Almost a year to the day of being elected Penticton Summerland MLA, Amelia Boultbee is believed to be stepping down from the Conservative caucus.

Boultbee has called a press conference and media scrum on the steps of the B.C. Legislature in Victoria for Monday morning (Oct. 20) at 9 a.m.

It's anticipated that she will resign from caucus at that time and sit as an independent.

There were rumours that she was at odds with Conservative Leader John Rustad after posting a photo on her Facebook home page with deposed MLA Elenore Sturko. (Rustad had booted the popular MLA from caucus last month for reasons still unknown.)

Boultbee was also involved in a critic shuffle. Rustad reassigned her to Critic for Citizens’ Services taking away the position of Shadow Minister of Ministry of Children an

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