New interim BC Conservative leader Trevor Halford has been quick out of the gate to try and stabilize the party’s lagging finances and crumbling relationships after the departure of John Rustad.

Halford, who took over for Rustad last Thursday, flew to Ottawa to meet federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on Wednesday. The two leaders met for more than half an hour on Parliament Hill, as Halford attempted to mend fences in a relationship between the two parties that had become strained in recent months.

“Our relationship with the federal Conservatives is vitally important,” Halford said in an interview.

“We share a lot of the same platform ideas, and we share a lot of the same ideology. I wanted to make it very, very clear to Pierre and his team that I am very interested in working together and uniting on similar issues, whether it’s extortion, whether it's the challenges we are seeing on affordability.

“But right now the conversations are very much focused on the challenges we are seeing in........

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