Surrey-Green: Surrey-Green Timbers and Population

surrey-green: When asked if she has any regrets after 22 years of serving the people of Surrey-Green Timbers, Sue Hammell lists just one, according to CBC. I should have learned Punjabi, the NDP MLA said, while cleaning out her B.C. Legislature office for the final time in mid-March. Here is Surrey-Green Timbers, one of nine ridings in Surrey and where a name won't appear on the ballot for the first time in over 30 years. 1. When the Surrey-Green Timbers riding was created prior to the 1991 election, immigrants made up 28.5 per cent of the population, and it was just starting to become the centre of B.C.'s Indo-Canadian community. In 2011, nearly half of the population said Punjabi was their mother tongue. By 2006, half of the population were immigrants. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.