Bonnie Crombie eyes return as Mississauga mayor

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Source On perhaps the hottest day of the year, the former mayor of Mississauga tossed a few coals on the fire. “I left the current mayor (Carolyn Parrish) with a strong and resilient city with strong fiscal management and low taxes, a plan to build houses that are affordable and a plan to build transit,” Bonnie Crombie said on Tuesday morning in Mississauga. “I left in support of our police, our police chief, we kept taxes low, and we had a vision for the future.” Among numerous and ardent supporters on Tuesday, Crombie officially entered the mayoral race in the fourth-largest city in Ontario. And despite the heat and the long delay in filing her papers, there was more heat from the ex-Mississauga mayor. “What I see now is drift, not direction,” she said. “I see inaction, a lack of leadership. Taxes are higher. In fact, they have increased 14% over the past two years. What we see is...