Ken Sim will be the first Chinese\u002DCanadian mayor in a city with a radically altered political landscape after lower than ever turnout.
He will be Vancouver’s first Chinese-Canadian mayor, ending an unbroken line of white, male — mainly Anglo-Saxon — mayors dating to 1886 that’s included three Campbells and, most recently, Kennedy Stewart.Sign up to know what's really happening by reading daily editorials and commentary by British Columbia's opinion leadersBy clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
That said, there are more than enough pressing and prosaic concerns far removed from geopolitics to keep the political novice and his ABC Vancouver’s majority on council, school and park boards busy after their Nov. 5 swearing in. The rancorous race centred on McCallum’s 2018 promise to replace the RCMP with a city police force and Locke’s vow to undo the transition despite the city having spent $63.7 million and having hired 350 officers and civilian staff.
Unwinding the half-built Surrey police force could also result in some interesting political spectacle at the provincial level. The B.C. Liberals are hammering away at public safety issues with former RCMP officer Eleanore Sturko taking a leading role. Of Surrey’s nine MLAs, seven are NDP including Jinny Sims, who was one of Locke’s unsuccessful challengers.
In the end, only the brave and determined navigated the lengthy and jumbled lists of candidates. Nearly 65 per cent of eligible electors didn’t cast ballots. Surrey turnout was little better. But if that’s true, what solutions are there that would ensure voters continue to have an array of choices without making it so difficult to run that there’s a shortage of candidates.
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