Whatever happened to Bonnie Crombie? The Ontario Liberal leader was supposed to turn her party’s prospects around. Instead, Crombie has failed to make a meaningful dent in her party’s support levels during this current election campaign, her first and possibly her last.

The provincial Liberals had recently fallen into a slump somewhat similar to what their federal counterparts experienced following their own brutal loss in the 2011 election. While Dalton McGuinty governed from the centre for a decade as Liberal Premier, the party nosedived after Kathleen Wynne became one of the most unpopular politicians in recent history for taking the province too far to the left. Wynne collapsed her party from 55 seats to seven, putting the Liberals in third place. Then along came Steven Del Duca, the Liberal leader in the 2022 election, who did little to nothing to turn his party around.