VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – A new committee has been formed to try to bring unhappy BC Conservatives back to the fold. But a former party member doubts it will bring stability to the party.

Ariane Eckardt is one of two people who were tossed from the party for airing their dissension about John Cummins‘ leadership.

She says an invitation to sit down with a new unity committee should have come much earlier. “The time to have talked to us was when it was still possible, perhaps, to come to some kind of agreement… that we could accept Mr. Cummins as our leader,” she insists.

“It’s a little bit ‘too little, too late. What Cummins has displayed lately makes, really, our resolve much firmer that we need a different leader,” she says.

Fifteen so-called dissidents received letters of reprimand from the party last week, but only three were actually ousted from the party.

Eckardt maintains that no new committees will change their conviction that party leader Cummins is the one that has to go.