Green Party of Ontario

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Green Party of Ontario




Active Provincial Party
Founded	1983


Leader	Frank de Jong (1993-)
President	Ron Yurick
Headquarters	326 Richmond Street West, Lower Level Toronto, ON M5V 1X1

Political ideology	Green, Eco-capitalism
International alignment	None
Colours	Green

Website	gpo.ca

The Green Party of Ontario (GPO) contests provincial elections in Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's second-largest provincial Green Party after the Green Party of British Columbia. The party is led by Frank de Jong with deputy leaders Sanjeev Goel and Victoria Serda.

1 Overview
2 Elected Greens
3 Election results
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Overview

The Green Party of Ontario shares the same Ten Key Values as other North American Greens. The elements of green politics it emphasizes include a green tax shift. Many key members are recruits from the former centrist Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, including, Elio Di Iorio who was a protege of former Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark.^{[citation needed]}

Leader Frank de Jong is a key figure in the party's strategy, and has led the Ontario Greens since 1993. As of June 2003, the Ontario Greens stood as the fourth party, with support of 6% of the decided voters. The Party did not, however, win any seats in the October 2003 provincial election.

At the Party's 2006 Annual General Meeting (AGM) the Party adopoted sweeping changes to the existing Constitution that amongst other changes, reduced the size of the Provincial Council and renamed it the Provincial Council Executive. One of the first acts of the new Provincial Executive was strike a hiring committee to bring on a full time Campaign Manager in response to mounting internal pressures to ensure the Party was ready for the October 2007 Provincial General Election.

Perhaps accordingly, it is a strong supporter of electoral reform such as that discussed in May 2005 for British Columbia: a referendum on single transferable vote (see British Columbia electoral reform referendum, 2005). Also in November 2005 PEI held a similar referendum on mixed proportional representation (see Prince Edward Island electoral reform referendum, 2005) and an Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007 is also planned.

Either scheme, or combining the two into bioregional multi-member districts as the GPO has long advocated to create a bioregional democracy in Ontario, would benefit the GPO greatly.

Part of the Politics series on Green politics

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sustainability
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As of February 2007 the GPO was at 9% in provincial polls.[1]

[edit] Elected Greens

Tom Adams, Oakville Town Councillor, Oakville
Elio Di Iorio, Richmond Hill Town Councillor, Richmond Hill
Warren Maycock, Orangeville Town Councillor, Orangeville
Greg Pietersma, Dundas County English Public School Board Trustee, Dundas County
Victoria Serda, Saugeen Shores Councillor
Rob Strang, Orangeville Town Councillor, Orangeville
Richard Thomas, Reeve of Armour Township
Roger Villeneuve, Stormont County French Catholic School Board Trustee, Stormont County

[edit] Election results

Election	Candidates elected	Total votes	% of popular vote
1985	-	5,345	0.1%
1987	-	3,398	-
1990	-	30,097	0.7%
1995	-	14,108	0.4%
1999	-	30,749	0.7%
2003	-	126,651	2.8%

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Green parties in Canada
Federal: Green Party of Canada
Provincial: Alberta - British Columbia - Manitoba - Newfoundland and Labrador Nova Scotia - Ontario - Prince Edward Island - Quebec - Saskatchewan