Dallas Brodie says she is once again leader of OneBC, following her sudden ouster earlier this month.
“After negotiations, I have regained control of the party and have reassumed my position as leader of OneBC effective immediately,” said the Vancouver-Quilchena MLA in a social media post on X on Sunday.
“I am terribly sorry for this conflict that spilled out into the open. It was not what I wanted or ever dreamed could happen,” she said.
The party itself said in a brief post “we are back to work.”
Tim Thielmann, who was OneBC’s chief of staff, said in a separate post that the board had decided to resign on Saturday and transfer control of the party to Brodie.
Paul Ratchford also said on X he is no longer the executive director of OneBC and will have no further affiliation with the party.
Brodie returns to the top role about a week after the party’s board announced she had been removed as interim leader. The board issued a statement alleging Brodie had demonstrated “increasing instability, paranoia, erratic behaviour, and abusive conduct.”
Brodie has said the split happened after she raised concerns about a staffer’s social media posts that allegedly shared antisemitic and white nationalist views. She said her colleagues tried to prevent the staffer from being fired.
Tara Armstrong, MLA for Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream and former OneBC House Leader, said on Dec. 16 the Speaker’s Office had confirmed OneBC will no longer be recognized as an official party within the legislature. Armstrong said she would once again sit as an Independent.
Brodie and Armstrong launched OneBC in June, soon after leaving the B.C. Conservatives.
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