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Locke had been quoted by News 1130 on Monday as stating the party was done months ago, and the story had Jack Hundial, a fellow councillor, stating it was time for the councillors to forget party lines — even on key issues.

Hundial didn’t respond to a request for comment Tuesday. Nor did councillors Doug Elford or Steven Pettigrew, or Mayor Doug McCallum.

Locke wrote that there had been confusion on the matter.

“I am not leaving the Safe Surrey Coalition. I continue to support the three main issues we ran on,” Locke told Postmedia News, referring to SkyTrain over LRT, “smart development” and local police over RCMP. “Perhaps the reason for the confusion is that councillors vote independently, that is one of the reasons I support the coalition — votes are not whipped.”

Guerra said McCallum was clear from the outset that party members were “free to vote however you want to vote,” and said she, as someone from a more conservative background, would never have joined the party were she told she’d have to be in agreement on everything.

“As you can see from voting records we all certainly have never been voting as a bloc and we’ve never been encouraged to vote as a bloc,” Guerra said.

There was one key requirement for anyone running for the party, however, and that was agreement on the party’s three pillars, she said: “We have all said that this is what we stood for and to even go back on that shows … and I’m not saying anybody has or is going to, but it just shows a lack of integrity.”