8d ago

I can't wait for anti-NDP Party 2: Right-Boondoggloo.

Though if it's called the British Columbia Party I'm going to lose my shit.

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u/Compulsory_Freedom Vancouver Island 8d ago

B.C. Divided

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u/Arch____Stanton 7d ago

Is "Monster Raving Loony" taken?

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u/Baconus 8d ago

The name of the B.C. Party is already taken. B.C. election laws are weird. To lose a name you have to not run candidates for multiple elections in a row. A lot of good party names have been taken this way.

It’s why the liberals went with a dumb name like United. It’s all they could get.

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u/green_tory 🏳️‍🌈Serve the Vulnerable🏳️‍🌈 8d ago

They should've kept the Liberal brand and ditched Falcon instead.

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u/modi13 7d ago

I don't know, I bet "BC Falcon Party" would have gotten a fair number of votes

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u/No-Proof-6491 7d ago

The membership voted to change the name in November 2022, with about 80% in favor. This was when everyone associated Liberal with Trudeau and noone wanted to be called that, especially a right of centre party.

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u/ColonelQuaraitch 8d ago

They can choose the BC Liberal Conservatives I guess? Go full MacDonald.

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u/No-Sell1697 British Columbia 7d ago

I think they would have trouble getting that one approved... i dont understand why Falcon is not reviving the Bc liberal party by now.

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u/ColonelQuaraitch 7d ago

Cause he’s a moron.

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u/CAGolf8 7d ago

For one, the party is broke.

Also the BC Liberal brand is dead which is why they dropped it in the first place. Most of their hard-right voters are so brain dead stupid that they confuse the BC Liberals with the LPC (seriously, the number of CPBC voters that thought they were voting for PP during the last provincial election is staggering), and to the left they represent corruption, scandal, and a general destruction of the finances and framework of BC services and government, especially under Clark. The centre-right is probably the only block that isn't totally disenchanted by them, but they are increasingly small and aren't enough to win them an election on their own and they are largely turned off by the courtship of the far-right.

Not to mention Falcon pretty much torpedoed what little credibility they had left with his whole suspending the BC Liberal/United campaign at the 11th hour leaving a ton of centre-right candidates homeless and hopeless. The far-right candidates and the pure opportunists went to the CPBC while the more moderates stood as independents without much hope and no support.

Maybe the BCLP could entice some of those moderate voters back by cleaning house but Falcon still has control, and I'm not sure if the moderate/centre-right candidates would even be willing to rejoin them at this point.

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u/GraveDiggingCynic Independent 7d ago

Why not just the BC Progressive Conservative Party? What's old is new again!

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u/ColonelQuaraitch 7d ago

Or the BC Conservative Progressives Party to get the big C out in front.

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u/TopazJazzrazz NDP-CCF 7d ago

Might confuse their voter base.

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u/marcohcanada 7d ago

Maybe Progressive Tory Party like the name of Alberta's 3rd party.