Former mayor of Mississauga now on the Ontario campaign trail [Video]

Ontario Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie, shown here during her final meeting at Mississauga city council in January 2024.

Former Mississauga mayor and now leader of the provincial Liberals Bonnie Crombie delivered a message to Ontario voters from her campaign office on Thursday morning.

As Crombie, Premier Doug Ford, NDP leader Marit Stiles and Green Party leader Mike Schreiner kicked off their respective provincial election campaigns this week, Crombie announced she’d be running in the riding of Mississauga East-Cooksville.

“It’s time to change the direction of this province,” the former mayor of Canada’s seventh-largest city said during a visit to her Mississauga campaign office. “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 just over one year agoto helm the provincial Liberals, will try to unseat Ford in …