New Westminster’s new mayor and councillors take their seats at the council table

By Theresa McManus, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Freshet News The inaugural meeting of the 2026 to 2030 city council marked a number of firsts for the City of New Westminster. At the Nov. 2 inaugural council meeting, Daniel Fontaine was sworn in as New Westminster’s new mayor. Six councillors — including incumbents Paul Minhas and Tasha Henderson, and newcomers Ken Armstrong, Karima Budhwani, Rick Folka and Maryann Morrison — also took their oaths of office on Monday night. Fontaine told the crowd the newly elected council includes a number of firsts for New Westminster city council: Fontaine and Morrison, who are both Métis, become the city’s first Indigenous mayor and first Indigenous female councillor Budhwani is the first Ismaili Muslim woman elected to council Armstrong is the first city councillor…

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