{"id":17782,"date":"2025-02-21T00:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T00:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torontotribune.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/energizer-bonnie-crombie-wont-back-down-from-a-fight-friends-and-loved-ones-say\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T00:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T00:15:14","slug":"energizer-bonnie-crombie-wont-back-down-from-a-fight-friends-and-loved-ones-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torontotribune.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/energizer-bonnie-crombie-wont-back-down-from-a-fight-friends-and-loved-ones-say\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Energizer Bonnie\u2019 Crombie won\u2019t back down from a fight, friends and loved ones say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Bonnie Crombie recently celebrated a milestone birthday \u2014 the kind that usually prompts a big party, or at the very least a special gathering with family and close friends \u2014 but instead she sat in an office doing debate prep.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the big day, the Ontario Liberal Party leader sat down for an interview and the thought of not being with her loved ones seemed to weigh on her more heavily than the number itself.<\/p>\n<p>But for Crombie, who started her political career at 47 and is now in the midst of a whirlwind election campaign at 65, it did stir up thoughts on ageism and the double standards that exist for women in so many walks of life.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2023 Liberal leadership race, she hit back hard when fellow contestant Nate Erskine-Smith suggested Crombie wouldn\u2019t stick around for multiple election cycles as leader, comments she said were ageist. They have not been forgotten.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad c-ad--tallSticky\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI think women are judged differently, you know, and there\u2019s a lot of subtle \u2014 a lot of nuance to the commentary about that, as we saw in (Erskine-Smith\u2019s) comments, but also in some of the attack ads I see,\u201d she said in a recent interview, referencing the ubiquitous \u201cBonnie, who?\u201d ads from the Progressive Conservatives that started running right after she won the leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole \u2018She\u2019s expensive\u2019 (comment in the ad),\u201d Crombie said. \u201cWhat does that mean, exactly?\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-tabs\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab c-tabs__tab--active\" type=\"button\">More on Politics<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab\" type=\"button\">More videos<\/button>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The ads talk about tax increases in Mississauga during her time as mayor and say she supports the federal carbon tax \u2014 she has since said she\u2019s against it \u2014 but they also talk derisively about her having a house in New York\u2019s wealthy Hamptons area. She notes the house was inherited from an aunt, is closer to Queens and is being sold as part of her divorce.<\/p>\n<p>D\u2019arci McFadden, who has worked on Crombie\u2019s political campaigns since she first ran for Mississauga city council, said the attacks fuel Crombie.<\/p>\n<p>An opponent in Crombie\u2019s first Mississauga mayoral race questioned her corporate credentials and Crombie was \u201clivid,\u201d going home to find business cards and old security passes to prove her bona fides, McFadden recalls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think back on all those \u2026 campaigns I\u2019ve worked with her on where we\u2019ve gone into battle, gone to fight something, and that brings out a really sincere and beautiful Bonnie,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad c-ad--tallSticky\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s where she\u2019s forced to be a little bit vulnerable, maybe, and face a challenge or face something that is untrue \u2014 she doesn\u2019t like it, but I also know that she\u2019s not going to let it stand and take it.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup\" data-newsletter-inline=\"\">\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/images\/skyline\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__content\">\n<h3>Get daily National news<\/h3>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Crombie sees the PC ads as trying to portray her as something she is not. That\u2019s one of the reasons she has been open about her upbringing, to show the contrast with Doug Ford, who grew up in a well-off family and held a job at the family label business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI grew up in Etobicoke too, but my life was completely different,\u201d she said. \u201cI grew up in very humble beginnings, and have achieved a certain measure of success because I worked hard, but I wasn\u2019t given anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her father was an alcoholic and her parents split up when she was three. Divorce was unheard of at that time, Crombie says, but her mother wanted a better life for her only child so they moved into one of the rooms in a rooming house her grandparents ran in west Toronto in order to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p>As a child she never felt that she lacked anything, though, and recalls taking the streetcar with her mom to see the Nutcracker ballet as a treat, or visiting Wasaga Beach for the day several years later with her stepfather, after her mom remarried.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad c-ad--tallSticky\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cShe announced she was marrying the neighbour\u2019s best friend, which was really interesting, because I thought, \u2018Ah, that\u2019s why he was always hanging around,&#8217;\u201d she said with a smile. \u201cHe was a lovely guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But her father\u2019s troubled life, and absence from hers, still left a mark.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of his life, Crombie visited him twice at the Toronto homeless shelter where he was staying, though she hadn\u2019t otherwise seen him since she was seven.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hadn\u2019t seen him since I was a child and when he died, they called me and I said, \u2018I\u2019m very sorry to hear it, what\u2019s next?\u2019 And they said, \u2018You decide, you\u2019re next of kin,&#8217;\u201d she recalled, breaking down in tears.<\/p>\n<p>Crombie\u2019s childhood really shaped her, said her eldest son, Alex.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think because of those experiences she\u2019s truly empathetic,\u201d he said. \u201cShe truly does care about some of these issues that a lot of politicians just espouse about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alex Crombie said his mom is someone with an almost unlimited social battery \u2014 McFadden said the team calls her the \u201cEnergizer Bonnie\u201d \u2014 who loves to cook and host big family discussions around the dinner table, and stays close with her three kids. Alex, who is in Ottawa, gets calls at least once a week through FaceTime.<\/p>\n<section id=\"content-dynamic-trending-stories\" class=\"l-inlineStories l-inlineStories--tile u-hide-tablet-landscape\" aria-label=\"Dynamic trending stories section\">\n<p>\n\t\t<span class=\"l-inlineStories__title c-heading c-heading--strikethrough\">Trending Now<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11026076\/sunwing-airlines-flights-cancelled-feb-19-toronto-pearson\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-posts__media \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2024052113058-c3c25cab8e0aeb3267d172d0b5b1d209b71842ee45fec5cac86034544dd9a21c_f07f55.jpg?quality=85&amp;strip=all&amp;w=336&amp;h=224&amp;crop=1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-posts__details\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-posts__headlineText\" title=\"Sunwing cancels southbound trips from Toronto amid ongoing delays\" data-title=\"\">Sunwing cancels southbound trips from Toronto amid ongoing delays<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11025508\/abandoned-children-pontiac-michigan-squalor\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-posts__media \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Untitled-design-29.png?w=336&amp;h=224&amp;crop=1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-posts__details\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-posts__headlineText\" title=\"\u2018How did no one know?\u2019: 3 abandoned Michigan kids found living in squalor\" data-title=\"\">\u2018How did no one know?\u2019: 3 abandoned Michigan kids found living in squalor<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad c-ad--tallSticky\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>She also has a dry, sarcastic sense of humour, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Crombie raised some eyebrows recently on the campaign trail with a joke about challenging Ford to a pushup contest. The joke stemmed from talking about Super Bowl ads, and while it may not have landed as intended, McFadden said it shows a refreshingly unscripted politician.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more unfiltered and the more real they are, the more interesting they are, and the more people get to know who they are,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The real Crombie does dedicate time to physical fitness and could definitely win a pushup contest, those close to her say. Just after Christmas, she took a rock climbing trip to Arizona with her partner.<\/p>\n<p>Crombie does not want to publicly discuss her relationship, but notes he\u2019s not in politics. \u201cGod, no,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>But she did first get into politics because of a boy in high school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said, \u2018What are you doing this weekend?\u2019 And I got all excited,\u201d she recalled. \u201c(I said), \u2018Nothing, why?\u2019 He said, \u2018Want to come help me drop flyers?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It turned out his uncle was a cabinet minister and Polish like her family, so she agreed, pleased to learn that Polish people could hold positions of power.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad c-ad--tallSticky\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThen I learned about Pierre Trudeau and what he was trying to accomplish and change our country, all about rights and freedoms and the Charter, and it was so exciting,\u201d she said. \u201cThese were heady issues, and I got hooked very early.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crombie began her career in the corporate world, working for McDonald\u2019s, Disney, the Insurance Bureau of Canada, and she started a cosmetics company with a classmate from her MBA program. She and her then-husband lived in Cambridge, Mass., Los Angeles and Vancouver before returning to settle in Mississauga.<\/p>\n<p>She worked on a few political campaigns before putting her own name forward.<\/p>\n<p>Crombie served as MP for Mississauga-Streetsville from 2008 to 2011. After her electoral defeat, the powerhouse Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion encouraged Crombie to run for a seat on city council.<\/p>\n<p>Crombie would go on to succeed McCallion as mayor, after McCallion retired at age 94, and serve three terms at the helm of the fast-growing city west of Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Crombie said his mother has handled the transition from municipal to provincial politics well and is still going strong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of my friends ask me, \u2018Why the heck is your mom still doing this after so many years?&#8217;\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the honest answer is that, number one, she still has issues she cares about and she really enjoys this. 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