# Source note — five ex-B.C. Conservative MLAs forming new party

Date: 2026-09-06
User-supplied lead: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1ERk3DSPQR/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Resolved Facebook story ID: 122316991400016885 / page ID 61550506562811

## Captured Facebook lead
- Browser/public HTML title: `Domenic Cinalli - New: Peter Milobar, Ian Paton, Rosalyn... | Facebook`
- Facebook OpenGraph description captured: `New: Peter Milobar, Ian Paton, Rosalyn Bird, Teresa Point-Warbus and Bruce Banman have launched a new B.C. party. Rumour is it is the provincial version of Elbows Up...`
- The OpenGraph image OCR showed: `The New Liberal Party of B.C.` and `BREAKING — Five former BC Conservative MLAs launch new party`.
- yt-dlp result: Facebook reported the video/post media was available only for registered users. The post is therefore preserved through OpenGraph HTML/image capture and extractor logs, not a downloaded Facebook MP4.

## Core evidence
1. CBC reported five former B.C. Conservative MLAs — Peter Milobar, Ian Paton, Rosalyn Bird, Bruce Banman and Áʼa:líya Warbus — are forming a new party, currently nameless, with Milobar as interim leader and an internal leadership vote planned before Oct. 5.
2. Canadian Press / Times Colonist reported the same five-person group, nine recent Conservative caucus departures, the official-third-party-status aim, and the legislative caucus budget implications.
3. Castanet reported the party remained still unnamed and that Milobar said the new name should not have `conservative` or `liberal` in it.
4. Elections BC’s registered-political-parties PDF, captured Sept. 5/6, did not list the new Milobar/Paton party as a registered party.
5. CBC’s 2024 report on Herb Dhaliwal’s proposed `New Liberal Party of B.C.` said Elections BC rejected that name due to voter-confusion rules. This is a separate older proposal, not proof that the current five-MLA group is using that name.

## Evidence label
Confirmed: five former B.C. Conservative MLAs are forming/joining a new party effort.
Correction: the publicly sourced name is not `The New Liberal Party of B.C.`; current reporting says the party is unnamed and registration is still underway/pending.
Correction: the Facebook metadata wording `Teresa Point-Warbus` should be treated carefully. Current reporting names Áʼa:líya Warbus, not `Teresa Point-Warbus`; Teresa Wat is a separate MLA who left the B.C. Conservative caucus but has not been reported as joining this five-person party in the retrieved sources.