Jennifer Whiteside has been chosen as the new interim leader of the BC NDP after David Eby resigned the position following the B.C. election.
Mike Farnworth will be House Leader and Niki Sharma will serve as Caucus Chair.
Speaking after the meeting at the legislature on Thursday, Whiteside said they understand that British Columbians sent them an important message after Saturday’s result.
“We have an incredible team who stand up for their communities every single day and we are ready to get to work to do the same thing across the province,” she said.
The caucus has been reduced to 28 members after going into Saturday’s election numbering 47, while the BC Conservatives have a crushing two-thirds majority with 63 seats.
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Whiteside was first elected as the MLA for New Westminster in October 2024 and was re-elected in 2024 and 2026.
She is the Minister of Labour and previously served as the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and Minister of Education and Child Care.
Previously, Geoff Meggs, who was chief of staff for the late former NDP premier John Horgan, said the next leader faces the “reputational challenge” of proving the party can be trusted with taxpayers’ money.
-with files from The Canadian Press
More to come.
An absolute disgrace of a political party the NDP is. Do everyone a favour and just dissolve the party.
Pack your bags and get out, there all useless and Lie.
NDP are all about environmental activists, they stagnate the economy for the sake of climate and then champion AI data centres and the taxpayer pays heavily on hydro that just recently climbed 4.5%
useless party, never listen
They don’t have anybody in that party that is trustworthy, bunch of Clowns.
This guy is an opportunist who wanted to perpetuate his incompetency. We can expect a lot of corruption cases to come up, once Doerkson launches investigation into $14 Bn deficit. NDP are a pack of idiots and the party needs to be shutdown and all members sued for corruption.
Say it’s all doesnt it.
“A former British Columbia New Democrat legislator who lost his Metro Vancouver seat in Saturday’s snap election says the party has soul searching to do after its government was toppled by B.C. Conservatives, who won a decisive majority.
Rick Glumac, who had represented Port Moody-Burquitlam since 2017, says in a Facebook post that most British Columbians don’t know what the party stands for, and its problems go “much deeper” than discontent over the early election call.”
What a bunch fools those NDP voters were. Eby was a human rights lawyer!
What did you think he was going to deliver.
“Geoff Meggs, who was chief of staff for the late former NDP premier John Horgan, says the next leader faces the “reputational challenge” of proving the party can be trusted with taxpayers’ money.”
Even a NDP’er says Eby couldn’t be trusted with money. 😂
When a country can’t feed itself and everyone is poor, suddenly pronouns don’t matter much.
Eby and his Social Warriors squandered, stole and gave away how many billions ! OMG.
Good riddance to Eby and his band of idiots. Only the NDP can turn a surplus into a deficit. How much money did he hand over to teegee
The world still needs bartenders David. No labour shortage now, you can serve BC for a change.
Go home David Eby an lick your ass your a bad dog
Read Scott’s comment.
NDP use to be labour. Eby, a human rights advocate, turned it into a far left socialist ideological party.
And they paid the price for it.
The people have spoken!
The BC NDP are finished just like the federal NDP because of their incompetence they will never form Government in BC again. May as well try and rebrand now but drop all the dead wood ministers first.
I’d love an NDP voter to actually come on this platform and defend the NDP after reading that article.
Even a NDP MLA states that they couldn’t be trusted with taxpayers money.
Cristy Clark left Horgan a big surplus in 2017 they left a deficit of 14 Billion good riddance to the NDP.
Eby should go to jail for that leadership stealing all the tax payers money
Don’t forget your color-coded equity card at home!
Horgan left Eby a $5.7-billion surplus when he stepped aside in 2022, but Eby’s government turned that into a record deficit that’s forecast to hit $14 billion this year.
How the hell did that even happen ? Please explain exactly where all the money went , its our right to know what we are paying for. If you can’t explain you owe us one hell of a pile of money
They can almost hold their caucus meetings in a phone booth!
Will this be the same laugh-fest as the federal NDP leadership election?
Should be a hoot!
While all that is nice, the core issue is that the NDP voted Eby out for several reasons, mostly by staying home. Until the NDP deals with that core issue and the underlying problems, voters aren’t likely to show up in the numbers they’ll need.
The NDP (at all levels) needs to understand, if we wanted another entitled 1%er ignoring us in favour of clearcutting the province, we’d vote for one of the conservative parties. The NDP used to stand for solidly progressive policies and put workers and families first. By all appearances, Eby tried to turn the NDP into a classical liberal party after the BC Liberals abandoned their traditional centrist position in favour of the right.
That’s not why we vote NDP, and why many of us voted for the only progressive party left – the Greens.
Oh well, entitlement and hubris tend to have the same outcomes in Canadian politics…defeat at the ballot box.
The decimated NDP party should hold hands, sing songs and walk straight out into the Pacific Ocean until they can’t walk anymore.
It will be a long time before this party ever comes around again!