Bonnie Crombie
Ontario Liberal Party
Leader of the Ontario Liberal Party (2023–2025). Called for Carmine Nigro's resignation as LCBO chair citing his close personal ties to Premier Ford, his role as a PC Party fundraiser, and his multiple Ford-government appointments while running a development firm with a pending nine-figure claim against a provincial agency.
Connected Scandals
A company co-led by Ford's close friend and PC Party fundraiser Carmine Nigro extracted an undisclosed settlement from Ontario's public transit agency after claiming $500 million for air rights it never fully paid for — and the Ford government refuses to say how much taxpayers owe.
Called for Carmine Nigro's resignation as LCBO chair, citing his close personal friendship with Ford, his history as a PC Ontario Fund VP, and his simultaneous government appointments — all of which created structural conflicts while his company pursued a half-billion-dollar claim against Metrolinx.
The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario paid roughly $3,000 to send an operative to two Jamaican resorts in December 2023 to surveil newly elected Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie on a private vacation. Doug Ford said he learned of it only on August 12, 2026, did not approve of it, and then defended it as "politics."
Target of the surveillance; a PC Party operative was present at her Jamaican resorts during her December 8–11, 2023 vacation, days after she won the Ontario Liberal leadership.