Pro-RCMP group angry after Surrey city council votes to amend political signage bylaw – BC

Surrey metropolis council has handed a controversial bylaw modification that limits what indicators individuals can have on their lawns.

Council voted 5-4 Monday evening to develop a bylaw round election signage to cowl residents’ initiatives, making it unlawful to have any indicators on lawns till two weeks earlier than a vote.

The modification narrowly handed with all councillors outdoors of McCallum’s Protected Surrey Coalition voting towards it.

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Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum going through public mischief investigation

Critics consider it’s one other try by McCallum and Protected Surrey Coalition councillors to silence Preserve the RCMP in Surrey, a gaggle against town’s transition from the RCMP to a municipal police power.

“It simply appears to be a relentless sample that we’re not speaking with the individuals who voted us in,” Coun. Linda Annis stated. “I believe that’s massively problematic. The residents have each proper to be heard.”

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Policing referendum volunteers getting consideration from Surrey bylaw officers

Ivan Scott of Preserve the RCMP in Surrey stated the group is hiring a lawyer to struggle the modification.

He stated the hundreds of Preserve the RCMP in Surrey garden indicators, primarily on personal property, are staying up. If bylaw officers write any tickets, they gained’t be paid.

Invoice Tieleman of Surrey Police Vote, a gaggle hoping to power the provincial authorities to carry a binding referendum on the proposed police transition in Surrey, says the bylaw is attempting to close them down.

“The mayor and his slim majority are clearly scared of a referendum on surrey policing and whether or not to maintain the RCMP or not,” Tieleman stated.