Someone Sent Us a Video. Then Things Got Weird

The video shows a gathering of mostly senior citizens in the backyard of a house in Penticton. The back porch has been made into an impromptu stage for the fringe political party OneBC, which was prevented from booking other venues in town. Wandering around at the edge of the crowd is a man in a white T-shirt emblazoned with the words “White boy.”

Lighting a cigarette, he stands behind another man — who is one of the few people who appear to be under 40 in the small crowd — as the younger man asks questions about a prominent Canadian white supremacist.

The video depicts an 11-month-old event, and it shows OneBC’s only sitting MLA, Dallas Brodie, responding enthusiastically to the young man’s urging that she think about connecting with fans of Jeremy MacKenzie and his organization Second Sons Canada.

“It’s a fraternal-type organization, but it’s about building community and building, you know, amongst yourselves, and the idea that there's not anyone coming to help us any time soon,” the man says about the organization founded by two men who frequently express racist and antisemitic beliefs.

“And the idea of just being strong and rejecting degeneracy... just being a strong individual, being clean, and all that kind of stuff.”

In the video, Brodie responds warmly.

“I really thank you for bringing this up, because one group that's really been left behind are our young men,” she says. “They are being dumped on.”

OneBC communications director Wyatt Claypool told The Tyee that at the time Brodie wasn’t aware of Second Sons’ antisemitic, racist ideology and knew MacKenzie as a critic of COVID-19 restrictions — even though by the time the video was taken in October 2025, there had been multiple news stories about MacKenzie and Second Sons, including about comments MacKenzie had made on a livestream about sexually assaulting Pierre Poilievre’s wife.

“In October 2025 Dallas Brodie’s knowledge of Jeremy MacKenzie and what he was doing at the time was based only on his anti-lockdown and anti-government mandate advocacy during COVID in 2020 and 2021,” Claypool told The Tyee.

“Since that time Dallas became aware of his activities with his Second Sons organization and... opposes their extremist views and racist/antisemitic rhetoric.”

Why The Tyee has this video and why it’s being leaked now says a lot about the state of right-wing politics in British Columbia, where several factions are vying for control.

The stakes are high. Socially conservative former MP Kerry-Lynne Findlay has just been elected leader of the Conservative Party of BC, which rose to prominence during the 2024 provincial election and is now the official Opposition.

Since winning the party’s leadership in May, Findlay has indicated she’ll take the party further to the right. And while not saying yes, Findlay also hasn’t said no to welcoming back three MLAs — Brodie, Tara Armstrong and Jordan Kealy — who were elected as Conservatives but left the party over ideological differences.

Mainstream conservatives are also concerned about the new direction the party is taking, fearing it could make the B.C. Conservatives unelectable.

High-profile Kamloops MLA Peter Milobar left the party this month because it no longer aligns with his values. Milobar had been attacked by Findlay in a leadership debate when she suggested he could not speak or vote on reconciliation issues because his wife is Indigenous.

And on Monday Delta South MLA Ian Paton also quit the Conservatives over the party’s direction under Findlay.

Paton and Milobar plan to form a new party.

The split, and then the other split

Brodie was ejected from the Conservative Party of BC by former leader John Rustad in March 2025 after mocking residential school survivors in a video call, and Kealy and Armstrong left the party in support of Brodie.

Brodie and Armstrong then formed OneBC. The party advanced a number of hardline positions on trans rights and immigration but was most focused on opposing Indigenous rights.

Using taxpayer money, the party released an 80-minute YouTube video called Making a Killing in December 2025, which accused First Nations governments of deliberately lying about unmarked graves being found at former residential school grounds. The video also cast doubt on the widespread child abuse that happened at the institutions. The Union of BC Indian Chiefs called the film “racist misinformation.”

But weeks after the release of Making a Killing, OneBC fell apart. The dispute played out publicly on the social media platform X, with Brodie blaming other staffers for refusing to fire a young man named Othman Mekhloufi.

Claypool, a OneBC staffer who’d remained loyal to Brodie, claimed on X that Mekhloufi had “literally talked about blood and soil politics and eugenics... in the office.” (“Blood and soil” is widely considered a reference to a Nazi slogan.)

The Tyee obtained a full record of Mekhloufi’s X account, which included numerous now-deleted posts where Mekhloufi talked about “sub-Saharan Africans” having lower intelligence than white and Arab people and made misogynist comments.

In a now-deleted X post from September 2025, Mekhloufi said: “America was neither conquered nor stolen, because Indian Americans had no civilization to conquer. This continent was uninhabited until the colonists got here. Did we conquer Antarctica from Penguins or did we settle it?” In another, he said: “American Indian tribes have been the primary threat to American life since 1492.”

In December 2025, Brodie told the Canadian Press she was concerned about Mekhloufi’s "disgusting" and antisemitic views about Jewish people. Mekhloufi later told The Tyee he does not hold antisemitic views and said he’s made comments in support of Israel.

Mekhloufi now works for Armstrong, who sits as an Independent MLA. Since leaving OneBC, Armstrong’s rhetoric has become more extreme. She tabled bills to abolish the province’s human rights code, ban land acknowledgments and stop gender-affirming care for minors. She also blamed the Tumbler Ridge school shooting on “transgender ideology.”

In April, she was criticized for using the Nazi term “blood and soil” in the legislature when speaking in opposition to a treaty the provincial government had negotiated with the K'ómoks First Nation.

Armstrong’s defence for using the term was that she was accusing the B.C. government of being racist by negotiating a modern treaty with a First Nation. "The NDP are blood and soil nationalists for the indigenous. That's why they embedded UNDRIP, which is an ethno-nationalist declaration, into its two latest treaties," she said in an X post.

Since the split with Armstrong and several former staffers, OneBC has continued to oppose government spending on residential school investigations, opposed flying Pride flags or government funding for Pride events and pushed for a referendum on B.C.’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.

Brodie also weathered an unsuccessful recall campaign this spring.

A dinner meeting and a leaked video

On Aug. 8, Findlay posted a message on Facebook, saying she’d had a productive meeting with Brodie.

“I had a really good dinner last night with OneBC Leader Dallas Brodie. We had a honest conversation about the challenges facing British Columbia and the path forward,” Findlay wrote, adding that the two have “so much common ground” and were “looking forward to continuing to work toward” the shared goal of defeating the BC NDP.

Four days later, a tipster contacted The Tyee by email, promising material that might make a good story about OneBC. The tipster initially sent The Tyee an audio file of the Penticton event in October 2025, but followed up with video files that showed more of the event when The Tyee asked for more information.

Despite repeated requests, the tipster refused an off-the-record phone call or a video meeting with The Tyee — our standard practice to verify story tips where the sender is requesting anonymity. Claypool did not dispute the video’s authenticity.

On Aug. 16, an anonymous X account called The Findlay Files published the subtitled audio file the tipster had originally sent to The Tyee. The Findlay Files account publishes unverified information and speculation about the inner workings of the Conservative Party of BC.

On X, Claypool dismissed the post as a “pathetic attack.” He added that Brodie is an “open opponent” of both Second Sons and the Dominion Society of Canada, another openly racist group that has been pushing for “remigration,” or aggressive deportations, and whose leader has appeared on multiple livestreams with leaders of Second Sons, according to the Canadian Anti-Hate Network.

“Dallas is [a] pro-Israel conservative politician and someone who opposes the remigration rhetoric of Dominion Society,” Claypool wrote. “Pretty sure she is not a secret supporter of the... Second Sons.”

Claypool told The Tyee he thought the video came from Mekhloufi, who at the time of the Penticton town hall event was working for OneBC.

Mekhloufi denies that allegation, saying it was not his practice to keep any of the video he took for the party after it had been turned into social media content. After reviewing screenshots from the video the tipster had sent to The Tyee, Mekhloufi said the video was different from the film he took of the same event and had not been shot by him.

Claypool told The Tyee that another piece of information from the tipster — that Claypool had hosted a young white nationalist influencer named Max Genest in his Calgary home during the February 2026 federal Conservative convention — was true.

Claypool, who is seeking the United Conservative Party nomination for the riding of Calgary-Currie, said he has tried to persuade Genest to stop posting such extreme content. He said he’s no longer in contact with the young influencer.

Genest posed for a photo with Findlay on the night she won the Conservative leadership, although party staffers told The Tyee she had no idea who he was when the photo was taken.

Claypool said he believes that “whoever is leaking believes that Dallas is going to get invited back” to the B.C. Conservatives “and they’re trying to dirty her up with these out-of-context clips.”

In an interview posted on X Tuesday, Brodie said “there have been no deals cut” between OneBC and the Conservative Party of BC, but she said she and Findlay “see eye to eye on many issues.”

“I’m not out here on my own, now by my own choice,” Brodie said. “I was thrown out of the party for reasons that are unfair.”