“I grew up in an Ontario that worked on a simple deal. You show up, you work hard, and Ontario gives you the opportunity to build a good life,” he says, before formally declaring his bid to lead the Ontario Liberal Party.
Over the coming days, QPB will roll out rankings across multiple categories. We begin with the ministers respondents viewed as the most influential and effective members of Premier Doug Ford’s government.
Under Bill 9, Ontario municipalities will move from a patchwork of locally designed ethics frameworks to a standardized code of conduct applied across the province’s 444 municipalities. The law would also create, for the first time, a mechanism to remove municipal politicians from office in the most serious cases.
Bains registered Monday with Elections Ontario to run in the Ontario Liberal leadership race, formally launching a bid that had been the subject of speculation for weeks after QP Briefing and iPolitics first reported in April that senior Liberals were encouraging him to enter the contest.
The province, Ford said, would intervene in support of the region. He said that legislation invoking Section 33 of the Charter would only come later, if necessary.
Mulroney, who currently serves as Ontario’s Treasury Board president and minister of Francophone affairs, said the decision followed a period of personal reflection prompted by the death of her father, former prime minister Brian Mulroney, and a major transition in family life.
Erskine-Smith was vying to represent the provincial party in the upcoming Scarborough Southwest byelection but lost a nomination race on May 9 to business owner Ahsanul Hafiz by 19 votes.
