'Time to move on': Surrey mayor appears boxed in after province turns police recommendation into an order

In a day all about Surrey, the most noteworthy line may have come from Vancouver.

“It’s time to move forward on policing,” said Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim in a statement put out after Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth announced he was now ordering the City of Surrey to move forward with its transition to a local police service, three months after it was merely a recommendation.

That the mayor of Vancouver felt compelled to weigh in on the situation spoke to the way the story has evolved in the last five years from a local policy debate to a neverending provincial controversy — one that Sim would like to see come to an end. 

“We

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