Know your riding — Canada Votes 2025: Haldimand—Norfolk

Aura Carreño Rosas · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 15, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 19 minutes ago

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With a colonisation of around 116,706, Haldimand—Norfolk includes each of Norfolk County and astir of Haldimand County.

The country is highly babelike connected agriculture and manufacturing, with dairy and baccy making up a large portion of the agriculture assemblage of the region.

The riding includes Hagersville, Dunnville, Simcoe, Delhi and Caledonia, location of a land quality with the Six Nations community.

Haldimand—Norfolk has been a Conservative Party stronghold since 2004 erstwhile Diane Finley was elected, beating Liberal Bob Speller, who held the spot since 1988.

In 2021, Conservative Leslyn Lewis won the riding by 12,440 votes aft Finley resigned. Lewis is seeking reelection this April 28.

CBC Hamilton sent a survey to large enactment candidates, oregon their enactment representatives. Their responses, edited for magnitude and clarity, are reflected beneath successful alphabetical bid by the candidate's past name.

Henry Geissler, PPC

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

He's described on his website arsenic idiosyncratic who "stands for the halfway values of freedom, idiosyncratic responsibility, respect, and fairness."

Nate Hawkins, Green

Nate Hawkins, 53, is simply a wide labourer and filmmaker.

He said he's "just a mean each time mean Canadian that has galore concerns with the absorption our state is going."

If elected, Hawkins said helium volition "never suffer show of the everyday, hard-working, Canadian values that person made Canada strong, prosperous, and escaped for implicit 150 years."

"[I] volition proceed to usage my dependable to advocator for the environment, agriculture, healthcare, education, and industry," helium said.

Shannon Horner-Shepherd, NDP

Shannon Horner-Shepherd, 52, is simply a steelworker astatine a Stelco mill successful Nanticoke, Ont.

She said she's a longtime nonmigratory of the riding, and thinks Haldimand—Norfolk "deserves just and authentic practice by a campaigner that tin subordinate to the unsocial issues that situation agrarian ridings."

Horner-Shepherd worked successful the agriculture industry, where she said she learned her appreciation for farmers who "ensure nutrient information for each Canadians," and has worked astatine the steel mill for 27 years. She's besides a azygous parent of 4 big children, she said, 1 of them has "complex peculiar needs."

"I recognize the challenges that families look and that each idiosyncratic has unsocial needs," she said, and added she's a campaigner who tin subordinate to residents of the riding.

"The riding deserves a typical that has the aforesaid lived experiences arsenic its constituents, idiosyncratic who knows that we volition each prosper successful Haldimand-Norfolk erstwhile we person a typical that hears you, sees you and is genuinely 1 of you," she said.

Leslyn Lewis, Conservative

Lewis, 54, was a lawyer and owned her ain steadfast earlier stepping into politics. She was besides an educator.

"I've ever prioritized listening to and advocating for the concerns of our hardworking families, farmers, and businesses," she said astir her years arsenic an MP.

Lewis said Canada needs a caller authorities aft "devastating" Liberal policies "have made america little prosperous, little free, and little safe." She besides says she's travel to appreciate, aft increasing up with migrant parents "the cardinal values and freedoms that Canada offers." 

"I'm dedicated to warring for policies that volition reconstruct Canada's promise, changes that volition trim the outgo of living, enactment our section economy, and guarantee harmless neighbourhoods," she said.

Lewis said she wants to proceed her advocacy for farmers, workers, and families and reconstruct "prosperity and information successful our community."

Colin Walsh, Liberal

Colin Walsh, 48, is simply a French immersion teacher for grades 7 and eight.

He said helium "urges" radical to ballot for him, "because your enactment for maine is simply a ballot for Mark Carney."

Walsh said the radical of Haldimand-Norfolk request Carney's expertise.

"Additionally, I live, work, and rise my household close present successful our community. I'm not seeking a governmental career; I'm moving to guarantee our assemblage has a beardown dependable astatine the national level," helium said.

Also running:

• Lily Eggink, Christian Heritage Party of Canada: small concern owner.