Tara Armstrong MLA is a Canadian politician who has served as a member of the

Legislative Assembly of British Columbia The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia () is the deliberative assembly of the Legislature of British Columbia, in the province of British Columbia, Canada. The other component of the Legislature is the lieutenant governor of British Columbi ...

(MLA) since 2024. Initially elected as a member of the Conservative Party, she represents the electoral district of Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream as a member of OneBC and has served as the parties House leader since 2025.

Early life and career

She has worked with her family's seniors transportation business, Driving Miss Daisy, before joining the Conservative Party as the party's Election Readiness Chair in 2023. In March 2025, she left the Conservative Party to sit as an Independent, after the MLA for Vancouver-Quilchena, Dallas Brodie, was ejected from the Conservative Party for making offensive comments towards survivors of residential schools. On June 9, 2025, Armstrong and Brodie started a new party called OneBC.

Political views

Healthcare

In November 2023, Armstrong criticized Canadian broadcaster Jody Vance for retweeting a Peter Hotez tweet urging people to get the

influenza vaccine Influenza vaccines, colloquially known as flu shots or the flu jab, are vaccines that protect against infection by influenza viruses. New versions of the vaccines are developed twice a year, as the influenza virus rapidly changes. While their ...

and COVID-19 boosters. Armstrong claimed that Hotez was a "total fraud" for not wanting to debate with vaccine skeptics and that he was "bought and paid for by big pharma".

Electoral record

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