Know your riding — Canada Votes 2025: St. Catharines

Samantha Beattie · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 17, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 21 minutes ago

The Liberals person held the riding of St. Catharines since 2015.

Chris Bittle won that election, defeating the Conservative incumbent. 

Bittle volition tally again this national predetermination against Conservative campaigner Bas Sluijmers and NDP campaigner Karen Orlandi. 

The riding runs from Lake Ontario successful the northbound to St. David's Road successful the south, and Highway 406 and Twelve Mile Creek to the westbound and borders Niagara-on-the-Lake to the east. 

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

Chris Bittle, Liberal

Bittle, 46, was a lawyer earlier moving for office. He said he has been "a beardown progressive advocate" for the metropolis since helium was elected successful 2015. 

"Canada is astatine a captious time, and we request experienced enactment to navigate what's to travel — ensuring our workers and communities don't get near behind," helium said successful the survey.

Karen Orlandi, NDP

Orlandi, 58, is simply a curate astatine the United Church of Canada successful St. Catharines.

She said successful the survey, if elected, she volition advocator for much infrastructure projects locally to support radical working, backing for affordable homes and rental units and capping the costs of "essential" groceries. 

"We volition enactment for elector betterment truthful that you tin ballot for who you judge volition basal up for the radical of St. Catharines," she said. "I committedness to perceive to the constituents and amplify their voices successful Ottawa." 

Bas Sluijmers, Conservative

Sluijmers is an relationship manager astatine a section institution successful the Niagara portion and a founding committee subordinate of Safe Families Niagara, says his run website. He did not respond to the survey. 

After a decennary of ineffective authorities policies that person near galore families struggling with economical challenges and rising transgression rates, helium believes bold enactment is important for a unafraid and prosperous future," the website says.

"He prioritizes protecting idiosyncratic liberties, ensuring economical stability, and upholding household values."

Dennis Wilson, People's Party

Dennis Wilson, 73, is simply a retired advisor with acquisition successful systems management, concern and organizational strategy. 

He's moving successful the national predetermination to bring "a caller mode of reasoning and a caller acceptable of imaginable solutions," helium said successful the survey. 

Also running

• Taha Alexander Haj-Ahmad, Centrist Party of Canada: Information astir Haj-Ahmad cannot beryllium recovered online.

• Christopher Reilly, Independent: A intelligence wellness nurse, creator and assemblage advocate, Reilly's website says he's committed to putting "people implicit profits and policies implicit politics."