Mayor Locke changed her mind about RCMP 4 years ago, now her Surrey Connect councillor is having second thoughts, too!

SURREY Connect Councillor Pardeep Kooner told the Vancouver Sun on Thursday that she has yet to make a final decision about keeping the RCMP in Surrey.

Last Monday, Kooner voted with the three other Surrey Connect councillors and Mayor Brenda Locke in Surrey City Council to keep the RCMP.

Kooner is the one who produced the controversial $520 million estimate of what the transition to a municipal police force would cost the City.

Pardeep Kooner
Photo: Surrey Connect

But now she appears to be backpedaling – and it shouldn’t come as a surprise because Locke herself first voted to hoof out the RCMP as a Safe Surrey Coalition councillor four years ago and then became the Mounties’ chief agent, mercilessly savaging then-mayor Doug McCallum on the issue.

Kooner told the Sun that she will wait for the city report on the costs before finally making up her mind and that her decision will be “what’s best for the residents of the city.”

When the Sun reporter asked Kooner for the information she used for her estimate, she said she was not prepared to do that!

Why not? What is there to hide?

Come clean, Kooner!

 

(VOICE opinion)