Bonnie Crombie has officially registered as a Mississauga mayoral candidate
Doug Ford’s army should be arriving any day now
Bonnie Crombie has officially registered to run for mayor of Mississauga—again.
Crombie was the city’s mayor from 2014 until becoming the Ontario Liberal leader in 2024. She stepped down from that position after running in the 2025 provincial election in Mississauga East—Cooksville and losing, then earning just 57 per cent of her party’s support in a leadership review vote.
“I’m staying, and I will see it through. This is the job that I chose over any other, and I’m going to complete it. And I have something to prove,” Crombie told reporters today after submitting her mayoral registration.
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“I know that last time I ran here in Mississauga for mayor, I received 78 per cent of the vote,” she added. “I know that I’m not the incumbent. I know that I’m not the frontrunner. But what I do know is that I have the experience and the leadership, and I’m going to work very hard to earn people’s trust.”
Last March, Premier Doug Ford said he’d “send an army down here” to help incumbent Carolyn Parrish defeat Crombie in the event that she decided to run, calling Crombie’s tenure “an absolute disaster.”
Crombie seemed prepared to answer journalists’ questions about Ford, saying today, “The premier and I have had our differences in the past, but we have also proven that we can work very collaboratively together. I want a strong, prosperous, affordable Mississauga, and he wants the same for the province of Ontario, and so we have aligned interests.”
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
