The Ontario Liberal Party will hold an open nomination to choose its candidate in the upcoming Scarborough Southwest byelection, interim leader John Fraser confirmed Thursday.
The east Toronto seat became vacant earlier this month after former NDP deputy leader Doly Begum stepped down to run federally for the Liberals in the overlapping riding.
Fraser has the power to appoint a candidate in Scarborough Southwest, where Liberal leadership hopeful Nate Erskine-Smith and the party’s 2025 candidate in the riding, Qadira Jackson, each say they want to run.