Mike Parker
Businesses & Jobs
Artificial Intelligence & Data Centres
We have extremely limited industrial land; we shouldn't use what we have for an industry with so few long-term employees. Also, data centres require constant investment in the computers inside; what happens if the bubble pops and no one wants to pay to renew the data centre, followed by closure? We will have built all this excess utility capacity, and we'll have to maintain it forever without the same user fees to cover it.
Climate Change, Heat, Fires, & the Environment
Artificial Intelligence & Data Centres
We have extremely limited industrial land; we shouldn't use what we have for an industry with so few long-term employees. Also, data centres require constant investment in the computers inside; what happens if the bubble pops and no one wants to pay to renew the data centre, followed by closure? We will have built all this excess utility capacity, and we'll have to maintain it forever without the same user fees to cover it.
Local Government, Planning, & Democracy
Artificial Intelligence & Data Centres
We have extremely limited industrial land; we shouldn't use what we have for an industry with so few long-term employees. Also, data centres require constant investment in the computers inside; what happens if the bubble pops and no one wants to pay to renew the data centre, followed by closure? We will have built all this excess utility capacity, and we'll have to maintain it forever without the same user fees to cover it.
Biographie
I'm Mike Parker. I grew up in the Fraser Valley, moved to the Township of Langley 12 years ago, and live here with my family. Like a lot of you, I've watched the cost of living here march steadily upward while the things that make a community livable haven't kept up.
I have a degree in accounting and finance, and I've put that to work the only way that really matters at the municipal level - reading the budgets line by line. I write at langleytomorrow.com about local governance, housing, and infrastructure, with a focus on incentives, fiscal sustainability, and how well-intended decisions create long-term risks.
I'm a political outsider - no slate, no party machine, no developer donors lining up behind me. Council needs someone whose only loyalty is to the people who actually live here and pay the bills.
I was a director of Strong Towns Langley and spearhead initiatives to improve walkability for school children, improve accessibility of the trail network, share fiscal updates, and engaged in the new Transportation Mobility Strategy.
That work uncovered things residents deserve to know: a $120-million off-balance-sheet loan that helped kill the Willoughby rec centre, $177M in borrowing folded into the 2026 capital budget, and a pattern of short-term decision making that doesn't focus on long-term costs and affordability.
Council needs someone who will read the footnotes, ask the uncomfortable questions, and tell residents the truth about what their tax dollars are actually buying. That's the job I'm putting my hand up for.
I articled at BDO in Edmonton as a Accountant in audit and assurance and passed the UFE in 2012. Although I am no longer practicing as a Professional Accountant and currently do not hold the designation I had experience auditing and preparing notice to readers for SMEs. In particular I worked with not for profits, medical and health practices, automotive services as well as development and real-estate.
I left being in public practice to run my families personal care goods manufacturing company where I have been working since 2014.
