Yuri Fulmer, entrepreneur and BC Conservative leadership candidate, joins The Opposition with Dan Knight for a long-form, unscripted conversation about the direction of the party and the province.

In this interview, Fulmer leans into his role as “the disrupter,” arguing that British Columbia’s systems are fundamentally broken and require more than incremental change. He outlines his business-first approach to politics, emphasizing execution, accountability, and a willingness to challenge both government and internal party dynamics.

The conversation centres on his controversial “Unite the Right” agreement with Dallas Brodie and One BC — a deal that would see One BC stand down in 88 ridings, while a Fulmer-led Conservative Party would step aside in five, backed by a confidence-and-supply agreement. Fulmer argues the move is rooted in math, not ideology, warning that vote-splitting on the right will cost Conservatives the next election if left unaddressed.

We also cover internal party divisions, candidate accountability, shifting political positions, and why Fulmer believes a leadership race should be about contrast — not consensus. He challenges rivals on their records, questions where they stood when the party was struggling, and argues that members deserve clear distinctions before they vote.

Beyond strategy, the interview explores affordability, housing costs driven by government fees and delays, immigration pressures, and the broader economic frustration facing British Columbians.

This is part of The BC Conservative Leadership Interview Series — long-form conversations with the candidates asking to lead the party and the province.

No filters. No talking points. Just the candidate, the record, and the question that matters: who can actually win and govern?

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There’s a lot of noise in this leadership race. A lot of slogans. A lot of candidates trying to sound the same.

This isn’t that.

I sat down with Iain Black for a full, long-form conversation — no scripts, no handlers, no five-minute clips. Just real answers from someone who’s actually been inside government and outside of it.

We get into his record as a cabinet minister, what he thinks went wrong with the old coalition, and why he believes experience — not theory — is what this province needs right now. We talk affordability, housing, permitting delays that stretch into years, crime, immigration, DRIPA, and the growing sense that the system just isn’t working for people anymore.

He doesn’t dodge the hard questions. On SOGI, on shifting positions in this race, on party division — it’s all on the table.

And whether you agree with him or not, you’ll understand exactly what he stands for by the end of it.

That’s the point of this series.

We’re holding the people who want to run this province to account — and letting you decide who’s actually ready.

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Warren Hamm, Rossland contractor, helicopter maintenance engineer, and BC Conservative leadership candidate, joins The Opposition with Dan Knight for a long-form conversation about the future of British Columbia.

Hamm lays out his “Builders, Not Bureaucrats” message and explains why he believes the province is being strangled by red tape, regulatory overreach, and a political class disconnected from working people. With more than 30 years in aviation, construction, and the resource sector, he argues that BC needs practical leadership rooted in real-world experience — not career politicians.

In this interview, Hamm discusses cutting regulatory barriers to housing and development, reviving forestry and mining, restoring affordability, strengthening regional economies, and confronting what he calls government waste and dysfunction. He also addresses his high-profile permitting dispute with the City of Rossland, the BC Supreme Court ruling that followed, and why he chose to sue individual councillors over what he says was bad-faith decision-making.

The conversation also covers SOGI, parental rights, party unity, and how he plans to defeat David Eby in the next provincial election.

This is part of The BC Conservative Leadership Interview Series — long-form, unscripted conversations with the candidates asking to lead the party.

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Kerry-Lynne Findlay joins The Opposition with Dan Knight for a direct, no-spin conversation on the B.C. Conservative leadership race. The former cabinet minister lays out her case for experience and consistency, takes aim at shifting positions on DRIPA and SOGI, and argues voters are done with politicians rewriting their records. From affordability and fuel taxes to public safety and party unity, Findlay makes it clear: this race is about trust—and who can actually govern.

Peter Milobar, Kamloops Centre MLA, former mayor, and BC Conservative leadership candidate, joins The Opposition with Dan Knight.

In this candid interview, Milobar discusses his long record in public service, the NDP’s record deficits and tax hikes, fixing health care and affordability, cutting regulatory red tape, repealing DRIPA and SOGI, restoring parental rights in schools, tackling crime and safe supply failures, and his vision for a unified, electable Conservative Party that can actually win government.

He also addresses the 215 residential school announcement and the need for more transparency and timelines.

A no-fluff conversation with a seasoned politician who’s been in the arena for over 20 years.

Listen now and decide for yourself.

I spoke with Bruce Banman on The Opposition because his story matters in this moment as a case study in how British Columbia’s political landscape actually shifted.

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Banman wasn’t supposed to matter when he crossed the floor from BC United to the BC Conservatives. At the time, that move made no strategic sense. There was no polling advantage, no guarantee of re-election, no certainty the party he joined would even survive, let alone contend for power. The safe option was silence. The rewarded option was compliance. He chose neither.

When Banman crossed, the BC Conservatives had almost nothing in the legislature, no institutional power, no media shield, no serious standing. What they did not have was a voice. He gave them one. And he didn’t do it quietly. He used Question Period the way it’s supposed to be used: to challenge, to disrupt, and to force uncomfortable debates into the open and debates others preferred to avoid entirely.

What followed wasn’t incremental change. It was collapse. BC United disintegrated. The Conservative Party surged. And in a remarkably short period of time, the party that Banman helped legitimize became the Official Opposition, falling just shy of fewer than 700 votes and forming government. That didn’t happen because of rebranding or messaging tweaks. It happened because someone acted before it was safe to do so.

That context matters now because Banman’s leadership bid isn’t about ambition arriving early. It’s about momentum catching up late.

In our conversation, Banman wasn’t performing inevitability. He talked openly about doubt, about risk, about personal and professional consequences — about moments where the “smart” decision and the “right” decision were not the same thing. He described politics the way it actually is: messy, costly, and often punishing to people who refuse to follow scripts.

What stood out wasn’t polish. It was pattern. Banman’s career shows a repeated willingness to take positions when the outcome is uncertain, as mayor, as an MLA, and now as a leadership candidate. That doesn’t make him correct by default. It does make him different from a political class that tends to wait until permission is granted.

The phrase he keeps returning to, “act, not hide” which isn’t a slogan so much as a summary of how he’s operated. In British Columbia, where too many politicians have mastered the art of delay, deflection, and managed ambiguity, that distinction is worth examining, even critically.

This episode of The Opposition isn’t about endorsement. It’s about understanding how power actually shifted in this province, who took the risk, who stayed silent, and why the political ground moved the way it did. Whether Banman becomes leader or not, the record already shows that he helped force a reckoning others avoided.

That’s why the conversation matters now, not because the race is over, but because it isn’t.

You can watch or listen to the full episode below

Prince Edward Island — Canada’s smallest province — is now at the center of a story that reaches far beyond its shores.
Land bought with cash. Empty houses. Foreign networks quietly embedding themselves in local politics and real estate. A provincial government forced to beg the RCMP and FINTRAC to investigate what Ottawa won’t even acknowledge.

In this episode, we break down how a postcard province became a case study in foreign interference, elite capture, and political cowardice.

Guests:

• Dean Baxendale, Publisher, Optimum Publishing International — co-author of Canada Under Siege: How PEI Became a Forward Operating Base for the Chinese Communist Party (@dmcbaxendale)

• Garry Clement, Former RCMP Director of Proceeds of Crime (@garryClement2)

• The Honourable Wayne Easter, Former MP and Solicitor General (@wayneaster)

Today on The Opposition, We sit down with former MP Rick Perkins to walk through a story that should make every Canadian furious. Ottawa burned through $130 million on a “women’s entrepreneurship” fund that produced exactly zero startups and zero net jobs, despite ministers bragging it was a triumph. That is not a program. That is theater paid for with your money.

From there, wee trace the pattern we’ve seen before: Sustainable Development Technology Canada the “green innovation” fund that, once audited, showed 186 conflicted transactions funnelling roughly $400 million to companies tied to board insiders. Parliament ordered unredacted documents to the RCMP. The government sent 29,000 pages most of them blacked out. Then the Speaker ruled the government had breached a House order, and the resulting privilege fight consumed the Commons until Trudeau prorogued Parliament. That is not accountability. That is impunity.

Perkins explains how this culture of secrecy works in practice: hide behind “cabinet confidence,” redact everything, and dare the police to investigate without evidence. Meanwhile, insiders keep the cash. He argues Parliament the owner of these programs has both the right and the duty to hand unredacted files to law enforcement so Canadians can finally get the truth.

And when the government says the fix is “a new one-stop Major Projects Office,” Perkins laughs. The same bureaucracy that turned the Trans Mountain expansion from $7 billion to $34 billion now promises speed. Why did costs explode? He describes stops for anthill relocations, six-week shutdowns over a single swallow, and inspectors sorting garbage bags on site all under Bill C-69’s regime. This is not efficiency. It is performance art.

Knight frames it simply at the top: Canadians work until mid-week just to pay the state, then watch the state light their money on fire and call the ashes “success.” Perkins supplies the receipts. Together they map the through-line: glossy announcements, conflicted boards, missing metrics, shredded transparency and a Parliament brought to a standstill rather than admit what happened.

If you want to understand why trust is collapsing and how to fix it this conversation will make you angry, and then it will make you clear. Listen now