Downtown Business Improvement Association.<\/a><\/p>\nThough the seven will likely disagree, there were no clear slam-dunk winners in this essentially polite event. McCallum likely didn\u2019t endear himself to some audience members when during his closing remarks he remarked \u201clet\u2019s get some energy in this room, you\u2019re all sitting out there you know, not even smiling. You\u2019ve got seven great candidates that are running for your mayor. Where\u2019s the energy in this room?\u201d<\/p>\n
He said his slate if elected will freeze taxes for four years, bring in a police helicopter and build three indoor pools, and tracks among other goodies. \u201cWe\u2019re going to make a motion first council meeting to approve it all.\u201d<\/p>\n
Randhawa said in closing that Surrey needs \u201cyoung-blood people who come up with new leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n
Annis said she\u2019d provide an \u201copen-door\u201d policy at City Hall. \u201cPeople want to be able to be connected to their city council and it\u2019s very important we continue this dialogue not just today and not yesterday but moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
Van Vliet said he\u2019s running with the \u201cnew generation\u201d in mind. Safer streets, \u201csmart growth,\u201d families first and a rent-to-own housing policy are top of mind for him.<\/p>\n
Locke said it\u2019s been an \u201cabsolute privilege\u201d being mayor and she looks forward to continuing projects already started. \u201cYou can never do it all in one term,\u201d she said. \u201cSurrey has put up their hand in the last four years and we\u2019re going to continue to make sure that everybody knows we\u2019re here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Starchuk said voters want change. \u201cWhat we\u2019ve seen over the last eight years is the same old faces doing the same old things and having the same old results that don\u2019t work for everybody that\u2019s here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ammons II said there are so many people without jobs, without houses. \u201cThey can\u2019t afford it,\u201d he said. \u201cTalk to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything I do is outside the box,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Incidentally, in July 2025 Locke was actually a clue on the real Jeopardy program<\/a> where contestants were posed with the following puzzler, which aired on Chek TV: \u201cIN CANADA, HIS OR HER WORSHIP IS FOR PEOPLE WITH THIS GOVERNMENT JOB, LIKE SCOTT GILLINGHAM OF WINNIPEG & SURREY, B.C.\u2019S BRENDA LOCKE.\u201d<\/p>\nThe program was aired in Canada and the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayoral Jeopardy debuts in Surrey Published 4:30 pm Wednesday, September 23, 2026 Seven Surrey mayoral candidates played a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-907285","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\/907285","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=907285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}