Greg Laxton, 37, was born in Toronto and grew up in North York, where his mother worked as a nurse and his father as a taxi driver. He now lives in Ottawa with his wife — they got married just a week before the election campaign began.

Greg is a strong proponent of electoral reform, walkable communities, and minimal post-secondary tuition. During his undergraduate years at Trent University, Greg joined the anti-apartheid movement and took part in several model UN conferences, receiving a B.A. in History and International Studies in 1995. In 2000, he travelled to Brussels and saw European Greens playing a positive role in the proportionally elected European Parliament. He was inspired to join the Ontario Greens, and he was one of the party’s top 10 vote-getters in the 2003 election.

Greg earned an M.A. in Political Science from York University in 2004, focusing his studies on the need for electoral reform in Ontario and Canada. These studies led to a position in policy analysis at the Ontario Government’s Democratic Renewal Secretariat. He now advocates the adoption of the Citizens’ Assembly’s recommendation for electoral reform.