Eric Woodward

Yeah.

Eric Woodward in Township and Nathan Pahal in City of Langley.

City

of Langley, I hadn't heard.

from my vast distance, anything.

I mean, Eric Woodward is a controversial figure.

There was no question about that.

He didn't have to dig very far to find those issues, the defamation suits, the arguments, the battles.

Those people are just taking it easy and just seeing who they get to work with on their councils.

When it comes to some of the more contentious places where we're seeing significant numbers of challengers to mayors, I wouldn't be surprised if those incumbent mayors are not feeling too bad because they're running up against four, five, six challengers.

when it's the one-on-one and perhaps both candidates are brand new, nobody knows what's going to happen.

So I think, Chris, there's probably a wide range of emotion that's going on right now, not only amongst the mayors, but amongst their mayor candidates, their families, council candidates and their families and teams as well.

some contentious conversations that have a sense of allegedly anyway taken place behind closed doors uh and where people in the rest of council and perhaps citizens as well have thought that this isn't parliamentary a parliamentary democracy now we're dealing with municipal government where decisions are supposed to be arrived at we're supposed to see how the sausage is made in open session not in a caucus meeting behind him not behind so mayor sim certainly has has the support of voters from last time he's up against a series of challengers this time so we'll actually see in the next little while whether or not he manages to hang on to that seat or whether some of the candidates that you have mentioned managed to upset him and the other thing of course is then if you end up with a particular party member representing the mayor's chair and then different party members elsewhere we can end up with quite a bit of gridlock happening too, particularly through the start of a term once the goodwill of election night has passed.

And we should mention as well that Ken Sim is also seeking a second term of office.

And if he does accomplish that, this will be the first time an incumbent wins re-election in three terms.

Ken beat first term incumbent Mayor Ken D. Stewart in the last municipal election, who is running for re-election.

Langley Township, Jay Lundgren of Langley Strong has won by 2,800 votes.

That council will also shake down to six Langley Strong and two Progress for Langley, which was the Eric Woodward.

Langley,

I...

I'm excited to see what Lundgren does in Township.

That's a little bit of... hope i think that i have for the region of all places and i guess

congratulations to eric woodward for his victory in langley

city where he doesn't live or run down in delta george harvey came in third in the end because it turns out voters don't like the kinds of, you know, inter...

We got Alexa Loo, Rob Howard, Kash Heed, um, a- and many others, um, as well, uh, running, uh, in that community.

But one of the other ones that I think that hasn't, one of the other communities that hasn't received a lot of attention, of course, is the township of, of Langley, um, with Eric Woodward as the incumbent.

He's been on this, uh, program, um, uh, many times.

Uh, Matt, your thoughts o- on that.

But one of the other ones that I think that hasn't...

One of the other communities that hasn't received a lot of attention, of course, is the township of, of Langley, um, with Eric Woodward as the incumbent.

He's been on this, uh, program, um, uh, many times.

Uh, Matt, your thoughts o- on that.

It's quite a challenge from Daniel Fontaine this time.

The Castle Fall, uh, referendum on Eric Woodward in Langley Township.

Will be interested to see that one.

Um, bit of a left right or business lefty divide in Maple Ridge.

suburban races quickly? I wandered out digitally to the township of Langley.

I think we talked a bit about this before, but the battle between Eric Woodward, the incumbent mayor, and his opponent, Jay Lundgren, is raging there.

Woodward is a real lightning rod, and he's had a very unique approach to infrastructure by sort of front-end loading all the investment.

Build it and they will come, or build it so that it's ready when they do come?

He didn't create them, so they offered their endorsement to him.

I'm not sure how all that works, but...

Part of the rhetoric there is to watch out for inappropriate intervention by other municipalities, which I think is a reference to a threat by Eric Woodward from the township to start his own slate to run friendly people to him in the city of Langley.

So I don't think he did that, but they can see the SkyTrain coming.