Speaker letter y House Hansard index Parliament 40 Session 2

House speaker index

Letter: Y

Yakabuski, J. (PC, Renfrew–Nipissing–Pembroke)
- All-terrain vehicles (ATVs)
  - use on highways, 4335–4336
- Ambulance Amendment Act (Air Ambulances), 2014 (Bill 11)
  - second reading, 349–350, 970–972, 973
- Appreciation
  - M. Sullivan & Son Limited, 5699
- Automobile insurance claims, dispute resolution
  - general remarks, 6111
- Business taxes
  - employee health tax (EHT) exemption, 4069, 5094
- Canada pension plan (CPP)
  - increase, 5138–5140
- Child Care Modernization Act, 2014 (Bill 143)
  - second reading, 5631
- Children and Youth in Care Day Act, 2014 (Bill 53)
  - second reading, 5912–5913
- Complying with International Trade Obligations Act, 2014 (Bill 153)
  - second reading, 5678
- Electricity rates
  - increase in, 4069–4070, 4071, 5095
- Electricity supply
  - surplus power, 5678
- EllisDon Corporation
  - collective agreement, 3393
- Emergency preparedness
  - general remarks, 1889–1890
- Employer health tax (EHT) exemption for small business
  - exemption threshold, 5098
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Leaves to Help Families), 2014 (Bill 21)
  - second reading, 546, 2866, 2955–2956, 2958
  - third reading, 4425–4426
- Fair Minimum Wage Act, 2014 (Bill 165)
  - second reading, 6741–6742
- Family caregiver leave
  - affordability, 2866
  - effect on small business, 2955–2956
  - flexibility of leave increments, 546, 2955
- Fighting Fraud and Reducing Automobile Insurance Rates Act, 2014 (Bill 171)
  - second reading, 6110–6112, 6113–6114, 6554–6555
- Financial Accountability Office (FAO)
  - general remarks, 2337–2339
- Financial Accountability Officer Act, 2013 (Bill 95)
  - second reading, 2825–2826
- Fire services in northern Ontario
  - closure of response centres, 4491–4492, 4678–4679
- G20 law
  - regulation 233/10, 1505–1507
- G20 summit
  - police conduct during, 1505
- Gas plant cancellations
  - want of confidence motion, 1594, 4292
- Gas plant cancellations, cost
  - general remarks, 617
  - Oakville plant, 1263
- Gas plant cancellations, documents
  - missing information, 717
- Gas plant cancellations, email deletion
  - general remarks, 2534–2535
  - role of Peter Faist, 6312
- Gas plant cancellations, email records
  - criminal investigation, 2630–2631
  - retention of, 6312
- Gas plant cancellations, investigation
  - by judicial inquiry, 2737
  - by Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), 5325–5326
- Gas plant cancellations, justice policy committee investigation
  - committee witnesses, 3119
  - mandate, 2845
- Gasoline Tax Fairness for All Act, 2013 (Bill 3)
  - first reading, 32
- Gasoline tax rebate, 463, 478–480
- Government notice of motions
  - Canada pension plan
    - responded to, 5138–5142
- Highway construction projects
  - Highway 17 expansion, 6027
- Highway Traffic Amendment Act (Clearing Vehicles of Snow and Ice), 2014 (Bill 183)
  - first reading, 6148
- Immigrants
  - economic and family class, 6132
- Immigration
  - economic incentives, 6131
- Infrastructure for Jobs and Prosperity Act, 2014 (Bill 141)
  - second reading, 5708, 5949
- Invasive Species Act, 2014 (Bill 167)
  - second reading, 6511
- Land claims
  - Algonquins of Ontario, 1006
- Landlord and Tenant Board
  - fee waiver program, 608
- Legislative procedure
  - addressing members by role or riding, 3129
  - unparliamentary language, 3002
- Local Food Act, 2013 (Bill 36)
  - second reading, 1627–1629, 1630
- Making Healthier Choices Act, 2014 (Bill 162)
  - second reading, 6696–6697
- Members' statements
  - Aboriginal land claims, 1006–1007
  - Butler, Charlie, 3827
  - Communities in Bloom awards, 4108
  - Kemptville College, 6401
  - Lions Clubs, 3488
  - M. Sullivan and Son Ltd., 5699
  - Majesta Trees of Knowledge, 1272
- Members'/ministers' birthdays
  - Wilson, Jim (Simcoe–Grey), 6399
- Members'/ministers' correction of record, 6775
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 1503
- Members'/ministers' remarks withdrawn, 105, 147, 617, 1207, 1320, 2051, 2534, 2535, 3120, 5138, 5141, 5795, 5865, 6054, 6055
- Members'/ministers' salaries
  - freeze on, 6075, 6346–6347, 6350
- Minimum wage increase
  - general remarks, 6742
- Ministerial statements
  - Community safety
    - responded to, 1059–1060
  - Emergency preparedness
    - responded to, 1889–1890
  - Police Week
    - responded to, 2112
- Modernizing Regulation of the Legal Profession Act, 2013 (Bill 111)
  - second reading, 5057, 5058
- MPP Salary Freeze Act, 2014 (Bill 177)
  - second reading, 6075, 6346–6348, 6350
- Non-profit Housing Co-operatives Statute Law Amendment Act, 2013 (Bill 14)
  - second reading, 404–406, 605–606, 607–608, 1160, 1473, 1863–1864, 1866
- Obesity, 6696
- Ontario Agricultural College
  - Kemptville Campus, 6401
- Ontario Immigration Act, 2014 (Bill 161)
  - second reading, 6130–6133
- Ontario Provincial Police Association (OPPA)
  - appreciation, 4682
- Ontario Provincial Police Collective Bargaining Amendment Act, 2013 (Bill 133)
  - second reading, 4682, 4690, 4929–4931, 4932–4933
- Ontario-Quebec relations
  - labour mobility, 2928
- Opposition day motions
  - Job creation
    - responded to, 6054–6055
  - Power plants
    - responded to, 4292
  - Taxation
    - responded to, 5509–5510
  - Want of confidence motion
    - responded to, 2128–2129
- Oral questions
  - Access to information
    - presented, 2534–2535, 2630–2631
  - Firefighting
    - presented, 4491–4492
  - Government accountability
    - presented, 4309–4310
  - Government's record
    - presented, 1593–1594, 1823
  - Highway construction
    - presented, 6027
  - Members' privileges
    - presented, 2845
  - Ontario budget
    - presented, 6979–6980
  - Power plants
    - presented, 70, 202, 575, 617–618, 716, 1207, 1262–1263, 1320, 1715–1716, 2051, 2737, 3119–3120, 3483–3484, 5325–5326, 6312, 6576
  - Rural Ontario
    - presented, 463
- Ornge
  - corporate structure, 971
- Petitions
  - Algonquin land claim, 1494, 3090–3091
  - Child protection, 3226
  - Gasoline tax, 165
  - Hydro rates, 3093, 6895
  - Office of the Ombudsman, 2983–2984
  - Ontario College of Trades, 730, 731, 3225, 3388, 5702
  - Physiotherapy services, 3224
  - Tire disposal, 944–945, 1608–1609, 3225, 3390, 3619
- Police officers
  - memorials for, 4690
- Police officers, collective agreements
  - management rights provisions, 4931
- Police services, 2112
- Private members' public business
  - Fairness is a Two-Way Street Act (Construction Labour Mobility), 2013 (Bill 80)
    - second reading, 2928
  - Gasoline Tax Fairness for All Act, 2013 (Bill 3)
    - second reading, 478–480, 485–486
  - Off-road vehicles
    - responded to, 4335–4336
- Prosperous and Fair Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2013 (Bill 65)
  - second reading, 1897
- Protection of Public Participation Act, 2014 (Bill 83)
  - second reading, 3150, 6743–6744, 6745–6746
- Public education campaigns – Health and safety
  - World Meningitis Day, 1503
- Public education campaigns – Public safety
  - Emergency Preparedness Week, 1889–1890
  - Police Week, 2112
- Public sector workers, wage freeze
  - general remarks, 6348
- Real estate agents
  - fees and commissions, 1735
- Real estate industry
  - bidding practices, 1735–1736
- Recycling fees
  - producer responsibility, 4889
- Regulated health professionals
  - treatment of spouses by, 3847–3848
- Regulated Health Professions Amendment Act (Spousal Exception), 2013 (Bill 70)
  - third reading, 3847–3848
- School Boards Collective Bargaining Act, 2014 (Bill 122)
  - second reading, 4723
- Security for Courts, Electricity Generating Facilities and Nuclear Facilities Act, 2014 (Bill 51)
  - second reading, 1502–1509, 1510
- Strategic lawsuits
  - general remarks, 6744
- Stronger Protection for Ontario Consumers Act, 2013 (Bill 55)
  - second reading, 1735–1737, 1739
  - third reading, 4672–4673
- Supporting Small Businesses Act, 2013 (Bill 105)
  - second reading, 3370, 4068–4070, 4071
  - third reading, 5093–5096, 5097, 5098–5099
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 104–106, 107, 138, 649
- Tributes
  - Boyer, Claudette (former member for Ottawa–Vanier), 6825–6826
  - Stompin' Tom Connors, 468
- Waste Reduction Act, 2013 (Bill 91)
  - second reading, 3632, 4889–4890, 4892
- Water heaters, door-to-door sale
  - consumer protection, 4672
- Yakabuski, Paul J. (former member for Renfrew), 3150
- Youth
  - smoking, 5259–5260
- Youth Smoking Prevention Act, 2014 (Bill 131)
  - second reading, 5258–5260, 5262
Yurek, J. (PC, Elgin–Middlesex–London)
- Air ambulance services
  - history of, 959
- Ambulance Amendment Act (Air Ambulances), 2014 (Bill 11)
  - second reading, 959–960, 961–962
- Appreciation
  - Railway City Brewing Co., 1273
- Automobile accident victims
  - medical assessment, 5844, 5847
- Automobile insurance claims
  - private mediation of, 5842–5843
  - processing through electronic system, 5845, 5847
- Automobile insurance claims, dispute resolution
  - general remarks, 849, 5841–5842
  - for tort and no-fault claims, 5843
- Automobile insurance companies
  - managers' designation as health professionals, 5845–5846
  - non-standard insurance providers, 3927
- Automobile insurance fraud
  - general remarks, 6556–6557
  - initiatives against, 847–848
- Automobile insurance rates
  - file and use process, 5846
  - free market pricing, 848–849
  - reduction to, 3328–3329
- Automobiles
  - annual inspection, 6607–6608
- Bicycle safety
  - general remarks, 5180, 6603
- Co-operative housing, dispute resolution
  - general remarks, 1474
- Debates re answers to oral questions
  - Pan Am Games
    - presented, 4467
- Driver fines
  - for dooring of cyclists, 6603
  - for using hand-held devices, 4117
- Drivers
  - medical reporting on, 6609
- Drivers, impaired
  - supports and prevention, 6595, 6610
- Drivers, use of hand-held devices
  - demerit points for, 4117, 6605–6606
  - general remarks, 6604–6605
  - and probability of traffic collision, 4117
- Driving schools, 6777
- Drug compounders, 3796
- Drug review process, 4269
- Drug reviews
  - idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) medication, 4269
- Economic conditions, 3968
- Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre
  - crowded conditions, 2263, 2369
  - inmates, 4149–4150
  - safety of officers and inmates, 2201, 2312, 2427
- EllisDon Corporation
  - hiring restrictions, 2620–2621
- Employer health tax (EHT) exemption for small business
  - exemption threshold, 5087
  - general remarks, 3967–3968
- Enhancing Patient Care and Pharmacy Safety (Statute Law Amendment) Act, 2014 (Bill 117)
  - second reading, 3792, 3794–3800, 3801, 6325
- Farm assistance programs
  - risk management, 1916–1917
- Farmers' markets, 1917
- Fees for medical records, 4348–4349
- Fighting Fraud and Reducing Automobile Insurance Rates Act, 2014 (Bill 171)
  - second reading, 5839–5848, 5849–5850
- Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO)
  - as oversight body, 849
- Gasoline tax rebate, 5458
- GO Transit
  - awards, 3387
- Government debt, 247, 2722
- Great Lakes Protection Act, 2014 (Bill 6)
  - second reading, 222
- Group purchasing organizations (GPOs)
  - drug product preparation standards, 3795, 3796
  - oversight of, 3798, 6325
  - procurement process, 3795
- Health clinics
  - fraudulent behavior of, 5844–5845
- Highway construction projects
  - in Niagara-GTA corridor, 5931
- Highway maintenance in winter
  - contracts, 6190
- Highway Traffic Amendment Act (Keeping Ontario's Roads Safe), 2014 (Bill 173)
  - second reading, 6602–6611, 6613
- Home care
  - wait times, 1563
- Hospital construction by region
  - London and area, 5482
- Hospital pharmacies
  - liability, 3796–3797
- Hunting and trapping
  - apprenticeship program, 6585
- Infrastructure for Jobs and Prosperity Act, 2014 (Bill 141)
  - second reading, 5457–5458
- Landlord and Tenant Board
  - fee waiver program, 1474
- Local food
  - promotion, 1410
- Local Food Act, 2013 (Bill 36)
  - second reading, 1410, 1916–1917, 1919
- Local food education, 1917
- Manufacturing industry
  - layoffs, 5086
- Medical errors in chemotherapy
  - review, 3795
  - underdosing, 3794
- Members' statements
  - Auto Guys, 4862
  - Cub Scouts, 6255
  - Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, 2797
  - Hunter Apprenticeship Safety Program, 6585
  - Insurance industry, 580
  - Kinette Club of London, 6995–6996
  - London Lightning, 1437–1438
  - National Nutrition Month, 681–682
  - Ontario Drug Benefit Program, 4269
  - Railway City Brewing Co., 1273
  - Wise, John, 31, 5071–5072
  - Worker's compensation, 255
  - Yurek Pharmacy, 3169
- Members'/ministers' constituencies
  - Elgin–Middlesex–London, 31
- Members'/ministers' remarks withdrawn, 1535, 1916, 3813, 5841, 6606
- Ministerial statements
  - GO Transit
    - responded to, 3387
  - Presto fare card
    - responded to, 6405
- Non-profit Housing Co-operatives Statute Law Amendment Act, 2013 (Bill 14)
  - second reading, 325, 1473–1475, 1476
- Ombudsman of Ontario
  - air ambulance service oversight, 959
- Opposition day motions
  - Automobile insurance
    - responded to, 847–850
- Oral questions
  - Automobile insurance
    - presented, 3328–3329, 3927, 4856
  - Correctional facilities
    - presented, 2263, 2311–2312, 2369, 2427
  - Correctional facility employees
    - presented, 2201
  - Driver education
    - presented, 6777
  - Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre
    - presented, 4149–4150
  - Government spending
    - presented, 247–248
  - Horse racing industry
    - presented, 720
  - Hospital funding
    - presented, 5482
  - Ontario public service
    - presented, 204
  - Pan Am Games
    - presented, 4311, 4487–4488
  - Power plants
    - presented, 1534–1535
  - School transportation
    - presented, 2105
  - Transportation planning
    - presented, 5930–5931
  - Winter highway maintenance
    - presented, 6190
- Pan American Games 2015, transportation
  - cost, 4311, 4467, 4487–4488
- Petitions
  - Asthma, 4869, 4966, 5394
  - Family Responsibility Office, 6321–6322
  - Ontario Drug Benefit Program, 4447, 4660
  - Physiotherapy services, 2276, 2555
  - Workplace insurance, 35, 214, 945–946, 1379
- Private members' public business
  - Comprehensive Public Sector Compensation Freeze Act, 2013 (Bill 5)
    - second reading, 269–270
  - Fairness and Competitiveness in Ontario's Construction Industry Act, 2013 (Bill 74)
    - second reading, 2620–2621
  - Helping Ontarians Enter the Skilled Trades Act, 2013 (Bill 22)
    - second reading, 914
  - Home care
    - responded to, 1562–1563
  - Manoranjana Kanagasabapathy Act (Hand-Held Devices Penalty), 2013 (Bill 116)
    - second reading, 4117
  - Medical records
    - responded to, 4348–4349
  - Paved Shoulder Construction and Bicycling Act, 2013 (Bill 137)
    - second reading, 5179–5180
  - Ryan's Law (Ensuring Asthma Friendly Schools), 2014 (Bill 135)
    - second reading, 4983–4985, 4990
- Prosperous and Fair Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2013 (Bill 65)
  - third reading, 2721–2722
- Public education campaigns – Health and safety
  - Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Day, 2797
  - Nutrition Month, 681
- Public sector workers, wage freeze
  - general remarks, 204
- Public transportation systems
  - smart card use in, 6405
- Ryan's Law (Ensuring Asthma Friendly Schools), 2014 (Bill 135)
  - first reading, 4496
- Salaries
  - public vs. private sector, 269–270
- School boards
  - asthma policies, 4983–4985, 4990
- School Boards Collective Bargaining Act, 2014 (Bill 122)
  - second reading, 4451–4452, 4463–4465, 4466
- School bus transportation
  - zoning requirements, 2105
- Slots at racetracks program (SARP)
  - general remarks, 720
- Stronger Protection for Ontario Consumers Act, 2013 (Bill 55)
  - second reading, 2577, 2648–2649, 2651
- Supporting Small Businesses Act, 2013 (Bill 105)
  - second reading, 3967–3968, 3969–3970
  - third reading, 5086–5087, 5089
- Teacher collective bargaining
  - general remarks, 4464
- Teacher collective bargaining laws
  - sunset clause, 4451–4452, 4466
- Telecommunications industry
  - non-competitive market, 3514, 3516
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 644
- Tow trucks
  - "slow down, move over" laws, 6603–6604
- Transit planning
  - light rail transit (LRT), 5930
- Water heaters, door-to-door sale
  - cancellation period, 2648
- Wireless Code by CRTC, 3512–3513
- Wireless services
  - cancellation fees, 3513
  - disconnection, 3513
  - roaming charges, 3513
- Wireless Services Agreements Act, 2013 (Bill 60)
  - second reading, 3511–3514, 3516
- Wireless services, billing for
  - overage charges, 3512, 3513
- Wireless services, contracts
  - pre- and post-paid services, 3512–3513
  - use of plain language, 3512
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
  - mandatory coverage for contractors, 255

House speaker index

Letter: Y

Yakabuski, J. (PC, Renfrew–Nipissing–Pembroke)

Yurek, J. (PC, Elgin–Middlesex–London)