Only independent Ontario MPP to win in 2022 says PC big machine targeting her riding [Video]

Bobbi Ann Brady says she pulled off the “unthinkable” in 2022 when she won a southwestern Ontario seat in the legislature running as an independent candidate.

The former Progressive Conservative chose to run an independent campaign after a disagreement over how the local Tory candidate was appointed before the last election — and won.

“What we pulled off in 2022 was really the unthinkable,” Brady told Focus Ontario. “And because it was the unthinkable, they’re really coming for us hard right now — we are the underdog.”

The riding of Haldimand—Norfolk which Brady has represented for the past three years was among the safest Progressive Conservative seats.

Every election from 1995, through years of Liberal and PC government, it had voted blue. Brady herself had long associations with the party and had worked as an aide to Toby Barrett, the Progressive Conservative MPP until 2018.

But when Barrett opted not to …