Surrey Board of Trade

James Stewart (centre), Community Leader of the Year Award for 2010	Jeff Richards (Centre), Community Volunteer Honourable Mention

James Stewart, President of the Surrey Board of Trade won the coveted Community Leader of the Year for 2010 at the Leader Newspaper Community Leader Awards on June 8.

SBoT Board member, Jeff Richards took home the Community Volunteer Honourable Mention.

Stewart and Richards are both active members of the community and work hard to help make Surrey an even better place to live.

At the 2008 Canadian Chamber Annual General Meeting, chambers from across the country passed a resolution entitled “Preventing and Effectively Punishing Identity Theft” which was put forward by the Surrey Board of Trade. Recently, this resolution became Bill S-4: An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (identity theft and related misconduct). “We are pleased that the government responded to this policy resolution to deal with the crime of identity theft and that this legislation is now in place”, said James Stewart, President of the Surrey Board of Trade.