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Leadership Team

Area MLAs named to B.C. Conservative Caucus

Jun 29, 2026 | 11:34 AM

The Conservative Party of B.C. has released its new caucus, featuring some local names.

Under Kerry-Lynne Findlay, the new leadership team also includes Macklin McCall, MLA for West-Kelowna Peachland, as the Official Opposition Whip, as well as David Williams, MLA for Salmon Arm-Shuswap, as the Okanagan and Interior Lieutenant.

The other appointees were:

  • Heater Maahs (Chilliwack North), Interim Leader of the Official Opposition
  • Sheldon Clare (Prince George-North Cariboo), Official Opposition House Leader
  • Lorne Doerksen (Cariboo-Chilcotin), Official Opposition Deputy House Leader
  • Reann Gasper (Abbotsford-Mission), Official Opposition Deputy Whip
  • Jody Toor (Langley-Willowbrook), Caucus Chair
  • Sharon Hartwell (Bulkley Valley-Stikine), Caucus Representative to the Conservative Party of B.C. Board
  • Anna Kindy (North Island), Vancouver Island Lieutenant
  • Ian Paton (Delta South), Lower Mainland Lieutenant
  • Lawrence Mok (Maple Ridge East), Steve Kooner (Richmond-Queensborough), and Brent Chapman (Surrey South), Stakeholder Relations Lieutenants

“We are building a big tent party where British Columbians from all walks of life who want to restore our prosperity and our freedoms are welcome,” Findlay said.

“My new leadership team represents a unified force from all parts of B.C. that will hold the government to account and lay the foundation to rebuild our great province. 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.”

The Conservative shadow cabinet will be released at a later date.

The Conservative caucus will hold their first official meetings July 2 and 3 in Penticton.

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