Burnaby North—Seymour

Burnaby North—Seymour spans the northern portion of the City of Burnaby and reaches across Burrard Inlet to include the eastern section of the District of North Vancouver. On the Burnaby side, the riding takes in the neighbourhoods of Burnaby Heights, Capitol Hill, and the Simon Fraser University campus atop Burnaby Mountain. On the North Shore, it encompasses the area east of Lynn Creek, including the communities of Seymour, Deep Cove, and Dollarton, as well as the Seymour Creek 2 and Burrard Inlet 3 Indian reserves. Created in 2012, the riding bridges two geographically distinct areas connected by the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing.

Candidates

Terry Beech (Liberal) has represented Burnaby North—Seymour since 2015, when he won the newly created riding. First elected to municipal office as a city councillor at age 18, Beech later became an entrepreneur before entering federal politics. In Ottawa, he served as Parliamentary Secretary for multiple portfolios, including Fisheries and Oceans, Transport, and Science, and was appointed Minister of Citizens’ Services from 2023 to 2025.

Mauro Francis (Conservative) is the Executive Director of the South Vancouver Community Policing Centre, where he works with the Vancouver Police Department on crime-prevention initiatives. The son of a Panamanian immigrant father and Sicilian-Canadian mother, Francis has volunteered with the East End Boys Club for over ten years and previously worked on Pierre Poilievre’s leadership campaign.

Michael Charrois (NDP) is a professional actor and theatre arts instructor at Burnaby’s Shadbolt Centre for the Arts with four decades of experience in film, television, and stage. He has been an NDP candidate in previous federal and provincial elections in the North Vancouver area and served as a constituency advisor in a provincial MLA’s office for five years.

Jesse Fulton (People’s Party) ran on the PPC platform.

About the Riding

Burnaby North—Seymour’s split geography gives it a dual character. The Burnaby side is urban and rapidly densifying, with new residential towers rising along the SkyTrain corridor and around Brentwood and Lougheed town centres. Simon Fraser University, perched atop Burnaby Mountain, anchors a significant educational and research presence and shapes the area’s younger demographic profile. The North Shore portion is more suburban and rugged, with forested mountain slopes dropping to the waterfront communities of Deep Cove and Dollarton along Indian Arm.

Transportation infrastructure is a defining issue for the riding. The Second Narrows bridge and the Trans-Canada Highway corridor carry heavy commuter traffic between the North Shore and the rest of Metro Vancouver, and congestion has been a persistent frustration for residents. The expansion of rapid transit—including proposals for a SkyTrain extension to North Vancouver—has been a recurring campaign theme.

In 2025, the riding’s voters confronted familiar Metro Vancouver pressures: housing costs that have outpaced income growth for years, strained healthcare capacity, and environmental concerns ranging from pipeline infrastructure to wildfire smoke events that have become an annual occurrence. The threat of US tariffs added an economic dimension, given the port and logistics facilities that ring Burrard Inlet and employ residents on both sides of the water. Public safety and drug-policy concerns, particularly around the opioid crisis and its visible effects on North Shore communities, also featured prominently in the campaign.