New Leaf Liberals looking to give Bonnie Crombie the old heave ho!

By Staff

June 13^th, 2025

BURLINGTON, ON

The news on the fund raiser that brought in xxx for the Ontario Liberals was less than a day old when word of a group, described as a “grassroots movement,” is planning to mount a push to defeat the Liberal leader at the party’s annual general meeting in September.

Bonnie Crombie: charged with an “inability to undertake the necessary steps to rebuild our party.”

They go by “New Leaf Liberals,” and they’re gearing up to challenge Bonnie Crombie’s leadership in the fall.

While organizers wouldn’t disclose the full strategy yet (“stay tuned,” we’re told), the group launched an online petition calling for “renewal” this morning.

Aiming to grow the rank-and-file, “win back” trust, expand the candidate and volunteer base and modernize campaign infrastructure, the group is calling for a ground-up overhaul — and new leadership to lead it.

They blame Crombie for her “inability to undertake the necessary steps to rebuild our party.”

“We believe that there needs to be some accountability from Bonnie Crombie and her team,” the organizers wrote in a document reviewed by this reporter.

What they want: The group is asking Crombie to quit if she is unable to clinch a two-thirds majority at the convention, and to pledge to freeze the delegate list and leave any vacancies as-is.   They don’t want the Crombie crowd to pad the delegate list with their supporters..