Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke is taking it on the chin from political rivals who say the city’s $500,000 PR campaign against the Surrey Police Service – aka “NDP police transition” – is expensive political propaganda being funded by already overburdened taxpayers.
The campaign includes social media posts, a direct-mail householder, and electronic billboard displays that, under the heading “NDP police transition WILL COST YOU MORE,” claim it will cost $464 million more over the next 10 years, and forecasts a MASSIVE DOUBLE-DIGIT tax increase meaning LESS $ for schools, health and transit.