MACK FOR MAYOR

Delaney Mack is a Langley City Councillor, small business owner, and local running for Mayor with Achieving for Langley City.
 

Mack grew up in Langley City and has built her life here. She owned and operated a small business on the one-way, established in 2008, giving her over a decade of first-hand experience dealing with the realities facing local entrepreneurs, workers, families and taxpayers. Long before entering politics, she was hearing directly from customers about what was working in Langley and what wasn’t.
 

That experience has shaped her approach at City Hall. Mack believes municipal government should get the basics right: keep taxes reasonable, fix and maintain infrastructure, keep streets and neighbourhoods safe, support local businesses and make sure growth actually works for the people who already live here.
 

During her time on Council, Mack has pushed back against the idea that taxpayers should simply be asked to pay more whenever government wants to spend more. She has championed responsible taxation, stronger investment in core infrastructure, better public safety and accessibility, and common-sense growth that respects existing neighbourhoods and doesn’t push longtime residents or small businesses aside.
 

Mack has also established herself as one of the most active members of Council, bringing forward more motions than any other current councillor. Her approach has been simple: listen to residents, identify problems and then actually do something about them. She believes elected officials are there to work for the people who elected them, not simply manage the status quo.
 

That willingness to listen has also meant standing alone when necessary. When a proposal came before Council to amend existing planning rules and allow a six-storey apartment building in an established single-family neighbourhood, residents came out in force. Nearly 1,000 residents objected to the proposal, signed petitions and packed a marathon 6-hour public hearing to make their voices heard. Mack listened and stood with them, casting the lone vote against the project when Council ultimately approved it 6-1.
 

Mack supports responsible growth and understands that Langley City needs more housing, but she does not believe in treating the people who already live in a neighbourhood as an inconvenience. Development should respect neighbourhoods, be supported by the infrastructure needed to sustain it and take seriously the concerns of the people who will actually live with the consequences.
 

That same approach has produced results beyond Langley City itself. Mack worked alongside elected officials from communities across Western Canada to successfully advocate for reforms to the Crime Severity Index and the way crime statistics affecting communities like Langley are reported.
 

She has also taken Langley’s concerns to the regional and provincial level, earning broader municipal support for initiatives addressing gaps in the court system and the growing costs municipalities face when local fire departments are forced to respond to Medical Emergency Service Alarm calls because of shortcomings elsewhere in the system.
 

For Mack, public safety is not an abstract political issue. Residents and businesses live with the consequences when the justice system fails, when emergency services are stretched thin or when governments pass responsibility from one level to another. She believes governments should be accountable for the services taxpayers are already paying for and that Langley City needs a Mayor willing to fight for its fair share rather than simply accepting the status quo.
 

The same principle applies at City Hall. Mack has pushed for greater scrutiny of municipal spending, including demanding greater transparency around the money being spent on outside consultants. She believes every tax dollar City Hall spends ultimately belongs to the people who earned it, and residents deserve to know where their money is going and what they are getting in return.
 

Mack’s politics have always started at the grassroots. Running a business on the one-way has meant hearing directly from residents every day, not through reports, consultants or bureaucratic filters. Those conversations have reinforced her belief that the people who live, work, raise families and build businesses in Langley often understand the problems facing their community better than government does.
 

For Mack, that means being willing to challenge the status quo at City Hall when it isn’t working. Government should be accountable for how it spends taxpayers’ money, focused on the services residents actually depend on, and responsive to the people who pay the bills. City Hall cannot solve every problem, but it has a responsibility to do its own job well and to fight other levels of government when Langley residents aren’t getting the services they deserve.
 

Mack studied psychology, sociology and anthropology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, but her real education has come from running a business, serving on Council and spending years listening to the people who live and work in Langley City.

Her campaign for Mayor is rooted in a straightforward principle: City Hall should work for the people of Langley, not the other way around. Residents deserve a local government that respects their tax dollars, keeps their community safe, protects the character of their neighbourhoods, listens before it lectures and remembers that growth is supposed to improve people’s lives, not make them more expensive.

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