VANCOUVER — The B.C. Supreme Court has quashed a bid by the City of Surrey to halt a transition to a municipal police force, with the judge ruling the province has a right to exert authority over municipalities.
Justice Kevin Loo said in the judgment Thursday that this authority is valid even if it nullifies “a mandate given by voters,” referring to the election of Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke who campaigned to halt the transition away from the RCMP.
Loo also said the government is “entitled to enact legislation even where its intention is to overcome a legal proceeding,” as was the case when the province enacted the Police
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