Seniors & Rural Health
Critic responsibilities
Work focused on long-term care, rural access, primary care, emergency services, diagnostics, workforce pressures, hospice and health-system accountability.
Executive Leadership · Public Service · Healthcare & Seniors
Brennan Day
Leadership across business, community and public service.
Brennan’s career has ranged from international operations and corporate leadership to non-profit management and elected public service. Across each chapter, the focus has been consistent: building capable teams, improving systems, measuring results and taking responsibility for outcomes. In the Legislature, that approach shaped his work as Critic for Seniors and Rural Health, with a particular focus on healthcare access, seniors’ care and government accountability.
Legislative Record
A record focused on healthcare, seniors and accountability.
Brennan's work in the Legislature included serving as Critic for Seniors and Rural Health, introducing private-member legislation on long-term-care transparency, advocating for rare-disease drug access, reviewing B.C.'s Enhanced Care auto-insurance framework and pressing for measurable outcomes across the healthcare system.
Private Member's Bill
Bill M232
The Long Term Care Access and Transparency Act proposed public reporting on waitlists, wait times and capacity, along with a provincial plan to improve access.
Rare Disease
Charleigh Pollock & EDRD
Advocated for continued treatment access in the Charleigh Pollock case and for broader reform of B.C.'s Expensive Drugs for Rare Diseases process.
Committee Work
ICBC Enhanced Care
Served as Deputy Chair of the legislative committee reviewing key provisions of B.C.'s Enhanced Care auto-insurance framework.
Policy Focus
Healthcare, seniors and public systems.
Much of Brennan's legislative work sat at the intersection of public policy, service delivery and accountability.
Primary Care
Attachment and access
Focused on whether patients were actually attached to longitudinal care and how access was measured.
Emergency Care
ER closures and staffing
Raised rural and regional emergency-department closures, staffing shortages and patients leaving without receiving care.
Diagnostics
Wait times that matter
Pressed on diagnostic and specialist waits and the lack of transparent measures for what patients experience.
Long-Term Care
Capacity and transparency
Focused on waitlists, bed capacity, alternate-level-of-care pressures and the need for long-term planning.
Rare Disease
Patient-centred access
Advocated for a more transparent and responsive process for expensive drugs for rare diseases.
Rural Communities
Equity of access
Argued that rural British Columbians should not receive second-class healthcare because of geography.
Community & Non-Profit Leadership
Experience outside government mattered.
Before entering the Legislature, Brennan served as Executive Director of the Eureka Support Society, a Comox Valley mental-health clubhouse organization. That work provided direct experience with community-based services, vulnerable populations, non-profit operations and the gap that can exist between public policy and what people experience on the ground.
Non-profit executive leadership
Mental-health and community services
Stakeholder and government relationships
Advocacy grounded in service delivery
Before Politics
From international oil & gas operations to community leadership.
Always up for a challenge, Brennan began his international career at 21 with an unpaid internship in Kazakhstan and quickly worked his way into senior roles in drilling, supply chain and major-project operations. He went on to own a Calgary-based drilling and consulting company operating in Kazakhstan, manage major oil and gas projects, and eventually lead large international teams and multimillion-dollar operations. After the birth of his son, Brennan returned home to the Comox Valley and shifted his focus toward community service, eventually moving into non-profit leadership and public life.
Country Manager · Arctic Group International
By his early 30s, Brennan was leading AGI's Kazakhstan operations supporting Chevron's Tengiz project, with responsibility for approximately 25 expatriate employees, 600 local employees and more than $60 million in annual revenue.
The role combined executive oversight with hands-on responsibility for operations, fleet and asset management, HSE systems, maintenance, staffing and business performance across a large heavy-equipment operation.
Brinkerhoff Drilling / Cankaz Consulting
Brennan took over the Calgary-based drilling and consulting business formerly known as Brinkerhoff Drilling and operated it as Cankaz Consulting, supplying personnel, equipment and technical support into Kazakhstan's drilling sector.
The work included tender development, workforce development, technical support and helping local operations build the capability to manage increasingly complex drilling programs independently.
Maersk Oil Kazakhstan
As Project Procurement Consultant on the Dunga drilling program, Brennan oversaw procurement, expediting and logistics for upgrades to four drilling rigs, managing approximately $10 million in purchase orders and a multinational project team.
The program was delivered two months ahead of schedule and approximately 15 percent under budget, while meeting international QA/QC and inspection standards.
Bantrel · Jacobs Engineering · Major Energy Projects
Earlier in his career, Brennan worked in project expediting and supply-chain roles on major Canadian energy projects with Bantrel and Jacobs Engineering, supporting Shell, Suncor and Petro-Canada work.
Those roles involved vendor management, procurement, shop and field expediting, international coordination and schedule control across large mechanical, electrical, automation and process-equipment packages.
Hyland Precast · Redi-Rock Retaining Projects
After returning to British Columbia, Brennan moved into business development for large precast retaining-wall projects, working with Redi-Rock systems and major civil and infrastructure clients.
Projects included the Constellation Avenue retaining wall in Langford, the largest wall of its type in British Columbia at the time.
Eureka Support Society
After years in industrial and project-based work, Brennan made a deliberate shift into the non-profit sector, becoming Executive Director of the Eureka Support Society in the Comox Valley.
The move reflected a desire to apply executive, operational and advocacy experience more directly to the community, particularly in mental-health and social-support services.
600+local employees overseen in international operations
$60M+annual revenue responsibility as Country Manager
$10Mprocurement program managed for Maersk rig upgrades
15%under budget on the Maersk Dunga upgrade program
Leadership Style
Executive-level responsibility, operational mindset.
Brennan's background is not purely corporate or purely operational. He has worked at the level of P&L, strategy, business development and organizational leadership, while remaining comfortable in the field, in shops, on worksites and inside the day-to-day mechanics of getting difficult projects delivered.
Core Experience
Executive Leadership · Operations Management · Supply Chain · Procurement · Major Projects · HSE · Fleet & Asset Management · Business Development · Stakeholder Relations · Organizational Change
Education
Education.
Vancouver Island University
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science
University of Calgary
Political Science and International Relations studies
Contact
Public policy, government relations, advisory and executive work.
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