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EDITORIAL · THE BC NDP · RADY CREEK · SNOWMOBILING

B.C.’s snowmobilers asked the parties where they stand on trails and access. The federation says the BC NDP didn’t even answer.

The BC Snowmobile Federation asked B.C.’s parties four questions about resource roads, trail funding and land use. The Conservatives and the Greens sent official answers. When BCSF published on 16 October, it reported that no official answer had come from the BC NDP, though two NDP candidates, Binny Boparai and Roly Russell, answered on their own. Ravi Parmar, the Minister of Forests, answered for the Rady Creek road in public only when a convoy reached his campaign office. Andrea Dunlop, the NDP candidate in Columbia River–Revelstoke, where the road lies, has made no public statement on it that we could find.

Backcountry Coalition · 18 October 2026 Email

Ravi Parmar, in a dark suit and patterned tie, speaking at a table in the Legislature. — The BC Snowmobile Federation says the BC NDP sent no official answer to its four questions. Ravi Parmar’s ministry has put the Rady Creek road out to tender for deactivation. Andrea Dunlop is the NDP candidate in Columbia River–Revelstoke, where the road lies, and she is not among the 16 candidates BCSF lists.¹⁴²¹¹Photos: Ravi Parmar, Province of British Columbia (Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), 2 April 2026; Andrea Dunlop, BC NDP.

Andrea Dunlop, smiling, with long fair hair, in a dark top against a white background. — The BC Snowmobile Federation says the BC NDP sent no official answer to its four questions. Ravi Parmar’s ministry has put the Rady Creek road out to tender for deactivation. Andrea Dunlop is the NDP candidate in Columbia River–Revelstoke, where the road lies, and she is not among the 16 candidates BCSF lists.¹⁴²¹¹Photos: Ravi Parmar, Province of British Columbia (Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), 2 April 2026; Andrea Dunlop, BC NDP.

Before the 24 October vote, the BC Snowmobile Federation asked B.C.’s political parties four questions about the backcountry: how they would protect access on resource roads, fund the trail system, give recreation a say in land use and treat it as rural infrastructure.¹ The Conservatives and the Greens sent official answers. When the federation published on 16 October, it reported that no official answer had come from the BC NDP.¹

That is the party that has governed the province since 2017, and its government wrote the outdoor recreation strategy that the first question borrows its words from. Ravi Parmar, the Minister of Forests, runs the ministry that has put the Rady Creek Forest Service Road above Trout Lake out to tender for deactivation. He has answered for it in public once, when a convoy of four-wheel drivers reached his campaign office.¹⁴¹³ The road lies in Columbia River–Revelstoke, where Andrea Dunlop is the BC NDP candidate. She is not among the 16 candidates BCSF lists, and we found no public statement from her on the road.²¹²³¹²⁸

01 The BC Snowmobile Federation put four questions on backcountry access to B.C.’s parties and every candidate before the vote

The record

The BC Snowmobile Federation (BCSF) “put four important questions to political parties and candidates across the province”.¹
It “requested official responses from BC’s political parties”, and invited every registered candidate to answer in writing or in an interview with Amber Lane, its Executive Director.¹
The first question asks how a party will “prioritize high-value recreation access”. Target 8 of the government’s own strategy promises “a modernized framework for high-value recreation access and resource roads.”¹⁶

From the BC Snowmobile Federation's article, the section Four issues, four questions, with each question boxed. One: How will you prioritize high-value recreation access and ensure recreation value is assessed before resource roads are deactivated? Two: What actions will you support to strengthen Recreation Sites and Trails BC and provide sustainable funding for community and provincial recreation organizations? Three: How will you ensure recreation receives meaningful consideration in provincial land-use and natural-resource planning? Four: What role should outdoor recreation play in BC's rural economic and community-development policy, and what actions would you support? — The four questions, as BCSF put them. Each “We asked” line is boxed.¹ Source: bcsf.org

These are not trick questions. Each one asks a party to say what it would do about something its next government will decide: whether a road stays open when industry leaves it, whether the clubs that groom the trails get stable money, and whether riders get a voice before land is closed to them.

02 The Conservatives and the Greens sent official answers, and BCSF says the BC NDP sent none

The record

The Conservative Party of BC and the BC Green Party each gave an “official party response”.¹
Under the BC NDP, BCSF wrote: “No official party response had been received at the time of publication.”¹
OneBC also sent no official answer, in the same words.¹

Conservative Party of BCOfficial answer

Expressed support for “responsible backcountry access and opposing unnecessary resource road deactivations and bridge removals”, and committed to working with recreation groups on funding.¹

BC Green PartyOfficial answer

Committed to a process to assess recreation value before roads are deactivated, a $30-million-a-year Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Fund for five years, and more money for BC Parks and Recreation Sites and Trails. The answer came from Lief Douglass, the party’s research advisor.¹

OneBCNo official answer

Three of its candidates appear in BCSF’s list of candidate replies.¹

BC NDPNo official answer

“BCSF contacted the BC NDP regarding these four priorities. No official party response had been received at the time of publication.”¹

Four headings from the BC Snowmobile Federation's article, stacked: Conservative Party of BC, official party response. BC Green Party, official party response. One BC, no official party response received. BC NDP, no official party response received, which is boxed. — The four headings in BCSF’s article, cut from its page and stacked, with the text between them left out. The NDP’s is boxed.¹ Source: bcsf.org

The BC NDP entry in the BC Snowmobile Federation's article, with the heading and first sentence boxed: BC NDP, no official party response received. BCSF contacted the BC NDP regarding these four priorities. No official party response had been received at the time of publication. Individual BC NDP candidate responses are included below where available. — BCSF’s whole entry for the governing party.¹ Source: bcsf.org

The silence is the party’s, and it is the governing party’s. The NDP has a costed plan, released on 14 October, and the words road, recreation, trail and park do not appear in it.⁴⁵ In 2024 the same party did answer a recreation group’s questions. It told the Outdoor Recreation Council of BC that it would make “a long-term funding commitment that will develop and improve access roads, trails and infrastructure.”³ Two years later, with that promise to account for, BCSF says it sent the snowmobilers no answer at all.

03 The snowmobilers took road deactivation to Ravi Parmar and Brittny Anderson this summer. On Rady Creek, Parmar answered in public only when a convoy reached his campaign office, Anderson has never said its name in the House, and Andrea Dunlop, the NDP candidate in the riding that holds the road, has made no public statement on it that we could find

Rady Creek is the forest service road above Trout Lake that the Ministry of Forests has put out to tender for deactivation. It is the access fight the riders have been losing all year, and two New Democrats in the government had it, or the policy behind it, in front of them before the campaign began.¹⁴¹³ The road lies in Columbia River–Revelstoke, where Andrea Dunlop, the NDP candidate, is asking voters to make her their MLA.²¹²³

Ravi ParmarMinister of Forests · BC NDP candidate, Langford–Highlands

Three provincial recreation bodies wrote to him by name between 15 May and 4 August: ATVBC with the Public Land Use Society, the BC Snowmobile Federation, and the Outdoor Recreation Council of BC. No published reply to any of them exists.¹³
On 6 July the snowmobile federation asked him in writing for an administrative pause on the Rady Creek deactivation, and lobbied him on road deactivation. The registry records “Arranged a meeting: No”.¹²¹⁴
His ministry put the deactivation out to tender again in September and budgeted round-the-clock security for the job. The tender scheduled the work to be finished by 1 November.¹⁴¹³
On 28 September the Four Wheel Drive Association of BC drove to his Langford campaign office and recorded him for nine minutes. It was the first time he had answered for Rady Creek in public, and our fact check found seven of his thirteen scored claims false.¹³
He told them he was “technically not the Minister of Forests anymore”. He still is: ministers stay in Cabinet until a new Cabinet is sworn in.¹³

Brittny AndersonMinister of State for Local Governments and Rural Communities · BC NDP candidate, Kootenay Central

On 22 August the snowmobile federation lobbied her on motorized access to Crown land and “road deactivation”. Hers is the first name on the report, ahead of Russ Laroche, a Regional Executive Director in the Ministry of Forests, Scott McInnis, the Conservative MLA for Columbia River–Revelstoke, and Ravi Parmar. The registry records “Arranged a meeting: No”.²⁰
On 2 September the federation came back on the same subject, and this time hers was the only name on the report. Again it records “Arranged a meeting: No”.²⁰
In her 191 speaking turns in the House from 2020 to 2026, she never said “Rady”. She never said “forest service road” or “deactivation” either.¹⁹
Fourteen forest roads in her own riding have been closed, posted or retired since 2020, and we found no public statement from her on any of them.¹⁹

Andrea DunlopBC NDP candidate, Columbia River–Revelstoke

Rady Creek, Trout Lake and the Incomappleux road all lie in Columbia River–Revelstoke, which we checked against the Province’s gazetted boundaries. Andrea Dunlop is the BC NDP’s candidate there.²¹²³
She is a retired high school teacher.²⁷ “I taught at David Thompson Secondary School for 32 years and raised my family here,” she told MyEastKootenayNow.²⁵
She ran for the seat in 2024 and lost to Scott McInnis, the Conservative, by 670 votes, 8,768 to 8,098.²⁴
BCSF says it invited every registered candidate to answer its four questions. She is not among the 16 candidates it lists.¹
We found no public statement from her on Rady Creek, the Incomappleux, road deactivation or snowmobiling in her campaign materials, interviews and forum coverage. At a Kimberley forum on 15 October, the Revelstoke Review reported that she “said she’d like to see more forest environmentally protected, but also develop more outdoor recreation opportunities by supporting development of trail networks.”²⁸²⁶
The BC Snowmobile Federation’s own mailing address is in Revelstoke, in the riding she is running to represent.¹

Russ Laroche was on the same 22 August report. He is the Ministry of Forests’ Regional Executive Director for Kootenay Boundary. On 8 October a recreation club asked him for an update on the Rady Creek file, and he answered: “We will not be engaging with any group or individual involved in furthering this vexatious activity.”¹⁸

In our opinion, the riders most needed an answer from the New Democrats with power over that road. Ravi Parmar holds the power under the Forest Act to close a forest service road, and Brittny Anderson is the minister the Premier made responsible for rural communities such as Trout Lake.¹³¹⁹ Parmar and Anderson both had the federation’s case on road deactivation in front of them this summer. Andrea Dunlop is asking for the votes of the people who live along the road.²¹²³ When the federation asked their party where it stands, BCSF says the party sent no answer at all.¹

04 Two NDP candidates, Roly Russell and Binny Boparai, did answer, which shows the questions could be answered

The record

BCSF lists three NDP candidates among the 16 who replied. The party is running 92.¹²
Roly Russell, the NDP candidate in Boundary–Similkameen, committed to a local working group to identify roads at risk of deactivation, and to “stable, multi-year funding” for Recreation Sites and Trails BC.¹
Binny Boparai, the NDP candidate in Kelowna–Lake Country–Coldstream, supported weighing recreation values before roads are deactivated and advancing the government’s own Outdoor Recreation Strategy.¹
Kathryn Askew, the NDP candidate in Cariboo–Chilcotin, “did not provide specific answers”. She said she had “received numerous questionnaires”.¹

Roly RussellBoundary–SimilkameenAnswered

Binny BoparaiKelowna–Lake Country–ColdstreamAnswered

Kathryn AskewCariboo–ChilcotinNo specific answers

The three BC NDP candidates in BCSF’s list. Photos: BC NDP.

The candidate section of the BC Snowmobile Federation's article. BCSF invited every registered candidate to respond in writing or in an interview with Executive Director Amber Lane. Sixteen names follow, with three BC NDP rows boxed: Kathryn Askew, Cariboo-Chilcotin; Binny Boparai, Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream; and Roly Russell, Boundary-Similkameen. BCSF's note below reads: The absence of a response should not be interpreted as a candidate's position. — The 16 candidates BCSF lists. The three New Democrats are boxed. Each name opens a summary on BCSF’s page.¹ Source: bcsf.org

BCSF adds a fair caution: a missing answer “should not be interpreted as a candidate’s position.”¹ The point is the party’s. Two of its own candidates found the time to say what they would do, and the party they would sit with in government did not.

05 It is not the first time the NDP and its ministers have been asked about public access and stayed silent

The groups that use the backcountry have been asking the NDP government about roads and access all year. This is what the record shows, in date order.

27 November 2025The Ministry of Forests’ Selkirk district manager told the Trout Lake club, which wanted to keep the Rady Creek road open: “I am unable to participate in a meeting with your group.”¹³
15 May to 4 June 2026ATVBC and the Public Land Use Society asked Ravi Parmar, the Minister of Forests, to stop work on the Incomappleux road and answer within seven days. Three weeks later Kristin Parsons, ATVBC’s Executive Director, said: “We are shocked and disappointed that the Minister of Forests has not provided a substantive response to the coalition.”¹⁵
6 July 2026The BC Snowmobile Federation lobbied Ravi Parmar, Steve Morissette, the Parliamentary Secretary for Rural Development, Tamara Davidson, the Minister of Environment and Parks, and Anne Kang, the Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport, on road deactivation. The registry records “Arranged a meeting: No”.¹²²¹
8 July 2026More than 70 people toured the Incomappleux valley to ask the Province to pause the deactivation. “Provincial ministers and senior ministry officials were invited but declined to attend.”¹⁶
2 July to 8 September 2026The snowmobile federation filed 10 lobbying reports, to NDP ministers, a deputy minister and opposition MLAs alike. None records a meeting arranged. Over the same 22 months, the five commercial backcountry-tourism associations recorded 76.¹¹ Two of them, in August and September, named Brittny Anderson.²⁰
4 August 2026The Outdoor Recreation Council of BC, for more than 130 member groups, became the third provincial recreation body to write to the Minister of Forests by name. No published reply to any of the three exists.¹³¹⁴
21 September 2026At the federation’s open forum, asked whether they had got the Minister of Forests to the table, Amber Lane, the federation’s Executive Director, answered: “We have tried countless times. They have not spoken to us at all.”¹⁷ On 22 September CBC reported that the ministry had declined an interview on the Rady Creek road.¹³
28 September 2026Ravi Parmar answered for Rady Creek in public for the first time, after the Four Wheel Drive Association of BC drove to his campaign office.¹³
8 October 2026Russ Laroche, the regional executive director, answered a recreation club asking about Rady Creek: “We will not be engaging.”¹⁸
16 October 2026BCSF published its election questions. Under the BC NDP: “No official party response had been received at the time of publication.”¹

From ATVBC's press release of 4 June 2026: on May 15, 2026 the Incomappleux stakeholder group asked Forests Minister Ravi Parmar to issue an immediate stop work order on the Incomappleux FSR, and requested a response within seven days, which is boxed. Also boxed: We are shocked and disappointed that the Minister of Forests has not provided a substantive response to the coalition, said Kristin Parsons, Executive Director of ATVBC. — Passages from the release, re-set from the saved page, with the text between them left out.¹⁵ Source: atvbc.ca

The silence reaches the top. David Eby, the Premier and NDP leader, has stood up for resource roads and backcountry access in the House once since he was first elected in 2013, on 28 May 2025. Lorne Doerkson, the Conservative leader, has done it 18 times since 2020.²² Steve Morissette, whose title is rural development, has 33 forest roads closed or partly retired in his own riding and named none of them in 72 turns in the House.²¹

06 The four questions go to the heart of the NDP’s record on sledding and access, which is why an answer matters

The record

On 15 June 2026 Randene Neill, the NDP Minister of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship, signed Ministerial Order M236, effective 1 July.⁷
The government’s own summary says it “replaces a permit-based system with regulated seasonal access” in the Northern Rockies snowmobile closed areas. The new closures carry no expiry date.⁸⁷
The club permits that had let South Peace riders into those areas expired in October 2024.⁹
The snowmobile federation lobbied Randene Neill and Lori Halls, her Deputy Minister, on caribou recovery and recreation in July 2026. Neither report records a meeting arranged.¹⁰

Target 8 of Look West, the government’s outdoor recreation strategy, promises “a modernized framework for high-value recreation access and resource roads.” It names no lead ministry, no budget and no date.⁶ The NDP’s costed plan puts no money behind it in any year.⁴⁵ BCSF’s first question used the strategy’s own words. The party whose government wrote them did not say what it would do with them.

07 Ten questions that Ravi Parmar, Brittny Anderson, Andrea Dunlop and David Eby can answer before British Columbians vote

Questions for Ravi Parmar, Minister of Forests and BC NDP candidate in Langford–Highlands

Will you pause the deactivation of the Rady Creek Forest Service Road until the next Legislature can consider it?
Will you answer, in writing, the letters you were sent this year by ATVBC, the Public Land Use Society, the BC Snowmobile Federation and the Outdoor Recreation Council of BC?

Questions for Brittny Anderson, Minister of State for Local Governments and Rural Communities and BC NDP candidate in Kootenay Central

Will you ask the Minister of Forests to pause the Rady Creek deactivation, as the minister responsible for rural communities?
The BC Snowmobile Federation lobbied you twice on road deactivation this summer. What did you do with what it told you?

A question for Andrea Dunlop, BC NDP candidate in Columbia River–Revelstoke

Will you ask your party to pause the Rady Creek deactivation in the riding you are running to represent?

Questions for David Eby, Premier and leader of the BC NDP

Will the BC NDP send the BC Snowmobile Federation an official answer to its four questions before 24 October?
Will an NDP government assess recreation value before any resource road is deactivated, as Roly Russell and Binny Boparai, two of your own candidates, told BCSF they support?
Which minister owns Target 8, what budget line pays for it, and by what date will the framework exist?
Will you set a review date for the South Peace closures in Ministerial Order M236, or give the clubs back a permit?
Will your ministers meet the groups that wrote to them this year, including the BC Snowmobile Federation, ATVBC and the Outdoor Recreation Council of BC?

Snowmobilers asked four plain questions. The governing party sent no official answer.

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The BC Snowmobile Federation asked B.C.’s parties four questions on trails and access, and by 16 October the BC NDP had sent no official answer.

The federation asked how each party would protect access on resource roads, fund the trail system, give recreation a voice in land use and treat it as rural infrastructure.

The Conservatives and the Greens sent official answers. Under the BC NDP, the federation wrote that no official party response had been received when it published on 16 October. Two NDP candidates, Roly Russell and Binny Boparai, answered on their own.

Ravi Parmar, the Minister of Forests, answered for the Rady Creek road in public only when a convoy reached his campaign office. Andrea Dunlop, the NDP candidate in Columbia River-Revelstoke, where the road lies, has made no public statement on it that we could find.

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Sources

↩ BC Snowmobile Federation, “Before you vote, know where they stand on snowmobiling”, by Nicole Matei, posted 16 October 2026 at 4:20 p.m. Pacific, read 17 October 2026: the four questions; the official party responses of the Conservative Party of BC and the BC Green Party; “BC NDP — No official party response received” and “One BC — No official party response received”; the candidate summaries, including Kathryn Askew, Binny Boparai and Roly Russell of the BC NDP; and the closing note that “The absence of a response should not be interpreted as a candidate’s position.” Saved copy and render on file. bcsf.org
↩ Elections BC, 2026 Provincial General Election candidates (CSV), read 9 October 2026: 92 BC NDP candidates across 93 electoral districts. elections.bc.ca (CSV)
↩ Outdoor Recreation Council of BC, “Recreation on the Ballot: Where the Political Parties Stand in BC’s Election”, for the election of 19 October 2024: “We gave them a month to reply and received responses from the Green and NDP parties. No one from the Conservative party responded”; and the BC NDP’s answer, promising “a long-term funding commitment that will develop and improve access roads, trails and infrastructure.” orcbc.ca
↩ BC NDP, “BC Strong Fiscal & Costing Plan”, two pages, 14 October 2026. Read 17 October 2026: the words road, recreation, trail and park do not appear in it. bcndp.ca (PDF)
↩ Backcountry Coalition, editorial on the BC NDP’s costed plan, 15 October 2026: no money for resource roads, Recreation Sites and Trails, BC Parks or Target 8 in any year of the plan. backcountry.cx
↩ Province of British Columbia, Look West: B.C.’s Outdoor Recreation Strategy, May 2026, page 21: “TARGET 8 A modernized framework for high-value recreation access and resource roads.” The target names no lead ministry, budget or completion date. gov.bc.ca (PDF)
↩ Province of British Columbia, Ministerial Order M236, Wildlife Act: “I, Randene Neill, Minister of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship, order that, effective July 1, 2026”, signed 15 June 2026; Appendix 5 rewrites the “Northern Rockies” snowmobile closures, with no expiry date. bclaws.gov.bc.ca (PDF)
↩ Province of British Columbia, 2026 Hunting and Trapping Regulation Changes Summary, Region 7B: “This proposal replaces a permit-based system with regulated seasonal access in the Northern Rockies snowmobile closed areas.” gov.bc.ca (PDF)
↩ CJDC-TV, “B.C. Snowmobile Federation awaiting permit renewals amid South Peace closures”, 31 January 2025: the club permits “expired in October 2024” and the renewal was filed in December. cjdctv.com
↩ Office of the Registrar of Lobbyists for B.C., Lobbying Activity Reports 572-54399 and 572-54397, British Columbia Snowmobile Federation, 2 July 2026 (naming Lori Halls, Deputy Minister of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship, and Randene Neill, among others) and 9 July 2026 (naming Randene Neill, among others), on wildlife and species-at-risk management, including caribou recovery and recreation management. Both record “Arranged a meeting: No”. 572-54399 · 572-54397
↩ Backcountry Coalition, editorial on the lobbyists registry, 14 October 2026: from 18 November 2024 to 22 September 2026 the British Columbia Snowmobile Federation filed 10 reports and recorded no arranged meeting; the three public recreation groups filed 63 and recorded 3; the five commercial backcountry-tourism associations filed 357 and recorded 76. backcountry.cx
↩ Office of the Registrar of Lobbyists for B.C., Lobbying Activity Report 572-54398, British Columbia Snowmobile Federation, 6 July 2026, posted 25 September 2026: Tamara Davidson, Anne Kang, Scott McInnis, Steve Morissette and Ravi Parmar, each as an MLA, on “maintaining motorized recreation access to Crown land, including Forest Service Roads/resource roads, road deactivation, maintenance”; “Arranged a meeting: No”. lobbyistsregistrar.bc.ca
↩ Backcountry Coalition, fact check of Ravi Parmar on Rady Creek, 2 October 2026: letters to the Minister of Forests from ATV/BC and the Public Land Use Society (15 May 2026), the BC Snowmobile Federation (6 July) and the Outdoor Recreation Council of BC (4 August), with no published reply to any of them; the Selkirk district manager’s letter of 27 November 2025; the ministry declining a CBC interview, 22 September 2026; and the 4WDABC meeting at his campaign office, 28 September 2026. backcountry.cx
↩ Backcountry Coalition, editorial on Ravi Parmar’s record at the Ministry of Forests, 14 September 2026: “Asked, in writing, to pause the destruction of the Rady Creek forest service road above Trout Lake, he did not reply”. backcountry.cx
↩ Quad Riders Association of British Columbia (ATVBC), press release, 4 June 2026, Nakusp: the coalition’s letter of 15 May 2026 to Forests Minister Ravi Parmar asking for a stop-work order on the Incomappleux Forest Service Road and a response within seven days; and Kristin Parsons, Executive Director of ATVBC: “We are shocked and disappointed that the Minister of Forests has not provided a substantive response to the coalition.” atvbc.ca
↩ ATVBC, press release, Trout Lake, 9 July 2026, on the community tour of the Incomappleux Valley on 8 July: more than 70 participants; “Provincial ministers and senior ministry officials were invited but declined to attend”; stakeholders “have been advised that ministry officials will not meet with the Coalition.” atvbc.ca
↩ BC Snowmobile Federation, “Rady Creek & the Future of Backcountry Access in BC | BCSF Open Forum”, YouTube, recorded 21 September 2026. Panel: Amber Lane, Executive Director of the BCSF, and Colin Stuart, Four Wheel Drive Association of BC. At 22:11 the moderator asks whether they have been able to get the Minister of Forests to the table; Amber Lane answers: “We have tried countless times. They have not spoken to us at all.” Quoted from YouTube’s automatic captions. youtube.com
↩ Email from Russ Laroche, Regional Executive Director, South Area Regional Operations – Kootenay Boundary, Ministry of Forests, 8 October 2026, 1:29 p.m., subject “Re: Rady creek path forward”, replying to a recreation club’s request of 7 October 2026 for an update on the Rady Creek file. Correspondence on file.
↩ Backcountry Coalition, editorial on Brittny Anderson and Sitkum Creek, 11 October 2026: fourteen forest service roads in Kootenay Central closed, posted or retired since 2020; in the 43rd Parliament, eleven opposition MLAs raised forest roads and backcountry access in the House 30 times and she raised them in none of her 68 turns; the BC Snowmobile Federation lobbied her on 22 August and 2 September 2026. backcountry.cx
↩ Office of the Registrar of Lobbyists for B.C., Lobbying Activity Reports 572-54391 and 572-54386, British Columbia Snowmobile Federation, in-house lobbyist Amber Lane, on “maintaining motorized recreation access to Crown land, including Forest Service Roads/resource roads, road deactivation, maintenance, and access to established recreation areas.” Report 572-54391, 22 August 2026: Brittny Anderson, MLA for Kootenay Central, Minister of State for Local Governments and Rural Communities; Russ Laroche, Regional Executive Director, Forests; Scott McInnis, MLA for Columbia River-Revelstoke; and Ravi Parmar, MLA for Langford-Highlands. Report 572-54386, 2 September 2026: “Brittany Anderson, Minister of State”, the only office holder named. Both posted 25 September 2026; both record “Arranged a meeting: No”. 572-54391 · 572-54386
↩ Backcountry Coalition, editorial on Steve Morissette, 10 October 2026: thirty-three forest service roads in Kootenay-Monashee closed or partly retired since 2020; no mention of any of them in his 72 turns in the House or his releases; no public statement found from him on Rady Creek. backcountry.cx
↩ Backcountry Coalition, fact check of the leaders’ debate, 14 October 2026: David Eby’s House record since 2013 has one turn on resource roads or Crown-land access, on 28 May 2025 (Hansard, Issue 72), against Lorne Doerkson’s 18 since 2020. backcountry.cx · Hansard, 28 May 2025
↩ BC NDP, “Andrea Dunlop: fighting for people in Columbia River-Revelstoke”, candidate page, read 17 October 2026: “Andrea Dunlop was a high school teacher for three decades”. Headshot from the same page. andreadunlop.bcndp.ca
↩ Elections BC, Statement of Votes, 2024 Provincial General Election, Columbia River-Revelstoke: Scott McInnis, Conservative Party, 8,768 votes (47.92%); Andrea Dunlop, BC NDP, 8,098 (44.26%); Calvin Beauchesne, BC Green Party, 1,430 (7.82%). elections.bc.ca (PDF)
↩ MyEastKootenayNow, “Affordability top of mind for BC NDP candidate Dunlop”, by Josiah Spyker, 16 October 2026: “I taught at David Thompson Secondary School for 32 years and raised my family here.” myeastkootenaynow.com
↩ Revelstoke Review, “McInnis and Dunlop go head-to-head in All-Candidates Forum debate in Kimberley”, by Gillian Francis, 16 October 2026, on the Kimberley & District Chamber of Commerce forum of 15 October: the reporter’s summary that Dunlop “said she’d like to see more forest environmentally protected, but also develop more outdoor recreation opportunities by supporting development of trail networks.” revelstokereview.com
↩ Columbia Valley Pioneer, “Dunlop takes another run on NDP ticket”, by Steve Hubrecht, 8 October 2026: a French teacher at David Thompson Secondary School “for more than three decades”, who “officially retired in June 2024”. columbiavalleypioneer.com
↩ Andrea Dunlop’s public record on the road, searched 17 October 2026: her BC NDP candidate page; the Revelstoke Review (28 September and 16 October 2026); the Columbia Valley Pioneer (8 October 2026, and its 2024 candidate Q&A); MyEastKootenayNow (16 October 2026); and the Revelstoke Mountaineer’s Columbia River-Revelstoke candidate Q&As (14 October 2026, parts 4 and 5; parts 1 to 3 returned “not found”). None mentions Rady Creek, the Incomappleux, road deactivation or snowmobiling in her words. Social media was not searched.

Sources were read between 9 and 17 October 2026. The BCSF exhibits are cut from its article as published on 16 October 2026. Photos: Ravi Parmar, Province of British Columbia (Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), 2 April 2026; Brittny Anderson, Province of British Columbia (Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), Nelson, 22 June 2026; Andrea Dunlop, Roly Russell, Binny Boparai and Kathryn Askew, BC NDP.