Liberals Bonnie Crombie chooses riding as Doug Ford readies early Ontario vote [Video]

Ontario Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie has chosen the riding she will run in for the province’s looming election.

Crombie told Global News Radio 640 Toronto Tuesday she will run in Mississauga East-Cooksville — a riding held by Kaleed Rasheed, a former Progressive-Conservative (PC) minister who left the party in 2023 over a Greenbelt-adjacent scandal.

Rasheed, now an independent MPP, said in October he would not be seeking re-election, but would stay on until the end of his term.

Crombie has been without a seat in Queen’s Park since her successful leadership bid for the Liberal Party in December 2023. Mississauga is familiar territory for Crombie, who served as the city’s mayor before stepping down to run for the Liberal leadership. Before her tenure as the city’s top elected official, Crombie was a city councillor and an MP for Mississauga-Streetsville.

Crombie will be hoping to poke a hole in the PC’s stronghold of Mississauga as the …