March 2024 corporate\u00a0report from the City of Surrey<\/a> “tied the Host Financial Assistance Agreement, which delivered 10% of net gaming income to the City, to the racetrack site itself. At the same time, the Province earmarked a share of slot revenue for horse racing,” MacMillian said.\u00a0<\/p>\n“This decision did not fall from the sky. It was enabled by choices at both the City and Provincial level, choices that are now leaving hundreds of Surrey residents without income or security. And it raises urgent questions that you, as Surrey MLAs, must answer.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
The letter included eleven\u00a0questions for the MLAs\u00a0in connection to the closures.\u00a0<\/p>\n
MacMillan notes that the casino was allegedly never meant to stand alone but was created to sustain horse racing in B.C.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It was created for the express purpose of sustaining horse racing in British Columbia,”\u00a0MacMillan said.\u00a0“The City benefits from revenues justified by that purpose. The Province benefits from revenues justified by that purpose. Great Canadian benefits from revenues justified by that purpose. The only ones who are losing are the workers and families who were promised stability and protection.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Now-Leader has reached out to the communications team for the B.C. NDP MLA’s, Conservative Party of BC MLA’s\u00a0and the City of Surrey but did not hear back by press time. This story will be updated if we do.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The president of Harness Racing BC is calling on the provincial government\u00a0to\u00a0stop the closure of Fraser Downs.\u00a0 A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-365956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115075279958936513","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}