Recall petition to be issued against OneBC legislator Dallas Brodie

Elections B.C. says it will issue a recall petition against Independent MLA and OneBC leader Dallas Brodie.

The agency overseeing British Columbia elections says it will issue a recall petition against OneBC legislator Dallas Brodie.

Elections BC said it would issue the petition against Brodie on May 21 after approving an application that says Brodie is unfit to represent the riding.

The campaign to remove Brodie will have until July 20 to collect the necessary 15,232 signatures to remove her and trigger a byelection, but Elections BC says none of the 30 previous recall petitions since 1995 have succeeded.

The recall bid says Brodie, who was expelled from the B.C. Conservative caucus last year, has prioritized starting her new political party over the needs of her constituents in Vancouver-Quilchena and local priorities like affordability, health care and community services.

Brodie, it said in a supporting statement “devotes her time and attention to her own political projects.”

“Constituents see little engagement or advocacy for the issues facing families, seniors, renters, and businesses,” it said.

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The proponent of the recall is identified as Dorothy Cumming, who provided Elections BC with a post-office box address in Langley, B.C., outside Brodie’s riding.

The address matches that of Imagine Surrey, a municipal party running former NDP legislator Mike Starchuk as a candidate for that city’s mayoralty.

Scott Williams, campaign manager for Imagine Surrey, said the party’s financial agent Cindy Dalglish was involved in the Brodie recall, and a phone number he gave for Dalglish matched the number Cumming provided Elections BC.

Dalglish answered a call to that number and declined to be interviewed, saying the recall campaign would look for someone to answer questions.

Williams said financial agents “are free in terms of Elections BC to represent more than one entity, and none of our candidates, none of our staff, Mike, (is) involved.”

Brodie was elected as a B.C. Conservative in October 2024, but was kicked out of the caucus five months later, after then-leader John Rustad said she had mocked residential school survivors.

She formed OneBC with another former Conservative MLA Tara Armstrong, but they later split when Brodie sought to fire a staffer she accused of antisemitism.

Brodie sits in the legislature as an Independent, since two legislators are required to confer party status.

She did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

This report by Wolfgang Depner, The Canadian Press, was first published May 14, 2026.

With files from Nono Shen.