Juno News - Kerry-Lynne Findlay on elections committee debacle and BC Conservative race

00:00:00.000 Um, you've been in a little bit of hot water here. There was, uh, media reports that there

00:00:05.400 was an investigation, uh, launched by the commissioner of, of, uh, Canada's elections.

00:00:12.040 I just want to get your perspective on that. And for the audience who might not be familiar,

00:00:15.920 like, you know, can you just explain to our audience, uh, what, you know, what do you make

00:00:20.700 of those media reports and, uh, that you were under investigation and just days before the,

00:00:26.720 voting began? Well, first of all, I have absolutely no notice of being under any

00:00:34.160 investigation. I've never been contacted by Elections Canada or anyone on behalf of the

00:00:40.780 commissioner. Neither has my official agent from that federal run, which was about 13 months ago

00:00:49.280 now and it's very curious the timing that this would come up just as we are literally imminently

00:00:57.840 about to vote in the bc conserve party leadership race the voting started this morning at 8 a.m

00:01:05.200 and goes through to 8 a.m on may 29th when you say what do i make of it well you know when you're

00:01:12.800 totally taken by surprise i was actually out touring um around the interior and the okanagan

00:01:20.320 here when i heard the news and the news for me was an inquiry by a reporter who said they had

00:01:29.200 a document they were looking at and wanted my comment i i had no idea what they were talking

00:01:36.240 about and i i still don't officially but it certainly led to a lot of media attention and

00:01:44.640 speculation which is difficult to respond to when you're being taken by surprise i do not believe

00:01:53.040 there is an elections canada investigation my understanding is there may be some preliminary

00:02:00.080 inquiries related to an unsubstantiated complaint but it is also my understanding that if there is

00:02:09.920 actually an investigation then it is incumbent on elections canada to let the subject of that

00:02:17.360 investigation know about it and certainly any contact i've had with elections canada to date

00:02:25.840 which is well over a year ago was where they contacted both me and my official agent at the

00:02:32.880 same time and neither of us have heard anything from them like i said for over a year so this has

00:02:39.440 taken me by surprise i think it's very unfortunate that it went into the public domain and that leoc

00:02:47.680 took it seriously enough that they started to look into it

Juno News - May 25, 2026