Metro Surrey Mayoral Interviews Ep 5: Mike Starchuk

Mike Starchuk on being the government that overruled Surrey | Metro Surrey Mayoral Interviews Mike Starchuk is running for mayor of Surrey with Imagine Surrey. He spent thirty-two years in Surrey Fire Services, served as a Surrey First councillor, and was the NDP MLA for Surrey-Cloverdale from 2020 to 2024. We went through the four years he spent as Surrey’s voice inside the governing caucus — the years his government ordered the City to continue the police transition against the mayor and council voters had elected, and the City went to court and lost. Not what he decided as a backbencher, but what he got for Surrey: how many new schools opened while roughly 9,000 kids were learning in about 400 portables, and how the Cloverdale hospital in his own riding went from $1.66 billion to $2.88 billion and three years late. Why a Surrey First councillor turned NDP MLA has now started a third party that says it’s here to challenge the same old players.