Saturday, February 15, 2020

Keep the RCMP in Surrey

Delivering 40,008 signatures to Premier Horgan's Vancouver Office
This is my long time friend and travel mate Laurie Haliburton (in the heart)
Feb 14, 2020 at 12h00 we, the KEEP THE RCMP IN SURREY CAMPAIGN, handed over to the Premier John Horgan, 40,008 petition signatures (in 41 boxes) at the BC Government offices in downtown Vancouver. The petition was graciously accepted on Mr. Horgan’s behalf by Mr. Danny Loubert. The boxes, each containing 1,000 signatures, were carried into those offices in loads of two or three by our volunteer group all wearing KEEP THE RCMP IN SURREY tee-shirts. Also carrying boxes were Anita Huberman (Surrey Board of Trade), Ramona Kaptyn (CARP), Brian Sauve (National Police Federation), and Steven Pettigrew (Surrey City Councillor). The presentation and submission was carried out flawlessly and all thanks go to Paul Daynes for organizing it, and also to all who took part to result in such a respectful and satisfying undertaking today. The extremely hard work with long hours put by our very dedicated group of volunteers got us to this point and I would like to applaud them all. The fight is unfortunately not over yet and we will still be pressing on to achieve our 50,000 signature goal as soon as we can. I believe though that Mr. Horgan and Mr. Farnworth definitely now have to take the majority views of Surrey into account when they make a decision on whether or not to accede to Mr. McCallum’s personal desire to change out the RCMP for his own SPD. Surrey has spoken with 40,008 voices so far!

We will not fail.
Ivan Michael Scott
Coordinator KEEP THE RCMP IN SURREY CAMPAIGN

I'm so happy so many citizens are helping with this campaign.  On February 26, Wally Oppal will be giving an update at the Surrey Board of Trade Breakfast Meeting.  Laurie and I already have our tickets and I am looking forward to hearing what he has to say!

I am collecting signatures, so if you live in Surrey and haven't signed the petition and want to, call me!  They are still collecting signatures and hope to get 50,000 that will be more signatures than Mayor McCallum received in votes in the last election.

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