TORONTO – Ontario Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner is trying to build momentum today from the leaders’ debate, visiting two trips where he sees his party’s greatest potential for growth.
All four major party leaders face Monday night in the official election debate, in which Radical Conservative Leader Doug Ford faces attacks on healthcare and education. education from the other three, but he remained steadfast in his message of building more infrastructure, creating jobs and improving affordable living.
PC Leader is expected to make the announcement today in Toronto and will knock on doors later in the day in York South-Weston, which is run by his grandson Michael Ford.
NDP leader Andrea Horwath will make an announcement in Toronto about the schools, then will go horseback riding in Peterborough-Kawartha to talk about mental health supports in schools.
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Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca will speak in west Toronto about work-life balance.
Schreiner started his day in downtown Toronto, riding Rosedale University, making a youth and climate announcement with star candidate Dianne Saxe, former environment commissioner, then he. will go to Parry Sound-Muskoka to campaign and make a housing announcement.
Schreiner addressed both of those things in his final plea to viewers of Monday night’s election debate. Schreiner is the incumbent in Guelph, where he won his party’s first seat in the Ontario legislature in 2018, but the party sees potential in those other two positions.
“We finally have a green MPP at Queen’s Park who’s been pushing his weight for the past four years and I need more green MPPs from places like University-Rosedale, Dianne Saxe – by the way, Mr. Ford, you got the environment commissioner wrong,” Schreiner said at the end of the debate.
“I need people like Matt Richter at Parry Sound-Muskoka because I wish I had gotten there four years earlier so that we would be better prepared for the crisis that is weighing us down, the climate crisis.
Tim Abray, a lecturer in political studies at Queen’s University, said he was “deeply impressed” with Schreiner’s argumentative performance.
“He’s been incredibly well prepared and he’s done a great job of staying focused on truth and accountability, which if you’re trying to make progress in politics, those things are extremely important,” he said. important to focus on,” he said.
“By holding everyone else in the argument to account, holding the other parties accountable, and giving very brief, very clear, very clear statements about what he is going to do, the truth. about the problems that exist in Ontario right now and the way he would talk to them, it gives people something tangible to stick with. “
Richter, a local teacher, is in his fifth run under the Green banner, and the party sees an opening in the race with the last elected Tory not seeking reelection and Richter achieved 20% of the vote in 2018.
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