B.C. Conservatives meet amid differences: Rustad [Video]

The fledgling B.C. Conservative Party will hold its annual general meeting this weekend as members try to find their feet, one week into the provincial legislative session, a senior politician and Conservative member said.

Peter Milobar, the Conservative MLA for Kamloops, said in an interview that the party and its diverse range of candidates came together “under very strange circumstances,” in the middle of the summer and just weeks before a general election was called.

“I see that we’re a very new party, really at its core,” he said. “And so, I think we’re still finding our feet.”

The party had existed on the fringes of B.C. politics for years, but it went from having no members elected in the previous provincial election to within a whisker of forming government in October, with its 44 members making up the official Opposition.

Its rise came after Kevin Falcon of the BC United Party suspended the party’s …