New Conservative leader Findlay fills team with loyalists
B.C.'s new Conservative leader appointed a slate of party members who endorsed her during the leadership race.
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New B.C. Conservative leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay has filled several roles on her leadership team with party loyalists.
Findlay, who currently does not hold a seat in the legislature, appointed Chilliwack-area MLA Heather Maahs as interim leader. Sheldon Clare, a Prince George MLA, is the House leader for the Official Opposition. Both endorsed Findlay during the leadership race, as did Kelowna-area MLA Macklin McCall, who will serve as whip.
She also appointed regional lieutenants for the Interior, Lower Mainland, and Vancouver Island, and two MLAs to oversee stakeholder relations, including Brent Chapman, Findlay's husband. Clare's appointment means he is replacing A'a:liya Warbus, a member of the Sto:lo Nation and the party's only Indigenous MLA, who was first appointed to the role by former leader John Rustad.
Findlay said in a statement that her new leadership team represents a unified force from across B.C., tasked with holding the NDP government to account. "The B.C. Conservative Caucus is more united than it has ever been and is ready to take on the NDP when the legislature resumes sitting in the fall, and form government after the next election," she said.
