South Surrey

There's a lot of farms around us.

And, uh, our, we're technically South Surrey.

Just, uh, yeah, r- right close to the border, actually.

Oh, are you? Okay.

It's a mixed bag, but historically I'd say it's more, it's elderly.

Like, 10, 10 minutes to my west is the community of White Rock.

And in South Surrey, White Rock here has been largely viewed as a retirement area for a long time.

It's got lots of beaches, lots of oceanfront, um, a lot of old growth forests here.

Alex Brown, writing in the Nino News Bulletin, reports former Surrey South MLA Brett Chapman is not running after all.

He had been listed as the 1BC candidate for South Surrey until Saturday and is now absent from the elections BC list.

So is his wife, Carrie Lynn Findley, who stepped down as leader of the Conservative Party of B.C. last month after several MLAs left the party or were asked to leave.

Chapman's explanation to Peace Arch News was short.

Uh, it's in the past.

Uh, we have to move on the future, and the future is BRT, which w- become the plan, uh, for the future Skytrain expansion, what I believe that will go through New Newton, and then eventually to South Surrey.

Uh, and Linda, you do have an additional 15 seconds if you would like to use it to wrap up this question.

Yes, I would just like to remind you that the BRT is not fully funded.

Well, I did it for free.

[chuckles] It was the new, uh, St. John Paul II Academy.

It's independent high school in South Surrey.

And, uh, the biggest, uh, part, uh, that's been the biggest give back of my time.

I remember that one ... you Chinese.

$32 million lottery won by someone in Surrey.

How do you feel about that, Gagan?

I saw that, man.

you put your, you put a platform out there,

but what are the, what are the, What are the real issues? Because I'm, you know, I'm a Surrey guy, you know, South Surrey guy on the south side of the river.

Yeah.

I have to take my passport out to go to Port Coquitlam.

But, you know, and like I'm all for, yeah, ride your bike.

Okay.

Like you're talking, like I used to ride, I used to do mountain bike riding and go to the trails out in South Surrey until I broke my ribs a few times.

Uh, sheer stupidity.

I spent most of my adult life in residential construction.

And the biggest project that I ever did, wasn't in residential though, it was one that I've recently completed, is the new St. John Paul II Academy in South Surrey.

And the reason I'm bringing that one up is because that one took me 15 years from the beginning to where it is now.

And that was a give back on my part.

We can actually do pre-zoning in areas that are obvious so that when building applications come in, we don't have to go through a long rezoning application process.

We can actually get that done a lot quicker.

When I started building my first home in South Surrey in the 90s, it took me two weeks to get a building permit.

It's taken up to 12 months to get a building permit now.

And now here's this week's message.

In the last four days, I took three trips to South Surrey.

Do I need to say any more? I, my heart aches for people that commute.

I do not know how you do that.

She sat there and she would just say, what is wrong with you? There's a lot of stuff coming out that was in, if you know what I mean.

You all know what this is? What's in here? Water.

So what was happening on my trips to South Surrey was the circumstance was bumping, bumping me like this.

There's water in here and the circumstance bumped me and sin came out.

Drew Savage and the Thousand Dollar Minute.

Alex is in South Surrey this morning.

Alex, are you flying solo or do you have some people with you who are going to try to help you win a thousand bucks here this morning? My wife is here in the background.

We're going to try our best.