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The value of the current situation is that it highlights how a city voting on its police force is a sham vote because Mike Farnworth will just dictate anyway.
The simple fact is, she is having trouble coming to grips with the inability to manage the fastest-growing city in the province in this environment where some of their decisions mean nothing.
She's no longer fit for the job because the job is a puppet. And the moment Mike Farnworth ponies up the cash to pay for his decrees, they can begin the switch to provincially-mandated yokel police service.
This strikes me as wildly revisionist. The argument you're making completely ignores that Surrey started this transition in 2018. Surrey Police have been deployed alongside RCMP since 2021.
Locke was elected as a pro-RCMP candidate, trying to put the cat back into the bag. The province and RCMP clearly sent a message: no.
The police force doesn't have a budget to continue to hire. The province is doing their job by holding the city accountable to their own decisions, and clearing out roadblocks that have come up.