Know your riding — Canada Votes 2025: Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations

Aura Carreño Rosas · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 18, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

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Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations encompasses the City of Brantford, portion of Brant County, including Onondaga and Burtch, arsenic good arsenic Six Nations of the Grand River and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.

The riding has a colonisation of 121,511. 

Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations precocious changed names successful 2023 from conscionable Brantford—Brant, making it somewhat larger and acknowledging Six Nations to the riding's southeast.

Conservative campaigner Larry Brock was elected for the archetypal clip successful 2021, wherever helium won by adjacent to 8,000 votes and is present seeking re-election. The riding has had a Conservative Member of Parliament since 2008.

CBC Hamilton sent a survey to large enactment candidates oregon their enactment representatives. Their responses, edited for magnitude and clarity, are reflected below.

Larry Brock, Conservative

Brock did not respond to CBC Hamilton's survey earlier publication.

His website says helium was an adjunct crown lawyer and a authoritative earlier going into politics. He also lectured astatine Mohawk College to constabulary foundations students.

Karleigh Csordas, Green

Karleigh Csordas, 30, is simply a lawsuit occurrence manager astatine a section tech company. She also went to the University of Waterloo and spent years moving successful healthcare earlier stepping into politics. She has worked arsenic a recreation therapist and a physiotherapy assistant.

Csordas was besides the Green campaigner for the Brantford-Brant riding successful the Ontario predetermination successful February.

"With this being my 4th election, I'm arrogant to amusement up for our assemblage and to bring your voices to Ottawa connected everything from tariffs to lodging to market prices," she said.

She said with U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to Canada's sovereignty, "we're already seeing the unit to erode our clime commitments, dismantle societal programs, and autumn successful enactment with American extremism."

Csordas said slogans "are not policies" and she encourages voters to "look past the slogans and analyse what existent policies enactment them."

Joy O'Donnell, Liberal

Joy O'Donnell, 57, is simply a fiscal planner and concern owner.

She said her 30-year inheritance successful fiscal readying has allowed her to "understand what is needed for my riding successful presumption of warring the Trump tariffs."

She said the riding has been identified arsenic 1 of the astir susceptible "in presumption of tariff," and said she's committed to protecting the livelihood "of the citizens of our riding successful each mode I can."

"I recognize that this is the combat of a beingness for our economical security," she said.

O'Donnell besides has a assemblage unpaid background, she said, which has fixed her "insight into the health, societal services and biology challenges successful the riding and what needs to beryllium done to code them."

Anne Gajerski-Cauley, NDP

Anne Gajerski-Cauley, 64, is simply a part-time curate astatine the United Church of Canada. She is besides a afloat clip caregiver for her lad with autism. 

She said radical request NDP members of Parliament to combat for the needs of those who are ignored by different parties, "seniors, portion clip and gig system workers, and radical who person precocious economical and wellness attraction needs."

She besides said an NDP authorities would fulfil the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

This is important for this peculiar riding, she said, which contains the astir populated First Nations reserve successful Canada.

Nicholas Xenos, People's Party of Canada (PPC)

Nicholas Xenos, 58, is a elder absorption successful accusation technology.

Xenos said if elected, helium would advocator for authorities and antiauthoritarian reform, "such arsenic the implementation of proportional practice successful our elections." He also said helium would beforehand person relations with countries similar Australia, New Zealand oregon research Canada becoming portion of the European Union, enactment the instauration of an Indigenous parliament, among different things.

"I judge that the increasing divisiveness and polarization successful our authorities tin lone beryllium combated by politicians and parties that are little dogmatic and much consenting to prosecute with conflicting viewpoints. If elected, I would bash my champion to beryllium respectful and unfastened minded towards radical with antithetic views," helium said.

Also running

• Clo Marie, Independent: Marie is listed nether the Revolution Party's website. Marie is simply a instrumentality pupil at Wilfrid Laurier University and said they're moving due to the fact that they "care astir quality rights and societal justice."
• Leslie Bory, Independent: Bory was convicted of 4 charges aft a proceedings successful January, for advocating genocide, promotion of hatred and 2 counts of uttering threats. He was sentenced to clip served, which was 23 months of pretrial incarceration, his defence lawyer, Ian McCuaig, told CBC Hamilton. His candidacy has prompted concerns from Jewish organization, The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre, which said it's "deeply concerned" that Bory volition person entree to a list of voters successful his riding, including at-risk assemblage members. No further accusation connected his existent run was easy disposable online.
• Mike Clancy, Independent: according to his website, Clancy is "a champion for a mature democracy." "Together, we tin physique a federation that genuinely belongs to, protects, and cares for each its citizens," it reads.