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By Chris Halliday
Rob Strang is climbing his way up the provincial Green Party ladder.
The former Orangeville town councillor and current provincial Green Party candidate for Dufferin-Caledon was appointed deputy leader of the Green Party of Ontario in Huntsville on April 17.
“It is quite an honour because it was a contested position,” Strang said. “There were two other extremely good candidates, so I’m very pleased.”
Now acting as the party’s second-in-command, Strang is looking forward to helping leader Mike Schreiner release the Green Party’s official platform in the upcoming few weeks, and “get around to as much of Ontario to spread the word and tell people what the party is about.”
“Rob brings a great deal of depth and experience to the deputy leader position,” Schreiner said in a news release. “I look forward to working with him as we prepare to elect Green MPPs this fall.”
In the 2007 provincial election, Strang garnered more than 6,000 votes throughout Dufferin-Caledon running for the Greens, enough for third place behind Progressive Conservative victor Sylvia Jones and then-Liberal candidate Betsy Hall. Collecting about 16 per cent of the popular vote in the last provincial election, it was the third strongest showing in a riding for the Green Party across the province.
“Our area just naturally reflects many Green Party principles,” Strang said, noting Dufferin-Caledon is full of hard working people who help their neighbours, but at the same time, expect others to pull their own weight as well. “That kind of attitude where everybody needs to work to the best of their ability, but we support each other, that is very Green.”
Prior to being named to his new post in the Green Party of Ontario hierarchy, Strang served as the party’s shadow cabinet critic of Finance, Revenue and Economic Development and Trade. Originally from Scarborough, Strang moved to Dufferin County in 1988, a little more than a decade before serving as an Orangeville town councillor from 2003 to 2006. He also ran in Dufferin-Caledon for the Green Party of Canada in the 2000 federal election.
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