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No. 47	N^o 47

Votes and Proceedings	Procès-verbaux
Legislative Assembly of Ontario	Assemblée législative de l'Ontario
Wednesday May 12, 2004 Daytime Meeting - Sessional Day 66	Mercredi 12 mai 2004 Séance de l'après-midi - jour de session 66
1^st Session, 38^th Parliament	1^re session 38^e législature


PRAYERS 1:30 P.M.				PRIÈRES 13 H 30
REPORTS BY COMMITTEES				RAPPORTS DES COMITÉS
Mr. Wong from the Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills presented the Committee's Report which was read as follows and adopted:-				M. Wong du Comité permanent des règlements et des projets de loi privés présente le rapport du comité qui est lu comme suit et adopté:-
Your Committee begs to report the following Bill without amendment:-				Votre comité propose qu'il soit permis de faire rapport sur le projet de loi suivant sans amendement:-
Bill Pr3, An Act respecting the Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario.
Your Committee begs to report the following Bill as amended:-			Votre comité propose qu'il soit permis de faire rapport sur le projet de loi suivant avec des amendements:-
Bill Pr2, An Act respecting the Malton Seventh-day Adventist Church.

INTRODUCTION OF BILLS				DÉPÔT DES PROJETS DE LOI
The following Bill was introduced and read the first time:-				Le projet de loi suivant est présenté et lu une première fois:-
Bill 81, An Act to amend the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act with respect to universities. Mr. Marchese.				Projet de loi 81, Loi modifiant la Loi sur l'accès à l'information et la protection de la vie privée en ce qui concerne les universités. M. Marchese.

MOTIONS				MOTIONS
Mr. Duncan moved,				M. Duncan propose,
That pursuant to Standing Order 9(c)(i), the House shall meet from 6:45 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 12, 2004 for the purpose of considering government business.
The question being put on the motion, it was carried on the following division:-				La motion, mise aux voix, est adoptée par le vote suivant:-
AYES / POUR - 68

Baird Barrett Bartolucci Bentley Berardinetti Bountrogianni Bradley Broten Brown Bryant Cansfield Chambers Colle Cordiano	Craitor Crozier Delaney Dhillon Di Cocco Dombrowsky Duguid Duncan Flynn Fonseca Gerretsen Gravelle Hardeman Hoy	Jackson Jeffrey Kennedy Klees Lalonde Levac Marsales Martiniuk McNeely Meilleur Miller Milloy Mitchell Mossop			O'Toole Ouellette Parsons Patten Peters Phillips Pupatello Ramal Ramsay Rinaldi Runciman Ruprecht Sandals	Scott Sergio Smith Smitherman Takhar Van Bommel Watson Wilkinson Wilson Witmer Wong Wynne Yakabuski

NAYS / CONTRE - 5

Churley	Kormos	Marchese			Martel	Prue

PETITIONS				PÉTITIONS
Petition relating to providing of OHIP covered physiotherapy treatment to seniors and others (Sessional Paper No. P-98) Ms. Martel.
Petition relating to resuming negotiations between the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and the Ontario Association of Optometrists and appointing a mediator (Sessional Paper No. P-118) Mr. Levac.
Petitions relating to OHIP coverage of chiropractic services (Sessional Paper No. P-119) Mr. Klees and Mr. Ouellette.

ORDERS OF THE DAY				ORDRE DU JOUR
Opposition Day				Jour de l'opposition
Mrs. Witmer moved,				M^me Witmer propose,
That the Legislative Assembly call upon the government, To recognize that as of April 1, 2004, nursing homes in Ontario were to have received their annual "case mix increase" adjustment of 1.4% in their base funding allocations to cover increased labour costs and to keep up with the increasing needs of residents, To recognize that the McGuinty government is clawing back property tax reimbursements to specific Long-Term Care facilities, thereby placing additional funding pressures on our nursing homes, To recognize that the system has been expanded by 20,000 beds and the last of those beds are now being opened, and that new money is needed to fund these beds, And to recognize that Premier McGuinty made a specific campaign promise to, "invest in better nursing home care, providing an additional $6,000 in care for every resident", That Premier McGuinty live up to his campaign promises and immediately increase long-term care funding and stop the clawback of property tax reimbursements.
A debate arising, after some time, the motion was lost on the following division:-				Un débat s'ensuit et après quelque temps, la motion est rejetée par le vote suivant:-
AYES / POUR - 20

Baird Barrett Bisson Eves	Hampton Hardeman Hudak Jackson	Klees Kormos Martel Martiniuk			Miller Ouellette Prue Runciman		Scott Wilson Witmer Yakabuski

NAYS / CONTRE - 49

Arthurs Bartolucci Berardinetti Bountrogianni Bradley Broten Brown Bryant Cansfield Cordiano	Craitor Delaney Dhillon Dombrowsky Duguid Duncan Flynn Gerretsen Gravelle Hoy	Jeffrey Kennedy Kwinter Lalonde Levac Marsales Mauro McMeekin Meilleur Milloy			Mitchell Mossop Patten Peters Peterson Phillips Pupatello Qaadri Ramal Ramsay		Ruprecht Sandals Sergio Smith Van Bommel Watson Wong Wynne Zimmer
With unanimous consent, the following was agreed to:
That the House will continue to meet past 6:00 p.m. to consider Bill 26, An Act to amend the Planning Act, that one hour will be allotted to this debate, divided equally among the Government, the Official Opposition, and the Third Party; and that any required division will be deemed to be deferred.
Debate was resumed on the motion for Second Reading of Bill 26, An Act to amend the Planning Act.				Le débat reprend sur la motion portant deuxième lecture du projet de loi 26, Loi modifiant la Loi sur l'aménagement du territoire.
After some time, the question having been put, the Deputy Speaker (Mr. Crozier) declared his opinion that the Ayes had it, and a recorded vote having been demanded,				Après quelque temps, la motion mise aux voix, le vice-président, M. Crozier déclare qu'à son avis les voix favorables l'emportent et un vote par appel nominal a été demandé.
With unanimous consent, the vote on the motion for Second Reading of Bill 26 was deferred until May 13, 2004.				Avec le consentement unanime, le vote sur la motion portant deuxième lecture du projet de loi 26 est différé jusqu'au 13 mai 2004.

The House then adjourned at 7:05 p.m.				À 19 h 05, la chambre a ensuite ajourné ses travaux.

le président Alvin Curling Speaker
PETITIONS TABLED PURSUANT TO STANDING ORDER 38 (A) Petition relating to not eliminating or reducing the provincial drug benefits provided to seniors (Sessional Paper No. P-54) Mrs. Jeffrey. Petition relating to providing better access to GO train service on the Milton Line for residents of western Mississauga (Sessional Paper No. P-93) Mr. Delaney.

RESPONSES TO PETITIONS				RÉPONSES AUX PÉTITIONS
Petition relating to eliminating the $5.6 billion deficit left by the previous government (Sessional Paper No. P-6): (Tabled December 1, 2003) Mr. Berardinetti. (Tabled December 4, 2003) Mr. Tascona. (Tabled December 8, 2003) Mrs. Munro. Petition relating to working for the taxpayers of the province of Ontario (Sessional Paper No. P-17): (Tabled December 8, 2003) Mr. Yakabuski. Petition relating to a landfill at site 41 (Sessional Paper No. P-27): (Tabled March 31, 2004) Mr. Dunlop. (Tabled April 5, 2004) Mr. Dunlop. (Tabled April 6, 2004) Mr. Dunlop.
(Tabled April 8, 2004) Mr. Dunlop. (Tabled April 13, 2004) Mr. Wilson. (Tabled April 14, 2004) Mr. Dunlop. (Tabled April 15, 2004) Mr. Dunlop. Petition relating to dealing with the projected 2003-2004 Ontario Government deficit (Sessional Paper No. P-36): (Tabled December 18, 2003) Mr. Barrett.

May 12, 2004