Speaker letter e House Hansard index Parliament 42 Session 1

House speaker index

Letter: E

Elliott, Hon. C. (PC, Newmarket–Aurora)
- Addictions
  - Gambling Research Exchange Ontario, 4808
- Addictions services
  - gambling, 4808–4809
  - government strategy, 235, 300, 331–332, 2207, 2308, 2887
  - service capacity, 4257
  - treatment and rehabilitation, 1724
- Addictions services funding, 299, 331, 577, 638, 2207, 2308, 2886, 3342–3343, 4257
  - federal match, 3826
  - general remarks, 4816
- Alcohol retail - buck-a-beer
  - incentives, 633
  - via minimum price floor, 633
- Alcohol retail - expansion
  - sale locations, 633
- Alternate-level-of-care (ALC) beds
  - government strategy, 230
- Alternate-level-of-care (ALC) patients
  - placement of, 1428–1429, 1480
- Ambulance services
  - amalgamation, 4396–4397, 4857
  - dispatch services, 3294
    - Cambridge, relocation, 6619
  - government funding, 5166, 6619
  - offload services, 5637
- Animal protection system - reform
  - interim period
    - enforcement entities, 3823
- Assistive Devices Program (ADP)
  - wait times, 1793
- Asthma
  - government strategy, 4811
- Automated external defibrillators (AEDs)
  - access to, 6658–6659
- Basic Income Pilot cancellation
  - general remarks, 778
- Breast cancer
  - screening clinic
    - Health Sciences North (Sudbury), 2857–2858, 3564
- Cancer Care Ontario
  - and health care system reform, 3027, 4026–4027
- Cancer treatment
  - and health care system reform, 3027
- Cancer treatment - take-home medication
  - government funding, 2413, 6220
- Cap-and-trade cancellation
  - fiscal impact, 173
- Carbon tax (federal)
  - impact on hospitals, 4127
- Children and youth in care
  - investigation directive re deaths, 1232
- College of Midwives of Ontario
  - government funding, 2938, 2941
- Connecting People to Home and Community Care Act, 2020 (Bill 175)
  - first reading, 7166
  - ministerial statement, 7167–7168
  - second reading, 7318–7321
- Consumption and treatment services
  - general remarks, 1321
  - government strategy, 299–300, 332, 736–737, 772
  - by region
    - London, extension approval, 736, 772
    - St. Catharines, 1928
  - rehabilitation services, 6614
  - review
    - stakeholder consultations, 369–370, 1081, 1276–1278, 1433–1434
- Consumption and treatment services - sites
  - application approvals, 5514, 6614
  - approved sites
    - general remarks, 3826, 4257, 5596
    - geographic distribution, 4028, 4129
  - federal permit extension, 1321
  - funding
    - approved sites, 4129
    - existing sites, 1724
  - licensing, provincial
    - eligibility criteria, 1724
      - general remarks, 2206–2207
      - local need, 4028, 4257
      - proximity to other sites, 4027
      - services, 4027, 4129
  - new sites, moratorium on, 772
  - repurposing of, 5462
- Council on Improving Healthcare and Ending Hallway Medicine
  - general remarks, 83
- COVID-19
  - government response, 7209–7210, 7247
  - government strategy, 6984
- Curriculum - health and physical education
  - stakeholders, 631–632
  - teacher-student discussions, 632
- Curriculum - health and physical education (2015)
  - consultation process, 126, 170, 631–632
  - public opinion, 126, 170
- Curriculum - health and physical education (2019)
  - consultation process, 126, 170, 333–334, 631–632
  - interim curriculum
    - content, 126, 631–632
- Dental care
  - impact on health, 4807
  - for senior citizens
    - eligibility, 6175
    - program funding, 4336, 4807, 6173
  - and systemic disease, 6222
- Doctors
  - in northern Ontario
    - approval to practice, 5792
  - rural recruitment initiatives, 6613
- Education
  - math scores, 631
- Education funding
  - program review, 2464–2465
- Electronic health information
  - government strategy, 6054
  - privacy, 6054
- Emergency first responders
  - mental health, 577
  - mental health funding, 577
- Emergency services
  - government funding, 5636
- Employment - annual leave days
  - sick days, 6983
- Foundations for Promoting and Protecting Mental Health and Addictions Services Act, 2019 (Bill 116)
  - second reading, 5897–5898
  - third reading, 6846–6847
- French-language services
  - health care, 3666
- Government expenditures - budget allocation
  - health care
    - administration, 3436, 4275
    - general remarks, 3443
- Government finances
  - general remarks, 2464
  - government strategy, 1225–1226
- Government finances - line-by-line review
  - mandate, 1226
  - selection of auditors, 127
- Greenhouse Gas Reduction Account (GGRA)
  - use for green programs, 173
- Health care
  - communication technology, 1481
  - equity of access, 640–641
  - general remarks, 2259
  - government strategy, 230
  - patient-centred model, 5999
- Health care funding
  - allocation, 5506
  - front-line services, 4338, 4498, 7161
  - general remarks, 4750, 5161, 5461–5462, 5999, 6120
  - jurisdiction over, 641
  - Patient Ombudsman report
    - Listening, Learning, Leading: Year 3 Highlights 2018-19, 7161
- Health care - primary
  - preventive care
    - general remarks, 2138–2139
- Health care services
  - billing structure, 3437, 3444
  - wait times, 4275
- Health care services - delivery
  - community-based model, 3437
  - coordination of care, 3339, 3438, 3564–3565, 4260, 4275–4276
  - private vs. public, 3021–3022, 3030, 3119, 3241, 3334, 3869–3870, 4159, 4226
- Health care system
  - funding source, 3437, 4159
  - general remarks, 3021, 3336, 3436, 4159, 4259, 4275
- Health care system - reform
  - consultation process, 3027, 3119, 3436, 4026
  - digital and technological reforms, 3250–3251, 3443
  - general remarks, 3022, 3030, 3119, 3371, 3436–3437, 3477–3478, 4159, 4226, 4259–4260, 4275–4277, 5593
  - Indigenous consultation, 3472
  - stakeholder response, 3335, 3340
  - virtual care, 3339
- Health clinics - after-hours
  - Wasaga Beach
    - continued operation, 6613
- Health insurance - private
  - OHIP+ reform, transition process, 13
- Health service organizations
  - general remarks, 4276
- Home and community care
  - government funding, 4499, 5702
  - vs. hospitalization, 5901
  - human resource plan, 5787
  - interprovincial billing agreements, 3241
- Home and community care reform
  - coordination and integration, 7164, 7167, 7207, 7217, 7255
  - Ontario health teams, 7164, 7167
  - transition process
    - Home and Community Care Support Services, 7167–7168
- Hospital beds
  - government funding
    - surge capacity, 1429, 1481–1482, 1484, 1788, 1840, 2089, 2258
- Hospital construction by region
  - Niagara Falls, 3614
- Hospital funding
  - allocation, 6119
  - formula, 1486
  - general remarks, 5637, 5701–5702
  - infrastructure, 5701, 5901, 6125
  - maintenance and repair, 4453
  - operational, 4338, 4498, 6000
  - small- and medium-sized, 5701–5702, 6000, 6006, 6053
- Hospital funding by region
  - Hamilton, 6125
- Hospital funding by site
  - Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, Wallaceburg campus, 3379
  - Grand River Hospital (Kitchener), 3334
  - Health Sciences North (Sudbury), 376, 1120, 1485, 2857
  - London Health Sciences Centre, 5513, 5551–5552, 5909
  - West Lincoln Memorial Hospital, 2738
- Hospital redevelopment
  - Collingwood General and Marine Hospital, 3472, 3924–3925, 5839–5840
  - Stevenson Memorial Hospital (Alliston), 3472, 3924–3925, 5839–5840
- Hospital services
  - transition services
    - general remarks, 3021, 3030
  - West Lincoln Memorial Hospital, 1924, 1991
- Hospitalization
  - alternatives to, 6000, 6655
- Hospitals by site
  - Brampton Civic Hospital
    - public-private partnership, 3871
- Hospitals - overcrowding
  - alternate-level-of-care patients, 6870
  - capacity plans, 5909
  - contributing factors, 6655
  - general remarks, 1121, 1429, 3870, 3873
  - government strategy, 1483–1486, 1987, 3030, 5160, 5751, 5900, 6006, 6053, 6222, 6870
  - and system navigation, 6779
- Hospitals - staff
  - layoffs
    - Health Sciences North (Sudbury), 376, 3564
- Independent Financial Commission of Inquiry
  - and Auditor General, 127
  - members
    - qualifications, 127
- Indigenous communities - health care
  - mental health and addictions services, 1082, 7093
- Infants
  - special formulas, funding for, 4166
- Long-term-care beds
  - new, 230, 336, 2139–2140, 2258, 2310–2311, 4230
  - new, geographic allocation, 2311
  - new/redeveloped, 1079, 1480, 1483–1484, 1788, 1840, 3760, 3874, 5702
  - wait times, 3436
  - wait-lists, 1272, 1480, 2140
- Long-term-care facilities
  - Long-Term Care Homes Public Inquiry, 336, 1178
    - status, 1272
  - staffing levels, 3182
- Long-term-care staff
  - supply, 3824
  - violence against, 3824–3825
- Lyme disease
  - diagnosis and treatment
    - standards review, 4260–4261
- Managing Transformation: A Modernization Action Plan for Ontario (2018)
  - recommendations
    - government response to, 1226
- Measles
  - reported cases of, 4969
- Medical emergencies abroad
  - OHIP coverage, 4617–4618, 4713–4714, 5159
- Members'/ministers' correction of record, 1731, 2469
- Members'/ministers' privileges
  - wearing of paraphernalia
    - pins, 5504
- Mental Health and Addictions Centre of Excellence
  - creation of, 7093
  - general remarks, 7096
  - standardization of care, 6846–6847
- Mental health and addictions services
  - access to, 6846
  - in hospitals, 6000
- Mental health and addictions services - funding
  - allocation, 4805
    - front-line services, 6120
  - general remarks, 368, 1079, 1428, 1788, 1840, 1927, 1929, 2886, 3874, 4816, 4864–4865
  - sources of
    - federal, 3826
- Mental health and addictions strategy, 6867
  - consultation, 6846
  - general remarks, 2887
- Mental health care funding
  - allocation, 331, 2308
  - federal match, 4257
  - general remarks, 299, 331, 577, 638, 738–739, 2258, 4257, 4307
- Mental health care services
  - government strategy, 235, 300, 331, 577–578, 638, 738, 756–757
    - consultation process, 4307
  - housing services, 638, 2308
  - integration across ministries, 638
  - service capacity, 4257
- Mental health conditions and addictions
  - and hospital admissions, 1428, 5701
  - prevalence of, 4815
- Mental health services - children and youth
  - government funding, 6991
  - stakeholder consultation, 4864–4865
- Ministerial statements
  - Equal Pay Day
    - presented, 4237–4238
  - Health care
    - presented, 3250–3251
  - Home and community care
    - presented, 7167–7168
  - Mental health and addiction services
    - presented, 4815–4816
- Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
  - health care system reform
    - ministry documents
      - general remarks, 4256
      - unauthorized disclosure, 3021
- North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) - renegotiation
  - impact on manufacturing industry, 1032
- Nurses
  - general remarks, 3565
  - layoffs
    - Health Sciences North (Sudbury), 1120
- OHIP+: Children and Youth Pharmacare Program
  - coverage gaps, 13, 18, 4033–4034, 4165–4166
  - second-payer model, 13, 18, 4033–4034, 4165–4166
- Ontario Health
  - agencies transferred under, 3250, 3924
  - general remarks, 3438, 4276–4277
  - implementation timeline, 3438, 4277
- Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP)
  - billing accountability, 6218–6219
  - service coverage
    - colonoscopy anesthesia, 4158
    - pain management, 4256
  - service coverage review, 4158, 4255
- Ontario health teams
  - applications, 5593
  - general remarks, 3250, 3437, 4275
  - geographic coverage, 4159
  - membership
    - local providers, 4159
  - membership criteria, 3819, 3869
  - system navigation, 6778–6779
- Ontario Medical Association (OMA)
  - contract negotiations, 2138
- Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA)
  - enforcement of animal protection legislation
    - withdrawal from role, 3823
- Opioid abuse
  - deaths and hospitalizations due to, investigations into, 2206
  - general remarks, 737
  - government strategy
    - consultation process, 4027
- Opioid addiction
  - overdoses and fatalities, 6847
- Opioid addiction - government strategy
  - federal funding, 1081
  - general remarks, 5463, 5596
  - task force, 1885–1886
- Palliative care
  - advance care planning, 4400
- Palliative care facilities
  - government funding, 4711
- Patient and Family Advisory Council, 4277
- Pay equity
  - gender wage gap
    - general remarks, 4238
  - wage reporting
    - consultation on, 4229
- Pay Transparency Act, 2018, SO 2018, c 5
  - legislative timeline, 4229
- The People's Health Care Act, 2019 (Bill 74)
  - first reading, 3249–3250
  - ministerial statement, 3250–3251
  - second reading, 3436–3438, 3443–3444
  - time allocation motion
    - presented, 3807
  - third reading, 4275–4277
- Personal support workers (PSWs)
  - shortage, 1272
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  - general remarks, 577
- Prescription drugs
  - affordability, 6509
- Prescription drugs - funding
  - Exceptional Access Program
    - eligibility, 6467
  - Orkambi, 6217–6218
  - rare and orphan diseases, 7162
    - federal transfers, 6571
  - Spinraza, 3372, 6467
  - Trillium Drug Program, 7161–7162
- Private members' public business
  - Mental health and addiction services
    - responded to, 756–757
- Public education campaigns - health
  - Mental Health Week, 4815–4816
- Public education campaigns - women
  - Equal Pay Day, 4237–4238
- Public health
  - mandate, 4802
  - and sick days, 6983
- Public health units - restructuring
  - amalgamation, 4335, 5060–5061, 5117, 5164–5165, 5845–5846
  - consultation, 6833
  - funding formula, 4336, 4556–4557, 4616–4617, 4620, 4749–4750, 4862, 6834, 7247
  - funding formula, impact on services, 6833
  - general remarks, 5108
- Question period
  - Addiction services
    - responded to, 299–300, 332, 369–370, 1081, 1276–1278, 1724, 2206–2207, 3342–3343, 3826, 4027–4028, 4129, 4808–4809, 5462–5463, 5514, 6614
  - Ambulance services
    - responded to, 3294, 4396–4397, 6619, 7430–7431
  - Animal protection
    - responded to, 3823
  - Anti-smoking initiatives for youth
    - responded to, 1486–1487
  - Assistive devices
    - responded to, 1793
  - Asthma
    - responded to, 4810–4811
  - Beverage alcohol sales
    - responded to, 633
  - Cancer treatment
    - responded to, 2413, 3027, 6220
  - Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
    - responded to, 6658–6659
  - Child protection
    - responded to, 1232–1233
  - Children's mental health services
    - responded to, 4864–4865, 6991
  - Climate change
    - responded to, 173–174
  - Community safety
    - responded to, 171–172
  - COVID-19
    - responded to, 7209–7210, 7247
  - Curriculum
    - responded to, 126–127, 169–170, 333–334, 631–632
  - Dental care
    - responded to, 4336, 4807
  - Doctors' services
    - responded to, 5792
  - Education funding
    - responded to, 2464–2465
  - Electronic health information
    - responded to, 6054
  - Employment standards
    - responded to, 6983–6984
  - Ethical standards
    - responded to, 2348
  - Flu immunization
    - responded to, 2046–2047, 2088–2089
  - French-language health services
    - responded to, 3666
  - Government accountability
    - responded to, 2881
  - Government spending and accounting practices
    - responded to, 127
  - Government's agenda
    - responded to, 6509
  - Health and long-term care
    - responded to, 230
  - Health care
    - responded to, 2089, 2138–2139, 2258–2259, 3021–3022, 3030, 3119, 3241, 3286–3288, 3291, 3334–3336, 3339–3340, 3477–3478, 3819, 3869–3871, 3873–3874, 3924, 4026–4027, 4158–4159, 4226, 4255–4256, 4338, 4498, 5158–5159, 5593, 5787, 6218–6219, 6222, 6778–6779
  - Health care funding
    - responded to, 1079, 1788, 1987, 2938, 2941, 3371, 3564–3565, 4617–4618, 4713–4714, 4802, 4857, 5461–5462, 5505–5506, 5513, 5551–5552, 5636–5637, 6119–6120, 6655, 7161
  - Health care reform
    - responded to, 4259–4260
  - Home and community care
    - responded to, 7217, 7255
  - Home care
    - responded to, 1840, 4499, 7164, 7207–7208
  - Hospice care
    - responded to, 4711
  - Hospital funding
    - responded to, 376, 1428–1429, 1480–1486, 1792, 2737–2738, 2857–2858, 3125, 3379, 3472–3473, 3614, 3925, 5160–5161, 5701–5702, 5751, 5839–5840, 5900–5902, 5909, 5999–6000, 6006, 6053, 6125, 6870–6871
  - Hospital services
    - responded to, 83, 1120–1121, 1924–1925, 1991
  - Indigenous health care
    - responded to, 640–641, 3472
  - Indigenous mental health services
    - responded to, 1082
  - International trade
    - responded to, 1032–1033
  - Labour dispute
    - responded to, 177, 298, 2094–2095, 2312, 3764
  - Long-term care
    - responded to, 336, 1178–1179, 1272, 2139–2140, 2258, 2310–2311, 3182, 3760, 3824–3825, 4230
  - Lyme disease
    - responded to, 4260–4261
  - Medical clinic
    - responded to, 6613
  - Mental health and addiction services
    - responded to, 235, 331, 2308, 2886–2887, 3005, 4257, 4805, 6866–6867, 7093, 7096, 7430
  - Mental health services
    - responded to, 368, 577–578, 638, 738–739, 1927–1929, 4307
  - Midwifery
    - responded to, 7308
  - Ontario budget
    - responded to, 4453
  - Opioid abuse
    - responded to, 736–737, 772, 1321, 1433–1434, 1885–1886, 5596
  - Palliative care
    - responded to, 3241, 4400
  - Paramedic services
    - responded to, 5166
  - Pay equity
    - responded to, 4229
  - Pharmacare
    - responded to, 13, 18, 4033–4034, 4165–4166, 6467, 6571, 7161–7162
  - Prescription drugs
    - responded to, 3372, 6217–6218, 7212–7213
  - Privatization of public assets
    - responded to, 1225–1226
  - Public health
    - responded to, 4335–4336, 4556–4557, 4616–4617, 4620, 4749–4750, 4862, 4969, 5060–5061, 5108–5109, 5117, 5164–5165, 5168–5169, 5845–5846, 6833–6834
  - Religious freedom
    - responded to, 6874
  - School facilities
    - responded to, 2463
  - Seniors' dental care
    - responded to, 6173, 6175
  - Services for persons with disabilities
    - responded to, 7432
  - Smoking cessation
    - responded to, 5466
  - Social assistance
    - responded to, 777–778
  - Taxation
    - responded to, 4127
  - Vaccinations
    - responded to, 5754–5755
  - Vaping products
    - responded to, 6616–6617, 7304–7305
- Reactivation care centres
  - new, 5901
- Rehabilitation centres
  - government funding
    - Hotel Dieu Shaver, 1792, 3125
- School facilities
  - capital projects funding
    - London, 2463, 2465
- Select Committee on Mental Health and Addictions (2009-2010)
  - recommendations, 5897–5898, 6846, 6866
- Smoking cessation programs
  - government funding, 5466
- Social assistance programs
  - benefit rates
    - changes to, 777
  - government strategy
    - development timeline, 777–778
    - job availability, 778
- Special Advisor on Healthcare and Ending Hallway Medicine
  - role of, 83
- Statements by stakeholders
  - health care, 3340
  - home and community care, 7207–7208
- Strikes
  - nurses
    - Windsor-Essex County Health Unit, 3764
  - Owen Sound Family Health Organization, 177
  - Port Arthur Health Centre, 177
  - Thunder Bay District Health Unit, 2094–2095, 2312
- Surgical procedures
  - wait-lists
    - rare procedures, 6870
- Telemedicine
  - staff layoffs, 4857
- Time allocation motions
  - The People's Health Care Act, 2019 (Bill 74)
    - presented, 3807
- Toronto
  - fiscal management, 4617
- Toronto Public Health
  - budget, 4802
  - government funding, 5108, 5168–5169
- Vaccinations
  - flu shot
    - availability of, 2046–2047, 2088–2089
    - general remarks, 5754–5755
    - government funding for, 2088
    - high-dose, availability of, 2089
  - measles, 4969
- Vaccine hesitancy
  - and education, 5755
- Vaping
  - advertising restrictions, 6617
- Vaping and youth
  - health risks, 6616–6617
  - regulations, 1486–1487
- Women
  - labour market participation, 4229, 4238

House speaker index

Letter: E

Elliott, Hon. C. (PC, Newmarket–Aurora)