On Saturday, Poilievre spent the morning door knocking with Hamilton East-Stoney Creek CPC candidate Ned Kuruc. Pictured: Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. Photo Credit: Pierre Poilievre/X.
Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) Leader Pierre Poilievre, who is campaigning to oust Justin Trudeau and become the next Prime Minister of Canada, visited Hamilton and Stoney Creek this past Friday and Saturday.
Social media posts from Poilievre’s X account (formerly Twitter) detailed his schedule.
First, Poilievre tweeted that he visited S.M. Cladding Solutions on Arvin Avenue in Stoney Creek near Green Road.
The company describes themselves as “a small yet extremely capable master fabrication company specializing in aluminum composite panels and profiled metal siding.”
Poilievre tweeted: “The workers at S.M. Cladding Solutions in Stoney Creek make buildings that stand the test of time. Common sense Conservatives will cut the bureaucracy and red tape, so they keep working to build, build, build.”
He then stopped at Tube-Mac Piping Technologies, also on Arvin Avenue in Stoney Creek but at Glover Road, which is a piping system repair and installation business.
After that, Poilievre visited Miceli’s Bakery in Stoney Creek on Barton Street near Dewitt Road, which he called a “must-stop.”
He then dropped in at the construction site of the new Muse Condos building by DeSantis Homes on Green Road at the North Service Road in Stoney Creek.
Poilievre tweeted: “DeSantis Homes built their first home in 1959. Since then, they have put thousands of roofs over heads in Southern Ontario. My common-sense plan will reward cities that remove gatekeepers so great builders like them can bring homes Canadians can afford.”
Poilievre also had an espresso at Azzuri Sports Club at Highway 8 and Green Road.
He then moved west into Hamilton, visiting trucking and logistics company Tandet at Barton Street East near Woodward Avenue and Ontario Shipyards shipbuilding and repair at Pier 15.
On Friday evening, he held an event at the Hamilton Italian Centre near Upper Wentworth Street and Stone Church Road East, operated by the Sons and Daughters of Italy (SDI) Hamilton Community Group.
Poilievre tweeted: “Hamilton’s Italian community told me that when their grandparents arrived in Canada, they could buy homes and pay them off in 10 years working as labourers. Now their grandkids, who graduated and got jobs, can barely afford rent.”
On Saturday, Poilievre spent the morning door knocking with Hamilton East-Stoney Creek CPC candidate Ned Kuruc.
Kuruc ran for the Conservatives in the riding in 2021, coming second to Liberal Chad Collins, but was recently nominated by the party to run again in 2025.
The Hamilton Independent spoke to Kuruc, who said, “It was amazing to have Pierre come to Hamilton East-Stoney Creek twice in two months. We have visited over a dozen businesses and events and the reception has been overwhelming.”
“The message at the door is clear, affordability is the number one issue. People in this area want to axe the tax. People see hope in Pierre. We won’t let them down,” he continued.
Current polling projections for Hamilton East-Stoney Creek seem to back Kuruc’s analysis.
According to electoral projections by statistician and political commentator Philippe J. Fournier, who founded the site 338Canada, the Conservatives would have a 97 per cent chance of winning Hamilton East-Stoney Creek if an election were held today.
The riding was created in 2004 and has never been won by the Conservatives in its 20-year history.
Based in Hamilton, he reaches hundreds of thousands of people monthly on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter. He has been published in The Hamilton Spectator, Stoney Creek News, and Bay Observer. He has also been a segment host with Cable 14 Hamilton. In 2017, he received the Chancellor Full Tuition Scholarship from the University of Ottawa (BA, 2022). He has also received the Governor General’s Academic Medal. He formerly worked in a non-partisan role on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
