{"id":952478,"date":"2026-10-30T23:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T23:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/952478\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T23:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T23:54:08","slug":"surrey-white-rock-businesses-wrapped-up-in-government-red-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/952478\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey, White Rock businesses wrapped up in government red tape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Surrey, White Rock businesses wrapped up in government red tape<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 2:36 pm Friday, October 30, 2026<\/p>\n<p>The Surrey-White Rock Board of Trade\u2019s latest red tape report indicates almost half of local businesses lose more than 300 hours each year on government compliance.<\/p>\n<p>Aman Parmar, SWRBOT\u2019s policy advisor, said the 2026 survey results reveal that 41 per cent of respondents reported not knowing if they are required to report the same information to multiple agencies, \u201chighlighting the need for better coordination and clearer processes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among survey highlights are that 68 per cent of respondents reported a \u201cmoderate or major impact from regulatory compliance,\u201d that 46 per cent spend at least six hours each week dealing with this and 16 per cent spend more than 20 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/swrbot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-Red-Tape-Survey-Report.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">35-page report<\/a> does not reveal how many respondents there were. The Now-Leader has reached out to SWRBOT for clarification.<\/p>\n<p>It indicates that in Surrey the most frequently identified city red tape hassles involved building permits, development and amenity cost charges, and engineering services and development applications while in White Rock, building permits ranked the highest at 46 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, B.C.\u2019s new Premier Lorne Doerkson <a href=\"https:\/\/surreynowleader.com\/2026\/10\/26\/zytaruk-conservatives-must-prove-surrey-election-promises-are-the-real-deal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">promised on the Surrey campaign trai<\/a>l on October 7 that his government will pass a new law to reduce \u201cunnecessary and onerous\u201d red tape that will require the elimination of two regulations for every new regulation introduced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey, White Rock businesses wrapped up in government red tape Published 2:36 pm Friday, October 30, 2026 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":952479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-952478","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\/952478","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=952478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/952479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}