By Pepper Parr
January 30th, 2026
BURLINGTON, ON
Emily Brown, the Conservative Party candidate in the 2025 federal election, is the candidate of record for the Burlington constituency. That qualifies her as a member of the Party and the right to attend the Conservative Party conference taking place in Calgary this weekend.
Burlington Conservatives loved her – just not enough of them.
She will be one of several thousand people deciding if Pierre Poilievre should be kept on as party leader.
Poilievre was one of the reasons Brown was unable to defeat Karina Gould, the Burlington MP. With a different leader Brown may well have taken the constituency.
Karina Gould, of the Liberal Party, has 43,593 of 78,107 votes (55.81%).
Emily Brown, of the Conservative Party, is in second place with 31,666 votes (40.54%)
The Gazette would love to know how Brown votes in the leadership review.
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That 84% plus that Pierre Marcel Poilievre got at the leadership review convention all but guarantees that Emily Brown will never hold a seat in the House of Commons. Were she to be elected she would in my opinion, be a very credible member. The hurdle she has to get over is Poilievre.
wow your Liberal bias is showing
Interesting if you report on Pollievere’s 86.7% approval rating
So after all the fear uncertainty and doubt spread by the media Pierre received 87.4% of the vote, the highest ever.
Most of us see through this nonsense, non-journalism.
Unfortunately it does play to the weak minded.