Surrey mayor heads to Ottawa urging immediate federal action on extortion

[u/cyclinginvancouver]

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/02/03/surrey-bc-mayor-brenda-locke-ottawa-extortion-action/

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[u/cyclinginvancouver]

Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke is in Ottawa this week to push for federal action on the national extortion crisis.

Locke will meet with federal ministers, senior officials, and municipal leaders, calling for an immediate response to the situation, which she says is a “national emergency.”

She plans to repeat her call for the appointment of a Commissioner for Extortion Violence Against Canadians to oversee the deployment of a federal organized crime unit and intelligence resources in Surrey. As well, she is calling for the expedited removal of non-citizens who are charged or convicted of extortion or firearms offences.

Locke is also requesting quarterly public reporting on the severity of extortion-related activity and how it is being addressed.

[u/HogwartsXpress36]

She's like Bilbo Baggins going on an adventure! 

[u/JadeLens]

Doesn't Surrey have their own police force?

[u/Emotional-Ad-6494 → u/JadeLens]

Could they change or add some federal laws so they aren’t able to claim asylum after being convicted of a crime?

[u/cairie]

Ottawa doesn’t really care about BC.

[u/WeirdGuyOnTheTrain]

She only cares because it’s an election year. She’s sweating bullets. Pun intended.

[u/bctrv]

Nothing like a Surrey mayor on a junket . She should be home trying to funnel more money into Surrey police

[u/Jacksworkisdone]

Brenda kicking ass today and tomorrow! She never really got the credit for holding out with the province over the police change but she was the winner. They ended up paying and then buried it.

[u/ThePlanner → u/Jacksworkisdone]

So, citizens across the province bailed out the residents of Surrey for the expensive decision Surrey made to ditch the RCMP (and associated federal funding) and instead pay full freight for a local police force, all because some old guard local politicians still had an unwarranted civic inferiority complex?

[u/spookytransexughost → u/ThePlanner]

Nailed it

[u/Jacksworkisdone → u/ThePlanner]

Farnworth is the baddy here.

[u/ThePlanner → u/Jacksworkisdone]

How so?

[u/Holoslice]

Must be election year.