About
Dallas Brodie is the OneBC candidate for Vancouver-Quilchena and the party’s interim leader. She is the sitting MLA for the riding, first elected on October 19, 2024, as a Conservative, with 11,464 votes (51.6 percent), succeeding Kevin Falcon. She placed fourth in the April 30, 2022 Vancouver-Quilchena by-election as the Conservative candidate, with 698 votes (6.6 percent). Born in Vancouver on February 7, 1962, she holds a B.A. in political science from Princeton University, a J.D. from the University of Toronto, and a broadcasting-journalism certificate from BCIT, and studied for a time at the University of Paris. She has worked as a criminal defence lawyer on Legal Aid youth cases, as a Residential Tenancy Branch arbitrator for about a decade until 2017, and in broadcasting as a CBC producer in Toronto and Ottawa, at CKNW in Vancouver, and as a weekly host on UBC’s CITR-FM. She was the Conservative attorney general critic from November 20, 2024, until March 7, 2025, when leader John Rustad expelled her from caucus. Rustad said she had used her platform as an MLA to mock testimony from victims alleging abuse, including child sexual abuse, after posts and remarks about residential schools that Indigenous organizations condemned as denialism. On June 9, 2025, she and fellow independent MLA Tara Armstrong launched OneBC, with Brodie as interim leader. The party board removed her as leader on December 13, 2025; she was reinstated on December 21 after that board, including Armstrong, resigned. OneBC’s site still lists her as interim leader and as its Vancouver-Quilchena candidate. A recall petition against her, approved in May 2026, failed in July 2026 with 3,663 signatures, short of the 15,232 required. She lives in the riding and has two children.