Conservative Party of BC candidate in Surrey-Newton and a former TransLink board director.
Harj Dhaliwal is the Conservative Party of BC candidate in Surrey-Newton, where Jessie Sunner of the BC NDP won in 2024. TransLink's board pages list a Dr. Harj Dhaliwal as a director from January 2019, and the party says he served six years. The BC SPCA's board page lists him as an Appointed Director. voche.me found no policy statement from him in his own words on 2026-10-03.
A researched record of Harj Dhaliwal's 2026 candidacy in Surrey-Newton. voche.me found no policy statement in his own words on 2026-10-03, so the 2 commitments below are the party's. The record lists 4 dated actions from his time on the TransLink board and 3 news reports.
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01 / Introduction
About Harj Dhaliwal
Elections BC lists Harj Dhaliwal as the Conservative Party candidate in Surrey-Newton on the copy of its candidate list stamped October 3, 2026 04:00:07 PM. The same copy lists one other accepted nomination in the district, Jessie Sunner of the BC NDP. A different Conservative candidate with the same surname, Mandeep Singh Dhaliwal, is on the list for Surrey North.
Sunner won Surrey-Newton in 2024 with 7,924 votes, 51.17% of the valid vote, according to the Elections BC statement of votes. The Conservative candidate that year, Tegjot Bal, received 6,658 votes (42.99%). The 2024 statement of votes lists no candidate named Harj Dhaliwal in any district, so the records voche.me read show no earlier provincial candidacy under this name.
The party's candidate page says he is a business executive, educator and community leader, that he holds an MBA and a PhD in Organization Development and Leadership, that he has taught business and management courses, and that he has lived in Surrey for 28 years. It says he served six years as a Director of TransLink and four years on the board of the BC SPCA, and that he chaired the South Fraser District Association and the Surrey Metro Soccer Association and was a board member of the BC Coastal Soccer League. Those are the party's statements.
TransLink's own board page lists Dr. Harj Dhaliwal, appointed January 1, 2019, with a term ending December 31, 2024. The biography there names a chair role at the South Fraser District Association, a construction business and years of teaching, which match the party page, so voche.me treats the two as one person. TransLink's current board page, read on October 3, 2026, does not list him. The board's public minutes show him at its meetings from March 2019, record his re-appointment in December 2021 for a further three-year term, and show him reporting to the board as chair of its IT Committee on March 27 and June 20, 2024.
The BC SPCA's board page, read on October 3, 2026, lists Harj Dhaliwal as an Appointed Director and says he is a construction executive with Kanin Construction Management. The page gives no start date. voche.me has not checked the employer, the degrees or the soccer roles with the organizations or a registry.
Published positions and selected commitments, separated by election cycle. Status labels describe the evidence reviewed, not a numerical score or a complete audit of the platform. Council approval is different from delivery.
2 commitments shown · Checked Oct 3
2026 · Public servicesCampaign pledge
Party pledge for Surrey: lower costs, safer streets, health care
In its release of September 29, 2026 the party said its Surrey candidates, a list that includes Harj Dhaliwal in Surrey-Newton, are ready to make life affordable again, restore safety to Surrey's streets and fix health care. The words are the party's and the release quotes a different candidate, Garry Thind.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party text. voche.me found no statement from Dhaliwal on these topics. The release gives no measure, number, cost or date.
What still needs checking
Does Dhaliwal say which measures he would ask the party to adopt for Surrey-Newton, and by when?
Party leader Lorne Doerkson said in a release dated September 27, 2026 that under his government there will be no new taxes. The release does not name Dhaliwal.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The pledge is the leader's. voche.me found no statement from Dhaliwal on taxes. The release gives no budget figure.
What still needs checking
How would the party pay for its plans without new revenue?
The sources read show no seat in the legislature for him, so no speech or recorded vote was reviewed. The dated actions below come from the public minutes of the TransLink board, where each motion is recorded as moved, seconded and carried, without the names of who voted.
Board role
Welcomed to the TransLink board after joining in January 2019
The minutes of March 22, 2019 record the chair welcoming Harj Dhaliwal, who joined the TransLink board in January. TransLink's board page lists his appointment on January 1, 2019.
Scope, limits and sources
TransLink is the regional transportation authority for Metro Vancouver. Its board directors are appointed.
Reported to the TransLink board as chair of its IT Committee
The minutes record him reporting on the committee's March 20 meeting: technology projects, the completion of the Enterprise Resource Planning program, and enterprise risk reports on technology.
Scope, limits and sources
A committee chair reports to the full board. The minutes record his report only.
Reported to the TransLink board as chair of its IT Committee again
The minutes record him reporting on the committee's June 12 meeting: technology projects, lessons from earlier complex technology projects, and enterprise risk reports on technology.
Scope, limits and sources
A committee chair reports to the full board. The minutes record his report only.
Read original statements and reporting, or open the publisher’s video. A summary of a speech is labelled separately from a full recording.
No reviewed entries have been added to this section yet. This is a research gap, not a finding about the candidate.
Accountability / Findings, disputes and responses
Controversies & public scrutiny
Records are labelled by type, including official findings, civil proceedings and political disputes where applicable. Each entry identifies the response found in the sources and the latest status verified for this page.
No reviewed entries have been added to this section yet. This is a research gap, not a finding about the candidate.
News coverage / Original publishers
Read the reporting
A dated reading list from independent publishers. The headings below are voche.me summaries; follow each link for the original article, context and any corrections.
Reporting
Surrey Now-Leader
B.C. votes: Who's running in Surrey ridings Oct. 24 and what happened last election
Reports that the Conservatives named Harj Dhaliwal in Surrey-Newton, where Jessie Sunner of the BC NDP won in 2024 with 7,924 votes, 1,266 more than the Conservative candidate.
Conservative candidates named in all 10 Surrey ridings for B.C. election
Lists him with the party's other nine Surrey candidates and quotes the party's pledge to make life affordable again, restore safety and fix health care.
Sources checked October 3, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
No campaign website or social media account of his own was found on 2026-10-03, and the party's candidate page holds no statement of policy from him. The web search tool had reached its usage limit, so the name search was limited to news feeds and direct page reads. Search engine pages returned a human-check page, an error or unrelated results, so a news story or an account under his name may exist that voche.me did not find. Coverage of a Harj Dhaliwal who works in rail technology appears under the name; no source read ties that person to this candidate, and nothing from it is used. The link between the candidate and the TransLink director rests on matching details: the party page and TransLink's biography both name the South Fraser District Association chair role, a construction business and teaching. TransLink's biography words his PhD as Organizational Behaviour specializing in Leadership from Capella University, and the party page words it as Organization Development and Leadership. No source states the two are one person in so many words, and the degrees, the employer Kanin Construction Management, the teaching posts and the soccer roles were not checked with the institutions or a registry. The party says six years at TransLink and four years at the BC SPCA. The copy of TransLink's board page dated December 3, 2024 gives a term from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2024, and the minutes read run from March 2019 to June 2024. The BC SPCA's page gives no start date, so the four years are the party's statement. The IT Committee's own minutes and the closed meetings of the TransLink board were not read. No complaint, lawsuit or official finding about him appears in the sources read. No all-candidates meeting for Surrey-Newton was found. Campaign finances and endorsements were not reviewed. The questionnaire has not been sent.
Research status
What voche.me has checked
Evidence reviewed on 2026-10-03: the Elections BC candidate list stamped October 3, 2026 04:00:07 PM and the 2024 statement of votes, the party's candidate, team, platform and news pages and its Surrey announcement and tax release, TransLink's board page (current and a copy of December 3, 2024) and 24 sets of its public board minutes from 2019 to 2024, the BC SPCA's board page, and two Surrey Now-Leader reports and one Voice report from September 2026.
No campaign website of his own and no social media account of his own were found. The search tool was at its usage limit, so the name search used news feeds and direct page reads. An empty section records what voche.me did not find on this date.
03 / Background
Experience & community
January 2019 to December 2024
Director, TransLink board
TransLink's board page lists his appointment on January 1, 2019 and a term ending December 31, 2024. The minutes of December 2, 2021 record his re-appointment for a further three-year term, and those of March 27 and June 20, 2024 record him as chair of the IT Committee. The party says he served six years.
The BC SPCA's board page says he is an executive in the construction industry with Kanin Construction Management. voche.me has not checked this with a business registry.
Teacher and associate dean in post-secondary education
TransLink's board biography says he spent eleven years teaching at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and, in its words, 'almost five years' as Associate Dean, Marketing Management, at BCIT. voche.me has not checked this with either institution.
The party says he chaired the South Fraser District Association and the Surrey Metro Soccer Association, sat on the board of the BC Coastal Soccer League and was president of the Central City Breakers Football Club. TransLink's biography names the South Fraser District chair role. voche.me has not checked the other roles with the soccer bodies.
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05 / About this page
Questions about this page
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Is this an official page for Harj Dhaliwal?
No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Harj Dhaliwal's own campaign.
What party is Harj Dhaliwal running with?
Harj Dhaliwal is running for MLA with Conservative Party of BC.
Does Harj Dhaliwal currently hold public office?
Not according to this profile. voche.me has not listed a current public office for Harj Dhaliwal.
How many sources does this Harj Dhaliwal profile cite?
This profile lists 7 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Why do some questions on Harj Dhaliwal's page show no answer?
The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Harj Dhaliwal in a future interview. They have not been sent yet, so the page says plainly that no answer has been supplied instead of leaving the section blank.
When is the election Harj Dhaliwal is running in?
The 2026 British Columbia election, including the MLA race, is decided on October 24, 2026.
06 / Candidate contributions
Space for campaign updates
No campaign updates yet
Announcements, event details and messages can be added here, with their source and publication date. No campaign submission has been added.
