Pierrefonds—Dollard

Pierrefonds—Dollard is a federal electoral district occupying the northwest corner of the Island of Montreal, bordered by the Lac des Deux Montagnes and the Rivière des Prairies. The riding includes the Montreal boroughs of Pierrefonds-Roxboro and L’Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève, as well as the City of Dollard-des-Ormeaux. Part of Montreal’s West Island, the riding is one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse constituencies in Quebec, with roughly 38% of residents born outside Canada and large anglophone, francophone, and allophone populations.

Candidates

Sameer Zuberi (Liberal) — Born in Montreal and raised in Laval in a multicultural family—his mother of Scottish and Italian descent, his father a Pakistani immigrant—Zuberi served with The Black Watch reserve unit from 1997 to 2002 and assisted during the 1998 Ice Storm. He earned a BA in mathematics from Concordia University in 2004, taught English in Kuwait, then joined the National Council of Canadian Muslims in Ottawa as media relations and human rights coordinator. He later obtained a law degree from UQAM in 2014 and served as diversity and engagement officer at McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine. First elected in 2019 after winning the Liberal nomination, he served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities.

Terry Roberts (Conservative) — Roberts spent twelve years in the Canadian Armed Forces before transitioning to a 25-year civilian career in engineering and human resources consulting services.

Maninderjit Kaur Tumbar (NDP) — A Montreal-raised graduate of UQAM who studied animation and cultural research, Tumbar was active in community and school volunteer organizations.

Nadia Bourque (Bloc Québécois)

Mark Sibthorpe (People’s Party)

About the Riding

Pierrefonds—Dollard embodies the West Island’s suburban, multicultural character. Dollard-des-Ormeaux—a demerged municipality that regained its independence from the City of Montreal in 2006—is a middle-class residential community with a strong sense of civic identity and a population drawn from dozens of countries of origin. The borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro, situated along the Rivière des Prairies, mixes established post-war subdivisions with newer developments pushing toward the island’s northern waterfront. L’Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève, the most rural of the riding’s components, includes a nature park on Île Bizard and retains traces of its agricultural past.

The riding’s linguistic profile is remarkably balanced—roughly 30% of residents speak English as their mother tongue, a similar proportion speak French, and the remainder speak a non-official language, with Arabic, Greek, and Spanish most prevalent. This trilingual reality shapes everything from local school-board politics to community programming. Manufacturing is the leading employment sector, followed by retail trade, though many residents commute eastward toward Montreal’s downtown core.

Flooding along the Rivière des Prairies—particularly the severe spring floods of 2017 and 2019—has been a galvanizing local issue, raising questions about infrastructure resilience, building regulations in floodplains, and the adequacy of federal disaster-relief programs. Transit access, community safety, and the preservation of green corridors in a rapidly developing area also figure prominently in local political debate.