Know your riding — Canada Votes 2025: Niagara West

Aura Carreño Rosas · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 20, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

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Niagara West stretches from Lake Ontario successful the northbound to Lake Erie successful the south. 

It encompasses occidental parts of the City of St. Catharines, the towns of Grimsby, Lincoln and Pelham, the townships of West Lincoln and Wainfleet and communities similar Beamsville and Wellandport.

The comparatively agrarian riding has a colonisation of 112,065. The median household income is $101,000.

Conservative Dean Allison has held the riding since 2004. 

At the time, it was Niagara West—Glanbrook and past successful 2013, aft a important redistribution, it was renamed Niagara West.

Allison is seeking reelection connected April 28. He's facing the Liberal's Jennifer Korstanken, the NDP's Justin Abando, the People's Party of Canada's Ryan Anderson, and the Christian Heritage Party of Canada's Dave Bylsma.

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.

Justin Abando, NDP

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

Information astir Abando could not beryllium recovered online.

Dean Allison, Conservative

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

He has been the riding's MP since its instauration successful 2004. According to his website, he's a Wilfrid Laurier University postgraduate with a grade successful economics. He started and ran "a fig of palmy businesses successful Southern Ontario," earlier stepping into politics.

According to his website, Allison "has brought hundreds of millions of dollars," to Niagara West and helped "thousands of residents, businesses and organizations with a assortment of issues related to the national government"

Ryan Anderson, People's Party of Canada

Anderson, 47, is an electronics technologist and erstwhile entrepreneur.

He said Canada is successful "serious diminution owed to wide immigration," which has near the "Canadian dream" retired of reach.

He said the PPC wants to intermission migration until the lodging situation is resolved, acceptable a zero per cent ostentation people and extremity superior gains tax.

"This volition beryllium achieved by being liable with Canadians' money, by balancing the archetypal fund written, by cutting retired the senseless wars and wealth laundering scams similar the [United Nations] and [World Economic Forum], halt the repetitive fake clime scam wealth laundering and archer Canadians the truth," helium said.

Jennifer Korstanje, Liberal

Korstanje did not respond to CBC Hamilton's survey earlier publication. She's the Ward 3 councillor for the Town of Grimsby. 

According to her website, Korstanje's contributions see "establishing an accessibility conception astatine the section Christmas parade … and advocating for the motorboat of recreational drop-in programs for residents with disabilities."

"She has besides hosted accusation sessions to code rental issues and evictions. By bringing successful ineligible experts, she has worked to empower residents with cognition astir their rights nether the Ontario Landlord and Tenant Board," work her website.

Also running: 

• Dave Bylsma, Christian Heritage Party of Canada: Bylsma was politician of West Lincoln from 2018 to 2022. According to his website, helium has tally 8 times with the Christian Heritage Party of Canada.