Is This Textbook Infiltration of Conservativism in the Chilliwack Municipal Election 2026?

Conservative Electors Association (CEA) – ChilliwackWho is David Denhoff – The organization running the candidate Martina Rosini.

• President and financial agent of the Conservative Electors Association (CEA).
• The person who registered the CEA with Elections BC in August 2025 and is publicly listed as its president.
• The organization is running Martina Rosini as its candidate for mayor of Chilliwack in the October 17, 2026 election.
• Elections BC contribution records show David Denhoff made donations to the BC NDP in 2022.
  
  British Columbia – NDP government (under Premier John Horgan / David Eby era)
• September 26, 2022: Order in Council 484 appoints David Alexander John Denhoff as a Ministerial Advisor in the Office of the Minister of Finance (term ending March 31, 2023).
• Effective March 31, 2023 he was re-appointed as a Ministerial Advisor in the Office of the Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure. This is an official BC government Order in Council (public record). Link to the résumé of Orders in Council: https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/oic/arc_oic/2022resume38
• He later served as Deputy Director (or senior staff) with the Conservative Party of British Columbia under John Rustad (2024–2025).
• March 1, 2025 – BC Conservative Party AGM held in Nanaimo. Independent MLAs Dallas Brodie, Tara Armstrong and Jordan Kealy later alleged (May 28, 2025 statement reported by Western Standard) that senior staff spent approximately $100,000 to bus in over 100 members of the South Asian community to vote for John Rustad’s slate of directors and constitutional amendments. Source: https://www.westernstandard.news/news/independent-mlas-claim-rustad-rigged-bc-conservative-agm-elections/65053
• At the time of the March 1, 2025 AGM, David Denhoff was serving as Deputy Director (senior staff) of the Conservative Party of British Columbia under John Rustad.

Some of David Denhoff’s political contributions that can be checked right now:
https://contributions.electionsbc.gov.bc.ca/pcs/SA1SearchResults.aspx?FilerSK=0&EDSK=0&FilerTypeSK=0&Contributor=Denhoff&PartySK=0&elctrldstrct_sk=0&ED=(ALL)&FilerType=(ALL)&Filer=0&FilerName=(ALL)&Party=(ALL)&event_name=(ALL)&class_sk=0&class_name=(ALL)&DateTo=&DateFrom=&Contr_TYpe=0&Contr_TYpe_Desc=(ALL)

(Always verify yourself.)

Martina Rosini – what is on the public record

• Office of the Premier (Gordon Campbell) (2005-2008) — Verified in government records – British Columbia’s Orders in Council (the official record of appointments to heads of public agencies, which is how OC Premier staff are appointed) list her directly:
• October 26, 2005: “Martina Bell is appointed Clerk N14 in the Office of the Minister of Labour and Citizen’s Services.” (Order in Council 773) https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/oic/arc_oic/2005resume20
• July 13, 2006: “Martina Bell is appointed to the position of Executive Receptionist and Greetings Coordinator, in the Office of the Premier. The appointment of Martina Bell, made by OIC 773/2005, is rescinded.” https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/oic/arc_oic/2006resume18
• August 14, 2008: “The appointment of Martina Bell as Executive Receptionist and Greeting Coordinator in the office of the Premier by OIC 480/2006 is continued under the name Martina Rosini.” https://web.archive.org/web/20130515002814/http://www.qp.gov.bc.ca/statreg/oic/2008/resume21.htm – This confirms she worked in the Office of the Premier from at least 2005 into 2008 — squarely within Gordon Campbell’s tenure (June 5, 2001 – March 14, 2011) 3. The 2008 entry even documents the name change from Martina Bell to Martina Rosini, which is a nice corroborating detail linking the two names. Note the role was an executive receptionist/greetings coordinator position, not a policy or communications role — so “worked in the Office of the Premier” is literally accurate, though it’s worth knowing what the title actually was.
• Roman Baber — Constituency Assistant (federal, York Centre)
• Listed in the Government of Canada GEDS directory as “Rosini, Martina — Constituency Assistant” on Baber’s MP office staff, with York Centre constituency phone (416-638-9030) https://new.geds-sage.gc.ca/en/GEDS/?pgid=014&dn=T1U9OTI1MTYtOTI1MTYsT1U9MjI0LTIyNCxPVT1IT0MtQ0RDLE89R0MsQz1DQQ%3D%3D and https://new.geds-sage.gc.ca/en/GEDS/?pgid=015&dn=Q049Uk9TSU5JXDJDIE1BUlRJTkEsT1U9OTI1MTYtOTI1MTYsT1U9MjI0LTIyNCxPVT1IT0MtQ0RDLE89R0MsQz1DQQ==
• Her nomination paperwork for the 2026 Chilliwack mayoral election lists her city of residence as Surrey.
• She is the first Chilliwack mayoral candidate since at least 2003 to register with an address outside Chilliwack.
• She is running under the Conservative Electors Association banner in the October 17, 2026 election.
• Public House of Commons directories (updated 2026) list her as a Constituency Assistant.
• A June 6, 2024 article in The Peace Arch News identifies her as constituency manager for South Surrey–White Rock MP Kerry-Lynne Findlay (Conservative).
• She has stated (in 2026 interviews) that she previously worked as a constituency assistant for Roman Baber (York Centre, Ontario – Conservative) and in the Office of the Premier under Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal premier 2001–2011). Those two points come from her own statements and have not been independently confirmed in open staff lists or FOI records so far.

Source for the residency and interview details (published October 5, 2026):
https://theprogress.com/2026/10/05/the-political-outsider-a-sit-down-interview-with-chilliwack-mayoral-candidate-martina-rosini/

Questions people are asking locally

• Her nomination paperwork lists Surrey. Does that matter for a mayor of Chilliwack?
• She is the first mayoral candidate in over 20 years who is not a Chilliwack resident at the time of filing.
• The Conservative Electors Association is registered and run by David Denhoff (North Vancouver). Ask where the decisions are actually being made.
• Ask specific local questions (your street, your property-tax bill, the RCMP detachment, specific housing sites) and see whether the answers come from lived knowledge of Chilliwack or from prepared talking points.

That is the public record as it stands. More as additional information surfaces.