Both Ontario’s New Democrats and Liberals suffered serious setbacks in 2025 after losing a snap election to Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives. And the weekend before that, former Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie said she would resign after achieving only 57 per cent support in a review. But he expects the Liberals will have a new party leader in place by the end of 2026. “We can expect exactly the same thing for whoever the next Liberal leader is,” Bird said. “All party leadership contests are quite divisive,” she said.

Source: CBC News January 02, 2026 21:01 UTC