Imagine Surrey has full civic slate<\/p>\n
Published 6:00 am Wednesday, April 8, 2026<\/p>\n
Surrey mayoral candidate Mike Starchuk introduced his Imagine Surrey slate\u2019s final two councillor candidates on Tuesday night \u2013 Perminder Chohan and Chandan Chahal.<\/p>\n
They joined Starchuck and fellow candidates William Li, Kevin Wilkie, Narima Dela Cruz, Yousef Aldabainah, Ashiyana Hanif and Dr. Margaret Mubanda at a rally at Royal King Palace and Convention Centre in Newton.<\/p>\n
Starchuk \u2013 a retired chief fire prevention officer with the Surrey fire department, former Surrey First councillor and former NDP MLA for Surrey-Cloverdale \u2013 laid out five \u201ccore commitments,\u201d if he and his slate are elected on October 17: Safe Streets, Fast Commutes, Smart Investments, Lower Costs, and Strong Services.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur slate looks like Surrey,\u201d Starchuk told his audience. \u201cWe are not career politicians. We are frontline workers, professionals, and public servants who quietly fight for this city every single day \u2013 and we are no longer going to be quiet.\u201d<\/p>\n
He argued that Surrey voters \u201ccannot afford to recycle the same leaders who created its current problems.\u201d Starchuk said there are \u201conly two futures for this city \u2013 one where the same old players keep fighting the same old fights and nothing changes \u2013 or one with a bright future where a team of frontline workers gets us unstuck so we can build the city we all deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n
That said, Starchuk reiterated what he said on Dec. 8 during his Imagine Surrey reveal at the Majarajah hall in Newton, that \u201cmy experience makes me the most qualified to lead and manage this city.<\/p>\n
Imagine Surrey\u2019s \u201cSafe Streets\u201d pledge includes \u201cregular public briefings modelled on the COVID-era updates led by Dr. Bonnie Henry.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnder my leadership, it is the extortionists who will live in fear \u2013 not you,\u201d Starchuk declared.<\/p>\n
On \u201cFast Commutes,\u201d he would see the R6 RapidBus converted \u201cinto a full Bus Rapid Transit route\u201d between Newton and Scott Road Station, and create a BRT route from Surrey Central SkyTrain station to Semiahmoo via Guildford and 152 Street, and under \u201cSmart Investments,\u201d build an \u201cinternational\u201d cricket and rugby stadium.<\/p>\n
On \u201cLower Costs,\u201d Starchuk pledges to cut recreational fees for seniors by 50 per cent as well as \u201ca free swm lesson for every child aged 5 and under.\u201d Under \u201cStrong Services,\u201d if elected, part of Imagine Surrey\u2019s campaign platform involves hiring frontline workers and opening three new community centres \u201cto address capacity shortfalls.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meantime, of the two most recently revealed and final slate candidates, biographies provided by the slate say Chohan is a long-time Surrey resident who, as president and CEO of Lifewise Financial Group Inc., \u201cspent over two decades leading organizations that now support hundreds 0f representatives and their families across Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chahal, 34, of Fleetwood, is described as a small business owner, youth mentor and community advocate \u201cwho understands firsthand the challenges and opportunities facing our city.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagine Surrey has full civic slate Published 6:00 am Wednesday, April 8, 2026 Surrey mayoral candidate Mike Starchuk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-590392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}