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
- Agriculture industry - migrant workers
  - and COVID-19
    - health and safety, 8181
    - testing rates, 8181
- 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
- Anti-Racism Directorate
  - data collection and analysis, 7884
- 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
  - third reading, 8405–8408
- 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
  - data collection
    - race-based, 7883, 8089
    - during reopening, 7884
  - government communications, 7660, 7663, 7896
  - government response, 7209–7210, 7247, 7542–7544, 7607–7609, 7611, 7663–7664
  - government strategy, 6984
  - in Indigenous communities, 7662, 7834
  - international medical graduates
    - temporary licensing program, 7880
  - public gatherings
    - restrictions on, 7659
  - transmission, 7660
- COVID-19 - business
  - reopening
    - health and safety, 7884
- COVID-19 - employment
  - sick days, 7543–7544, 7659
- COVID-19 - essential service workers
  - compensation, 7901–7902
    - pandemic pay, release of, 8330–8331
    - pandemic pay, termination of, 8330
- COVID-19 - financial supports
  - provincial
    - for public health, 7548, 7884
- COVID-19 - hospitals
  - capacity, 7660
  - lockdown plans, 7660
  - medical procedures
    - access to, 7900–7901
- COVID-19 - provincial reopening
  - general remarks, 7897
  - health and safety
    - general remarks, 7896
- COVID-19 - testing
  - capacity, 7809–7810, 7832, 7882–7883, 7895–7897, 8090–8091
  - funding for, 7832, 7897
  - locations, 7610–7611, 7659
  - strategy, 7832, 7880–7881, 7884, 7895–7896, 8090–8091
- 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
- Cystic fibrosis
  - treatments
    - Symdeko, 7832
    - Trikafta, 7832
    - Vertex, 7831–7832
- 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
  - documentation supporting, 7659
  - 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, 7883–7884
  - general remarks, 2259
  - government strategy, 230
  - patient-centred model, 5999
- Health care - administration
  - data collection
    - race-based, 8089
- 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 reform
  - transition funding, 7612
- 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, 7319–7320
  - 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 - COVID-19
  - working conditions
    - PPE access, 8122
- Home and community care reform
  - coordination and integration, 7164, 7167, 7207, 7217, 7255, 7320–7322
  - general remarks, 7167
  - Ontario health teams, 7164, 7167
  - transition process
    - Home and Community Care Support Services, 7167–7168
- Homelessness
  - and COVID-19, 7660
- 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, 7610
  - 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 facilities - COVID-19
  - emergency orders, 7810, 7947
  - testing capacity, 7832, 7880
- 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
  - government strategy, 7615
  - 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, 7612–7613
  - 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 protective equipment
  - expiration of, 7807
  - production, 7833, 7881
  - supply, 7611, 7807, 7833–7834, 7897–7898
  - use recommendations, 7661
  - worker access to, 7660–7661, 7807, 7809–7811, 7834, 7897–7898, 7947
- Personal support workers (PSWs)
  - shortage, 1272
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  - general remarks, 577
- Prescription drugs
  - affordability, 6509
  - for cystic fibrosis
    - purchase negotiations, 8182
- 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
  - government funding, 7548
  - mandate, 4802
  - and sick days, 6983
- Public health units - restructuring
  - amalgamation, 4335, 5060–5061, 5117, 5164–5165, 5845–5846
  - consultation, 6833
  - consultation process, 7543, 7665
  - funding formula, 4336, 4556–4557, 4616–4617, 4620, 4749–4750, 4862, 6834, 7247, 7548
  - 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, 7608, 7663, 7809–7810, 7832, 7880–7884, 7895–7897, 8090–8091
  - COVID-19 response
    - responded to, 8181, 8330–8331, 8383–8384, 8423
  - 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, 7659, 8417–8418
  - 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, 7900–7901
  - 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, 7612–7613
  - Health care reform
    - responded to, 4259–4260
  - Health care workers
    - responded to, 7901–7902
  - Home and community care
    - responded to, 7217, 7255
  - Home care
    - responded to, 1840, 4499, 7164, 7207–7208, 8122
  - 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, 7609–7610
  - 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
  - Indigenous public health
    - responded to, 7662, 7834
  - International medical graduates
    - responded to, 7880
  - 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, 7811, 7885, 7947, 8185
  - 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, 7615
  - 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, 7831–7832, 8182
  - Privatization of public assets
    - responded to, 1225–1226
  - Protection for health care workers
    - responded to, 7660–7661, 7807, 7809–7810, 7833–7834, 7881
  - Protection for workers
    - responded to, 7897–7898
  - 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, 7542–7544, 7548, 7610–7611, 7659–7660, 7664–7665, 8423
  - Race-based data
    - responded to, 7883–7884, 8089
  - 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
- Retirement homes
  - COVID-19
    - evacuation orders, 7885
  - residents
    - health and safety, 8185
- Retirement homes - by site
  - Rosslyn Retirement Home, 8185
- 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
- Vision care
  - public health programs
    - children's vision screening, 7548
- Women
  - labour market participation, 4229, 4238

Last updated Wednesday, July 08, 2020

House speaker index

Letter: E

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