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Hi! My name is
Martin Archambault
I'm 45, and dossierbc.ca is your first step into democracy!
If we want people to understand politics, it has to be brought down to their level.
When I first tried to take an interest in it, on top of not knowing the jargon, bills came as two lines… and fifty PDFs. Most people would simply walk away.
So I had an idea: use artificial intelligence first to read through all of it, then to put it in plain words. That's how DossierQuébec was born — and now DossierBC.
Alongside the AI recap, I've given people a lexicon that explains the basics of political jargon. Plain-language law exists — think of this as its equivalent for politics!
- DossierBC opens The site puts the work of British Columbia's Legislative Assembly in plain language. At launch: the 102 bills of the 43rd Parliament with the stage each has really reached, the 130 recorded divisions name by name, the 30 members of the Executive Council and the 91 MLAs with their attendance at votes. Everything is free, with no advertising and no subscription. Every item links to its source on leg.bc.ca: if they differ, the official document prevails.
- No plain-language summaries yet The 102 bills have no summary for now: each page says so and links to the official text, rather than showing something written without having read it. Summaries will come, and they will always state that they describe the bill AS INTRODUCED, not the final version after committee amendments.
- Attendance counts House divisions only 56 of the 130 divisions of the 43rd are committee votes — Committee of the Whole, Committee of Supply — held in Section A, B or C with eight to twelve members. Counting them made almost everyone look absent: the Assembly's median fell to 58%. The published rate therefore keeps only the 74 divisions of the House. Median: 100%. The section marker is read from the Votes and Proceedings, and it agrees on all 130 divisions.
- The October 24 result, and what comes next The home page and the members page carry the seat split from the October 24, 2026 general election, with the source named and the day it was read. The 44th Parliament has been open since October 26, but it is still empty: the Assembly will publish its members upon receipt of the certified results, on November 18, 2026. No return date has been published — the site will not invent one.
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