B.C. Conservative Party Leader John Rustad explained away some of the arguments within his party at their convention in Nanaimo last weekend.

“If everybody was singing kumbaya, and all the same, you’re not a true party. You need to see the differences. You need to look at that as a strength.”

By that weird measure, BC Conservatives have never looked “stronger” than they did this week.

They’re so strong, they look ready to explode.

Six days after his soothing words, he dropped the pretense Friday and kicked one of his biggest troublemakers out of the caucus.

Vancouver MLA Dallas Brodie, who refused his demand that she delete a loaded post about “zero” bodies being discovered at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, has been ejected.

For two weeks she defied him. Then she doubled down with an appalling appearance on a podcast. Rustad described her as publicly mocking and belittling testimony of residential school survivors.

He said she used a child-like whine to mimic their testimony, saying “my grandmother’s truth” and “my truth, your truth.”

Brodie was also the feature attraction at a closed........

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