‘Team Rustad’ Prevails at BC Conservative AGM, Leader Says Difference Is Strength

“Team Rustad” has prevailed at the B.C. Conservatives’ first annual general meeting since storming into the province’s mainstream political scene in last year’s election and becoming the official Opposition.
Saturday’s meeting came amid divisions within the party that Leader John Rustad depicted as a strength not a weakness, in his speech to about 800 delegates.
“So I have our MLAs being able to stand up and speak, you know, even if it may be something that I disagree with, because freedom of speech has to be at the core of what we are as democracy,” Rustad told delegates in Nanaimo, B.C….