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In Surrey, former mayor Doug McCallum’s Safe Surrey Coalition party spent more than twice as much as current Mayor Brenda Locke’s Surrey Connect party, in an election seen by many as a referendum on McCallum’s decision to replace the RCMP with a municipal police force.Article content While previous elections featured corporations, unions and wealthy individuals cutting huge cheques to support their preferred parties, the B.C. NDP government banned corporate and union donations in
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