{"id":925095,"date":"2026-10-08T09:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T09:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/925095\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T09:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T09:02:11","slug":"b-c-conservatives-back-in-battleground-surrey-on-election-trail-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/925095\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. Conservatives back in battleground Surrey on election trail | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791450131_533_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>B.C. Conservative interim Leader Lorne Doerkson stops to pet a dog after a provincial election campaign announcement, in Surrey, B.C., on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Darryl Dyck<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tOct 8, 2026 | 1:00 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The B.C. Conservatives will spend their second consecutive day campaigning in Surrey, a critical battleground in the provincial election.<\/p>\n<p>The Conservatives say interim leader Lorne Doerkson will be in Surrey to make a policy announcement a day after being in the city to roll out promises for businesses that include eliminating the PST on some equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Surrey is British Columbia\u2019s second-largest municipality and includes 10 of the 93 electoral ridings that are up for grabs when voters go to the polls on Oct. 24.<\/p>\n<p>The region was in the election spotlight in 2024 when Garry Begg won Surrey-Guildford by just 22 votes, securing a one-seat majority in the legislature for the NDP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"B.C. Conservative interim Leader Lorne Doerkson stops to pet a dog after a provincial election campaign announcement, in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":925096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82,87674],"class_list":["post-925095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925095","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=925095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}