“It’s time to focus on what people in our communities need.”
An Election Message from Ontario Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner
Posted February 12th, 2025 on Niagara At Large
Ontario Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner
Earlier (this February 12th, 2025) , I shared our [2025 Election Platform](https://secure.gpo.ca/civicrm/mailing/url?u=207914&qid=115618450) alongside our Deputy Leaders Aislinn Clancy, Matt Richter, and an incredible group of our candidates from across the province.
We’re the first party to release a fully-costed platform ahead of this snap election and I’m inspired by how much is actually possible when we put our heads together and get to work.
Here are some of the highlights:
– We’ll end Ontario’s housing crisis by building 2 million more homes. We’ll also make it easier for young Ontarians to finally buy their first home by removing unnecessary fees and taxes on homes within urban boundaries.
- – Protect the places we love. We’ll build more homes inside existing urban boundaries to avoid urban sprawl, we’ll create new jobs and phase out fossil fuels by moving towards a clean energy economy, and we’ll strengthen like the Endangered Species Act and protect forests, wetlands, and peatlands.
- – We’ll invest in our health care system by hiring 3,500 more doctors so everyone has a primary care giver within 3-4 years. We’ll invest in mental health and addictions care, close the rural health care gap by increasing provincial funding for rural hospitals, and stop the privatization of our health care system.
- – We’ll take immediate action to lower the cost of living for everyday Ontarians. We’ll introduce strict anti-gouging and collusion laws to stop grocery corporations from gouging people on their grocery bills. We’ll increase the minimum wage to help workers, and we’ll cut taxes for people making under $65K.
- – We’ll look out for future generations by hiring more teachers and educational assistants to reduce class sizes, increase funding for long overdue school repairs, and invest in special education programs and mental health supports for students and teachers.
- – We’ll protect Ontario’s economy from tariff threats by making it more self-sufficient. We’ll invest in our food and farming sector, protect the land that feeds us from land speculators, implement a buy Ontario strategy to support local farmers and small business owners, and create more jobs in the clean energy economy.
READ MORE →](https://secure.gpo.ca/civicrm/mailing/url?u=207914&qid=115618450)
But Doug Ford’s Conservatives?
While we’re carefully drawing up a plan to help people in our communities, he’s staying focused on digging a tunnel under the 401, paving the Greenbelt, and destroying an average of 300 acres of farmland every day.
He’s completely out of touch with what Ontarians care about.
It’s time to focus on what people in our communities need.
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Mike SchreinerLeader, Ontario Greens
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