Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream MLA Tara Armstrong holding an ostrich egg.

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A controversial Okanagan MLA has opened a constituency office almost a year after she was elected.

Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream MLA Tara Armstrong’s brief tenure as a politician has been mired in controversy from disparaging First Nations to leaving the BC Conservative party to start a new party, OneBC, that netted her a significant pay raise.

Armstrong’s office at 721-11850 Oceola Road in the Turtle Bay Crossing strip mall in Lake Country is now open, but meetings with constituents are by appointment only.

The office was empty on the afternoon of Aug. 5, and OneBC’s chief of staff Tim Thielmann declined to say when exactly it opened.

Tara Armstrong's constituency office in Lake Country on Aug. 5, 2025.

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“MLA Armstrong has been meeting and engaging actively with her constituents by email, through one on one meetings in person and by video, and in community events, since she was elected,” Thielmann said in an emailed statement. On social media, Armstrong said the office had been open for “quite some time now.”

While there's no strict deadline for when MLAs have to open up their constituency offices, the Legislative Assembly recommends it as one of the first steps for a member after they have been elected.

The provincial government gives each member a constituency office allowance of $170,935 per year, plus another $10,000 for furniture and equipment each term.

Armstrong’s most recent social media campaign for OneBC has been to promote Sean Feucht, a controversial singer who is set to play in West Kelowna later this month.

Feucht is a Christian nationalist singer who strongly supports President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. He’s scheduled to perform at the Annette Neaudreau Amphitheatre in Memorial Park on Aug. 23. Feucht has been touring across Canada and getting backlash everywhere he goes. Several shows on his Canada tour have been cancelled, including Abbotsford.

The City of West Kelowna has expressed safety and security concerns over Feucht’s show but it hasn’t been cancelled yet.

OneBC has been promoting a petition to try to get the City of Abbotsford to reinstate Feucht’s show.

To make an appointment to see your elected representative in person in the riding of Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream call 250-712-3623.

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