B.C.'s Unity Party elects a leader.

Abbotsford, BC--More than two hundred delegates met in Kamloops to elect a Party Leader and to ratify a new constitution and policies for the Unity Party of British Columbia.

Chris Delaney, a Vancouver animation film producer and former president of the Reform Party of B.C., was elected. Heather Stillwell, formerly of the Family Coalition Party, was named deputy leader.

The founding principles include: "We uphold... .the right to life which must be respected and preserved at all stages". The policies that flow from twelve general principles will form the platform of the Unity Party as it heads into a provincial election within the next few months.

Delegates were members of one of the five political parties who have held merger talks during the last nine months. Their goal: to form a viable, socially conservative alternative to the present NDP government and the Liberal Party opposition. The latter has supported the NDP on 85% of the votes held in the legislature on social issues during the last nine years.