FULMER: Why we must unite the right – or lose BC forever
Yuri Fulmer writes, "Under the Unite the Right Accord, OneBC will stand down in 88 of B.C.’s 93 ridings to support our Conservative team."
By: Yuri Fulmer
Yuri Fulmer is a prominent Vancouver-based entrepreneur and philanthropist who is currently a candidate for the leadership of the Conservative Party of British Columbia.
Imagine this.
The morning after the next provincial election, British Columbians wake up to the news that David Eby and the NDP have been re-elected.
Not because voters wanted more taxes, more crime, more drug chaos, more inflation, more attacks on property rights, or more government control over their lives.
But because conservatives split the vote.
I am not a career politician. I’m a builder. For decades, I have built and run businesses that employ thousands of people across British Columbia. In the real world, you look at the math, face reality, and close deals that actually work.
And the math is brutally clear.
In the last election, Conservative candidates came within inches in riding after riding.
Kristina Loewen won Kelowna Centre by just 38 votes. Brennan Day won Courtenay-Comox by 92 votes. Lawrence Mok won Maple Ridge East by 96 votes. With even a small conservative vote split, those victories disappear.
The same is true in ridings we need to win next time. Surrey-Guildford was decided by 22 votes. Juan de Fuca-Malahat by 141 votes. Surrey City Centre by 236 votes. These seats will decide whether British Columbia gets a Conservative government or four more years of the NDP.
That is why I signed the historic Unite the Right Accord with Dallas Brodie and OneBC.
Under this public agreement, OneBC will stand down in 88 of B.C.’s 93 ridings to support our Conservative team. No Conservative MLA will be asked to step aside, and no Conservative MLA will face a OneBC opponent.
If necessary, a Confidence and Supply Agreement will ensure a conservative majority.
This is a real deal, in writing, to give British Columbia a one-on-one fight between conservatives and the NDP.
Dallas Brodie signed because she knows British Columbians are desperate for change, and because she knows the grassroots will fracture if the Conservative Party is handed over to the same BC Liberal insiders who spent years watering down conservative principles.
As she warned, handing the Conservative Party to the establishment BC Liberal insiders whose past support for radical legislation like DRIPA threatens our property rights will destroy our chances of making real change here in B.C.
She is right. We did not build this movement so it could become BC United 2.0. We built it to make British Columbia the freest province in Canada – period.
That is what my BC Freedom Charter is about: repealing radical legislation like DRIPA, protecting private property rights in law, defending parental rights, banning mandatory digital ID, protecting medical conscience rights, ending compelled speech, and restoring merit-based hiring.
But you cannot pass conservative legislation from the opposition benches.
That is why this leadership race is about who can actually build the coalition required to win.
I am the only candidate who has – already – done that.
Dallas Brodie has said plainly that I am the only candidate she trusts to unite this coalition. The other candidates have attacked the Unite the Right Accord. If anyone else wins, the deal falls apart, OneBC runs a slate of candidates, the right is split, the NDP wins, and B.C. pays the price.
We cannot afford that.
Not when property rights are under attack. Not when families are being squeezed by taxes, inflation, and unaffordable housing. Not when crime and disorder are spreading through our communities. Not when government grows more and more hostile to people who simply want to work, raise a family, build a life, and be left alone by the bureaucrats and politicians in Victoria.
Conservatives understand this. A recent survey of verified BC Conservatives conducted by my campaign found that 77 percent support the Unite the Right Accord. The grassroots get it – we cannot beat the NDP by shrinking our coalition, purging allies, or pretending a split vote will magically disappear.
That is the choice before us. We can elect a Liberal insider like Caroline Elliott, watch the coalition fracture, split the vote, and wake up after the next election to four more years of David Eby. Or we can choose a Builder who has already brought conservatives together and created a real path to victory.
Let’s seal the deal, unite the right, and build the freest province in Canada.
One must ask those who vote for the Left, are Canadians really dumb enough to be cheering their own deaths , debt, destruction, and restriction, or are the Left cheating with the aid of the paid-to-lie mainstream media puppets? #treason4cash
I confess to being puzzled by Mr. Fulmer's concept of "Unite the Right". Were not the Conservatives united with Dallas Brodie in the last BC election? Was she not a Conservative candidate in that election?
Was being united with Dallas Brodie enough to win the last election? It seems not.
Perhaps what Conservatives need to be thinking about is "Unite the Opposition to the NDP".