Running for Mayor

Adam Walker

Adam Walker was a Qualicum Beach councillor from 2018 to 2020 and MLA for Parksville-Qualicum from 2020 to 2024, first for the NDP and, from September 2023, as an Independent. He is running for Mayor on October 17, 2026.

Our fact checks of what he has said in this campaign, and what the public record shows about him in office: Town of Qualicum Beach records, Elections BC results and news reports, each linked on its page.

What we fact checked

  • Mayor candidate

    Adam Walker Questionnaire

    • Accurate × 16

    Walker gets most of his facts right: the tax outlook, the aging water pipes, the refused care home, the unsold Eaglecrest land, the rising regional costs, what the public hasn’t seen about Eaglecrest and the elector approval that large borrowing would need, and the letters that residents could once read at Town Hall.

  • Mayor candidate

    Adam Walker Website

    • Accurate × 1

    Walker’s website is mostly promises and says little that his questionnaire answers didn’t, and we checked those in full. His experience as a councillor and MLA is on record, and his voting and donation information is right. Below, we recap what his questionnaire answers showed on the issues his site raises.

His record in office

  • 2023 · Provincial record

    Adam Walker Removed from the NDP Caucus

    As MLA, he was removed from the NDP caucus after an investigation of a complaint from one of his office staff found misconduct. The details aren’t public. He says he did nothing wrong.

  • 2018–2020 · Council record

    Adam Walker on Qualicum Beach Council, 2018–2020

    Never censured. In 2020 he took the Town to court over closed-door orders about a confidential document he wrote; Council withdrew one. It also disowned a survey he mailed. His seat cost a by-election, budgeted at $60,000.