TORONTO — Mike Schreiner has led the Inexperienced Celebration 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.
TORONTO — Mike Schreiner has led the Inexperienced Celebration 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 faculty trainer.
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, an area natural meals distributor, and co-founded EarthDance Organics, a meals manufacturing enterprise in Guelph that equipped 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 programs.
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 occasion’s 2007 election platform committee earlier than changing into chief in 2009.
Quote: “We’re assured that we will improve our seat rely as a result of we are the one occasion actually speaking about placing folks earlier than income, particularly in relation to addressing the housing affordability disaster, the truth that we wish folks 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 printed Jan. 28, 2025.
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