Brad West

This is obviously something I do with a very heavy heart, but it is time for new leadership within our party.

Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West says it would be wise for the party to wait.

If I'm the NDP, I'm not rushing into a leadership race.

They need to do a lot of soul-searching.

So we have Barinder Buller, the principal of Mainland Strategies joining us, also a political strategist, former mayor of Fort St. John, Laurie Ackerman.

Current Mayor of Port Coquitlam, Brad West, congratulations on getting re-elected.

And we have Dr. Anna Wolak, family physician.

So a lot of knowledge that we can pull from here from different areas, but I want to start with the same question for all of you tonight.

All right.

Well, we're going to unpack that a little further on.

And Brad, for you, you know, obviously, you are also sitting on the chair of the Mayor's Council for TransLink.

So you have your pulse on a lot of issues.

I think you're going to see some new faces around that table that are going to be looking hard at changing that direction with Kurt LaPointe in West Vancouver, Daniel Fontaine in New Westminster, Jay Lundgren in Langdon Township, Doug McCallum in Surrey.

Rob Howard in Richmond, a lot of new faces and they're going to be supporting people like Brad West and others who've been pushing for reform.

So that's going to be interesting to watch.

Vancouver itself, the Council of Vancouver has swung very hard left.

We've got the mayor of North Korea, Brad West, with over a result that would make the Politburo blush.

This seems to

be fair to Brad.

If you were challenging me to say, well, where were left-leaning people or a left-identified councilor and mayor successful, I could say, North Vancouver with Leonard Buchanan.

I could say Mike Hurley, who was swept back in in Burnaby.

Of course, Brad West was the first of the night to come back with huge, huge, huge support.

And there were other examples.

We'll call Brad West left.

Was it a ballot box question? Was it? I'm not sure if I would go that far, but certainly it's something people care about.

We'll have to wait and see if Brad West gets behind it as the real litmus test for what's resonating on the streets.

If he starts coming out pro pickleball, we know, we know that that's it.

You

Yes, Port Coquitlam.

Brad West is...

He's going to win.

At least he

has competition this time.

Yeah, so Brad West is going to win, I guess.

He's facing two

challengers.

On this edition, candidates from across the Lower Mainland.

In order of appearance, Jeremy Cato for North Vancouver City Council; candidate for mayor of Vancouver, Colleen Hardwick; candidate for mayor of Richmond, Kash Heed; candidate for mayor of West Vancouver, Kirk LaPointe; and Brad West, the incumbent mayor of Port Coquitlam.

In City of North Vancouver, where Jeremy Cato is running for a seat on city council on October 17th.

Jeremy, start off, who are you and why do you think people should trust you with their vote on October 17th?

And, uh, and I would ensure that we, uh, we led the way, uh, among municipalities in that regard.

Kirk LaPointe, who is running for mayor in District of West Vancouver.

Next up on the breaker.news pre-local government election tour of the Lower Mainland is Port Coquitlam and incumbent Mayor Brad West.

Thank you for joining me, Brad.

It's really important.

Like, I'm over in the Tri-Cities and I drive to Port Coquitlam to go use Brad West's, uh, like, hockey rinks and stuff.

Like, they've done such an incredible job, and there's other examples of that too.

And it is really, really critical to the, the vibrancy of the city to have these things in place.