SURREY – Indo-Canadian businessman Mandeep Nagra and former BC Liberal MLA Brenda Locke have joined Doug McCallum’s Safe Surrey Coalition as council candidates.
Nagra has extensive business experience including building the family’s growing chain of Fraserview Meat stores.
Nagra wants to run for councillor because Surrey is the city where he and hid wife are raising his family in. He’s worried about the direction Surrey is taking under the current council and voices his concerns.
“I am not satisfied with the current government policies. I think they have failed to keep this city safe,and violence free. It worries me how the youngsters are getting involved more and more into drugs and gangs and how our current police structure has failed to keep the kids out of it. I am a strong supporter of community police. Police officers who live here and work here will be better able to understand the issues we face and more motivated to address them.”
“I also want our city to be more connected with Skytrain system rather than slow moving and congestion causing light rail. Congestion on our roads is already bad enough.”
“Doug McCallum and I share the same vision for this city’s transportation, schools and policing and that’s why I chose to run with him and the Safe Surrey Coalition.”
McCallum is excited to work with Mandeep Nagra. “He has a proven business background and a sharp mind. “Nagra will fit in well with the Safe Surrey Coalition’s approach of getting results instead of more studies. He’s a creative thinker who focuses on effective solutions,” said McCallum.
Locke, who has lived in Surrey for 38 years and raised her children here, has volunteered in many capacities including with the Surrey Urban Mission as Vice Chair. Locke also represented Surrey as MLA and as a Cabinet Minister.
McCallum said: “It’s not very often you find someone with Brenda’s experience who cares as much as she does about Surrey and the people in it.”
Locke has over twenty-five years of experience as an Executive Director where she advanced high profile issues province-wide. Her skills include developing strategic partnerships and building bridges between organizations. Locke has worked for and with various levels of government, plus non-profit agencies as well as businesses.
“I strongly believe that Surrey has the potential to be a model community celebrating diversity, initiative, and full of promise. A city that cares about its residents and embraces quality of life for everyone.”
