The Penticton-Summerland MLA is not running in the election, but that doesn’t mean she’s going away quietly as she publicly airs an extra-marital affair and more personal grievances within her former party.

No one watching Amelia Boutlbee’s political tenure would describe it as quiet, but she has cranked up the volume as election day approaches and her former party, the BC Conservatives, are projected to gain a slim victory.

“It’s do or die right now, and there’s no point in leaving anything on the field,” she told iNFOnews.ca. “I’m not here to intentionally hurt people and I’m certainly not out to damage anyone’s family or affect their children.”

She leaned into new, personal territory when she disclosed this week a previous affair with another politician, MLA Trevor Halford, who was once the BC Conservative’s interim leader.

Boultbee took to social media on Oct. 21, writing she was “compelled” to address an extra-marital affair with another politician. She claims she was deceptively led to believe he wasn’t married.

“That changed when his wife contacted me. I was humiliated, angry and devastated,” she wrote, going on to suggest the unnamed man who “decieved” her and his wife should apologize.

Although she didn’t name Halford, iNFOnews.ca has confirmed his involvement, but their relationship has also been rumoured online for weeks.

The relationship was, by her own admission, brief. It took place around October 2025, around the time she left the party and called for its leader to be ousted. Halford would eventually take over as interim leader in December 2025, the same month his wife filed family court proceedings against him.

iNFOnews.ca reached out to Halford, the BC Conservative Party and party spokesperson Francesca Guetchev for comment, but did not receive a response.

Boultbee would not confirm or deny Halford’s involvement when asked by iNFOnews.ca on Oct. 22.

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“I won’t be sharing the names of any of the men involved,” Boultbee said.

She has been a thorn in the side of the BC Conservatives since leaving the party and eventually found herself on a list of a private investigator’s targets, who was hired by the party. The explosive report led to Kerry-Lynne Findlay’s removal as leader and, in turn, the snap election call.

Largely focusing her latest criticism of the BC Conservatives toward not policy but claims of misogyny, disorganization and bullying within the party, it’s not dissimilar from the claims she made upon leaving as an independent. Boultbee’s defection was one of many moments of internal turmoil within the official opposition in the year leading up to this fall’s election.

Asked whether she bears blame for the party’s unravelling over the past months, Boultbee said, “I would call it credit.”

“I think that party was going to implode no matter what. I would like to think my speaking truth to power had something to do with it… Whether I sped the process up by speaking out and leaving, I would like to think that I helped.”

But, the approaching Oct. 24 election has the BC Conservatives projected to win, and it has Boultbee on the attack in an effort to prevent their victory over the BC NDP, which she joined in July, despite expressing openness to rejoining her old party a month earlier.

“I’m one of the people that helped start this problem. You can’t just start a wildfire and walk away when the whole forest is burning down and act like you weren’t part of that,” she said. “There is a point of accountability here, and whatever happens, what I say isn’t going to matter in a few days. I might as well make myself abundantly clear… so I can say I did everything I could, I did warn you.”