VICTORIA–Kerry-Lynne Findlay is doubling down on her Trump-style approach, hiring a far-right influencer and the former Executive Director of the Alberta Republican Party into senior positions on her team.
The B.C. Legislature’s internal directory shows that Findlay has hired Cosmin Dzsurdzsa as Director of Communications and Apollo Chung as Director of Operations and Stakeholder Relations.
As editor of Juno News, Dzsurdzsa described Remigration (race-based mass deportations) and Alberta separatism as “genuine vitality” in the conservative movement. He said conservatism is “stronger” for including white supremacist voices who call for the mass deportation of millions of legal residents and citizens based on their race.
He recently called the B.C. press gallery “clowns” who should be starved of access to elected officials in order to destroy their news outlets:
The next BC Conservative leader could get by swimmingly by bypassing the press gallery and establishment media altogether. […]
The establishment media is mostly impotent. The only thing it has left is clinging to the access it’s become accustomed to and grown fat on due to BC Liberal and the NDP. That access can be denied.
In fact, it must be denied. By starving them of access, they will only speak to an ever-shrinking audience as people tune out.
Shut them out and help build something new. (May 30, 2026)
Dzsurdzsa is married to Lindsay Shepherd, who was fired by former leader John Rustad for calling the Residential School Survivors’ flag “a disgrace.” Dzsurdzsa has attacked Peter Milobar for defending survivors from attacks like Shepherd’s and Dallas Brodie’s.
Chung is the former Executive Director of the Alberta Republicans, a fringe party that shares Findlay’s slogan “Faith, Family, Freedom” and pushed a referendum on making Alberta the 51st U.S. state.
Findlay has almost entirely avoided questions from real journalists since becoming leader, including about her conversations with a B.C. separatist group that prompted them to sign up party members to support her leadership campaign.
Stephanie Higginson, MLA for Ladysmith-Oceanside:
“From attacking journalists for asking tough questions to wanting to become the 51st U.S. state, Kerry-Lynne Findlay’s choice of top advisors shows that she’s more focused on bringing Trump-style politics to B.C. than on the real issues people face. British Columbians don’t want divisive American politics in our province, they want leadership that’s making a difference on their priorities, like hiring more healthcare workers and bringing down housing costs. That’s exactly what David Eby’s plan is doing, and our B.C. NDP team will continue making progress for British Columbians.”