TORONTO — Mike Schreiner has led the Inexperienced Social gathering of Ontario since 2009.
Born: June 9, 1969.
Early years: Schreiner was born in Kansas and raised on his household’s grain and cattle farm. His father was a farmer and his mom a small-town college instructor.
Household: Schreiner is married to Sandy and has two daughters. He moved to Canada for love in 1995. He and his spouse turned Canadian residents in 2007.
Earlier than politics: Schreiner ran a number of small companies together with WOW Meals, a neighborhood natural meals distributor, and co-founded EarthDance Organics, a meals manufacturing enterprise in Guelph that provided ready meals to well being shops and farmers markets. He additionally co-founded Native Meals Plus, a non-profit group aimed toward selling sustainable native meals techniques.
Politics: Schreiner turned the primary Inexperienced ever elected to the Ontario legislature in 2018. He first turned concerned with the Greens in 2005 and co-chaired the social gathering’s 2007 election platform committee earlier than turning into chief in 2009.
Quote: “We’re assured that we will enhance our seat rely as a result of we are the one social gathering actually speaking about placing individuals earlier than earnings, particularly relating to addressing the housing affordability disaster, the truth that we would like individuals to have entry to a household physician, we do not need to see rural hospitals closed and addressing overcrowded lecture rooms.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Jan. 28, 2025.
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