SURREY Mayor Doug McCallum said in a statement on Monday that at Monday’s Regular Council Land Use meeting at 5:30 p.m., he will be introducing a motion to remove from Monday night’s Regular Council Public Hearing agenda item H 15 — the bylaw to suspend the processing and investigation of new complaints by the Surrey Ethics Commissioner in the period leading up to the 2022 Local General Election.

McCallum said: “The work of the Ethics Commissioner is valuable and the misinformation circulating about the bylaw is unfortunate. If the motion is approved by Council, I will ask the Ethics Commissioner to bring a report to a future open Council meeting for consideration on how to improve the bylaw.”

He added: “The goal is to strengthen the bylaw to ensure the Office of the Ethics Commissioner is not used for partisan purposes during the election period.”