BC Conservative committee pens letter asking John Rustad to resign

The BC Conservative Occasion’s administration committee has penned a letter to chief John Rustad asking him to resign instantly.

Whereas the committee has no energy to take away Rustad as chief, the letter is signed by a number of the key individuals who helped the BC Conservatives win 44 seats within the final provincial election.

“Because the chief, it’s your duty to unite the social gathering round a typical imaginative and prescient and to steer us ahead with function and readability,” the letter reads partially.

“As evidenced by sagging ballot numbers, memberships, fundraising, a shrinking caucus and workers, philosophically inconsistent coverage, low morale, and maybe most significantly, an absence of enthusiasm and tepid endorsement from our membership, your management has ceased to serve that function.”

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This comes two days after Penticton-Summerland MLA Amelia Boultbee introduced she was quitting the BC Conservative Occasion to sit down as an unbiased.

“I’m shocked on one degree as a result of that to me appears very important, however I believe that’s the appropriate factor to do,” Boultbee advised World Information on Wednesday.

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“I assist that letter. I haven’t learn it myself, however I hope that John will check out the true state of affairs right here, cease deluding himself. He’s satisfied himself there’s no downside and that that is all simply gonna go away.”

Rustad has already responded to the letter, saying he is not going to resign as chief.

Rustad advised reporters that the letter was an “inner matter throughout the social gathering” and he plans to “have a chance to talk with the administration committee.”

–with information from The Canadian Press

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