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Green party leader Mike Schreiner, who’s running in Guelph, has adopted a novel tactic to try to make history Thursday by becoming Ontario’s first Green MPP.

He’s being honest with the public, starting with the Greens’ signature issue — climate change and carbon pricing — since he’s the only leader not talking gibberish on the subject, unlike the heads of the NDP, Liberal and Progressive Conservative parties.

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Schreiner’s policy is called carbon fee and dividend.

Under it, all revenue raised from carbon pricing is returned to the public through equal dividend cheques mailed to every adult in the province — creating a real-world, market demand for low-carbon goods and services.

This is supported by everyone from moderate Republicans in the U.S. to James Hansen, the former NASA scientist who is the father of man-made global warming theory, and is head and shoulders above anything the other leaders are advocating.

By contrast, outgoing Premier Kathleen Wynne’s cap-and-trade scheme, which NDP leader Andrea Horwath supports with minor modifications, is a hidden, $2 billion-a-year cash grab from Ontarians, with little environmental benefit, as reported by Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk.

Basically, it’s the government profiting from pollution.