TORONTO — Ontario Liberals are set to hold a leadership vote this weekend, amid grumbling from some members about whether Leader Bonnie Crombie is the right person to take them back into government.
The party is gathering in Toronto for its annual general meeting, its first since the mixed-bag February election that saw them regain official party status but left their leader without a seat in the legislature.
Members will be voting throughout the weekend, with results to be announced Sunday, on whether to hold another leadership race two years after the last one or to stick with Crombie at the helm.
The New Leaf Liberals, which describes itself as a grassroots group, has formed to urge a new leadership race. Former provincial leadership challenger Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith has also