ONE on ONE: Ontario Premier candidate Bonnie Crombie [Video]

A dire need for more “properly funded” public transit, fixing a “crumbling economy” and the tariff threat from south of the border are several top-of-mind matters for provincial Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie as she seeks to unseat Ontario Premier Doug Ford in the upcoming election.

“I want to get people out of their cars and into public transit,” Crombie, former mayor of Mississauga, told INsauga.com publisher Khaled Iwamura this week in a wide-ranging interview (see video below).

Crombie, who’s running in the riding of Mississauga East-Cooksville, said the province is 35 or 40 years behind “in investing in public transit in the urban areas” and that must change if Ontario municipalities and residents are to thrive.

She added she has a “great relationship” with Ontario mayors, having chaired the Ontario Big City Mayors group, and she’d “invest in their public transit systems. We may have to take some of that …