Doug McCallum

He leads the Safe Surrey Coalition. He is a candidate for Mayor of Surrey in the 2026 municipal election.

Career

McCallum was a Surrey city councillor from 1993 to 1996, mayor from 1996 to 2005, and chief executive of Harness Racing of B.C. in 2010. Wikipedia lists affiliations with the BC Social Credit Party and the Conservative Party of Canada. He returned as mayor in 2018 with the Safe Surrey Coalition and lost in 2022, taking 27.31 per cent of the vote (32,338 votes).

Positions

His 2026 platform, as summarised by Wikipedia, holds property-tax increases at zero for four years, extends SkyTrain to Newton, adds a police helicopter and drones, speeds building permits, orders a forensic audit of the city's land deals and considers leaving Metro Vancouver. In his earlier terms he backed replacing the RCMP with a municipal police force.

Controversies

In December 2021 McCallum was charged with public mischief after reporting that a campaigner for Keep the RCMP in Surrey ran over his foot in a parking lot in September 2021. On 22 November 2022 a judge acquitted him, finding his foot had been run over and that he had not intended to mislead police, according to Global News. The decision is final.

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Wikipedia · Global News · Wikipedia