Doug McCallum was born on April 19,1944 and is a Canadian politician who was mayor of Surrey, British Columbia, from 1996 to 2005 and from 2018 to 2022.
16 Facts About Doug McCallum
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Doug McCallum was re-elected in the October 20,2018 local elections in British Columbia.
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Doug McCallum was first elected to Surrey City Council in the 1993 election representing the Surrey Electors Team, a party which included members of the Social Credit Party of British Columbia.
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Doug McCallum was seen as having pro-business and pro-development views, and campaigned on enhanced public safety and enacting the zero-based budgeting model in municipal governance to achieve zero-increase property taxes, which was a misstatement about the purpose of zero-based budgeting, which operates similarly to the planning-programming budgeting system but rather than submitting the previous operating numbers, departments or units submit zeros and councils determine a new figure.
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Doug McCallum won re-election as Surrey's mayor in the 1999 and 2002 municipal elections.
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Doug McCallum ran again for a fourth term in the 2005 municipal elections but was soundly defeated by his emergent rival, Dianne Watts, a former fellow member of his party, the Surrey Electors Team.
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Doug McCallum missed the deadline and instead the Conservatives chose Phil Eidsvik.
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In 2010, Doug McCallum was hired as CEO of Harness Racing of BC.
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In 2018, Doug McCallum sought to get elected after previous Surrey Mayor, Linda Hepner, said that she wouldn't seek re-election.
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Doug McCallum argued that Surrey's RCMP operated by the Canadian federal government is ineffective at combating crime, especially the growing gang problem in North Surrey.
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Doug McCallum promised to create a new municipal "Surrey Police Force", which would operate off of pre-existing equipment and facilities.
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On October 20,2018, Doug McCallum was elected for his fourth term as the mayor of Surrey.
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In 2020, Doug McCallum gained criticism in the media when he refused to allow Uber drivers to operate in the city of Surrey.
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Doug McCallum said that the reason for the ban on Uber drivers was done so in order to protect the jobs of the cab drivers working in Surrey.
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On December 12,2021, Doug McCallum was charged with public mischief because of a parking altercation with people against the Surrey Police Department in which he accused a woman driving a Ford Mustang of rolling over his foot.
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On October 15,2022, Doug McCallum was defeated in Surrey's mayoral election, and was replaced by incumbent mayor Brenda Locke.