Rob Burton
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Oct 30, 2026
Steve PaikinHOST
Now, we're going to make a bit of a list here because there were a lot of mayors who were defeated this past Monday night all over the province.
Steve PaikinHOST
There was Rob Burton in Oakville, Jim DiDaddy in Niagara Falls.
Steve PaikinHOST
Brian Patterson in Kingston, Michelle Boileau in Timmins, Jan Liggett in Cambridge, Dorothy McCabe in Waterloo, Wayne Redicop in Fort Erie, Mike Bradley in Sarnia.
Steve PaikinHOST
Mike's been the mayor there since 1988 and an MPP as well.
Jerry AgarHOST
All right.
Jerry AgarHOST
Now, in this particular election, just the mayoral election of Toronto versus everything else, including the councillors or other districts, other cities, it was 54 percent.
Jerry AgarHOST
And Bradford was in the 40s.
Jerry AgarHOST
And so the third place finisher was Braden Chow, and he got less than 1 percent, 0.08 or something like that, 0.8 percent.
Jerry AgarHOST
And so the 52 other people running, including Braden Chao, were really not a factor.
Jerry AgarHOST
But in many council races and sometimes in mayoral races, certainly in Mississauga, Ted Joe didn't win that with over 50 percent.
Jerry AgarHOST
I think there needs to be a much higher bar in order to get your name on a ballot.
Jerry AgarHOST
Do you agree?
Michelle DubéHOST
He is Canada's longest-serving mayor and had been in office since the year 1980.
Michelle DubéHOST
Oakville's Rob Burton went down in defeat.
Michelle DubéHOST
So too did the mayor of Niagara Falls, Jim Diodati.
Michelle DubéHOST
Sticking with border communities, the mayors of Windsor and Sarnia also went down in defeat.
John MooreHOST
Maybe he should have, you know, quietly retired.
John MooreHOST
Mayor Dilkens, Mayor Diodati, Burton, Horvath.
John MooreHOST
It was there were a lot of surprises there.
Mark TooheyGUEST
Yeah, Horvath is perhaps different from the others in that she was first-term mayor.
Mark TooheyGUEST
Milton has changed completely since he was first elected in 1802.
Mark TooheyGUEST
And, you know, I think people like him, but it's time for a change.
Mark TooheyGUEST
Rob Burton, personally, I never liked him since he took shots at Canadian military veterans when they were happened to be working for Stephen Harper.
Mark TooheyGUEST
The ones that surprised me, though, were Drew Dilkens and Jim Diodati.
Oct 27 · 1 Mention
John MooreHOST
Mayor Enmeid Ward is back, perhaps not surprisingly.
John MooreHOST
Jeff Knoll elected as Oakville's next mayor, defeating Rob Burton.
John MooreHOST
So some more change, another one of the upsets.
Jason AgnewGUEST
Yeah, John, and this one in particular, you know, I think that Milton will have great things to say about Gord Cranston.
Scott FoxHOST
Oakville.
Scott FoxHOST
This is an interesting one because Rob Burton is running for reelection.
Scott FoxHOST
Julia Hanna has run for this position before and narrowly missed.
Scott FoxHOST
Is this the election in Oakville where Julia Hanna cuts through or are Oakville residents content with how things have gone for the last four years and want four more years of Rob Burton? I think Rob is probably going to win this one, although I do like Julia.
Scott FoxHOST
I actually know her, and I think she would make a great mayor, but this is a rematch in Oakville.
Scott FoxHOST
A couple more quickly.
Scott FoxHOST
Oakville.
Scott FoxHOST
This is an interesting one because Rob Burton is running for reelection.
Scott FoxHOST
Julia Hanna has run for this position before and narrowly missed.
Scott FoxHOST
Is this the election in Oakville where Julia Hanna cuts through or are Oakville residents content with how things have gone for the last four years and want four more years of Rob Burton? I think Rob is probably going to win this one, although I do like Julia.
Scott FoxHOST
I actually know her, and I think she would make a great mayor.
Scott FoxHOST
But this is a rematch in Oakville.
Jason AgnewCORRESPONDENT
They do indeed.
Jason AgnewCORRESPONDENT
So if we take a look at Oakville, this might be the most controversial of the four municipalities that we're covering because Mayor Rob Burton, much like Gord Krantz, he's been there for a while, 20 years as mayor, was full on considering retirement, told me he was not sure of running.
Jason AgnewCORRESPONDENT
Turns out there is a story going around, as reported by one of his competitors and a councillor, Jeff Knoll, that he told everyone that he was going to retire and jeff and encouraged jeff noel to step into the race he did so and a mere half hour before the deadline to run for mayor mayor burton jumped back into the race and now you've got jeff noel who's a counselor running against him you've got sean o'meara who's a counselor running against him And his biggest foe over the past couple elections, 2018 and 2022, is Julia Hanna, who's a restaurateur.
Jason AgnewCORRESPONDENT
In 2022, she managed 47% of the vote to Burton's 49% of the vote.
Anthony QuinnPANELIST
He's, he's served 20 years.
Anthony QuinnPANELIST
Uh, Rob Burton is the incumbent, and there are a number of, uh, city councilors, uh, current city councilors who are running against him.
Anthony QuinnPANELIST
Uh, look, looking at, uh, you know, my, my own view of, of the Oakville area, one of those candidates running for mayor who is willing to give up their, uh, seat on council is hoping to get appointed to the regional chair job that the province has now made, uh, by appointment rather than by election.
Anthony QuinnPANELIST
So, uh, in our democracy, we've lost the chance to vote for regional, uh, chairs, and now the government's going to appoint, but I think the, the mayoral race is a, uh, an application form for the regional chair job.
DavidHOST
And it goes on and on.
DavidHOST
We've got Oakville Mayor Rob Burton was particularly critical of the Liberal government's immigration and refugee intake policies, noting that mass immigration broke the housing market by increasing demand that municipalities were not prepared for.
DavidHOST
Now, guess who had a real estate development company? It was Justin Trudeau.
DavidHOST
It benefited him and all of Carney's well-connected CEO buddies who want all this cheap labor coming in.
DavidHOST
That's why the PQ just won.
DavidHOST
All this horrendous immigration, not bringing in the best and brightest, bringing in the dangerous terror lords from South Asia that are attacking our doctors and engineers.
DavidHOST
We've got Rob Burton here saying Ottawa broke the housing market with an unsustainable and unpredicted and unprepared for increase in demand from their massive increase in immigration.
DavidHOST
Hamilton mayor and former premier, Andrea Horwath, on the other hand, responded that immigration was needed, but the federal and provincial governments failed to account for all those who are needed where they would live.