The Mounties are defending plans to serve alcohol at the RCMP’s new BC headquarters in Surrey.
“It’s a multi-purpose facility. It’s something like a community hall.”
Corporal Bernie Conroy says the current E-Division complex in Vancouver has had a so-called ‘mess’ hall for years.
”That licence allows us to be open seven days a week as per what’s written on that sign in surrey right now. However, the commanding officer does not allow us to do that and we’re only open Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Most nights, no one is in the facility after nine o’clock.”
Speaking with CKNW Bill Good, Conroy says he doubts the maximum capacity of nearly 12-hundred occupants –with 561 seats– will ever be reached.
A public hearing will be held at Surrey City Hall on Monday night.
If the licence is approved, the hall would operate from 11am to midnight, Sundays through Thursdays, and 11am to 2am Fridays and Saturdays.
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