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A leading advocate for independent businesses, local food and sustainable communities, Mike Schreiner is well known for his leadership in co-founding the award-winning Local Food Plus organization. He brings a proven track record in business and non-profit leadership roles to the Ontario political scene. Schreiner was elected leader of the Green Party of Ontario (GPO) on November 14, 2009. Schreiner, a 43-year old father of two, started his career in the Guelph region as an entrepreneur and advocate in the local food movement. As co-founder of WOW Foods, an award winning local organic food distribution company, Schreiner worked for over 10 years to connect local farmers with consumers in the GTA and Guelph. His business was awarded the Citizen’s Bank of Canada Ethics in Action Award for socially responsible business and the Toronto Food Policy Council’s Local Food Hero Award. He is also co-founder of Earthdance Organics, a Guelph-based food production business that supplied area health foods stores and farmer’s markets in the early 2000s. Building on that success, he helped establish Local Food Plus (LFP), a non-profit that brings farmers and consumers together to promote financially, socially and environmentally sustainable local food systems. While at LFP, the organization won the Canadian Environment Award for Sustainable Living, a Green Toronto Award of Excellence--Health Category, a Green Toronto Award of Excellence--Market Transformation Category and NOW Magazine’s Best of Toronto Award for best new environmental initiative. Family and community are important to Mike. His wife Sandy and their two daughters are active, spending their free time gardening, hiking, fishing, cycling and volunteering in community activities.

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Schreiner: Doug Ford is planning for more sprawl

June 21, 2020

Premier Ford has never stopped looking for ways to carve up more farmland and greenspace for deep-pocketed land speculators.

After trying multiple times to get into the Greenbelt, he’s now setting his sights on the Growth Plan, trying to reverse decades of smart urban planning.

This is planning for sprawl, plain and simple, at the expense of our environment and livable communities.

Instead of building healthy neighbourhoods, the Premier is using magic math to build sprawling subdivisions where the population projections are not calling for it.

Paving over farmland and forests will not solve the affordable housing crisis, but it will mean bigger profits for land speculators.

Worst of all is the plan to allow quarries and gravel pits on endangered species habitat.

This is another direct hit against Ontario wildlife after the province gutted the Endangered Species Act last year, allowing for growth on critical wildlife habitat.

I will continue speaking out against the Ford government’s relentless attack on Ontario’s farmland, wetlands and wildlife.

*Find out about the proposal for more sprawl here*