History

The Surrey Community Coalition was formed in the summer of 2002 to give citizens of Surrey a voice in local government.

Since SCC was not yet an officially registered political party, we endorsed independent candidates for the November 2002 election who offered a viable and credible alternative to Doug McCallum and his party, the Surrey Electors Team (SET). SCC-endorsed candidates did remarkably well. Bob Bose, Penny Priddy and Judy Villeneuve finished one, two, three in council voting while Terry Allen was elected to school board.

Following that election, SCC was renamed the Surrey Civic Coalition and was registered as a civic political party under the Societies Act.

In the 2005 election, SCC elected incumbents Bob Bose (council) and Terry Allen (school trustee). Bose and Allen were reelected in 2008 and SCC added trustees Laurie Larsen and Ijaz Ahmed Chatha.

The Surrey Civic Coalition was the only party in 2008 which ran candidates for both city council and school trustee because only SCC thought it was important for these groups to work together.

We need to look no further than our current school shortage crisis to see what happens when they don’t.

Just as importantly, the Surrey Civic Coalition remains the only democratically-run civic party in Surrey, where membership is open to all  citizens, not just friends and insiders.