By Pepper Parr
January 20th, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
Karina Gould during an election campaign.
Burlington has 27 days to have its Member of Parliament, Karina Gould, in position to take a shot at becoming the Prime Minister of Canada.
Any citizen in the city who can meet the following criteria can become a member of the Liberal Party of Canada:
a) be at least fourteen (14) years of age;
b) support the purposes of the Party;
c) ordinarily live in Canada or, for Canadians living abroad, be qualified as an elector who may vote in accordance with part 11 of the Canada Elections Act;
d) not be a member of any other federal political party in Canada; and
e) while Registered as a Liberal, not have publicly declared an intention to be a
candidate for election to the House of Commons other than as a candidate of the Party.
Item e means Gould cannot vote for herself
The vote will be done on a ranked ballot. Rank Karina Gould as the only person you want to vote for. Make her your first choice, your second choice and your third choice – and as your fourth choice if the voting goes that far
She will need thousands of Burlingtonians to sign up and vote for her.
First step is to click on the link and sign up – registration is free.
Gould held her campaign kick-off at a retail location in Burlington on Sunday. We will report on what she said later in the week.
Pepper. Is the Gould campaign team contacting with the Gazette for what reads like a political endorsement? Just asking for a friend.
Editor’s note: If you meant to say “contracting” instead of the contacting. Let me set the record straight – to date I have not talked to anyone involved in the comment – other than a casual conversation with Eleanor McMahon during the Levee event.
McMahon was at one point the MPP for Burlington and is involved in the campaign.
I’m wondering as well why you have a problem with a political endorsement. Media do it all the time.
Have your “friend” give me a call.
Entering a race you can’t win might be hubris, naivety, or a miscalculation, rather than a strategic move.
People focus on winners, and as a result, political candidates who lose without making a significant impact risk being sidelined or forgotten. In her case, the stakes are high, and the perception of “failure” will be hard to shake.
If, through this process she doesn’t gain influence, boost her profile, or shape the party’s future—it’ll just be an expensive gamble that didn’t pay off.
Well educated and very intelligent but too young and lacks business and life experience in my opinion. I’m very surprised she would consider she has even a remote chance at winning, I believe she is a pawn to deflect votes from Freeland. Just my opinion.
I do not very often agree with the editor/publisher of The Gazette in his opinion pieces. And those opinion pieces we know are not news articles, but exactly what the title says, his opinion that he is putting forward. But he, like you, like me is entitled to his opinions. But I note that the commenters here very rarely disagree with his opinion pieces. But now that you disagree with his position regarding Karina you think it’s wrong that he should put forward his opinion? Huh !
Pepper Parr should keep his political preferences preferences private and not push them on other people. Your job as a “journalist” should be to report the news in a neutral manner.
Editor’s note: That is not the role of media today. Media can,does and should advocate.
Were we to advocate for better support for women who are in abusive relationships – would you make the same comment?
Not a contender, just a pawn. Take our Freeland and split the female vote, that is her role, no more, no less. The fix is already in for Carney. After 10 years of “little potato” people still don’t get it. When he said we are going to have a “robust nation wide” selection process, that was a bold face lie, and the exact opposite will happen.
Sounds a little like Justin Trudeau as he campaigned in 2015 when he promised “sunny ways”. and look where that got us. It’s 2025 Karina, & we won’t be fooled again!
Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy: “You don’t understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a ……”
Pepper,
thank you for continue to write articles like this one.
You never fail to make me laugh.
So the publisher is coaching citizens on how to, plunk votes, to ensure Karina wins the nomination, interesting. There are downsides to this strategy. But its is good to know where the publisher stands.
Is this news or a political advertisement??
Why should we care if she is a contender let alone try to make her one and why is the Gazette taking up an advocacy position for both Gould and the Liberals?
“In a video posted to social media, Gould said that “we need new leadership to fight for everyday Canadians. A leader who understands what people are going through and works every day to make their lives better.”
“I’m here for Canada. Today, tomorrow and for years to come,” Gould said.”
Really Karina is here for Canada – what would Canada look like? Certainly not the Canada I grew up in.
Presently the social unrest, the high cost of day to day living, the questionable affordability to house families and the large number of homeless people is what Canada looks like today.
Karina Gould was a loyal follower for Justin Trudeau, so she must have the same core values. Let’s not forget that she tried to remove from the official Parliament record the fact that Mr. Hunka (former nazi) was singled out as a hero when President Zelensky was in Ottawa.
This run for the leadership race is one she cannot win and she knows it. It is positioning her for name recognition when she runs again for this position in a few years. After all Karina it seems is wanting to be a career politician.
It will be interesting to see who the non citizen 14 year old voters choose for the leader of the Liberal Party.
Editor’s note: Not sure how you came to this conclusion: Karina Gould was a loyal follower for Justin Trudeau, so she must have the same core values.
So by your reasoning Poilievre holds the same core values as Harper because he was Harper’s loyal poodle. In actual fact we can see that Poilievre Is even more wacky right of center than Harper was at his worst at the end of his term.
I agree with the editor’s comment.
I must ask do you ever have anything positive to say about anything? I don’t think I’ve ever read anything here that you’ve said with a positive tone.