For nearly a decade, Bonnie Crombie ran Mississauga. Then, days after winning the Ontario Liberal leadership in December 2023, she set her sights higher — stepping down as mayor in January 2024 to try to become premier.
It didn't work. In the February 2025 election, the Liberals were shut out of the premier's office, and Crombie didn't even win a seat in the legislature — voters in her own riding of Mississauga East–Cooksville rejected her, choosing Silvia Gualtieri instead. For the first time in over a decade, Crombie held no elected office at all.
She said she'd stay on as Liberal leader anyway. Eleven months later, she was gone from that job too — and this past summer, she registered to run for the very office she'd walked away from.