# Burke Mountain schools: source and research note

Access date: October 19, 2026. Independent supporter-site analysis, not an official campaign communication.

## Scope and publication decision
Publish one routine provincial education/infrastructure voter resource. The education portion of the party's mixed education/health release is separable and verified against district and government records. Do not reproduce its MRI, mortality, wait-time or other medical assertions. No private material, personal allegations or fundraising copy is used.

A federal/Pierre companion draft is saved locally but is not in the deployment manifest. Recent live subjects were checked: housing October18, Great Lakes October17, Massey October16, youth jobs October14, unity/federal responsibilities October4. No Burke Mountain-specific article was identified. The older August21 Ontario school-building article concerns a different province and announcement.

## Verified source trail
1. Party statement, October14 2026: https://conservativebc.ca/conservative-party-of-bc-will-build-a-new-middle-school-in-burke-mountain-and-invest-in-a-new-mri-machine-at-eagle-ridge-hospital/
   - Direct HTML displayed October14, candidate Ryan Peterson and two separate commitments: finish the combined school; “immediately start planning for a dedicated Middle School on Burke Mountain.”
   - Source class: party-controlled position, not proof of an approved new capital project.
   - The short statement does not provide the additional school's site, seat count, cost or opening date. This is an omission from this document, not proof that no planning exists elsewhere.
2. SD43 project page: https://www.sd43.bc.ca/burke-mountain-middle-secondary-school
   - Direct retrieval shows “approximately 70% complete” as an August2026 update, covering roadway, field, interior/exterior. Contract award history gives August19 2024.
   - Do not present the percentage as an October19 measurement. Search/extraction service returned older content ending December2025; direct HTML recovered current updates.
3. SD43 capital-projects page: https://www.sd43.bc.ca/capital-projects
   - Current direct HTML lists Burke Mountain Secondary planned completion Fall2027 and the August2026 progress update.
   - “A project is considered approved when it receives Ministry of Education and Child Care funding.”
   - “For a variety of reasons, planned completion dates can be revised and will be updated here if they are.”
   - Legacy /CapitalProjects/pages/default.aspx redirects to the homepage on direct retrieval. Do not cite that legacy route as a current project page even though an extraction service returns a cached table.
4. Province, August30 2022: https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2022ECC0055-001301
   - Approved $135 million for a 1,000-seat middle-secondary school; district additional $25 million; grades6–12; then expected fall2026.
   - These are historical approvals, not final spending or current completion date. Prefer current district schedule; do not attribute delay causation without evidence.

## Analysis and uncertainties
The suggested delivery checklist—enrolment assumptions, site, funding, milestones, staffing and public updates—is editorial analysis, not additional party commitments. The current combined campus and proposed dedicated middle school must not be conflated. We have not established an approval, opening date, location, capacity or final cost for the additional school. We do not infer that the party can guarantee all children attend locally.

## Federal companion and scan handling
The scan's Elevate Report and Jasmin Laine video titles were treated solely as commentary leads; no transcript was extracted and no video claim is repeated as fact. Retrieved the official CPC edited October16 speech instead: https://www.conservative.ca/a-stronger-alberta-within-a-united-canada-2/ . It supports a positive unity/community-cooperation draft. The page says “edited for clarity. Check against delivery.” Do not claim verbatim video verification, referendum procedures/results, economic forecasts or measured outcomes from that source alone.

## Local audit
Raw HTML/text and SHA256 manifest: research/daily-drafts-2026-10-19/evidence/ (private project workspace, not deployed). Five source pages directly retrieved HTTP200. Current SD43 capital URL replaced a legacy homepage redirect.

The specified automation/editorial-rules.md was absent after direct and project-wide checks. Applied the current user instructions, site disclaimer and loaded iVoteConservative publishing skill. Deployment uses exact live baselines and targeted TUS files, not a whole-site archive. Independent-site disclaimer preserved; no social post is sent automatically.