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No. 154	N^o¹⁵⁴

Votes and Proceedings	Procès-verbaux
Legislative Assembly of Ontario	Assemblée législative de l'Ontario
Tuesday April 10, 2007 Daytime Meeting - Sessional Day 233 Evening Meeting - Sessional Day 234	Mardi 10 avril 2007 Séance de l'après-midi - jour de session 233Séance du soir - jour de session 234
2^ndSession, 38^th Parliament	2^e session 38^elégislature

Prayers 1:30 P.M.				Prières 13 H 30
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 202, An Act to create a right of passage along the shoreline of the Great Lakes. Mr. Craitor.			Projet de loi 202, Loi créant un droit de passage le long du littoral des Grands Lacs. M. Craitor.

Motions			Motions
Mr. Bradley moved,			M. Bradley propose,
That pursuant to Standing Order 9(c)(i), the House shall meet from 6:45 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 10, 2007, and Wednesday, April 11, 2007, 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 - 60

Arthurs Balkissoon Bartolucci Bentley Bountrogianni Bradley Broten Brownell Bryant Cansfield Caplan Chambers	Chan Colle Craitor Crozier Delaney Dhillon Dombrowsky Duguid Flynn Fonseca Gerretsen Gravelle	Hoy Jeffrey Kular Kwinter Lalonde Leal Levac Matthews Mauro McMeekin McNeely Meilleur			Milloy Mitchell Mossop Orazietti Parsons Patten Peters Phillips Pupatello Qaadri Racco Ramal	Ramsay Rinaldi Ruprecht Sandals Sergio Smith Smitherman Sorbara Takhar Van Bommel Watson Wynne

NAYS / CONTRE - 25

Arnott Barrett Chudleigh DiNovo Dunlop	Elliott Ferreira Hardeman Horwath Hudak	Klees MacLeod Martel Martiniuk Miller			Munro O'Toole Prue Savoline Scott	Tabuns Tascona Tory Witmer Yakabuski

Deferred Votes				Votes différés
The deferred vote on the amendment to the motion that this House approves in general the Budgetary Policy of the Government, as follows:-
That the motion moved by the Minister of Finance on March 22, 2007 "That this House approves in general the Budgetary Policy of the Government," be amended by deleting the words following the words "That this House" and substituting thereto the following:-
"recognize that the budgetary policy put forward by the Minister of Finance continues the McGuinty government's legacy of broken promises and demands more and more from taxpayers while delivering less and less, and that this House condemns the McGuinty government for: Saying anything and paying anything that they think will get them elected;
Increasing spending by more than $20 billion since coming to office - an increase of $750,000 every hour they've been in office - and having no results to show for it; Increasing spending by more than $20 billion since coming to office and still failing to keep a huge number of campaign commitments including, but not limited to:
· The broken promise to not raise taxes; · The broken promise to close coal-fired electricity plants by 2007; · The broken promise to balance the budget every year; · The broken promise to not add to the waste of taxpayers' dollars; · The broken promise to provide children with autism the support and treatment they need; · The broken promise to stop school closings; · The broken promise to ensure 75% of students meet or exceed the provincial standard on province-wide tests within their first mandate; · The broken promise to implement a hard cap of 20 students for early grades; · The broken promise to provide a new funding formula for rural and northern schools; · The broken promise to cap hydro rates at 4.3 cents per kilowatt hour until 2006; · The broken promise to make the Ministry of Agriculture a lead ministry; · The broken promise to eliminate barriers to foreign-trained professionals within one year; · The broken promise to spend $6,000 more per year for individuals in long-term care; · The broken promise to unclog emergency rooms; · The broken promise to divert 60% of municipal solid waste by 2005; · The broken promise to roll back tolls on Highway 407; · The broken promise to build 20,000 new affordable housing units; · The broken promise to create tens of thousands of new child care spaces; and · The broken promise to tackle gridlock.
Continuing this government's ad-hoc, one-off approach to funding key priorities, including a $50 million last minute handout to Magna when less than 24 hours later it was announced they were part of a $4.7 billion bid to purchase Daimler Chrysler; Referring to tax relief as nothing but "trinkets and baubles" for hardworking Ontario taxpayers, yet maintaining the government's long-standing practice of rushing money out the door at fiscal year-end to fund pet projects; Failing to provide tax relief to middle-class Ontarians despite manufactured deficits and massive spending increases over and above what was contained in their 2003 election platform; Overseeing the loss of more than 120,000 manufacturing jobs in the province and failing to respond to a motion passed in this House calling for a comprehensive jobs strategy; and Failing to provide the strong leadership to make the important decisions that will deliver results to the people of Ontario. Therefore, the Government has lost the confidence of this House."
was lost on the following division:-
AYES / POUR - 26

Arnott Barrett Chudleigh DiNovo Dunlop Elliott	Ferreira Hardeman Horwath Hudak Klees	MacLeod Martel Martiniuk Miller Munro			O'Toole Prue Runciman Savoline Scott	Tabuns Tascona Tory Witmer Yakabuski

NAYS / CONTRE - 62

Arthurs Balkissoon Bartolucci Bentley Bountrogianni Bradley Broten Brownell Bryant Cansfield Caplan Chambers Chan	Colle Craitor Crozier Delaney Dhillon Dombrowsky Duguid Duncan Flynn Fonseca Gerretsen Gravelle Hoy	Jeffrey Kular Kwinter Lalonde Leal Levac Matthews Mauro McGuinty McMeekin McNeely Meilleur			Milloy Mitchell Mossop Orazietti Parsons Patten Peters Phillips Pupatello Qaadri Racco Ramal	Ramsay Rinaldi Ruprecht Sandals Sergio Smith Smitherman Sorbara Takhar Van Bommel Watson Wynne
The Main motion, having then been put, was carried on the following division:-
AYES / POUR - 62

Arthurs Balkissoon Bartolucci Bentley Bountrogianni Bradley Broten Brownell Bryant Cansfield Caplan Chambers Chan	Colle Craitor Crozier Delaney Dhillon Dombrowsky Duguid Duncan Flynn Fonseca Gerretsen Gravelle Hoy	Jeffrey Kular Kwinter Lalonde Leal Levac Matthews Mauro McGuinty McMeekin McNeely Meilleur			Milloy Mitchell Mossop Orazietti Parsons Patten Peters Phillips Pupatello Qaadri Racco Ramal	Ramsay Rinaldi Ruprecht Sandals Sergio Smith Smitherman Sorbara Takhar Van Bommel Watson Wynne

NAYS / CONTRE - 27

Arnott Barrett Chudleigh DiNovo Dunlop Elliott	Ferreira Hardeman Horwath Hudak Klees MacLeod	Martel Martiniuk Miller Munro O'Toole			Prue Runciman Savoline Scott Sterling	Tabuns Tascona Tory Witmer Yakabuski
And it was,
Resolved, That this House approves in general the Budgetary Policy of the Government.

Petitions				Pétitions
Petitions relating to OHIP coverage for all forms of Macular Degeneration (Sessional Paper No. P-16) Mr. Delaney and Mr. Flynn.
Petition relating to ensuring Dickinson Square remains a public place (Sessional Paper No. P-198) Ms. MacLeod.
Petition relating to enacting Bill 25, An Act that will preserve the gravesites of the former Premiers of Ontario (Sessional Paper No. P-250) Mr. Brownell.
Petition relating to ensuring that the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board continues with plans to build a new Grade 7 to 12 school to serve the Longfields and Davidson Heights communities (Sessional Paper No. P-254) Ms. MacLeod.
Petition relating to supporting the Regulation of Zoos Act (Sessional Paper No. P-264) Ms. Horwath.
Petition relating to increasing long-term care operating funding in 2007 and 2008 and introducing a capital renewal and retrofit program (Sessional Paper No. P-282) Mr. O'Toole.
Petition relating to increasing the operating budget of Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare to permit continued operation of community laboratory services (Sessional Paper No. P-289) Mr. Miller.
Petition relating to working with Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare to maintain hospital and community-based lab services at the existing facilities in Bracebridge and Huntsville, including restoration of lab services that have recently been contracted out to hospitals in Sudbury and Barrie (Sessional Paper No. P-290) Mr. Miller.
Petitions relating to a second compulsory Physical Education credit for secondary schools (Sessional Paper No. P-299) Mr. Craitor, Mr. Kular, and Mr. Leal.

Orders of the Day				Ordre du Jour
Debate was resumed on the motion for Second Reading of Bill 187, An Act respecting Budget measures, interim appropriations and other matters.				Le débat reprend sur la motion portant deuxième lecture du projet de loi 187, Loi concernant les mesures budgétaires, l'affectation anticipée de crédits et d'autres questions.
After some time, pursuant to Standing Order 9, the motion for the adjournment of the debate was deemed to have been made and carried.				Après quelque temps, conformément à l'article 9 du Règlement, la motion d'ajournement du débat est réputée avoir été proposée et adoptée.

The House then adjourned at 6:00 p.m.				À 18 h, la chambre a ensuite ajourné ses travaux.

6:45 P.M.				18 H 45
Orders of the Day				Ordre du Jour
Debate was resumed on the motion for Third Reading of Bill 155, An Act to provide for a referendum on Ontario's electoral system.				Le débat reprend sur la motion portant troisième lecture du projet de loi 155, Loi prévoyant un référendum sur le système électoral de l'Ontario.
After some time, pursuant to Standing Order 9, the motion for the adjournment of the debate was deemed to have been made and carried.				Après quelque temps, conformément à l'article 9 du Règlement, la motion d'ajournement du débat est réputée avoir été proposée et adoptée.
The House then adjourned at 9:30 p.m.				À 21 h 30, la chambre a ensuite ajourné ses travaux.

le président Mike Brown Speaker

April 10, 2007