Someone Sent Us a Video. Then Things Got Weird

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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