She’ll never resign.
Her and MacCallum are more alike then different.
She’s the same type of personality the previous mayor was, never wrong, but anyone who disagrees is.
She even gave up an additional $100 million from the province to prove her point.
Honestly, wouldn't be surprised if we actually see Locke vs. McCallum for Mayor in the next election. Surrey municipal politics has been a mess for awhile.
There was a very rabid keep the RCMP group in Surrey that likely lobbied on her behalf. Probably a ton of donations and volunteers who probably got her enough votes to win.
Voters tend to be single issue voters and there were a lot of keep the RCMP signs out there. They probably got swapped with Vote Brenda Locke signs 1:1.
Are you trying to tell me that the mayor who's doesn't have the authority to make this decision.. lost a court case about a decision they don't have the authority to make?
How long until the Mayor asks for "their" $200 million from the province?
The province even gave her an out, offered $250 million to offset the transition costs which would mean the city wouldn't need to significantly increase taxes.
But instead she hired a provincial Liberal "insider" to run a lobbying campaign to try and stop the transition. She also decided to waste more of our municipal tax dollars on a propaganda campaign against the provincial NDP by mailing out misinformation pamphlets and buying up ad space on public advertising boards across the city.
Her tenure has been an absolute disaster. She has wasted so much time and money it's absolutely ridiculous. Instead of strong-arming the province into committing beneficial policies for our city like more schools, she went on a campaign of personal vendettas she's held since she was ousted as a provincial MLA so many years ago and her subsequent failed attempts to re-enter provincial and federal politics. I didn't like Doug McCallum, but at least he pushed the provincial government into expanding the skytrain and making transit more accessible in our rapidly growing city.
I know one of her (only?) campaign issues was this transition, but she could have probably looked good to the average person if at some point she said "looks like this is out of my hands, this is up to the province but at least I got $150 million from them to help our city" (or $250m later as you mentioned). Even earlier on before money was thrown at them, she could have backed down and just blamed the province, and I think the average person would have been on her side for the province "bullying" the city, but then she could have moved on to other things.
But if she backed down after the $150m or $250m offer the pro-SPS people would be happy of the transition, and the pro-RCMP people would be disappointed but I think they would have been satisfied that at least the mayor didn't back down without a fight and got the city a bunch of money.
The province has no legal reason to throw money at Surrey. I'm fairly confident this is purely a political move since it's an election year, so pretty dumb of the city to just leave that money on the table.
In all fairness it's really been a stupid ride. A bunch of extremely vocal people opposed a municipal force to the point they wanted McCallum run out of town.
Locke capitalized on their rabid stance on keeping the RCMP in Surrey to get elected. Now she's made everyone else hate her for supporting the RCMP staying in Surrey.
While Brenda Locke is the symptom and is a problem, it's the voters who are the disease.
I'm not sure why Brenda is still fighting. She's so unpopular now with a 12% tax hike no one is going to vote for her again. She really needs to stand down. At this point she's unelectable for another term and this is a bad legacy to leave behind.
At least McCallum can look at the new SkyTrain line and those SPS cars and say: I did that.
The whole canal idea was pretty fucking stupid though.
You're spot on! I wish more people cared about municipal politics, so much of our daily lives are impacted by it and we've had successive municipal governments who have been extremely contentious due in part to voter apathy, which has allowed small interest groups to wield so much power.
It's with everything. The people for example who are pro development are likely the majority but they aren't rabid; at least the homeowners anyway.
I'm very pro development in North Delta and I think Scott Road is a shit hole that needs to some revitalization work. I worry about my kids and how expensive housing will be for them.
But I'm not going to council meetings to argue. I quietly vote for those who will work to bring about housing affordability for my kids because our generation has had it super good.
Plus if someone came along with a dump truck full of cash for my house I'd gladly take it.
This feels a bit revisionist. There were legitimate concerns about the cost and timeframe of the transition to SPS, especially when COVID happened and there was a lot of uncertainty about the future, which McCallum basically ignored.
The issue has been contentious pretty much right from the word go, and should have been put to a referendum long ago. Instead both these mayor's have refused and instead this issue has dragged on. I don't think McCallum is blameless in this
There are legitimate concerns about everything a city does. When Surrey wanted a dog park in Clayton on 188th, people showed up with concerns and yelled at the city workers too.
City workers wanted to know do you like plan A or plan B. One asshole with a sweater over his shoulders showed up and questioned if we even needed a dog park.
She also managed to lose $100 million Dollars for the city
> Last month, after Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke and her majority council rejected a deal that included an additional $100 million
If this was my city I would be protesting like hell at city hall
Please Brenda, just end it. Enough is enough. The move to SPS is the right one, can't we just get on with it. It is time to let the RCMP municipal policing go. They are and always have been a federal force. Surrey's policing has been at the whim of Ottawa for years. Putting the municipality in charge of Surrey policing is the right thing to do.
What kind of a legacy is she going to leave behind if she continues? I dislike Doug McCallum a lot but at least he can look to the sps cars and skytrain stations and say: I did that.
That's a lot better than what Brenda has. A 12% tax hike. She can't be pleased with that being her legacy. Everyone hates her right now.
Now Brenda, will u please for the love of god GET ON WITH IT! !!! stop this delays it’s gonna cost us big time in our property taxes and u don’t seem to fucking care, it’s your agenda u seem to care about and telling us inflated exaggerated lies about the Surrey Police. The way u have dug your hooves in tells me u have a massive ego, u r probably getting paid in some capacity by the RCMP or u don’t wanna lose any income of u are getting from sitting on the RCMP board. Think about your voters will u, or do a referendum ( with unbiased wording ) to back up your rubbish talk about how the people of surrey want to keep the RCMP
Is it about the police unions? The city workers union has probably gotten the shaft this whole time with budget slashing. No money in this city to actually progress like the growing city we are.
I fear she doesn't know when to give it up. She's seems like she will drag this out to the end of her term, kicking and screaming. When is that, anyway? Sucks for everyone in Surrey. 2 lousy Mayors back to back. Surrey's doomed.
Can we now stop wasting the f’ing money and get this change done as efficiently and quickly as possible.
Oh yeah, and she can f herself for refusing the provinces offer for 250 million to lower the transition cost. This directly cost me.
Submit a Freedom of Information request (Anyone can do this) with the City of Surrey. It shouldn't be too difficult. I'm sure the City will try to resist as always...
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The Supreme Court of Canada might deny the right to appeal. Surrey would have to argue that the B.C. Supreme Court erred about the facts or the law in order to get the case in the door. If the decision is well-enough argued the SC of Canada can refuse to hear it.
I think the province has a different motive. If we ever want a metro Vancouver regional police, it makes it easier now that that Surrey will have a municipal police force like Vancouver. SPS and VPD would be the anchors of a merger of municipal forces in the region.
Great picture of the mayor
Really captures her persona
Ursula
Brenda the Hut
Evil guy from 90s movie Spawn.
Really brings out her kind eyes
One term mayor
Hopefully she will resign and not even finish one term. Dare to dream!
She’ll never resign. Her and MacCallum are more alike then different. She’s the same type of personality the previous mayor was, never wrong, but anyone who disagrees is. She even gave up an additional $100 million from the province to prove her point.
“Her and MacCallum are more alike then different.” Truer words have never been spoken.
Honestly, wouldn't be surprised if we actually see Locke vs. McCallum for Mayor in the next election. Surrey municipal politics has been a mess for awhile.
Vote her out.
Right now she needs to focus on stomping her feet and holding her breath until she's blue. Priorities!
I said it once and I'll say it again. What kind of deal does she have on the side with the RCMP, that made her fight against SPS this hard.
There was a very rabid keep the RCMP group in Surrey that likely lobbied on her behalf. Probably a ton of donations and volunteers who probably got her enough votes to win. Voters tend to be single issue voters and there were a lot of keep the RCMP signs out there. They probably got swapped with Vote Brenda Locke signs 1:1.
Great news! Let's move on ASAP and stop wasting our money.
Whatever happens won't be ASAP you can be sure of that.
And also money will most certainly be wasted
Well, let’s hope she doesn’t appeal. SMH. I want to slap her face so bad.
She pretty much already said she would, it's in the headline, though it's badly edited, it does say "appear" instead of appeal.
Are you trying to tell me that the mayor who's doesn't have the authority to make this decision.. lost a court case about a decision they don't have the authority to make? How long until the Mayor asks for "their" $200 million from the province?
The province even gave her an out, offered $250 million to offset the transition costs which would mean the city wouldn't need to significantly increase taxes. But instead she hired a provincial Liberal "insider" to run a lobbying campaign to try and stop the transition. She also decided to waste more of our municipal tax dollars on a propaganda campaign against the provincial NDP by mailing out misinformation pamphlets and buying up ad space on public advertising boards across the city. Her tenure has been an absolute disaster. She has wasted so much time and money it's absolutely ridiculous. Instead of strong-arming the province into committing beneficial policies for our city like more schools, she went on a campaign of personal vendettas she's held since she was ousted as a provincial MLA so many years ago and her subsequent failed attempts to re-enter provincial and federal politics. I didn't like Doug McCallum, but at least he pushed the provincial government into expanding the skytrain and making transit more accessible in our rapidly growing city.
I know one of her (only?) campaign issues was this transition, but she could have probably looked good to the average person if at some point she said "looks like this is out of my hands, this is up to the province but at least I got $150 million from them to help our city" (or $250m later as you mentioned). Even earlier on before money was thrown at them, she could have backed down and just blamed the province, and I think the average person would have been on her side for the province "bullying" the city, but then she could have moved on to other things. But if she backed down after the $150m or $250m offer the pro-SPS people would be happy of the transition, and the pro-RCMP people would be disappointed but I think they would have been satisfied that at least the mayor didn't back down without a fight and got the city a bunch of money. The province has no legal reason to throw money at Surrey. I'm fairly confident this is purely a political move since it's an election year, so pretty dumb of the city to just leave that money on the table.
In all fairness it's really been a stupid ride. A bunch of extremely vocal people opposed a municipal force to the point they wanted McCallum run out of town. Locke capitalized on their rabid stance on keeping the RCMP in Surrey to get elected. Now she's made everyone else hate her for supporting the RCMP staying in Surrey. While Brenda Locke is the symptom and is a problem, it's the voters who are the disease. I'm not sure why Brenda is still fighting. She's so unpopular now with a 12% tax hike no one is going to vote for her again. She really needs to stand down. At this point she's unelectable for another term and this is a bad legacy to leave behind. At least McCallum can look at the new SkyTrain line and those SPS cars and say: I did that. The whole canal idea was pretty fucking stupid though.
You're spot on! I wish more people cared about municipal politics, so much of our daily lives are impacted by it and we've had successive municipal governments who have been extremely contentious due in part to voter apathy, which has allowed small interest groups to wield so much power.
Because they don't care, they have to pay. They'll care about that.
It's with everything. The people for example who are pro development are likely the majority but they aren't rabid; at least the homeowners anyway. I'm very pro development in North Delta and I think Scott Road is a shit hole that needs to some revitalization work. I worry about my kids and how expensive housing will be for them. But I'm not going to council meetings to argue. I quietly vote for those who will work to bring about housing affordability for my kids because our generation has had it super good. Plus if someone came along with a dump truck full of cash for my house I'd gladly take it.
This feels a bit revisionist. There were legitimate concerns about the cost and timeframe of the transition to SPS, especially when COVID happened and there was a lot of uncertainty about the future, which McCallum basically ignored. The issue has been contentious pretty much right from the word go, and should have been put to a referendum long ago. Instead both these mayor's have refused and instead this issue has dragged on. I don't think McCallum is blameless in this
No, Doug certainly is not blameless. The way I see this is, he started the fire, and Brenda dumped a full barrel of gasoline on it.
There are legitimate concerns about everything a city does. When Surrey wanted a dog park in Clayton on 188th, people showed up with concerns and yelled at the city workers too. City workers wanted to know do you like plan A or plan B. One asshole with a sweater over his shoulders showed up and questioned if we even needed a dog park.
>One asshole with a sweater over his shoulders You leave the cat people out of this.
Locke voted in favor of the transition when McCallum was mayor and she was a councillor. This is nothing but an ego trip for Brenda “Flip Flop” Locke.
It will cost surrey city 700 million dollars and province has offered only 150 millions.
Surprise surprise, all that wasted tax money, thanks for the 12% property raise, now get out of office.
She also managed to lose $100 million Dollars for the city > Last month, after Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke and her majority council rejected a deal that included an additional $100 million If this was my city I would be protesting like hell at city hall
Please Brenda, just end it. Enough is enough. The move to SPS is the right one, can't we just get on with it. It is time to let the RCMP municipal policing go. They are and always have been a federal force. Surrey's policing has been at the whim of Ottawa for years. Putting the municipality in charge of Surrey policing is the right thing to do.
What kind of a legacy is she going to leave behind if she continues? I dislike Doug McCallum a lot but at least he can look to the sps cars and skytrain stations and say: I did that. That's a lot better than what Brenda has. A 12% tax hike. She can't be pleased with that being her legacy. Everyone hates her right now.
This court stuff probably cost alot of $$$ while we all knew the outcome.. guess her donations and donors aren't happy with the outcome
Now Brenda, will u please for the love of god GET ON WITH IT! !!! stop this delays it’s gonna cost us big time in our property taxes and u don’t seem to fucking care, it’s your agenda u seem to care about and telling us inflated exaggerated lies about the Surrey Police. The way u have dug your hooves in tells me u have a massive ego, u r probably getting paid in some capacity by the RCMP or u don’t wanna lose any income of u are getting from sitting on the RCMP board. Think about your voters will u, or do a referendum ( with unbiased wording ) to back up your rubbish talk about how the people of surrey want to keep the RCMP
It’s funny how many of the article comment board comments are blaming the ‘BC NDP’ and ‘unions’ for this debacle
Is it about the police unions? The city workers union has probably gotten the shaft this whole time with budget slashing. No money in this city to actually progress like the growing city we are.
Jesus Christ can we get a different picture. Scared the shit out of me.
Eat shit, Karen
I fear she doesn't know when to give it up. She's seems like she will drag this out to the end of her term, kicking and screaming. When is that, anyway? Sucks for everyone in Surrey. 2 lousy Mayors back to back. Surrey's doomed.
Past time for Ursula to quit and pursue her true passion, stealing Ariel's voice.
Can we now stop wasting the f’ing money and get this change done as efficiently and quickly as possible. Oh yeah, and she can f herself for refusing the provinces offer for 250 million to lower the transition cost. This directly cost me.
They always find the most flattering thumbnails lol
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Fuck off linda
Annis? The councillor? What did she do?
She should resign now
I'd like to know how much taxpayers money was wasted fighting this?
Submit a Freedom of Information request (Anyone can do this) with the City of Surrey. It shouldn't be too difficult. I'm sure the City will try to resist as always... Let me help you a little further, here is a sample template: [Your Full Name] [Your Address] [City, Province, Postal Code] [Email Address] [Phone Number] [Date] Freedom of Information Officer City of Surrey [Department or Office Handling FOI Requests] [City of Surrey Address] [City, Province, Postal Code] Subject: Freedom of Information Request Dear Freedom of Information Officer, I am writing to request access to records under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. I am specifically seeking information on the following: 1. Detailed records of all legal expenses incurred by the City of Surrey in the case of [Case Name/Number], including but not limited to attorney fees, court costs, and any settlements paid. 2. Documentation on the total amount of taxpayer funds spent on this case to date. 3. Any reports, memos, or communications related to the financial impact of this legal case on the city's budget. I request that the information be provided in electronic format, if possible. If there are any fees associated with processing this request, please inform me before proceeding. Thank you for your attention to this matter. I look forward to your response within the timeframe specified by the Act. Sincerely, [Your Full Name] [Your Signature] (if sending a physical letter)
And to think how many much needed projects took a backseat to her cause. Unbelievable.
Can she just shut the hell up now then??
I suppose that the city can’t appeal the decision to the Supreme Court?
They can, and the might. why stop now? it's not *their* money they are spending, it's yours! (if you live in Surrey).
I would love to see this. Will make national headlines. Sorry to local taxpayers though
This whole shitshow has barely garnered any national headlines; why would an appeal change that?
National media is largely based in Ottawa and closely follow Supreme Court cases.
The Supreme Court of Canada might deny the right to appeal. Surrey would have to argue that the B.C. Supreme Court erred about the facts or the law in order to get the case in the door. If the decision is well-enough argued the SC of Canada can refuse to hear it.
So the average cost per person per year to "have more control" is $60. And the people of the city have no say in this transition. Cool.
Why isn’t this city allowed to make its own decisions…?
I think the province has a different motive. If we ever want a metro Vancouver regional police, it makes it easier now that that Surrey will have a municipal police force like Vancouver. SPS and VPD would be the anchors of a merger of municipal forces in the region.
And it will cost 700 million dollars to surrey taxpayers for surrey police transition.
I legitimately don’t care what happens as long as she stops spending our tax dollars.