Fulmer and Brodie Announce Pact to Unite Right-of-Centre Vote in B.C.

Overview

• The deal lays out a seat plan in which OneBC would skip 88 of B.C.'s 93 ridings and the Conservatives would leave five for OneBC.
• The parties also set a confidence-and-supply agreement, meaning OneBC would back a Fulmer government on budgets and confidence votes without joining a formal coalition.
• Dallas Brodie, now leading OneBC after leaving the Conservative caucus last year, declared full support for Yuri Fulmer to become premier.
• The arrangement would take effect only if Fulmer wins the B.C. Conservative leadership, with the party set to choose a new leader by the end of May.
• The pact seeks to prevent right-side vote splits against the NDP, yet Brodie’s past remarks about residential school survivors could turn some voters away.