By Pepper Parr
August 4th, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
In the past few weeks there has been comment on how available or unavailable Burlington MP Karina Gould has been.
There are changes taking place in the job she has had for almost ten years.
As a Cabinet Minister, Gould had to delegate most of the constituent communications. That wasn’t always well understood. Gould was quite good at getting out and meeting people ut there wasn’t much time to meet with people at her office in Burlington.
Now that she is no longer a Cabinet Minister, Gould is able to spend more time in the community and listen to what people want to talk about.
Burlington MP Karina Gould meeting with a constituent – smiles everywhere.
Some of that work, setting up a meeting, getting the details so that she can respond intelligently, takes time. Gould has always been responsible about the job she has. One doesn’t hear her talking about closing her constituency office for security reasons.
Serving as a politician is harder now than it ever was. The concerns people have are significant and serious: being able to handle the mortgage is a major concern for some, the idea of ever having a mortgage is a concern for others.
Trying to figure out what is going to happen to the economy of the country and how the Prime Minister is going to manage a president that is exceptionally hard to deal with keeps politicians awake at night..
The very foundation of the country is at risk.
These are troubling times for everyone.
Take a deep breath and believe that there will be changes, but in the fullness of time, things will work out. Canada has more going for it than the United States will ever have in the next decade. We just need to make sure that our boat doesn’t get sunk from the waves created by our neighbours to the south.
Karina knows me quite well. I have requested a short meeting for over two months. No reply.
Really Graham? Trump is loaded with yes men…absolutely no ethics or character in any of his staff …formidable? What a joke!!! There isn’t a decent one in the bunch!
When will you ever accept integrity, intelligence and good communication skills in our 4th term elected MP? Happily we have the best of the best and she won by a bigger majority than before even in this conservstive riding.
Things have changed dramatically since Karina Gould was elected to represent the residents of Burlington.
When she was first elected residents could walk into her office with no appointment. If Karina was unavailable her staff were.
It was easy to set up an appointment to see her. Her staff replied to emails and Karina would be notified.
For the past few years the door to the constituency office at Burlington Centre remains locked and you have to have an appointment to get in to see anyone.
This could have changed since Karina is no longer in cabinet, but I think not.
I know that many politicians now are threatened and feel unsafe. These are difficult times for everyone.
Gould acted more like an NDPer than a Liberal .Better at shoveling cash out the door than cutting back government spending.
I think Carny has a very light team and few with real world business experience Trump is loaded with business talent.Formidable enemy!