Former federal cabinet minister Navdeep Bains wants to be the next leader of the Ontario Liberal Party (OLP).<\/p>\n
On Monday, Bains tossed his hat in the ring, posting a 16-second video<\/a> on his social media, titled \u201cLet\u2019s get to work.\u201d The clip shows Bains entering a classroom, sitting down on a chair, and rolling up his sleeves as a school bell rings.<\/p>\n Most recently, Bains, who was born in Toronto and is 48, worked as the Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Rogers Communications. The company confirmed to CTV News Toronto\u2019s Siobhan Morris that he \u201cdecided to leave Rogers effective May 8.\u201d<\/p>\n Previously, he was the member of parliament for Mississauga\u2014Brampton South from 2004 to 2011 and for the new Mississauga\u2014Malton riding from 2015 to 2021, serving during that time as the minister of innovation, science and industry.<\/p>\n Lee Fairclough<\/a>, who currently serves as the Liberal MPP in Etobicoke-Lakeshore, along with former policy advisor\/political staffer Dylan Marando<\/a> have also signed up to run for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party. <\/p>\n Currently, John Fraser is serving as the party\u2019s interim leader<\/a> following the resignation of Bonnie Crombie<\/a> earlier this year. <\/p>\n Party members are set to select their next permanent leader in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former federal cabinet minister Navdeep Bains wants to be the next leader of the Ontario Liberal Party (OLP).…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-693754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693754","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=693754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}