Surrey South

Uh, of those, two of them are fairly safe Conservative.

However, Eleanor Sterko is running in Surrey South for Centre BC, and she's got profile.

It's gonna be a challenge for her to win that riding, but she can certainly.

She's gonna have.

So it's those three, Surrey-Guilford, we just mentioned Surrey-North, maybe even Fleetwood.

Surrey-South,

we see Eleanor Sturkle running in South.

Right.

Yeah, I, I appreciate the, uh, comments from, uh, David Eby, but the reality is, is that no-fault insurance, uh, is causing very serious issues for people that have experienced catastrophic injury, Rob, and, and it's real.

Well, joining me now is the leader of Center BC and the candidate for Surrey South, Eleanor Sturko.

Eleanor Sturko, thank you for being with us today.

Thanks for having me on, Jill.

I think about a majority of the candidates are South Asian, so they're making a bet there.

They're running, as we said last episode, Megan Knight, the Mayor of White Rocks, running Surrey South against Brent Chapman and Eleanor Sturco.

New candidate in Surrey Cloverdale is Nick Cartmell.

And Nick, among other things, he's worked at TELUS.

But Sterko is moving from...

She was the MLA in her first term from Surrey South.

She then ran in Cloverdale last election because she hadn't crossed the floor yet, and before she'd crossed the floor, Brent Chapman got slammed into Surrey South.

Now she's going back to Surrey South to, to run against Brent Chapman and Megan Knight.

So that, that's actually gonna be one of the races that, uh, draws a lot of attention, I think.

Um-

Now, Centre BC, also interesting.

Eleanor Sturco, the leader there, she's running in Surrey South.

Just announced today, Ryan Peterson, former chair of the BC Business Council, is going to be running for Centre BC in Coquitlam-Burke Mountain.

Okay, good candidate for them.

And now we're seeing proof of that materializing.

In particular, the overlapping MLA and mayoral races in Surrey South, as well as the civic campaign in Kelowna.

Travis Persaud explains.

Megan Knight was running for another term as White Rock mayor but now she's the BC Conservatives candidate in Surrey South.

Knight formally withdrew from the mayoral race but missed the regular deadline.

It means there's a chance her name could stay on the mayoral ballot.

Now there's all these people who are saying well we like you we like what you're doing but we know that you know I'm supporting this provincial candidate and they need to put up signs they need door knockers you know they need volunteers too and I gotta go there because I really care about this or that provincial issue.

Back in White Rock, the city's chief elections officer says provincial approval is required to remove Knight's name from the mayoral ballot.

Heather's mother, Jodie Aspen, told Global News she was outraged and that she is made to suffer this again and again.

White Rock Mayor Meghan Knight is now the confirmed BC Conservative candidate in Surrey South, CBC reports.

Nothing in the law stops a person from running municipally and provincially at the same time.

In May last year, the province did pass a ban on holding both offices at once.