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EDITORIAL · KOOTENAY CENTRAL · THE BC NDP · OLD GROWTH

Brittny Anderson promised all 14 old-growth fixes. After two years in cabinet, not one is finished.

A week before the vote, Brittny Anderson posted a reel asking environmental voters to back “a voice working to change what happens inside government.” We checked her seven claims against the record. In 2024 she promised all 14 old-growth recommendations, and none is finished. The biodiversity law her government promised was never tabled. The Kootenay deferrals she credits were put in place by others in 2022, and the two scientists she names spent June outside her party with protesters.

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At six o’clock on Saturday evening, one week before the vote, Brittny Anderson posted a three-minute reel to Instagram. It is a pitch to one group of voters in particular. Its caption opens with a question.

Brittny Anderson’s reel, posted to Instagram at 6:00 p.m. Pacific on Saturday 17 October 2026.1

Watch Brittny Anderson’s reel on Instagram →

Brittny Anderson@brittny.d.anderson

17 Oct 2026

Reel caption · paragraphs 1–2 of 14

If you care about old growth, here’s a question worth asking: Do you want a voice speaking out from the sidelines, or a voice working to change what happens inside government?

I know some environmentalists are asking why they should vote for me. And I take that question seriously.

Instagram reel, posted 6:00 p.m. Pacific on 17 October 2026

The opening of the reel’s caption. The highlight is ours.1

Brittny AndersonBC NDP candidate in Kootenay Central and Minister of State for Local Governments and Rural Communities

Anderson was first elected in 2020 for Nelson-Creston, the riding now called Kootenay Central. Since November 2024 she has sat in Premier David Eby’s cabinet as Minister of State for Local Governments and Rural Communities.23 She is asking Kootenay Central to re-elect her on 24 October.4

The reel’s argument is simple. Activists shout from the sidelines, and she gets things done from the inside. So we took her at her word and checked what the inside has produced. We pulled seven claims from her own caption and set each one against Hansard, the Province’s own forestry documents and the news record.

Seven claims from the reel, with our verdict on each. Select a claim to jump to the evidence.

  1. Not delivered“I’ve been pushing to implement more of the recommendations from the Old Growth Strategic Review.”
  2. Credit-claiming“Here in the Kootenays, we’ve been successful in implementing temporary protection for TAP deferral areas.”
  3. Not delivered“I want to make these permanent, not just for us but for BC altogether.”
  4. Unverifiable“I can use my position as a Cabinet Minister to ensure these opportunities stay on the table.”
  5. Unverifiable“…getting the Premier out into the forest with Drs. Suzanne Simard and Rachel Holt.”
  6. Not delivered“I will keep pushing for a Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health Law.”
  7. Unverifiable“I will keep bringing industry and ecological experts together.”

Where the record shows something real, we say so. The deferrals in the Kootenays are real. But in our view the reel is virtue signalling: it sells an identity as the forests’ voice in cabinet, and it puts her name on results that other people produced or that have not happened at all.

01 She says she pushed the 14 old-growth fixes. She promised all of them, and none is finished.

Brittny Anderson@brittny.d.anderson

17 Oct 2026

Reel caption · paragraph 6 of 14

Along with Kootenay based leading experts and ecologists, I’ve been pushing to implement more of the recommendations from the Old Growth Strategic Review.

Instagram reel, posted 6:00 p.m. Pacific on 17 October 2026

Paragraph 6 of the caption.1

The Old Growth Strategic Review was written for the Province by the foresters Garry Merkel and Al Gorley and released in September 2020. It made 14 recommendations. The second asked government to make ecosystem health and biodiversity the overarching priority and to “enact legislation” to back it.5

In the 2024 campaign, Anderson promised more than “more” of them. At a Nelson forum on 3 October 2024 she said: “We are recommitted to all of the recommendations in the old growth strategic report.”6

The Province’s own page says only that “work has begun on every recommendation” and that some “will take years to be fully implemented.”7 Its 2024 progress report rated two of the 14 as advanced and nearly half as still at the starting stage.8 The Wilderness Committee found in September 2025 that none of the 14 had been fully implemented.9

Rachel Holt, a Nelson ecologist who sat on the government’s own old-growth Technical Advisory Panel, put it more bluntly. In November 2025, at a rally in front of Anderson’s office, she described telling Forests Minister Ravi Parmar: “And I said, no, we haven’t implemented it.”10

As for the pushing, we could not find it in public. Anderson spoke 68 times in the Legislature in her two years as a minister, and not once did she say “old growth”.11 None of the 67 news releases from her MLA and caucus offices that we could read mentions it, and nor do her campaign pages.12

Not deliveredNot one of the 14 recommendations is finished, against her own promise of all of them. Any private pushing has left no public trace.

02 She takes credit for the Kootenay deferrals. The Forests ministry and First Nations made them.

Brittny Anderson@brittny.d.anderson

17 Oct 2026

Reel caption · paragraph 7 of 14

Here in the Kootenays, we’ve been successful in implementing temporary protection for TAP deferral areas. I want to make these permanent, not just for us but for BC altogether.

Instagram reel, posted 6:00 p.m. Pacific on 17 October 2026

Paragraph 7. TAP is the Technical Advisory Panel, which mapped the most at-risk old growth in 2021.1

The deferrals are real, and that should be said plainly. In November 2021, Premier John Horgan and Forests Minister Katrine Conroy, the MLA for Kootenay West, announced that the Province would work with First Nations to pause logging in up to 2.6 million hectares of at-risk old growth.13 In August 2022 every First Nation with territory in the Kootenay-Boundary region agreed to the deferrals there.14

In the Kootenay Lake timber supply area, the heart of her riding, the deferrals cover 54,892 hectares, and the deputy chief forester expects none of it to be logged. But only 6,404 of those hectares were ever in the land base counted for logging. The protection is a promise by licensees, who “have agreed to not harvest,” and the areas “have not been legally removed” from the timber supply.14

Anderson was not in cabinet when this happened. We found no announcement, release or ministry document that names her in connection with it. In our view “we’ve been successful” takes a result built by a minister, a ministry and the First Nations of the region and wraps it in her own campaign.

Credit-claimingThe deferrals exist, but they are voluntary, and most of the area sits outside the land counted for logging. They were put in place by others before she joined cabinet.

03 She wants the deferrals made permanent. Her own government calls them temporary.

Brittny Anderson@brittny.d.anderson

17 Oct 2026

Reel caption · paragraph 7 of 14

Here in the Kootenays, we’ve been successful in implementing temporary protection for TAP deferral areas. I want to make these permanent, not just for us but for BC altogether.

Instagram reel, posted 6:00 p.m. Pacific on 17 October 2026

Paragraph 7, continued.1

The Province’s page on deferrals says: “Deferrals are not permanent protections and are subject to future management decisions.”15 Its latest figures, from February 2025, show 1,362,992 hectares of the at-risk old growth mapped in 2021 still neither deferred nor protected. That is more than half of it.16

In March 2026, all five former members of the Technical Advisory Panel told Eby they were concerned that logging was continuing in the forests they had identified.17 On 10 October, two weeks before the vote, the BC NDP promised “$50 million to permanently protect rare old-growth forests.”18 Holt called it “a step in the right direction.”19 It is still a campaign promise, made five years after the 2021 deferrals.

Not deliveredAfter five years, the deferrals are still temporary by the Province’s own description. Making them permanent is a pledge for the next term.

04 She says her cabinet seat is leverage. As a minister, she never said “old growth” in the House.

Brittny Anderson@brittny.d.anderson

17 Oct 2026

Reel caption · paragraph 9 of 14

I’m one MLA among 93. I can’t do this alone. But I can use my position as a Cabinet Minister to ensure these opportunities stay on the table—and keep pushing for progress.

Instagram reel, posted 6:00 p.m. Pacific on 17 October 2026

Paragraph 9.1

She is in cabinet, and that part is true: ministers of state sit at the table.3 But the job Eby gave her is about local governments and rural communities. Her mandate letter never uses the words “forest”, “old growth” or “biodiversity”.20

Ravi ParmarBC NDP Minister of Forests

The letter Eby sent to Ravi Parmar, his Minister of Forests, on the same day asked for faster permits for industry and a land base able to support a harvest of 45 million cubic metres a year.21 Inside that cabinet, the public record of Anderson’s votes runs the same way. In May 2025 she voted for the two bills that let cabinet fast-track wind, transmission and other projects, which passed only on the Speaker’s casting vote.22 In April 2026 she rose to support changes to the environmental assessment law, and gave its purpose as “more predictability and certainty for industry.”23

In our view, that is the record of a minister who votes with her government on industry and speaks about forests on Instagram. What she says in cabinet is private, and we cannot see it. What we can see is that she never raised old growth in the House.

UnverifiableHer seat in cabinet is real. Any use of it for old growth is not on the public record, and her public votes point the other way.

05 She says she took Eby into the forest with two scientists. In June they were outside with protesters.

Brittny Anderson@brittny.d.anderson

17 Oct 2026

Reel caption · paragraph 10 of 14

Last term, I served in cabinet, which gave me direct access to Premier Eby. That access helped create opportunities to bring the importance of our forests to the forefront—including getting the Premier out into the forest with Drs. Suzanne Simard and Rachel Holt.

Instagram reel, posted 6:00 p.m. Pacific on 17 October 2026

Paragraph 10.1

David EbyPremier of British Columbia and leader of the BC NDP

Suzanne Simard is a professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia and lives in Nelson. Rachel Holt is the ecologist from the advisory panel. Anderson has leaned on both before. In November 2021 she told the Legislature that the two of them “spoke out publicly through interviews in support of our old-growth deferral announcements.”24

We found no public record of Eby walking in a forest with them. The day we can document is 22 June 2026. Eby and Anderson toured a wildfire fuel project in West Arm Provincial Park with youth crews, and the government’s release says nothing about old growth.25 That evening about 70 old-growth protesters gathered outside Taghum Hall, where Anderson was holding her birthday party. Eby did not come. Anderson said the RCMP had made a security assessment.2627

Holt was at the party. She came outside to address the crowd, and said the government had “fully reverted back to the idea that timber volume is king.” Then she said: “We need our leaders to be leaders.” Simard called the lack of reform a “failure of imagination.”26 According to the organisers’ account, Holt acknowledged Anderson’s efforts to bring these issues to the provincial table, “as well as how the message is still falling on deaf ears.”28

On 14 October, Anderson told My Nelson Now she had “helped arrange a visit to the region by Premier David Eby and renowned forest ecologist Suzanne Simard.” She gave no date, and Holt was not mentioned.29 In our view, a walk with a premier is not a result. The two scientists she names have spent the past year telling her own government, at her own door, that the results have not come.

UnverifiableWe found no public record of the forest visit. On the one documented occasion, the scientists were outside her event and the Premier did not come.

06 She will keep pushing for a biodiversity law. Her government promised one in 2023 and never tabled it.

Brittny Anderson@brittny.d.anderson

17 Oct 2026

Reel caption · paragraph 12 of 14

I will keep advocating for old growth. I will keep bringing industry and ecological experts together to find a better pathway forward. And I will keep pushing for a Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health Law that protects the natural systems we all depend on.

Instagram reel, posted 6:00 p.m. Pacific on 17 October 2026

Paragraph 12.1

This law was recommendation 2 of the 2020 review.5 In November 2023 the Province released a draft Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health Framework. It said the framework was “expected to be finalized in early 2024” and that B.C. would “co-develop new or update existing legislation.”30 It is still a draft. No bill appears in any session of the Legislature from 2020 to 2026.31

The promise then went quiet in cabinet, where Anderson sits. The January 2025 mandate letter to Randene Neill, the Minister of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship, does not contain the word “biodiversity”.32 In October 2025 Jeremy Valeriote, the leader of the BC Greens, told the House: “since then, nothing.”33 Her party’s 2026 platform does not promise the law at all.34 In two years in cabinet, Anderson never raised it in the Legislature.11

The second promise in that paragraph, to keep bringing industry and ecologists together, may describe real meetings. We found no public record of one.

Not deliveredThe law was promised and drafted, then left out of the 2025 mandate letter and the 2026 platform, while she sat in cabinet. A pledge to “keep pushing” implies pushing we could not find.

07 In 2023 she said she would work to save the Argenta face. Part of it had already been logged.

The Argenta–Johnsons Landing Face rises above the north end of Kootenay Lake, inside her riding. In 2021 the Province issued a permit for six cutblocks there and said it was not considering protection.35 The first permit was logged in 2022, after a blockade. Anderson’s response then was that she had been “in touch with the Ministry of Forests.”36

In February 2023 she told the Legislature: “I would love to see it preserved. We will see what we’re able to do. That is something that I will keep working on.”37 In July 2024 she wrote in the Nelson Star that it was one of the areas “I have been working to spare from logging.”38 We found no protection for the face as of this week.36

It is the same shape as the reel. She promises to keep working, and she names the experts she works with. The outcome is left for later. The voters who care most have noticed. Nicole Charlwood, the BC Green candidate in Kootenay Central, says: “We’ve been promised by our current MLA that we would see change in that regard [but] we’re not protecting species.”39 When The Globe and Mail asked Anderson for an interview about her party’s environmental record this month, it got unattributed written answers instead.40

In our view, she puts ideology and self-image ahead of delivery: the identity is environmental, and the votes follow the party. She is not the forests’ inside voice. She has been, at most, a sympathetic ear that passes messages up a chain that does not act on them. The scientists she names said as much outside her party in June.

08 Kootenay Central votes on 24 October. Ask her what the voice inside government has delivered.

Her reel asks voters to choose between “a voice speaking out from the sidelines” and “a voice working to change what happens inside government.”1 On a June night in Taghum, the two scientists she names in that reel were inside her party. They walked out to the sidelines to tell a crowd that the government had gone back to timber volume. In our view, that is the answer to her question.

She has had six years as an MLA and two in cabinet. In that time we found a deferral system built by others, a biodiversity law that was promised and never tabled, and an Argenta face she promised to work on that is still unprotected. Her reel offers more advocacy. Voters are entitled to ask for results instead.

Brittny Anderson says she is the voice for old growth inside government. Ask her what that voice has delivered.

For Brittny AndersonBC NDP candidate, Kootenay Central, and Minister of State for Local Governments and Rural Communities

  1. Which of the 14 Old Growth Strategic Review recommendations is fully implemented today?
  2. When did you take Premier Eby into the forest with Suzanne Simard and Rachel Holt, and what changed afterwards?
  3. Your government promised a biodiversity law in 2023. Why is it missing from your party’s 2026 platform?
  4. Is the Argenta–Johnsons Landing Face protected? If not, when will it be?

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Brittny Anderson promised all 14 old-growth fixes. After two years in cabinet, not one is finished.

In 2024 Brittny Anderson, the BC NDP candidate in Kootenay Central, promised all 14 recommendations of the Old Growth Strategic Review. A week before the vote, her new reel says she is the voice for old growth inside cabinet.

We checked her seven claims. None of the 14 is finished. The biodiversity law her government promised in 2023 was never tabled. The Kootenay deferrals she credits were put in place by the Forests ministry and First Nations in 2022.

In two years as a minister she never said “old growth” in the Legislature.

Ask her what the inside voice has delivered before you vote on 24 October.

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  1. ↩ Brittny Anderson, @brittny.d.anderson, Instagram reel, posted 17 October 2026 at 6:00 p.m. Pacific, about three minutes long. Her words are quoted from the reel’s own caption, which runs 14 paragraphs and ends mid-sentence. Instagram did not let us save the video file, so quotes are located by caption paragraph rather than by timestamp. Read in a logged-in browser on 17 October 2026, when it had 2 likes and 1 comment. instagram.com
  2. ↩ Province of British Columbia, Minister of State for Local Governments and Rural Communities: biography: she “was appointed the Minister of State for Local Governments and Rural Communities in November 2024” and was first elected for Nelson-Creston, now Kootenay Central, in 2020. Read 17 October 2026. news.gov.bc.ca
  3. ↩ Office of the Premier, news release 2024PREM0067-001590, 18 November 2024: “The new cabinet includes 23 ministers and four ministers of state.” Anderson is listed first after the Premier. news.gov.bc.ca
  4. ↩ Elections BC, 2026 Provincial General Election candidates (file dated 16 October 2026). Kootenay Central: Brittny Anderson (BC NDP), Nicole Charlwood (BC Green Party), Hunter Corrigal (OneBC), Gordon Skulnec (Conservative). General voting day is 24 October 2026. elections.bc.ca
  5. ↩ Garry Merkel and Al Gorley, A New Future for Old Forests, the Old Growth Strategic Review, dated 30 April 2020 and released 11 September 2020. Fourteen recommendations; recommendation 2 asks government to “enact legislation” making ecosystem health and biodiversity an overarching priority; recommendation 6 asks for deferrals. gov.bc.ca
  6. ↩ My Nelson Now, “Kootenay Central candidates go head to head over climate action in Nelson”, 4 October 2024. Anderson: “We are recommitted to all of the recommendations in the old growth strategic report…” mynelsonnow.com
  7. ↩ Province of British Columbia, Old growth forests page, last updated 4 December 2024: “Work has begun on every recommendation; however, some recommendations will take years to be fully implemented.” Read 17 October 2026. gov.bc.ca
  8. ↩ The Narwhal, “B.C. old growth update”, 28 May 2024, on the Province’s report From Review to Action: two of the 14 recommendations rated “advanced”, nearly half still at “initial”. thenarwhal.ca
  9. ↩ Wilderness Committee, release of 9 September 2025, five years after the review: none of the 14 recommendations fully implemented. wildernesscommittee.org
  10. ↩ Nelson Star, “David Suzuki headlines Nelson rally for old-growth forests, watersheds”, 19 November 2025. The rally gathered in front of Anderson’s office. Rachel Holt, on Forests Minister Ravi Parmar: “And I said, no, we haven’t implemented it.” Suzanne Simard: “They actually logged our forest at four times the rate than when the old-growth deferrals were set in place.” nelsonstar.com
  11. ↩ Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Hansard, 43rd Parliament, issues 1 to 188 (18 February 2025 to 28 May 2026), read in full. Anderson spoke 68 times. None of those turns contains “old growth”, “old-growth”, “deferral” or “30 by 30”; the one use of “biodiversity” describes a community forest (19 February 2026). On 20 October 2025 she introduced Rachel Holt as “a dear friend”. leg.bc.ca
  12. ↩ Brittny Anderson’s MLA and caucus news releases, 67 of them as kept by the Internet Archive (bcndpcaucus.ca and brittnyanderson.ca), and her BC NDP candidate pages of 2022, 2024 and 2026. None contains “old growth” or “deferral”. The live caucus site is offline during the election. Read 17 October 2026. brittnyanderson.bcndp.ca
  13. ↩ Office of the Premier and Ministry of Forests, news release 2021FLNRO0068-002088, 2 November 2021: Premier John Horgan and Forests Minister Katrine Conroy announce that the Province will work with First Nations to defer logging in up to 2.6 million hectares, a “temporary measure”. news.gov.bc.ca
  14. ↩ Deputy Chief Forester, Kootenay Lake Timber Supply Area, rationale for allowable annual cut, 4 June 2024: “In August 2022, the Kootenay-Boundary Region received unanimous support for the implementation of at-risk old-growth forests deferrals from all First Nations with traditional territory in the region.” Deferrals cover 54,892 ha, 6,404 ha of it in the timber harvesting land base. “Licensees operating in the TSA have agreed to not harvest…”; the areas “have not been legally removed from the land base contributing to timber supply.” gov.bc.ca
  15. ↩ Province of British Columbia, Old growth deferral areas, updated 29 May 2025: “Deferrals are not permanent protections and are subject to future management decisions.” Read 17 October 2026. gov.bc.ca
  16. ↩ Province of British Columbia, old growth deferral numbers, February 2025: of 2,578,120 ha of unprotected priority old growth mapped by the Technical Advisory Panel in 2021, 1,215,128 ha deferred or newly protected and 1,362,992 ha neither. gov.bc.ca
  17. ↩ CBC News / The Canadian Press, 15 March 2026: the five former members of the old-growth Technical Advisory Panel sent Premier Eby a document raising concern about continued logging in the forests they identified in 2021. cbc.ca
  18. ↩ BC NDP, “Eby’s plan protects B.C.’s natural spaces”, 10 October 2026: “$50 million to permanently protect rare old-growth forests.” bcndp.ca
  19. ↩ CBC News, on scientists who say the NDP is backsliding on old growth, 15 October 2026. Rachel Holt called the $50-million pledge “a step in the right direction”. cbc.ca
  20. ↩ Premier David Eby, mandate letter to Brittny Anderson, 16 January 2025. Her specific duties concern local governments and rural communities. The words “forest”, “old growth” and “biodiversity” do not appear. gov.bc.ca
  21. ↩ Premier David Eby, mandate letter to Ravi Parmar, Minister of Forests, 16 January 2025: “prompt, efficient, and effective delivery of permits required by industry” and a land base “to enable harvest of 45,000,000 cubic meters per year”. gov.bc.ca
  22. ↩ Hansard, 28 May 2025, third reading of Bill 14, Renewable Energy Projects (Streamlined Permitting) Act, and Bill 15, Infrastructure Projects Act: both passed 46 to 46 on the Speaker’s casting vote, with “B. Anderson” among the yeas. She also voted yea at second reading (13 and 15 May) and on the closure motion of 6 May. leg.bc.ca
  23. ↩ Hansard, 13 April 2026, about 4:25 p.m., second reading of Bill 15, Environmental Assessment Amendment Act, 2026. Anderson: the change will “create more predictability and certainty for industry”. The bill passed on 16 April without a recorded vote. leg.bc.ca
  24. ↩ Hansard, 15 November 2021, morning sitting, about 10:30 a.m., private members’ statement: “Both Nelson-based, PhD-level scientific forestry experts Rachel Holt and Suzanne Simard spoke out publicly through interviews in support of our old-growth deferral announcements.” leg.bc.ca
  25. ↩ Province of British Columbia, news release 2026ECS0033-000737, 22 June 2026: Premier Eby and Anderson “toured a wildfire mitigation project in West Arm Provincial Park near Nelson” with Youth Climate Corps crews. The release does not mention old growth, Simard or Holt. news.gov.bc.ca
  26. ↩ Kootenay Co-op Radio (Local Journalism Initiative), “Protesters lament lack of forestry reform to absent Eby”, 26 June 2026. Eby “was expected to attend MLA Brittny Anderson’s birthday party” and “did not show up”. Rachel Holt “was attending the MLA’s birthday party. She came outside to greet the protesters”. Holt: the government has “fully reverted back to the idea that timber volume is king”; “We need our leaders to be leaders.” Simard: a “failure of imagination”. kootenaycoopradio.com
  27. ↩ My Nelson Now, “Protesters urge province to follow through on old-growth promises”, 24 June 2026. About 70 people gathered outside Taghum Hall. Anderson: “The RCMP made a security assessment, and we have to respect the decision that they made.” mynelsonnow.com
  28. ↩ Castanet (Timothy Schafer), on the 22 June protest, 23 June 2026, quoting the organisers’ release about Holt: “She acknowledged the efforts of our local MLA to bring these issues to the provincial table, as well as how the message is still falling on deaf ears.” Read from the Internet Archive copy; Castanet’s own site blocks automated reading. web.archive.org
  29. ↩ My Nelson Now, “Brittny Anderson looks to build on six years as Kootenay Central MLA”, 14 October 2026: “She said she recently helped arrange a visit to the region by Premier David Eby and renowned forest ecologist Suzanne Simard to discuss the protection of old-growth forests.” No date is given. mynelsonnow.com
  30. ↩ Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship, news release 2023WLRS0061-001784, 15 November 2023, releasing the draft Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health Framework: “The framework is expected to be finalized in early 2024… B.C. will co-develop new or update existing legislation…” The Province’s page still calls it a draft on 17 October 2026. news.gov.bc.ca
  31. ↩ BC Laws, bill lists for every session of the 42nd and 43rd Parliaments (2020 to 2026). None contains a biodiversity or ecosystem health bill. Read 17 October 2026. bclaws.gov.bc.ca
  32. ↩ Premier David Eby, mandate letter to Randene Neill, Minister of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship, 16 January 2025. The word “biodiversity” does not appear. gov.bc.ca
  33. ↩ Hansard, 20 October 2025, question period. Jeremy Valeriote, leader of the BC Greens: “This government released their draft biodiversity and ecosystem health framework in 2023, but since then, nothing.” leg.bc.ca
  34. ↩ BC NDP, 2026 platform page (“Build BC Strong”). It lists 30-by-30, old-growth and watershed commitments and no biodiversity or ecosystem health law. Read 17 October 2026. bcndp.ca
  35. ↩ The Narwhal, on the Purcell Wilderness Conservancy and the Argenta–Johnsons Landing Face, 5 June 2021: the Province had issued Cooper Creek Cedar a permit for six cutblocks and was not considering protecting the area. thenarwhal.ca
  36. ↩ Cooper Creek Cedar, notices page, read 29 September and 17 October 2026, recording the 2022 harvest of cutting permit 405 on the face; and Creston Valley Advance, 29 April 2022, on the blockade and Anderson’s statement that she had been “in touch with the Ministry of Forests”. We found no provincial protection for the face as of 17 October 2026. coopercreekcedar.com
  37. ↩ Hansard, 9 February 2023, afternoon sitting, after 5:10 p.m., Throne Speech debate: on the Argenta–Johnsons Landing Face, “I would love to see it preserved. We will see what we’re able to do. That is something that I will keep working on…” leg.bc.ca
  38. ↩ Brittny Anderson, column in the Nelson Star, 8 July 2024: “there are areas, like Argenta-Johnsons Landing Face and the Ymir watershed, that I have been working to spare from logging…” nelsonstar.com
  39. ↩ My Creston Now, on the BC Green candidate Nicole Charlwood, 14 October 2026: “We’ve been promised by our current MLA that we would see change in that regard [but] we’re not protecting species. We’re still cutting down old growth.” mycrestonnow.com
  40. ↩ The Globe and Mail, “Environmentally conscious voters in NDP stronghold ridings dismayed by Eby’s track record”, 11 October 2026: the paper “made multiple requests to interview Ms. Anderson” and “received unattributed written responses instead.” theglobeandmail.com

Sources were read on 17 October 2026. Her words are re-set exactly as published in the reel’s caption; the highlights are ours. Instagram did not let us save the video, so quotes are placed by caption paragraph. Portraits: Brittny Anderson, David Eby and Ravi Parmar, BC NDP. Still: Brittny Anderson on Instagram, a single frame from her reel, used for criticism.