On Feb. 26, 2026, MLA Tara Armstrong introduced the Human Rights Code Repeal Act in the B.C. Legislature.
It was defeated 50–37, but more than a third of our elected representatives voted to read a bill that would strip British Columbians of their fundamental human rights protections. (The 34 BC Conservative MLAs, two independent MLAs, Dallas Brodie and Jordan Kealy, and OneBC MLA Tara Armstrong who voted to advance the bill are listed in the Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia).
I have witnessed discrimination in B.C. myself. As a university student around 2008, while I was responding to ads for apartments, several potential landlords asked me if I was White. One landlord explicitly told me she only accepted tenants who are White or Asian.
Repealing the Code would strip away the legal mechanism that allows a mother to challenge an employer who refuses to accommodate her child’s disability. It would remove the recourse available to a woman being paid less than a man for the same job. It would leave tenants with no remedy when a landlord refuses to rent to them because of their race, religion or disability.