Silvia Gualtieri is the Member of Provincial Parliament-elect for Mississauga East—Cooksville, a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.[1][2]
Gualtieri defeated Ontario Liberal Party leader and former mayor of Mississauga Bonnie Crombie in the 2025 Ontario provincial election, winning 46.5% of the vote to Crombie's 43.1%.[3][4] She succeeds Kaleed Rasheed, who was elected as a PC candidate but resigned from the party over his relationship with a developer involved in the Greenbelt scandal.[5]
Gualtieri ran in the 2022 Mississauga municipal election for the position of Ward 2 councillor, looking to take a seat without an incumbent. She placed third.[6]
Gualtieri is the sister of Rudy Cuzzetto, MPP for Mississauga—Lakeshore, and the mother-in-law of Patrick Brown, mayor of Brampton.[7]
References
- ^ CBC News interactive
- ^ DeClerq, Katherine; Hale, Alan S. (27 February 2025). "Bonnie Crombie fails to win her Mississauga seat". Newmarket Today. Village Media. Retrieved 28 February 2025.
- ^ "Ontario election: Live results from the 2025 vote | Globalnews.ca". Global News. Retrieved 2025-02-28.
- ^ Cornwell, Steve (2025-02-27). "PC candidate Silvia Gualtieri beats Ontario Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie in Mississauga East-Cooksville". Mississauga.com. Retrieved 2025-02-28.
- ^ DeClerq, Katherine (September 20, 2023). "Ontario minister resigns from Ontario PC Party amid contradicting accounts of Las Vegas trip". CTV News. Archived from the original on October 10, 2023. Retrieved March 3, 2025.
- ^ Cornwell, Steve (31 January 2025). "Silvia Gualtieri is the Ontario PCs Mississauga East-Cooksville candidate". Mississauga News. Toronto ON: Metroland Media Group. Retrieved 28 February 2025.
- ^ Recamara, Josh (4 February 2025). "Insurance worker joins election race in Mississauga East Cooksville". Insurance Business. Toronto ON: KM Business Information Canada Ltd. Retrieved 28 February 2025.