What is OneBC, the Far-Right Party Making Headlines in British Columbia?

A new party in British Columbia has been gaining attention for its provocative and inflammatory positions, including anti-Indigenous rhetoric and residential-school denialism, abolishing DEI, anti-LGBTQ2S+ policies and more.

OneBC, a political party in BC with only two seats, founded earlier this year by Vancouver-Quilchena MLA Dallas Brodie, has been making a lot of noise in and outside of the legislature in an apparent attempt to gain favour with BC’s far right.

After Brodie was removed from the BC Conservative caucus in March for comments she made about residential schools, MLAs Tara Armstrong (Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream) and Jordan Kealy (Peace River North) both left the party in solidarity.

In June, Armstrong joined with Brodie to launch OneBC, allowing the party to receive official status in the legislature.

Brodie has notoriously shared anti-Indigenous views and amplified the idea that the genocide of Indigenous peoples was a hoax, and recently participated in an event at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops to cast doubt on the presence of unmarked graves at the site of the former residential school nearby.

A standoff at Thompson Rivers University. Dallas Brodie is the woman in the arena. pic.twitter.com/eBpYzJKjWk

— OneBC (@One_BCHQ) November 12, 2025

Brodie later doubled down with a private member’s bill to repeal Truth And Reconciliation Day in BC.

Here’s something no other politician will say: we’re not sorry for building Canada. We don’t regret Canada’s existence. Today I introduced a bill to remove Truth and Reconciliation Day as a holiday, because we’re proud of the great country we built from an untamed wilderness. pic.twitter.com/W3Nl7pUSvp

— Dallas Brodie (@Dallas_Brodie) November 20, 2025

“The idea that we need to reconcile presumes an act of wrongdoing and regret. But we have no regrets, nothing to reconcile for and no apologies to give, because we did nothing wrong,” Brodie said when attempting to introduce it in the legislature. (The assembly overwhelmingly voted against allowing her to do so.)

Over the course of the last two years, Brodie has continued to make inflammatory comments, repeatedly putting out statements denying the presence of mass graves at residential schools, as well as funding and promoting a “documentary” titled Making a Killing: Reconciliation, Genocide, and Plunder in Canada.

Brodie has also previously come under fire for claiming that First Nations communities need to “take responsibility” for “their people” on the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.

The inflammatory views advanced by OneBC are similar to those of the People’s Party of Canada, to which Brodie has been a donor in the past.

Various Indigenous leaders and groups have called for Brodie to resign over the last year, including the First Nations Indigenous Leadership Council, Syilx Okanagan Nation Chiefs, Tk’emlúps Kúkwpi7, Penticton Indian Band and Okanagan Nation Alliance, and Métis Nation of BC.

Tara Armstrong, the other MLA in Brodie’s party, echoes the same anti-Indigenous talking points, as does the party’s official platform.

Armstrong, a former businessperson, has also sowed doubt concerning the scientific validity of vaccines, and called Orange Shirt Day “propaganda” being imposed on children.

We didn’t steal Canada. We built it. pic.twitter.com/7rvsF6pwKc

— Tara Armstrong (@TaraArmstrongBC) November 22, 2025

In addition to a push to “defund the reconciliation industry,” the party wants to “end the practice of mandatory land acknowledgements within the government and government-funded institutions,” which Armstrong has called a “humiliation ritual.”

Other elements of OneBC’s platform that both Brodie and Armstrong have been pushing online include getting rid of diversity, equity and inclusion policies, removing SOGI 123 (resources that promote sexual and gender inclusivity) from schools, banning strikes by educators by declaring them an essential service, and promoting “cultural integration” and ending immigration, among other things.

Shut it down today. pic.twitter.com/KsQDUjNcgM

— Dallas Brodie (@Dallas_Brodie) November 24, 2025

The distinction between OneBC and BC’s other right-wing party, the BC Conservatives, seems to be an intentional and overt appeal to fringe elements of the far-right base in BC.

In response to questions from PressProgress, including whether the party is deliberately courting support from far-right elements, OneBC executive director Paul Ratchford said in a statement that “OneBC is the only party in Canada that wants every Canadian to have the same rights and privileges regardless of their race or ancestry.”

But Armstrong and Brodie’s posts on social media, expressing nostalgia for a time before immigration or multiculturalism, seem to tell a different story.

Like Brodie, Armstrong has put forth a number of private member’s bills in the legislature, including one to oppose the rights of trans youth and another to ban DEI policies at universities.

Next week, Armstrong plans to introduce another bill, called the “Freedom Convoy Recognition Day Act.”

However, the communities that both Armstrong and Brodie represent in the legislature are pushing back, launching Change.org petitions calling for the resignation of both MLAs.

A petition demanding Brodie step down from her seat has received more than 2000 signatures, with constituents stating they elected Brodie as a member of the BC Conservatives, not for her to splinter off and start her own party.

Meanwhile, the petition regarding Armstrong has over 1000 signatures, with many new signatories adding their names to the call in the last few days, following Armstrong and Brodie’s continued vocal opposition to Indigenous rights and causes.

British Columbia’s official process for seeking the recall of MLAs opens 18 months following a general election, meaning that Elections BC will begin accepting applications for recall petitions starting April 20 of next year.