Ontario Votes 2025: Oakville North-Burlington 

• Read all of CBC Hamilton's coverage of the Ontario election here. 

The MPP of Oakville North-Burlington represents part of Burlington's north, the riding sits between the Queen Elizabeth Way and Upper Middle Road and north of Walkers Line and Guelph Line.

With a population of around 149,000, the riding borders Milton, Mississauga-Erin Mills, Oakville and Burlington.

Oakville North-Burlington is a young riding, created in 2015. Effie Triantafilopoulos with the Progressive Conservatives has been the only MPP of the region. She was elected in 2018 and then reelected in 2022 with 47.2 per cent of the vote.

Triantafilopoulos is facing off this time against Ali Hosny with the Greens, Kaniz Mouli with the Liberals and Caleb Smolenaars with the Ontario New Democrats.

CBC Hamilton sent a survey to major party candidates, or their party representatives. Their responses, edited for length and clarity, are reflected below.

Also running is Charles Wroblewski with the New Blue Party.

Ali Hosny, Green

Hosny, 59, is a business and management consultant. He said the top issues facing people of the riding include health care, cost of living and government oversight. 

"I am not a career politician — I am a member of the community who has worked, paid my taxes, been on the ground seeing how real life works, and I learned that leadership should serve the people, not political insiders," he said.

Hosny said if elected, he would push for transparency in budgeting and establish a "stronger independent review process" for policies.

Kaniz Mouli, Liberal

Mouli did not answer CBC's questionnaire before publication. She ran in 2022 for the MPP seat in the riding and is a senior manager of change management enablement at the Royal Bank of Canada.

Caleb Smolenaars, NDP

Smolenaars, 20, is a McMaster labour studies student and works with CUPE Local 3906. They were also an intern for MPPs Sol Mamakwa and Kristyn Wong-Tam.

At 15, Smolenaars protested outside Triantafilopoulos's office after they said they were met with a locked door despite having a scheduled meeting with her organized by Students Say No. Triantafilopoulos said at the time the situation was mischaracterized.

"I didn't decide to go into politics," they said in CBC's survey. "The world where I was raised is inherently political. Every action we take in a capitalist society is political. Unless you're a member of the privileged ultra-rich, politics will always impact you."

Smolenaars is a community organizer and union worker. They said they have experience in labour, climate justice, and human rights organizations and said they want to "fight for the working class."

Effie Triantafilopoulos, PC

Triantafilopoulos did not answer CBC's questionnaire before publication. She was the first MPP of the riding in 2018 and was reelected in 2022. She also ran and lost in Mississauga-Lakeshore, then named Mississauga South in 2014.

In November she promised over $6 million "to boost local manufacturing" and create new jobs in the riding.

Also running

• Charles Wroblewski, New Blue Party: A PhD student in biological engineering, he is also a child of Polish immigrants, according to his riding profile.