NDP candidate Linda Li fined $8,500 after conflict of interest, backdated documents and misleading information provided to regulators.
VANCOUVER, B.C. — NDP candidate Linda Li was fined $8500 by the BC Financial Services Authority after the Superintendent of Real Estate found she failed to manage a conflict of interest, knowingly tried to conceal information, and misled investigators by submitting backdated documents. David Eby must remove her as a candidate today.
In a June 30, 2026 ruling, the Superintendent of Real Estate found that Li had failed to comply with her professional obligations as a real estate managing broker. More troublingly, when regulators investigated her conduct, Li provided incomplete and misleading information and submitted documents that had been backdated by approximately one year.
The findings are damning:
- $8,500 in penalties: Li was sanctioned for three separate regulatory violations, including failing to properly supervise her brokerage, failing to take reasonable steps to avoid a conflict of interest, and providing incomplete and misleading information to investigators.
- A serious conflict of interest: Li represented a buyer purchasing a property she had previously listed for the seller. Despite having opportunities to avoid the conflict by referring the buyer to another brokerage, she chose not to.
- Documents signed nearly a year late: Required disclosure forms were not properly completed during the transaction. Instead, Li obtained the missing signatures approximately one year later, while regulators were investigating her conduct.
- Backdated paperwork: The documents submitted to investigators were backdated, creating a misleading impression about when they had actually been signed.
- Information concealed from investigators: Li initially failed to provide the required documents. When she eventually submitted them, she did not disclose that they had been completed after the transaction. Only after investigators demanded the electronic signature audit records did she reveal what had happened.
- Mandatory remedial education: Regulators imposed a condition preventing Li from renewing, transferring or amending her real estate licence until she completed a remedial education course through UBC’s Sauder School of Business.
The Superintendent’s findings were unequivocal, concluding that Li had:
“withheld and concealed key information from BCFSA, resulting in information being provided in a misleading manner.”
This isn’t a minor paperwork mistake. Linda Li failed to properly manage a conflict of interest, submitted documents that had been backdated by nearly a year, and concealed important information from the people investigating her conduct. These are the findings of an independent provincial regulator, not allegations from a political opponent.
If Linda Li cannot be trusted to follow the rules governing a real estate transaction, how can British Columbians possibly trust her to help write the laws of this province?
David Eby has a candidate who was sanctioned for misleading investigators. The question is no longer whether Linda Li exercised terrible judgment. The regulator has already answered that question. The question is why David Eby believes someone with this record deserves to represent British Columbians in the legislature.
The BCFSA’s investigation revealed a particularly troubling sequence of events.
On May 1, 2026, investigators requested documents relating to Li’s real estate transaction. On May 21, Li responded without providing the required disclosure forms. After regulators followed up, she submitted the forms on May 24 without explaining that they had been completed long after the transaction.
On May 27, investigators demanded the DocuSign audit records, which would establish when the documents had actually been signed.
Only then did Li acknowledge that the signatures had been obtained during the investigation, approximately one year after they were required, and that the documents had been backdated.
The Superintendent rejected the adequacy of Li’s explanation, finding that she had withheld and concealed information that should have been disclosed earlier.
David Eby must immediately remove Linda Li as an NDP candidate.
British Columbians deserve representatives who can be trusted to act honestly, respect the rules and cooperate fully with independent regulators. The standard for serving in the legislature cannot be lower than the standard for selling real estate.
The BSFSA’s findings against Linda Li are publicly posted, and David Eby surely knew about them before allowing Li to run. David Eby should answer why he believes allowing a candidate with a pattern or dishonest professional conduct should be allowed to run under his party’s banner.
But given David Eby’s own well established pattern of dishonesty with British Columbians, perhaps we should not be surprised.
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Media Contact:
Alex Shiff, Director of Media Relations
media@conservativebc.ca
BCFSA Notice of Administrative Penalty: https://www.bcfsa.ca/media/4962/download
