Mike Klassen

New West was very surprising with Daniel Fontaine becoming mayor, center-right, very center-right.

Good friends of Mike Klassen, actually.

They worked

together at BC Care Providers.

It's 17 years and still waiting.

Councillor Mike Klassen says don't forget Vancouver.

Plus, the province told your city hall to sit down, build three, four, six homes on a lot, whether the neighborhood liked it or not.

On October 17th, voters torched councils across Metro Vancouver.

And across the water, Vancouver has a SkyTrain line that's going to stop six and a half kilometers short of UBC.

a project that's been stuck on the drawing board for almost two decades and counting.

Today, re-elected Vancouver Councillor Mike Klassen stood up and said, in effect, don't forget us.

Surrey has 10 ridings.

Progressives taking 25 of the 26 seats on council, park board and school board.

The only ABC party candidate to survive the purge is councillor-elect Mike Klassen.

As Kristen Robinson reports, he will have some challenges.

It could be a lonely four years in the council chamber for ABC's Mike Klassen, re-elected as the only centre-right voice on Vancouver City Council.

This council is certainly a different mix.

There's definitely going to be a political shift, but I'm here for it.

Three new COPE councillors, a full slate of four Green Party councillors, and one city's Lucy Maloney also re-elected.

I've had a long relationship with Mayor-elect Pete Fry and I know that we'll probably depend upon each other a little bit for our experience and I'm also going to be here to make sure that I'm going to be watching the decisions and challenging them when I have to.

So the question everybody in this business is asking is simple.

Was that anger spent on Saturday or is it a warm-up act for what David Eby gets on the 24th? Well, joining me now to talk about this issue are two of the hosts for the Hotel Pacifico podcast, Mike McDonald and Geoff Meggs.

Mr. McDonald.

There's also a former Chief of Staff to Christy Clark and Geoff Meggs, former Chief of Staff to John Horgan, and a former Vancouver City Councillor as well.

Yes, it was a...

From where we sat, it was fabulous to watch in regards to what transpired.

So let me start with you, Mike.

Nine sitting mayors turfed in Metro Vancouver.

And now just one councillor from the former ruling party remains.

So how is Mike Klassen going to approach the next four years? What were voters saying? Plus, we'll talk about toxic drug deaths in this province.

The numbers are coming down.

They're still too high, but they are coming down.

Because you truly believed in the mission that we were on.

That was Ken Simm on election night, the sobering reality of how fickle politics and the electorate can be, from a supermajority on Vancouver Council, on school board, on park board, to just one now elected ABC councillor, and that is on Vancouver City Council.

And that one councillor is Mike Klassen, who joined us now.

Good morning.