{"id":699857,"date":"2026-05-28T18:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T18:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/699857\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T18:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T18:25:13","slug":"ajax-mpp-rob-cerjanec-enters-ontario-liberal-leadership-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/699857\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajax MPP Rob Cerjanec enters Ontario Liberal leadership race"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ontario Liberal caucus member Rob\u00a0Cerjanec\u00a0has tossed his hat into the ring in the party\u2019s leadership race.\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n

The rookie legislator who won the Ajax riding in 2025 will be running under the slogan \u201cLet\u2019s Build Ontario\u201d and he pledges to rebuild the party.\u2028<\/p>\n

Cerjanec\u00a0says he will focus on affordability measures and improving the education and health-care systems.<\/p>\n

He has the support of fellow caucus member Stephanie Bowman, who will help run his campaign.<\/p>\n

Former federal Liberal cabinet member Navdeep Bains recently entered the race<\/a>, as did provincial caucus member and former hospital president Lee Fairclough <\/a>along with the first person to enter the leadership contest, former political staffer Dylan Marando.<\/p>\n

Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith has said his run for leadership is much less likely after losing a nomination race<\/a> in Scarborough Southwest to Ahsanul Hafiz. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-699857","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\/699857","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=699857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}