Know your riding — Canada Votes 2025: Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations

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Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations encompasses the City of Brantford, part of Brant County, including Onondaga and Burtch, as well as Six Nations of the Grand River and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.

The riding has a population of 121,511. 

Brantford—Brant South—Six Nations recently changed names in 2023 from just Brantford—Brant, making it slightly larger and acknowledging Six Nations to the riding's southeast.

Conservative candidate Larry Brock was elected for the first time in 2021, where he won by close to 8,000 votes and is now seeking re-election. The riding has had a Conservative Member of Parliament since 2008.

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

Larry Brock, Conservative

Brock did not respond to CBC Hamilton's survey before publication.

His website says he was an assistant crown attorney and a prosecutor before going into politics. He also lectured at Mohawk College to police foundations students.

Karleigh Csordas, Green

Karleigh Csordas, 30, is a customer success manager at a local tech company. She also went to the University of Waterloo and spent years working in healthcare before stepping into politics. She has worked as a recreation therapist and a physiotherapy assistant.

Csordas was also the Green candidate for the Brantford-Brant riding in the Ontario election in February.

"With this being my fourth election, I'm proud to show up for our community and to bring your voices to Ottawa on everything from tariffs to housing to grocery prices," she said.

She said with U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to Canada's sovereignty, "we're already seeing the pressure to erode our climate commitments, dismantle social programs, and fall in line with American extremism."

Csordas said slogans "are not policies" and she encourages voters to "look past the slogans and examine what real policies support them."

Joy O'Donnell, Liberal

Joy O'Donnell, 57, is a financial planner and business owner.

She said her 30-year background in financial planning has allowed her to "understand what is needed for my riding in terms of fighting the Trump tariffs."

She said the riding has been identified as one of the most vulnerable "in terms of tariff," and said she's committed to protecting the livelihood "of the citizens of our riding in every way I can."

"I understand that this is the fight of a lifetime for our economic security," she said.

O'Donnell also has a community volunteer background, she said, which has given her "insight into the health, social services and environmental challenges in the riding and what needs to be done to address them."

Anne Gajerski-Cauley, NDP

Anne Gajerski-Cauley, 64, is a part-time minister at the United Church of Canada. She is also a full time caregiver for her son with autism. 

She said people need NDP members of Parliament to fight for the needs of those who are ignored by other parties, "seniors, part time and gig economy workers, and people who have high economic and health care needs."

She also said an NDP government would fulfil the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

This is important for this particular riding, she said, which contains the most populated First Nations reserve in Canada.

Nicholas Xenos, People's Party of Canada (PPC)

Nicholas Xenos, 58, is a senior management in information technology.

Xenos said if elected, he would advocate for government and democratic reform, "such as the implementation of proportional representation in our elections." He also said he would promote closer relations with countries like Australia, New Zealand or explore Canada becoming part of the European Union, support the creation of an Indigenous parliament, among other things.

"I believe that the growing divisiveness and polarization in our politics can only be combated by politicians and parties that are less dogmatic and more willing to engage with conflicting viewpoints. If elected, I would do my best to be respectful and open minded towards people with different views," he said.

Also running

• Clo Marie, Independent: Marie is listed under the Revolution Party's website. Marie is a law student at Wilfrid Laurier University and said they're running because they "care about human rights and social justice."
• Leslie Bory, Independent: Bory was convicted of four charges after a trial in January, for advocating genocide, promotion of hate and two counts of uttering threats. He was sentenced to time served, which was 23 months of pretrial incarceration, his defence lawyer, Ian McCuaig, told CBC Hamilton. His candidacy has prompted concerns from Jewish organization, The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre, which said it's "deeply concerned" that Bory will have access to a list of voters in his riding, including at-risk community members. No further information on his current campaign was easily available online.
• Mike Clancy, Independent: according to his website, Clancy is "a champion for a mature democracy." "Together, we can build a nation that truly belongs to, protects, and cares for all its citizens," it reads.