BURSTOneBC Leader Dallas Brodie is suing a former party staff member, alleging he damaged her reputation through a series of slanderous social media posts.
In the lawsuit filed on Aug. 31, Brodie alleged that former OneBC staffer Othman Mekhloufi has “engaged in a sustained campaign of online defamation” directed at her from his X account.
The filing says that Mekhloufi’s statements caused and continue to cause injury, loss and damage, and that they were “deliberately calculated by the defendant to expose the plaintiff to contempt, ridicule and hatred, and to cause other persons to shun or avoid the plaintiff, and to lower the plaintiff’s reputation in the eyes of right thinking members of the community”.
Brodie’s filing says Mekhloufi’s posts date back to February, and include multiple comments referring to Brodie’s mental state, painting the MLA as “violent” and “unstable and abusive.”
“If you’re wondering why we never let Dallas film an unscripted video on her own back when OneBC’s leadership had an average IQ north of 105, here’s why,” says one post, before reposting an April 29 video where Brodie recaps a B.C. Conservative Party leadership debate.
Another X post from Mekhloufi that same day reads: “Dallas Brodie was fired from caucus because she’s unstable and frequently abuses everyone around her. She was fired as OneBC Leader for the same reason. Her residential school comments were irrelevant. This is a person you want nowhere near government. Huge liability for Yuri.”
Both posts still appear on his social media.
An earlier statement on April 23 alleges Brodie “drunkenly assaulted a fellow MLA in a public restaurant.”
Another highlighted in the court filing alleges Mekhloufi wrote: “Dallas Brodie said the man who threatened to rape Pierre Poilievre’s wife is ‘brave’ and wants to meet with him.”
The court filing called the statements “false, malicious and defamatory”.
As of Sept. 3, some of the statements highlighted in the court filing do not show up on Mekhloufi’s X account.
Black Press Media contacted Brodie’s office but did not receive a response in time for publication.
While Mekhloufi has not yet filed a formal response to the filing, he sent an emailed statement to Black Press Media and other media, saying, “Ms. Brodie is spiralling, suing people for calling her crazy on Twitter. I’m sympathetic to her situation, and I hope she receives the help she needs.”
Mekhloufi worked as a staffer for OneBC until he was fired in December 2025. Brodie’s filing alleges he was terminated because of social media posts containing “Neo-Nazi, white-nationalist and anti-Semitic content.”
He now works in a communications role for Kelowna-Lake-Country MLA Tara Armstrong.
Armstrong helped form the OneBC party after she and Brodie left the B.C. Conservatives in March 2025, but left the two-person party in December 2025, saying on X that she “lost confidence in the leadership of Dallas Brodie.”
Mekhloufi’s firing was one of the catalysts for the split.
Armstrong and Brodie now both technically sit as Independents because the B.C. legislature requires at least two sitting MLAs in a party for official status.
Second lawsuit
The claim against Mekhloufi is the second lawsuit filed in the past two months involving Brodie and a former OneBC staffer.
In a separate case, former OneBC chief of staff Tim Thielmann sued Brodie, alleging wrongful dismissal in a claim filed July 23.
Thielmann worked for the party since its March 2025 formation until the Armstrong-Brodie split that December.
Speaking to Black Press Media in December, Brodie said Thielmann was sacked after a dispute about the firing of Mekhloufi over his alleged anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant and white nationalist views.
Thielmann was on the party board at the time, and he and Armstrong tried to wrest control of the party from Brodie. After some negotiation, a deal was reached for Armstrong and Thielmann to leave, and Brodie to continue as the sole OneBC MLA
In his court filings, Thielmann claimed his firing was disclosed to the media accompanied by “false allegations suggesting that the Plaintiff (Thielmann) had engaged in improper or unauthorized conduct and had acted without the Defendant’s (Brodie’s) authorization.”
On Dec. 14, Brodie posted on X that Thielmann had “deliberately subverted” her orders to remove Mekhloufi from the party’s caucus team. Thielmann claimed that Brodie’s statements to the public were “false” and that she “publicly associated the Plaintiff’s dismissal with her purported opposition to ‘neo-nazi’ and ‘anti-Semitic’ ideologies.
“(Brodie) knew this framing would falsely brand (Thielmann) as a sympathizer of racist, hateful or extremist ideologies, and be likely to influence members of the public to hate (Thielmann),” the filing claims.
Thielmann ran as a Conservative for the Victoria-Beacon Hill riding during the 2024 provincial elections, but came short of winning the seat. He now serves as Armstrong’s chief of staff.
Black Press Media reached out to Thielmann regarding Brodie’s lawsuit against Mekhloufi, but he declined to comment.
Neither Thielmann’s nor Brodie’s claims have been proven in court.
– With files from Mark Page