The best thing I saw on the news was the fellow who won the PNE prize home! He's a night watchman. He called his boss to tell him he would be late because they were taking him to his new $2.3 million dollar home! He was living in a one bedroom New Westminster apartment that leaks!
and then this happened right after that wonderful announcement:
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This is the poll that Keith Baldrey from Global TV says Farnworth is using to force SPS on Surrey. It looks to me that 49% want to keep the RCMP. Unsure 26% and 25% want the SPS. How does he justify 337 votes from April 10 - 19 as his reason for removing democracy in Surrey?
On December 31, 2022 Surrey had a population of 603,907. They used a poll of 337 citizens! What about the two groups of signatures, the second one used the electoral list so the 43,000 people who live and vote in Surrey asking for a democratic referendum were ignored? Do we not live in a democracy?
Mayor Locke sent the Province six letters for information to move forward and they have NEVER answered them. This mess has been going on since July and it's costing taxpayers $8 million dollars a month!
Last night at the city council meeting Chief Lipinski was asked how many officers he needs. This has been going on for five years and this is what he said:
Lipinski said about 45 per cent of the frontline right now are SPS people. Asked how many officers he thinks he actually needs, Lipinski replied he hasn’t “determined that specifically.”
CTV News release:
When contacted, the SPS referred CTV News to the police board – which said it could not comment at this time.
Meanwhile, Locke also took aim at Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth for failing to respond to multiple requests for information since the provincial government made its decision on Surrey policing in July.
“The roadblock is for the minister to respond … to the six letters now I’ve sent,” Locke said.
“We still don’t know the reason why he didn’t accept the Surrey plan (to keep the RCMP). We still don’t understand why he chose to go with the SPS and we do not know the path forward,” the mayor said, adding that the city is also waiting for provincial funding that was promised.
One of six letters:
