Stephanie Bowman

A former Ernst & Young partner and Scotiabank senior vice-president, she sat on the Bank of Canada board from 2018. She has been MPP for Don Valley West since 2022 and is the Liberal finance critic. She is a candidate in the Ontario Liberal Party leadership election, with voting from 9 to 20 November 2026.

Career

Bowman worked in financial services, including as a partner at Ernst & Young and for nine years at Scotiabank, where she became senior vice-president of structural cost transformation. In June 2018 federal finance minister Bill Morneau appointed her to the Bank of Canada board. She was nominated in Don Valley West in October 2021 and was elected MPP in June 2022 with 44.0% of the vote, then re-elected in 2025 with 57.2%. She co-chaired Bonnie Crombie's 2023 leadership campaign and Rob Cerjanec's 2026 campaign before entering the race herself, announcing on 31 July 2026.

Positions

Bowman's leadership campaign, under the slogan "Ready for What's Next," stresses youth employment, productivity growth and fiscal management. In 2024 she introduced a private member's bill, the Cutting Taxes on Small Businesses Act, which proposed changes to Ontario's small business deduction and was defeated on second reading, 64 to 35. Her endorsers include MPPs Karen McCrimmon and Stephen Blais, former candidate Rob Cerjanec, and former Liberal figures Elinor Caplan and Sheila Copps.

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