“A better Ontario is possible”: Mike Schreiner speaks at AMO 2024

August 19, 2024

OTTAWA — Today, Ontario Greens Leader Mike Schreiner addressed attendees and delegates of the annual Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) conference. The following is an excerpt from his speech.

“Life in Ontario is hard, and it is getting harder.

Provincial flip flops and policy failures have put municipalities in the impossible situation of picking up the pieces from chronic underfunding of vital public services like healthcare, mental health and addictions and affordable housing.

Downloading, lack of infrastructure funding and the rising cost of climate change is putting an unsustainable burden on municipal budgets.

A Green government will change that.

Greens will partner with you on a New Deal for Cities and Towns as we work together to build a fair, caring, climate-ready Ontario.

Because Ontario needs a government that puts the needs of ordinary people before wealthy insiders.

In this room are hundreds of leaders who know that a better Ontario is possible. Greens will work with you to make that Ontario a reality.”

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