{"id":176717,"date":"2025-09-29T02:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/176717\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T02:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:46:07","slug":"ontario-liberal-party-begins-process-to-choose-new-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/176717\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Liberal Party begins process to choose new leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario Liberal Party (OLP) says they\u2019ve started the process to select their next leader, who will replace <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2025\/09\/14\/bonnie-crombie-resigns-as-ontario-liberal-party-leader\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bonnie Crombie after she resigned earlier this month.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a news release Sunday afternoon, the party\u2019s executive council says they\u2019ve approved the formation of a \u201cLeadership Vote Committee\u201d to oversee the leadership contest. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an exciting moment for our Party,\u201d said Kathryn McGarry, President of the Ontario Liberal Party. \u201cWe are continuing the important work of rebuilding and renewing our movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The committee will be led by the party\u2019s treasurer Gabriel S\u00e9kaly, and will include\u00a0McGarry, and Executive Vice-President\u00a0David Farrow, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The party says the committee will launch a survey to gather feedback from OLP members on how to create a \u201cfair, engaging, and accessible leadership vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The leadership race comes as Crombie said she is stepping down as leader, but only when a successor is chosen. <\/p>\n<p>Crombie initially <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2025\/09\/14\/ontario-liberals-to-reveal-leadership-vote-results-amid-push-from-some-for-new-race\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vowed to stay on as leader after she received 57 per cent <\/a>of votes in her leadership review.<\/p>\n<p>With Crombie out, this will be the Ontario Liberal party\u2019s third leadership race in five years. <\/p>\n<p>Crombie\u2019s successor will be facing Doug Ford in the 2029 Ontario provincial election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ontario Liberal Party (OLP) says they\u2019ve started the process to select their next leader, who will replace&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-176717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}