Former Mississauga mayor Bonnie Crombie says bringing a subway line to the city will be among her top priorities should voters return her to the office she previously held for a decade.

Crombie said today that if she claims victory when the dust settles on election night next Monday, she’ll get things moving on the subway plan within her first 100 days in office.

Her goal, Crombie told the media in Mississauga’s downtown core on Tuesday morning, is to extend the TTC’s Line 2 (Bloor-Danforth) west from Kipling to serve Sherway Gardens and then continue into the heart of Mississauga’s City Centre by Square One Shopping Centre.

The extension would allow residents to board the subway in Mississauga and “travel directly into Toronto’s subway network,” Crombie, who served as Mississauga mayor from 2014 to 2024 before leaving to lead the Ontario Liberal Party, explained.

“Too many people leave home before their children wake up and struggle to get back for dinner,” said Crombie. “Residents deserve more time with their families and better access to jobs and opportunities. Bringing the subway to Mississauga would help build that future.”

Crombie, incumbent Mayor Carolyn Parrish and Mississauga city councillors Alvin Tedjo and Dipika Damerla are the four main candidates in a field of 14 hopefuls vying for the mayor’s chair in Canada’s seventh-largest city.

With record-setting advance polling taking place earlier this month, the remainder of eligible voters in Mississauga will cast their ballots, should they choose to do so, on Oct. 26.

Regarding her subway plan, Crombie said that within her first 100 days in office, should she win, she will:

Meet with the Ontario government, Metrolinx (provincial transit agency), Toronto and the Toronto Transit Commission to advance a joint business case and seek agreement on its scope, funding, responsibilities and delivery schedule.
Meet with federal representatives to seek support for planning and begin discussions about federal participation in funding the project.
Bring a motion to city council to initiate Mississauga’s participation in the business case, identify the city’s share of planning funding and direct staff to negotiate the necessary partnership agreements.

The Crombie campaign said the business case for a subway extension into Mississauga would “examine potential routes and stations, ridership, construction and operating costs, and connections to the wider transit network.

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“It would assess the Dundas corridor alongside other technically feasible alignments and examine whether elevated construction along suitable sections could reduce costs and construction time.”

Furthermore, Crombie will seek to have the jointly funded study underway within the first year, with an agreed target of completing the initial business case within two years of taking office.

“Its findings would guide subsequent engineering, environmental work and funding negotiations needed to move towards construction,” Crombie’s campaign team said in a news release on Tuesday. “Quarterly public reports would track completed work, spending, funding commitments and outstanding decisions.”

This map of what a subway line extended to Square One in Mississauga would look like accompanied a story INSAUGA Canada ran in 2018.

Extending the Toronto subway line to Square One in Mississauga has been discussed countless times over the past several decades.

Parrish, who won a mayoral byelection in June 2024 to succeed Crombie, has told INSAUGA Canada on several occasions the past couple of years she supports extending the Toronto subway into Mississauga’s City Centre from Kipling station.

But, she said in an early 2025 interview, only if the provincial government picks up the tab.

Former mayor Hazel McCallion didn’t want a Mississauga subway

The notion of extending the subway line into Mississauga has been considered numerous times going back to the 1980s, but former longtime Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion wasn’t interested in such a plan.

Parrish told INSAUGA Canada in February 2025 that McCallion had two opportunities from then-Ontario premier Bill Davis “for a fully funded provincial subway out to Square One and she refused it both times.”

Last week, a new INSAUGA Canada poll showed a majority of respondents don’t believe Mississauga will ever get a subway, despite billions of dollars being invested in rapid transit in the city.

The poll asked readers: Will Mississauga ever get a subway?

Of the 2,979 votes cast, 57.4 per cent, or 1,710 respondents, said “No, never.”

Another 42.6 per cent, or 1,269 people, said “Yes, it’s only a matter of time.”

A survey of 1,000 Mississauga residents in early October conducted by Liaison Strategies, meanwhile, found 65 per cent support extending subway service to downtown Mississauga near Square One, while 20 per cent oppose the idea and 15 per cent are unsure.


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