Timeline
October 2024
Tara Armstrong is elected as a BC Conservative MLA, winning 54% of the vote in Kelowna–Lake Country–Coldstream.
[Source: Elections BC]
March 2025
Walked out of the Conservative Party five months into her term in solidarity with a colleague who had been removed from caucus for mocking and belittling residential school survivors.The reaction from local leadership was immediate. Lake Country Mayor Blair Ireland said: “This is a distraction from the things we are trying to do day-to-day” — citing housing, roads, and water and sewer infrastructure as pressing issues needing provincial attention.
[Sources: CBC News Castanet Global News Kelowna Now]
May 2025
Sitting as an Independent, Armstrong physically left the chamber rather than vote on Bill 15: a significant infrastructure bill covering schools, hospitals, and public projects that passed by just two votes. Her former Conservative colleagues publicly called her out, saying her abstention helped the NDP survive.
[Source: Castanet]
June 2025
Co-founded OneBC, a new far-right party, and appointed herself House Leader: a title that came with an additional $11,953 a year. She gave herself a 10% pay raise while doing nothing to impact the finances of the families in this community.
[Sources: iNFOnews Castanet Williams Lake Tribune]
November 2025
Armstrong voted against a bill designed to speed up housing approvals in BC: the exact affordability crisis she had promised to fight for in this riding. While this was happening, she was standing by as her OneBC co-founder tabled a bill to remove Truth and Reconciliation Day as a statutory holiday, describing residential schools as “the greatest lie in Canadian history.”
[Source: iNFOnews]
December 2025
OneBC collapsed in a very public implosion. Armstrong left the party she had co-founded just six months earlier. Three political homes in under a year: no party, no caucus, and no mandate for the issues on which people elected her.
[Sources: Castanet CBC News Kelowna Capital News]
April 2025
Used the term “blood and soil” (well known Nazi rhetoric) in the BC Legislature while speaking against a First Nations treaty. The comments were condemned by the Premier, fellow MLAs across party lines, and a Jewish advocacy group. She withdrew the comments in the chamber but repeated them on social media.
Today
Still collecting a public salary of $122,042 per year. Still representing this riding in name only.
[Source: iNFOnews]
Recall Tara Armstrong 