By Pepper Parr
February 26th, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
OPINION
Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles joined CUPE 7800 health care workers and OSSTF District 21 education workers at two campaign stops in Hamilton today.
She made her final campaign pitch and spoke about protecting workers, defending jobs and fighting rising costs with an NDP government that is on your side.
Stiles was joined by candidates from the Ontario NDP’s strong Hamilton team: Robin Lennox (Hamilton Centre), Kojo Damptey (Hamilton Mountain), Zaigham Butt (Hamilton East – Stoney Creek), and Sandy Shaw (Hamilton West–Ancaster–Dundas).
Sara Jama. once the NDP candidate, now sits as an Independent candidate is expected to hold her seat. If the official NDP candidate wins Stiles should remain the Leader of the Opposition.
Stiles did her best in Hamilton Centre to promote Robin Lennox, the NDP candidate. Sara Jama (once the NDP candidate) stands a better than even chance to hold the seat. Shoule NDP Lennox take the seat Stiles could be well on her way to making life very difficult for Doug Foard.
The bus never did make it to Hamilton
The campaign bus didn’t make it to Burlington. The New Democrats appear to have written of Burlington.
A smart Liberal would be putting out the word to get as many eggs as possible in the Liberal basket and ensure that Natalie Pierre never has to take the GO train to Queen’s Park again.
Salt with Pepper is an opinion column reflecting the observations and musings of the publisher of the Gazette, an on-line newspaper that is in its 12th year as a news source in Burlington and is a member of the National Newsmedia Council.
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Sara Jama has been a train wreck as an MPP, and an embarrassment to the residents of Hamilton Centre. Her tenure has been a never-ending tirade of outrageous anti-semitic rants and invectives. The best thing Marit Stiles did was to show her the door. Robin Lennox is very balanced, genuine and sincere, and would be a much better representative.
I’m personally curious to see how Liberal Kristina Tesser Derksen does in Milton, as well as Alison Gohel in Oakville. Both are incredibly smart, articulate and talented women, and would be decidedly better than the door stops currently representing those two ridings.