Coast Reporter sent a Q&A out to each of the six West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country candidates for the 2025 election. The candidates include Jäger Rosenberg, Peyman Askari, Gordon Jeffrey, Patrick Weiler, Keith Roy and Lauren Greenlaw. Election day is April 28. See more at elections.ca.
Name: Keith Roy
Party: Conservative Party
Age: 43
Occupation: Realtor
Do you live in the riding? Where and for how long? Whistler - 4 years
Social media: @keithroyconservative
Website: KeithRoy.ca
Why are you running in this election? I grew up on the Sunshine Coast and our family went through very challenging economic times. Despite this, I was able to go to University with loans and scholarships, build a business, buy a home and start a family. I want to restore the promise of Canada for my son.
How can the federal government help mental health and addictions support and recovery on the Sunshine Coast? A Conservative Government will fund recovery for 50,000 Canadians by investing in proven treatment programs, ending federal funding for hard drugs, and shutting down drug sites near schools. This plan prioritizes hope, safety, and accountability—replacing the Liberal drug crisis with real recovery and bringing our loved ones home drug-free.
How would your party help address the need for affordable housing? We’ll make homes more affordable by axing the federal GST on new homes up to $1.3 million—saving buyers up to $65,000. Combined with incentives to cut development taxes, this will lower costs by $100,000 per home and spark construction of 36,000 more homes annually in our big cities.
How will your party fight climate change? Technology, not taxes. Our environmental plan will reduce emissions through innovation rather than taxation. We will eliminate the Liberal carbon tax, promote clean technologies like carbon capture and accelerate resource projects by repealing anti-energy laws. This will lower global emissions and increase cleaner domestic production.
There are more than 7,000 Sunshine Coast residents without doctors, on the federal side, what's your party's plan to support health care? Our Conservative government will implement a Blue Seal program to get more doctors and nurses working fast. It will recognize foreign credentials with national testing, so qualified professionals can work across Canada—cutting red tape, filling shortages, and delivering better healthcare without more bureaucracy.
Amid rising economic uncertainty, small businesses are hurting. How does your party propose to support them? We will support small businesses by cutting taxes, capping spending to fight inflation, and actually ending the carbon tax. We’ll restore public safety by repealing soft-on-crime laws and ensure affordable energy and goods—so businesses can grow without being crushed by high costs and rising theft.
Small towns across B.C. are struggling with crime, what's your party's plan to address this? Our Conservative government will repeal Liberal Bills C-5 and C-75—laws that enable early bail and house arrest for serious offenders. We'll implement a "Three Strikes" law: repeat violent criminals will face at least 10 years in prison, not bail. And we’ll lock up fentanyl dealers for life.
Do you believe the coastal B.C. ferry system should receive federal financial support at a level commensurate with similar systems elsewhere in the country and how would you work to ensure that is achieved? The federal government has a role in ensuring that the infrastructure that serves The Coast is modern and allows citizens to move safely and efficiently around our region.
What's your party's plan to advance reconciliation with Indigenous peoples on the Sunshine Coast? We support real reconciliation through respect and opportunity. We’ll empower Indigenous communities by backing the First Nations Resource Charge, ending Ottawa’s paternalistic top-down control, and ensuring they benefit from local resource projects. Conservatives will partner with First Nations to advance reconciliation through self-determination and economic success.
What's an issue you personally wish we talked more about in this election? The tragedy of almost 2 million people using a food bank in a single month in Canada. We should be the richest country in the world but instead we're suffering the consequences of a lost Liberal decade.
