Mayor of Surrey, BC, Announces Constitutional Challenge Over Policing

Published on November 20, 2023

The mayor of Surrey, B.C., says the city will mount a constitutional challenge to the province’s appointment of an administrator to take over the police board and oversee the transition to a municipal police force. Brenda Locke, who opposes the transition, says an amended court petition will be filed Nov. 20 after the city already requested a judicial review of the province’s directive to proceed with the switch away from the RCMP. Ms. Locke says the city will not approve any transition if it is unaffordable to taxpayers and the province has no right to run “roughshod” over any municipal government “that does not bend to their will.”...

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