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Ontario Liberal chief Bonnie Crombie, proven right here throughout her ultimate assembly at Mississauga metropolis council in January 2024.
Former Mississauga mayor and now chief of the provincial Liberals Bonnie Crombie delivered a message to Ontario voters from her marketing campaign workplace on Thursday morning.
As Crombie, Premier Doug Ford, NDP chief Marit Stiles and Inexperienced Social gathering chief Mike Schreiner kicked off their respective provincial election campaigns this week, Crombie introduced she’d be working within the driving of Mississauga East-Cooksville.
“It’s time to change the direction of this province,” the previous mayor of Canada’s seventh-largest metropolis mentioned throughout a go to to her Mississauga marketing campaign workplace. “It’s so great to be back here in my home of Mississauga and to have my name on the ballot in this amazing city again.”
Crombie, who left the mayor’s seat in Mississauga simply over one yr in the past to helm the provincial Liberals, will attempt to unseat Ford within the Feb. 27 election.
The Liberal chief gained’t must take care of an incumbent MPP in Mississauga East-Cooksville. Khaleed Rasheed held that seat since being elected as a Conservative in 2018. Nonetheless, he left the PC caucus in 2023 over the Greenbelt scandal and has since mentioned he is not going to be in search of re-election.
As Premier, I’d make it possible for each individual in Ontario has a household physician in 4 years. pic.twitter.com/RM3q8AU0bE
— Bonnie Crombie 🇨🇦 (@BonnieCrombie) January 29, 2025
Supporters of Crombie imagine she will be able to make a powerful exhibiting within the upcoming election due to her reputation within the metropolis that noticed her seize three phrases as mayor.
Crombie had not represented a provincial driving for greater than a yr since being chosen because the Liberal chief.
She was first elected to workplace on the federal stage when she turned a Member of Parliament within the driving of Mississauga-Streetsville within the 2008 election. In 2011, she misplaced that seat to present Mississauga metropolis councillor Brad Butt, who ran as a Conservative.
However later that yr, Crombie captured the Ward 5 seat on Mississauga council in a byelection that she narrowly gained over present Mayor Carolyn Parrish.
In 2014, Crombie efficiently ran for mayor of Mississauga, following within the footsteps of Hazel McCallion. Crombie held that place till she stepped right down to turn into the Liberal chief.
— with recordsdata from Steve Pecar
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