People will try and mock me over OneBC's election performance as if we had the same budget and infrastructure as the CPBC or NDP and failed. Guys...we had a tiny fraction of the budget of other parties and little infrastructure to organize candidates in 93 ridings. At one point we had candidates lined up for 75 ridings. But people with full-time jobs, especially in rural ridings understandably have a difficult time filling out all the paperwork and getting 75 signatures (really over 100 since some are inevitably invalid) in a week or less. So over 70 candidates given election packages dropped from people having to pull out, or not being able to meet the tight deadline. In some areas we went through 2 or 3 people who understandably couldn't find the time to put together a campaign. I get it, they were all very nice and honourable people but life obviously got in the way of a snap election campaign. OneBC's plan if the election was in 2028 was to take a year to set up party boards in every riding and then go into election readiness mode for the year after that. Then everything could be decentralized and each board could nominated their candidate and build the campaign around their board members. But Eby decided to politically execute himself and make himself the chief villain of the snap election and completely box out any conversation past "who can beat Eby the easiest because we all hate him." So now we are in a situation where OneBC will move forward having to act as a watchdog on the CPBC government from outside of the legislature and try and push them to be more Conservative while we start trying to build CA boards after giving voters a much needed break from political chaos. At the end of the day I'm very proud of @Dallas_Brodie and the OneBC team. Dallas stood up to so many pressures that would have broken most people and was able to carry on with a smile. Those who attack Dallas Brodie should remember that they live in the political world she helped create through punching a hole through many Left-wing political taboos other Conservatives were too scared to touch, and unfortunately many are still too afraid to touch. I would do it all over again for her and the team. They were the men and women in the arena who kept pushing to create political and cultural change in BC while being sneered at by those who only care about election outcomes and nothing past that. Even in this election OneBC has served the role of holding up a rhetorical measuring stick to the agenda of the new government. Regardless of votes we put forward an alternative plan can can be looked to by grassroots Conservatives as a better standard for what the government should be aiming to do if the changes implemented fall short of the results voters wanted to see.

David Eby basically did the political equivalent of pouring gasoline over himself and his party and then endorsing the Conservatives. He created an entire election where he was the #1 issue and there was no #2. The election was "Get David Eby Out" and that also boxed out OneBC and CentreBC having any traction. 1. Insanely tight timeline to organize 2 years before the election was to take place. 2. Everyone just wanted to beat the NDP and didn't care who the blue option was or what it represented. BC Conservatives could do good work in government but they need to establish proper control over the very strange factions of MLAs they hammered together. The spectrum of ideology in the CPBC caucus will go from Orthodox Conservative like Heather Maahs to full on Trudeau Liberals who just a year ago stood against everything in the 2024 CPBC platform.