Why Á’a:líya Warbus Quit the BC Conservatives | The Tyee

The newly independent MLA on the BC Conservatives’ increasingly ‘race-based’ rhetoric, and her future plans. A Tyee Q&A.

Former Conservative Party of BC MLA Áʼa:líya Warbus says she became increasingly uncomfortable with how her now-former party was describing Indigenous land title issues under the leadership of Kerry-Lynne Findlay. Warbus, who resigned from the party Monday, previously served as house leader under John Rustad and was the Conservatives’ most prominent Indigenous voice in the legislature. Before her election in 2024, the Chilliwack-area MLA had worked for an Indigenous governance organization in the Fraser Valley; her father is former lieutenant-governor Steven Point. Warbus is a member of the…

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