Speaker letter m House Hansard index Parliament 39 Session 1

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Letter: M

MacLeod, L. (PC, Nepean–Carleton)
- An Act to amend the Criminal Code, 2006 (Bill C-26), 1381
- Advertising
  - ban on advertising of sexual images of children under 16 years of age, 4114
- Agencies/boards/commissions/etc.
  - expenditures
    - accountability, 7333–7334, 7470
    - review by Integrity Commissioner, 7668
- Animal Health Act, 2009 (Bill 204)
  - second reading, 8444, 8448–8449
    - amendments, 8444
- Appointment process, 480
- Appointments
  - Anand, Raj (nomination as chair, Human Rights Legal Support Centre), 835–836
  - Coyne, Deborah (Health Services Appeal and Review Board), 7667
  - Curtis, Erica (North Simcoe Muskoka Local Health Integration Network), 942
  - Graham, Barbara Lynn (Champlain Community Care Access Centre), 942
  - Grossman-Ianni, Mina (Erie St. Clair Local Health Integration Network ), 942
  - Lougheed, Joan (Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario board of directors), 942
  - Lowe, Karen (Kincardine Police Services Board), 942
  - Salamat, Gemma (Council of the College of Midwives of Ontario), 942
  - Siddiquee, Yusra (Public Accountants Council for the Province of Ontario), 942
  - Vinayagamoorthy, Sivam (Mississauga-Halton Community Care Access Centre), 480, 942
- Apprenticeship training
  - ratio of tradespeople to apprentices, 7104–7105
- Apprenticeship training tax credit, 1368
- Autism services, 4190
- Awards
  - Foodland Ontario Retailer Award, 3278
  - New Business or the Year (Ottawa Chamber of Commerce), 4389
- Budget
  - pre-budget consultations, 4190–4193
- Budget Measures Act, 2009 (Bill 162)
  - second reading, 6097, 6117–6118
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 6158–6159
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (Bill 44)
  - second reading, 782–786
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (No. 2) (Bill 114)
  - second reading, 3589, 3609–3610
- Budget surplus
  - transfer of funds to municipalities for infrastructure projects, 810, 1022–1025, 1039
- Bullying
  - lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgendered, intersexed, queer (LGBTTIQ) teens
    - mandatory reporting of incidents, 5544, 5555–5557
- Canada Elections Act, S.C. 2000, c.9, 3022
- Canadian Armed Forces, 6473
- Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, 6314
- Canadian Payday Loan Association, 2409
- Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)
  - Ryan, Sid (president)
    - comments re ban on Israeli professors from speaking, teaching or doing research work at Ontario universities, 4786
- Centre Roberts/Smart Centre
  - government funding, 6752
- Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Part 1, Constitution Act, 1982)
  - section 15(1), 2088
- Child abuse, 6461
- Child abuse registry, 4114, 6461
- Child pornography
  - reporting
    - law enforcement, 451
- Child protection, 450–451, 4112, 4927
- Child sexual abuse
  - penalties, 451
- Children at risk, 4897–4898
- Children's fitness tax credit, 4191
- Children's Safety and Protection Rights Act, 2009 (Bill 130)
  - general discussion, 4112, 5549
  - first reading, 4114
- Colleges Collective Bargaining Act, 2008 (Bill 90)
  - third reading, 2915, 2927–2928, 2933–2934
- Colleges of applied arts and technology (CAATs)
  - Algonquin College, 2933–2934, 7116
  - collective bargaining
    - inclusion of part-time and sessional employees, 2927–2928
- Committee process
  - Bill 218, 9129
- Committees
  - Select Committee on the Economy, 6097
- Conflict of interest
  - Grier, Jason (lobbyist), 8541
- Congratulatory remarks
  - Forward, Brad (winner, National Driving Championship), 7037
- Conquest Vacations
  - closure, 6269, 6335, 6367–6368, 6439
- Consumer protection, 2358–2359
  - electricity rates, 5121
- Consumer Protection Amendment Act (Payday Loans), 2007 (Bill 205), 1380
- Consumer reporting agencies
  - duty to inform about missing or stolen information, 2358–2359
  - duty to truncate vital information, 2358
- Consumer Reporting Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 75)
  - second reading
    - public consultation, 2359
- Consumer reports, 2358
- Corporate tax reduction, 3416
- Cosmetic Pesticides Ban Act, 2008 (Bill 64)
  - second reading, 2011
- Criminal Code of Canada
  - section 293, 2208
- Debates re answers to oral questions
  - Government advertising
    - requested, 3021–3022
    - participation, 3021–3022
  - Taxation
    - requested, 8630, 8667
    - participation, 8630, 8666–8667
  - Travel industry
    - requested, 6367–6368
    - participation, 6367–6368
- Defendants
  - detention of defendants, 4114
- Doctors
  - international medical graduates (IMGs)
    - assessment/training, 155
    - removing barriers, 2727, 4004
- Drug abuse
  - Ottawa, 1209
- Drug abuse treatment programs, 337
  - Ottawa, 1209–1210
- Economic conditions, 493–494, 2011, 3414–3416, 3609–3610, 4190–4191, 4927, 5162
- Economic decline, 782, 3414–3416, 6158
- Economic growth
  - five-point economic plan, 3415
- Education Amendment Act (Keeping Our Kids Safe at School), 2009 (Bill 157)
  - second reading, 5544, 5549, 5555–5557
- Education Statute Law Amendment Act (Electronic Sexual Material), 2009 (Bill 202)
  - general discussion, 7896–7897
- eHealth Ontario
  - contracts, 7960–7961, 8025
    - IBM, 7873–7874
    - public inquiry, 8994
  - review by Standing Committee on Government Agencies, 7268–7269
- Electricity rates
  - increase, 5339, 5427
- Employment creation, 5427
- Employment insurance, 2796–2797
- Employment standards
  - allegations of abuse
    - Dhalla, Ruby case, 6592–6593, 6600
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Temporary Help Agencies), 2009 (Bill 139)
  - second reading, 5138–5142
  - third reading, 6363–6367
- Energy
  - renewable energy projects
    - cost increases for consumers, 6728
- Family law
  - reform, 4897–4898
- Family Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 133)
  - second reading, 4897–4898
- Federal government
  - transfer payments
    - equalization program, 2796
      - petitions, 2742
- Federal government record
  - Liberal (1993-2006)
    - Canada health and social transfer, 1030
- French-language debates
  - Déclarations des députés
    - Heures de séance, 821
- Fundraising
  - Dhadkan Group, 4331
- Government accountability, 9364–9365
- Government advertising
  - fairness campaign, 3021–3022
  - harmonized sales tax, 9405
- Government debt, 5922–5923
- Government expenditures, 4526
  - increase, 5919–5920
- Government notice of motions
  - Legislative reform
    - responded to, 1233–1236, 3126–3127
- Government orders
  - Committee sittings
    - responded to, 4190–4193
  - Federal-provincial fiscal policies
    - responded to, 2795–2798
  - Ontario economy
    - responded to, 3414–3416
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010), 3415, 9213–9214
    - tax increases, 6515
- Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 (Bill 150)
  - general discussion, 5121
  - second reading, 5157, 5162–5163, 5332, 5339–5340, 5342
  - third reading, 6728, 6732
- Greenhouse gas emissions
  - reduction
    - carbon tax, 2796
- Harmonized sales tax, 5616–5617, 5913–5914, 5920–5921, 6515–6516, 7385, 7755–7756, 8552–8553, 8630, 8796–8798, 8854, 9155
  - disclosure of documents re public meetings, 9035
  - exemptions, 8642–8643
  - impact on arts community, 9156–9157
  - impact on condominium owners, 8915
  - impact on doctors, 8666–8667
  - impact on funeral services, 5882–5883
  - impact on health care, 8839
  - impact on investment industry, 7430
  - impact on municipal government, 8838–8839
  - impact on senior citizens, 8915
  - impact on veterinary services, 8444, 8448
  - public consultation, 8597–8598, 8679–8680, 8742–8744, 8940, 8947–8948, 8994
- Health care funding
  - federal government funding, 1023
- Healthy Food for Healthy Schools Act, 2008 (Bill 8)
  - second reading, 305–306
- Heart disease, 4331
- Heritage conservation
  - Dickinson Square, 155
- Home energy audits, 5163
- Hospital funding
  - government funding
    - Ottawa, 9578
- Hospitals
  - Queensway Carleton Hospital, 9578
- Income tax
  - income splitting between married or common-law couples, 2550–2552
- Increasing Access to Qualified Health Professionals for Ontarians Act, 2008 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 2727–2728
  - third reading, 4004
- Interim supply motions
  - responded to, 155–156
- Interprovincial Policing Act, 2009 (Bill 203)
  - second reading, 7888, 7896–7897
- Investing in Ontario Act, 2008 (Bill 35)
  - second reading, 810, 1022–1025, 1029–1030, 1035, 1039
- Kindergarten
  - full-day, 8935
- Labour mobility, 8810
  - skilled trades, 7372
- Labour-sponsored investment funds, 1368
- Lake Simcoe Protection Act, 2008 (Bill 99)
  - second reading, 2694, 2708
  - third reading, 4351
- Layoffs
  - Dell Inc., 1299, 1367–1368
- Legislative procedure
  - members/ministers must be in own seats for recorded vote, 8944
  - private members' public business, 1235
- Legislative process
  - family friendly reforms, 123, 1098–1099, 1162, 1233–1236, 3127
    - consultation with opposition parties, 1233–1234
    - oral questions, 1234
  - reform, 3126–3127
- Legislature schedule/agenda
  - evening sittings, 821
  - family friendly hours, 821
- Libraries/schools
  - use of Internet filtering software, 7742–7743, 7896
- Livestock
  - disease prevention and control, 8448
- Long-term care, 350
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
  - wait lists
    - Ottawa, 5034–5035
  - wait times
    - Royal Ottawa Hospital, 5003, 5034
- Manitoba
  - payday loan industry regulation, 1384
- Manufacturing industry
  - layoffs, 782–783, 5919
  - unemployment, 1299
- Members'/ministers' constituencies/constituency events
  - Nepean–Carleton
    - city of Ottawa, 1722
    - diagnostic services, 5237
    - Women in Business Breakfast, 3379
- Members'/ministers' constituents
  - congratulatory remarks, 3278, 4389
  - obituaries, 729
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 4192, 4919, 4927
- Members'/ministers' privileges
  - information regarding intended appointee, 731–732
- Members/ministers quoting committee submissions
  - Robinson, Chris (professor, York University), 2407
  - Whitelaw, Bob (Whitelaw Public Policy Research and Consulting Inc.), 2407–2408
- Members/ministers quoting documents
  - Payday Loan Companies in Canada: Determining the Public Interest (Library of Parliament), 2406, 2409
- Members/ministers quoting electronic mail messages
  - Bishins, Bruce (president, Association of Retail Travel Agents of Ontario), 6368
  - harmonized sales tax, re, 7755–7756
  - Zaidi, Mukarram Ali (re removing barriers for international medical doctors), 2728
- Members/ministers quoting letters
  - harmonized sales tax, re, 6117–6118
  - Lagois Drafting and Construction Inc., 3798
  - McBride, Merv (constituent, Nepean–Carleton), 3798
  - merging goods and services tax and provincial sales tax, re, 6515–6516
- Members/ministers quoting magazine articles
  - Canadian Travel Press, 6439
- Members/ministers quoting newspaper articles
  - Globe and Mail (Toronto), 2796
  - National Post (Toronto), 2796
  - North Bay Nugget, 7874
  - Ottawa Citizen, 1138
  - Toronto Star, 810, 1023–1024, 7755
  - Toronto Sun, 810, 1024, 2359
- Members/ministers quoting reports
  - Special Report: Ontario's Electronic Health Records Initiative (Office of the Auditor General of Ontario), 8025
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Association of Canadian Search, Employment and Staffing Services, 5141
  - Buzny, Wlodzimierz (grand knight, Knights of Columbus), 4919
  - Canadian Federation of Independent Business, 8743
  - Canadian Payday Loan Association, 1381
  - Chivers, Doug (Oakville), 8852
  - Coffrey, Charles S. (lawyer), 6462
  - Coleman, Peter (president and CEO, National Citizens Coalition), 8743
  - Collins, Thomas (archbishop, Toronto), 4920
  - Cooke, Betty (Windsor), 8852
  - Credit Union Central of Ontario, 1384–1385, 2407–2408
  - Dalton, Warren (Scarborough–Rouge River), 8852
  - Desroches, Steve (councillor, Gloucester-South Nepean), 1138
  - Elman, Irwin (Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth), 6462
  - Gallimore, Natalie (constituent, Ottawa), 2550
  - Garchinski, Jim (spokesman, Public Sector Retiree Coalition), 8743
  - Garner, Jack (Barrie), 9156
  - Hallifax, Wulf (Mississauga), 9156
  - Hannah, Scott (Credit Counselling Society), 1381
  - Harder, Jan (councillor, Ottawa), 1138
  - Harper, Stephen (Prime Minister of Canada), 2795
  - Hindy, Aly Imam, 2214
  - Hogben, Alia (executive director, Canadian Council of Muslim Women), 2088, 2214
  - Holburn, Guy (Richard Ivey School of Business), 5340
  - Horne, Les (Defence for Children International), 6462
  - Keeping, Max (CTV news anchor), 6461
  - Kelly, Doreen (Orillia), 8915
  - Kennedy, Karyn (executive director, Boost), 6461
  - Killens, Larry (Algoma–Manitoulin), 8852
  - Landriault, Sara (president, National Family Childcare Association), 2551
  - Leinweber, Paul A. (London), 8852
  - Lynas, Art (Belleville), 8852
  - Macdonald, John A. (Canada's first prime minister), 2798
  - Marin, André (Ombudsman of Ontario), 6462
  - Marzolini, Michael (chairman, Pollara), 1383
  - McMillan, Christine (Chair, Council on Aging Network of Ontario), 8743–8744
  - Mill, John Stuart (British philosopher and political theorist), 9156
  - Ontario Association of Children Aid Societies, 6462
  - Parrish, Carolyn (Mississauga city councillor), 810
  - Post, Doris (Brant), 9156
  - Priest, Doug (Haliburton–Kawartha Lakes–Brock), 9156
  - Samuelson, Wayne (president, Ontario Federation of Labour), 5340
  - Sinclair, William (Oakville), 9156
  - Thompson, Clark and Jo-Ann (Timiskaming–Cochrane), 9156
  - Weir, Gerry (president, Ontario Real Estate Association), 5163, 5340
  - Wingle, James Matthew (bishop, St. Catharines), 4920
  - Winson, Rick (Barrie), 8852
  - Yip, Lisa (doctor), 2728
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - Liberal (1990-1995)
    - McGuinty, Dalton (Ottawa South), 7755
  - Liberal (1995-2003)
    - McGuinty, Dalton (Ottawa South)
      - as Leader of the Opposition, 7755, 8742
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - Aggelonitis, Sophia (Hamilton Mountain), 6439
  - withdrawal requested, 2518, 6517
  - withdrawn, 1039, 1145, 2127, 2201, 3470, 4060, 6439, 6600, 8743, 8994
- Members' statements
  - Child protection, 4112
  - City of Ottawa, 1722
  - CUPE resolution, 4786
  - Czapnik, Eric, 9410
  - Dhadkan Group, 4331
  - Diagnostic services, 5003, 5237
  - Employment, 1299
  - Family friendly reforms, 123
  - Forward, Brad, 7037
  - Government appointments, 941–942
  - Government spending, 4526
  - Green, Hilliard, 729
  - House sittings, 821
  - Human rights, 982
  - Legislative reform, 282
  - Moodie, D. Aubrey, 2037
  - Morris Newspaper Group, 4949
  - Ontario economy, 493–494
  - Polygamy, 2214
  - Premier's petition, 2742–2743
  - Public transit, 4686–4687
  - Ross, Ken, 3278
  - Sharma, Sunita and Neeta, 4389
  - Small Business Week, 3379
  - Taxation, 8947–8948
  - Village on Manotick, 6143
  - White, Tiffany, 8463
  - Wind farms, 8152
- Minimum wage
  - increase, 5232
- Ministerial responsibility, 7688
- Ministerial statements, responded to
  - Taxation, 8552–8553
  - Technical safety standards, 7041
- Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
  - Ontario cattle, hog and horticulture program, 8753
- Ministry of Government Services
  - hotel/conference expenditures, 4418, 4524
- Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
  - second career strategy, 524, 563
    - federal government funding, 2915
- Municipal infrastructure
  - government funding, 783
    - Nepean–Carleton, 1024
    - Ottawa, 1035
- National/independence/memorial days
  - Pope John Paul II Day, 4919–4920
- Nepean
  - history, 5919
- Nortel
  - pension plans, 9339
- Nurse practitioners
  - expansion of scope of practice, 8941
- Obituaries
  - Dicks, Glen (advertising executive, Barrhaven Independent), 4949
- OC Transpo
  - strike, 4686–4687, 4705
    - social service funding, 4698
- Ombudsman of Ontario
  - power to investigate children's aid societies, school boards or hospitals, 4114
- One Step Travel
  - public inquiry, 6269, 6335, 6439
- Ontario budget speech (26 March 2009)
  - responded to, 5904–5905, 5913–5914, 5918–5923
- Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 (Bill 183)
  - second reading, 7104–7105, 7116–7117
- Ontario health premium
  - exemption for Canadian Armed Forces personnel, 2798
- Ontario Labour Mobility Act, 2009 (Bill 175)
  - second reading, 7372, 8810
- Ontario Municipal Board (OMB)
  - residential development in Manotick, 6143
- Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), 4191–4192
- Ontario Tax Plan for More Jobs and Growth Act, 2009 (Bill 218)
  - second reading, 8796–8798, 8838–8839, 8852, 8854
  - third reading, 9155–9156
- Opposition day motions, presented
  - Taxation, 8742–8744
- Opposition day motions, responded to
  - Taxation, 6515–6516
- Oral questions, presented
  - Agency spending, 7333
  - Children's mental health services, 6752
  - Diagnostic services, 5034–5035
  - Drug treatment programs, 337, 1209–1210
  - Electronic health information, 7268–7269, 7960–7961, 8025
  - Employment standards, 6592–6593, 6600
  - Government accountability, 9364–9365
  - Government advertising, 2994–2995, 9266, 9405
  - Government appointments, 480
  - Government contracts, 7575, 8541
  - Government record, 9213–9214
  - Health care funding, 9578
  - Human rights, 835–836
  - Legislative reform, 1098–1099, 1162
  - Ministerial responsibility, 7688
  - Minister's record, 7873–7874
  - Ministry spending, 4418, 4524
  - Ontario economy, 1367–1368
  - Polygamy, 2088, 2125–2126, 2208, 2240–2241
  - Propane explosion, 2736
  - Public transit, 4697–4698, 4946
  - Public transportation, 4385, 4580
  - Renewable energy and conservation, 5120–5121
  - Sewage spill, 2200–2201
  - Skills training, 524, 563
  - Small business, 5232–5233, 5427
  - Taxation, 5616–5617, 5882–5883, 7384, 7430, 8597, 8642–8643, 8679–8680, 8915, 8994, 9035
  - Travel industry, 6269, 6335, 6439
  - Water quality, 294–295
  - Wildlife management, 3878–3879
- Organ donors, 5138
- Pamphlets
  - Vote for Fairness Ontario, 2994–2995
- Payday loan industry
  - consumer education, 2411
  - consumer protection, 2406–2409, 2417
  - regulation, 1380–1385
    - exemption for credit unions and caisses populaires, 2407–2408, 2411
    - independent advisory board to determine maximum cost of borrowing, 1383–1384
- Payday loans
  - Internet loans, 2408, 2411
- Payday Loans Act, 2008 (Bill 48)
  - second reading, 1380–1386
  - third reading, 2405–2411, 2417
- Pension Benefits Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 236)
  - second reading, 9339
- Petitions
  - Lord's Prayer, 656, 1576, 2528
  - Services for the developmentally disabled, 2033
  - Strandherd-Armstrong bridge, 28–29, 58, 81, 1214
  - Taxation, 6895–6896, 8657, 9330–9331
- Police services
  - cross-border policing, 7888
- Polygamy, 2125–2126, 2208, 2240–2241
  - law and legislation, 2088, 2214
- Private members' public business
  - Afghan family law
    - responded to, 6473–6474
  - Child Pornography Reporting Act, 2008 (Bill 37)
    - second reading, 450–451
  - Children's Safety and Protection Rights Act, 2009 (Bill 130)
    - second reading, 6460–6462, 6467
  - Consumer Reporting Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 75)
    - second reading, 2358–2359
  - Curriculum
    - responded to, 4927–4928
  - Education Statute Law Amendment Act (Electronic Sexual Material), 2009 (Bill 202)
    - second reading, 7742–7743
  - Fairness for Families Act, 2008 (Bill 88)
    - second reading, 2550–2551
  - Pope John Paul II Day Act, 2009 (Bill 25)
    - second reading, 4919–4920
  - Strandherd-Armstrong bridge
    - presented, 1137–1139, 1145–1146
  - Taxation
    - responded to, 7755–7756
- Propane explosions
  - Sunrise Propane, 2736, 7041
- Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth
  - advocacy to students in schools and children in hospitals, 4114
  - annual report, 4114
- Public accounts, 7575
- Public education campaigns
  - Children's Day, 4114, 6461
  - International Day of the Child, 4927
  - Small Business Week, 3379
- Public Sector Expenses Review Act, 2009 (Bill 201)
  - second reading, 7470
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 7667–7668
- Regulated Health Professions Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 141)
  - third reading
    - section 24, 8939
- Regulated Health Professions Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 179)
  - third reading, 8939–8940
- Remembrance Day, 3842
- Reports
  - Report on Removing Barriers for International Medical Doctors (Laurel C. Broten), 2727
  - Technical Standards and Safety Authority's Action Plan for Propane Safety Review Recommendations, 7041
- Road Safety Act, 2009 (Bill 126)
  - second reading, 4544–4545
    - public consultation, 4544–4545
- School construction
  - Riverside South Catholic school, 156
- School safety
  - reporting of violent incidents, 4114
- School science strategy, 4927
- Science/technology, 4927
- Sewage spills
  - Ottawa River, 2200–2201
    - public inquiries, 2201
- Small business, 5427
  - Ross, Ken case, 5427
- Speaker's rulings/statements quoted
  - Speaker Fraser (House of Commons), 8677
- Standing Orders
  - S.O. 21(c) Privilege - Notice to Speaker, 8753
  - S.O. 99(d) Written questions - Answers - delayed answers - decline to answer, 8753–8754
  - S.O. 106(e) Committees - Orders of reference, 732
- Strikes
  - Amalgamated Transit Union Local 279, 4580
- Student Achievement and School Board Governance Act, 2009 (Bill 177)
  - general discussion, 8935–8936
  - second reading, 7401
  - third reading, 8934–8936
- Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA), 7041, 8095
- Technical Standards and Safety Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 187)
  - second reading, 8095
- Temporary help agencies, 6367
  - regulation, 6365–6366
- Temporary help agency employees
  - continuance of employment, 6363
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 350, 436
- Tibet
  - anti-Chinese protests, 982
- Time allocation motions
  - Budget Measures Act, 2009 (Bill 162)
    - responded to, 6158–6159
  - Public Sector Expenses Review Act, 2009 (Bill 201)
    - responded to, 7667–7668
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)
  - strike, 4580
- Toxics Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 167)
  - second reading, 6314
- Transit systems
  - government funding
    - Ottawa, 4946
- Transportation infrastructure
  - Strandherd-Armstrong bridge, 155, 784, 1035, 4946
    - construction, 1137–1139, 1146
      - government funding, 1138–1139, 1146
- Transportation master plan
  - Ottawa, 4385
- Travel Industry Council of Ontario (TICO), 6269, 6439
- Tributes
  - Czapnik, Eric (constable killed in the line of duty, Ottawa Police Service), 9410
  - Fox, Charley (veteran), 3842
  - Moodie, S. Aubrey (former reeve, Nepean), 2037
  - White, Tiffany (recipient, Commitment to Care and Service Award for pharmacy technicians), 8463
- Unemployment, 1368, 5232
- Unemployment rate, 494, 785
- United States
  - Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), 7742
- Universities/colleges
  - York University
    - strike, 4705
- Water quality
  - schools, 294–295
- Websites
  - www.bullyingcanada.ca, 6460
- Wildlife management
  - coyotes, 3878–3879
- Workers
  - job retraining
    - government funding, 783
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 119)
  - second reading, 3795, 3798
- York University Labour Disputes Resolution Act, 2009 (Bill 145)
  - second reading, 4705
Mangat, A. (LIB, Mississauga–Brampton South)
- ABC CANADA Literacy Foundation
  - Family Literacy Day, 9371
- Adoption
  - international
    - bankruptcy of Imagine Adoption, 7827
- Anniversaries
  - Coral Place 15th anniversary, 2839
- Automobile parts industry, 5848
- Awards
  - Diversity Works awards (Peel Career Assessment Services), 4390–4391
- Birthdays
  - McCallion, Hazel (mayor, Mississauga), 5005
- Bridges
  - Confederation Parkway Bridge, 3241–3242
- Budget Measures Act, 2009 (Bill 162)
  - second reading, 6030
- Child poverty, 5206
- Children's services
  - Child Development Resource Connection Peel, 7923
- Colleges of applied arts and technology (CAATs)
  - Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, 7198–7199
    - Centre for Healthy Communities, 729
- Condolences
  - Morden, Gary (chief, Mississauga Fire Services), 3645
- Condominium corporations
  - reserve funds
    - requirements for adequate funding, 9582–9583
- Corporate tax exemptions
  - Ontario tax exemption for commercialization (OTEC)
    - eligibility for refund, 3030–3031
- Diabetes, 3934–3935, 3940
  - Gibson, Trevor case, 3934
  - Shepheard, Shawn case, 3935
  - Swaminathan, Siva case, 3935
- Diabetes Awareness Month Act, 2008 (Bill 113)
  - first reading, 3445
- Doctors
  - international medical graduates (IMGs)
    - removing barriers, 2726
- Early childhood education
  - full-day learning for four- and five-year-old children, 123
- Economic conditions, 5848
- Education funding
  - government funding, 123, 1503
- Employment insurance
  - resources for training for unemployed workers in manufacturing sector, 5848
- Employment insurance benefits
  - Ontario workers, 5848, 5854
- Energy
  - renewable energy, 5050
- Epilepsy Peel Region, 5431
- Farmers' markets
  - Square One Farmers' Market, 1559
- Full Day Early Learning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 242)
  - second reading, 9525
- Government notice of motions
  - Legislative reform
    - responded to, 1451
- Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 (Bill 150)
  - second reading, 5050
- Green industry, 5050
- Harmonized sales tax
  - impact on business, 8409
- Holidays
  - Family Day, 53
- Ideas for the Future Act, 2008 (Bill 100)
  - second reading, 3030–3031
- Increasing Access to Qualified Health Professionals for Ontarians Act, 2008 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 2726
- Kindergarten
  - full-day, 9525
- Legislative process
  - family friendly reforms, 1451
- Members'/ministers' constituencies/constituency events
  - Mississauga–Brampton South
    - Steppin' Out for the Arts, 5387
- Members'/ministers' inaugural speeches, 673–674
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 673
- Members'/ministers' privileges
  - wearing of pins/ribbons/buttons, 3930
- Members/ministers quoting news media
  - Canadian Press (CP), 1451
- Members/ministers quoting newspaper articles
  - Hamilton Spectator, 1451
  - Toronto Star, 1451
- Members' statements
  - Child Development Resource Connection Peel, 7923
  - Confederation Parkway Bridge, 3241–3242
  - Coral Place, 2839
  - Diversity Works awards, 4390–4391
  - Education funding, 123, 1503
  - Epilepsy Peel Region, 5431
  - Family Literacy Day, 9371
  - International Credit Union Day, 8264
  - International trade, 9223
  - Manufacturing jobs, 2676–2677
  - McCallion, Hazel, 5005
  - Member's family, 1615
  - Morden, Gary, 3645
  - Poverty, 1091
  - Punjabi music, 2353
  - Ryan, Susan, 4028–4029
  - Sheridan College, 7198–7199
  - Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, 729–730
  - Small business, 8112
  - Square One Farmers' Market, 1559
  - Steppin' Out for the Arts, 5387
  - Terrorist attacks, 4293
- Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
  - skills to jobs action plan, 730
- Missing persons
  - with dementia
    - Silver Alert program, 8521
- New Hermes Limited/New Hermes Limitée Act, 2009 (Bill Pr24)
  - first reading, 6996
- Ontario budget speech (25 March 2008)
  - responded to, 673–674
- Oral questions, presented
  - Condominium reserve funds, 9582–9583
  - Family Day, 53
  - International adoptions, 7827
  - Pharmaceutical industry, 526–527
  - Research and innovation, 3489
  - Taxation, 8409
- Petitions
  - Anti-smoking legislation, 618
  - Firearms control, 1000–1001, 1213, 1313–1314, 2297
  - Hospital funding, 342, 747–748
  - University labour dispute, 4788
- Pharmaceutical industry, 526–527
- Poverty Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 152)
  - second reading, 5206
- Poverty reduction strategy, 1091
- Private members' public business
  - Diabetes Awareness Month Act, 2008 (Bill 113)
    - second reading, 3934–3935, 3940
  - Employment insurance
    - presented, 5847–5849, 5854
  - Missing persons alert
    - responded to, 8521
- Public education campaigns
  - Diabetes Awareness Month, 3445, 3934–3935, 3940
  - International Credit Union Day, 8264
  - Small Business Month, 8112
- Research and innovation, 3489
- Services and Supports to Promote the Social Inclusion of Persons with Developmental Disabilities Act, 2008 (Bill 77)
  - second reading, 2065
- 6N Silicon Inc., 3030, 3489
- Teacher-student ratios, 1503
- Terrorist attacks
  - Mumbai, India, 4293
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 447
- Trade missions
  - India, 9223
- Tributes
  - Kaur, Surinder (Punjabi folk singer), 2353
  - Ryan, Susan (former president, Mississauga Real Estate Board), 4028–4029
- 2Source Manufacturing Inc.
  - government loan, 2676–2677
- Unemployment, 5848
Marchese, R. (NDP, Trinity–Spadina)
- Aboriginal communities
  - illegal sale of tobacco products, 1481
- Aboriginal land claims
  - Caledonia, 1480–1482
- Aboriginal youth
  - education, 2041
- Accommodation review committee (ARC), 3829
- Advanced Coronary Treatment Foundation
  - government funding, 2909
- Advertising
  - ban on advertising of food or drink for children under 13 years of age, 760
- Aftermarket brake pads
  - ban on use of asbestos, 7254–7255
- Agencies/boards/commissions/etc.
  - expenditures
    - review by Integrity Commissioner, 7617–7618, 7661–7662
  - subject to freedom of information requests, 9232–9233
- Agreement on Internal Trade, 8931
- Algoma University Act, 2008 (Bill 80)
  - third reading, 2154–2155
- American sign language (ASL), 2833
- Animal Health Act, 2009 (Bill 204)
  - second reading, 7993–7995, 7997, 7999, 8008–8009
    - public consultation, 8008–8009
- Anniversaries
  - Chopin, Fryderyk's birth 200th anniversary, 9583–9584
- Appreciation
  - teachers, 3099
- Apprenticeship training
  - Dell Inc., 1473
  - ratio of tradespeople to apprentices, 2853–2854, 7104, 7107, 7112, 8123–8124
- Apprenticeship training programs, 2476, 2853, 7115, 7126
  - completion rates, 6813, 7109, 8124
  - registration, 6813
- Apprenticeship training tax credit, 7110–7111
- Arts and culture
  - federal government funding
    - reduction, 2743
- Asbestos, 7254
- Automated external defibrillators (AED), 2909
- Automobile insurance
  - public, 6131
- Automobile insurance rates/premiums
  - young drivers, 6132
- Awards
  - Premier's Award for Teaching Excellence, 988
- Blind/visually-impaired persons
  - access to books in suitable formats, 9568–9569
- Books
  - The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Devra Davis), 6202–6203
- Bottled water, 3945–3946
  - prohibition on sale, 3945
- Budget
  - pre-budget consultations, 4187
- Budget deficit, 3629–3930
- Budget Measures Act, 2009 (Bill 162)
  - second reading, 6097–6102, 6114, 6122
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (Bill 44)
  - second reading, 915, 917–919, 921
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (No. 2) (Bill 114)
  - second reading, 3629–3633
- Budget surplus
  - transfer of funds to municipalities for infrastructure projects, 919
- Bullying
  - lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgendered, intersexed, queer (LGBTTIQ) teens, 6964–6965
    - disciplinary measures for aggressors, 5536, 5538
    - mandatory reporting of incidents, 5526, 5536–5539, 5543, 6966–6970
    - prevention, 6970
    - safety plans, 6969–6970
  - prevention, 9387–9388
  - social causes, 5538–5540, 5545
- Buy Ontario policy, 3403
- Cable/satellite providers
  - requirement to broadcast legislative proceedings of the province or territory, 3253–3254
- Call centres, 7108, 7117
- Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB), 9568
- Cemeteries
  - Clendennen Cemetery, 5483
  - protection, 5483–5484
  - St. Alban's Anglican Cemetery, 5484
- Child and Family Services Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 103)
  - third reading, 4874–4880
- Child care, 542–543
  - federal government funding, 542
  - government funding, 100, 542, 632–633
  - Quebec, 543
- Child care centres
  - for-profit sector, 543
- Children
  - immigrant children
    - access to education, 2604–2605
- Colleges Collective Bargaining Act, 2008 (Bill 90)
  - general discussion, 2530, 4944–4945
  - second reading, 2472, 2476–2482, 2507–2508
    - public consultation, 2508
  - third reading, 2915, 2918–2926, 2928, 2930, 2933, 2937–2938
- Colleges Collective Bargaining Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 68)
  - first reading, 1461–1462
- Colleges of applied arts and technology (CAATs)
  - Algoma University College, 2041, 2154–2155
  - collective bargaining, 235–236, 2451–2452, 4944, 8652
    - inclusion of part-time and sessional employees, 1248–1249, 1460, 1462, 2478–2481, 2507–2508, 2530, 2922–2923
    - provision against strikes and lockouts, 2481–2482, 2508
  - government funding, 2508, 2923, 2933, 2937
- Committee process
  - Bill 183, 7846
- Committee schedules/agendas, 4187
- Committees
  - Select Committee on Mental Health and Addictions, 4492
  - Select Committee on Municipal Governance, 5298
- Community health centres (CHCs), 4038
- Compensation
  - Truscott, Steven (victim of miscarriage of justice), 1991
  - victims of Dr. Charles Smith's work in child-death investigations, 4569
- Condominium corporations, 7256
  - reserve funds
    - installation of renewable energy/energy efficient technologies, 7257
    - repair/replacement of common elements, 7257
  - standard declaration, 7257
  - Trinity–Spadina, 6557–6558
  - warranty coverage for conversion condominiums, 7257, 7261
- Condominium owners, 7039
  - protection, 7256–7257
  - representation by proxies, 7257
- Condominium Owners Protection Act, 2009 (Bill 186)
  - first reading, 7039
  - second reading
    - public consultation, 7261–7262
- Condominium Review Board, 7257
  - appointment of review officers, 7261
- Construction workers, 3718
- Consumer protection
  - energy contracts, 9489–9491, 9493
  - security deposits for utilities and disconnections, 9247–9248
  - sub-metering electricity in apartments/apartment buildings, 9490–9491
- Consumer Protection Amendment Act (Advertising Food or Drink), 2008 (Bill 53)
  - general discussion, 3692
  - first reading, 760
- Coroner inquests
  - power of Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services to hold inquest repealed, 4569–4571
- Coroners Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 115)
  - second reading, 4569–4571
    - public consultation, 4569–4570
    - repeal of section 22 of Coroners Act, 4569–4570
- Corporate tax reduction, 5864, 5905, 6099, 8799–8800
- Cosmetic Pesticides Ban Act, 2008 (Bill 64)
  - second reading, 1838–1839, 1850–1851, 1854–1855, 2010, 2014–2019
- Cosmetic surgery
  - regulation, 4812
- Court cases/actions
  - Chen, David (store owner charged with kidnapping for apprehending thief), 8302–8303
- Curriculum
  - inclusion of industrial arts and family studies, 7120–7121
  - timeline for curriculum changes, 4658
- Dairy Farmers of Ontario
  - elementary school milk program, 3246
- Day Nurseries Amendment Act (Not for Profit Corporations), 2008 (Bill 26)
  - general discussion, 632–633
- Diabetes, 5290–5291
  - prevention, 4038–4040
- Discrimination, 6001
  - racial, 6001, 7061, 8135–8136
- Disease prevention, 5291–5292
- Doctor shortage, 4037–4038
- Doctors
  - international medical graduates (IMGs), 4037
    - practise in underserviced areas, 4038
- Driver education/training
  - fraudulent driver education certificates sold, 6131
- Economic conditions, 3402, 3485, 3560, 3631, 5143–5144
- Economic decline
  - 1990-1992
    - government response, 2868–2869
- Economic growth
  - five-point economic plan, 3401–3402
- Economic policy, 3632–3633
- Education, 4825
  - streaming process, 8136
- Education Amendment Act (Keeping Our Kids Safe at School), 2009 (Bill 157)
  - second reading, 5526, 5536–5545
  - third reading, 6834, 6836, 6964–6972
    - public consultation, 6834
- Education Amendment Act (Pupils with Diabetes), 2009 (Bill 137)
  - second reading
    - public consultation, 5291–5292
- Education funding
  - accountability, 2640
  - government funding, 3829, 6650
- Education funding reform, 2255
- Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO)
  - Assessment of Reading, Writing and Mathematics (Primary and Junior Division)
    - test scores, 1414
  - Earl, Lorna (member, board of directors)
    - conflict of interest, 7576
- Educational assistants
  - reduction, 5426
- eHealth Ontario
  - consultants, 7616
- Election Statute Law Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 231)
  - second reading, 9679, 9681–9685
- Elections/by-elections
  - barrier-free access, 9681–9682
  - third-party advertising, 9681–9682
- Electoral constituencies
  - renaming of Chatham–Kent–Essex to Chatham–Kent–Leamington, 3555
- Electoral process reform
  - students vote in home riding or riding in which they attend school, 9680
- Electricity rates, 5153
  - industrial rates, 3403
- Elementary school teachers, 3323
- Employers
  - requirement to contribute 1% of payroll amount to workforce training, 3258–3259
- Employment creation
  - transmission and distribution projects, 5031
- Employment insurance benefits
  - Ontario workers, 5852–5853
- Employment Protection for Foreign Nationals Act (Live-In Caregivers and Others), 2009 (Bill 210)
  - second reading, 8532–8536
- Employment-related benefits
  - organ donor leave, 5452
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Organ Donor Leave), 2009 (Bill 154)
  - second reading, 5452
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Temporary Help Agencies), 2009 (Bill 139)
  - second reading, 5138–5139, 5142–5145
- Energy
  - nuclear energy, 5030, 5155–5157, 6581–6583
  - renewable energy, 5014–5015, 5030, 5155–5157
    - solar, 5155–5156
    - wind, 5155–5156
  - renewable energy projects
    - domestic content requirements, 5031, 5159
- Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2010 (Bill 235)
  - second reading, 9484, 9488–9491, 9493
- Environmental assessment process, 4315
  - Don Cousens Parkway, 4315–4316
- Farmers
  - tobacco farmers
    - government funding, 6205
- Federal government
  - senate reform
    - elected senate, 8510–8512
- Foreign caregivers
  - protection, 8533–8536
- French-language debates
  - Déclarations ministérielles et réponses
    - Drapeau franco-ontarien, 2843
    - Journée internationale de la francophonie, 5477
- Full Day Early Learning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 242)
  - second reading, 9512–9523
- Germany
  - use of wind power, 2847
- Good Government Act, 2009 (Bill 212)
  - second reading, 8394
  - third reading, 9020–9022
- Government expenditures
  - decline, 921
- Government orders
  - Committee sittings
    - responded to, 4187
  - Federal-provincial fiscal policies
    - responded to, 2869–2871
  - Ontario economy
    - responded to, 3401–3404
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - nuclear energy, 6725, 6728
    - post-secondary education, 3874
  - NDP (1990-1995)
    - post-secondary education, 2930
  - PC (1995-2003)
    - child care, 542
    - education, 7359
    - post-secondary education, 7121
    - tax reduction, 5801–5802
- Government role, 3265
- Green economy, 5155
- Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 (Bill 150)
  - general discussion, 5030–5031
  - second reading, 5014–5015, 5153, 5155–5157, 5159
  - third reading, 6581–6584, 6724–6725, 6728
- Harmonized sales tax, 5452, 5802–5803, 5869–5873, 5905, 5913, 5921, 6100–6102, 6114, 6122, 8936, 9022, 9075
  - impact on condominium owners, 7436, 8733–8734
  - impact on employment, 7847, 8800, 9021
  - impact on rent rates, 7436
  - public consultation, 8800–8801, 9223
- Health care, 542
- Health regulatory colleges
  - ensure access to adequate numbers of regulated health professionals, 4037, 4039
- Healthy Food for Healthy Schools Act, 2008 (Bill 8)
  - second reading, 217–223, 489–490
- Heart disease, 2909
- Highway tolls, 2870–2871
- Highway Traffic Amendment Act (Speed-limiting Systems), 2008 (Bill 41)
  - third reading, 2593–2594
- Holiday messages, 9411–9412
- Home economics, 5291
- Hospital beds
  - long-term-care beds, 4120
- Housing
  - affordable
    - shortage, 99–100, 595
- Increasing Access to Qualified Health Professionals for Ontarians Act, 2008 (Bill 97)
  - third reading, 4037–4040
- Ireland
  - apprenticeship training programs, 7111
- Kindergarten, 100
  - full-day, 8314, 9328, 9512–9521, 9523
    - designated early childhood educators, 9515–9517, 9519
    - impact on daycare centres, 9520
    - site selection process, 9519
- Labour mobility, 6563, 8662, 8936, 8939–8932, 8948
  - francophones, 8248
  - impact of occupational standards, 8244–8246
  - role of federal government, 8244
- Lactose intolerance, 3246–3247
- Lake Simcoe
  - resort development, 2709
- Lake Simcoe Protection Act, 2008 (Bill 99)
  - second reading, 2699, 2704, 2708–2710
    - public consultation, 2708
- Language instruction
  - English as a second language (ESL), 6001
    - government funding, 5541, 6650
- Layoffs, 3401–3402
- Legislative procedure
  - motions
    - time allocation motions, 7845–7847
  - omnibus bills, 9020
- Legislative proceedings
  - televised
    - Ontario Parliament Network, 3253
- Legislative process
  - family friendly reforms, 2015, 2477, 2507
- Livestock
  - disease prevention and control
    - traceability systems, 7993–7994, 7999
  - protection, 7993
- Long-term-care facilities
  - oversight by Ombudsman, 3549–3550, 4120
  - personal care, 4120–4121
- Manitoba
  - manufacturing investment tax credit, 917–918
- Medical transplants
  - organ and tissue donation
    - presumed consent, 5452
- Members'/ministers' pension plans, 6098
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 4120–4121, 4303–4304, 6202, 7254, 8518
- Members/ministers quoting committee submissions
  - Canadian Union of Public Employees, 6967–6968
  - Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association, 6966
  - Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation, 6967
  - Thomas, Warren (president, Ontario Public Service Employees Union), 8203
- Members/ministers quoting documents
  - CAUT Almanac of Post-Secondary Education in Canada (Canadian Association of University Teachers), 2480
  - A Highly Skilled Workforce: Strengthening Ontario's Economic Advantage (Colleges of Ontario), 2481
- Members/ministers quoting letters
  - John Howard Society, 3014
- Members/ministers quoting newspaper articles
  - Kingston Whig-Standard, 70, 218
  - Thunder Bay Chronicle, 217–218
  - Toronto Star, 71, 919, 8534
  - Welland Tribune, 4492
- Members/ministers quoting reports
  - Environmental Assessment: A Vision Lost, 4315–4316
  - Equitable Education? The Cost of Extracurriculars in Ontario's Schools (Jonathan Scott, director of policy, Ontario Student Trustees' Association), 7834
  - Office of the Auditor General of Ontario Annual Report (2007), 6131
  - Office of the Auditor General of Ontario Annual Report (2008), 7108–7110
  - Ontario University Faculty Sound Warning Over Declining Quality (Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations), 5512
  - With Our Best Future in Mind: Report to the Premier by the Special Advisor on Early Learning (Charles Pascal), 9220–9521
  - A Review of the Colleges Collective Bargaining Act (Kevin Whitaker), 1248
  - Review of the Roots of Youth Violence (Roy McMurtry, Alvin Curling), 6001
  - The Road to Health: A Final Report on School Safety (School Community Safety Advisory Panel), 5541–5542
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Bischoff, Angela (Ontario Clean Air Alliance), 5157
  - Brooks, Chris (senior adviser of road safety, Australian Transport Safety Bureau), 2594
  - Cagney, Andrew (constituent, Toronto), 5157
  - Colour of Poverty Campaign, 7079
  - Corrado, Raymond (Centre for Restorative Justice, Simon Fraser University), 3015
  - Genest, Paul (president, Council of Ontario Universities), 988
  - Kaegh, Gwendolyn (constituent, Markham), 5157
  - Lurie, Steve (executive director, Canadian Mental Health Association), 4493
  - Magwood, Gary (constituent, Belleville), 5156
  - Miller, Cameron (constituent, Toronto), 5157
  - Milligan, John (mayor, Adelaide Metcalfe), 3829
  - Ontario Cattlemen's Association, 7995
  - Ontario Public School Boards' Association, 6944–6945, 7365–7367
  - parents, school fundraising, re, 221
  - Rostgaard, Tine (senior researcher, Danish National Centre for Social Research), 4121
  - Thomas, Warren (president, Ontario Public Service Employees Union), 2508
  - Tory, John (leader, PC Party), 5870
  - Toxics Reduction Scientific Expert Panel, 6303
  - Wingfield, Mark, 5157
- Members/ministers quoting websites
  - Ontario Black History Society, 8135
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - Liberal (1995-2003)
    - Bradley, James J. (St. Catharines), 8092
    - Duncan, Dwight (Windsor–Walkerville), 8092
    - McGuinty, Dalton (Ottawa South)
      - as Leader of the Opposition, 1163, 2255–2256
    - Milloy, John (Kitchener Centre)
      - as Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities), 7520
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - Duncan, Dwight (Windsor–Tecumseh)
      - as Minister of Finance/Chair of Management Board of Cabinet, 5802, 5870
    - McGuinty, Dalton (Ottawa South)
      - as Ontario Premier, 5802–5803, 5870–5871
    - McMeekin, Ted (Ancaster–Dundas–Flamborough–Westdale)
      - as Minister of Government and Consumer Services, 8094
  - PC (2003-2010)
    - Runciman, Robert W. (Leeds–Grenville), 5802
  - withdrawn, 7106
- Members' statements
  - Arts and cultural funding, 2743
  - Catholic school trustees, 2095
  - Chinese New Year, 9411–9412
  - Chopin, Fryderyk, 9583–9584
  - Community colleges, 8652
  - Community colleges collective bargaining, 1460, 2530
  - Condominium association, 6557–6558
  - Electric trains, 8263
  - Global Education Initiative, 3001
  - Government record, 9222–9223
  - Labour mobility, 8948
  - Ontario budget, 516
  - Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations, 886, 5580
  - School extracurricular activities, 7834
  - School pools, 5430
  - Student achievement, 6947
  - Taxation, 7436
  - Teachers, 4825
  - University labour dispute, 4426
  - Youth violence, 3967
- Mental health care, 4492–4493
  - reform, 4492–4493
- Midwives, 4038
- Milk, 3246–3247
- Minimum wage, 5143
  - increase, 918–919
- Ministerial statements, responded to
  - Algoma University College, 2041
  - Community colleges collective bargaining, 2451–2452
  - Education Week, 1414
  - Franco-Ontarian flag, 2843
  - Full-day kindergarten, 8314, 9328
  - Healthy schools, 70–71, 2909, 3692
  - Labour mobility, 6563–6564
  - Portuguese Canadian community, 2451
  - Premier's Awards for Teaching Excellence, 988
  - School boards, 6650
  - School safety, 4658–4659
  - Skilled trades, 6813–6814
  - Student achievement, 46, 6001–6002
  - Student assistance, 944–945
  - Student safety, 5475
  - Teachers, 7779
  - University funding, 988
  - World Teachers' Day, 3099
- Ministry of Education
  - collection of student achievement statistics based on ethnicity, 1569
  - equity and inclusive education strategy, 6001
  - school information finder, 5883, 5991, 6002, 6886–6887, 6944–6945, 6947, 7035–7036, 7079, 7193–7194
- Ministry of Education/Ministry of Health Promotion
  - healthy schools recognition program, 3692
- Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
  - assistive devices program, 3951
- Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
  - second career strategy, 7475, 7520, 7727–7728, 8027, 8123–8124, 8203, 8864–8865
- Missing persons
  - with dementia
    - Silver Alert program, 8518–8519
- Motor scooters
  - regulation, 6132
- Municipal Act, S.O. 2001, c. 25
  - amended by Bill 212, 8394
- Municipal government
  - governance, 5298–5299
- Municipal infrastructure
  - government funding, 100
- National/independence/memorial days
  - Black History Month, 8135–8137
- Nurse practitioners, 4038
- Nurses, 4038
  - school nurses, 5291
- Office of the Chief Veterinarian
  - authority, 7994–7995
- Ontario budget speech (25 March 2008)
  - responded to, 595
- Ontario budget speech (26 March 2009)
  - responded to, 5864, 5869–5873, 5905, 5913, 5921
- Ontario Catholic School Trustees' Association, 2095
- Ontario College of Trades, 6813–6814, 7106–7107, 7848–7849, 8123, 8203, 8243–8244
  - board of governors
    - composition of board
      - ban on donors of Working Families Coalition, 8123
  - membership fees, 7104
  - trade boards, 8124
- Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 (Bill 183)
  - general discussion, 8243–8244
  - second reading, 7104–7113, 7115, 7117, 7120–7121, 7126–7127
  - time allocation motion
    - amendments, 7846–7847
    - responded to, 7845–7850
  - third reading, 8202–8204
- Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations, 886
- Ontario Labour Mobility Act, 2009 (Bill 175)
  - general discussion, 9021, 9223
  - ministerial statement
    - public consultation, 6564
  - second reading, 8243–8248, 8662
    - section 9, 8246
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 8929–8931
- Ontario-Quebec agreements
  - Ontario-Quebec Trade and Cooperation Agreement, 8930
- Ontario Tax Plan for More Jobs and Growth Act, 2009 (Bill 218)
  - second reading, 8797, 8799–8801
- Opposition day motions, responded to
  - Government spending, 5801–5803
  - Rural schools, 2254–2258
  - Tobacco control, 1480–1482
  - Young offenders, 3013–3015
- Oral questions, presented
  - Access to education, 2604–2605
  - Apprenticeship training, 1473
  - Community colleges collective bargaining, 235–236, 1248–1249, 4944–4945
  - Conflict of interest, 7575–7576
  - Education, 5883, 5991
  - Education funding, 994–995, 2640–2641, 6190
  - Elementary teachers, 3323
  - Executive compensation, 4056–4057
  - Green power generation, 5030–5031
  - Health care, 3091
  - Law enforcement, 8302–8303
  - Post-secondary education, 501, 3485, 3874, 4902–4903, 8108
  - Private career colleges, 7429, 9545
  - Public transit, 6270
  - School boards, 651
  - School closures, 1163, 1366–1367, 2124, 3829
  - School facilities, 7385
  - School pools, 1058, 1105, 1572–1573
  - School support staff, 5426
  - Sign language in schools, 2833
  - Skills training, 7475, 7520, 7727–7728, 8027, 8864–8865
  - Special education, 9365
  - Special-needs students, 7269
  - Student achievement, 1569, 6886–6887, 6944–6945, 7035–7036, 7079, 7193–7194
  - Student grants, 6491
  - Taxation, 8733–8734, 9075
  - Teachers' collective agreement, 4620
  - Tuition, 610–611, 5950–5951, 6390, 8558
  - University and college funding, 2670, 5125, 5512
  - University labour disputes, 4382, 4651–4652
- Payday loans
  - borrowing costs, 1397
  - interest rate limit of 35%, 1395
  - interest rates, 1397
- Payday Loans Act, 2008 (Bill 48)
  - second reading, 1395, 1397–1398
- Pension benefits guarantee fund, 6098
- Pension plans
  - defined benefit pension plans, 6098–6099
  - portability
    - paramedics, 7247
    - public service, 7247
- Pesticides/herbicides
  - ban on use and sale of cosmetic pesticides, 1854, 2010, 2015–2017
    - exemptions
      - golf courses, 1838–1839, 1851, 1855, 2017, 2019
- Petitions
  - Car culture, 2034
  - Child safety, 6999–7000
  - Community colleges collective bargaining, 1373, 1891, 2035
  - Environmental protection, 1255–1256
  - Harbord Collegiate, 2526
  - Home care, 571
  - Non-profit housing, 618
  - Poverty, 4115
  - Reconstructive surgery, 9228
  - School pools, 1575
  - Taxation, 7841–7842
  - Tuition, 3498, 7092
  - University labour dispute, 4659
- Physical education, 221–222
- Physical education teachers, 1414, 3692, 4039, 5291
  - hiring, 2909
- Police officers
  - presence in schools, 4877, 4879–4880
- Political contributions, 5299
  - influencing political process, 9679, 9683–9684
- Politicians, 5299
- Post-secondary education, 3874
  - Reaching Higher: The McGuinty Government Plan for Postsecondary Education, 2481, 2670, 4382
- Poverty, 3692, 4039–4040
- Poverty reduction strategy
  - student nutrition program, 3246
- Private career colleges
  - Niagara-on-the-Lake Culinary School
    - closure, 9545
  - oversight, 7429
- Private health clinics, 3091
- Private members' public business
  - Accessibility for the disabled
    - responded to, 9568–9569
  - Anti-bullying initiatives
    - responded to, 9387–9388
  - Apprenticeship training
    - responded to, 2852–2854
  - Black History Month Act, 2009 (Bill 207)
    - second reading, 8135–8137
  - Condominium Owners Protection Act, 2009 (Bill 186)
    - second reading, 7256–7257, 7261–7262
  - Cultural diversity
    - responded to, 7060–7061
  - Day Nurseries Amendment Act (Not for Profit Corporations), 2008 (Bill 26)
    - second reading, 542–543
  - Diabetes Awareness Month Act, 2008 (Bill 113)
    - second reading, 3939
  - Education Amendment Act (Pupils with Diabetes), 2009 (Bill 137)
    - second reading, 5290–5292
  - Electricity Amendment Act (Protection Against Security Deposits), 2009 (Bill 228)
    - second reading, 9247
  - Employment insurance
    - responded to, 5851–5853
  - Environmental Assessment Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 123)
    - second reading, 4315–4316
  - Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Amendment Act (Institutions), 2009 (Bill 227)
    - second reading, 9232–9233
  - Highway Traffic Amendment Act (Aftermarket Brake Pad Standards), 2009 (Bill 181)
    - second reading, 7254
  - Inactive Cemeteries Protection Act, 2009 (Bill 149)
    - second reading, 5483–5484
  - Lake Superior Day
    - responded to, 4310
  - Legislative channel
    - responded to, 3253–3254
  - Long-term care
    - responded to, 4120–4122
  - Mental health and addiction services
    - responded to, 4492–4493
  - Milk in schools
    - responded to, 3246–3247
  - Missing persons alert
    - responded to, 8517–8519
  - Municipalities
    - responded to, 5298–5300
  - Northern York Region Power Conservation Act, 2008 (Bill 79)
    - second reading, 2847
  - Ontario College of Trades
    - responded to, 8122–8124
  - Pension plans
    - responded to, 7247
  - Registered Retirement Savings Protection Act, 2010 (Bill 96)
    - second reading, 3559–3560
  - Representation Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 104)
    - second reading, 3555
  - Senators' Selection Act, 2009 (Bill 67)
    - second reading, 8510–8512
  - Seniors' Ombudsman Act, 2008 (Bill 102)
    - second reading, 3549–3550
  - Single-Use Bottled Water Ban Act, 2008 (Bill 112)
    - second reading, 3945–3946
  - Skills training
    - presented, 3258–3260, 3264–3265
  - Smoke-Free Ontario Amendment Act (Cigarillos), 2008 (Bill 124)
    - second reading, 4303–4304
  - Taxation Amendment Act (Equipment Purchased for Persons with Disabilities), 2008 (Bill 109)
    - second reading, 3950–3951
  - Towing Industry Act, 2008 (Bill 87)
    - second reading, 2860–2861
  - Truscott, Steven
    - responded to, 1991
  - Zero Waste Day Act, 2010 (Bill 247)
    - second reading, 9564
- Private schools
  - Pretty River Academy (Collingwood)
    - government funding for new playing field, 7385
- Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth, 4874–4875, 4878
- Provincial safety and equity officer, 6001–6002
- Public education campaigns
  - Bullying Awareness and Prevention Week, 9387–9388
  - Franco-Ontarian flag day, 2843
  - Global Education Initiative, 3001
  - International Mother Language Day, 7060–7061
  - World Teachers' Day, 3099, 7779
- Public housing
  - government funding, 632
- Public libraries
  - government funding, 9568–9569
- Public Sector Expenses Review Act, 2009 (Bill 201)
  - second reading, 7616–7619
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 7659–7661
- Quebec
  - training levy, 3265
  - tuition fees, 99, 632
- Racial profiling, 8136
- Registered retirement savings plans
  - protection from creditors, 3559–3560
- Regulated health profession colleges
  - power to directly observe regulated health professionals, 4812
- Regulated Health Professions Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 141)
  - second reading, 4812
- Reports
  - Inquiry Into Pediatric Forensic Pathology in Ontario (Stephen Goudge), 4569–4570
  - Ontario University Faculty Sound Warning Over Declining Quality (Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations), 5512, 5580
  - A Review of the Colleges Collective Bargaining Act (Kevin Whitaker), 2478
  - Review of the Roots of Youth Violence (Roy McMurtry, Alvin Curling), 3967
  - The Road to Health: A Final Report on School Safety (School Community Safety Advisory Panel), 5475, 5540–5541, 5543–5544, 6001
  - Shaping a Culture of Respect in our Schools: Promoting Safe and Healthy Relationships (Report on Gender-based Violence, Homophobia, Sexual Harassment and Inappropriate Sexual Behaviour in Schools), 4658, 6964–6965
- Road Safety Act, 2009 (Bill 126)
  - third reading, 6130–6133
- Scandinavia
  - quality of life, 917
- School board budgets
  - budget deficits, 2256–2257
- School board trustees, 6650–6651
  - accountability, 7362–7363
  - autonomy, 7359–7360
  - Catholic school trustees
    - trustees to uphold board decisions, 7363–7364
  - code of conduct, 7364–7365
- School boards
  - audit committees, 7365
  - governance
    - reform, 8936–8937
  - oversight by Ombudsman, 2641
  - responsibility for student achievement, 7364
- School cafeterias
  - ban on trans fat in food and beverages, 217–220, 489
- School closures, 1163, 1366–1367, 2124, 3692
  - deferral, 3829
  - Metcalfe Central Public School, 3829
- School fundraising, 221, 6650
- School principals, 4658
- School safety, 5475
  - data collection, 4658
  - documentation by principal, 6836
  - government advertising, 4659
  - hiring of full-time social workers, 5542
  - partnership with community agencies, 4658
  - reporting of violent incidents, 4658, 5475, 6836
  - safety plan for harmed students, 6836
- School vending machines
  - ban on unhealthy food and beverages, 71, 218–220
- Schools
  - Africentric school, 8136
  - closure
    - northern Ontario, 2258
    - rural Ontario, 2255
- Senior citizens, 4121
- Shingwauk Education Trust, 2154
- Skilled trades, 7106
- Smoke-Free Ontario Amendment Act (Cigarillos), 2008 (Bill 124)
  - second reading
    - public consultation, 4304
- Smoking, 1480, 4303–4304
- Special education, 1414, 6001
  - Arrowsmith program at Toronto Catholic District School Board, 7269, 7358
  - government funding, 3402–3403, 5541–5542, 9365
- Special-needs students, 6650
- Speed limiters
  - Australia, 2594
  - reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, 2593
- Strikes
  - University of Windsor faculty members, 2670
- Student achievement, 6650, 7361
- Student Achievement and School Board Governance Act, 2009 (Bill 177)
  - second reading, 7351, 7358–7367
  - third reading, 8936–8937
- Student debt, 944–945, 2920–2921, 3485
- Student enrolment
  - decline, 2124
- Student evaluation
  - standardized, 46
- Student grants
  - distance grant, 6491
  - textbook and technology grant, 6491
- Student user fees, 501, 611
- Students
  - extracurricular activities, 7834
- Supply Act, 2008 (Bill 45)
  - second reading, 631–633
- Swimming pools
  - closure, 5430
- Tarion Warranty Corporation
  - board of directors, 7257, 7261
  - complaints, 7257
- Tax credits
  - manufacturing investment tax credit, 3404
  - purchase of equipment or devices for persons with disabilities, 3950
- Teacher collective agreements
  - Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario, 4620
- Teacher collective bargaining
  - Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario, 3323
- Teacher-librarians
  - reduction, 5426
- Teacher-student ratios, 9519–9520
- Teachers, 4658, 5291
  - English as a second language teachers, 1414
- Technical safety standards
  - regulation, 8095
- Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA), 8090–8091
  - appointment of directors, 8093–8094
- Technical Standards and Safety Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 187)
  - second reading, 8090–8096
- Temporary help agency employees, 5142–5145
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 98–102
- Time allocation motions
  - Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 (Bill 183)
    - responded to, 7845–7850
  - Ontario Labour Mobility Act, 2009 (Bill 175)
    - responded to, 8929–8931
  - Public Sector Expenses Review Act, 2009 (Bill 201)
    - responded to, 7659–7661
- Tobacco Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act, 2009 (Bill 155)
  - second reading, 5411, 6201–6205
- Tobacco products
  - ban on possession of unmarked cigarettes, 6098
  - ban on sale of cigarillos/flavouring agents, 4304
    - labelling, 4304
  - health warnings, 6305
  - illegal production, 5411
  - illegal sale, 6097–6098, 6205
- Tobacco products manufacturers
  - recovery of tobacco-related health care costs from manufacturers, 6202–6203
- Toronto District School Board
  - budget deficit, 651
  - international languages program, 8136
  - swimming pools
    - closure, 995, 1058, 1105, 1572–1573
- Toronto District School Board-Future Shop agreements
  - use of Future Shop colours in computer lab, 6190
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)
  - purchase of streetcars from Bombardier
    - government funding, 6270
- Towing industry
  - regulation, 2860–2861
- Toxic substances
  - reduction plan, 6301–6304
    - emissions reduction, 6302
    - fees, 6303
- Toxics Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 167)
  - second reading, 6299–6305
- Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA), 8929–8930
- Training for Workers Act, 2008 (Bill 107)
  - first reading, 3096
- Training programs, 3403–3404
- Transit systems
  - electric trains, 8263
  - purchase of mass transit vehicles
    - made in Ontario, 918
- Tributes
  - Snow, James (former Minister of Transportation and Communications), 6282
- Truck drivers
  - driving speed, 2594
- Trucks
  - speed limit capped at 105 km. per hour, 2594
- Tuition fees, 98–99, 632, 2920, 3485
  - flat fees
    - University of Toronto, 5885, 5950–5951, 6390
  - increase, 610–611
- United States
  - financial market crisis, 7659
  - Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Act, 6304
- Universities/colleges
  - contract teachers, 5142–5143
  - government funding, 102, 501, 631, 944–945, 988, 2480–2481, 2670, 2919–2920, 2928, 3402, 4382, 4651–4652, 4903, 5125, 5512, 8108
  - University of Toronto
    - government funding, 516
    - strike, 4651
  - University of Western Ontario
    - revenue shortfall, 4902
  - York University
    - contract teachers, 4426
    - strike, 4382, 4651
- University presidents
  - salaries/benefits, 4056–4057
- Voters/voting
  - voter turnout, 5298–5299
- Waste
  - nuclear/radioactive waste, 6728
- Waste management/programs
  - recycling
    - water bottles, 3945–3946
- Workers
  - job retraining
    - government funding, 7475
  - temporary workers, 5138–5139
  - training, 3258, 3264–3265
- Workforce skills development and recognition fund, 3096, 3258–3259
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 119)
  - second reading, 3718
- Young offenders
  - rehabilitation, 3014–3015
- Youth crime
  - prevention, 4875–4880
- Youth justice system
  - reform, 4876
- Youth/students
  - political involvement, 6130–6131
- Youth violence, 3967, 5475
Martiniuk, G. (PC, Cambridge)
- Agencies/boards/commissions/etc.
  - expenditures
    - accountability, 7601–7602
- Anniversaries
  - Stroke Recovery Association, Cambridge District 30th anniversary, 7835
- Automobile industry
  - General Motors of Canada Ltd.
    - pension plan, 7203
- Blind Persons' Rights Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 70)
  - first reading, 1724
- Budget
  - early disclosure of budget documents, 921–922
- Budget deficit, 3476
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (Bill 44)
  - second reading, 794, 921–924
- Cancer drugs
  - Avastin, 8920–8921
- Capital tax, 3476
- Christopher's Statute Law Amendment Act (Sex Offender Registry and Electronic Sexual Material), 2008 (Bill 128)
  - first reading, 4065–4066
- Clubs
  - Rotary International, 9322–9323
- Debates re answers to oral questions
  - Taxation
    - requested, 8803
    - participation, 8803
- Diabetes, 8547
  - type 1 diabetes, 5289–5290
- Doctors
  - patient-to-doctor ratio, 160
- Dollar
  - Canadian, 3474
- Economic decline, 2987
- Education Amendment Act (Pupils with Diabetes), 2009 (Bill 137)
  - first reading, 4427–4428
  - second reading
    - public consultation, 5295
- Education Statute Law Amendment Act (Electronic Sexual Material), 2009 (Bill 202)
  - first reading, 7393
- Employment creation
  - by government, 3476
- Employment-related benefits
  - organ donor leave, 5221–5222
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Organ Donor Leave), 2009 (Bill 154)
  - second reading, 5221–5222
- Food banks
  - Cambridge Self-Help Food Bank, 7696
- Full Day Early Learning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 242)
  - second reading, 9525–9526
- Government accountability, 7609–7610, 7715
- Government debt, 3475–3476
- Government expenditures, 3475–3476
- Government orders
  - Ontario economy
    - responded to, 3474–3476
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - hospitals, 921–922
- Government revenue, 2609, 3475–3476
- Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 (Bill 150)
  - second reading, 5437, 5446–5447, 5449
- Harmonized sales tax, 7202
  - impact on senior citizens, 8781, 8803
  - public consultation, 8803
- Hospital beds
  - long-term-care beds, 7203
    - shortage, 794
- Hospital expansion
  - Cambridge Memorial Hospital, 6143–6144
- Hospital funding
  - government funding, 6144, 9362–9363
    - Cambridge Memorial Hospital, 924, 6408–6409
  - population needs-based funding, 5382
- Hospital redevelopment
  - Cambridge Memorial Hospital, 5512, 5623, 6019
- Hospital services
  - emergency
    - reduction in Niagara region, 9363
- Hospitals
  - Cambridge Memorial Hospital
    - downsizing to urgent care centre, 5382
- Housing construction, 3476
- Ideas for the Future Act, 2008 (Bill 100)
  - second reading, 2986–2987
- Income disparity, 3475
- Kindergarten
  - full-day
    - site selection process, 9525–9526
- Legislative procedure
  - members/ministers must be in own seats for recorded vote, 8944
- Libraries/schools
  - use of Internet filtering software, 4066, 7739–7740, 7745–7746
- Long-term-care facilities
  - government funding, 3002
  - personal care, 7203
- Long-term-care workers
  - abuse, 3002
- Manufacturing industry
  - layoffs, 3474–3475
- Members'/ministers' constituencies/constituency events
  - Cambridge
    - Canada Day parade, 7150
    - Seniors' Education Day, 6995
- Members/ministers quoting letters
  - Falkiner, Sandy (Cambridge), 6019
  - Hook, Brian (parent), 5290
- Members/ministers quoting newspaper articles
  - Cambridge Times, 3474, 7740
  - Toronto Star, 922
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Rehmtulla, Raheema (PurePages, Internet filtering software company), 7740
  - TD Bank Financial Group, 3475
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - Smitherman, George (Toronto Centre)
      - as Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, 5449
  - withdrawn, 5230, 9120
- Members' statements
  - Canada Day parade, 7150
  - Diabetes, 8547
  - Food banks, 7696
  - Hospital funding, 6143–6144
  - Long-term care, 3002
  - Ontario budget, 5622–5623
  - Portuguese Canadian community, 7527
  - Remembrance Day, 8353
  - Rotary clubs, 9322–9323
  - Salvation Army, 8652
  - Seniors' Education Day, 6995
  - Stroke Recovery Association, 7835
  - Television industry, 8263–8264
- Military reservists
  - job-protected leave, 13
- Ministerial statements, responded to
  - Seniors' Month, 7202–7203
- Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
  - Next Generation of Jobs Fund, 3476
- Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
  - second career strategy, 3475
- National/independence/memorial days
  - Holodomor Memorial Day, 5307
- Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 (Bill 183)
  - second reading, 7212
- Opposition day motions, responded to
  - Electronic health information, 7715
  - Government accountability, 6018–6019
  - Hospital services, 6408–6409
  - Young offenders, 3019–3020
- Oral questions, presented
  - Cancer treatment, 8920–8921
  - Hospital funding, 5382, 5512, 9362–9363
  - Ontario economy, 2609
  - Taxation, 8781
- Patient-to-Doctor Ratio Act, 2007 (Bill 13)
  - first reading, 160
- Persons with disabilities
  - right to access places with guide dogs, 1724
- Petitions
  - Cambridge courthouse, 3283, 4299
  - Diabetes treatment, 4255, 4434–4436, 4634–4635, 5196–5197, 5245, 5435
  - Gasoline prices, 1721, 1926, 3780, 3885
  - Hospital funding, 5629, 6003, 6198, 6200, 6398, 6607, 7001, 7210, 7881, 8359–8360, 8469
  - Lord's Prayer, 426, 773, 1108, 1314–1315, 1892, 1927–1929
  - Military families, 82–84
  - Protection of minors, 5195–5196, 5244, 5433–5434, 5631, 6004, 6199–6200
  - Reconstructive surgery, 9005
  - Sexual reassignment surgery, 3284
  - Stroke survivors, 2573–2574, 3142
  - Stroke therapy, 3000, 3189
  - Taxation, 6815, 7240, 7529, 7701, 7737–7738, 7842, 7880, 8078, 8269–8270, 8358, 8659, 8792–8793
- Poverty Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 152)
  - second reading, 5254, 5259–5260
- Private members' public business
  - Automobile insurance
    - responded to, 7545
  - Education Amendment Act (Pupils with Diabetes), 2009 (Bill 137)
    - second reading, 5289–5290, 5295
  - Education Statute Law Amendment Act (Electronic Sexual Material), 2009 (Bill 202)
    - second reading, 7739–7740, 7745–7746
  - Holodomor Memorial Day Act, 2009 (Bill 147)
    - second reading, 5307
  - Tobacco Tax Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 199)
    - second reading, 7549–7550
- Public education campaigns
  - Seniors' Month, 7202–7203
  - World Diabetes Day, 8547
- Public Sector Expenses Review Act, 2009 (Bill 201)
  - second reading, 7601–7602, 7609–7610
- Pupils with diabetes
  - monitoring and treatment, 4427–4428, 5289–5290
- Regulations, 3476
- Remembrance Day, 8353
- Salvation Army
  - Christmas kettle campaign, 8652
- Senior citizens, 7202–7203
- Sex offender registry, 4066
- Television stations
  - local
    - closure, 8263–8264
- Tobacco Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act, 2009 (Bill 155)
  - second reading, 5412, 5644
- Tobacco products
  - illegal sale, 5412, 5644
- Tobacco tax
  - reduction, 7549–7550
- Toxic substances
  - reduction plan
    - definition of toxic substance, 7164
- Toxics Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 167)
  - third reading, 7164
- Unemployment rate, 3475
- United States
  - mortgage industry, 5447
- Young offenders
  - publication of names of young offenders convicted of violent crimes, 3019
- Youth/students
  - smoking, 7549
Matthews, Hon. D. (LIB, London North Centre)
- Aboriginal communities
  - health care, 9725
- Aboriginal youth, 3164
- Adoption, 3837–3838
  - international
    - bankruptcy of Imagine Adoption, 7827
- Air pollution
  - impact on health in Sarnia–Lambton, 9548
- Autism, 5835–5836
- Autism services, 25, 79, 693
  - government funding, 2090
  - intensive behavioural intervention (IBI), 25, 79, 482, 693, 1471–1472, 2090, 5826
    - Bunda, Sebastian case, 7692
    - government funding, 996, 7383
    - wait lists, 1883–1884
  - respite services, 25
  - summer camps, 25, 2090
- Awards
  - Stand Up for Kids Award
    - Wilkes, Jim (recipient), 3734
- Budget, 5509, 5615
- Cancer drugs
  - Avastin, 7962, 8920–8921, 9035
- Centre Roberts/Smart Centre
  - government funding, 6752–6753
- Child abuse, 3147–3148
  - Benevenga Day Care, 3273
  - reporting child abuse, 455–456, 3148
- Child and Family Services Review Board, 2638
- Child and Family Services Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 103)
  - general discussion, 5661
  - first reading, 2906
  - ministerial statement, 2906–2907
  - second reading, 3163–3164, 3166
  - third reading, 4831–4832
- Child care, 134, 562–563, 3135, 4522, 4618, 4783, 5735
  - federal government funding, 5508–5509, 5735, 6748
  - government funding, 1925–1926, 4783, 5735, 6748
  - subsidies, 1514–1515, 3376
- Child care centres, 3273
  - Benevenga Day Care, 3273
  - Treasure Island Daycare Centre, 3831–3832
- Child Development Institute
  - Earlscourt Girls Connection, 2491
  - government funding, 2491
- Child pornography
  - reporting, 456, 3734
- Child poverty, 174, 2779, 2828, 4519, 4862, 5041, 5198, 5271
- Child protection, 455–456
- Children in care
  - death, 4941–4942, 5002–5003
- Children's aid societies (CASs)
  - Children's Aid Society of Simcoe County
    - government funding, 7831–7832
  - complaint process, 2638
  - government funding, 3147–3148, 7771–7772
- Children's mental health care, 1425, 4864, 6273, 6487, 6753
  - government funding, 1425, 6273, 6488, 6753
- Children's nutrition programs
  - government funding, 7389
- Children's services, 4863
  - government funding, 3487–3488
    - Rainy River, 7731
    - Stormont–Dundas–South Glengarry, 1886
- Children's treatment centres
  - government funding, 1166
  - KidsAbility Centre for Child Development
    - government funding, 1165
- Community organizations, 3487
- Conferences/seminars/symposiums
  - Geneva Centre for Autism International Symposium (2008), 5835
- Correctional centres
  - youth facilities, 2907, 5661
    - Donald Doucet Centre, 2907
- Crown wards
  - services, 3734–3735
- Domestic violence, 3690
- Early childhood education
  - full-day learning for four- and five-year-old children, 4522, 4618, 4783, 5509
- Early years centres
  - government funding, 3046
- eHealth Ontario
  - contracts
    - Anzen Consulting Inc., 8861
    - public inquiry, 8027, 8456
  - evidence of inappropriate practices
    - disclosure, 8820
  - expenditures, 8544–8545
  - Hudson, Alan (former Chairman)
    - appearance before Standing Committee on Public Accounts, 8302
  - Kramer, Sarah (former CEO)
    - appearance before Standing Committee on Public Accounts, 8302
- Electronic health records, 8685
  - contract with Nightingale Informatix Corporation, 8453–8454
- Expert Panel on Infertility and Adoption, 6694–6695
- Family health teams, 9503
- Family law
  - non-parental child custody applicants required to provide a sworn statement, Children's Aid Society record and police records check, 4212
- Fatalities
  - Sampson, Katelynn (murder victim), 4948
  - Schlifer, Barbra (murder victim), 7698
- Federal-provincial agreements/programs
  - early learning and child care (ELCC) agreement, 3376
- Food banks
  - usage, 4247–4248
- Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.F.31
  - extension to hospitals, 8209–8210
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - health care, 8104, 8302, 9642–9643
    - senior citizens, 8106
  - NDP (1990-1995)
    - child care, 500
    - children's aid societies, 4942
  - PC (1995-2003)
    - mental health care, 6752
- Government service transfer to municipal jurisdiction
  - hospital capital costs
    - York region, 4942
- Grants
  - Promoting Healthy Equal Relationships grants program, 2251
- Health care
  - London, 8731–8731
  - out-of-country, 9639, 9695, 9724–9725
  - Parry Sound–Muskoka, 9269–9270
  - rural and northern Ontario, 8103–8104, 8407–8408, 9448
  - Sault Ste. Marie, 7920
- Health care executives
  - compensation, 8302
- Health care funding
  - government funding, 9271–9272, 9694–9695, 9722
    - out-of-country, 8868
  - Niagara region, 9220
- Health Professions Regulatory Advisory Council, 8938
- HIV (virus)
  - treatment, 8999
- H1N1 influenza A (swine flu)
  - cases, 8461
    - waiting period for test results, 8460–8461
  - emergency preparedness
    - availability of pediatric Tamiflu, 8455
    - availability of Tamiflu, 8461
  - health plan for influenza pandemic, 8406–8407, 8454–8455, 8495–8496
  - hospital capacity, 8346
    - emergency services, 8346–8347
- Home care
  - competitive bidding, 9450
- Hospital beds
  - long-term-care beds, 9494–9495
- Hospital closure
  - Toronto Grace Hospital, 9269–9270
- Hospital expansion
  - Milton District Hospital, 8308, 9080
- Hospital funding
  - government funding, 8144, 9360–9361, 9402–9403
    - Cambridge Memorial Hospital, 8349
    - Ottawa, 9578–9579
- Hospital redevelopment, 9647–9648
- Hospital services
  - emergency
    - reduction in Niagara region, 8212–8213
    - wait times, 3186, 8938–8939
- Hospitals
  - Ottawa Hospital, 9578–9579
  - Queensway Carleton Hospital, 9575–9576
  - Royal Ottawa Hospital
    - service and staff cuts, 9646–9647
- Housing
  - affordable, 3773, 3962
- Immunization
  - H1N1 influenza A (swine flu), 8213, 8301, 9079–9080
    - expanded to all children and senior citizens with underlying health conditions, 8544
    - expanded to all citizens, 8684
    - health care workers, 8495
    - high-priority groups, 8342–8343, 8404–8405, 8452–8453, 8493
    - inmates in jails and correctional centres, 8404
    - lineups at clinics, 8301, 8303–8304, 8347–8348, 8451–8452, 8454
    - number of doses administered, 8494–8495
    - 24-hour immunization clinics, 8304
- Income groups
  - low, 5198–5199
    - government funding, 7389
- Infant death
  - sleeping arrangements, 4941
- Infertility, 6694–6695
- Legislative procedure
  - tabling of documents, 8827
- Local health integration networks (LHINs)
  - boards of directors, 9314
  - executive salaries, 9311–9312
  - Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network
    - appointment of Barry Monaghan as CEO, 9359–9360
- Long-term-care facilities
  - layoffs, 8543–8544
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
  - wait times, 9450–9451, 9642
- Massacres
  - Montreal massacre (6 December 1989), 126, 4431–4432
- Members'/ministers' correction of record, 8461
- Members'/ministers' privileges
  - wearing of pins/ribbons/buttons, 3039, 4207
- Members/ministers quoting letters
  - MacQuarrie, Barb (community director, Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children in London), 456
- Members/ministers quoting reports
  - Special Report: Ontario's Electronic Health Records Initiative (Office of the Auditor General of Ontario), 8453
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Bielfeld, Arthur (June Callwood Campaign against Child Poverty), 4519
  - Callwood, June (journalist and social activist), 688
  - Capponi, Pat (mental health advocate), 4519
  - Closson, Tom (president, Ontario Hospital Association), 8210
  - Convery, Pat (executive director, Adoption Council of Ontario), 3838
  - Kitts, Jack (ex-officio governor, Board of Governors, Ottawa Hospital), 9646
  - Lankin, Frances (president and CEO, United Way Toronto), 4519
  - Law, Marcus (family health team doctor), 8685
  - McCarter, Jim (Auditor General of Ontario), 8102
  - McCuaig, Kerry (former executive director, Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care), 500
  - Mendelson, Michael (Caledon Institute of Social Policy), 688, 4519
  - Murphy, Emily (first female police magistrate in the British Empire), 3382
  - Nyberg, Gail (Daily Bread Food Bank), 688
  - Oliphant, Michael (director or research and communications, Daily Bread Food Bank), 688
- Mental health care
  - Brockville Mental Health Centre
    - transfer acute care unit to Brockville General Hospital, 9367
  - government funding, 6752
- Minimum wage
  - increase, 3528, 5198
- Ministerial statements, presented
  - Adoption Awareness Month, 3837–3838
  - Canadian Infertility Awareness Week, 6694–6695
  - Child Abuse Prevention Month, 3147–3148
  - Persons Day, 3382
  - Poverty, 5041–5042
  - Sexual Assault Prevention Month, 6497
  - Sexual harassment, 2250–2251
  - Sexual Harassment Awareness Week, 7155
  - Woman Abuse Prevention Month, 3690
  - Women's History Month, 3055
  - World Autism Awareness Day, 5835–5836
  - Young offenders, 2906–2907
- Ministers redirecting oral questions, 132, 379, 482, 608–609, 996, 1101, 1304, 1423, 1472, 2490, 3135, 3773, 3832, 6748
- Ministry of Children and Youth Services
  - respite services for families of children with autism, 693
  - seasonal camps for children with autism, 693
  - telepsychiatry program, 6273, 6488
  - youth opportunities strategy, 650, 2907, 3276–3277
- Ministry of Education
  - Safe Schools Action Team, 2251
- Ministry of Education/Ministry of Children and Youth Services
  - student support leadership initiative, 6488, 6553
- National child benefit supplement (NCBS)
  - clawback, 608–609, 649
- Ontario child benefit (OCB), 173–174, 456, 563, 608–609, 649, 1516, 2440, 2779, 3135, 3528, 3961–3962, 4104, 5683
- Ontario disability support program (ODSP), 4820
- Ontario disability support program (ODSP) benefits, 3732
- Ontario drug benefit program (ODB)
  - cuts to seniors' drug benefits, 8143–8144
- Ontario health insurance plan (OHIP)
  - inclusion of prostate-specific antigen test as insured service, 9080–9081
- Ontario Women's Directorate
  - domestic violence action plan, 125, 2251, 4432
- Ontario Works program benefits
  - back-to-school allowance, 649
  - winter clothing allowance, 649
- Oral questions
  - Health care
    - Special education, 8731–8732
- Oral questions, presented
  - Poverty, 2778
- Oral questions, responded to
  - Aboriginal health care, 9725
  - Access to information, 4325–4327, 4384
  - Affordable housing, 3773
  - AIDS treatment, 8999
  - Assistance to farmers, 6748
  - Assistance to the disabled, 5784
  - Autism services, 25, 79, 482, 693, 996, 1471–1472, 1883–1884, 2090, 5826, 7383, 7692
  - Cancer treatment, 7962, 8920–8921, 9035
  - Child abuse, 3273
  - Child care, 134, 500, 562–563, 1514–1515, 1925–1926, 3376, 3831–3832, 4618, 4783, 5508–5509, 5735
  - Child poverty, 688–690, 2779, 3487–3488
  - Child protection, 3734–3735, 4212, 4940–4942, 4947–4948, 5002–5003
  - Children and youth services, 1886
  - Children with special needs, 2491, 4808
  - Children's aid societies, 2638, 7771–7772, 7831–7832
  - Children's mental health services, 1425, 4863–4864, 6273, 6487–6488, 6553, 6752–6753
  - Children's services, 3046, 7731
  - Children's treatment centres, 1165–1166
  - Composting, 8866–8867
  - Diagnostic services, 9079–9081
  - Electronic health information, 8027, 8302, 8453–8456, 8544–8545, 8685, 8783–8784, 8820, 8861
  - Emergency services, 8345–8346
  - Executive compensation, 8302
  - Flu immunization, 8105, 8301, 8303–8304, 8342–8344, 8346–8347, 8403–8407, 8451–8454, 8458, 8493–8495, 8544, 8684, 9079–9080
  - Flu pandemic preparedness, 8454–8455, 8460–8461, 8495–8496
  - Freedom of information, 8209–8210
  - Government record, 8102
  - Health care, 8103–8104, 9269–9272, 9503, 9639, 9642–9643, 9695, 9725
  - Health care funding, 8868, 9220, 9450–9451, 9548, 9578–9579, 9694–9695, 9722
  - Home care, 9450
  - Hospital funding, 8144, 8212–8213, 8349, 9360–9361, 9367, 9402–9403, 9646–9648
  - Hospital services, 8308, 8346, 9080, 9575–9576
  - International adoptions, 7827
  - Local health integration networks, 9311–9312, 9314, 9359–9360
  - Long-term care, 8543–8544, 9494–9495
  - Low-income Ontarians, 608–609, 7389
  - Minimum wage, 4247–4248
  - National child benefit supplement, 649
  - Northern and rural health services, 9448
  - Ontario child benefit, 1516
  - Ontario disability support program, 4820
  - Ontario drug benefit program, 8143–8144
  - Palliative care, 9547
  - Patient safety, 9544, 9640–9641, 9690–9691, 9721
  - Patient transfers, 7920
  - Pay equity, 3877
  - Poverty, 173–174, 336, 1470, 1605, 1712, 2088, 2491–2492, 2602–2603, 2643, 2827–2828, 3134–3135, 3180–3181, 3238, 3528, 3640, 3732, 3876, 3961–3962, 4104, 4149–4150, 4327, 4519, 4521–4522, 4750, 4781–4782, 4861–4862, 5032, 5423, 5615, 5683, 6077, 6599–6600
  - Rural health services, 8407–8408
  - School nutrition programs, 378–379
  - Senior citizens, 8106
  - Sewage sludge, 9216–9217
  - Social assistance, 2440, 4289
  - Student assistance, 2490
  - Violence against women, 4213–4214
  - Workplace safety, 7433
  - Youth correctional facilities, 5661
  - Youth crime, 3085
  - Youth employment, 650–651
  - Youth services, 2294, 3276–3277, 7640–7641
- Palliative care
  - Ottawa area, 9547
- Patient safety
  - surgical errors and pathology results, 9690–9691, 9721
  - unnecessary mastectomies performed at Hôtel-Dieu Grace Hospital, 9544, 9640–9641
- Pay equity, 3877
- Positron emission tomography (PET)
  - availability in northeastern Ontario, 9079
- Poverty, 173–174, 336, 3528, 4104, 4327, 4519, 5271
  - social effects, 6425
- Poverty Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 152)
  - general discussion, 5423, 6077
    - public consultation, 6077, 6599
  - first reading, 5040
  - second reading, 5198–5199, 5202, 5271
  - third reading, 6421–6422, 6424–6425
- Poverty reduction strategy, 651, 689–690, 2490, 2602–2603, 2778–2779, 2827–2828, 3134–3135, 3180–3181, 3238, 3487–3488, 3528, 3640, 3961, 4104, 4149–4150, 4289, 4327, 4519, 4521, 4750, 4781–4782, 4832, 4861, 5032, 5041, 5198–5199, 5202, 5423, 5615, 5683, 6077, 6599–6600
  - community hub program, 4521
  - community opportunities fund, 4521
  - housing benefit, 3962
  - public consultation, 1470, 1605, 1712, 2088, 2491–2492, 2643, 2778, 2828, 3134–3135, 3773, 3876, 4149, 4327, 6421–6422
  - social assistance review, 5784
  - town hall meeting, 4861
  - 25 in 5 plan, 5032
- Private members' public business
  - Child Pornography Reporting Act, 2008 (Bill 37)
    - second reading, 455–456
- Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth
  - access to information, 4325–4327, 4941–4942
  - power to require a person to provide information, 4384
- Public education campaigns
  - Adoption Awareness Month, 3837–3838
  - Canadian Infertility Awareness Week, 6694–6695
  - Child Abuse Prevention Month, 3147, 3734, 7735
  - Children's Mental Health Week, 6553
  - Equality Rules, 2251, 3690
  - International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, 4213
  - International Women's Day, 5242
  - Neighbours, Friends and Families public education campaign, 125, 2251, 3690, 5242
  - Persons Day, 3382
  - Sexual Assault Prevention Month, 1727, 6497
  - Sexual Harassment Awareness Week, 2250–2251, 7155
  - White Ribbon Campaign, 126
  - Woman Abuse Prevention Month, 3690
  - Women's History Month, 3055
  - World AIDS Day, 8999
  - World Autism Awareness Day, 5835–5836
- Quebec
  - child care, 4783
  - poverty reduction strategy, 5423
- Regulated Health Professions Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 179)
  - third reading, 8938–8939
- Reports
  - Breaking the Cycle: Ontario's Poverty Reduction Strategy, 5041, 5198
  - The Cost of Poverty: An Analysis of the Economic Cost of Poverty in Ontario (Ontario Association of Food Banks), 4104
  - Hunger Count 2008: A Comprehensive Report on Hunger and Food Bank Use in Canada (Food Banks Canada), 424
  - Report of the Paediatric Death Review Committee and Deaths Under Five Committee (Office of the Chief Coroner), 4941, 4947–4948
  - Review of the Roots of Youth Violence (Roy McMurtry, Alvin Curling), 2907
  - The Road Ahead: Poverty Reduction in Ontario (Campaign 2000), 688–689
  - A Shared Responsibility: Ontario's Policy Framework for Child and Youth Mental Health (Ministry of Children and Youth Services), 6273, 6487
  - Survivor Voices: Welcoming Women to Make Change, 4432
  - 2008 Ontario Report Card on Child and Family Poverty (Campaign 2000), 4150
- Sewage spills
  - South Castor River (Vernon), 9216–9217
- Sexual assault, 1727, 6497
- Sexual harassment, 2250–2251, 7155
- Special-needs children
  - government funding, 4808
  - services, 4808
- Telehealth Ontario
  - increase in volume of calls due to H1N1 influenza A (swine flu), 8303–8304
- Violence against women
  - Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, 125–126, 4431–4432
  - Take Back the Night, 7698–7699
- Waste management/programs
  - composting
    - addition of sewage sludge, 8866–8867
- Websites
  - www.citizenship.gov.on.ca/owd/, 2251
  - www.ontariowomensdirectorate.gov.on.ca, 3055
- Women, 5242
- Women's services
  - abused women, 4214
- Working income tax benefit (WITB), 4781
- Workplace harassment/violence, 2251, 7433
- Young offenders
  - rehabilitation, 4831
  - repeat offenders, 2906–2907
- Youth justice, 2294
- Youth justice centres, 3164, 4832
- Youth justice system
  - closure of CASATTA and York Detention Centres, 7640–7641
  - reform, 3163–3164, 4831–4832
- Youth/students
  - public consultation, 2294
- Youth violence, 4832
Mauro, B. (LIB, Thunder Bay–Atikokan)
- Aboriginal communities
  - health care, 615
  - housing, 6336
- Aboriginal housing trust, 6337
- Aboriginal students
  - post-secondary education, 5233–5234
- An Act to amend the Canada Grain Act, Chapter 22 of the Statutes of Canada 1998 and Chapter 25 of the Statutes of Canada, 2007 (Bill C-39), 997
- Agencies/boards/commissions/etc.
  - expenditures
    - accountability, 7588–7589, 8622–8623
    - review by Integrity Commissioner, 7594–7595, 7598, 7602, 7615
- Apology, 5398
- Apology Act, 2009 (Bill 108)
  - third reading, 5398
- Appreciation
  - Wicklund, Kent (Canadian Conference of Sheet Metal Workers competition), 7084
- Apprenticeship training programs
  - government funding, 8949
  - women in skilled trades program, 7136
- Biomass energy, 5179
- British Columbia
  - forest industry, 3422
- Budget, 600
- Budget deficit, 3421–3422, 7594
- Budget Measures Act, 2009 (Bill 162)
  - second reading, 5934–5937
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (Bill 44)
  - second reading, 785, 794–795, 858–859
  - third reading, 1644–1645
- Business education tax, 659
  - reduction, 785, 823
- Buy in Canada for Mass Transit Vehicles Act, 2008 (Bill 39)
  - first reading, 369
- C. difficile outbreaks, 2464
  - public inquiries, 2465
- Cancer
  - prostate cancer, 2904–2905
- Capital works projects
  - government funding, 659–660
    - Thunder Bay, 3423, 6496
- Centre for Research and Innovation in the Bio-Economy (CRIBE), 896, 3032, 3424
- Citizens Panel on Increasing Organ Donations, 5225, 5367
- Colleges Collective Bargaining Act, 2008 (Bill 90)
  - third reading, 2938–2941
- Colleges of applied arts and technology (CAATs)
  - collective bargaining
    - inclusion of part-time and sessional employees, 2938, 2941
  - Confederation College, 2940
  - government funding, 2940
- Community safety programs
  - community policing partnership program, 4126
  - Safer Communities - 1,000 Officers Partnership program, 4126
- Compensation
  - victims of Dr. Charles Smith's work in child-death investigations, 4419
- Concerts
  - Rafiki Youth Choir, 6558
- Congratulatory remarks
  - Fort Williams Redskins football team, 3190
  - Sir Winston Churchill Collegiate and Vocational Institute students, 6394
- Consumer protection
  - energy contracts, 9217, 9261
- Corporate tax exemptions
  - Ontario tax exemption for commercialization (OTEC)
    - eligibility for refund, 3034
- Corporate tax reduction, 5934
- Correctional centres
  - youth facilities, 5661
- Court security, 4132
- Courthouses
  - construction
    - Thunder Bay, 4627
  - Thunder Bay–Atikokan, 5129
- Crime, 4126
- Crime against seniors
  - elder abuse, 2301
- Crime prevention programs, 4126–4127
- Doctors, 5431–5432, 5513
- Drivers
  - age discrimination, 4552–4553
  - impaired drivers
    - Operation Red Nose program (St. John's Ambulance), 8568
- Economic conditions, 3421
- Economic growth
  - five-point economic plan, 3424
- Elections/by-elections
  - barrier-free access, 8568
- Electricity rates
  - increase, 5178
- Electricity retailers/gas marketers
  - contracts, 4675
    - cheque cashing, 4675
    - reaffirmation letter, 4675
- Electronic health records, 8622
- Emergency management
  - pandemic, 1819
- Employment creation, 3422–3423
- Employment-related benefits
  - organ donor leave, 5225, 5367
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Organ Donor Leave), 2009 (Bill 154)
  - second reading, 5225–5227, 5367–5369
- Energy
  - renewable energy, 5178–5179
  - renewable energy projects
    - standard offer program, 5179
    - wind farms, 5179
- Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2010 (Bill 235)
  - second reading, 9261
- Environmental Protection Act (Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading), 2009 (Bill 185)
  - second reading, 7633
- Family health teams, 5432
- Federal government
  - police officer recruitment fund, 4125, 4127, 4132
  - transfer payments
    - equalization program, 3145
- Federal-provincial agreements/programs
  - Canada-Ontario affordable housing program agreement, 1210
- Festivals
  - Thunder Bay Blues Festival, 4950
- Forest industry
  - layoffs, 2809, 3422, 5935–5936
- Full Day Early Learning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 242)
  - second reading, 9512–9513, 9615, 9625
- Fundraising
  - Bachelors for Hope Charity Auction, 6891
  - Fresh Air Experience 10K fundraiser, 1408
  - Run for the Cure, 8548
- George Jeffrey Children's Centre, 1408
- Global Sticks Inc., 7649–7650
- Good Government Act, 2009 (Bill 212)
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 8568–8570
- Government notice of motions
  - Legislative reform
    - responded to, 1261–1264
- Government orders
  - Federal-provincial fiscal policies
    - responded to, 2808–2810
  - Ontario economy
    - responded to, 3421–3424
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010), 397
    - accountability, 7596–7597
    - research and innovation, 3031
  - NDP (1990-1995), 3421
  - PC (1995-2003), 660, 3421
    - accountability, 8429–8430
    - time allocation motions, 8568–8569
- Government service transfer to municipal jurisdiction, 3421
- Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 (Bill 150)
  - second reading, 5178–5180
- GRK Fasteners
  - tariffs paid, 8789, 8821
- Harmonized sales tax, 6512–6513
- Health care, 5513
- Health care funding
  - accountability and oversight, 8429–8430
  - government funding, 5226
  - Thunder Bay–Atikokan, 1049
- High technology industries
  - Tornado Medical Systems, 8263
- Hockey players
  - Gatherum, Dave, 5688–5689
- Hospital funding
  - government funding
    - Thunder Bay–Atikokan, 4626
- Hospitals
  - Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre
    - angioplasty, 883–884, 3444, 5036, 5368
    - Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute, 3032
- Housing
  - affordable
    - northern Ontario, 1211
- Ideas for the Future Act, 2008 (Bill 100)
  - second reading, 3031–3034
- Increasing Access to Qualified Health Professionals for Ontarians Act, 2008 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 2722
- Investing in Ontario Act, 2008 (Bill 35)
  - third reading, 1707
- Kindergarten
  - full-day, 9512–9513, 9615, 9625, 9650–9651
- Lac Seul First Nation
  - all-season road, 3441
- Layoffs, 3422
- Legislative process
  - family friendly reforms, 1261–1263
- Local health integration networks (LHINs), 6416
- Medical schools
  - Northern Ontario School of Medicine, 2464–2465, 5513
- Medical transplants
  - organ and tissue donation, 5367
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 3422
- Members/ministers quoting newspaper articles
  - Thunder Bay Source, 3033
- Members/ministers quoting television programs
  - The Agenda, 3422
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - NDP (2003-2010)
    - Hampton, Howard (Kenora–Rainy River)
      - as leader of the third party, 3880
  - PC (2003-2010)
    - Tory, John (Dufferin–Peel–Wellington–Grey)
      - as Leader of the Opposition, 1262
  - withdrawn, 3422
- Members' statements
  - Apprenticeship training, 8949
  - Atikokan generating station, 2967
  - Breast cancer, 6891
  - Cardiac care, 3444
  - Concert in Thunder Bay, 6558
  - Consumer protection, 2447
  - Court facility, 5129
  - Elder abuse, 2301
  - Federal-provincial fiscal policies, 3145
  - Fort Williams Redskins football team, 3190
  - Full-day kindergarten, 9650–9651
  - George Jeffrey Children's Centre, 1408
  - Global Sticks, 7649–7650
  - GRK Fasteners, 8789
  - Health care, 1049
  - Hockey, 5688–5689
  - Infrastructure program funding, 6496
  - Morrisseau, Norval, 157
  - Nurse practitioners, 5431–5432
  - Ontario budget, 600, 823
  - Organ donation, 1196
  - Prostate Cancer Awareness Week, 2904–2905
  - Public transit, 6603–6604
  - Research and innovation, 8263
  - Run of the Cure, 8548
  - School boards, 9697–9698
  - Sibley Ski Tour, 408
  - Sir Winston Churchill Collegiate and Vocational Institute, 4866, 6394
  - Skilled trades, 7084
  - Tamarack House, 5954
  - Thunder Bay Blues Festival, 4950
  - Thunder Bay paper mill, 3880
  - Transfer payments, 4626–4627
  - Transit vehicle contract, 6341
  - Turner, Logan, 1460
- Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
  - rural economic development (RED) program, 997
- Ministry of Northern Development and Mines
  - northern Ontario heritage fund, 3440
- Municipal elections/by-elections
  - contribution limits of $5,000 per contributor, 8569
- Municipal infrastructure
  - government funding, 2810
    - northern Ontario, 1645, 1707
    - Thunder Bay/Atikokan, 660–661, 795
  - northern Ontario
    - government funding, 5935
- Natural disasters
  - floods
    - Thunder Bay, 2390
- Neskantaga First Nation
  - multi-use complex, 3441
- Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC), 79–80, 660, 6945–6946
- Nurse practitioner-led clinics, 5431
- Nurses, 5513
- Occupational health and safety, 3831
- Occupational health and safety inspection, 3831
- Ontario budget speech (25 March 2008)
  - responded to, 659–661
- Ontario child benefit (OCB)
  - increase, 5934
- Ontario College of Trades, 7136
- Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 (Bill 183)
  - second reading, 7136
- Ontario health insurance plan (OHIP)
  - inclusion of prostate-specific antigen test as insured service, 884, 1049, 2904–2905
- Ontario health premium, 883–884, 912
- Ontario Power Generation fossil-fuel generating stations
  - Atikokan generating station
    - conversion to biomass, 2967
- Ontario Seniors' Secretariat
  - Ontario's strategy to combat elder abuse, 2301
- Opposition day motions, responded to
  - Electronic health information, 8621–8623
  - Health care oversight, 8429–8430
  - Hospital services, 6415–6416
  - Infectious disease control, 2464–2465
  - Taxation, 6512–6513
- Oral questions, presented
  - Aboriginal education, 5233–5234
  - Aboriginal housing, 6336–6337
  - Affordable housing, 1210–1211
  - Centre for Research and Innovation, 896
  - Consumer protection, 9217
  - Disaster relief, 2390
  - Employment, 997
  - Health care, 615, 5513
  - Manufacturing jobs, 8821
  - Mining industry, 6945–6946
  - Northern economy, 79–80, 653–654
  - Northern health services, 5036
  - Northern Ontario heritage fund, 3440–3441
  - Pediatric forensic pathology inquiry, 4419
  - Property taxation, 2294–2295
  - Public health, 1819
  - Road safety, 3377
  - Workplace safety, 3831
  - Youth correctional facilities, 5660–5661
- Organ donors
  - compensation, 1196
- Payday loan industry
  - regulation, 2447
- Payday Loans Act, 2008 (Bill 48)
  - general discussion, 2447
- PC Party documents/plans
  - health care funding, 2464
- Pension Benefits Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 236)
  - second reading, 9708
- Pension plans
  - reform, 9708
- Petitions
  - Employment insurance, 774
  - Federal-provincial fiscal policies, 2901–2902, 3452, 4829
  - Lord's Prayer, 2211, 2243–2244, 2494
  - Mental health services, 8554, 8614, 8739, 8791, 8833, 8953, 9085–9086
  - Property taxation, 2034–2035
  - University labour dispute, 4758
- Police officers
  - hiring, 4125–4127
- Police services, 4125
- Poverty Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 152)
  - second reading, 5559–5560, 5562
- Private members' public business
  - Ontario Energy Board Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 131)
    - second reading, 4674–4675
  - Police officers
    - presented, 4125–4127, 4132
- Provincial land tax (PLT)
  - unorganized municipalities/areas
    - public consultation, 2295
- Public education campaigns
  - organ and tissue donation, 5369
  - Prostate Cancer Awareness Week, 2904
- Public Sector Expenses Review Act, 2009 (Bill 201)
  - second reading, 7588–7589, 7594–7598, 7602, 7614–7615
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 7661–7662
- Public transportation
  - government funding, 7633
- Quebec
  - forest industry, 3422
- Receivership
  - Thunder Bay Fine Papers Inc., 3880
- Reports
  - Northwestern Ontario: Preparing for Change (Robert Rosehart), 653–654, 6945–6946
  - A Review of the Colleges Collective Bargaining Act (Kevin Whitaker), 2941
- Research and innovation
  - Thunder Bay–Atikokan, 3031–3032
- Road safety
  - wildlife collisions, 3377
- Road Safety Act, 2009 (Bill 126)
  - second reading, 4552–4553
    - public consultation, 4552–4553
- Savings and Restructuring Act, S.O. 1996, c.1, 8568
- School boards
  - amalgamation in Northwest Catholic District School Board, 9697–9698
- Schools
  - closure
    - rural Ontario, 2464
  - Sir Winston Churchill Collegiate and Vocational Institute
    - Dreamweavers program, 4866
- Senior citizens
  - government funding, 659
- Senior homeowners' property tax grants, 823
- Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre, 615
- Skilled trades, 7136
- Small business, 3422
- Smart Systems for Health Agency (SSHA), 8622
- Smoke-Free Ontario Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 1868
- Smoking
  - ban on smoking in cars with children present, 1868
- Spelling bees
  - Turner, Logan (winner, regional spelling bee), 1460
- Sports teams
  - Fort William Hurricanes, 5688–5689
- TBayTel Tamarack House, 5954
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 397–398
- Time allocation motions
  - Good Government Act, 2009 (Bill 212)
    - responded to, 8568–8570
  - Public Sector Expenses Review Act, 2009 (Bill 201)
    - responded to, 7661–7662
- Tobacco Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act, 2009 (Bill 155)
  - second reading, 5414
- Tobacco products manufacturers
  - recovery of tobacco-related health care costs from manufacturers, 5414
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)
  - purchase of streetcars from Bombardier, 6341, 6603–6604
- Transit systems
  - government funding, 3423
    - Thunder Bay–Atikokan, 4626–4627
  - purchase of mass transit vehicles
    - made in Canada, 369
- Tributes
  - Morrisseau, Norval (recipient, 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award), 157
- Trillium Gift of Life Network
  - program for reimbursing expenses of living organ donors (PRELOD), 5227, 5367–5368
- Workplace accidents/fatalities
  - cost to business, 3831
- York University Labour Disputes Resolution Act, 2009 (Bill 145)
  - second reading, 4764
McGuinty, Hon. D. (LIB, Ottawa South)
- AbitibiBowater
  - government funding, 3270
  - shutdown, 2895
- Aboriginal protests
  - development sites in Brantford, 2121
- An Act to amend the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, the Wage Earner Protection Program Act and Chapter 47 of the Statutes of Canada, 2005 (Bill C-12), 129–130
- An Act to perpetuate an ancient parliamentary right (Bill 1)
  - first reading, 8
- Agencies/boards/commissions/etc.
  - disclosure of untendered contracts, 7333
  - expenditures
    - accountability, 7686
    - review by Integrity Commissioner, 7331–7333, 7380, 7383, 7472
  - use of consultants
    - reduction, 7868
- Annual reports
  - Environmental Commissioner of Ontario Annual Report, 2006-2007 (Reconciling Our Priorities), 49
  - Office of the Auditor General of Ontario Annual Report (2007), 167
  - Office of the Auditor General of Ontario Annual Report (2008), 4572
  - Office of the Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth, 2007-2008 (90 Deaths, Ninety Voices Silenced), 4995
- Apprentices, 2086
- Apprenticeship training, 501, 519, 4243
  - Dell Inc., 2955
  - ratio of tradespeople to apprentices, 519
    - electrical apprentice, 1709
- Apprenticeship training programs, 3268
  - grants given to International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 793, 2484
- Automobile industry, 1710–1711, 2234, 2732, 2954–2955, 3958–3959, 4017, 4054–4055, 4245, 4857, 4900–4901, 5313, 5419–5421, 5569–5570, 5682–5683, 6991
  - auto investment plan, 4324
  - auto sector investment fund, 18–20, 48, 167, 1880–1883, 4244
  - Big Three (automobile manufacturers)
    - financial status, 4324
  - federal government funding, 3957–3960, 4017
  - federal-provincial partnership, 4244–4245
  - Fiat Group, 1604, 1710
  - financial assistance, 6076
  - Ford Motor Company of Canada
    - Flex crossover, 2290
  - funding agreement with government, 2287–2289
  - General Motors of Canada Ltd., 2234
    - Beacon project, 2234–2236
    - concession agreements with workers, 5313
    - equity stake, 6330
    - government funding, 2388, 4325, 6985
    - job guarantee in return for government assistance, 2289
    - layoffs, 1819, 1821–1822, 1879, 1881–1882, 1918–1919
    - participation of Canadian Auto Workers required to access government loans, 4748
    - plant shutdown, 2233
  - government funding, 2484, 3194, 4054, 4209, 4857, 4901, 6224–6225
  - Honda Canada, 6331
    - government funding, 3194
  - industry shutdowns
    - economic impact, 4330
  - investment, 2288–2290, 2387
  - layoffs, 2025–2026, 3958
  - Ontario automotive strategy fund, 1468
  - pension plans, 6188
  - Retire Your Ride program, 5570
  - transitional support, 5682
- Automobile insurance
  - use of credit score in granting insurance, 6886
- Automobile insurance benefits
  - reduction of maximum benefit for serious injuries to $50,000, 8408–8409
- Automobile insurance rates/premiums
  - increase, 8025–8026, 8028–8029
- Automobiles, 4245
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, R.S.C. 1985, c.B-3, 5572
- Bombardier Inc., 376
- Border crossings, 1603–1604
  - Detroit River International Crossing Study (Windsor-Essex Parkway), 1604
- Breastfeeding, 2958–2959
- Budget, 331, 3177, 4207, 4855–4858, 4899, 5181, 5228, 5422, 5504–5506, 5510, 5569–5570, 5576–5577, 5610–5613, 5657–5659, 5663–5665, 5678–5682, 5727–5730, 5989, 6076, 6181, 6223–6224, 6329–6330, 6382, 6484–6486, 6880–6881, 6984–6985, 6992, 7220–7221
  - balanced budget, 6550
  - budget speech rehearsal, 5661
  - savings, 3526
  - support for senior citizens, 5660, 5663
- Budget deficit, 496, 3432, 3485, 3524, 5180–5181, 5311, 5611, 5680, 7147, 8061–8062, 8205–8206, 8253, 9721–9722
- Budget Measures Act, 2009 (Bill 162)
  - general discussion
    - public consultation, 6223
- Budget surplus
  - transfer of funds to municipalities for infrastructure projects, 1570–1571
- Bullying, 5031
- Business education tax
  - reduction, 474
- Buy Ontario policy, 8209
- C. difficile, 2775–2776, 2953
- C. difficile outbreaks, 2082
  - investigation, 2776, 2956
  - public inquiries, 2389
- Canadian Mass Transit Vehicles Act, 2008 (Bill 31)
  - general discussion, 377
- Cancer Care Ontario
  - expenditures
    - internal audit, 7915–7916
- Capital tax
  - elimination, 293, 474, 2731, 3268, 4243, 5505, 5778–5779
  - reduction, 521, 767, 1469, 2955
- Capital works projects, 3193, 4210
  - environmental assessment process, 4900
  - government funding, 376, 3959, 4207, 4321–4322, 4577–4579, 4616, 4902, 5311, 5506–5507, 5613, 5681, 5944
  - as part of economic stimulus package, 7635–7636
- Capping Executive Compensation Act, 2009 (Bill 180)
  - general discussion, 6799
- Child care, 6746
  - federal government funding, 6746
  - government funding, 6746
- Child poverty, 687–688, 4418
- Children's aid societies (CASs)
  - government funding, 8787
- Children's mental health care, 1657
  - government funding, 1204, 1658
- Climatic changes, 171, 1246–1247
- Committees
  - Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs, 3316
- Conflict of interest
  - Grier, Jason (lobbyist), 8541, 8543
- Constitution Act, 2007 (Democratic representation) (Bill C-22), 179
- Construction workers
  - occupational health and safety, 4053
- Consumer spending, 4323
- Coroner inquests
  - Anzovino, Reilly (motor vehicle accident victim), 9689–9690
  - Osidacz, Jared (murder victim), 4754–4755
- Corporate income tax, 27
- Corporate tax exemptions
  - Ontario tax exemption for commercialization (OTEC), 738
- Corporate tax reduction, 330, 332, 374, 474–475, 560–561, 737–738, 765, 1512, 2287, 2289, 2662, 2731, 2955, 3194, 3268, 5505–5506, 5508, 5778–5779, 6076, 6223, 6690, 8207, 8252–8255
- Corporate taxes, 561
- Corporations
  - executive compensation caps for corporations receiving grant or loan from Ontario, 6800
- Correctional officers
  - abuse of sick leave, 4572–4573
- Cosmetic Pesticides Ban Act, 2008 (Bill 64)
  - general discussion, 1710
- Court of Appeal for Ontario rulings
  - agricultural labourers' right to unionize, 4021
- Demonstrations
  - aboriginal groups (Queen's Park), 2122
- Dental care, 3435
- Diabetes registry, 9687–9688
- Doctors, 4322
- Drug abuse treatment programs
  - Ottawa, 1209
- Eastern Ontario development fund, 4322
- Economic conditions, 764, 1202, 1658, 2662, 2729, 2952, 3133–3134, 3177–3178, 3192–3193, 3267–3268, 3432–3433, 3481–3482, 3524, 4018–4019, 5570–5571, 6223–6224
  - international, 3176–3178, 3193–3194, 3433–3434, 4208, 4244, 4324, 4380, 4855, 5229, 5313, 5612, 6073–6075
- Economic decline, 3134, 4899
  - international, 5504–5505, 5571, 6548
  - Japan, 3959
- Economic growth, 18–21, 330–332, 496–498, 565, 736, 738, 767, 1508, 2287, 5076–5077, 5311
  - five-point economic plan, 375, 474, 560, 767, 832, 1416–1417, 1468, 1565–1566, 1601–1602, 1658–1659, 2662, 2665, 2731–2732, 3134, 3178–3179, 3192–3195, 3269, 3434, 3525–3526, 4019, 4243, 4855–4856, 4899, 4902, 5030, 5182, 5228–5230, 5312, 6075
- Economic recovery, 5505
- Economic statement, 3177, 3432, 3481–3482
  - British Columbia, 3524–3525
  - 22 October 2008, 3524
- Economic strength, 4323–4324, 5570–5572, 5610–5612, 5657, 5659, 5666, 5678–5680, 6182, 6548, 6799
- Education funding
  - government funding, 1815, 3482, 4210, 5729–5730, 9718–9719
- eHealth Ontario
  - consultants, 7871
  - contracts, 7686, 7955–7957, 7960–7961, 8022–8023, 8025, 8060, 8101, 8206–8207, 8253–8254, 8407
    - Courtyard Group Ltd., 7636–7637
    - public inquiry, 8347–8348
  - expenditures, 7141–7144, 9034
    - disclosure, 7958–7959
    - investigation by Auditor General, 7036–7037
  - Hudson, Alan (former Chairman)
    - appearance before Standing Committee on Public Accounts, 8646
  - Kramer, Sarah (former CEO)
    - appearance before Standing Committee on Public Accounts, 8646
    - appointment, 7266–7267
  - review by Auditor General, 7141, 7143, 7189, 7220–7222, 8409
  - review by PricewaterhouseCoopers, 7141, 7143, 7265–7266, 7270
  - review by Standing Committee on Government Agencies, 7268–7269
- Electoral representation, 179
- Electricity rates, 168, 4993–4994, 5077
  - Germany, 4994
  - industrial rates, 21, 766–767, 4019, 4055
  - support for business, 6184
- Electricity rebates
  - northern pulp and paper electricity transition program, 49
- Electronic health records, 7027, 7144, 7917, 8066
- Employment, 376–377, 5988
- Employment creation, 18–21, 292–293, 331–332, 374, 561, 647–648, 738, 765, 1600–1601, 1813–1814, 2732, 2895, 3526, 3961, 4855–4857, 4902, 5077, 5117, 5183, 5659, 6799
- Employment insurance, 27, 292, 6486
- Employment insurance benefits, 1510–1511
  - Ontario workers, 2894, 3083–3084, 5029–5030, 5620
- Employment-related benefits
  - severance/termination payments, 5572
- Employment standards
  - allegations of abuse
    - Dhalla, Ruby case, 6744, 6801
  - pregnancy leave, 6684
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Wage Security), 2007 (Bill 6)
  - general discussion, 130
- Energy
  - nuclear energy, 77–78, 6185
  - renewable energy, 2483, 4214–4215, 6183, 6487
  - renewable energy projects, 5028
    - domestic content requirements, 5231
    - government funding, 5077
    - wind farms, 1247
- Energy conservation, 4993–4994, 6184
- Environmental protection, 49, 200
- Everbrite Solar, 5657
- Fairness for Military Families Act (Employment Standards and Health Insurance), 2007 (Bill 2)
  - first reading, 12–13
  - second reading, 15
  - third reading, 15
- Fatalities
  - Coxon, Florence (nursing home resident), 1602–1603
- Federal government
  - apology to aboriginal peoples, 2488–2489
  - constructive engagement policy with China, 833–834, 891, 990
  - transfer payments
    - equalization program, 478–479, 1467, 1509–1512, 1567–1568, 1602, 2662, 2664, 2729–2730, 2791–2792, 2894–2895, 2899, 2953, 3083–3085, 3194–3195, 3269–3271, 4243, 4423
      - online petition, 3269
      - Ontario to receive equalization payment, 3958, 6181
- Federal members'/ministers' remarks
  - Conservative (2006-2009)
    - Del Mastro, Dean (Peterborough), 8990
    - Flaherty, Jim (Whitby–Oshawa)
      - as Minister of Finance, 5181, 7636
    - Wallace, Mike (Burlington), 8990
- Federal political parties
  - platforms, 2893–2894
- Federal-provincial agreements/programs
  - Canada-Ontario labour market development agreement, 333
- Federal-provincial relations, 3271
- Food banks
  - usage, 4380
- Foot-and-mouth disease, 1711
- Foreign caregivers, 6681–6683
  - protection, 6683, 6744
  - rights, 6683–6684
- Forest industry
  - government funding, 49, 3179, 4019, 6228
- French-language debates
  - Déclarations ministérielles et réponses
    - Crise humanitaire au Sri Lanka, 6852
  - Loi de 2007 sur l'équité pour les familles des militaires (normes d'emploi et assurance-santé), projet de loi 2
    - première lecture, 13
  - Ordre du jour
    - Économie de l'Ontario, 3193–3194
    - Représentation électorale fédérale, 179
  - Questions orales
    - Régimes de retraite, 6228
- Government accountability, 7268, 9030–9032, 9365
- Government advertising
  - budget, 7221
- Government assets
  - sale, 9316
- Government-business partnerships, 6799
  - Diamond Aircraft, 3194
- Government consultants
  - expenditures, 8024–8025
- Government contracts
  - McKinsey and Co., 8208, 8642
  - Samsung C&T Corporation for wind turbines, 8537–8539
- Government expenditures, 5505
  - restraint measures, 4242, 8062–8063, 8102
- Government finance, 5076
- Government funding, 332, 375, 764–765, 4857, 5000–5001, 5311–5312, 5508, 5658–5659
- Government investments, 128–129, 6547
  - investment losses, 128, 169
  - review by Auditor General, 129
- Government notice of motions
  - Federal electoral representation
    - presented, 178–179
- Government orders
  - Federal-provincial fiscal policies
    - presented, 2790–2792
  - Ontario economy
    - presented, 3192–3195
- Government policy, 3178
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010), 496–497, 2791, 9264–9266, 9315–9316, 9446, 9687, 9720
    - employment creation, 330, 9443–9444, 9451
    - freedom of information, 7686
    - health care, 7473, 8024
    - poverty, 992
  - NDP (1990-1995)
    - children's mental health care, 1204
    - social assistance benefits, 4617
  - PC (1995-2003), 497, 561, 765–766, 1509, 1601–1602, 5508, 5776
    - budget deficit, 3482, 3484, 3524
    - hospital closures, 829
    - minimum wage, 1814
    - Ministry of the Environment, 292
    - nurses' layoffs, 3529
    - tax reduction, 330
    - York University strike, 4746
- Government revenue, 1417
  - reduction, 2729
- Government services, 829, 1202–1203, 2953, 3432, 3524, 3526, 5077, 5611, 5678, 5680
  - government funding, 764–767
  - reduction, 5001
- Graduation (statistics), 5312
- Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 (Bill 150)
  - general discussion, 4993–4994, 4999, 5027–5028, 5118, 5186, 5189, 5229, 5231, 5943, 6183, 6185, 7220
    - impact on electricity rates, 6487
    - public consultation, 4999
- Greenhouse gas emissions
  - reduction, 1246–1247
    - cap and trade system (emissions trading), 171
- Hanwha group, 3960
- Harmonized sales tax, 5422, 5611–5612, 5664, 5678–5682, 5684, 5727–5728, 5730, 5777–5779, 5988, 6073–6074, 6330, 6484–6485, 6690, 6880, 6984, 6992, 7188, 7380–7381, 7385–7386, 7475, 8596–8597, 8727–8729, 8779–8880, 9033
  - exemptions, 5683
  - federal Liberal party support, 7382
  - impact on construction jobs, 6548
  - impact on consumers, 9444–9445
  - impact on electricity rates, 8863–8864, 9444–9445
  - impact on employment, 7332, 8103, 8209, 8255, 8597, 8642–8646
  - impact on home heating costs, 7636–7637
  - impact on homebuyers, 6075
  - impact on housing industry, 5944, 6483–6485
  - impact on low-income consumers, 7267, 8539–8541
  - impact on rent rates, 7272–7273
  - impact on senior citizens, 8781
  - public consultation, 8725–8727, 8989–8992, 9032–9033
  - transition benefit
    - $1,000 for single parents or couples, 5728
- Hazardous waste management, 196, 292
- Health care, 4322, 5615–5616, 7222
  - government funding, 6382, 6384
  - out-of-country, 9573–9574
  - transfer of patient from Mexico to Canada
    - George-Pazzano, Victoria case, 6331
- Health care costs, 567
- Health care funding
  - government funding, 693, 889, 2394, 2899, 3485, 4322, 4381, 5512, 5660, 5729–5730, 6382, 6384, 7869–7870, 7957–7958, 8208, 9313–9314, 9361–9362
  - increase, 4417
  - Thunder Bay, 3179
- H1N1 influenza A (swine flu), 6329, 6382– 6384
  - emergency preparedness, 6384
  - health plan for influenza pandemic, 8405–8406
  - hospital capacity, 6384
  - information updates, 6329
- Holidays
  - Family Day, 19, 4909–4910
- Home care, 5662
  - competitive bidding, 566–567
- Home care workers
  - transportation compensation, 5662
- Home energy audits, 5028, 5189–5190, 6183
- Home energy rating report, 3333–3334
- Home insurance
  - use of credit score in granting insurance, 6886
- Hospital beds
  - closure, 889
- Hospital construction, 4321–4322
  - alternative financing and procurement (AFP), 4381, 4417, 4574
  - Brampton Civic Hospital, 73, 4573
- Hospital funding
  - government funding, 889, 4381, 4417, 5512, 9312–9313, 9363
    - Rouge Valley Health System, 2395
- Hospital housekeeping, 2960
- Hospital services
  - emergency
    - Port Colborne and Fort Erie, 6386, 7386–7387, 9689–9690
- Hospitals
  - Brampton Civic Hospital, 168
  - London Health Sciences Centre
    - untendered contracts awarded, 7473
  - reporting on C. difficile rates, 2735, 2776–2777, 2953–2954, 2956
  - Royal Ottawa Hospital
    - service and staff cuts, 9688–9689
- Housing
  - affordable
    - construction, 566, 691
    - federal government funding, 691
    - government funding, 5510, 5658–5659, 5779
- Immunization
  - H1N1 influenza A (swine flu), 8344–8345
    - private clinics, 8344–8345
- Imprisonment
  - aboriginal protesters, 2084
- Income tax reduction, 5944, 6073–6075, 6984, 7188
- Infrastructure Canada
  - Building Canada Fund (BCF), 4902
- International trade, 5506–5507, 6182
- Investing in Ontario Act, 2008 (Bill 35)
  - general discussion, 1570–1571
- Investment in Ontario, 375
- Job protection commissioner, 294, 3270
- John Deere
  - shutdown, 2664
- Kellogg Canada Inc.
  - Belleville manufacturing plant, 331
- Layoffs, 2664, 4210
  - Dell Inc., 1467
- Legislative process
  - family friendly reforms, 1097–1100
- Legislative sessions, 7220
- Legislature schedule/agenda
  - family friendly hours, 1097–1099
- Liberal Party
  - fundraising, 4018
- Live-In Caregiver Program (federal program), 6743
- Local health integration networks (LHINs), 6386
  - ban on sole-source contracts, 9263
  - Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network
    - contract with Courtyard Group Ltd., 9263–9264
- Long-term-care facilities
  - comfort allowance for residents, 3486
  - government funding, 497–498, 1603
- Manitoba
  - manufacturing industry, 2731
- Manufacturing industry, 18–21, 25, 48–49, 2664–2665, 3435, 4577
  - employment, 2954
  - government funding, 766
    - Hamilton, 333
    - Windsor, 333
  - jobs plan, 4324
  - layoffs, 168, 3193, 3270, 3317
    - China, 3959
    - government response, 1822
  - unemployment, 473, 648, 1203
- Members'/ministers' constituencies/constituency events
  - Ottawa–Orléans
    - Family Day, 4909–4910
- Members'/ministers' expenditures
  - Pupatello, Sandra (Minister of International Trade and Investment), 4908
- Members/ministers quoting authors
  - Webster, David Kenyon, 13
- Members/ministers quoting books
  - Public Power: The Fight for Publicly Owned Electricity (Howard Hampton), 4055
- Members/ministers quoting letters
  - Caplan, David (Minister of Health and Long-Term Care), 7189
  - Grant Jr., Peter (president, Grant Forest Products Inc.), 766
  - Jamieson, Shelly (secretary, Ontario Cabinet), 7959
  - Ontario Chamber of Commerce, 8103
- Members/ministers quoting newspaper articles
  - Toronto Star, 6183
  - Vancouver Sun, 5777
- Members/ministers quoting press releases
  - Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 9445
- Members/ministers quoting reports
  - Building Prosperity in a Canada Strong & Free (Preston Manning and Mike Harris), 8990
  - Navigating Through the Recovery: Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress Annual Report (Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress), 8727
  - Office of the Auditor General of Ontario Annual Report (2007), 196
  - Ontario Poised to Collect Equalization in 2010-11 (TD Economics Special Report), 2791
  - Prevention and Control of Hospital-acquired Infections (Office of the Auditor General of Ontario), 2954
  - RBC Economics Provincial Outlook, 737
  - Rx for Ontario's Manufacturing Sector (Canadian Federation of Independent Business), 2955
  - Special Report: Ontario's Electronic Health Records Initiative (Office of the Auditor General of Ontario), 7866–7868, 7915, 8022, 8061, 8101, 8254, 8407
  - TD Economics Special Report - Ontario Poised to Collect Equalization in 2010-11 (Don Drummond, Derek Burleton), 1510, 1568
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Blackstock, Sarah (Income Security Advocacy Centre), 5078
  - Capponi, Pat (mental health advocate), 7382, 8102
  - Cope, George (president and CEO, BCE), 5680
  - Crispino, Len (president, Ontario Chamber of Commerce), 474, 2792
  - Cunningham, Ian (president, Council of Ontario Construction Associations), 4053
  - Hargrove, Buzz (former president, Canadian Auto Workers), 2484–2485
  - Kitts, Jack (ex-officio governor, Board of Governors, Ottawa Hospital), 7387
  - Low, Donald (medical director of laboratories, Ontario Public Health Agency), 6329
  - Lyons, Jim (executive director, Heavy Construction Association of Windsor), 1604
  - Mackenzie, Hugh (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives), 9033
  - Martin, Roger (dean, Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto), 6484, 6881
  - Massara, Paul (chair, Toronto Board of Trade), 5118
  - McCarter, Jim (Auditor General of Ontario), 129
  - Network for Poverty Reduction, 8540
  - Nyberg, Gail (Daily Bread Food Bank), 7382–7383
  - Provincial Building and Construction Trades Council of Ontario, 6485
  - Schabas, Richard (medical officer of health, Hastings and Prince Edward counties), 2389, 2775
  - Spence, Adam (executive director, Ontario Association of Food Banks), 5078, 6985
  - Tory, John (former leader, PC Party), 8990
  - Tory, John (leader, PC Party), 1916
  - Warye, Kathy (chief executive, Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology), 2776
  - Weiss, Gordon (United Nations spokesman), 6851
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - NDP (2003-2010)
    - Gélinas, France (Nickel Belt), 9689
  - PC (1995-2003)
    - Runciman, Robert W. (Leeds–Grenville), 2484
      - as Minister of Economic Development and Trade, 834, 3482
  - PC (2003-2010)
    - Sterling, Norman (Carleton–Mississippi Mills), 8989
    - Arnott, Ted (Wellington–Halton Hills), 8989
    - Chudleigh, Ted (Halton), 8989
    - Dunlop, Garfield (Simcoe North), 4899
    - Hudak, Tim (Niagara West–Glanbrook), 8726, 8989
    - Jones, Sylvia (Dufferin–Caledon), 8989
    - Martiniuk, Gerry (Cambridge), 8989
    - O'Toole, John (Durham), 5029
    - Shurman, Peter (Thornhill), 8989
  - withdrawn, 988
- Members'/ministers' resignations
  - Bryant, Michael (Minister of Economic Development), 6879–6880
  - Caplan, David (Minister of Health and Long-Term Care), 7866
- Members'/ministers' travel
  - Pupatello, Sandra's travel to Middle East, 3135, 3183, 3194
- Mental health care
  - government funding, 2395
- Migrant workers
  - screening, 6383
- Military reservists
  - job-protected leave, 13
- Minimum wage, 3483–3484
  - increase, 650, 991, 4019, 5681, 5779
  - $10.25 an hour, 5681
- Mining Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.M.14, 2084
- Mining industry
  - consultation with First Nations, 50, 744, 2084
    - Neskantaga First Nation, 2026–2027
  - northern table discussions between government and Nishnawbe-Aski Nation, 744
  - provincial-aboriginal relations, 479
  - uranium exploration and mining, 77
- Minister of International Trade and Investment, 2664
- Ministerial responsibility, 7688
- Ministerial statements, presented
  - Humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka, 6851–6852
- Ministry expenditures, 2952
- Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
  - rural economic development (RED) program, 3194
- Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
  - advanced manufacturing investment strategy (AMIS) program, 18–20, 48, 3194, 3318, 4322, 4324
  - Next Generation of Jobs Fund, 19–20, 25, 167, 1816, 3194, 4322, 4324, 6989–6990
- Ministry of Finance
  - OntarioBuys, 5944
- Ministry of Health Promotion
  - Quest for Gold
    - Ontario athlete assistance program
      - military families exempted from one-year waiting period, 13
- Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, 4207–4208
  - Employment Ontario, 2388
    - Ontario skills development program, 2731
  - second career strategy, 2388, 3193–3194, 3270, 4746, 7958, 9451
  - skills to jobs action plan, 522, 738, 764–765, 767, 1417, 1467–1468
- Multibrid GmbH, 3961
- Municipal infrastructure, 4210
  - government funding, 2731, 4855–4856, 4858
- National housing strategy, 691
- NDP documents/plans
  - provincial sales tax, 5612
- Niagara Health System
  - government funding, 6386
- Niska North Inc., 6075
- Northern Ontario, 6486
- Nuclear generating stations
  - construction, 2485
  - cost overruns, 6185
- Nuclear industry, 6185
- Nurse practitioners, 830
- Nurses
  - hiring, 830, 3529, 4322
  - layoffs, 889
- Nursing students/graduates
  - nursing job guarantee, 3529
- Office of the Premier
  - expenditures, 4420
- Olympics
  - Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics
    - opening ceremonies, 2241
- Ontario child benefit (OCB), 991–992, 1516, 1661, 3435, 3483–3484, 4617, 5613, 5658–5659
  - increase, 5729, 5779
- Ontario disability support program (ODSP) benefits
  - increase, 693
- Ontario drug benefit program (ODB)
  - cuts to seniors' drug benefits, 8208
- Ontario Electronic Stewardship (OES)
  - waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) program, 3268
- Ontario Financing Authority, 128–129
- Ontario health insurance plan (OHIP)
  - coverage for eligible military families, 13
  - inclusion of PET scans as insured service, 1923–1924
- Ontario health premium, 896–897
- Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. (OLG)
  - purchase of foreign-made cars as casino contest prizes, 5418–5419
  - termination of CEO and board of directors, 7268
  - wrong date on tickets, 6184–6185, 6187
- Ontario Power Authority (OPA), 829
- Ontario Power Generation fossil-fuel generating stations
  - closure, 1246, 2482–2483, 4214, 7195–7196
- Ontario Power Generation nuclear generating stations
  - Darlington nuclear generating station
    - building of new reactors, 4215
- Ontario Sheet Metal Workers Training Centre, 3961
- Ontario Superior Court of Justice rulings
  - Justice Patrick Smith's rulings, 744
- Ontario Works program benefits
  - temporary care assistance (TCA), 1518
- Oral questions, responded to
  - Aboriginal affairs, 744
  - Aboriginal land claims, 6189–6190
  - Aboriginal rights, 479, 523, 1306, 2026–2027, 2084, 2122, 2488–2489
  - Access to health care, 1923–1924
  - Affordable housing, 565–566, 691
  - Agency spending, 7331–7333, 7383, 7685, 9034
  - Agricultural labour policy, 4021
  - Air quality, 2482–2483
  - Apprenticeship training, 501, 519, 1709, 2086
  - Assistance to farmers, 8109–8110
  - Auditor General's report, 7918
  - Automobile industry, 1467–1468, 1916–1919, 2025–2026, 2233–2236, 2287–2288, 2387–2388, 2484–2485, 3957–3959, 4017, 4054–4055, 4209, 4243–4245, 4330, 4748, 4900–4901, 5420–5421, 5569–5571, 5682–5683, 6330–6331
  - Automobile insurance, 8025–8026, 8028–8029, 8408–8409
  - Breastfeeding, 2958–2959
  - C. difficile, 2389, 2735, 2775–2777, 2953–2954, 2956
  - Cancer Care Ontario, 7914–7915
  - Child care, 1518, 6746
  - Child poverty, 687–688
  - Child protection, 4995–4996
  - Children's aid societies, 8787
  - Children's mental health services, 1204, 1657–1658
  - Climate change, 171, 1246–1247
  - Construction industry, 832
  - Consumer protection, 6886
  - Corporate tax, 1512, 8207
  - Correctional facility employees, 4572–4573
  - Diabetes registry, 9687–9688
  - Domestic violence, 892, 4754–4755
  - Drive Clean, 7143
  - Driver examination centres, 8410
  - Drug treatment programs, 1209
  - Economic development, 6989–6990
  - Education funding, 9718–9719
  - Education labour dispute, 4025
  - Electronic health information, 7027, 7036–7037, 7141–7144, 7189, 7221–7222, 7265–7270, 7686–7688, 7868–7869, 7871, 7916–7917, 7955–7961, 8022–8023, 8025, 8060–8061, 8066, 8101, 8206–8207, 8253–8254, 8347, 8407–8408, 8595, 8642, 8646
  - Employee wage protection, 129–130
  - Employment, 737–739, 765–766, 1202–1203
  - Employment insurance, 5029–5030
  - Employment supports, 4616, 7958
  - Energy rates, 4993–4994, 6183–6184
  - Environmental protection, 49–50
  - Events in Tibet, 2241
  - Executive compensation, 829, 6799–6800
  - Family Day, 19–20
  - Federal election, 3271
  - Federal Liberal election promises, 2893–2895
  - Federal-provincial fiscal policies, 3083–3085, 3269
  - Flu immunization, 8344–8345, 8405–8406
  - Forest industry, 4055
  - Fundraising, 3961, 4018
  - Gasoline prices, 6984–6985
  - Government accountability, 7268, 9030–9031, 9365
  - Government accounting practices, 1570–1571
  - Government assets, 9316
  - Government consultants, 8024–8025
  - Government contracts, 8537–8539, 8541, 8543
  - Government grants, 2483–2484
  - Government investments, 128–129, 169
  - Government record, 7220, 9031–9032, 9264–9266, 9315–9316, 9446, 9720–9722
  - Government services, 4417–4420
  - Government spending, 3316–3317, 7221, 7637–7638, 8062–8063
  - Green power generation, 1247, 6487
  - Hazardous waste, 196–197, 199–200, 292
  - Health care, 168, 5615–5616, 7473, 7869–7870, 8024, 9688–9689
  - Health care funding, 889, 2394–2395, 2899, 7957–7958, 8207–8208, 9312–9314, 9361–9362
  - Health premiums, 896–897
  - Home care, 566–567, 5662
  - Hospital funding, 73, 4381, 4573–4574, 5512, 9363, 9689–9690
  - Hospital services, 2960, 4322, 6386, 7386–7387
  - Hospital spending, 7474–7475
  - Human rights, 989–991
  - Hydro rates, 2485
  - Infectious disease control, 2082, 6329, 6382–6385
  - International trade, 832–834, 891, 3135, 3183, 7148–7149
  - Job creation, 561, 7635, 8209, 9443–9444, 9451
  - Legislative reform, 1097–1100
  - Local health integration networks, 9263–9264, 9311
  - Long-term care, 1602–1603
  - Manufacturing and forestry sector jobs, 3317–3318, 4857
  - Manufacturing jobs, 20–21, 25, 167–168, 291–294, 331–332, 375–377, 521–522, 648, 766–767, 1510–1511, 1604–1605, 1815–1817, 1819, 1821–1822, 1881–1883, 2663–2665, 2731–2732, 2954–2956, 3270, 3434–3435, 3959–3961, 4577–4578, 4856–4857, 5182–5183, 5228–5231, 5313–5314, 6075–6076, 6991–6992
  - Manufacturing sector, 48–49
  - Medical evacuation, 6331
  - Minimum wage, 650, 5681–5682
  - Mining industry, 9268, 9451–9452
  - Ministerial responsibility, 7688
  - Minister's expenses, 4908
  - Minister's record, 7913–7914
  - Minister's resignation, 6879–6880
  - Municipal taxation, 3180
  - Native land disputes, 2121
  - Northern Ontario, 6486
  - Nuclear energy, 4214–4215, 6185, 6882, 7195–7196
  - Nurses, 830, 3529
  - Ontario budget, 496–498, 560–561, 692–693, 4855, 4858, 5510, 5576–5577, 5661, 5727–5728, 6076, 6223–6224
  - Ontario child benefit, 1516
  - Ontario economy, 18–19, 21–22, 27, 331, 474–475, 478, 736–737, 764–765, 1416–1417, 1467–1469, 1508–1509, 1565–1568, 1600–1602, 1658–1659, 1813–1814, 1879–1880, 2286–2290, 2662, 2729–2730, 2952–2953, 3176–3179, 3316, 3432–3433, 3481–3482, 3484–3485, 3490, 3524–3526, 4018–4019, 4207–4208, 4210, 4242, 4321–4325, 4855–4856, 4899–4900, 4902, 5000–5001, 5077, 5117–5118, 5180–5181, 5229, 5311–5312, 5504–5505, 6181–6182, 6547, 7636, 8061–8062
  - Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp., 6184–6185, 6187, 7330–7331, 7380
  - Ontario public service, 4423, 5775–5776, 9444
  - Patient safety, 9689
  - Pension plans, 6186, 6188–6189, 6222–6226, 6228, 6881–6882, 6985, 7142
  - Pension reform, 9317–9318
  - Plant closures, 1251
  - Post-secondary education, 501, 4745–4747
  - Poverty, 991–992, 1661, 2390, 2666–2667, 2777, 3133–3134, 3319–3320, 3435–3436, 3483–3484, 4380–4381, 5078, 5183–5184, 5949
  - Premier's comments, 1710–1711
  - Premier's record, 7866–7868, 7912–7913
  - Property rights, 135
  - Protection for workers, 6681–6684, 6743–6744, 6801
  - Provincial debt, 8205–8206
  - Provincial deficit, 8253
  - Provincial purchasing policy, 746, 5418–5419, 5506–5507, 5943–5944, 6182–6183
  - Public transit, 6549–6550
  - Public transportation, 4385, 4580
  - Renewable energy and conservation, 4999, 5027–5029, 5076–5077, 5118, 5186, 5189–5190
  - Rural Ontario, 4578–4579
  - School pools, 1058
  - School safety, 2486
  - Severance payments, 5572
  - Sex offender registry, 167
  - Skills training, 2388
  - Small business, 4053–4054
  - Social assistance, 4617, 8731
  - Student grants, 6491
  - Student safety, 5031
  - Taxation, 330, 373–375, 473–474, 3267–3269, 4243, 5422, 5505–5506, 5508, 5571–5572, 5610–5613, 5657–5660, 5663–5666, 5678–5681, 5683–5684, 5728, 5776–5779, 5944, 5988–5989, 6073–6075, 6182, 6329–6330, 6483–6486, 6548, 6690, 6880–6881, 7188, 7267–7268, 7272–7273, 7332, 7380–7385, 7474, 7636–7637, 8102–8103, 8254–8255, 8539–8541, 8595–8597, 8642–8645, 8725–8729, 8777–8781, 8862–8864, 8989–8992, 9032–9033, 9444–9446
  - Thunder Bay economy, 3179
  - Tire disposal, 646–647
  - Tobacco control, 4572, 4803
  - Tourism, 2391
  - Transfer payments, 3486
  - Trillium drug program, 5665
  - TVOntario, 6982
  - Unemployment, 5620
  - University labour disputes, 4748, 4775–4779, 4799–4803
  - Uranium mine, 77–78
  - Windsor border crossing, 1603–1604
  - Women's issues, 5729–5730
  - Workers' compensation, 5783
- Patient safety
  - surgical errors and pathology results, 9689
- PC Party documents/plans, 764, 829, 5028, 5660
  - health care funding, 1657–1658, 5663, 5666
- Pension benefits guarantee fund, 6186, 6222, 6225, 6228
- Pension funds, 4619
- Pension plans, 6224, 6226, 6881–6882, 7142
  - defined benefit pension plans, 6881
  - reform, 9317–9318
- Political fundraising, 3961
- Post-secondary education, 4775, 4801–4803
  - Reaching Higher: The McGuinty Government Plan for Postsecondary Education, 501, 3179, 3193, 3268, 3317, 4324
- Poverty, 21–22, 693, 2666–2667, 2777, 3134, 3435–3436, 3483–3484, 5949
- Poverty Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 152)
  - general discussion, 5078
- Poverty reduction strategy, 565–566, 650, 687, 2666, 2777, 3319–3320, 3435, 3483–3484, 4380–4381, 4617, 5078, 5183–5184, 5949
  - public consultation, 1661, 2390, 2667, 2777
- Premier's travel, 3481–3482, 3490
- Property tax assessment
  - granny flats, 3317
- Protectionism, 5943–5944
- Provincial-aboriginal relations, 1306, 2122
- Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth, 4995–4996
- Public service, 561, 3316–3317, 4423, 5001, 5730, 5776
  - collective bargaining, 4418
  - increase, 9444
  - reduction, 7637
  - salaries above $100,000, 5775–5776
- Quebec
  - hydroelectric capacity, 49
  - use of wind power, 3960
- Regulations, 4900
- Rent increases, 6183
- Reports
  - Big Hit on GTA Middle-Class Homebuyers with the Ontario Budget's HST Proposals (Frank Clayton), 6483
  - Compulsory Certification Project (T.E. Armstrong), 2086
  - A Fine Balance - Safe Pensions - Affordable Plans - Fair Rules (Report of the Expert Commission on Pensions), 6188–6189, 7142
  - Navigating Through the Recovery: Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress Annual Report (Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress), 8726
  - Ontario Economic Accounts (Ministry of Finance), 3177
  - The Road Ahead: Poverty Reduction in Ontario (Campaign 2000), 687–688
  - Special Report: Ontario's Electronic Health Records Initiative (Office of the Auditor General of Ontario), 7913–7914, 7918, 8347
  - TD Economics Special Report - Time for a Vision of Ontario's Economy (Don Drummond, Derek Burleton), 2953
- Research and innovation
  - government funding, 3193
- Rural Ontario, 134
- Safe Schools Act, S.O. 2000, c.12, 5031
- Saskatchewan, 2894
- School attendance
  - raising compulsory school attendance to age 18, 1816
- School facilities
  - retrofit, 6182
- School safety, 2486
  - reporting of violent incidents, 2486, 5031
- Senior homeowners' property tax credits, 5660, 5663
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), 6329
- Sex offender registry
  - misallocation of operational funds, 167
- 6N Silicon Inc.
  - government funding, 3194
- Smoking, 4803
- Social assistance benefits, 3435, 4617
  - increase, 692, 4617
- Social assistance recipients
  - increase, 8731
- Social housing, 5510
  - government funding, 5658–5659
  - retrofit, 6183
- Speaker
  - election (28 November 2007)
    - congratulatory remarks, 18
- Sports competitions
  - Pan American Games bid (2015)
    - awarded to Toronto, 8731
- Sri Lanka
  - humanitarian crisis, 6851–6852
- Starz Animation Toronto, 6989
- Steel industry, 5228, 5314
- Strikes
  - Amalgamated Transit Union Local 279, 4580
  - DriveTest driving examiners, 8410
- Student assistance, 4776
  - Ontario student assistance program (OSAP), 4776–4777
- Student dropouts, 3268, 4243
- Student grants, 501, 6491
  - distance grant, 6491
  - textbook and technology grant, 6491
- Tamil Canadians
  - protests, 6851
- Tax credits
  - food producer donation tax credit, 8109–8110
  - manufacturing investment tax credit, 648, 739, 766, 1247, 1469
- Tax reduction, 331, 373–375, 474, 496–497, 737, 832, 1202, 1601, 2287, 2662, 2953, 5505–5506, 5679–5681, 5727–5728, 5777
- Taxation
  - tax reform package, 6181, 6690
- Taxes, 3267
- Tibet
  - anti-Chinese protests, 988, 991
- Tobacco products
  - sale to underage children, 4803
- Tobacco tax
  - law enforcement, 4572
- Toronto city council, 3180
- Toronto District School Board
  - government funding, 1058
  - swimming pools
    - closure, 1058
- Toronto Public Transit Service Resumption Act, 2008 (Bill 66)
  - first reading, 1401
  - second reading, 1401–1402
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)
  - purchase of streetcars from Bombardier
    - government funding, 6549
  - strike
    - resumption of service, 1401–1402
- Tourism industry, 2391
  - marketing campaign
    - There's No Place Like This, 2391
- Trade missions
  - China, 832–834, 891, 988, 3957
- Trade offices, 3194
  - China, 891
- Training programs, 1203, 2287
- Transit systems
  - 82% Ontario content in manufacture of transit vehicles
    - government funding, 5943
  - government funding, 50, 333, 521, 746, 2483, 5182–5183, 5507, 6486, 6549
  - Move Ontario 2020 plan, 746, 1247
  - purchase of mass transit vehicles
    - made in Ontario, 3270, 5506–5507
- Transportation master plan
  - Ottawa, 4385
- Tributes
  - Basrur, Sheela (former chief medical officer of health for Ontario), 2306
  - Runciman, Robert (interim leader of the opposition), 7217–7218
- Trillium drug program, 5665
- Unemployment, 5504, 6181
- Unemployment rate, 2732
- United States
  - automobile industry, 3957–3958, 4017, 4209
    - layoffs, 1917, 1919
  - C. difficile, 2775–2776
  - economic stimulus plan
    - buy-America provision, 7148–7149
  - financial market crisis, 2952
  - mortgage industry, 4244
- Universities/colleges, 501
  - collective bargaining, 4778, 4800
  - government funding, 4324, 4745, 4802, 5729
  - York University
    - collective bargaining, 4746–4748, 4775, 4777–4778, 4800
- University graduates
  - employment recruitment, 737–738
- U.S. Steel Canada, 5314
  - guarantee in return for government assistance, 5314
  - layoffs, 5228, 5314
  - shutdown, 5231
- Vehicle emission tests
  - Drive Clean program
    - audit, 7143
- Victims of domestic violence
  - Mowatt, Noellee
    - imprisonment, 892
- Waste
  - nuclear/radioactive waste, 6882
- Waste management/programs
  - nuclear/radioactive waste, 6882
  - tire recycling program, 646–647
- Websites
  - www.fairness.ca, 1567, 3083–3084
  - www.growingstronger.ca, 2667
- Wind turbines, 3960–3961
- Women, 5729–5730
- Workers
  - government support, 291–294
  - job retraining, 292–293, 1815
    - government funding, 1566
- Workers' compensation benefits
  - coverage for construction workers, 4053–4054
- Working Families Coalition
  - meeting with Minister of Finance, 2483–2484
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
  - hiring of chief prevention officer, 5783
- Xstrata PLC
  - shutdown of copper and zinc operations at Kidd Met site, 9451–9452
- Youth/student workers
  - summer jobs, 6491
McMeekin, T. (LIB, Ancaster–Dundas–Flamborough–Westdale)
- Appreciation
  - staff, Ministry of Government and Consumer Services, 2401
- Automobile industry, 3042–3043
- Awards
  - Canada's Top 100 Employers
    - Ontario Public Service, 3044, 3472
- Bullying
  - prevention, 9388–9389
- Business
  - doing business with Ontario government, 6043–6044
  - government assistance, 6043
- Capital works projects
  - government funding, 3473
- Cemeteries
  - Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries
    - accountability of board of directors, 7479–7480
- Consumer protection, 8355–8356
  - energy contracts, 9208–9209
  - identity theft, 1888–1889
  - security deposits for utilities and disconnections, 9208–9209
  - sub-metering electricity in apartments/apartment buildings, 9211
  - vacation clubs/time-shares, 1888
- Dominion Institute
  - memory project, 3841
- Economic conditions, 3471–3472
- Economic growth
  - five-point economic plan, 3472
- eHealth Ontario
  - contracts
    - IBM, 7872
- Election Statute Law Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 231)
  - second reading, 9292–9293
- Elections/by-elections
  - third-party advertising, 9292–9293
- Electoral process reform, 9292–9293
  - students vote in home riding or riding in which they attend school, 9293
- Employment creation, 3473
- Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2010 (Bill 235)
  - second reading, 9207–9210
- Fruit wines
  - sale at farmers' markets, 6684–6685
- Full Day Early Learning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 242)
  - second reading, 9610
- Government notice of motions
  - Legislative reform
    - responded to, 3122–3125
- Government orders
  - Ontario economy
    - responded to, 3471–3474
- Government vehicles
  - vehicles purchased, leased or rented should be manufactured and assembled in Canada, 3043
- Green economy, 3473
- Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 (Bill 150)
  - third reading, 6581–6582
- Health care workers, 3963
- Kindergarten
  - full-day, 9611
- Legislative procedure
  - private members' public business, 3124
- Legislature schedule/agenda, 3122–3124, 8046
- Liquor licences
  - by the glass service
    - hours of sale and service, 3140
- Manitoba
  - payday loan industry regulation, 2204, 2417
- Marijuana
  - regulations, 4822–4823
    - Kindos, Ted case, 4822, 6946
- Members'/ministers' constituencies/constituency events
  - Ancaster–Dundas–Flamborough–Westdale, 3472
  - Hamilton, 3473–3474
- Members/ministers quoting committee submissions
  - Lantz, Edward (ACORN Canada), 2402
  - Smith, Patti (National Money Mart), 2402
  - Vashti Persad, Judy (Toronto and York Region Labour Council), 2402
- Members/ministers quoting reports
  - Report of the Propane Safety Review Panel (Michael Birk, Susana Katz), 8977
  - Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA) Annual Report 2008-2009, 8042
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - McLean, Seaton (chair, Prince Edward County Winegrowers Association), 8026
- Members' statements
  - Martin, Brad, 9551–9552
- Ministerial statements, presented
  - Consumer protection, 602–603, 8355–8356
- Ministers redirecting oral questions, 480, 2208, 2564–2565, 2607
- Ministry of Government Services
  - green office, 3642
  - hotel/conference expenditures, 4418, 4524
  - reverse trade show for Ontario businesses, 6043–6044
- Oral questions, presented
  - High school students, 9645
  - Social workers, 9724
- Oral questions, responded to
  - Cemeteries, 7479–7480
  - Consumer protection, 1888–1889, 2089, 2203–2204, 2436–2437, 2439, 7579–7580
  - Environmental protection, 3642
  - Gasoline prices, 2564
  - Government regulations, 4822–4823, 6946
  - Government services, 2960–2961
  - Grape and wine industry, 6336, 7478, 8026
  - Health care workers, 3963
  - Manufacturing jobs, 3042–3043
  - Minister's record, 7872
  - Ministry spending, 4418, 4524
  - Ontario public service, 3044, 7191
  - Polygamy, 2088, 2125–2126, 2240–2241
  - Provincial purchasing policy, 4805, 6043–6044
  - Small business, 3575–3576, 5828
  - Wine industry, 3140, 6684–6685
- Payday loan agreements, 603
  - limit the cost of borrowing, 602–603
- Payday loan industry
  - consumer protection, 602–603, 2401–2402
  - regulation, 602–603, 2089, 2405, 2417–2418
- Payday Loans Act, 2008 (Bill 48)
  - general discussion, 2089, 2203–2204
  - first reading, 602
  - ministerial statement, 602–603
  - third reading, 2401–2402, 2405, 2417–2418
- Pension Benefits Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 236)
  - second reading, 9472
- Pension plans
  - reform, 9472
- Polygamy, 2125, 2240–2241
  - law and legislation, 2088
- Post-secondary education
  - Reaching Higher: The McGuinty Government Plan for Postsecondary Education, 3472
- Poverty, 5214
- Poverty Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 152)
  - second reading, 5214
- Private members' public business
  - Anti-bullying initiatives
    - responded to, 9388–9389
  - British Home Child Day Act, 2010 (Bill 241)
    - second reading, 9382–9383
- Propane explosions
  - Sunrise Propane, 8044, 8977
- Propane facilities
  - inspection, 8977
- Propane industry
  - insurance as a condition of licensing, 8041
- Propane safety review panel, 8041
- Public education campaigns
  - British Home Child Day, 9382–9383
  - Bullying Awareness and Prevention Week, 9388–9389
  - youth awareness campaign, 2089
- Public service, 3044, 3963
  - collective agreements, 7191
  - reduction, 7191
- Real estate fraud
  - consumer protection, 2439
- Real estate industry
  - phantom offers, 2439
- Regulated Health Professions Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 141)
  - third reading, 5588
- Remembrance Day, 3840–3842
- Reports
  - Report of the Propane Safety Review Panel (Michael Birk, Susana Katz), 8041
- Research and innovation
  - government funding, 3473
- ServiceOntario, 2960–2961
  - BizPal (business permits and licences), 3575–3576, 5828
  - online application
    - 15-day service guarantee, 2960
- Social workers, 9724
- Student dropout rate
  - reduction, 9645
- Tarion Warranty Corporation
  - compensation for warranty claims, 2436
  - in-house consumer advocate, 2436–2437
  - warranty coverage, 2437
- Technical safety standards, 8040
- Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA)
  - appointment of chief safety and risk officer, 8978
  - governance model, 8041–8042, 8977–8978
- Technical Standards and Safety Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 187)
  - second reading, 8040–8042, 8044, 8046
  - third reading, 8976–8979
- Tributes
  - Fox, Charley (veteran), 3841
  - Martin, Brad (Olympian snow boarder, 2010 Winter Olympics), 9551–9552
- Veterans' memorials
  - Queen's Park, 3841
- Wine
  - Ontario grapes in Ontario wine, 8026
  - Vintners Quality Alliance (VQA) wine, 8026
- Wine industry, 3140, 6336
- Working Families Coalition, 9292
McNeely, P. (LIB, Ottawa–Orléans)
- Appraisal Institute of Canada
  - Renova survey, 3335
- Awards
  - June Callwood Outstanding Achievement Award for Voluntarism, 1409
  - Leading Women, Building Communities Award, 5516
  - Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship
    - Kazmierski, Greg and Ellen Goodman (recipients), 3492
  - Orléans Chamber of Commerce People's Choice Business Awards, 8871–8872
- Books
  - Keeping Our Cool (Andrew Weaver), 3334
- Bridges
  - inter-provincial bridge
    - Ottawa–Vanier, 1140
  - Kettle Island, 2839
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (No. 2) (Bill 114)
  - second reading, 3615–3616
- Building codes, 3341
  - energy efficiency, 6727
  - revision, 6765
- Canadian Hydro Components (CHC), 7769
- Climate Change Awareness Act, 2009 (Bill 208)
  - first reading, 7878
- Climatic changes, 566, 2171, 7031, 8216, 8324–8325
- Conferences/seminars/symposiums
  - 2009 OGRA/ROMA Annual Conference, 5034
- Congratulatory remarks
  - Mayhew, Kyle (silver medalist, 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games), 5581–5582
  - Nash, Lori; Charlene Elgee, Karen Luttrell and Cathy MacDonald (recipients, June Callwood Outstanding Achievement Award for Voluntarism), 1409
- Consumer protection
  - energy contracts, 9211
- Corporate tax exemptions
  - Ontario tax exemption for commercialization (OTEC)
    - eligibility for refund, 3034
- Cosmetic Pesticides Ban Act, 2008 (Bill 64)
  - second reading, 1850, 2009–2011
- Court security, 5034
- Doctors
  - international medical graduates (IMGs), 2400–2401
    - removing barriers, 2726–2727, 4005
- Earth Hour, 566
- Economic conditions, 3615–3616
- Economic growth, 5011
- Education
  - parental involvement in education, 422–423
- Employment insurance benefits
  - Ontario workers, 3096, 3687
- Endangered species
  - polar bear, 7434–7435
- Energy
  - renewable energy, 5011, 5157–5158, 5176
    - feed-in tariff, 6726
  - renewable energy projects, 5058, 5362
    - buy-Ontario provision, 6765
    - employment creation, 5448, 6572, 6726, 6777
    - role of local distribution companies (LDCs), 6727
    - wind farms, 5439–5440
- Energy conservation, 5012, 5162, 6727, 6765, 9306