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Mike Schreiner’s chances of winning a seat in next week’s election are slim. The leader of the Green Party of Ontario is running in the riding of Guelph against Liberal Education Minister Liz Sandals who’s held the provincial seat since 2003. And while Schreiner is polling quite well in the 23-per-cent range by some estimates, getting to Queen’s Park will be an uphill battle.

And that’s too bad, because the provincial legislature could use a Green MPP or two.

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The Green party is, of course, known for policies that are pro-environment, whether it’s conserving energy (supported by home retrofit grants, for example) or constraining sprawl (and saving Ontario farmland in the process) or even implementing some sort of carbon tax (and a fairly progressive revenue-neutral one at that).

But while promoting a more environment-friendly way of life is at the centre of the Green platform, the party — which is running a full slate of candidates in all 107 provincial ridings — is more than just, well, green.