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Habitual absenteeism/lateness
- acceptable absences
- causes of
- classroom impact
- duty to report
- historically
- as indicator of child abuse/neglect
- investigative process
- mandatory meeting after 40 absences
- single-parent households
Hallway medicine.
see Hospital beds—shortage
Harmonized sales tax (HST)
- exemptions
- rebate on provincial share (8%)
- for electricity bills
- Bailey, 149–150
- Berardinetti, 92
- Brown, 376
- Coe, 158
- Duguid, 23, 1113–1114, 1792
- Fedeli, 22
- Fife, 55–56
- Hoggarth, 308
- Horwath, 59, 187–188
- Leal, 12
- Matthews, 125
- Murray, 395
- Nicholls, 660
- Potts, 159
- Sattler, 233–234
- Smith, 106
- Tabuns, 23, 169, 231
- Thibeault, 135–136, 206, 840, 1519–1520, 1914, 2233–2234
- Vernile, 85
- Wynne, 18–19, 22, 68, 124, 187, 1113, 2057
- Zimmer, 54
Hate crime
- defacing of synagogues in Ottawa, Ontario
Hate crimes
- general remarks
- against the Jewish community
Hazel McCallion Day
Hazel McCallion Day Act, 2016 (Bill 16)
- first reading
- second reading, 252–259
- referred to Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills, 274
- third reading, 2227
- Royal assent, 2240
Health care
- coordination of care
- equitable access
- general remarks
- government budget
- government funding
- integration of local services
- Fraser, 979
- Hoskins, 825
- Naqvi, 965
- Potts, 935
- stakeholder consultation
- patient experience
- private-public partnerships
- privatization
- state of
- survival rates
- transparency
- user fees
- wait times
Health care funding
- allocation of funds
- catastrophic drug program. see Trillium Drug Program
- compassionate catastrophic care fund
- federal government transfer
- for front-line workers
- funding models
- health system funding reform (HSFR)
- general remarks
- Baker, 3922–3923, 6431
- Hoggarth, 1791
- Horwath, 6118–6119
- Hoskins, 1791
- Jaczek, 7432
- McDonell, 831
- Singh, 2651–2652
- Sousa, 6221, 6428
- Walker, 2095
- high-cost or experimental treatments
- Hatfield, 904–905
- MacLeod, 902–904
- Rinaldi, 905
- Compassionate Review Policy and Exceptional Access Program
- Delaney, 907
- Naidoo-Harris, 908
- home and community care funding
- increase in
- medications not covered by OHIP
- reduction
Health care in northern and rural Ontario
- general remarks
- government funding
- service challenges
Health care in northern Ontario
- accessibility of
- health travel grant, expansion of
- Bisson, 4805–4806
- Campbell, 4801–4804, 4809–4810
- Fraser, 4804
- Mauro, 4809
- McDonell, 4808–4809
- Pettapiece, 4806–4807
- Rinaldi, 4808
- Vanthof, 4807–4808
- Walker, 4804–4805
Health care professionals.
see also Payments to health care professionals, disclosure of
- continuing education, pharmacare
- hiring
- prohibition on relationships with former patients
- protection of privacy
- workplace violence
Health care reform
- patient consultation
- regulations, deferred drafting of
Health care services
- in Brampton
- in northern Ontario
Health care wait times
- general remarks
- report, Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2017
- review by Auditor General
Health clinics
- oversight
- private clinics
- Gélinas, 2889, 2954–2955, 3007–3008, 3049–3050
- Horwath, 6677, 6728, 6776
- Hoskins, 2889, 2955, 3007–3008, 3049–3050, 6776
- Tabuns, 6686
- urgen care clinics
Health clinics, independent.
see Independent health facilities
Health Quality Ontario (HQO)
Healthy eating
- EatRight Ontario
- general remarks
- government initiatives
Helping Volunteers Give Back Act, 2016 (Bill 15)
High, Jamie
- death, while in segregation
High-speed rail
- advisory committee, appointment of David Collenette
- development of
Highway accidents/fatalities
- Highway 26
- Highway 400
- Natyshak, 6115
- coroner's inquest
- Highway 401
Highway closures
Highway construction projects
- County Road 43
- expansion of Highway 417
- expansion of QEW between Burlington and Hamilton
- general remarks
- GTA West Corridor
- cancellation
- project delays
- Highway 3 expansion
- Highway 7 expansion
- Highway 7-Acton bypass
- Highway 17
- Highway 17 twinning (Kenora)
- Highway 26, Collingwood
- Highway 401 widening
- Highway 413 between Vaughan and Milton
Highway expansion.
see Highway construction projects
Highway incident management
Highway maintenance
- government funding
- Highway 6
- Highway 49
Highway maintenance in winter
- agreement with Carillion Canada
- cost of contracts
- general remarks
- government funding
- northern Ontario
- plow contracts
Highway repair
- Highway 401 bridge repair at Highway 137
Highway safety
- Carnage Alley
- coroner's inquest
- general remarks
- Highway 401
- median barriers, installation of
- Del Duca, 5337
- Nicholls, 5337
- Highway 401, London to Tillbury
- Mono, Ontario
- in northern Ontario
- texting zones
Highway tolls.
see also Government service transfer—to municipalities
- Gardiner Expressway and Don Valley Parkway
- Highway 407
- permits for high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes
- proposed on Don Valley Parkway and Gardiner Expresswa y (Toronto)
Highway Traffic Amendment Act (Helmet Exemption for Sikh Motorcyclists), 2016 (Bill 29)
Highway Traffic Amendment Act (Helmet Exemption for Sikh Motorcyclists), 2017 (Bill 29)
Highway Traffic Amendment Act (School Bus Camera Systems), 2017 (Bill 94)
- first reading
- second reading, 2404–2411
- referred to Standing Committee on Social Policy, 2419
- public consultation
Highway Traffic Amendment Act (School Safety Zones), 2016 (Bill 90)
Highway Traffic Amendment Act (Waste Collection Vehicles and Snow Plows), 2016 (Bill 42)
Highways in northern Ontario
- government funding
- road closures
- winter maintenance
Highways in rural Ontario
Hindu community
- appreciation
- heritage month
- Brown, 1373
- Clark, 1375, 2090
- Damerla, 1376
- Delaney, 1377
- Dickson, 1371, 1378, 2089–2090
- DiNovo, 1375–1376
- Gretzky, 2090–2091
- Martow, 1376–1377
- Naidoo-Harris, 1374–1375
- Sattler, 1373–1374
Hindu Heritage Month Act, 2016 (Bill 52)
Hindu Heritage Month Act, 2016 (Bill 56)
- first reading
- second reading, 1371–1378
- referred to Standing Committee on Justice Policy, 1386
- third reading, 2089–2091
- Royal assent, 2240
HIV/AIDS
Holodomor commemoration
Home Air Support Inc. Act, 2018 (Bill Pr81)
Home and community care
- access to
- as alternative to hospitalization
- as alternative to long-term care
- care models
- continuity of care
- exclusion from interprovincial billing agreement
- Armstrong, 1081
- Campbell, 1599
- Coe, 1597
- Fraser, 1598
- Gélinas, 1601
- Gretzky, 961, 1079–1080, 1595–1596
- Martow, 1600
- Walker, 1599
- for-profit agencies
- government funding
- integration with public health services
- new government agency
- Jaczek, 7429
- Wynne, 7428–7429
- relationship with SEIU
- self-directed care
- stakeholder response to
- shortage
- standards of care
- wait times
Home Capital, investigation by Ontario Securities Commission
- appointment of Alan Hibben
Home Capital, investigation by Ontario Securities Commission, board of directors
- appointment of Alan Hibben
- resignations of Jim Keohane and Kevin Smith
Home care
- funding for senior care
- government funding
- personal support workers, shortage of
- privatization
Home Care and Community Services Amendment Act (Dan's Law), 2016 (Bill 54)
- first reading
- second reading, 1594–1601
- referred to Standing Committee on Justice Policy, 1609
Home heating
- natural gas phase out
- retrofits
- access in northern Ontario
Home inspectors
- licensing
- regulation by administrative authority
Home inspectors, licensing and regulation
- creation of new licensing body
- general remarks
- Armstrong, 1638, 1951, 1954
- Arnott, 1780
- Bailey, 1638
- Ballard, 1666
- Bradley, 1879, 1892
- Coe, 1776
- Del Duca, 1650
- Dong, 1724, 1779
- Fraser, 1658
- Gretzky, 1653
- Lalonde, 1513–1514, 3378
- MacLaren, 1663
- Mauro, 1897, 1899
- McDonell, 1629
- Miller, N., 1728, 1781, 1897
- Miller, P., 1661
- Moridi, 1665, 1952–1953
- Natyshak, 1726
- Nicholls, 1723
- Orazietti, 1730–1731
- Pettapiece, 1891
- Qaadri, 1651
- Thompson, 3382
- Vanthof, 1884–1885
- Yakabuski, 1909–1910
- stakeholder consultation
- transparency and accountability
Home insurance
- consumer protection
- innocent co-insured provision
- repeat claims
Home ownership
- affordability
- land transfer tax refund
Home prices
Homeless persons
- enumeration of
- in northern Ontario
Homeless persons, support services
Homeless youth
- services by Covenant House
Homelessness
- reduction and elimination
Homelessness prevention
- Community Homeless Prevention Initiative
- government funding
- government programs
Honouring our Veterans Act, 2017 (Bill 100)
- first reading
- second reading, 5585–5591
- referred to Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills, 5598
Honours and awards
Horse racing industry
- Ajax Downs, closure of
- Fort Erie Race Track, audit of
- governance
- by Woodbine Entertainment Group
- government funding
- Slots at Racetrack program
- Woodbine Racetrack, policies
Hospice construction
Hospices
- funding to Beth Donovan Hospice
- funding to Dorothy Ley Hospice
Hospital beds.
see also Hospitals-occupancy rates
- closures
- funding
- Bisson, 5812
- Hoskins, 5812–5813, 6011–6013, 6075–6077, 6082, 6154, 6159, 7231, 7267
- Wynne, 6117–6118, 7520
- government funding
- increase in
- new
- occupied by long-term care patients
- shortage
- Armstrong, 5959–5960
- Brown, 2181
- Forster, 7576–7577
- Gélinas, 6021, 6232
- Hatfield, 987
- Horwath, 2056–2057, 6075–6077, 6117–6118, 7266–7268
- Hoskins, 2787
- Miller, P., 1523
- Sattler, 5744
- Scott, 2787
- Yurek, 6077–6078, 6231
- Brampton Civic Hospital
- in northern Ontario
- Peel Memorial
- shortage/surplus
- Gélinas, 3161–3162, 3898–3899, 4014, 4243–4244, 5452–5453, 5504–5505
- Horwath, 3706, 3961–3962, 4068, 4167–4168, 5386–5388
- Hoskins, 3161–3162, 3706–3707, 4069, 5452–5453, 5504–5505
- McDonell, 4237
- Singh, 3876
- Wynne, 4068, 4243–4244, 5504
- Yurek, 5388
- Brampton Civic Hospital
- temporary
- unfunded beds
- Peterborough Regional Health Centre
Hospital closures
- Welland County General Hospital
Hospital construction
- by hospital
- Cambridge Memorial Hospital
- Groves Memorial Community Hospital
- Markdale hospital
- NEO Kids
- in Niagara Falls
- Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus
- Reactivation Care Centre
- new Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital
- redevelopment of Credity Valley Hospital (Mississauga)
- by region
- Picton
- Scarborough
- Simcoe–Grey
- Simcoe–Grey
- Fraser, 4791–4792
- Hoggarth, 4789–4790
- Hoskins, 4776, 5235
- Munro, 4792
- Oosterhoff, 4793
- Tabuns, 4788–4790
- Vanthof, 4790–4791
- Walker, 4792–4793
- Wilson, 4776, 4786–4788, 4793, 5235
- Yurek, 4790
- Vaughan, Ontario
Hospital expansion
- Etobicoke General Hospital
- by hospital
- Etobicoke General Hospital
- Michael Garron Hospital
- Peel Memorial Centre for Integrated Health and Wellness
Hospital funding.
see also Hospital maintenance; Hospital workers—job losses
- below inflation rate
- capital funding
- Baker, 4000
- Fraser, 4427
- Horwath, 4884–4885, 5330–5331, 5386–5387
- Hoskins, 24–25, 27, 3161–3162, 3899, 4885, 5331, 5336–5337
- Potts, 5336–5337
- Wynne, 4884–4885
- Cornwall Community Hospital
- general remarks
- increase
- Hoskins, 2952–2953, 4012, 4769, 5386–5387, 5389, 6915, 7095–7096, 7131, 7320
- Jaczek, 7578, 7673, 7678–7679
- Matthews, 3961–3962
- Milczyn, 4140
- Naqvi, 4154
- Potts, 4139, 6914–6915
- Rinaldi, 4173
- Wynne, 7095, 7130, 7431
- Niagara Health System
- Niagara region
- North Bay Regional Health Centre
- operating costs
- redevelopment
- Sault Area Hospital
- Scarborough
- small and medium-sized hospitals
- underfunding
Hospital funding by hospital
- Brantford General Hospital
- Grand River Hospital
- The Hospital for Sick Children
- Lake of the Woods District Hospital
- NEO Kids
- Peterborough Regional Health Centre
- St. Mary's
- cardiac electrophysiology
- West Lincoln Memorial Hospital
- William Osler Health System
Hospital funding by region
- Hamilton
- Scarborough (Toronto, Ontario)
Hospital maintenance
- backlog
- funding for repairs
- urgent need hospitals, disclosure
Hospital mergers
- Lakeridge Health and Rouge Valley Ajax and Pickering
- Lakeridge Health, and Rouge Valley Ajax and Pickering
Hospital service expansion
- cancer care in Grand River Hospital
Hospital services.
see also specific services
- capacity and overcrowding
- catchment areas
- operating rooms, funding for
- overcapacity
- urgent care centre in Brampton
- wait times
Hospital workers
Hospitality industry
- tips and other gratuities
Hospitals
- Ajax–Pickering
- government funding
- Lakeridge Health
- occupancy rate
- occupancy rates
- overcrowding
- private
- private-public partnerships
- surge capacity
- transitional care spaces
- working conditions
Hospitals, mid-sized
Hospitals operating rooms
Hotels
Housing benefits.
see also Social housing
Housing policy, national
Housing policy, panel [proposed]
Housing prices.
see also Land transfer tax
- affordability, in Greater Toronto Area (GTA)
- Ballard, 3501–3502, 3608, 3663
- Brown, 3607–3608, 3698–3699
- Fife, 1421, 1765
- Hardeman, 3501–3502, 3663, 3834–3836, 4072
- Hoggarth, 2888
- MacLeod, 3787–3789
- Martins, 3767–3768
- Martow, 3798
- Natyshak, 3998–3999
- Oosterhoff, 3855–3856
- Smith, 4231
- Sousa, 2888, 3698–3699, 3767–3768, 4017–4018, 4072
- Tabuns, 4017–4018
- affordability, in Windsor
- foreign homebuyers' tax
- Baker, 4693–4694
- Ballard, 4696
- Coe, 3996
- Fedeli, 4699, 4701–4703
- Hardeman, 3837, 4741–4743
- Hatfield, 3847
- Oosterhoff, 3856
- Sousa, 4497
- Vanthof, 4496–4497, 4705–4706
Housing programs
Housing Services Corp.
- mandatory purchasing through
- rates
- transparency and accountability
Housing Services Corporation Accountability Act, 2016 (Bill 8)
Housing supply
- measures to increase
- shortage
Hudak, Tim.
see Member for Niagara West–Glanbrook
Human remains, recovered on private property
Human resources professionals
- authority to conduct workplace investigations
Human rights.
see Ontario Human Rights Code amendments
- gender identity and expression
- history
Human Rights Code Amendment Act, 2017 (Bill 164)
- first reading
- second reading, 5992–5999
- referred to Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills, 6007
Human Rights Code Amendment Act (Genetic Characteristics), 2016 (Bill 30)
- first reading
- second reading, 1378–1385
- referred to Standing Committee on Justice Policy, 1386
Human trafficking
- awareness day
- conferences on
- countermeasures
- definition
- general remarks
- government response
- Jaczek, 7232–7233
- Kiwala, 1793
- MacCharles, 1528, 1793
- Naidoo-Harris, 2348
- Orazietti, 1528
- Sattler, 2350
- Scott, 1528, 2349, 7232
- Yurek, 7232
- funding
- Highway 401 corridor
- investigation of, via tracking of financial information
- North Bay
- police training
- prosecution of
- victim services agencies
- vulnerable populations
- youth in care
Human trafficking prevention
- anti-trafficking coordination office
- MacCharles, 705
- Naidoo-Harris, 2941
- anti-trafficking intelligence team
- government funding
- government plan
- issuing of restraining orders
Human trafficking victims
- how public can identify
- indigenous
- protection orders
- right to sue perpetrator
- services and support
- DiNovo, 704
- Harris, 706
- Scott, 5348
- government funding
- statistical compilations on
- victim service providors
- from vulnerable populations
Hunting and angling
- Aylmer District Stakeholder Committee
- hunting ban, wolves/coyotes
- licences
- special purpose account
- advisory committee
- use for ministry employee benefits
- use for research
- special purpose fund
- general remarks
- from licence revenues
- transparency of use
- use for education programs
- use for fishing and wildlife management
- tag availability
Hunting and trapping
- licence revenue
- use for fish and wildlife management
- moose sustainability
- moose tag lottery
Hydro One Inc.
- Avista Corp., purchase
- deposit charges
- executive salaries
- Brown, 3299–3300, 3408–3409, 5502–5503
- Duguid, 5556–5557
- Fedeli, 3256
- Fife, 3419
- Gates, 2393
- Hatfield, 153–154
- Horwath, 3205–3206, 3253–3254, 3299–3301, 3409–3410
- Matthews, 3252–3254, 3256
- Sandals, 3299
- Smith, 3252–3253, 4020–4021, 5556–5557, 6726–6727, 6752
- Sousa, 3256, 3409
- Tabuns, 3503–3504, 3869, 5507
- Thibeault, 3300, 3869, 4021, 5503, 5507
- Wynne, 3299–3301, 3409–3410, 5502–5503
- fiscal performance
- general remarks
- ombudsman for
- ombudsman's resignation
- oversight
- ownership structure
- prepayment meters
- Duguid, 6856
- Gates, 6761
- Horwath, 6613, 6678, 6727–6728, 6747–6748, 6775, 6994–6995
- Tabuns, 6507, 6555–6556
- Thibeault, 6507, 6555–6556, 6613, 6678, 6727–6728, 6775, 6994–6995
- Vanthof, 6856
- purchase of Avista Corporation
- Arnott, 7306–7307
- Delaney, 6752
- Fife, 6436, 6441, 6757, 7225
- Horwath, 6612, 6747, 6995
- Smith, 7132
- Tabuns, 6460
- Thibeault, 6460, 6995
- Vanthof, 7295
- purchase of Toronto Hydro
- rate increase application
- rate increase applications
- regulation by OEB
- repurchase by government
- revenue
Hydro One Inc. privatization
- consultations
- deferred tax benefit
- departure tax
- departure tax revenue
- general remarks
- Bisson, 3493
- Brown, 5097–5098
- Fife, 7224–7225
- Gates, 4284
- Gélinas, 4406, 4416–4417, 6484
- Gretzky, 5893–5895
- Horwath, 6745, 6776
- Naqvi, 4192–4193
- Smith, 7219
- Sousa, 5097–5098
- Tabuns, 4070–4071, 4192–4193, 4391–4392, 4722–4723
- Thibeault, 4070–4071
- Vanthof, 4053–4055, 5083, 6224
- Wynne, 4722–4723
- lawsuit filed by CUPE
- public opinion
- Brown, 2180
- Fife, 4239
- Gates, 101, 145, 4061, 4289–4290
- Gélinas, 812
- Gretzky, 657, 4376, 4395, 4432
- Hatfield, 4399–4400
- Horwath, 4166–4167
- Mantha, 393
- Natyshak, 387, 4410
- Nicholls, 660
- Sattler, 314, 659, 4733–4734
- repurchase by government
- review by Auditor General
- transparency and accountability
Hydro One Inc. privatization, economic impact
- on electricity rates
- Berardinetti, 661–662
- Bisson, 5898
- Fedeli, 662–663
- Fife, 1746
- Gates, 29
- Gélinas, 4419
- Gretzky, 378–379
- Horwath, 68, 188–189, 649, 651–652, 840, 1739, 1787, 2669
- Natyshak, 4458–4459
- Sattler, 6481
- Taylor, 376–377
- Vanthof, 388
- Wynne, 840
- general remarks
- lost revenues
- Armstrong, 164
- Fedeli, 662
- Gretzky, 1082, 1702
- Horwath, 2669, 7189–7190
- Singh, 1711–1712
- Tabuns, 1708, 3182
- Vanthof, 7295
- on low-income consumers
- revenue generation
- Delaney, 384–385, 655, 3178–3179
- Rinaldi, 660
- Sousa, 7190
- Thibeault, 189, 1961, 2180, 5968, 6775–6776
- Yakabuski, 386
- revenue loss
Hydro One Inc. privatization, revenue
- accounting and use of
- allocation
- for infrastructure development
- Des Rosiers, 6754–6755
- Fife, 6528
- Sousa, 889, 1849
- Tabuns, 4396
- Thibeault, 237–238, 406, 457–458, 681, 1474
- Vanthof, 4290
- Wynne, 359, 406, 889, 1474, 1572–1573
- use for debt reduction
Hydro One Inc. services
Hydro One Inc. shares
- 40% government ownership
- cost
- increase in value
- percentage private ownership
Hydroelectric power
- oversupply, disuse of
- procured on as-needed basis
