The BC Liberals have controlled the province for the past 16 years, but during that time many Vancouver Island ridings have remained orange and committed to the NDP.

With leader about to of the province next week and elected to represent the riding of Langford-Juan de Fuca, we wanted to reach out to local mayors to get their thoughts and expectations for the over the next four years.

Here is a sampling of what they had to say:

Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps -

• Priorities: Increasing affordable housing, improving mental health and addictions services, creating a regional transportation commission, better child care, and finishing off the Belleville Terminal.
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Langford Mayor Stewart Young -

• Priorities: Highway improvements, affordable housing supply, E&N rail corridor.
• Quote: B次元官网网址淲hat weB次元官网网址檙e looking for and working with John on, is highway improvements out to Sooke.B次元官网网址�

Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins -

• Priorities: E&N rail corridor, resource management, turning bio-solid waste into energy.
• Quote: B次元官网网址淲eB次元官网网址檝e got to get something happening between the West Shore and downtown. Esquimalt is smack in the middle of it and we get clogged up with traffic. That, for me, is the top priority of any government.B次元官网网址�

View Royal Mayor David Screech -

• Priorities: E&N rail corridor, affordable housing.
• Quote: B次元官网网址淚 hope weB次元官网网址檙e going to see movement on the E&N as a transportation corridor and a train service between Langford and downtown. Right behind that is the desperate need to address the affordable housing crunch and rental shortage in the region.B次元官网网址�

Saanich Mayor Richard Atwell -

• Priorities: Sewage project, transportation, amalgamation.
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Sidney Mayor Steve Price -

• Priorities: Affordable housing, critical infrastructure such as redevelopment of Beacon Wharf.
• Quote: B次元官网网址淚 believe our new MLA, Adam Olsen, will work extremely hard in representing the needs of Saanich North and the Islands, and in particular Sidney.B次元官网网址�

Central Saanich Mayor Ryan Windsor -

• Priorities: Interchange at Keating Cross Road, balancing the preservation of farmland with development.
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Highlands Mayor Ken Williams -

• Priorities: Roadway infrastructure, bike lanes, controlling invasive species, and more police enforcement.
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