It seems as though a controversial, planned town-hall session planned for this Sunday by Dallas Brodie’s OneBC Party in Kamloops is almost certainly not going to be held at the Sandman Centre after all.

Leading officials with OneBC say the City of Kamloops has thrown up a road block in the Party’s effort to campaign in Kamloops this coming weekend which they’re not willing to meet.

The Party’s Executive Director, Guneet Singh, tells RadioNL that despite the City of Kamloops issuing a statement earlier this Wednesday saying that it intended to honor the contract it signed with OneBC, the City of Kamloops did not appear sincere, as it had already changed the parameters of the agreement to make it next to impossible for OneBC to secure a City-run venue for the political event.

The original agreement the City of Kamloops and OneBC signed was for an initial “base” fee of $583.32 to rent the Kia Lounge at the Sandman Centre from 3pm to 10pm on Sunday, June 7th.

However, the contract the City of Kamloops provided at the time — which Radio NL has since reviewed — did warn of additional fees being possible for “Operational Security and Safety Costs” which would have to be paid by OneBC following a safety assessment conducted by the City of Kamloops and the RCMP.

That bill, which was sent to OneBC’s Executive on May 29th, a Friday afternoon, lists the charges for the rental at an additional $7,729.42 for the “Schedule B” of the contract.

“Since [the Sandman Centre] is a taxpayer-funded institution, they cannot — in the last minute — structurally cancel… ask us [for] money, which is like $8,000, to do this event,” argued Singh in speaking with Radio NL.  “Other than that [the contract update from the City of Kamloops], we have received no clarity on what these safety protocol assessment was. We have spoken to the RCMP, and they have provided nothing as well.”

Documents forwarded to Radio NL show that additional price tag also included a deadline for the Party to have all the service fees and other parameters met by 4pm on Tuesday, June 2nd, to meet the obligations of the original deal.

That money was not paid by OneBC at the time, with Singh saying the Party has no intention of paying that amount for the 7 hour rental.

While the turn-around from when “Schedule B” was received by OneBC is comparatively short, it does appear to fulfill a legal obligation the City of Kamloops included in its original contract language to provide the security and safety costs to OneBC within 5 days of the Effective Date of the contract.

“I think the City has got their priorities kind of inverted, because the City should be focusing more majorly on the drugs and the crime on the streets of the city,” said Singh, pointing to a series of crime statistics last year which put Kamloops as the community with the highest per-capita rate of crime in all of Canada. “The City is rather focusing on cancelling events hosted by elected members of British Columbia’s legislature.”

While the deadline to secure the Kia Lounge has passed, OneBC is still hopeful that some arrangement can be made to salvage the event, with Singh telling Radio NL that as of 4pm on Wednesday afternoon, the original contract signed between the two has not been voided, despite the “Schedule B” security fee not being provided.

Singh says regardless of the outcome, the Party’s intention is still to come to Kamloops on Sunday to meet with their supporters.

“We are marching ahead and our people will be there,” proclaimed Singh when asked whether the political event will still take place on Sunday.   “We’ll figure something out for then, because we would love to get people up.”

“All of our past events have been fully peaceful,” added Singh.  “We’ve gathered in Creston, we’ve been in Sorrento…We have open Q&A’s and Dallas [Brodie] answers all the Q&A’s”

A statement issued by the City of Kamloops earlier in the day on Wednesday did say that the City of Kamloops would be honoring its contract with OneBC for the event to go forward, explaining its rationale in allowing Brodie to use the Kia Lounge for her campaign event.

The statement — forwarded as a news release to Radio NL at 9am on Wednesday — has since been removed from the City of Kamloops website.

Dallas Brodie’s previous stops in Kamloops have proven controversial, as she is steadfast in her contention that Tk’emlups projected a false narrative when it claimed that reflections of 215 potential unmarked graves of missing children — officially known within Tk’emlups as Le Estcwicwey, or “The Missing” — are on the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.

A previous event held by Brodie around Thompson Rivers University in November, 2025 drew in crowds opposed to her position.

While the exchanges were heated, the tensions did remain non-violent.