Know your riding — Canada Votes 2025: Hamilton Centre

Aura Carreño Rosas · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 19, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 22 minutes ago

Hamilton Centre encompasses the city's downtown country and includes the Hamilton Harbour, northbound of the Niagara Escarpment, betwixt Highway 403 and Parkdale Avenue/the Red Hill Valley Parkway. The riding besides includes a ample concern country successful the harbour, portion the eastbound and confederate parts of the riding are residential.

Hamilton Centre's boundaries changed somewhat since the 2021 national election, it now includes Princess Point and extends further eastbound to Parkdale Avenue.

The riding has been a New Democratic Party stronghold since 2004 erstwhile it was created. The NDP's David Christopherson defeated the Liberal's Stan Keyes by implicit 5,000 votes then.

Christopherson held the spot until 2019 erstwhile helium retired. Then metropolis councillor Matthew Green won the spot and has remained successful it since. He is moving for re-election connected April 28.

Hamilton Centre has a colonisation of 126,188, astir of which are renters. The median household income is $62,400.

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

Sandy Crawley, Green

Sandy Crawley, 77, is simply a self-employed histrion and musician.

He said radical should ballot for him "to bring the astir applicable position to carnivore connected our corporate challenges."

He said helium wants to "encourage the originative assemblage successful a metropolis that is acceptable for a displacement from dependency connected its concern basal towards a much diversified economical base."

Matthew Green, NDP

Green, 44, served arsenic a councillor successful Hamilton's Ward 3 from 2014 to 2018. Before stepping into politics, Green owned a gym connected Ottawa Street. He was besides the enforcement manager of the Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion.

He says arsenic a nonmigratory of the riding and with his acquisition arsenic a councillor and MP, helium has a knowledgeable knowing of the challenges residents face.

He said he's been a "vocal advocate" during his clip arsenic MP for programs including location funding, exigency enactment payments for seniors and those earning a debased income, etc.

"Hamilton Centre deserves to person a beardown and experienced typical successful Parliament, idiosyncratic you cognize and who you tin trust. No substance which enactment forms the adjacent government, I'm acceptable to get backmost to enactment and stay focused connected holding the authorities to account," helium said.

Hayden Lawrence, Conservative

Hayden Lawerece, 27, is simply a instrumentality clerk who specialized successful tiny claims. He was besides a firm partnerships manager for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Forge FC.

He said he's a "fresh and beardown blimpish voice rooted successful the values of hard work, fiscal work and assemblage building."

I'm committed to warring for little taxes, eliminating wasteful spending, expanding lodging availability, and making beingness affordable for each generations," helium said.

He said helium wants to usage his erstwhile enactment and beingness acquisition to correspond the riding.

"Hamilton Centre is conscionable getting by erstwhile we should beryllium getting ahead," helium said.

Aslam Rana, Liberal

Aslam Rana, 52, is simply a civilian technologist and said he's worked connected large infrastructure projects successful the GTHA.

He said his acquisition has fixed him the expertise to enactment connected challenges similar "housing affordability, infrastructure and economical growth."

Rana besides said helium wants to combat for the city's alloy manufacture amid "reckless tariffs"

"For years, NDP and Conservative politicians person taken Hamilton for granted without delivering results. It's clip for a caller voice—one who is practical, solutions-driven and acceptable to get things done," helium said.

Rana said helium wants to repair the riding's roads, "expand nationalist transit and modernize Hamilton's infrastructure."

He besides said helium volition "push for national grants and concern successful subsidized lodging to assistance families and individuals find unchangeable homes."

David Speicher, People's Party of Canada

David Speicher is a molecular virologist. During the pandemic, helium conducted probe connected the COVID-19 vaccine which, helium said, led to a question successful an Australian municipality calling the contiguous suspension of the vaccine.

The Australian Associated Press' FactCheck debunked the probe aboriginal past year.

"I americium moving due to the fact that I don't judge that life's basal needs are excessively much," Speicher said.

He said helium would absorption connected making healthcare and lodging much accessible, revitalizing the system by lowering taxes and cutting reddish portion for tiny businesses, and ensuring fairness crossed economical policy.

He also wants to support "vaccine-injured" and "pandemic-marginalized" individuals. Additionally, Speicher said he's committed to protecting Canadians' rights and freedoms, including firearm ownership, biology sustainability, and the "sanctity of life, including the unborn."

Also running:

• Carla Green, No Affiliation: Information astir Green could not beryllium recovered online.
• Michael Loomans, No Affiliation: Loomans says connected his website helium wants to spot underpopulated onshore utilized for municipality enlargement and wants to assistance businesses stay competitive. 
• Cody Chenier, Parti Rhinocéros Party: Chenier is simply a comedian.