Months of sabre-rattling rhetoric between Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke and Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth over the city’s incendiary policing transition amplified into political cannon fire this week after Locke announced on Monday the city is challenging in court the ‘constitutionality’ of the provincial government’s decision to replace the Surrey RCMP with the Surrey Police Service.
An amended petition to the one Surrey filed in B.C.
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