Canada election 2025: Sudbury
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Sudbury is a federal riding located in Ontario.
This riding is currently represented by Liberal MP Viviane Lapointe who first took office in 2021. Lapointe collected 15,871 votes, winning 34.52 per cent of the vote in the 2021 federal election.
Voters will decide who will represent Sudbury in Ontario during the upcoming Canadian election on April 28, 2025.
Visit this page on election night for a complete breakdown of up to the minute results.
Candidates
Liberal: Viviane Lapointe (Incumbent)
Conservative: Ian Symington
NDP: Nadia Verrelli
People's Party: Nicholas Bonderoff
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The cannabis shops, they came here and they just have brought a lot of destruction, said Albany. What we fought for in '90 is what we're still fighting for today, said Cupples. But now, it's not against the golf course, it's not against Oka — it's against our own people … whose minds have been infected by greed. Enlarge image (new window) A deep trench, stretching back into the forest, has been dug behind the Big Chief's Variety cannabis megastore in Kanehsatà:ke, a Mohawk First Nation located southwest of Montreal. Photo: CBC/Brenda Witmer In the summer of 1990, the Canadian military laid siege to Kanehsatà:ke after community members tried to stop a golf course expansion from razing an area known as The Pines and desecrating their graveyard. A botched Sûreté du Québec (SQ) raid on the blockade triggered a 78-day armed standoff. After the tanks rolled out, Kanehsatà:ke was left on its own to find its footing. With the majority of its land-claim matters remaining unresolved, and the conflict casting a long shadow, its band council struggled to generate a sustainable economy. While tobacco stores sprung up and brought some wealth to the community, Canada's legalization of cannabis in 2018 opened a new realm of opportunity. Today, dozens of cannabis shops crowd Route 344, which cuts through Kanehsatà:ke. Some are just small, shack-like stores. Others are hulking buildings, with electronic billboards and placards offering more than just cheap weed; they advertise magic mushrooms, booze, slot machines and gasoline. Some of these cannabis megastores host parties and events that have attracted floods of outsiders, at times overwhelming the territory, which has a population of about 1,500 to 1,700 people. Serge Simon, whose family runs two small cannabis shops, built off years of selling tobacco, said the community now faces disaster. Eventually it's going to implode, because they're going too far, too fast, said Simon, who spent 10 years as grand chief, up until 2021. He's running again now, one of three candidates in an recently delayed election (new window) . Heavy traffic is shown around the cannabis megastores lining Highway 344, which cuts through Kanehsatà:ke, on April 20, 2025. Photo: Big Chief's Variety/TikTok Kanehsatà:ke currently has no internal laws to govern these megastores, which operate outside federal and provincial licensing frameworks. The territory also doesn't have its own police force; it was disbanded in 2004 after a disastrous (new window) , federally funded police raid. (new window) The SQ regularly patrols the highway, but typically only gets involved in serious incidents. Community members told CBC News that recent conflicts over cannabis operations have become violent, sometimes resulting in middle-of-the-night arson attacks. 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