Doug Ford “will send an army down here” if Bonnie Crombie runs for mayor of Mississauga
Extreme language amid fears of ICE at the World Cup and news that Toronto police will soon carry semi-automatic rifles, no?
Premier Doug Ford didn’t exactly mince words when speaking to reporters at a housing construction site in Mississauga today.
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If former Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie were to run for the city’s mayorship again, he “will send an army down here” to help incumbent Carolyn Parrish defeat her, he said, as reported by the Toronto Star. He called Crombie’s tenure as mayor “an absolute disaster.”
Crombie was Mississauga’s mayor from 2014 until becoming the Liberal leader in 2023. She stepped down from that position in January and has reportedly been considering another run for mayor in October’s municipal election.
“So what I say to mayor Bonnie Crombie: bring it on, let’s go, we’re ready,” Ford said.
Crombie declined to comment when contacted by the Star.
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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.
