Yuri Fulmer's businesses-focused brand of politics risks alienating the party's base

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B.C. Conservative leadership candidate Yuri Fulmer says the party needs discipline. That is correct, but not if it means focusing on a handful of economic issues and ignoring all the other problems that plague the province.

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In an interview with Business in Vancouver (BIV), Fulmer urged that the party to unite around “a few issues” that are really important to British Columbians, and argued that the party must stick to pocketbook issues and leave behind culture war “pet projects,” like saving condemned ostriches, gender-neutral washrooms and transwomen competing in women’s sports.

Portraying ostriches and transgender issues as the extent of the culture war is disingenuous, at best. The culture war extends to immigration, school curricula, museum curation, public monuments and place names.

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The online reaction was fierce, and Fulmer’s campaign swiftly went into damage-control mode. He posted on X that BIV had mischaracterized his words, and that he actually cared........

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