Editing Navdeep Bains (section)

===Out of Parliament===
In the [[2011 Canadian federal election|2011 federal election]], [[Eve Adams]], a former Mississauga City Councillor, beat Bains by over 5,000 votes.<ref name="Eve Adams">{{Cite web |last=Stone |first=Laura |date=February 10, 2015 |title=Eve Adams' former rival welcomes her to the Liberals |url=http://globalnews.ca/news/1822112/eve-adams-former-rival-welcomes-her-to-the-liberals/ |access-date=November 6, 2015 |publisher=[[Global News]]}}</ref>

Bains was a director of the [[Municipal Property Assessment Corporation]] from September 2012 to September 2015.<ref name="MPAC">{{Cite web |date=November 6, 2015 |title=Agency Details |url=https://www.pas.gov.on.ca/scripts/en/BoardDetails.asp?boardID=118724 |access-date=November 6, 2015 |publisher=Public Appointments Secretariat of Ontario}}</ref> He also served on the Ontario Provincial Board of the [[Heart and Stroke Foundation]], including a stint as Vice Chair starting December 2014.<ref name="Heart and Stroke">{{Cite web |date=December 6, 2014 |title=Heart and Stroke Foundation, Ontario: Provincial Board of Directors |url=http://www.heartandstroke.on.ca/site/pp.aspx?c=pvI3IeNWJwE&b=7516903&printmode=1 |access-date=November 6, 2015 |publisher=[[Heart and Stroke Foundation]]}}</ref> Bains is also on the board of advisors for the Pearson Centre for Progressive Policy.<ref name="Pearson Centre">{{Cite web |title=Advisory Board Members |url=http://www.thepearsoncentre.ca/about/board-of-directors/ |access-date=November 6, 2015 |publisher=Pearson Centre for Progressive Policy}}</ref>

Bains also entered academia and became an adjunct lecturer in a Master of Public Service program at the [[University of Waterloo]] and a distinguished visiting professor at the [[Ted Rogers School of Management]] at [[Toronto Metropolitan University|Ryerson University]], starting in 2013 for a one-year term.<ref name="Ryerson profile" /><ref name="Master Waterloo">{{Cite web |title=AGENCY MEMBERS BIOGRAPHIES |url=https://www.pas.gov.on.ca/scripts/en/bios.asp?boardID=118724 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117161508/https://www.ontario.ca/page/public-appointments |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |access-date=November 6, 2015 |publisher=Public Appointments Secretariat of Ontario}}</ref> His teaching contract at Ryerson was extended, and he was still a professor at the time of his re-election in 2015.<ref name="2015 re-elected" />

Bains was touted as a possible candidate in the 2014 municipal election in Brampton and was included in January 2014 polling alongside candidates like Susan Fennell and John Sanderson in which he finished third among voters polled.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Grewal |first=San |date=January 21, 2014 |title=Spending scandal catching up with Brampton Mayor Susan Fennell, pollster says |work=Toronto Star |location=Toronto ON |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2014/01/21/spending_scandal_catching_up_with_brampton_mayor_susan_fennell_pollster_says.html |access-date=April 29, 2014}}</ref> Provincial Liberal [[Linda Jeffrey]] subsequently ran for mayor and won.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Grewal |first=San |date=April 29, 2014 |title=Poll finds Brampton Mayor Susan Fennell a distant third |page=GT2 |work=Toronto Star |location=Toronto ON |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/04/29/poll_finds_brampton_mayor_susan_fennell_a_distant_third.html |access-date=April 29, 2014}}</ref>