SURREY, B.C. - Conservative Party of BC leader Lorne Doerkson unveiled his party’s Surrey Success Plan in Surrey on Thursday, a four-part package of transit and hospital promises aimed at B.C.’s second-largest city, two days before British Columbians vote in the provincial election.
The plan would extend SkyTrain along King George Boulevard to Newton Town Centre, replace the George Massey Tunnel with a new 10-lane bridge, complete the new Surrey hospital in Cloverdale, and build a Women and Children’s Hospital in Surrey.
The four commitments
First, the SkyTrain promise. A Conservative government would work with the federal government to fund and build SkyTrain along King George Boulevard to Newton Town Centre. The release notes that Newton has waited for rapid transit since light rail plans for the corridor were scrapped in 2018, and the extension south along King George is the plan’s headline commitment for Surrey commuters.
Second, the river crossing. The party promises a new 10-lane George Massey Bridge, replacing the tunnel. The party says the NDP cancelled a bridge that should already be open, and it says the new bridge would cut commutes by up to 30 minutes.
Third, the Cloverdale hospital. The plan commits the party to completing the Surrey Hospital in Cloverdale. The party says the NDP promised the hospital for next year at a cost of $1.7 billion, but claims it is now delayed until 2030 and running more than a billion dollars over budget.
Fourth, a hospital for mothers and children. The Conservatives would build a new Women and Children’s Hospital in Surrey. The party says families in Surrey now travel an hour or more into Vancouver for that care, and the promise is meant to keep it in Surrey instead.
Taken together, the four promises are two transportation projects and two hospital projects, all of them inside Surrey, and all of them framed by the party as overdue.
What the Conservatives say about the NDP record
The Surrey plan is built on the party’s argument that the governing NDP has neglected the city while it boomed. The release says Surrey’s population has doubled in the last 25 years, and it frames the four commitments as projects Surrey should already have.
“Surrey has been doing more than its share for this province, and for nine years the NDP has given it nothing but empty promises,” Doerkson said.
Doerkson also took aim at Premier David Eby directly: “David Eby is good at making announcements and very bad at finishing projects.”
The claims about the cancelled bridge, the hospital delay and the hospital budget are the Conservatives’ claims, made in their own release. Every figure in that argument, the doubled population, the 2030 hospital date and the overrun of more than a billion dollars, comes from the party itself. The Surrey plan carries no costing table. It sits inside a broader Conservative platform that the release sums up in a single passage: disciplined project management, tax cuts, doubling and tripling LNG production, and more tools for police.
For its part, the NDP’s Surrey message this week has centred on what the party calls a $12-billion investment record in the city.
The NDP was asked to respond
Apna News asked the BC NDP for its response to the plan and to the Conservatives’ claims about the hospital timeline and budget. The NDP did not respond by the Friday morning deadline.
Two days to the vote
Surrey voters will judge the plan quickly. Voting day in the B.C. provincial election is Saturday, October 24, 2026. A campaign advertising blackout applies on October 23 and 24, so paid party advertising stops, but platform announcements like this one continue to circulate in the final days.
The SkyTrain promise also lands on ground Apna News has already covered. Our explainer, “SkyTrain to Newton: What the NDP and Conservative Promises Do and Do Not Lock In for Surrey,” compares what each party’s transit promise would and would not guarantee for the King George corridor: https://apnanews.ca/skytrain-to-newton-surrey-ndp-conservative-promises-explained/ Readers can compare all parties’ Surrey promises in Apna News’ Elections 2026 coverage ahead of Saturday’s vote.
Sources: Conservative Party of BC, “Conservatives Unveil Surrey Success Plan,” media release, October 22, 2026.
