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▼ STRAIGHT AND ARROW Manitoba’s Tyler Wilson competes with about 120 others in the day’s second compound bow flight at the 2015 3D Canadian Indoor Archery Championships at the Cloverdale Agriplex on March 21. The three-day event was co-hosted by the Semiahmoo Fish and Game Club. For more photos, visit surreyleader. com BOAZ JOSEPH
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As first promised by the province last year, Surrey will be receiving a multi-million dollar expansion to its courthouse, B.C.’s attorney general has announced. At a press conference Thursday in Surrey, B.C. Attorney General and Minister of Justice Suzanne Anton confirmed Surrey Provincial
Court will undergo a $24.3-million expansion that will include three additional courtrooms and two more hearing rooms. Construction will start in early 2016 and is set to be completed in 2017. In April 2013, five municipalities, including Surrey, Abbotsford, the City and Township of Langley and Chilliwack, entered into a memorandum of understanding with the province for the provision of more courtrooms over 20 years. Last year, Surrey was identified as a top priority for expansion. The long-term plan for Surrey includes a total of eight more courtrooms. The city’s population has grown 60 per
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cent since 1991 when the Surrey courthouse was first built, Anton said, and is expected to double in the next two decades. “With these kind of numbers come all the benefits and challenges that big cities encounter,” Anton said. “Some of these challenges involve the justice system where Surrey’s tremendous population growth has put pressure on the courts. We want to change that.” The Surrey courthouse, which hears a high volume of provincial civil small claims cases, is second only to Vancouver Provincial Court in terms of caseload. Surrey-Tynehead Liberal MLA Amrik Virk said the expansion is what the city and its
citizens have asked for. “We listened. We heard what you wanted as a community and it’s about promises made and promises kept,” Virk said. But Surrey-Newton NDP MLA Harry Bains criticized the news, saying Surrey deserves more than three new courtrooms at this time. “I hoped to see some meaningful action from the attorney general today, but all we got was three out of the five courtrooms she already announced last year,” Bains said. continued on page 3
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