Councillors call for new Metro Vancouver board chair to step aside

As Metro Vancouver’s committee prepares to meet connected Friday, 5 municipal politicians are calling for caller chair Mike Hurley to measurement aside.

At rumor is simply a reappraisal of nan North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant, which is expected to person costs overruns of $3 billion. Hurley had recommended it beryllium done by William McCarthy, who has a inheritance successful existent estate.

In 2022, McCarthy was made an honorary Burnaby firefighter astatine nan aforesaid section wherever Hurley erstwhile worked.

Also, personification pinch nan aforesaid sanction gave nan maximum donation, $1,250- dollars, to Mike Hurley’s 2022 mayoral campaign.

“We’ve asked him to measurement speech until we tin corroborate whether aliases not this is nan aforesaid Mr. McCarthy who made a contribution,” New Westminster Councillor Daniel Fontaine said.

Both McCarthy and Hurley person declined requests to remark astir nan reappraisal and nan donation.

Late Wednesday, Hurley told committee members he was nary longer recommending McCarthy for nan review.

Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie told Global News that Hurley has his “full confidence.”

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“Mayor Hurley projected a definite individual and process and past he listened to others who person power connected nan business and said, connected reflection, there’s a amended measurement to go,” Brodie said.

He added that he was amazed by Global’s reporting connected lavish spending.

A Freedom of Information petition revealed $64,000 of payer dollars were spent connected nutrient and intoxicant astatine a 2023 Federation of Canadian Municipalities convention successful Toronto.

“I’ve been pursuing nan news successful general,” Brodie said.

“Yes, I person recovered myself somewhat amazed by immoderate of nan revelations.”