Rachna Singh pledged to take action to improve housing, affordability, education, and health care in Surrey North after being nominated today as the BC NDP’s candidate in the riding for the fall provincial election.

Singh moved from India to Canada in 2001 and chose British Columbia to build a better life for her young family. Before her election as the MLA for Surrey-Green Timbers in 2017 and 2020, Rachna worked as a support worker for women facing domestic violence, and a community activist. She is currently the Minister of Education and Child Care and proudly serves the people of Surrey as the MLA for Surrey-Green Timbers.

“I chose to raise my family in British Columbia because I knew what a great community we have here — and I’m not alone,” said Singh. “Families in Surrey are benefitting from the action our BC NDP team has taken, from eliminating tolls on bridges, to investing in housing people can afford, improving healthcare, increasing spaces for students and creating affordable childcare spaces. People are counting on us, and we can’t risk the reckless cuts John Rustad’s Conservative Party would bring.”

Since forming government in July 2017, the BC NDP has taken action on crucial issues that matter to the people of Surrey, including:

• Strengthening healthcare by building and working to expand hospitals in Surrey;
• Hiring new doctors and nurses, plus licensing internationally-trained health professionals to work in BC;
• Tackling housing costs by taking on speculators, updating zoning rules to allow for more townhouses, duplexes and triplexes, and making it easier for cities to build more homes near transit;
• Connecting communities across the province with new infrastructure, including the Surrey-Langley Skytrain, Patullo bridge replacement and Massey crossing — while keeping tolls off bridges;
• Adding hundreds of new classroom spaces and creating more to meet the needs of students into the future; and
• Keeping kids safe by taking phones out of classrooms and building new schools.

“Rachna has spent her entire life advocating for others,” said Premier David Eby. “As an MLA and Cabinet Minister, she has been an effective champion for the people of Surrey for more schools and improving health care. She will ensure the residents of Surrey have good services and good jobs to build a good life here.”

Rachna Singh will join David Eby and 91 other exceptional BC NDP candidates in this fall’s provincial election, all committed to real action to help people build a good life here in BC.