The longest serving councillor in all of Metro Vancouver says he is ready to move on from politics, confident others will be able to carry on his fight to preserve farmland, which makes up a significant portion of the municipality and has been under threat from development. The Council that allowed it to happen is gone, thrown out by the voters in the last election. was the founding of the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR), when he served one term as an MLA from 1973 and 1975. "A lot of time you get involved and you lose and you give up and I just never give up." Harold Steves, a city councillor in Richmond, B.C., participating in one of the many meetings he's attended since first being elected as an alderman in 1968.

Source: CBC News July 12, 2020 15:00 UTC