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EDITORIAL · MLA PENSIONS · KOOTENAY CENTRAL

On 24 October, Brittny Anderson reaches the six years that qualify a B.C. MLA for a pension for life. Taxpayers put in $3.52 for every $1 she does.

Brittny Anderson, the NDP’s Minister of State for Local Governments and Rural Communities, was first elected on 24 October 2020. Six years of service is the line between a refund and an MLA pension paid for life, and on the pension plan’s own rules she reaches it on 24 October whether she wins or loses. On our calculation it is worth at least $30,000 a year from age 65. She pays 11% of her pay into the plan, and the government pays 38.68%, where an ordinary public servant’s employer pays 9.85%.

Backcountry Coalition · 16 October 2026 Email

Brittny Anderson in an orange blazer, speaking outdoors in Nelson on 22 June 2026 with her hands open, trees behind her. — **Brittny Anderson**BC NDP candidate, Kootenay Central · Minister of State for Local Governments and Rural Communities
First elected
24 October 2020, Nelson-Creston
Six years of service
24 October 2026
Her pay from 1 April 2026
$122,042.91 as an MLA, plus $42,715.03 as Minister of State
Her pension at 65 on six years
$30,178 to $34,599 a year, on our calculation
Her contribution
11% of her pay, about $18,123 a year
The government’s contribution
38.68% of her pay, about $63,728 a year
For every $1 she puts in
taxpayers put in **$3.52**
A public servant’s employer
pays in 9.85% of salary
*Photo: Province of British Columbia (Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), Nelson, 22 June 2026*

Brittny Anderson was first elected to the Legislature as the NDP member for Nelson-Creston on 24 October 2020.³ Since November 2024 she has been the Minister of State for Local Governments and Rural Communities, and she is the NDP candidate in Kootenay Central in the election scheduled for 24 October.⁹⁴⁶ That date is six years to the day from her first win, and six years is the line the law draws between a refund and an MLA pension paid for life.¹²

On our calculation from the formula in the Act and the pay the Legislative Assembly has reported for her, six years is worth between $30,178 and $34,599 a year to her from age 65, in today’s dollars.¹¹¹ She pays 11% of her pay into the plan. The government pays 38.68%, which is $3.52 for every $1 she puts in.¹² An ordinary public servant’s employer pays 9.85%.¹³

01 The law pays an MLA a pension for life only after six years of service, and Brittny Anderson reaches six years on 24 October whether she wins or loses

The record

The Act says a person is not entitled to a pension “unless the person has at least 6 years of service.”¹
Under six years, an MLA who leaves gets a refund of their contributions with interest, and nothing more.²
Brittny Anderson was first elected on 24 October 2020, and an MLA is paid, and contributes, from election day.³⁵
The plan’s rules count time as an MLA and time on the Executive Council as service.⁸

Paragraph 5 of the Schedule to the Members' Remuneration and Pensions Act, boxed: A person is not entitled to a pension under the Part 3 pension plan unless the person has at least 6 years of service. — The six-year rule, in the Act’s own words. The rest of the plan is set out in the Public Service Pension Plan’s rules for MLAs.¹ Source: bclaws.gov.bc.ca

The clock starts on election day. The Act pays a member “from the date of the member’s election”, which it defines as final voting day, and the Assembly says basic compensation “is payable from election day until the day before the next election.”¹⁵ Pension contributions are taken from that pay.¹ For Brittny Anderson, election day was 24 October 2020, so six years falls on 24 October 2026.³⁶

The Act does not say on its own how the six years are counted when an election intervenes. The detail sits in the rules of the Public Service Pension Plan, whose Part 15 the rules themselves describe as the terms of the MLA plan, and those rules count more than time as an MLA.¹⁸

Section 107 (1) of the Public Service Pension Plan Rules. Two definitions are boxed. Legislative service means, in respect of a plan participant, any period of time during which the plan participant serves as a member of the Legislative Assembly or is an individual who holds a position on the Executive Council. Termination of employment means ceasing to be either a member of the Legislative Assembly or an individual who holds a position on the Executive Council for a reason other than death. — Time on the Executive Council counts as legislative service, and an MLA’s employment ends only when they stop being both an MLA and a member of the Executive Council.⁸ Source: pensionsbc.ca (PDF)

If Brittny Anderson wins, her service simply carries on past six years. If she loses, the rules treat her as an MLA up to the date of the election, which is six years to the day from her first one.⁸

Section 107 (3) of the Public Service Pension Plan Rules, boxed: An individual who is a member of the Legislative Assembly immediately before its dissolution is deemed to cease to be a member of the Legislative Assembly as of the date of the general election next following the dissolution if the individual is not elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly at that general election. — The subsection runs across a page break in the published rules; the two halves are shown together.⁸ Source: pensionsbc.ca (PDF)

She also does not leave the Executive Council on election night. The Assembly’s guide for members seeking re-election says ministers keep their salary until the order in council that ends their appointment, and its guide for re-elected members says ministers are paid “until a new Executive Council is appointed.”⁶⁷ Under the plan’s rules, that time is service too.⁸

From page 7 of the Assembly's 2026 transition guide, boxed: Pensions Act until a new Speaker is elected in the new Parliament, as well as Ministers, who, as Members of the Executive Council, continue to receive their ministerial salary until their appointment to the Executive Council is terminated by order in council. — The sentence begins with the Speaker’s allowance; the part that applies to ministers is boxed.⁶ Source: members.leg.bc.ca (PDF)

Two things are not on the public record. Her individual service record is held by the B.C. Pension Corporation, which the Assembly tells departing members to contact about their own status. And the Assembly says an MLA’s pension contributions stop on final voting day, but it does not say whether contributions continue on a minister’s salary after a defeat.⁷ The Constitution Act says only that the Executive Council is made up of the persons the Lieutenant Governor appoints, and the Province counts her among its ministers of state.¹⁰⁹

02 On our calculation, six years buys Brittny Anderson $30,178 to $34,599 a year from age 65, because her minister’s salary counts toward the pension

The record

The formula is P = 3.5% × E × S, where E is the best three-year average pay and S is years of service, up to 70% of that pay.¹
The Act counts as earnings both “the basic compensation” and “the salary paid under this Act”, which includes a minister’s salary.¹
From 1 April 2026 an MLA is paid $122,042.91, and a Minister of State $42,715.03 on top of that.⁵
The pension is paid in full from 65, and from 60 at 0.25% less for each month before 65.¹

The Legislative Assembly's MLA Compensation table for April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026, with the row for Anderson, Brittny boxed: basic MLA compensation $119,205, additional salary nil, executive salary $39,086, total compensation $158,291. — Her most recent full year: $119,205 as an MLA and $39,086 in executive salary, $158,291 in all.¹¹ Source: lims.leg.bc.ca (PDF)

The pension is not figured on base pay alone. The Act defines the earnings it counts as both the basic compensation and the salaries it pays for positions such as minister, and the Assembly deducts 11% from both.¹² The plan then takes the average of the three fiscal years in which a member was paid the most.⁸ Her pay has risen every year, first with a parliamentary secretary’s salary on top of her MLA pay, and then with a minister of state’s.¹¹¹⁸

Brittny Anderson’s pay, as the Assembly reports it
Fiscal year	MLA pay	Executive salary	Total
2020–21	$42,889	–	$42,889
2021–22	$111,562	–	$111,562
2022–23	$118,980	$5,153	$124,133
2023–24	$114,731	$17,210	$131,941
2024–25	$119,118	$21,760	$140,878
2025–26	$119,205	$39,086	$158,291

Paid in each fiscal year, April to March, on a cash basis. 2020–21 runs from her election in October. The three highlighted years are her three highest. Executive salary is the Assembly’s heading for the parliamentary secretary’s and minister’s salaries.¹¹

Paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Schedule to the Members' Remuneration and Pensions Act. The formula P = 3.5% x E x S is boxed, where P is the amount of the annual pension, E is the highest 3-year average annual pensionable earnings and S is the number of years plus any portion of a year of pensionable service. Paragraph 4: the maximum pension is 70% of the highest 3-year average pensionable earnings. — The formula is in the Act. The figures put into it below are ours, taken from the Assembly’s own pay records.¹ Source: bclaws.gov.bc.ca

We put her own figures into that formula two ways. The lower figure averages her three best full years as the Assembly reported them. The higher one assumes a full year at the rates in force since 1 April 2026, for an MLA who is also a Minister of State. The rules let a better final part-year replace the weakest of the three, so her real average is likely to fall between the two.⁸

Our calculationIn 2026 dollars, from age 65

P = 3.5% × E × S

E, lower figure. Her three best years of reported pay: ($131,941 + $140,878 + $158,291) ÷ 3 = $143,703.33¹¹
E, higher figure. A full year at 2026 rates: $122,042.91 + $42,715.03 = $164,757.94⁵
Six years. 3.5% × 6 = 21%, so 21% × $143,703.33 = $30,177.70 to 21% × $164,757.94 = $34,599.17 a year.
Ten years, if she wins and serves a full second term to about October 2030: 3.5% × 10 = 35%, so $50,296.17 to $57,665.28 a year.

The ten-year line does not assume she stays in cabinet. The plan uses a member’s three best years anywhere in their service, so the years she has already been paid as a Minister of State stay in the average.⁸ It does not project any raise after 2026. An MLA who reaches six years and leaves before 60 can also take the pension’s value as a locked-in lump sum instead.²⁸ We have not put a lifetime total on the pension, because that would need her age and a life expectancy we cannot source.

03 For every $1 Brittny Anderson puts into her pension, taxpayers put in $3.52, about $63,728 a year at this year’s pay

The record

The government’s contribution rate for the MLA plan is 38.68% of pay, effective 1 July 2024.¹²
Each MLA pays in 11% of their basic compensation and any additional salary.¹²¹
38.68 ÷ 11 = 3.52, so the government puts in $3.52 for each $1 she does. That is our calculation.
Money the Act requires the government to pay comes from the Legislature’s appropriations or, failing that, the consolidated revenue fund.¹

The Act lets the public service board set the government’s share at whatever it takes to fund the promised pensions, and requires the Assembly to post the rate.¹ The Assembly’s page gives it.¹²

From the Legislative Assembly's page on basic compensation, under Section 40 of the Act, boxed: The current government contribution rate is 38.68% (effective July 1, 2024). The sentence continues: In addition, each MLA contributes 11 percent of basic compensation and any additional salary to the pension plan. — The rate the Act requires the Assembly to post. The members’ guide no longer prints the figure; this page does.¹² Source: leg.bc.ca

At this year’s rates, the government’s share comes to about $63,728 a year toward Brittny Anderson’s pension, against $18,123 from her own pay. That is our calculation: 38.68% and 11% of $164,757.94, her pay as an MLA and a Minister of State.¹²⁵

04 A B.C. public servant’s employer puts in 9.85% of salary, and the pension builds at 1.95% a year against an MLA’s 3.5%

The record

In the Public Service Pension Plan, an ordinary member pays in 8.35% of salary and the employer 9.85%.¹³
An ordinary member’s pension builds at 1.95% of their highest average salary for each year of service since April 2022.¹⁴
An MLA’s builds at 3.5% a year, 1.8 times as fast, on a government share almost four times larger.¹¹²

The same pension board runs the plan for the province’s public servants. Its rules set the employer’s share for an ordinary member at 7.10% plus 2.75% of salary, or 9.85%.¹³

Section 6 (1) of the Public Service Pension Plan Rules, Employer contributions. Two lines are boxed: (a) if the member is not a correctional employee, 7.10% of the member's salary; and (c) 2.75% of the member's salary. — Paragraph (b), for correctional employees, is left out between the two boxed lines.¹³ Source: pensionsbc.ca (PDF)

And the public servant’s pension builds more slowly. Since April 2022 an ordinary member earns 1.95% of their highest average salary for each year of service.¹⁴

Section 54 (1) of the Public Service Pension Plan Rules: a member is entitled to receive a pension that is the sum of. Paragraph (e) is boxed: 1.95% of the member's highest average salary, multiplied by the number of years of pensionable service accrued after March 31, 2022 while the member participated in the Plan other than as a correctional employee or ambulance paramedic. — Paragraphs (a) to (d), for earlier years and other groups, are left out between the opening words and paragraph (e).¹⁴ Source: pensionsbc.ca (PDF)

Our calculationSix years, on her 2026 pay of $164,757.94

As an MLA. 3.5% × 6 = 21%, so $34,599.17 a year from 65.
At the public service rate. 1.95% × 6 = 11.7%, so $19,276.68 a year from 65.
Employer money each year. 38.68% is $63,728.37; 9.85% would be $16,228.66.

The comparison is a rough one. A public servant’s pension is figured on the best five years of pay rather than three, and it carries a bridge benefit before 65.¹⁴ But on the same pay, an MLA’s six years are worth nearly 1.8 times a public servant’s at 65, and the government puts in almost four times as much for them.

05 If Brittny Anderson loses, she keeps the pension and can be paid the equivalent of MLA pay for up to 15 months

The record

A member who is not re-elected keeps a vested pension, payable from 60, or its value as a locked-in lump sum before then.²⁸
Transitional assistance pays the equivalent of basic compensation for at least four months and up to 15, starting on final voting day.⁷¹⁵
It ends sooner if the former member earns more than the bi-weekly amount, and a retraining allowance of up to $9,000 is also available.⁷
The program is set by Policy 7200 of the Legislative Assembly Management Committee, not by the Act.¹⁵

A defeat would not cost her the pension. On the plan’s rules she would already have six years, and a member with six years who leaves before 60 can wait for the pension or take its value as a locked-in lump sum.⁸² She would also qualify for the Assembly’s transitional assistance, which is for members who serve to the end of a Parliament.¹⁵

From page 4 of the Assembly's post-election guide for members not returning: For non-returning Members, the Members' transitional assistance provides the equivalent of basic compensation and extended health and dental benefits (excluding pension contributions, group life insurance and any other optional benefits) for up to 15 months, starting on final voting day. — The guide adds that the payments run for a minimum of four months, and then until the former member earns more than the bi-weekly amount or 15 months have passed.⁷ Source: members.leg.bc.ca (PDF)

At this year’s basic compensation, four months comes to $40,680.97 and fifteen months to $152,553.64. That is our calculation, and the real figure depends on when she finds other work.⁵¹⁵ Transitional assistance is paid on basic compensation only, not on a minister’s salary.⁷

06 Once it starts, the pension rises with prices from a separate inflation account, and the rise is not guaranteed

The record

MLA pensions “must have cost of living benefits added to them” under the plan’s inflation rules.⁸
Each increase is capped at the rise in the consumer price index and paid from the plan’s inflation adjustment account.¹⁶
The plan says inflation adjustments “are not guaranteed”. The increase on 1 January 2026 was 2.0%.¹⁶

Section 117 of the Public Service Pension Plan Rules, Retired Member Benefits. Subsection (2) is boxed: Pensions payable under sections 112 and 116 must have cost of living benefits added to them in accordance with section 73. — Section 73, the cost-of-living rule it points to, is the same one that applies to public servants’ pensions.⁸ Source: pensionsbc.ca (PDF)

A pension that waits is kept in step as well. If an MLA leaves young and draws the pension decades later, the plan raises the pay it is figured on by each cost-of-living increase it grants in between.¹⁶ That is why the figures on this page are in today’s dollars.

07 Brittny Anderson is not alone: eight more NDP MLAs, six of them cabinet ministers, reach the same six-year line on 24 October

The record

Eight other sitting NDP MLAs were first elected on 24 October 2020, the same day as Brittny Anderson.³²¹
Six of the eight are NDP candidates on 24 October. Kelly Greene and Brenda Bailey are not on the ballot.²⁰
A member who is not re-elected is treated as a member up to the date of the general election, so each of the eight reaches six years either way.⁸

The rule that takes Brittny Anderson past six years takes the rest of the NDP’s 2020 class with her. Two of them, Kelly Greene, the Minister of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness, and Brenda Bailey, the Minister of Jobs and Economic Growth, are not running, and they reach six years without facing the voters.²⁰⁸

NDP MLAs who reach six years on 24 October 2026
MLA	Role	Riding	First elected	Years on 24 Oct	Needs a win?
Brittny Anderson	Minister of State for Local Governments and Rural Communities	Kootenay Central	24 Oct 2020	6.00	No, win or lose
Josie Osborne	Minister of Finance	Mid Island-Pacific Rim	24 Oct 2020	6.00	No, win or lose
Niki Sharma	Attorney General and Deputy Premier	Vancouver-Hastings	24 Oct 2020	6.00	No, win or lose
Jennifer Whiteside	Minister of Labour	New Westminster-Coquitlam	24 Oct 2020	6.00	No, win or lose
Grace Lore	Minister without Portfolio	Victoria-Beacon Hill	24 Oct 2020	6.00	No, win or lose
Susie Chant	Parliamentary Secretary for Seniors’ Services and Long-Term Care	North Vancouver-Seymour	24 Oct 2020	6.00	No, win or lose
Harwinder Sandhu	Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture	Vernon-Lumby	24 Oct 2020	6.00	No, win or lose
Kelly Greene	Minister of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness	Richmond-Steveston	24 Oct 2020	6.00	No, not running
Brenda Bailey	Minister of Jobs and Economic Growth	Vancouver-South Granville	24 Oct 2020	6.00	No, not running

Roles are as at dissolution on 22 September 2026, and ridings are those of 2024. Four were first elected under other riding names: Brittny Anderson in Nelson-Creston, Jennifer Whiteside in New Westminster, Harwinder Sandhu in Vernon-Monashee and Brenda Bailey in Vancouver-False Creek. Years of service is our calculation from first election day to 24 October 2026.³²¹²²

Twenty more NDP MLAs on the ballot have served less than six years. They reach the line only if they win on 24 October and the House sits long enough, and nine of them are in the Executive Council.²¹²⁰

Ravi ParmarMinister of Forests
Langford-Highlands

Photo: Province of B.C.

The minister closest to the line

Forests Minister Ravi Parmar is the closest of them to six years, and he reaches the line only if he wins

Ravi Parmar, the NDP Minister of Forests, is the MLA for Langford-Highlands and the party’s candidate there on 24 October.²¹²⁰

He was first elected in a by-election on 24 June 2023, so on 24 October he will have about 3.3 years of service, on our calculation.²³

If he loses, he leaves with under six years, and the plan refunds his own contributions with interest instead of paying a pension.²⁸

If he wins, he reaches six years on 24 June 2029. That is partway through the next term, and about 16 months before the next fixed election date of 19 October 2030.⁸¹⁰

His ministry runs the forest service roads. Under the Forest Act the minister declares which roads on Crown land are forest service roads, and the ministry’s resource districts close and deactivate them.²⁵²⁶

Our calculationSix years, at 2026 pay

P = 3.5% × E × 6

E is his best three-year average pay. At this year’s rates that is $122,042.91 as an MLA plus $61,021.46 as a minister, or $183,064.37.⁵¹
3.5% × 6 years is 21%, which comes to about $38,444 a year from age 65, in today’s dollars.
This assumes his three best years are paid at this year’s rates as an MLA and a minister.

NDP ministers on the ballot who reach six years only if they win
MLA	Role	Riding	First elected	Years on 24 Oct	Six years, with a win
Ravi Parmar	Minister of Forests	Langford-Highlands	24 Jun 2023	3.33	24 Jun 2029
Jodie Wickens	Minister of Children and Family Development	Coquitlam-Burke Mountain	19 Oct 2024	2.01	19 Oct 2030, or about Jul 2029
Randene Neill	Minister of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship	Powell River-Sunshine Coast	19 Oct 2024	2.01	19 Oct 2030
Tamara Davidson	Minister of Environment and Parks	North Coast-Haida Gwaii	19 Oct 2024	2.01	19 Oct 2030
Christine Boyle	Minister of Housing and Municipal Affairs	Vancouver-Little Mountain	19 Oct 2024	2.01	19 Oct 2030
Diana Gibson	Minister of Citizens’ Services	Oak Bay-Gordon Head	19 Oct 2024	2.01	19 Oct 2030
Nina Krieger	Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General	Victoria-Swan Lake	19 Oct 2024	2.01	19 Oct 2030
Jessie Sunner	Minister of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills	Surrey-Newton	19 Oct 2024	2.01	19 Oct 2030
Terry Yung	Minister of State for Community Safety and Integrated Services	Vancouver-Yaletown	19 Oct 2024	2.01	19 Oct 2030
Steve Morissette	Parliamentary Secretary for Rural Development	Kootenay-Monashee	19 Oct 2024	2.01	19 Oct 2030

Every one of them needs a win on 24 October. The 2030 dates also need the House to run its full term. Jodie Wickens first served from February 2016 until she lost in May 2017; if that earlier service still counts, she reaches six years in about July 2029. That turns on whether she took a refund in 2017, which is not on the public record. Years of service is our calculation.²³⁴²¹²⁴⁸

Steve Morissette, in the last row, is the Parliamentary Secretary for Rural Development rather than a minister. Ten more NDP candidates first elected in 2024 are in the same position: the parliamentary secretaries Debra Toporowski, George Anderson, Jennifer Blatherwick, Paul Choi, Sunita Dhir, Stephanie Higginson, Dana Lajeunesse, Darlene Rotchford and Amna Shah, and Reah Arora, a backbench MLA.²²²⁰

The 2024 class needs all of a second term because this election came early. The Constitution Act sets the vote for the third Saturday in October of the fourth calendar year after the last one, which would have been 21 October 2028, but the House was dissolved on 22 September 2026, two years early.¹⁰⁶ The next fixed date is 19 October 2030, and it can move if the campaign would overlap the local elections due that October.¹⁰ A winner first elected in 2024 reaches six years only if the House is not dissolved early again.

08 Five questions about her pension that Brittny Anderson can answer before British Columbians vote

Questions for Brittny Anderson, NDP candidate in Kootenay Central

Will you publish your pension service record from the B.C. Pension Corporation, and confirm the date you reach six years?
Do you support a government contribution of 38.68% of MLA pay, when an ordinary public servant’s employer pays 9.85%?
Would you back an independent review of the MLA pension rate and formula in the next Parliament?
Should a minister’s salary count toward an MLA pension, as it does now?
If you lose, will you take transitional assistance on top of a vested pension?

Her pension follows from rules the Legislature wrote for all its members, and every MLA who reaches six years gets the same terms. Her record on the roads of her own riding is in our two earlier pieces, on her job as a minister of state and on the forest roads of Kootenay Central.¹⁹¹⁷

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On 24 October, Brittny Anderson reaches the six years that qualify a B.C. MLA for a pension for life. Taxpayers put in $3.52 for every $1 she does.

Brittny Anderson, the NDP Minister of State for Rural Communities and candidate in Kootenay Central, was first elected on 24 October 2020. Under the Members’ Remuneration and Pensions Act, an MLA gets no pension without at least six years of service. On the pension plan’s own rules she reaches it on 24 October, win or lose.

She is not alone. Eight more NDP MLAs, six of them cabinet ministers, were first elected the same day and reach six years on 24 October too. Ravi Parmar, the Minister of Forests, first elected in 2023, reaches six years only if he wins, on 24 June 2029.

On our calculation from the Act’s formula and the Assembly’s pay records, six years is worth at least $30,000 a year from age 65, because her minister’s salary counts toward it.

She pays 11% of her pay into the plan. The government pays 38.68%, about $63,700 a year at this year’s pay. An ordinary B.C. public servant’s employer pays 9.85%.

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Sources

↩ Members’ Remuneration and Pensions Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 257, current to 6 October 2026: section 2 (basic compensation), section 4 and its Table (salaries for positions as a share of basic compensation), section 9 (a member is paid “from the date of the member’s election” until “the date of the next following general election”, the date of an election being final voting day), section 35 (“earnings” means both the basic compensation and “the salary paid under this Act”; “service” means “service as a plan participant”, and a plan participant includes a person who holds a position on the Executive Council), section 38 (the 11% deduction and the government contribution set by the public service board), and the Schedule, paragraphs 1 to 8. bclaws.gov.bc.ca
↩ Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Members’ Guide to Policy and Resources: Members’ Pension Plan, read 16 October 2026: contributions of 11% of “pensionable earnings (basic compensation and any additional salary earned)”; no pension under six years of service; “Refund of contributions with interest” under six years; and, for a vested member under 60, “Locked-in commuted value or deferred pension”. members.leg.bc.ca
↩ Elections BC, October 24, 2020 Provincial General Election: Report of the Chief Electoral Officer, Appendix C, Statement of Votes: Nelson-Creston, Brittny Anderson, BC NDP, 7,296 votes (41.78%); and the same night’s wins for the BC NDP by Josie Osborne, Niki Sharma, Jennifer Whiteside, Grace Lore, Susie Chant, Harwinder Sandhu, Kelly Greene and Brenda Bailey. elections.bc.ca (PDF)
↩ Elections BC, Statement of Votes, 2024 Provincial General Election (final voting day 19 October 2024): Kootenay Central, Brittny Anderson, BC NDP, 8,716 votes (39.63%), marked as the incumbent; and the BC NDP winners first elected that day, among them Randene Neill and Tamara Davidson, shown without the incumbent mark. elections.bc.ca (PDF)
↩ Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Remuneration and Allowances, read 16 October 2026 (“Effective April 1, 2026, the annual basic compensation each Member receives is $122,042.91”; it “is payable from election day until the day before the next election”), and the additional salary grid, April 2026 (Minister, 50%, $61,021.46; Minister of State, 35%, $42,715.03). members.leg.bc.ca · grid (PDF)
↩ Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, 2026 Transition Guide for Members Seeking Re-election, version 1, 22 September 2026: page 3 (dissolution and writs on 22 September 2026, final voting day 24 October 2026, return of writs 18 November 2026) and page 7 (basic compensation to 23 October 2026; Ministers “continue to receive their ministerial salary until their appointment to the Executive Council is terminated by order in council”; pension deductions continue through the election period). members.leg.bc.ca (PDF)
↩ Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, 2026 Post-election Guide for Members Not Returning, version 1, page 5: “A Member’s pension contributions stop on final voting day”, with individual questions referred to the B.C. Pension Corporation; and the 2026 Post-election Guide for Members Re-elected, page 2: for Ministers, “compensation continues uninterrupted until a new Executive Council is appointed.” Not Returning (PDF) · Re-elected (PDF)
↩ Public Service Pension Board of Trustees, Public Service Pension Plan Rules, current to 9 June 2026, Part 15, MLA Pensions: section 107 (“legislative service” includes any time a plan participant “holds a position on the Executive Council”; “termination of employment”; and subsection (3), the member “deemed to cease to be a member … as of the date of the general election” if not elected), section 108 (Part 15 “contains the terms of the Part 3 pension plan”), section 109 (3) (pensionable service), section 112 (refund under six years; 3.5% of highest average salary per year of pensionable service; reduction of 0.25% a month before 65; commuted value), section 113 (form of pension), section 114 (highest average salary) and section 117 (2) (cost-of-living benefits) and section 118 (a member re-elected after a break: earlier service is “ignored” if the contributions were refunded, and counted again if they were not). pensionsbc.ca (PDF)
↩ Province of British Columbia, news release 2024PREM0067-001590, 18 November 2024: the new cabinet, “23 ministers and four ministers of state”, with Brittny Anderson as Minister of State for Local Governments and Rural Communities. news.gov.bc.ca
↩ Constitution Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 66, section 9: “The Executive Council is composed of the persons the Lieutenant Governor appoints”; and section 23 (2) (final voting day “must occur on the third Saturday in October in the fourth calendar year following” the last general election) and (3) (a different date if the campaign would overlap a general local election or a federal general election). bclaws.gov.bc.ca
↩ Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, MLA Compensation (unaudited), combined disclosures for the fourth quarter of each fiscal year, 2020–21 to 2025–26, cash basis: Brittny Anderson’s basic compensation and executive salary for each year. Note 4: ministerial salaries carry a holdback of 10% under the Balanced Budget and Ministerial Accountability Act. 2025–26 (PDF) · 2024–25 (PDF) · 2023–24 (PDF)
↩ Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Basic Compensation page, read 16 October 2026, posted under section 40 of the Act: “The current government contribution rate is 38.68% (effective July 1, 2024). In addition, each MLA contributes 11 percent of basic compensation and any additional salary to the pension plan.” leg.bc.ca
↩ Public Service Pension Plan Rules, current to 9 June 2026, Part 2: section 5 (an ordinary member contributes 7.10% plus 1.25% of salary) and section 6 (the employer contributes 7.10% plus 2.75% of salary). pensionsbc.ca (PDF)
↩ Public Service Pension Plan Rules, current to 9 June 2026: section 54 (1) (e) (an ordinary member’s pension is 1.95% of highest average salary for each year of service after 31 March 2022), section 54 (2) (the bridge benefit to 65) and section 97 (highest average salary over the best five years). pensionsbc.ca (PDF)
↩ Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Transitional Assistance, read 16 October 2026: set by “Policy 7200 – Member Allowances approved by the Legislative Assembly Management Committee”; members must remain a member “until the end of the Parliament”; an amount equal to basic compensation for a minimum of four months and a maximum of 15 months. members.leg.bc.ca · Policy 7200 (PDF)
↩ Public Service Pension Plan, “Inflation adjustments” (“Inflation adjustments are not guaranteed”) and “Effective January 1, 2026, your pension increased 2.0 per cent”, read 16 October 2026; and Plan Rules sections 73 and 100. pspp.pensionsbc.ca · 2026 adjustment
↩ Backcountry Coalition, editorial on Brittny Anderson and the forest service roads of Kootenay Central, 11 October 2026. backcountry.cx
↩ Hansard, 42nd Parliament, 5th Session, Issue 399, 13 March 2024, about 1:55 p.m.: “I am grateful that our Premier appointed me as Parliamentary Secretary for Tourism, specifically focused on rural tourism.” leg.bc.ca
↩ Backcountry Coalition, editorial on Brittny Anderson’s role as Minister of State for Rural Communities, 2 October 2026. backcountry.cx
↩ Elections BC, 2026 Provincial General Election: candidate list and its CSV file, read 16 October 2026 (“nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026”): 92 BC NDP candidates, among them every sitting NDP MLA named in section 07 except Kelly Greene and Brenda Bailey, who are not listed. elections.bc.ca
↩ Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Members of the 43rd Parliament, read 16 October 2026 from the Assembly’s own member data service, which supplies its member pages: party, riding, years elected, and Executive Council roles with their start dates. leg.bc.ca
↩ Province of British Columbia, Cabinet ministers, read 16 October 2026: the ministers, ministers of state and parliamentary secretaries. gov.bc.ca
↩ Elections BC, Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the 2023 Langford-Juan de Fuca and Vancouver-Mount Pleasant By-elections: Ravi Parmar, BC NDP, elected in Langford-Juan de Fuca with 7,279 votes (53.39%), final voting day 24 June 2023. elections.bc.ca (PDF)
↩ Elections BC, Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the 2016 Vancouver-Mount Pleasant and Coquitlam-Burke Mountain By-elections (2 February 2016: Jodie Wickens, BC NDP, elected) and 2017 General Election report (Coquitlam-Burke Mountain: Joan Isaacs 10,388, Jodie Wickens 10,301). 2016 (PDF) · 2017 (PDF)
↩ Forest Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 157, read 16 October 2026: section 1 (“forest service road” means “a road on Crown land that is declared under this Act or the former Act to be a forest service road”) and section 120.1 (1) (“The minister may declare a road on Crown land to be a forest service road”). bclaws.gov.bc.ca
↩ Province of British Columbia, Selkirk Natural Resource District road safety information, read 16 October 2026: closures and deactivation plans for forest service roads in the district, with options “developed in conjunction with the Ministry of Forests Engineering Branch”. gov.bc.ca

Every source was read on 16 October 2026. The pension figures are our calculation from the Act’s formula and the Assembly’s published pay records.