By Pepper Parr
August 19th, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
Interesting story coming out of the Ontario Liberal Leadership choices.
The provincial Liberal Party will be hold a membership meeting in September at which many hope there will be a ballot question on whether or not to hold a leadership convention or keep Bonnie Crombie who is the current Liberal leader without a seat in the provincial legislature.
Politics is all about choices, so who would voters actually pick if they had to choose between Crombie and another candidate?
Among the general population, Karina Gould is the only candidate who has an advantage over Crombie. She is selected by 54% of voters, to Crombie’s 46%. Crombie is tied with both Andrew Boozary and John Fraser, and she’s preferred over Nate Erskine-Smith, Marco Menicino, Mohamad Fakih, and Navdeep Bains.
This needs a much deeper look – but the data below will surprise a lot of people in Burlington.
Provincial Liberals are excited about Gould – did anyone see that coming?
Gould bests Crombie in favourability as the Ontario Liberal Party leader.
Mike Wallace congratulates Karina Gould on her 2015 election win.
Gould defeated Mike Wallace for the Burlington federal seat and has been the MP ever since.
During the recent federal leadership race, she ran against Mark Carney and was soundly trounced.
Eleanor McMahon and Karina Gould at a Remembrance Day event in Burlington.
She was not made a member of the Carney Cabinet once he was elected Prime Minister.
Gould currently serves as Chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance.
Nothing has come out in the way of comment from Gazette readers, and there has been no word whatsoever from Gould.
Eleanor McMahon, a close confidante of Gould was at one point the MPP for Burlington.
The data for this article came from Queen’s Park Briefing. Queen’s Park Briefing is a membership-based information source, covering all political and legislative movements at the provincial level.
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“Gould currently serves as the House Leader of the Budget Committee.”…
Did ChatGPT write this article? She’s the Chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance.
Editor’s note: You are correct – that was an error on our part.
The Gazette doesn’t go anywhere near AI
I would enthusiastically donate if she were to give up her seat and make a run.
We already have an NDP party with a very competent leader. How does O favourable, 9 somewhat favourable and 41 never heard of you points, remotely translate into “excitement” about a candidate. Just asking for a friend.
Crombie beats Gould by over 10% on favourability.
Telling that 41% have never heard of a Trudeau cabinet minister.
Guess she didn’t accomplish much in Ottawa.