Greens announce election platform, including plan for new Ontario Foodbelt [Video]

The Green Party has unveiled its platform for Ontario’s snap election, including a plan to protect farmland in Ontario using a mechanism similar to the Greenbelt.

On Wednesday, party leader Mike Schreiner stood with two of his star candidates at an event in Toronto where he announced his full slate of promises and ambitions for the election.

“As the only party that’s doubled our caucus since the last election, we’re pretty excited,” Schreiner said.

The Greens appear to be targeting rural ridings in Ontario, telling voters the Progressive Conservatives and other parties have been too focused on big cities like Toronto.

Schreiner has already spent significant time campaigning in Parry Sound—Muskoka, where the party came within a couple of thousand votes of victory in 2022, and Wellington-Halton Hills, a rural riding without an incumbent.

The party’s offering for voters in this election is varied — and dubbed by the Greens “our plan for fairness.”

Among the …