By Pepper Parr
September 15th, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
Included in the scuttlebutt after Bonnie Crombie came up short in the Leadership review were the following names:
Gould is a formidable campaigner
“After that, it’s leadership contest time — and readers of this newsletter already know the biggest names being floated: JEFF LEHMAN, NAVDEEP BAINS, KARINA GOULD and NATE ERSKINE-SMITH, among others.”
Gould’s name has come up before. We reached out at that time to some of her people, asking politely what Karina thought of the idea.
No response, not a word. That’s called keeping your cards close to your chest.
Karina has been a federal Cabinet Minister for some time. She wasn’t included in the Mark Carney choices this time around.
Eleanor McMahon, at the time the MPP for Burlington with Karina Gould MP for Burlington, at a Remembrance Day Ceremony.
She ran for the Leadership of the federal liberals – didn’t do all well. Her support within the Burlington Provincial Liberal Party Association wasn’t all that strong either.
Suggesting that Gould was beyond her Best Before Date would however, be a mistake.
Still under 40 – a lot of room left to become the Prime Minister.
Beating Doug Ford?
Someone has to do it sometime.
Special envoy for reconstruction of Gaza
Nice idea to see her move on and try luck provincially.
Put KG up against MMW and I see a landslide with MMW being the winner. If not maybe I should move to Quebec
Not a hope in heck of these two virtue signalling Liberal’s were winning anything again
While we are throwing other peoples hats in the ring, why not add Mayor Meed Ward. MMW has municipal and provincial credibility, knows how to promote herself, and currently chairs Ontario Big City Mayors.
Burlington Liberals have already decided once that MMW was not what they were looking for in the way of a candidate.
Maybe the Burlington Liberals are wrong or overly progressive. And I can see why they think that.
Hell no