After 16 years as leader and two electoral breakthroughs, Mike Schreiner says the Greens are now aiming for real power, betting voter frustration with the Ford government and the prospect of a minority parliament could make them a decisive force at Queen’s Park.
The party doubled its caucus in the last election, and now holds two seats at Queen’s Park. They also posted a record fundraising year, and are increasingly positioning themselves not as a protest vote, but as a governing partner-in-waiting, especially as in a minority parliament.
“I’m not under any illusion that we’re going to have a Green majority government after the next election,” Schreiner said in an interview. “But I think there’s a real possibility we’ll have a minority government, and Greens can be part of that minority government and part of making it work.”