Former Ontario Provincial Conservative leadership candidate Tanya Granic Allen has announced she will be running in the Mississauga-Centre riding for the 2018 provincial election.

"If the good residents of Mississauga-Centre will have me, I would love to be their representative at Queen's Park," she said in an interview on CP24 on Friday afternoon, March 23.

Granic Allen added, housing affordability is one of the city's major concerns and she looks forward to tackling the issue if she wins the nomination.

Earlier this month, Ontario PC Party Leader Doug Ford announced Mississauga-Centre would be one of three ridings that would be holding new nomination races.