Bold commitments. Clear accountability.
A commitment is not a slogan. Each one is specific, with clear actions and a published accountability record any Surrey resident can check without filing a records request. This is the platform this campaign is built on, from public safety to community access. Read each one, then hold us to it.
Public Washroom Access
Surrey seniors and families deserve to use public spaces without worrying about basic access. A city-wide washroom plan that works with existing infrastructure and puts facilities where people actually gather: bus stops, parks, and community spaces.
Progress on washroom access reported publicly, including facilities brought into service and infrastructure partnerships established.
Develop and implement a city-wide public washroom access plan, prioritising seniors, families, and high-traffic public spaces.
Leverage existing city infrastructure and community partnerships to expand access without unnecessary construction costs.
Require all new public spaces, including bus stops, parks, and community hubs, to include washroom access as a baseline planning standard.
Establish clear public access standards for washrooms across all city-owned and city-partnered facilities.
Business Property Tax Plan
Surrey should be the most business-friendly city in BC. We protect commercial property owners from tax increases, reward job-creating small businesses with a direct tax reduction, and eliminate business licensing fees entirely for our full four-year term.
Commercial property tax rates and business license fee status published each budget cycle.
Zero percent property tax increase on all commercial properties for the full four-year term of Mayor and Council.
A five percent property tax reduction for small businesses that create new jobs in Surrey.
Zero business license fees for every Surrey business for the full four-year term.
Parental Consent SOGI 123
Surrey parents have a right to know what is taught in their children's classrooms. On gender ideology material in schools, parental involvement is not optional. This team will establish a Parents Action Committee to ensure classroom content is age-appropriate and guided by the families it affects.
Parents Action Committee meeting records and curriculum review decisions published openly.
Ensure no gender ideology material enters Surrey classrooms without direct parental involvement and consent.
Establish a Parents Action Committee to review classroom materials on gender and identity topics, tailoring content to be age-appropriate for each grade.
Advocate to the School District for full transparency on curriculum decisions, with parents informed and heard before any gender-related content is adopted.
Home Protection Fund
This is not about landlords against tenants. Most landlords are responsible and most tenants are good. But when things go wrong, the current system leaves property owners holding the bill with no practical recourse. This city will back a fund that reimburses valid RTB damage awards, creates real accountability, and improves a process that currently serves neither side well.
Fund disbursements and RTB resolution timelines reported publicly each year.
Establish a City-backed Home Protection Fund that reimburses Surrey property owners for damages awarded through a valid Residential Tenancy Branch judgement.
Tie all fund eligibility to verified RTB outcomes, keeping claims honest and holding bad actors accountable on both sides of the tenancy.
Advocate for faster RTB dispute resolution timelines so landlords and tenants alike spend less time and money in a process that is currently too slow to be useful.
Water Bill Plan
Surrey families are paying too much for water, and the solution has been put entirely on their shoulders. Installing a water meter should mean real savings, not a bill of thousands of dollars before you see a single cent of benefit. This city will install meters for every Surrey home at no cost to the homeowner, bringing genuine relief to household budgets at a time when affordability is a real and daily pressure.
Meters installed and average household water bill reductions reported publicly each year.
Install water meters across all Surrey residential properties, funded and coordinated by the City with no installation cost to the homeowner.
Target a 50 percent reduction in household water bills through metered usage, putting real money back in Surrey families' pockets.
End the current model that requires homeowners to self-fund installation, removing the barrier that has made water savings out of reach for most residents.
Compassionate Compliance Plan
Surrey residents facing compliance issues and stop work orders deserve a city that helps them fix the problem, not one that buries them in penalties. Punishing homeowners without giving them the tools to resolve their situation is not governance. This team stands beside cooperative residents with faster permits, direct access to city resources, and a government that finally works for the people it serves.
Compliance issues resolved through the program and average resolution timelines reported publicly each year.
Establish a Compliance Assistance Program that works directly with cooperative residents to resolve compliance issues and stop work orders before penalties escalate.
Deliver faster permit processing and direct access to city staff for homeowners actively working to bring their properties into compliance.
Shift the city's approach from enforcement-first to resolution-first, addressing the root causes of non-compliance rather than penalising residents for the symptoms of a system that was not working for them from the start.
Bringing City Hall to You
For too long, Surrey residents have been forced to navigate endless red tape just to report a pothole or a safety concern on their street. This team will bring City Hall to every neighbourhood, with a councillor and senior city staff at a monthly drop-in clinic in each of Surrey's eight zones, so local problems get fixed before they become emergencies.
Clinics held in each zone, and the issues logged and resolved through them, reported publicly each year.
Divide Surrey into eight geographic zones, each hosting a monthly drop-in community clinic at a local recreation centre, gymnasium, or public hub.
Staff every clinic with a Surrey City Councillor and two senior city staff officers, with no appointment required, so residents can speak directly with decision-makers.
Have city officers on-site at every clinic to log issues and initiate immediate action.
Target hyper-local safety concerns, including illegal drug consumption or sales in streets and parks, drag racing and noisy nighttime traffic, neighbourhood disputes, potholes, graffiti, and requests for traffic calming measures like speed bumps.
Building Permit Plan
Surrey residents invest their hard-earned money to build single-family homes or renovate their properties, yet they are forced to wait indefinitely for City Hall paperwork. This team puts trust back into certified professionals: if a qualified architect or engineer stamps the plans, Surrey will issue the permit in one week.
Permit issuance times for certified submissions, and the public directory of authorized firms and their pricing, published throughout the term.
Pre-approve a roster of architecture and engineering firms with proven expertise in Surrey's bylaws and the BC Building Code.
Guarantee that building permits for single-family homes and renovations stamped by an authorized firm are issued within one week, or five business days.
Publish an open directory of every authorized firm, with clear, upfront pricing for stamping and design services, so residents can compare rates and choose with no hidden fees.
End the months of holding costs that stall projects at City Hall, cutting development and renovation costs by thousands of dollars per project.
Residential Property Tax Plan
Between 2023 and 2026, Surrey City Council raised residential property taxes by a cumulative average of more than $600 per home. This team will deliver immediate, legally binding relief: a $600 property tax reduction on every residential property, followed by a freeze for the full four-year term, funded without cutting a single frontline community service.
Residential property tax rates and the findings of the city hall audit published each budget cycle.
A $600 property tax reduction on every residential property, returning residential property taxes to where they stood in 2022.
A freeze on residential property taxes for the entire four-year term of Mayor and Council.
A forensic audit of city hall, reviewing every municipal expense line by line to eliminate waste and cut redundant layers of management.
Modern AI tools across city operations to take on administrative work, lowering overhead and speeding up the internal processes that leave residents waiting.
Transparent application tracking, so residents can watch the live progress of anything they file with the city, from a pet licence to a building permit.
Public Safety Plan
Surrey families and local business owners deserve streets free of violence and commerce free of intimidation. Surrey is short more than 750 sworn officers compared to Vancouver. This four-point plan closes that gap, trains officers locally, stops gang recruitment before it starts, and puts modern technology to work under strict privacy guardrails.
Sworn officer numbers and officers per 100,000 residents, compared with Vancouver, reported publicly each year.
Accelerate police recruitment beyond the existing transitional goal of 860 officers, closing Surrey's 750-officer gap with Vancouver.
Build a Surrey Tactical Training Centre of Excellence specializing in de-escalation, rapid-response firearms training, and anti-extortion tactics, run on a revenue-generating model so it does not become a burden on local taxpayers.
Place one dedicated School Liaison Officer in every senior secondary school, with oversight across every feeder elementary school in that cluster, to disrupt gang recruitment early.
Deploy public safety cameras and rapid-response drones under a zero-retention policy: data held only on local city servers, never uploaded to the cloud, and automatically deleted every 24 hours unless a criminal incident is flagged.
SkyTrain Extension Plan
A city mayor cannot simply write a cheque for a multi-billion-dollar transit line, so this team is not promising magic money. It is promising strong, collaborative leadership: a business case to extend the Expo Line from King George Station to the South Surrey Park & Ride, funded through the same tri-level model delivering the Surrey Langley SkyTrain.
Progress on the business case and on funding commitments from the Province, the federal government, and TransLink reported publicly.
Present a business case to the TransLink Mayors' Council to extend the Expo Line from King George Station to the South Surrey Park & Ride.
Replicate the proven cost-sharing framework used for the Fraser Highway line, with the Province as senior partner, federal support through programs such as the Canada Public Transit Fund, and a local share supported by Transit-Oriented Development revenues.
Build stations at 88th Avenue near Surrey Memorial Hospital, at the Newton Exchange, and at a South Surrey Park & Ride terminus on the Highway 99 corridor.
Take thousands of single-occupancy vehicles off King George Highway and cut commutes from South Surrey and Newton to Surrey City Centre to minutes.
Compassionate Pet Care Plan
Our pets are members of our families. For many seniors, persons with disabilities, and military veterans, a dog or cat is their closest companion. This team will build a Surrey Compassionate Animal Care and Welfare Partnership with the BC SPCA, local veterinarians, and rescue organizations, so Surrey cares for both its people and the animals that enrich their lives.
Advisory Committee recommendations and the outcomes of the animal bylaw review reported publicly.
Work with local veterinarians and charitable partners to explore a non-profit veterinary assistance program helping seniors, persons with disabilities, and military veterans access affordable care for their companion animals.
Establish a Surrey Animal Welfare Advisory Committee, with representatives from the BC SPCA, local veterinarians, rescue organizations, animal welfare advocates, and community members, to advise City Council.
Review Surrey's animal-related bylaws with community partners to promote responsible pet ownership, protect animal welfare, enhance public safety, and reflect modern best practices.
Support public education on responsible pet ownership, licensing, spaying and neutering, and adoption, and strengthen emergency assistance and adoption programs with local animal welfare organizations.
Surrey Seniors and Children's Hospital
Newton is Surrey's largest town centre, with more than 160,000 residents, yet it still has no dedicated hospital of its own. A Conservative Mayor and Council will make a new Surrey-Newton Senior and Children's Hospital at 6965 King George Boulevard a first-term priority, and will use every tool at City Hall to get it built.
A Mayor's Newton Hospital Task Force reporting publicly every quarter, with seats for Fraser Health, physicians and nurses, seniors' advocates, parents, and Newton residents.
Direct staff, within the first 100 days, to reserve 6965 King George Boulevard in Newton as the firm site of a purpose-built Senior and Children's Hospital.
Pass a Council resolution formally requesting that the Province and Fraser Health designate 6965 King George Boulevard as the site of a dedicated senior and children's hospital serving South Surrey, Newton, and surrounding communities.
Fast-track official community plan, rezoning, and permitting work so the City is not the reason the project stalls, and take a joint funding ask to Victoria and Ottawa.
Ask the Province and Fraser Health to plan the facility around pediatric emergency and after-hours care, maternity and family birthing, geriatric emergency and short-stay beds, and a building designed for dignity.