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Mike Schreiner (born June 9, 1969) is the leader of the Green Party of Ontario. Professionally, he is a small business advocate, entrepreneur and food policy expert. On December 4, 2012, Schreiner was nominated before a crowd of 120 supporters as the party's candidate for Guelph, a riding the party's internal polling shows as winnable with over half of the surveyed responding they were somewhat or much more likely to vote Green if the provincial leader was the candidate.〔("Schreiner has unprecedented support as he kicks off historic Guelph campaign" ), 5 December 2012.〕 Schreiner was the party's candidate in the Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock by-election on March 5, 2009.〔("Green policy-writer runs for byelection" ), ''Minden Times''.〕 He received over 97% approval from the party membership defeating the None of the Above ballot option, in the 2009 Ontario Green Party leadership election held on November 14, 2009. During the 2011 provincial election Schreiner ran in Simcoe—Grey losing to Progressive Conservative incumbent Jim Wilson. ==Background== Born in WaKeeney, Kansas on June 9, 1969, Schreiner grew up as a farm-kid, helping his parents. This is where his interests in the environment began. He attended Indiana University-Bloomington as a graduate student where he met his future wife, Sandy Welsh, a sociology professor at University of Toronto. They have two children. Schreiner and his wife became Canadian citizens in 2007. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mike Schreiner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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