Doug McCallum promising war on illegal dumpers if elected<\/p>\n
Published 10:30 am Tuesday, September 8, 2026<\/p>\n
Former Surrey mayor Doug McCallum vows to wage war on illegal dumpers if he and his Safe Surrey Coalition council candidates are elected on October 17.<\/p>\n
In a press release issued September 8 McCallum says if he\u2019s elected he\u2019ll bring forward a motion at the inaugural meeting to impose the \u201ctoughest\u201d illegal dumping rules in B.C. that would see any company that\u2019s caught doing this within city limits lose its business licence and be banned from operating in Surrey for 10 years.<\/p>\n
Moreover, anyone caught illegal dumping would be hit with a solid $10,000 fine \u201cevery single time,\u201d not just up to $10,000.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd to catch them, the City will install cameras in known dumping hotspots and use drone technology to track down the people responsible.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSurrey is our home, not a landfill,\u201d McCallum said. \u201cThe people who treat this city like a dump are going to find out it is the most expensive mistake they ever made.\u201d<\/p>\n
The SSC press release notes that illegal dumping is a city-wide problem in alleyways, forests and rural roads with construction demolition, mattresses and renovation debris showing up on the same street corners week after week.<\/p>\n
And this continues despite City of Surrey programs that offer free junk disposal like large-item pick up (up to six large items per year, per household), and dropping off up to 100 kilograms of trash.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no excuse. The City will pick up your old couch for free, and people are still dumping their junk next to where children play,\u201d McCallum noted. \u201cThat tells you everything you need to know. <\/p>\n
McCallum says illegal dumping spots are well known. \u201cThe same corners, the same back lanes, over and over. So we are going to be waiting for them,\u201d he says. \u201cCameras go into the known hotspots, and our drone program will help track the trucks and the companies behind this. You want to dump in Surrey at 2 in the morning and think nobody saw you? Wrong. We saw you. And now you\u2019ll pay for it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Councillor Doug Elford, who lives in Newton and is seeking re-election, says his neighbours live with the blight of illegal dumping \u201cevery single day.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are couches on the boulevard, construction waste in the back lanes, and garbage dumped beside the bus stops where seniors wait every morning,\u201d he says. Cameras and drones mean dumpers will \u201cfinally get caught\u201d and a 10-year ban \u201cis not a slap on the wrist. It is a reason to never dump in this city again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doug McCallum promising war on illegal dumpers if elected Published 10:30 am Tuesday, September 8, 2026 Former Surrey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-888364","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\/888364","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=888364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}