QUEEN’S PARK — Mike Schreiner released the following statement in response to reports that the Premier’s government is disappointed by the funding proposal made at federal-provincial healthcare talks.
“Ontario Greens support calls for further increases to the Canada Health Transfer but the Premier’s ‘disappointment’ does not distract from the fact that his own …
QUEEN’S PARK — Mike Schreiner released the following statement in response to reports that the Ford government’s first climate change impact report is delayed again.
“It’s extremely disappointing – although not surprising – that the Premier’s government’s report on what it needs to do to protect people from the impacts of the climate …
QUEEN’S PARK — Mike Schreiner released the following statement in response to the release of the Financial Accountability Office’s Economic and Budget Outlook report.
“The people of Ontario are struggling to get by as the Premier imposes his austerity agenda with egregious underspending on the public services we all rely on.
Today’s Economic and …
GUELPH — Mike Schreiner released the following statement in response to growing calls to declare homelessness a public health emergency across Ontario.
“We cannot continue to sit idly by while unhoused community members across Ontario risk their lives struggling to stay warm.
With shelters operating at capacity and limited access to warming centres, many …
GUELPH — Mike Schreiner released the following statement in response to a new report showing that renewable energy technologies are lower-cost compared to fossil gas.
“Investing in dirty, expensive fossil gas plants despite mounting evidence that they are more expensive than renewable alternatives goes directly against Ontario’s best interests.
The Premier’s government’s continued investment …
GUELPH — Mike Schreiner released the following statement in response to a report that Ontario Power Generation, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. and Aecon Group Inc. are planning to build a small modular nuclear reactor at the province’s Darlington site.
“The people of Ontario will pay the price for the Premier’s …
GUELPH — Mike Schreiner released the following statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which marks the anniversary of the liberation of Aushwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp, on January 27, 1945.
“We observe this anniversary out of respect for the victims of the Holocaust, the six million Jews and others – ethnic Poles …
TORONTO — Mike Schreiner released the following statement in response to Toronto Mayor’s call for a national mental health summit:
“We are in the midst of a mental health crisis, and the Premier’s government is busy pointing fingers to avoid accountability.
The challenges of the last several years have put an unsustainable strain on …
GUELPH — Mike Schreiner is calling on the federal government to stop construction of gas-fired power plants in Ontario.
In a letter to the Prime Minister, Schreiner calls on the federal government to move immediately to establish federal clean electricity regulations that ban new gas plants and require Ontario to move to a net-zero …
TORONTO — Mike Schreiner addressed the annual conference of the Rural Ontario Municipal Association in Toronto this morning. The following is an excerpt from his speech:
“We have a housing affordability crisis. But it is absolute nonsense to suggest that we can solve it by blowing up municipal budgets, handing over protected land …