[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":1111},["ShallowReactive",2],{"news-list":3,"party-langley-strong":23,"parties-all":492,"party-roster-Langley Strong":1033,"platforms-langley-strong":1110},[4],{"path":5,"title":6,"description":7,"date":8,"publishedAt":9,"author":10,"category":11,"tags":12,"image":18,"imageAlt":19,"imageCredit":20,"updated":21,"linkedinPostUrl":21,"pinned":22},"\u002Fnews\u002Flangley-rcmp-halloween-safety-2026-10-31","Langley RCMP warns drivers and parents ahead of Halloween night","Township of Langley residents need a permit to set off fireworks tonight, and police are warning drivers to slow down in residential areas.","2026-10-31","2026-10-31T09:10:00-07:00","voche.me editors","Election news",[13,14,15,16,17],"safety","RCMP","Langley Township","Halloween","fireworks","https:\u002F\u002Flangleyadvancetimes.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002Fsites\u002F10\u002F2026\u002F10\u002FHalloweenLangley2026.jpg?w=1024","Children trick-or-treating on a Langley street on Halloween night","Langley Advance Times",null,false,{"id":24,"aliases":25,"checkedAt":26,"declaredColour":21,"extension":27,"founded":28,"headline":34,"history":35,"leadership":86,"logo":21,"meta":97,"money":98,"name":113,"news":114,"overview":167,"palette":173,"platform":178,"questions":351,"record":384,"registeredName":113,"rosterLabel":113,"slug":401,"sources":402,"stem":488,"summary":489,"website":490,"wordmark":21,"__hash__":491},"parties\u002Felections\u002Fbc-langley-township-2026\u002Fparties\u002Flangley-strong.json",[],"2026-10-30","json",{"year":29,"note":30,"cites":31},2026,"Langley Strong announced on March 8, 2026 that it had registered with Elections BC, by the Langley Advance Times' account. The register gives no date of registration.",[32,33],"lat-2026-03-09","ebc-register","Mayor Jay Lundgren's organization, which won 12 of the 13 seats it ran for in 2026",{"entries":36,"state":76,"indexable":77,"checkedAt":26,"searched":78,"gaps":83},[37,42,48,54,60,69],{"date":38,"title":39,"body":40,"cites":41},"2026-03-08","Registration announced","Langley Strong, headed by Barbara Sharp, announced that it had registered with Elections BC and would run candidates for mayor, Council and school board. Sharp said she would not run herself.",[32],{"date":43,"title":44,"body":45,"cites":46},"2026-05-05","Four councillors and a candidate for mayor","Councillors Margaret Kunst, Barb Martens, Kim Richter and Blair Whitmarsh joined, with Jay Lundgren as the candidate for mayor. Lundgren's statement put the Township's debt per household at an estimated $10,754 in 2025, up from $3,348 in 2022; that is his own figure.",[47],"lat-2026-05-05",{"date":49,"title":50,"body":51,"cites":52},"2026-06-25","Transit shelter posters taken down","The Township had Langley Strong's posters about the debt removed from transit shelters as election signs outside the period the sign bylaw allows. Langley Strong said it was reviewing the order; Woodward called the posters illegal.",[53],"lat-2026-06-27",{"date":55,"title":56,"body":57,"cites":58},"2026-08-06","Complaints to the chief election officer about Progress for Langley ads","Langley Strong filed complaints with the Township's chief election officer over Progress for Langley videos filmed at Township construction sites and signs posted early. Woodward called it a stunt. The complaint was under review as of August 7, 2026.",[59],"lat-2026-08-07",{"date":61,"title":62,"body":63,"cites":64},"2026-09-08","Ten platform pillars, from September 8 to October 10","Langley Strong released its first pillar, Respect for Taxpayers, on September 8, its trustee platform on September 19, the full ten-pillar platform on September 23, and its tenth pillar on October 10.",[65,66,67,68],"ls-news-audit","ls-news-trustees","ls-news-full","ls-platform",{"date":70,"title":71,"body":72,"cites":73},"2026-10-17","2026 election: 12 of 13 candidates elected","The Township's results give Lundgren 18,302 votes for mayor to Woodward's 15,459. Kunst (17,338), Martens (16,641), Whitmarsh (16,501), Richter (16,280), Townsley (15,251) and Chalus (14,650) were elected to Council; Javed (10,186) was ninth. Fox, Dickinson, Turner, Ashdown and Dalziel took all five Township trustee seats.",[74,75],"tol-results","lat-2026-10-17","researched",true,[79,80,81,82],"Elections BC's Register of Elector Organizations by Jurisdiction, dated October 30, 2026","The Township of Langley's results and About the Candidates pages","The Langley Advance Times' reports from March to October 2026","Langley Strong's About, platform and news pages",[84,85],"The register gives no date of registration.","The Advance Times reported in April 2026 that Langley Strong was already registered when Woodward announced his campaign; voche.me found no exact registration date.",[87,92],{"role":88,"name":89,"cites":90},"President, and authorized principal official as registered with Elections BC","Barbara Sharp",[33,32,91],"lat-2026-07-27",{"role":93,"name":94,"cites":95},"Mayoral candidate, 2026, and leader of the team by its own account","Jay Lundgren",[47,96,74],"ls-about",{},{"searchUrl":99,"filings":100,"notes":101,"state":106,"indexable":22,"checkedAt":26,"searched":107,"gaps":111},"https:\u002F\u002Fcontributions.electionsbc.gov.bc.ca\u002Fpcs\u002FLESearch.aspx",[],[102,103,104,105],"Elections BC regulates campaign financing in local elections. Its Register of Elector Organizations by Jurisdiction, dated October 30, 2026, lists Langley Strong for the Township of Langley and the Langley School District.","A search of Elections BC's Financial Reports and Political Contributions System on October 30, 2026, for filers named Langley Strong, returned no reports.","Elections BC says an elector organization must file a financial report within 90 days after general voting day for each election it takes part in, and by March 31 for each calendar year. General voting day was October 17, 2026, so no report on this election is published yet.","Langley Strong's site asks for donations and says the campaign is funded by individual contributions from residents, within the limits set by Elections BC. That is the organization's own account.","none-published",[79,108,109,110],"Elections BC's Financial Reports and Political Contributions System, scanned reports search for \"Langley Strong\"","Elections BC's page on elector organizations","Langley Strong's About and home pages",[112,84],"Elections BC has published no financial report from Langley Strong. The report on the 2026 election is due within 90 days after general voting day.","Langley Strong",{"entries":115,"state":76,"indexable":22,"checkedAt":26,"searched":161,"gaps":164},[116,122,126,132,137,142,147,152,156],{"date":117,"publisher":118,"title":119,"url":120,"summary":121},"2026-10-18","Daily Hive","Mayoral shakeup in Langley Township and City with incumbents overthrown","https:\u002F\u002Fdailyhive.com\u002Fvancouver\u002Flangley-2026-municipal-election-results","Daily Hive reports that Jay Lundgren, running with Langley Strong on three commitments, affordability, stronger neighbourhoods and a government that listens, defeated Mayor Eric Woodward. It gives Lundgren 18,202 votes; the Township's own page gives 18,302.",{"date":70,"publisher":20,"title":123,"url":124,"summary":125},"Langley Strong wins mayor’s seat, 6 of 8 council positions in Township","https:\u002F\u002Flangleyadvancetimes.com\u002F2026\u002F10\u002F17\u002Flangley-strong-wins-mayors-seat-6-of-8-council-positions-in-township\u002F","The election night report gives Lundgren 18,302 votes to Woodward's 15,459, says Langley Strong took six of eight council seats and all five Township trustee seats, and that Shumail Javed was its only candidate not elected. Turnout was 31.55 per cent.",{"date":127,"publisher":128,"title":129,"url":130,"summary":131},"2026-10-09","CTV News","It’s all about the money: The financial focus in Langley’s fight for the mayor’s chair","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ctvnews.ca\u002Fvancouver\u002Farticle\u002Fits-all-about-the-money-the-financial-focus-in-langleys-fight-for-the-mayors-chair\u002F","CTV reports that Lundgren called for a forensic audit and put the debt added in four years at about $600 million, while Woodward put his term's borrowing at more than $400 million and said growth revenue would pay it down. Both named a Willoughby community centre as their top project.",{"date":133,"publisher":20,"title":134,"url":135,"summary":136},"2026-08-07","Langley Strong accuses Progress slate of breaking ad rules","https:\u002F\u002Flangleyadvancetimes.com\u002F2026\u002F08\u002F07\u002Flangley-strong-accuses-progress-slate-of-breaking-ad-rules\u002F","The report says Langley Strong filed complaints with the Township's chief election officer on August 6 over Progress for Langley videos filmed at Township construction sites and signs posted before the sign period. Woodward called the accusations an election stunt. The complaint was under review as of August 7.",{"date":138,"publisher":20,"title":139,"url":140,"summary":141},"2026-07-27","Legal action targets Township mayor, councillors over previous lawsuit","https:\u002F\u002Flangleyadvancetimes.com\u002F2026\u002F07\u002F27\u002Flegal-action-targets-township-mayor-councillors-over-previous-lawsuit\u002F","The report says ten residents petitioned the BC Supreme Court on July 9 to disqualify Woodward and councillors Baillie and Rindt over Township payment of legal bills. Woodward linked the petition to Langley Strong; president Barbara Sharp said the organization did not file, fund or direct it. None of the claims had been tested in court.",{"date":143,"publisher":20,"title":144,"url":145,"summary":146},"2026-06-27","Langley Strong slate says posters were improperly taken down by order of Township","https:\u002F\u002Flangleyadvancetimes.com\u002F2026\u002F06\u002F27\u002Fvideo-langley-strong-slate-says-posters-were-improperly-taken-down-by-order-of-township\u002F","The report says the Township had Langley Strong's transit shelter posters about the debt removed on June 25 as election signs outside the period the sign bylaw allows. Langley Strong called it a misuse of the bylaw; Woodward called the posters illegal signs.",{"date":148,"publisher":20,"title":149,"url":150,"summary":151},"2026-05-15","Langley Strong to run full slate for council, school board","https:\u002F\u002Flangleyadvancetimes.com\u002F2026\u002F05\u002F15\u002Flangley-strong-to-run-full-slate-for-council-school-board\u002F","The report says Lundgren had considered a council run before Langley Strong suggested he run for mayor, and quotes him saying the ballot question would be the debt.",{"date":43,"publisher":20,"title":153,"url":154,"summary":155},"Mayoral, council candidates announced for Langley Strong slate in Township","https:\u002F\u002Flangleyadvancetimes.com\u002F2026\u002F05\u002F05\u002Fmayoral-council-candidates-announced-for-langley-strong-slate-in-township\u002F","The report says all four councillors outside the Progress for Langley majority joined Langley Strong, with Jay Lundgren as its candidate for mayor, and that it was the first contest between two opposing slates in the Township since 1999.",{"date":157,"publisher":20,"title":158,"url":159,"summary":160},"2026-03-09","New slate Langley Strong to contest Township elections","https:\u002F\u002Flangleyadvancetimes.com\u002F2026\u002F03\u002F09\u002Fnew-slate-langley-strong-to-contest-township-elections\u002F","The report says Langley Strong, headed by Barbara Sharp, had registered with Elections BC and announced on March 8 that it would run candidates for mayor, Council and school board, citing openness and the Township's debt.",[81,162,163],"Daily Hive's report of October 18, 2026, CTV News' report of October 9, 2026 and CBC's report of April 23, 2026","Web searches for Langley Strong and its candidates with the 2026 election",[165,166],"voche.me found no report on the outcome of Langley Strong's August 2026 complaints to the chief election officer.","The Aldergrove Star's 2026 reports were not read separately; it shares reports with the Langley Advance Times.",[168,169,170,171,172],"Elections BC's Register of Elector Organizations by Jurisdiction, dated October 30, 2026, lists Langley Strong for the jurisdictions Langley School District and Langley, Township of, with no other name and the ballot name Langley Strong. It names Barbara Sharp as the authorized principal official.","The Township of Langley's results page prints Langley Strong as the organization of 13 candidates: Jay Lundgren for mayor; Lauren Chalus, Shumail Javed, Margaret Kunst, Barb Martens, Kim Richter, Teresa Townsley and Blair Whitmarsh for Council; and Candy Ashdown, Kathie Dalziel, Holly Dickinson, Charlie Fox and Neil Turner for school trustee. Lundgren was elected mayor with 18,302 votes to Eric Woodward's 15,459. Kunst, Martens, Whitmarsh, Richter, Townsley and Chalus took six of the eight council seats; Javed was ninth. All five trustee candidates were elected. The site also lists Tony Ward, a trustee elected by Langley City voters, as part of the team; the City's election is outside this record.","The Langley Advance Times reported on March 9, 2026 that Langley Strong had registered with Elections BC and was headed by Barb Sharp, the longtime head of the Christmas in Williams Park event and a former mayor of the City of North Vancouver, who did not plan to run herself. On May 5, 2026 the Advance Times reported that the four councillors outside Mayor Woodward's Progress for Langley majority, Kunst, Martens, Richter and Whitmarsh, had joined, with businessman Jay Lundgren as the candidate for mayor. The paper said it was the first contest between two opposing slates in the Township since 1999.","The campaign's main subject was the Township's debt. Langley Strong's first platform pillar, released September 8, 2026, said the Township's 2026 capital budget showed $797.6 million in debt in place, in progress, approved or borrowed through its housing society. CBC reported on April 23, 2026 that the Township had authorized $602 million in debt and had the highest debt per person of any major city in BC, and that Mayor Woodward said the borrowing paid for needed facilities. CTV reported on October 9, 2026 that Woodward put the borrowing in his term at more than $400 million and Lundgren at about $600 million.","The ten pillars, released between September 8 and October 10, 2026, cover taxpayers, communities, neighbours, small business, children, seniors, farmers and heritage, safety, the environment, and how the Township treats people. A separate trustee platform, Keep Langley Schools Strong, has five pillars. The site's About page says the campaign is funded by contributions from residents; that is the organization's own account.",{"accent":174,"onAccent":175,"tint":176,"ink":177},"#1D4ED8","#FFFFFF","#E8EEFC","#1F2933",[179,217,268,309],{"issue":180,"headline":181,"summary":182,"paragraphs":183,"proposals":187,"questions":209,"state":76,"indexable":77,"checkedAt":26,"searched":210,"gaps":214},"housing","Homes young families can afford, faster approvals and the housing society's debt moved off the books","Langley Strong's platform promises to champion housing options young families and seniors can afford, to speed up approvals and keep needless costs off new homes, to encourage multi-generational housing where appropriate, and to move the Township's housing society and the $177 million borrowed through it to an established non-profit housing provider once its buildings are full. It promises complete communities with services built alongside homes. It names no number of homes.",[184,185,186],"The platform has no pillar titled housing. Its housing promises sit in the pillars on children, seniors, taxpayers and safety. Pillar 5, Respect for Our Children and Young People, promises to champion housing options young families can afford, measured by whether the children who grew up in Langley can make a life there, to speed up approvals, to keep needless costs off new homebuyers and to encourage multi-generational housing options where appropriate.","Pillar 1, Respect for Taxpayers, promises to move the Township's housing society, and the $177 million of debt behind it, to an established non-profit housing provider once the buildings are finished and full, and to end the exemption that the platform says lets the Township and its society escape the Township's own tenant protection bylaw. Progress for Langley's site said the opposition would end the Langley Housing Trust before it completed a unit; that is Progress for Langley's own account.","Pillar 8, Respect for Our Safety, promises to plan neighbourhoods as complete communities with services built alongside homes, and to require traffic calming and sidewalks with new construction. Pillar 2 promises to plan every neighbourhood with local residents and to publish a price tag and funding plan for every community project. Pillar 6 promises housing options that let seniors stay in their community.",[188,193,197,201,205],{"title":189,"detail":190,"cites":191},"Champion housing young families can afford, with faster approvals","Pillar 5 promises to champion housing options young families can afford, to speed up approvals, to keep needless costs off new homebuyers and to encourage multi-generational housing where appropriate. It names no number of homes and no change to zoning.",[192],"ls-platform-pdf",{"title":194,"detail":195,"cites":196},"Move the housing society and its $177 million of debt to a non-profit provider","Pillar 1 promises to move the Township's housing society, and the $177 million of debt behind it, to an established non-profit housing provider once the buildings are finished and full, taking the debt off the Township's books.",[192,65],{"title":198,"detail":199,"cites":200},"End the tenant protection exemption for the Township's housing","Pillar 1 promises to end the exemption that, by the platform's account, lets the Township and its housing society escape the Township's own tenant protection bylaw.",[192],{"title":202,"detail":203,"cites":204},"Complete communities with services built alongside homes","Pillar 8 promises to plan neighbourhoods as complete communities, with services built alongside homes, and to require traffic calming, sidewalks and, where appropriate, cycling lanes with new construction.",[192],{"title":206,"detail":207,"cites":208},"Housing options that let seniors stay in their community","Pillar 6 promises to champion housing options that let seniors stay in their community. It names no project.",[192],[],[211,212,213],"Langley Strong's full platform PDF, all ten pillars","Langley Strong's platform page and the news releases on pillars 1 and 10 and the full platform","Progress for Langley's What's At Risk page, read from the Internet Archive",[215,216],"The platform names no number of homes, no sites and no change to the zoning bylaw.","The platform's figures on the housing society's debt and its statement about the tenant protection bylaw are the organization's own reading of Township documents.",{"issue":218,"headline":219,"summary":220,"paragraphs":221,"proposals":225,"questions":259,"state":76,"indexable":77,"checkedAt":26,"searched":260,"gaps":265},"taxes-and-budget","A forensic audit in the first 100 days and a public plan to pay down the debt","Langley Strong's first pillar promises a full forensic audit of Township finances in its first 100 days, with the findings published, tax and fee increases held to the lowest level the finances allow, a public timeline to pay down the debt with yearly reports, an end to the Mayor's Contingency Fund, a rule that debt taken on by any body the Township owns counts against its borrowing limit, a Council finance committee, and a long-term financial plan with borrowing limits and reserve targets.",[222,223,224],"Pillar 1, Respect for Taxpayers, released September 8, 2026, promises a full forensic audit of Township finances in the first 100 days, including the $177 million borrowed through the Township's housing society, with the findings published. The audit would be the last thing paid for from the Mayor's Contingency Fund, which the platform promises to abolish. The organization's release cited the Township's 2026 capital budget for its debt figures and the Township's five-year financial plan for a projected 22.8 per cent property tax increase in 2027; those are the organization's readings of Township documents.","The pillar promises to hold tax and fee increases to the lowest level the Township's finances allow, to set a public timeline to pay down the debt and report on it every year, to build only projects with a complete funding plan in place before work begins, to seek partnerships, grants and naming rights, to bring back a long-term financial plan with real borrowing limits and reserve targets, to create a Council finance committee that meets at least quarterly, to restore one bill for municipal and regional services, and to order an independent review of utility and water billing.","The pillar also promises an independent panel on indemnification, the Township paying legal bills for politicians, to propose a bylaw it calls fair and transparent. CTV reported on October 9, 2026 that Lundgren said $79 million had been taken from reserves to hold the 2026 tax increase near four per cent; Woodward said the Township's increases were among the lowest in Metro Vancouver. Each is the candidate's own claim.",[226,231,235,239,243,247,251,255],{"title":227,"detail":228,"cites":229},"A forensic audit of Township finances in the first 100 days","Pillar 1 promises a full forensic audit of Township finances in the first 100 days, including how $177 million was borrowed through a society the Township owns, with the findings published.",[192,65,230],"ctv-2026-10-09",{"title":232,"detail":233,"cites":234},"Hold tax and fee increases to the lowest level the finances allow","Pillar 1 promises to hold tax and fee increases to the lowest level the Township's finances allow, with a multi-year outlook. It names no rate.",[192],{"title":236,"detail":237,"cites":238},"A public timeline to pay down the debt, reported every year","Pillar 1 promises a clear, public timeline to pay down the Township's debt and a report on progress every year.",[192,65],{"title":240,"detail":241,"cites":242},"Abolish the Mayor's Contingency Fund","Pillar 1 promises that the audit will be the last thing funded by the Mayor's Contingency Fund, which would then be abolished.",[192,65],{"title":244,"detail":245,"cites":246},"Count debt of any Township-owned body against the borrowing limit","Pillar 1 promises that debt taken on by any body the Township owns will count against its borrowing limit and need the same approval from residents as other borrowing.",[192,65],{"title":248,"detail":249,"cites":250},"A complete funding plan before any project starts","Pillar 1 promises to build only what the Township can pay for, with a complete, legal funding plan, including any borrowing and the operating cost, on the table before the vote.",[192,65],{"title":252,"detail":253,"cites":254},"A Council finance committee and a long-term financial plan","Pillar 1 promises a Council Finance Committee meeting at least quarterly, a long-term financial plan with borrowing limits and reserve targets, and a budget process done in public.",[192],{"title":256,"detail":257,"cites":258},"An independent review of utility and water billing","Pillar 1 promises an independent review of utility and water billing so bills reflect the cost of service, and the return of one bill for municipal and regional services.",[192],[],[261,262,263,264],"Langley Strong's full platform PDF, pillars 1 and 2","Langley Strong's release of September 8, 2026 on pillar 1","CTV News' report of October 9, 2026 and CBC's report of April 23, 2026","The Langley Advance Times' reports of March 16 and May 5, 2026",[266,267],"The platform names no tax rate and no date by which the debt would be paid down.","The debt and tax figures in the platform are the organization's readings of Township documents. CBC reported the Township's own figure of $602 million in authorized debt in April 2026.",{"issue":269,"headline":270,"summary":271,"paragraphs":272,"proposals":276,"questions":301,"state":76,"indexable":77,"checkedAt":26,"searched":302,"gaps":306},"governance","Consultation before major decisions and a rule against using public money to threaten residents","Langley Strong's tenth pillar, Respect for Each Other, promises public consultation before major decisions, a guaranteed turn for residents who come to speak, a rule that public money is never used to threaten residents or colleagues, every major decision posted with its cost, closed meetings only when the law requires, quarterly totals of legal spending, Council meetings at times working residents can attend, and advisory committees rebuilt around specific tasks. Pillar 3 promises to rebuild relationships with Langley City, First Nations, TransLink and senior governments.",[273,274,275],"Pillar 10, released October 10, 2026, promises to consult the public before major decisions with the feedback visibly reflected at the Council table, to guarantee residents who take time off work to speak get their turn, to set a rule that public money is never used to threaten residents or colleagues, to post every major decision and its cost in plain language, to hold closed meetings only when the law requires and report out when the reason expires, and to publish quarterly totals of legal spending.","The pillar also promises Council meetings at times working residents can attend, advisory committees and task forces rebuilt around specific tasks, and a rebuilt relationship between Council and staff. The organization's rule about public money and threats follows a term in which Mayor Woodward sued, among others, Councillor Kim Richter, now a Langley Strong councillor, for libel; the Advance Times reported that case was unresolved and that Woodward says he repaid the Township for its legal costs.","Pillar 3, Respect for Our Neighbours, promises to rebuild working relationships with the City of Langley and Fraser Health, a regional alliance with neighbouring municipalities to press the Province and TransLink on roads and transit, work with the Kwantlen, Katzie, Semiahmoo and Matsqui First Nations, a yearly meeting with the Langley School Board and a standing working group of three councillors and three trustees.",[277,281,285,289,293,297],{"title":278,"detail":279,"cites":280},"Consult the public before major decisions","Pillar 10 promises consultation before major decisions, with the feedback visibly reflected at the Council table, and a guaranteed turn for residents who come to speak.",[192],{"title":282,"detail":283,"cites":284},"Public money is never used to threaten residents or colleagues","Pillar 10 sets a rule that public money is never used to threaten the residents the Township serves or the colleagues councillors serve with. It names no bylaw.",[192],{"title":286,"detail":287,"cites":288},"Post every major decision with its cost; closed meetings only when the law requires","Pillar 10 promises to post every major decision and its cost in plain language, to hold closed meetings only when the law requires and report out afterwards, and to publish quarterly totals of legal spending.",[192],{"title":290,"detail":291,"cites":292},"Council meetings at times working residents can attend","Pillar 10 promises to schedule Council meetings at times working residents can attend and to keep Council open to feedback between meetings.",[192],{"title":294,"detail":295,"cites":296},"Rebuild advisory committees around specific tasks","Pillar 10 promises to re-empower and restructure the Township's advisory committees and task forces around specific tasks, projects and questions. Pillar 8 adds a public safety committee meeting quarterly.",[192],{"title":298,"detail":299,"cites":300},"Rebuild relationships with Langley City, First Nations and senior governments","Pillar 3 promises to rebuild working relationships with the City of Langley and Fraser Health, a regional alliance to press the Province and TransLink, work with four First Nations, and a yearly meeting plus a working group with the Langley School Board.",[192],[],[303,304,305],"Langley Strong's full platform PDF, pillars 3, 8 and 10","Langley Strong's About page and the release of September 23, 2026 on the full platform","The Langley Advance Times' reports of May 27, July 27 and August 21, 2026 on the lawsuits",[307,308],"The platform names no bylaw or procedure change for most of these promises.","The platform's statements about how the previous Council made decisions are the organization's own view.",{"issue":310,"headline":311,"summary":312,"paragraphs":313,"proposals":317,"questions":343,"state":76,"indexable":77,"checkedAt":26,"searched":344,"gaps":348},"schools","Keep Langley Schools Strong: five pillars for students, staff, spaces, community and funding","Langley Strong's trustee platform, Keep Langley Schools Strong, has five pillars: strong students, strong staff, strong schools and spaces, strong community, and strong and sustainable funding. It promises to build on the district's graduation rate, earlier mental health help, more training spaces for teachers and support staff, action on workplace violence, new schools and land secured early, provincial funding for portables, schools planned as neighbourhood hubs, and public reporting on results. All five of its Township trustee candidates were elected.",[314,315,316],"The trustee platform, released September 19, 2026, says the district's six-year graduation rate rose from 93 to 97 per cent while the current Board was in office, and that 5,030 new student spaces were opened or approved since September 2024, about $515.5 million in provincial investment. Those figures are the organization's own account of district and provincial records. Board chair Candy Ashdown, trustees Holly Dickinson and Charlie Fox, and new candidates Kathie Dalziel and Neil Turner ran for the five Township seats.","Pillar 1 promises to use district and provincial information to find students who need extra help, to strengthen literacy, numeracy and social-emotional skills, to help students earlier with mental health, to keep supporting the Aboriginal Enhancement Agreement, to protect choice programs and trades pathways, and to report publicly on what is working. Pillar 2 promises more training spaces for teachers, education assistants and specialists, action on workplace violence, and staff voices in Board decisions.","Pillar 3 promises to move school projects forward in Willoughby, Brookswood-Fernridge, Aldergrove and Langley City, to secure land for schools earlier, to push the Province to pay for portables so classroom money stays in classrooms, and to care for existing schools, including earthquake safety. Pillar 4 promises schools planned as neighbourhood hubs with child care, parks and sidewalks, and a Board that meets both councils three times a year. 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The slate then held five of nine seats: Woodward, Baillie, Ferguson, Rindt and Michael Pratt, who had been elected as an independent and joined in 2025.",[465,32],{"date":468,"title":709,"body":710,"cites":711},"Woodward runs again under the new name","Woodward announced a second run for mayor with the slate, by then renamed Progress for Langley. The register records the old name as the Contract With Langley Association.",[465,33],{"date":70,"title":713,"body":714,"cites":715},"2026 election: two of 14 candidates elected","The Township's results give Woodward 15,459 votes for mayor to Lundgren's 18,302. Michael V. Pratt (12,872) and Steve Ferguson (12,044) were elected to Council; June Park, Michele St. Germain, Tim Baillie, Rob Rindt, Tess Rouse and Sarb Rai were not. None of its five trustee candidates was elected.",[74,75],[717,718,719,720,721],"Elections BC's Register of Elector Organizations by Jurisdiction, dated October 30, 2026, and its filings search","The Township of Langley's results and 2025 by-election pages","The Aldergrove Star's reports from 2022 and 2023 and the Langley Advance Times' reports from 2026","CBC's reports of September 11, 2025 and April 23, 2026","Progress for Langley's home and accomplishments pages, read from the Internet Archive",[723,724],"The register does not say when the name changed from Contract With Langley to Progress for Langley. The 2025 annual report, filed March 23, 2026, carries the new name.","The 2022 vote counts were not read for this record; the Township's 2022 results page has moved.",[726],{"role":727,"name":728,"cites":729},"Founder, candidate for mayor in 2022 and 2026, and authorized principal official as registered with Elections BC","Eric Woodward",[33,675,465],{},{"searchUrl":99,"filings":732,"notes":753,"state":76,"indexable":77,"checkedAt":26,"searched":757,"gaps":760},[733,739,746],{"period":734,"kind":735,"url":736,"note":737,"cites":738},"2022 general local election, Township of Langley","Disclosure statement, third amended version filed August 21, 2025","https:\u002F\u002Fcontributions.electionsbc.gov.bc.ca\u002Fpcs\u002Flepublished\u002F100150005.pdf","Filed as the Contract With Langley Association. The summary page gives campaign contributions of $207,012.21, other income and transfers of $113,569.42, total income of $320,581.63 and total expenses of $343,308.76. The expenses include $70,917.44 for the election period and $269,874.53 for the campaign period. Elections BC lists the original statement, filed January 12, 2023, and amendments filed June 8 and December 7, 2023 and August 21, 2025.",[676,382],{"period":740,"kind":741,"url":742,"note":743,"cites":744},"2022 general local election, Langley School District","Disclosure statement, third amended version filed April 22, 2025","https:\u002F\u002Fcontributions.electionsbc.gov.bc.ca\u002Fpcs\u002Flepublished\u002F100149472.pdf","Filed as the Contract With Langley Association. The summary page gives campaign contributions of $103,105.47, other income of $5,871.53, total income of $108,977.00 and total expenses of $110,296.37. The expenses include $12,715.30 for the election period and $96,790.07 for the campaign period.",[745,382],"ebc-ds-2022-sd35",{"period":747,"kind":748,"url":749,"note":750,"cites":751},"2025","Annual financial report, filed March 23, 2026","https:\u002F\u002Fcontributions.electionsbc.gov.bc.ca\u002Fpcs\u002Flepublished\u002F100150342.pdf","Filed as the Progress for Langley Association for the Township of Langley and School District 35. Campaign contributions of $158,762.56 and total income of $158,762.56. Total expenses of $1,504.10, all bank charges. A surplus of $157,258.46 for the year, and a balance of $496,063.39 in campaign accounts at the end of 2025.",[752,382],"ebc-afr-2025",[754,755,756],"Elections BC regulates campaign financing in local elections. Its Register of Elector Organizations by Jurisdiction, dated October 30, 2026, lists the Progress for Langley Association for the Township of Langley, the City of Langley and the Langley School District.","Elections BC's search lists the organization's filings under its current name, including annual financial reports for 2022, 2023 and 2024 in each jurisdiction. A search for the old name, Contract, returned nothing.","No report on the 2026 election is published yet. Elections BC says an elector organization must file a financial report within 90 days after general voting day for each election it takes part in, and by March 31 for each calendar year.",[79,758,759,109],"Elections BC's Financial Reports and Political Contributions System, scanned reports search for \"Progress for Langley\" and \"Contract\"","The organization's 2022 disclosure statements for the Township and the school district, and its 2025 annual financial report",[761,762],"The disclosure statements are scanned forms. voche.me read the cover, endorsement and summary pages and did not read every page of contributions.","The 2026 election report is due within 90 days after general voting day and is not published yet.","Progress for Langley",{"entries":765,"state":76,"indexable":22,"checkedAt":26,"searched":799,"gaps":803},[766,771,773,775,777,779,781,786,791,793,795],{"date":767,"publisher":20,"title":768,"url":769,"summary":770},"2026-10-23","Woodward responds to defamation lawsuit","https:\u002F\u002Flangleyadvancetimes.com\u002F2026\u002F10\u002F23\u002Fwoodward-responds-to-defamation-lawsuit\u002F","The report says the Martini family sued Woodward for defamation on August 20, 2026 over a July radio interview, and that his response, filed in September, denies defamation and calls the suit an attempt to suppress debate on a matter of public interest. None of the allegations had been tested in court.",{"date":70,"publisher":20,"title":123,"url":124,"summary":772},"The election night report says only two of the four Progress for Langley incumbents, Steve Ferguson and Michael Pratt, kept their seats, that Tim Baillie and Rob Rindt were defeated, and that Woodward congratulated Lundgren and named the Brookswood fire hall and 208 Street among his council's achievements.",{"date":127,"publisher":128,"title":129,"url":130,"summary":774},"CTV reports that Woodward defended borrowing more than $400 million in his term for the arena expansion, the Brookswood fire hall and roads, saying growth revenues would pay it down, and that Langley's tax increases were in the bottom four in Metro Vancouver.",{"date":478,"publisher":20,"title":476,"url":477,"summary":776},"The report says Woodward, Baillie and Rindt argued that the petition to disqualify them was out of time and that no rules were broken, and that Woodward had repaid the Township for the costs of his defamation suit with interest. None of the claims had been tested in court.",{"date":133,"publisher":20,"title":134,"url":135,"summary":778},"The report says Langley Strong complained to the chief election officer about Progress for Langley videos filmed at Township construction sites and early signs. Woodward called the accusations an election stunt. The complaint was under review.",{"date":138,"publisher":20,"title":139,"url":140,"summary":780},"The report says ten residents petitioned the BC Supreme Court on July 9 to disqualify Woodward, Baillie and Rindt for four years, alleging the Township paid their personal legal bills. Woodward said he had paid all the expenses himself and called the petition an election stunt. None of the allegations had been tested in court.",{"date":782,"publisher":20,"title":783,"url":784,"summary":785},"2026-06-03","New candidate Park joins Progress For Langley slate","https:\u002F\u002Flangleyadvancetimes.com\u002F2026\u002F06\u002F03\u002Fnew-candidate-park-joins-progress-for-langley-slate\u002F","The report introduces June Park, executive director of the Burnaby North Road Business Improvement Association, as a Progress for Langley council candidate who said he agreed with the slate's vision on a large scale.",{"date":787,"publisher":20,"title":788,"url":789,"summary":790},"2026-05-27","Two Langley councillors drop libel lawsuit against fellow politicians, others","https:\u002F\u002Flangleyadvancetimes.com\u002F2026\u002F05\u002F27\u002Ftwo-langley-councillors-drop-libel-lawsuit-against-fellow-politicians-others\u002F","The report says Baillie and Rindt discontinued their part of a libel suit filed on May 1, 2025 over anonymous videos about fire truck purchases, while Woodward continued to sue Councillor Kim Richter, Rich Coleman, Thomas Martini and others. The defendants denied wrongdoing and none of the claims had been tested in court.",{"date":487,"publisher":486,"title":484,"url":485,"summary":792},"CBC reports that the Township had authorized $602 million in debt and had the highest per-person debt of any major BC city. Woodward said the borrowing paid for a catch-up in infrastructure and that development revenue would service it; a public policy professor said debt financing carries risk if revenues fall.",{"date":468,"publisher":20,"title":466,"url":467,"summary":794},"The report says Woodward announced a second run with his slate, formerly Contract With Langley and now Progress for Langley, lists the major projects approved in the term, and says the slate held a five-to-four majority after losing Misty Van Popta to the legislature, gaining Michael Pratt and seeing Barb Martens become a critic.",{"date":699,"publisher":486,"title":796,"url":797,"summary":798},"Township Mayor Eric Woodward could run candidates in adjacent City of Langley next election","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.cbc.ca\u002Flite\u002Fstory\u002F1.7630843","CBC reports that Progress for Langley had registered with Elections BC in the City of Langley, that Woodward argued the City was poorly governed and wanted a conversation on whether two municipalities serve the area, and that City Mayor Nathan Pachal saw the move as a step toward a takeover.",[81,800,801,802],"CBC's reports of September 11, 2025 and April 23, 2026, and CTV News' report of October 9, 2026","The Aldergrove Star's reports from 2022 and 2023","Web searches for Progress for Langley, Contract With Langley and Eric Woodward with the 2026 election",[804,805],"The lawsuits reported here were unresolved when the Advance Times reported on them. voche.me found no later report of a judgment.","voche.me found no report on the outcome of the August 2026 complaint to the chief election officer.",[807,808,809,810,811],"Elections BC's Register of Elector Organizations by Jurisdiction, dated October 30, 2026, lists the Progress for Langley Association, formerly known as the Contract With Langley Association, with the ballot name Progress for Langley, for the jurisdictions Langley School District, Langley, City of, and Langley, Township of. It names Eric Woodward as the authorized principal official.","The Township of Langley's results page prints Progress for Langley as the organization of 14 candidates: Eric Woodward for mayor; Tim Baillie, Steve Ferguson, June Park, Michael V. Pratt, Sarb Rai, Rob Rindt, Tess Rouse and Michele St. Germain for Council; and Matt Burck, Olivia Lake de Meza, Norma Jean Maxwell, Betty Siegel and Sean Stevenson for school trustee. Woodward had 15,459 votes to Jay Lundgren's 18,302. Pratt (12,872) and Ferguson (12,044) took the seventh and eighth council seats. Councillors Baillie and Rindt and all five trustee candidates were not elected.","The Aldergrove Star reported in August 2022 that Contract With Langley was a new party founded by Woodward, then a councillor, registered with Elections BC for the October 15, 2022 election. The Langley Advance Times reported in March 2026 that the group won six of the nine seats on Council in 2022, including the mayor's chair, and that three of its candidates were elected to the school board. Its 2022 disclosure statement endorses Woodward and six council candidates. By April 2026 the Advance Times described the organization as renamed Progress for Langley; the register does not say when.","CBC reported in September 2025 that Progress for Langley had registered in the City of Langley for the 2026 election, and that Woodward wanted a conversation on whether the two Langleys should be one municipality. The Township's results page prints no Progress for Langley candidate in Langley City, whose election is outside this record. CBC reported in April 2026 that the Township had authorized $602 million in debt during Woodward's term, the highest per person of any major BC city, and that Woodward said the borrowing paid for a catch-up in facilities and roads.","The organization's site, progressforlangley.org, did not answer on October 30, 2026; its pages were read from Internet Archive copies made on October 5 to 14, 2026. The plan page has nine headings: affordability, a common sense financial plan, roads and sidewalks, parks, facilities and youth sports, schools, the fire service, policing, and rural character. A What's At Risk page says the opposition would give up $200 million in community amenity contributions, end the Langley Housing Trust and undo the Township RCMP detachment. Those are the organization's own claims about its opponents.",{"accent":813,"onAccent":175,"tint":814,"ink":177},"#B45309","#FBEEDC",[816,847,875,885],{"issue":180,"headline":817,"summary":818,"paragraphs":819,"proposals":823,"questions":839,"state":76,"indexable":77,"checkedAt":26,"searched":840,"gaps":844},"Slower growth, growth paying for growth, and a Township housing trust","Progress for Langley's plan promised to slow the Township's growth rate, to catch up on infrastructure, and to make growth pay for growth through developer contributions. Its site says the Township Housing Trust it set up aims for 10 per cent of new housing to be rental or below market, with 330 units under construction with the Province. It promised to protect farmland with the same rules for everyone and to update the Rural Community Plan. It names no number of homes beyond the trust.",[820,821,822],"The plan's opening line promises to slow Langley's growth rate, to catch up on the infrastructure it needs, and to pay for the infrastructure that growth needs through contributions from development, which the organization calls growth paying for growth. The What's At Risk page says the Township had record development revenues of up to $100 million a year while it slowed growth and removed 500 acres of land from development, and that the opposition would give up $200 million in community amenity contributions. Those figures and claims are the organization's own.","The site says the organization established a Township Housing Trust, starting with the Province's BC Builds program, so that 10 per cent of all new housing in Langley can be rental or below market, for teachers, nurses, seniors, young people and workers, with 330 units under construction. It says its critics would end the trust and sell it. Langley Strong's platform promises to move the housing society and its $177 million of debt to a non-profit housing provider once the buildings are full.","Under Preserving Our Rural Character, the plan promises to protect farmland with the same rules for everyone, to support farmers and to update the Rural Community Plan. The accomplishments page lists phased development in Willoughby and Brookswood-Fernridge, new community and neighbourhood plans for Willoughby, and the housing trust, by the organization's own account.",[824,830,835],{"title":825,"detail":826,"cites":827},"Slow the growth rate and make growth pay for growth","The plan promises to slow Langley's growth rate, to catch up on infrastructure, and to pay for the infrastructure that growth needs through contributions from development. It names no target rate.",[828,829],"pfl-plan","pfl-risk",{"title":831,"detail":832,"cites":833},"Keep and grow the Langley Housing Trust","The site says the Township Housing Trust aims for 10 per cent of all new housing to be rental or below market, with 330 units under construction in partnership with the Province, and promises to continue and expand it.",[829,834],"pfl-accomplishments",{"title":836,"detail":837,"cites":838},"Protect farmland with the same rules for everyone","The plan promises to protect farmland with the same rules for everyone, to support farmers and to update the Rural Community Plan.",[828],[],[841,842,843],"Progress for Langley's plan, What's At Risk, accomplishments and home pages, read from the Internet Archive","VoteMate's page for the organization","CBC's report of April 23, 2026",[845,846],"The plan is a page of headings with one sentence each. voche.me found no longer platform document.","The figures on development revenue, amenity contributions and the housing trust are the organization's own claims.",{"issue":218,"headline":848,"summary":849,"paragraphs":850,"proposals":854,"questions":867,"state":76,"indexable":77,"checkedAt":26,"searched":868,"gaps":872},"The lowest property taxes in the region and a debt reduction path paid by growth","Progress for Langley's plan promised more cost savings in administration and maintenance, lower utility costs, the lowest property taxes in the region, and a common sense financial plan with a path to reduce debt while growth pays for growth. Its accomplishments page claims $13 million in operating savings and paying off capital debt funded by property taxes. CBC reported the Township had authorized $602 million in debt; Woodward said growth revenues would pay it down.",[851,852,853],"The plan page promises a plan for affordability with more cost savings in administration and maintenance, lower utility costs and the lowest property taxes in the region, and a common sense financial plan with a clear path for debt reduction and improved services, with growth paying for growth. The accomplishments page claims the organization paid off long-standing capital debt funded by property taxes and found $13 million in operating efficiencies and savings. Those are the organization's own claims.","CBC reported on April 23, 2026 that the Township had authorized $602 million in debt for fire halls, soccer fields, playgrounds and City-managed housing, that it had the highest debt per person of any major BC city, and that the Township said it could borrow another $350 million before reaching a projected limit of $950 million. Woodward said borrowing locked in construction costs and that development revenues of $95 million in 2024 and $101 million in 2025 would service the debt. CTV reported on October 9, 2026 that Woodward put his term's borrowing at more than $400 million.","The Langley Advance Times reported that Council passed the 2026 budget, with a 3.97 per cent property tax increase, by five votes to four on March 9, 2026, with the five Progress for Langley members in favour. Councillor Whitmarsh said debt servicing had reached $53 million a year and was projected to reach $74 million by 2030; Woodward said it would not reach that level.",[855,859,863],{"title":856,"detail":857,"cites":858},"The lowest property taxes in the region","The plan promises the lowest property taxes in the region, with more cost savings in administration and maintenance and lower utility costs. It names no rate.",[828],{"title":860,"detail":861,"cites":862},"A common sense financial plan with a debt reduction path","The plan promises a clear path for debt reduction and improved services, with growth paying for growth. Woodward told CTV that growth revenues would pay the debt down.",[828,230],{"title":864,"detail":865,"cites":866},"More finished roads, parks and facilities","The plan promises to finish roads such as 202 Street and Fraser Highway, close gaps in sidewalks and trails, a new Central Park, a Willoughby Community Centre, a new fire hall for Willoughby and Walnut Grove, and more for Aldergrove, Brookswood and Walnut Grove. It names no costs.",[828],[],[869,870,871],"Progress for Langley's plan and accomplishments pages, read from the Internet Archive","CBC's report of April 23, 2026 and CTV News' report of October 9, 2026","The Langley Advance Times' reports of March 16 and April 11, 2026",[873,874],"The plan names no tax rate, no debt target and no costs for the projects it lists.","The savings and debt claims on the accomplishments page are the organization's own account.",{"issue":269,"paragraphs":876,"proposals":877,"questions":878,"state":106,"indexable":22,"checkedAt":26,"searched":879,"gaps":882},[],[],[],[880,881,842],"Progress for Langley's plan page, all nine headings, read from the Internet Archive","Progress for Langley's What's At Risk, accomplishments and home pages, read from the Internet Archive",[883,884],"The plan page holds no commitment on how Council makes decisions, consults residents or reports to them. Its headings cover money, roads, parks, facilities, schools, fire, policing and rural character.","The site's statements about Langley City's government and about a Township RCMP detachment are about services and other governments, and are the organization's own view.",{"issue":310,"headline":886,"paragraphs":887,"proposals":890,"questions":891,"state":76,"indexable":22,"checkedAt":26,"searched":892,"gaps":895},"One line on schools: classrooms, playgrounds and support for students",[888,889],"The plan page's A Plan for Schools heading carries one sentence: classrooms, playgrounds and support for students, with trustees who will listen, care and deliver. The home page repeats it. voche.me found no longer trustee platform on the archived site. Five trustee candidates ran with the organization, Matt Burck, Olivia Lake de Meza, Norma Jean Maxwell, Betty Siegel and Sean Stevenson, and none was elected.","In 2022 the organization, then Contract With Langley, had promises on schools that the Aldergrove Star reported included relocating Willoughby Elementary and expanding Active Beyond the Bell programming, and three of its candidates were elected trustees. Holly Dickinson left the slate in December 2023, citing differences in vision and values, by the Advance Times' account.",[],[],[893,842,894],"Progress for Langley's plan and home pages, read from the Internet Archive","The Aldergrove Star's reports of October 16, 2022 and December 29, 2023",[896,897],"The 2026 plan gives no specific school promise beyond its one sentence, so this section is kept out of search.","The organization's 2022 school promises were read only through the Aldergrove Star's report.",[899,903,907,911,915,919,925],{"question":900,"answer":901,"cites":902},"How many seats did Progress for Langley win in 2026?","Two of the 14 it ran for in the Township: councillors Michael V. Pratt and Steve Ferguson. Eric Woodward lost the mayor's race to Jay Lundgren, and none of its five trustee candidates was elected.",[74,75],{"question":904,"answer":905,"cites":906},"Is Progress for Langley the same organization as Contract With Langley?","Yes. Elections BC's register lists the Progress for Langley Association as formerly known as the Contract With Langley Association, and its 2022 disclosure statements were filed under the old name.",[33,676],{"question":908,"answer":909,"cites":910},"Who leads Progress for Langley?","Eric Woodward founded it, was its candidate for mayor in 2022 and 2026, and is the authorized principal official in Elections BC's register.",[33,675],{"question":912,"answer":913,"cites":914},"What did Progress for Langley promise on taxes and debt?","The lowest property taxes in the region, more savings in administration and maintenance, and a financial plan with a path to reduce debt while growth pays for growth. It named no rate or target.",[828],{"question":916,"answer":917,"cites":918},"How much money did the organization have at the end of 2025?","Its 2025 annual financial report gives contributions of $158,762.56 for the year, expenses of $1,504.10 and a balance of $496,063.39 in its campaign accounts.",[752],{"question":920,"answer":921,"cites":922},"What court cases involve the organization's leaders?","Three were reported by the Langley Advance Times in 2026: Woodward's libel suit over anonymous videos, filed in May 2025 and continuing after Baillie and Rindt withdrew; a July 2026 petition by ten residents seeking to disqualify Woodward, Baillie and Rindt; and an August 2026 defamation suit by the Martini family against Woodward. None of the claims in any of them had been tested in court.",[923,91,924],"lat-2026-05-27","lat-2026-10-23",{"question":926,"answer":927,"cites":928},"Can Progress for Langley's website be read?","On October 30, 2026 the domain progressforlangley.org did not answer. voche.me read its pages from Internet Archive copies made between October 5 and 14, 2026.",[929,828],"pfl-home",{"entries":931,"state":76,"indexable":77,"checkedAt":26,"searched":957,"gaps":961},[932,936,940,944,949,953],{"date":686,"title":933,"body":934,"cites":935},"2022 election: the mayor's chair, a council majority and three trustees","Eric Woodward was elected mayor of the Township, and the group won six of the nine seats on Council, by the Langley Advance Times' account. Its 2022 disclosure statement endorses Woodward and six council candidates: Tim Baillie, AJ Cheema, Steve Ferguson, Barb Martens, Rob Rindt and Misty Van Popta; Cheema was not elected. Three of its school trustee candidates, Holly Dickinson, Joel Neufeld and Sarb Rai, were elected.",[32,676,690,691],{"date":693,"title":937,"body":938,"cites":939},"Trustee Holly Dickinson leaves the slate","Holly Dickinson announced she was leaving Contract With Langley, citing differences in vision and values with Woodward on governance. Woodward said she had refused to rotate the vice-chair position as agreed. Each account is the person's own.",[697],{"title":941,"body":942,"cites":943},"2022 to 2026: the term's projects and debt","The organization's accomplishments page lists the widening of 208 Street, a new fire hall for Brookswood-Fernridge, the arenas at the Langley Events Centre, Smith Athletic Park, 39 new firefighters, 11 new RCMP officers, the Township housing trust and the de-integration of the RCMP detachment, by its own account. The Langley Advance Times named the 208 Street widening, the Brookswood fire hall, a five-rink complex and the Smith Athletic Park soccer complex among the projects approved. CBC reported the Township had authorized $602 million in debt during the term.",[834,465,368],{"date":945,"title":946,"body":947,"cites":948},"2025-09-23","Council votes to consider legal action over anonymous videos","The legal response filed by Woodward and councillors Baillie and Rindt, as reported by the Langley Advance Times, says Council voted six to three in a closed meeting on September 23, 2025 to consider legal action and find out who was behind anonymous videos alleging corruption in the purchase of fire trucks. Woodward, Baillie and Rindt filed a libel suit; Baillie and Rindt later withdrew and Woodward's case continued. Woodward says he repaid the Township's legal costs with interest. None of the claims had been tested in court.",[373,923],{"date":157,"title":950,"body":951,"cites":952},"The 2026 budget passes five to four","Council passed the 2026 budget, with a 3.97 per cent property tax increase, 17 more firefighting positions, two RCMP officers and two bylaw officers, by five votes to four. All five Progress for Langley members voted in favour and the four other councillors against.",[390],{"title":954,"body":955,"cites":956},"July 2026: up to $500,000 authorized for legal costs in the disqualification petition","A record released from a closed meeting showed Council had voted to authorize up to $500,000 for the legal costs of Woodward, Baillie and Rindt in the petition seeking their disqualification, with the five Progress for Langley councillors in favour and three Langley Strong councillors opposed, by the Advance Times' account. The exact day of the vote is not in the report.",[91],[958,959,960,894,720],"Progress for Langley's accomplishments page, read from the Internet Archive","The organization's 2022 disclosure statements","The Langley Advance Times' reports of March 9, March 16, April 11, May 27, July 27 and August 21, 2026",[962,963],"The votes of each councillor in the 2022 to 2026 term are on their own pages; the Township's minutes were not read for this record.","The accomplishments page is the organization's own account and was not checked project by project.","Progress for Langley 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for Langley, registered as the Progress for Langley Association and formerly the Contract With Langley Association, is an elector organization registered with Elections BC for the Township of Langley, the City of Langley and the Langley School District. Eric Woodward founded it for the 2022 election, won the mayor's chair, and its candidates held a majority of Council through the term. In 2026 it ran 14 candidates in the Township and two were elected: councillors Michael V. Pratt and Steve Ferguson. Woodward lost the mayor's race. Its plan promised growth paying for growth, the lowest property taxes in the region and a Township RCMP detachment.","yWjpIyy7W9u70nFyhTkY-zE112ElXqK97xT6tGPtJKw",[1034,1041,1046,1053,1059,1064,1069,1075,1080,1085,1090,1095,1100,1105],{"slug":1035,"name":1036,"office":1037,"ballotNumber":21,"currentRole":1038,"headline":1039,"sample":22,"party":1040,"withdrawal":21},"barb-martens","Barb Martens","Councillor","Councillor, Township of Langley","Re-elected to Langley Township Council on October 17, 2026, with 16,641 votes, second of the 20 council candidates. A retired Vancouver police officer first elected in 2022 at the top of the council poll, she joined Langley Strong in May 2026 and wrote its two promises for the mental health of first responders: a peer support unit and a trauma dog for the Langley RCMP and the fire department. She also promised a written rule that taxpayers get a say on every borrowing, police and fire staffing that keeps pace with growth, and free recreation for children under 12.",{"name":113},{"slug":1042,"name":1043,"office":1037,"ballotNumber":21,"currentRole":1038,"headline":1044,"sample":22,"party":1045,"withdrawal":21},"blair-whitmarsh","Blair Whitmarsh","Re-elected to Langley Township Council on October 17, 2026, with 16,501 votes, third of the 20 council candidates. A councillor from 2014 to 2022, second for mayor in 2022 and returned in the October 2025 by-election, he joined Langley Strong in May 2026. His March 2026 motion for a long-term fiscal plan with debt reduction targets was changed by the majority into a staff report. He promised to carry that plan through, to press the Province to restore fair property tax deferral for seniors, and to build a regional alliance for roads and transit.",{"name":113},{"slug":1047,"name":1048,"office":1049,"ballotNumber":21,"currentRole":1050,"headline":1051,"sample":22,"party":1052,"withdrawal":21},"candy-ashdown","Candy Ashdown","School Trustee","Chair, Langley Board of Education","Elected school trustee of Langley Township on October 17, 2026, with 13,680 votes, fourth of the 15 trustee candidates. Chair of the Langley Board of Education since November 2022, elected by acclamation in Langley City that year and a trustee before that from 2011 to 2014, she moved to the Township ballot with Langley Strong and ran on restoring the joint land program for schools and parks, and on a Board and Council that plan together.",{"name":113},{"slug":1054,"name":1055,"office":1049,"ballotNumber":21,"currentRole":1056,"headline":1057,"sample":22,"party":1058,"withdrawal":21},"charlie-fox","Charlie Fox","Trustee, Langley Board of Education","Re-elected school trustee of Langley Township on October 17, 2026, with 16,528 votes, the most of the 15 trustee candidates. A Langley teacher and principal from 1973 to 2007, a Township councillor from 2005 to 2018 and a trustee since a 2021 byelection, he ran with Langley Strong on school sites secured before neighbourhoods fill up, staff recruitment and budget reports released before the vote.",{"name":113},{"slug":1060,"name":1061,"office":1049,"ballotNumber":21,"currentRole":1056,"headline":1062,"sample":22,"party":1063,"withdrawal":21},"holly-dickinson","Holly Dickinson","Re-elected school trustee of Langley Township on October 17, 2026, with 15,287 votes, second of the 15 trustee candidates. Elected in 2022 with Eric Woodward's Contract With Langley, she left that slate in December 2023 and ran with Langley Strong, the only member of the Board teaching full time. She ran on new schools funded ahead of growth, completion rates for Indigenous students and students with diverse abilities, and mental health support students can reach.",{"name":113},{"slug":1065,"name":94,"office":1066,"ballotNumber":21,"currentRole":21,"headline":1067,"sample":22,"party":1068,"withdrawal":21},"jay-lundgren","Mayor","Elected mayor of Langley Township on October 17, 2026, with 18,302 votes to Mayor Eric Woodward's 15,459, at the head of the Langley Strong team, which also won six of the eight council seats and all five Township school trustee seats. CTV News called him a political newcomer. He promised a forensic audit of Township finances in his first 100 days, a public plan to pay down the debt, a funding plan before any project is approved, more police before SkyTrain arrives, and a Willoughby community centre.",{"name":113},{"slug":1070,"name":1071,"office":1049,"ballotNumber":21,"currentRole":1072,"headline":1073,"sample":22,"party":1074,"withdrawal":21},"kathie-dalziel","Kathie Dalziel","Trustee-elect, Langley Board of Education","Elected school trustee of Langley Township on October 17, 2026, with 13,501 votes, fifth of the 15 trustee candidates and the last seat, in her first run for office. A Walnut Grove parent volunteer who has worked in finance and now at BC Cancer, she ran with Langley Strong on a clear line from every family to the Board and a budget explained in plain language before decisions are made.",{"name":113},{"slug":1076,"name":1077,"office":1037,"ballotNumber":21,"currentRole":1038,"headline":1078,"sample":22,"party":1079,"withdrawal":21},"kim-richter","Kim Richter","Re-elected to Langley Township Council on October 17, 2026, with 16,280 votes, fourth of the 20 council candidates. By her own account a councillor since 1999, elected eight times, longer than anyone in the Township's history; the Township's page lists her seventh term from 2018. She joined Langley Strong in May 2026, voted against the 2026 budget, and ran on a performing arts centre, rural roads and lighting with a renewed Rural Plan, farmland kept in the Agricultural Land Reserve, and a wider business tax base in place of higher rates.",{"name":113},{"slug":1081,"name":1082,"office":1037,"ballotNumber":21,"currentRole":21,"headline":1083,"sample":22,"party":1084,"withdrawal":21},"lauren-chalus","Lauren Chalus","Elected to Langley Township Council on October 17, 2026, with 14,650 votes, sixth of the 20 council candidates, in what her own page calls her first run for office. A member of the Township's Heritage Advisory Committee and, by her own account, a stakeholder engagement advisor at BC Hydro, she ran with Langley Strong on consultation before decisions, with meetings when working people can attend, an updated Fort Langley community plan with clear height and design standards, bus and parking plans ready for SkyTrain, and seniors' groups and a shuttle pilot in every neighbourhood.",{"name":113},{"slug":1086,"name":1087,"office":1037,"ballotNumber":21,"currentRole":1038,"headline":1088,"sample":22,"party":1089,"withdrawal":21},"margaret-kunst","Margaret Kunst","Re-elected to Langley Township Council on October 17, 2026, with 17,338 votes, the most of the 20 council candidates, for a third term. A councillor since 2018, elected twice without a slate, she joined Langley Strong in May 2026. She voted against the 2026 budget and against the June 2026 change that made it easier to censure a councillor, and ran on infrastructure that keeps pace with growth, the full cost of a project before the vote, and moving heavy trucks out of Fort Langley.",{"name":113},{"slug":1091,"name":1092,"office":1037,"ballotNumber":21,"currentRole":1038,"headline":1093,"sample":22,"party":1094,"withdrawal":21},"michael-v-pratt","Michael V. Pratt","Re-elected to Langley Township Council on October 17, 2026, with 12,872 votes, seventh of the 20 council candidates, for a second term. Elected as an independent in 2022, he joined Mayor Eric Woodward's Progress for Langley in 2025 and voted with its majority for the 2026 budget. He ran on infrastructure and amenities that keep pace with growth, a new Willoughby Community Centre first among new recreation facilities, and funding the route that takes trucks out of Fort Langley.",{"name":763},{"slug":1096,"name":1097,"office":1049,"ballotNumber":21,"currentRole":1072,"headline":1098,"sample":22,"party":1099,"withdrawal":21},"neil-turner","Neil Turner","Elected school trustee of Langley Township on October 17, 2026, with 14,945 votes, third of the 15 trustee candidates, in his second try after placing ninth as an independent in 2022. A human kinetics instructor at Trinity Western University and a soccer coach, he ran with Langley Strong on schools planned before neighbourhoods arrive, budgets that hold up over the long term and district reporting in plain language.",{"name":113},{"slug":1101,"name":1102,"office":1037,"ballotNumber":21,"currentRole":1038,"headline":1103,"sample":22,"party":1104,"withdrawal":21},"steve-ferguson","Steve Ferguson","Re-elected to Langley Township Council on October 17, 2026, with 12,044 votes, eighth of the 20 council candidates and the last seat. First elected in 1988, he has served eight terms by the Township's count, lost his seat in 2014 and returned in 2018. He joined Eric Woodward's organization in 2022, voted for the 2026 budget, and at the Fort Langley meeting named the move of Marina Park to a new site as the result he would deliver.",{"name":763},{"slug":1106,"name":1107,"office":1037,"ballotNumber":21,"currentRole":21,"headline":1108,"sample":22,"party":1109,"withdrawal":21},"teresa-townsley","Teresa Townsley","Elected to Langley Township Council on October 17, 2026, with 15,251 votes, fifth of the 20 council candidates, after placing 13th as an independent in 2022. A South Langley farmer and winery owner and, by her own account, a former emergency room nurse and vice-chair of the Delta Board of Education. She ran with Langley Strong on a line-by-line budget review, a no call too small standard for police and fire, farm status for horse boarding, a case manager to guide residents through Township Hall, and closed meetings kept to land, labour and legal matters.",{"name":113},[],1793466150340]