Speaker letter a House Hansard index Parliament 43 Session 1

House speaker index

Letter: A

Allsopp, T. (PC, Bay of Quinte)
- Building Ontario For You Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 216)
  - second reading, 10106, 10150, 10162
- Dementia and other neurocognitive conditions
  - training and education
    - government funding, 11077
- Energy generation
  - infrastructure
    - government strategy, 10945
- Long-term care
  - family separation, 11077
  - government strategy, 11073–11076
- Members' inaugural speeches, 9869–9872
- Members' statements
  - Best of the Bay awards, 10699
  - Elevate Plus, 9841
  - Holiday events in Bay of Quinte, 10820
  - Operation Red Nose, 10486
  - Quinte Business Achievement Awards, 10109–10110
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 9870–9872
- Question period
  - Sports and recreation funding
    - presented, 10446
  - Taxation
    - presented, 10945
  - Tourism
    - presented, 9803
  - Veterans
    - presented, 10311
- Retirement homes
  - government strategy, 11077
  - Residents' Bill of Rights, 11078
- Skilled trades
  - training programs
    - Elevate Plus, Loyalist College, 9841
- Sporting events
  - economy, impact on, 10446
- Strengthening Cyber Security and Building Trust in the Public Sector Act, 2024 (Bill 194)
  - second reading, 9753
- Support for Seniors and Caregivers Act, 2024 (Bill 235)
  - second reading, 11073–11078
- Tourism industry
  - government strategy, 9803
- Veterans
  - support programs
    - career support, 10311
- Working for Workers Five Act, 2024 (Bill 190)
  - third reading, 9869–9872
- Working for Workers Six Act, 2024 (Bill 229)
  - second reading, 10738, 10742, 10751
Anand, D. (PC, Mississauga—Malton)
- Affordable housing
  - government strategy, 1492
- Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario Amendment Act, 2024 (Bill 155)
  - third reading, 8277–8278
- Agri-food industry
  - regulatory reform, 10510
  - statistics, 8277–8278
- Appreciation
  - Gujurati Seniors Samaj of Mississauga, 81
  - Maharaj, Pramukh Swami (guru of the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha), 2114–2115
  - Rajasthan Association of North America, 3246
  - Seth, Asha, 10298
- Arts and culture industry
  - in the Punjabi community
    - Punjabi Arts Association, 2296
- Automotive industry - manufacturing
  - decline and recovery, 2339–2340
  - government strategy, 2341
- Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 (Bill 39)
  - second reading, 1488–1492
- Budget 2022/2023
  - employment, 239
  - health care, 241
- Budget 2023/2024
  - autism services, 4415
  - employment services, 3164–3165
  - health care, 4414–4415
  - immigration, 4414
  - Indigenous affairs, 3167
  - skilled trades, 3167, 4414
- Budget speech 2024 (March 26, 2024)
  - responded to, 8073, 8090, 8094, 8104–8105, 8338
- Building a Better Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 180)
  - second reading, 8132–8136, 8150, 8154–8155, 8158, 8163, 8213, 8216, 8220, 8222
  - third reading, 9078–9082, 9096
- Building a Strong Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 85)
  - second reading, 3164–3168
  - third reading, 4413–4415
- Building a Strong Ontario Together Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 146)
  - second reading, 6105–6108
  - third reading, 6710–6711, 6726, 6733
- Building More Mines Act, 2023 (Bill 71)
  - second reading, 2747–2750
- Building Ontario For You Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 216)
  - second reading, 10147, 10204–10205, 10207
- Business
  - facilitation of
    - government, 5764
- Business - small- and medium-sized
  - succession planning, 11092–11093
- Business - taxation
  - small and medium-sized
    - small business tax rate, 1337–1338
- Cadets
  - Junior Canadian Rangers, 7957
  - Murray Whetung Community Service Award, 7957
- Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS)
  - general remarks, 10690, 10692
- Carbon tax
  - cost of living, impact on, 6148
  - emission reductions, impact on, 6148–6149
  - general remarks, 6861, 8051
  - government response to, 6148
- Child protection system
  - agency information sharing practices
    - reform, 9447
  - reform, 9451
- Children and youth in care
  - foster and group homes
    - oversight, 9447
- Community centres
  - government funding, 9082
- Community events - by region
  - Mississauga, 927
- Construction industry
  - labour shortage
    - government strategy, 698, 1490
- Cost of living
  - affordability
    - senior citizens, 6107
  - fees and fines, 8761
- Critical Minerals Strategy
  - government funding, 9079
- Cutting Red Tape, Building Ontario Act, 2024 (Bill 227)
  - second reading, 10483, 10510, 10526–10528, 10532
- Debates re answers to question period
  - Employment standards
    - responded to, 1131
- Economic development
  - job creation/loss, 1404
- Education workers - labour disputes
  - government-union relations, 1031
- Elections
  - general election (2022)
    - as public consultation, 1490
- Employment
  - creation/loss
    - government strategy, 2340, 10044
  - government strategy
    - regionally, 2302–2303
  - labour shortage, 1340, 1404
    - government strategy, 239–240, 1337, 2951
  - worker-to-retiree ratio
    - and immigration, 1489
- Employment - COVID-19
  - sick days, paid
    - provincial program, 1700–1701
- Employment postings
  - AI, use in recruitment process
    - disclosure, 7188
- Employment services
  - government strategy, 2951
  - training and retraining
    - Better Jobs Ontario, 1338
- Employment services - target populations
  - criminal record, 1338
- Employment standards
  - Canadian work experience
    - employer prohibition to request, 7188–7189
  - enforcement, 9881
    - fines, 9238–9239
  - portable benefits, 1700–1701
    - portable benefits advisory panel, 1338
  - sick notes, 9239
- Energy policy
  - clean energy initiatives, 6149
- Film and television industry
  - economic impact, 5985
  - tax credits, 8515
- Fuel prices - taxation
  - rate reduction, extension, 1408, 9079
- Gas stations
  - prepayment models
    - implementation costs, 3779
    - in other provinces, 3775–3776
    - statements by stakeholders, 3776
  - theft of gas
    - attendant and bystander safety, 3775
    - Greater Toronto Area, 3776
- Get It Done Act, 2024 (Bill 162)
  - third reading, 8760–8761, 8772, 8784, 8787
- GO Transit - stations
  - construction
    - station contribution fees, 5177–5178
- Government finances
  - general remarks, 9079–9080
- Government orders
  - Member's conduct
    - amendment to the amendment
      - responded to, 5559–5560
- Government record
  - PC (2018-present)
    - Indigenous relations, 8073
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - labour policy, 9238, 9455–9456
  - manufacturing policy, 2340
  - regulatory policy, 4612–4613
- Hazel McCallion Act (Peel Dissolution), 2023 (Bill 112)
  - second reading, 4544–4546
- Health care
  - capital projects
    - culturally appropriate, 435
- Health care funding
  - general remarks, 241
- Health care services - diagnostic services
  - diagnostic tests
    - wait-time, 2349
  - tests, wait-time, 2349
- Health care workers - recruitment and retention - international
  - credential recognition, 1125
- Helping Homebuyers, Protecting Tenants Act, 2023 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 3765–3768
- Highway 413
  - traffic congestion, impact on, 718
- Highways and roads
  - traffic congestion, 793, 8772
- Highways and roads - construction and expansion
  - timelines
    - government strategy, 9848–9849
- Highways and roads - infrastructure development
  - traffic congestion, 793
- Highways and roads safety
  - and commercial trucks
    - mandatory waiting period, 10249
- Highways and roads - snow clearance
  - plow operators
    - prohibition against passing, 4615
- Housing development - approvals and permits
  - timelines
    - increase of, 968
- Housing development - construction
  - government strategy, 3766
  - skilled tradespeople, recruitment, 1634–1635
- Housing development - densification
  - secondary units, 972
- Housing development - government funding
  - provincial vs. federal, 1637
- Housing development - municipal charges
  - rates
    - increase, 968, 977
- Housing supply
  - impact on housing costs, 963
- Housing supply - population growth projections
  - general remarks, 1489
- Immigrants - access to professions and trades
  - Canadian experience, 2951
    - regulations, 5015–5016
- Immigration
  - economic impact, 1127
  - impact on labour shortage, 1336–1337, 1490
  - Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP)
    - additional nominations, 239, 2951
    - expanding skilled trades workforce, 1337
    - reform, 239–240
- Immigration policy
  - foreign credentials
    - recognition of, 1127
- Indigenous communities
  - government funding
    - Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corp., 10494
  - housing
    - Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corp., 10494
- Indigenous communities - sports and recreation
  - hockey tournaments
    - Little Native Hockey League (Little NHL), 3040
- Indigenous relations - reconciliation
  - government response, 7957
- Indigenous soldiers
  - service during world wars, 7957
- Infrastructure development - funding
  - general remarks, 9080
- Infrastructure Ontario (IO)
  - real estate services
    - Auditor General annual report (2017), 2573
    - management of, 2572
- Keeping Students in Class Act, 2022 (Bill 28)
  - second reading, 1031
- Labour force
  - government strategy, 9880
- Labour policy
  - government strategy, 6226–6227
- Land use planning - environmental assessments
  - section 16 orders
    - approvals and conditions, 2575
- Land use planning - environmental assessments, class environment assessments
  - 30-day review period, ministerial waiver, 2573–2574
- Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB)
  - adjudicators
    - hiring of, 3766
- Less Red Tape, More Common Sense Act, 2023 (Bill 139)
  - second reading, 5764, 5791
  - third reading, 6211
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Economy Act, 2023 (Bill 91)
  - second reading, 3489, 3520
  - public consultation, 4616
  - third reading, 4612–4613, 4615–4616
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 46)
  - second reading, 1752–1756
- Light Rail Transit (LRT) - Eglinton Crosstown
  - west extension, 2548–2549
- Linguistic identity
  - International Mother Language Day, 2296
- Manufacturing industry
  - decline and recovery, 2950–2951
- Manufacturing industry - facility development
  - global investments
    - government strategy, 2340–2341
    - mega sites, importance of, 2342
  - site identification, 2341
- Manufacturing industry - funding
  - Ontario Made Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit, 9080
- Manufacturing industry - investments, 2342
  - government strategy, 2340
- Members' statements
  - Dress Purple Day, 5515
  - Film and television industry, 8515
  - Gujurati Seniors Samaj of Mississauga, 80–81
  - Guru Pramukh Swami Maharaj, 2114–2115
  - Health care, 10037
  - illumi Mississauga, 927
  - International Mother Language Day, 2296
  - Kiwanis school supply drive, 10487–10488
  - Mississauga Board of Trade, 10700
  - National Physicians' Day, 4002–4003
  - Ontario film industry, 5985
  - Ontario Legislature Internship Programme, 7193
  - Pearson LIFT, 9419
  - Persons with disabilities, 6510
  - Rajasthan Association of North America, 3246
  - Ruparell, Deepak, 672
  - Seth, Dr. Asha, 10298
  - Skills training, 2791–2792
  - Social workers, 7653–7654
  - Sports facilities, 5143–5144
  - Taxation, 8051
  - Vision Health Month, 4697, 8918
  - Volunteers, 1449
  - World Friendship Year, 5209–5210
- Members'/ministers' correction of record, 2352, 3168
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 3164
- Military personnel
  - reservists
    - job protected leave, 2981
- Mining industry
  - economic impact, 2747–2748
  - and infrastructure development, 9079
- Mining industry - Indigenous communities
  - Indigenous consultation and consent, 2749–2750
- Mining industry - occupational health and safety
  - regulatory reform, 4613
- More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 (Bill 23)
  - second reading, 963, 967–968, 972, 977, 980
  - statements by stakeholders, 1633
  - third reading, 1633–1637
- Municipal councillors
  - legislative tools, 1490
- Municipal governance - regional chairs
  - appointment of, ministerial authority, 1491
- Municipal governance - strong mayor system
  - council administration and authority, 699
  - provincial priorities
    - housing development, 700
  - statements by stakeholders, 699
- Municipal governance - structure
  - two-tier
    - provincial assessment, applicable regions, 1490
- Municipal planning
  - boundary adjustments
    - St. Thomas-Central Elgin, 2341
- Municipal restructuring - Peel Region
  - general remarks, 4544–4545
- Murray Whetung Community Service Award Act, 2024 (Bill 31)
  - third reading, 7956–7957
- National Housing Strategy (federal) - funding
  - provincial allocation, 967
- New Deal for Toronto Act, 2023 (Bill 154)
  - second reading, 6861
- New home construction industry
  - builder accountability
    - fines and penalties, 1636
- Nuclear energy industry
  - general remarks, 9079
- Nurses
  - enrolment rates, funding, 1127
  - internationally trained
    - credential recognition, 1127
- Occupational health and safety
  - education and training
    - funding, 1131
  - government strategy, 241, 1131
  - workplace inspectors
    - number of, 1131
  - workplace violations
    - penalties, fines, 5015
- Oil and gas wells
  - abandoned
    - government strategy, 10691
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP)
  - earning exemption, 1338–1339
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates
  - general remarks, 4415
- Ontario Infrastructure Bank
  - general remarks, 6106
- Ontario Legislature Internship Programme (OLIP)
  - general remarks, 7193
- Persons with disabilities
  - employment, access, 6510
- Petitions
  - Alzheimer's disease, 5824, 7367–7368
  - Domestic violence, 4336
  - Economic development, 10714, 11001–11002
  - Employment supports, 4716
  - Energy policies, 7676
  - Government's record, 353–354
  - Health care funding, 95–96
  - Health care workers, 232, 2315–2316
  - Home care, 5532
  - Housing, 605, 1623
  - Transportation infrastructure, 10123
- Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 2)
  - second reading, 238–241, 253
- Police services
  - by region
    - Peel, 1218
- Population
  - growth projections
    - immigration, 697
    - regional, 697
- Post-secondary education
  - equity-seeking groups
    - government strategy, 1285
  - learning materials
    - cost transparency, 7693
- Post-secondary education - faculty/staff
  - sexual misconduct against students
    - government strategy, 1284
    - use of non-disclosure agreements, 1285
- Post-secondary education - sexual violence and harassment
  - incidence rates, 1284
  - investigations
    - victim protections, 1285–1286
- Pre-apprenticeship programs
  - Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP), 239–240, 1636
- Preventing Unethical Puppy Sales Act, 2024 (Bill 159)
  - second reading, 8536, 8544, 8546, 8555
- Private members' motions
  - Taxation
    - amendment
      - responded to, 6147–6149
- Private members' public business
  - Cutting Taxes on Small Businesses Act, 2024 (Bill 195)
    - second reading, 10324
  - Employee ownership
    - responded to, 11092–11093
  - Highway construction
    - responded to, 718
  - Nurses
    - responded to, 1126–1127
  - Protecting Ontarians by Enhancing Gas Station Safety to Prevent Gas and Dash Act, 2023 (Bill 88)
    - second reading, 3775–3776, 3779
  - Skilled Trades Week Act, 2023 (Bill 117)
    - second reading, 5195–5196
  - Stay Home If You Are Sick Act, 2022 (Bill 4)
    - second reading, 1700–1701
  - Trucking safety
    - responded to, 10248–10249
  - WSIB Coverage for Workers in Residential Care Facilities and Group Homes Act, 2023 (Bill 54)
    - second reading, 5089–5091
- Progress on the Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 36)
  - second reading, 1309, 1336–1340, 1404, 1408
- Protecting Ontarians by Enhancing Gas Station Safety to Prevent Gas and Dash Act, 2023 (Bill 88)
  - first reading, 3200
- Public assets
  - centralization, entities
    - economic impact, 2573
  - real estate management, 2572
- Puppy mills
  - fines for running, 8555
  - unethical breeding, 8546
- Queen's Park Restoration Act, 2023 (Bill 75)
  - second reading, 2832
- Question period
  - Amateur sport
    - presented, 3040
  - Community safety
    - presented, 1218
  - Economic development
    - presented, 2302–2303
  - Education
    - presented, 93
  - Manufacturing sector
    - presented, 10044
  - Northern Ontario development
    - presented, 10494–10495
  - Public transit
    - presented, 2548–2549, 7306
  - Skilled trades
    - responded to, 7000
  - Tourism
    - presented, 3040
  - Transportation infrastructure
    - presented, 793, 9848–9849
- Reducing Inefficiencies Act (Infrastructure Statute Law Amendments), 2023 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 2572–2575
- Regulations - business
  - reduction
    - as economic policy, 1752–1753
- Resource Management and Safety Act, 2024 (Bill 228)
  - second reading, 10680, 10682–10683, 10689–10693
- Sewage and wastewater infrastructure
  - and housing development, 8094
- Skilled trades
  - government funding, 1131
  - recruitment and retention, 9840, 9880–9882
  - recruitment initiatives
    - youth, 1634, 1636, 5196, 7000
  - training programs
    - Braids on Call, 2791–2792
  - women in, 9239
- Skilled trades - education and training
  - government funding, 239
  - government strategy, 239–240
    - Ontario Workers' Plan, 239
  - Skills Development Fund, 240, 1338, 1635
  - skills gap, 9882
- Skilled trades - education and training, facilities
  - government funding
    - Skills Development Fund, 2951
- Skilled trades - employment
  - education and awareness
    - Skilled Trades Week, 5196
  - labour shortage
    - economic impact, 5195–5196
    - government strategy, 2952
- Skilled trades - recruitment and retention
  - secondary students, 2952
  - women
    - government strategy, 7000
- Social workers
  - appreciation, 7653–7654
- Societies and organizations
  - agricultural and horticultural
    - anniversaries, 5791
- St. Thomas - Central Elgin Boundary Adjustment Act, 2023 (Bill 63)
  - second reading, 2339–2343
- Strengthening Accountability and Student Supports Act, 2024 (Bill 166)
  - second reading, 7680, 7692–7693
- Strengthening Post-secondary Institutions and Students Act, 2022 (Bill 26)
  - second reading, 1197, 1283–1287
  - stakeholder consultations, 1285–1286
  - stakeholder response, 1284, 1286
  - third reading, 1890
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022 (Bill 3)
  - second reading, 134
  - third reading, 696–701
- Supporting Children's Futures Act, 2024 (Bill 188)
  - third reading, 9447, 9451
- Surveyors and surveying
  - oversight and regulation, 10692
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 59–60, 427, 431, 435, 465, 479–480, 512–513, 516
- Toronto
  - public assets
    - real estate services, centralization, 2573
- Toronto Metropolitan University
  - reform, 1284–1285
- Toronto Pearson Airport
  - Pearson LIFT project, 9419
- Transit
  - fare system, integration
    - GO Transit and TTC, 5178
    - One Fare program, 7306, 9080
  - government strategy, 5176
  - prioritization, 8787
  - regional integration, 5178
- Transit-oriented communities
  - development of, 5176
    - government strategy, 5178
- Transportation for the Future Act, 2023 (Bill 131)
  - second reading, 5171, 5175–5179
- Tributes
  - Ruparell, Deepak, 672
  - Whetung, Murray, 7957
- Vision care
  - education and awareness
    - Vision Health Month, 8918
- Volunteers
  - appreciation for, 1449
- Working for Workers Act, 2023 (Bill 79)
  - second reading, 2950–2952, 2981, 2999, 3001
  - third reading, 5015–5016, 5019
- Working for Workers Five Act, 2024 (Bill 190)
  - second reading, 9238–9240
  - third reading, 9839–9840, 9879–9883
- Working for Workers Four Act, 2024 (Bill 149)
  - second reading, 6226–6227, 6257, 6586
  - third reading, 7187–7189
- Working for Workers Six Act, 2024 (Bill 229)
  - second reading, 10737–10740
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
  - general remarks, 9240
  - modernization, 9239
  - presumptive coverage, fire rangers
    - cancers, heart injuries & PTSD, 8939–8940
  - presumptive coverage, firefighters
    - cancers, 5019
    - esophageal cancer
      - employment duration, 6257
  - reform, 1754
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) - coverage
  - residential care workers, 5089–5090
- York University
  - School of Medicine, 10037
- Your Health Act, 2023 (Bill 60)
  - second reading, 2275–2276, 2348–2349
  - third reading, 3993–3994
Andrew, J. (NDP, Toronto—St. Paul's)
- Affordable Energy Act, 2024 (Bill 214)
  - second reading, 10064, 10068
- Affordable Homes and Good Jobs Act, 2023 (Bill 134)
  - second reading, 5266
- Affordable housing
  - "affordable," definition
    - criteria, 1373
  - co-operative housing, 3288
  - format density, types of, 2068
  - general remarks, 1979, 2074
  - government strategy, 142, 2067
- Affordable housing - access
  - equity-seeking groups, 1575
  - general remarks, 695
  - policy development, 125
- Affordable housing - development of
  - format diversity, 8388
- Alternate-level-of-care (ALC) patients - transfer to long-term care facilities, non-preferred home, 557
  - general remarks, 557
- Art Gallery of Ontario
  - collective bargaining, 8060
  - staff
    - compensation and employment models, 8060
- Arts and culture industry
  - artists
    - average compensation, 3481, 10922
  - economic impact, 3289, 10922
  - funding, in other jurisdictions, 3289
  - government funding, 3481–3482, 10922–10923
    - Toronto Caribbean Carnival, 9929
  - operational costs, 7889
- Arts and culture industry - government funding
  - general remarks, 3481–3482, 7889–7890
  - Ontario Arts Council, 2791, 5885
- Bail verification and supervision
  - vs. pretrial detention, 9216
- Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 (Bill 39)
  - second reading, 1575, 1585
  - municipal response, 2067
  - third reading, 2067–2075, 2092, 2096, 2099
- Black community
  - Black History Month, 2197–2198
  - education and awareness
    - Black Mental Health Week, 7654
- Budget 2023/2024
  - arts and culture, 3040, 3289
  - education, 3288
  - health care, 3288
  - housing, 3287
  - rental housing, 3286–3287, 3290
- Budget speech 2023 (March 23, 2023)
  - responded to, 3286–3291, 3299
- Budget speech 2024 (March 26, 2024)
  - responded to, 8094–8095, 8103
- Building More Mines Act, 2023 (Bill 71)
  - second reading, 2684, 2692, 2695
- Business - COVID-19, financial assistance
  - small and medium-sized, 1842
- Business - small- and medium-sized
  - closures, 9317
  - commercial tenants protections, 9316–9317
- Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement (CWELCC)
  - government strategy, 11109–11110
- Cancer - colon
  - screening, age eligibility, 8575
- Cancer - prostate cancer
  - Black community, incidence rate, 2589
    - statements by stakeholders, 2589
- Child protection system
  - government funding, 943
- Children and youth
  - community organizations
    - government funding, 943
    - by region
      - Toronto–St. Paul's, 943
- Children and youth in care
  - foster and group homes
    - for-profit vs. not-for-profit, 8722
  - kin placements, 8716
- Climate change
  - impact of, 1607
- Condominium Authority Tribunal
  - reform
    - jurisdiction, expansion, 2798
- Consumer protection
  - homebuyers, 10487
- Contraception
  - universal access, 9585
- Coroner's inquests
  - Culleton, Kuzyk & Warmerdam Inquest
    - jury recommendations, 2042, 2191, 2198
  - Culletoni, Kuzyk & Warmerdam Inquest
    - jury recommendations, 8297
- Coroner's inquests, Culleton, Kyzyk & Warmerdam Inquest
  - jury recommendations, 7075
- Cost of living - by region
  - Toronto–St. Paul's, 2068
- COVID-19 - immunization and vaccinations
  - access, 5656
  - geographic allocation
    - Auditor General's annual report (2022), 2069
- COVID-19 - vaccines
  - geographic allocation
    - Auditor General's annual report (2022), 2069
- Curriculum
  - Black history, 9066
- Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act, 2024 (Bill 185)
  - second reading, 8388, 8437, 8439, 8442, 8447, 8451
- Debates re answers to question period
  - Supportive housing
    - presented, 913–914
- Democracy
  - general remarks, 2067
- Developmental services - adult
  - sector capacity, 914
  - supportive housing
    - wait-list, 877, 913
- Doctors
  - administrative responsibilities, 7742
  - shortage
    - impact on health care system, 2071
- Doctors - family doctors
  - access to, 8865–8866
- Doctors - primary care
  - shortage, 1978–1979
    - impact of, 7742
- Early childhood educators (ECEs)
  - recruitment and retention
    - compensation, role of, 7690
- Eating disorders
  - support services
    - access, 2624
    - wait-list, 2622
- École Polytechnique, shooting (December 6, 1989), commemoration, 7075
- Economic conditions
  - inflation
    - impact on health and well being, 224
- Education funding
  - allocation
    - FAO report: Ministry of Education: Spending Plan Review, 1557
  - anti-racism policies and programs, 2907
  - non-government revenue
    - fundraising, 1558
- Education - mental health
  - students, access, 2624
- Education policy
  - legislative process, 1105
- Education workers
  - working conditions
    - impact on retention, 1050
- Education workers - collective bargaining
  - back-to-work legislation, 1075
    - impact on labour rights, 1101–1102
- Education workers - compensation
  - cost of living, 1100
- Education workers - role in schools
  - effect on students, 1101
  - general remarks, 1100
- Elections
  - general election (2022)
    - voter turnout, 2068
- Energy policy
  - government strategy
    - costs, 10064
- Family law
  - community-based services
    - funding, 1850
  - professionals, continuing education
    - intimate partner violence, 1850
      - statements by stakeholders, 1851
- Flood management
  - greenspace conservation
    - Auditor General's annual report (2022), 2069
- Food banks - usage
  - demographics
    - children and youth, 3504
- Food prices
  - cost of, 224
- Gender equity
  - in home and community care, 9037
- Gender-based violence
  - community services
    - funding, 1782
  - fatalities, 1782, 2026, 2042
  - femicide, 7075
  - Indigenous women, 5794
    - missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls
      - investigations (Winnipeg), 2042
      - rememberance, 7075
  - prevalence of, 7075
  - protests in Iran, 1065
  - support services
    - government funding, 6879–6880
  - in Toronto
    - stakeholder statements, 7075
- Gender-based violence - prevention
  - educating men, 7075
  - government funding, 2026
  - government strategy, 6879
  - inter-sectional, 2042
  - through safe homes, 7075
- GO Transit
  - fare-evasion quotas, 6174–6175
- Government accountability and transparency
  - fundraising, 10621
- Government advertising
  - contracts, 9047
  - partisan, 7945
- Government notices of motion
  - Appointment of House officers / Committee membership
    - responded to, 265–268
- Government record - Liberal (2003-2018)
  - advertising, 7945
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - human trafficking prevention policy, 2198
  - manufacturing policy, 2461
  - municipal affairs policy, 2072
- Greenbelt - development on
  - general remarks, 1606
  - housing, 2096
- Group of Seven
  - artistic works
    - and colonialism, 3482
  - history of, 3481
  - Indigenous Group of Seven, 3481–3482
- Gun violence
  - impact on communities, 771
  - as public health concern
    - government response, 771
- Health
  - gender differentials
    - women, impact on, 2373
  - social determinants of
    - Indigeneity and colonialism, 5794
- Health care
  - access
    - fees, hidden, 10443
  - privatization, 2391–2392
- Health care - gender-affirming
  - advisory committee, creation of, 7463
- Health care - primary care
  - team-based
    - approvals, timelines, 8865
- Health care services
  - access
    - impact on patient health and wellness, 3536
- Health care system
  - and systemic racism, 2590
- Health care workers - recruitment and retention
  - general remarks, 1385
  - shortage
    - impact, 1385
  - women, representation in, 2732
- Health facilities
  - geographical accessibility
    - impact on patient health and well-being, 2071
- Health facilities - health clinics, by site
  - Balmoral Medical Arts Facility (Toronto), 2070–2071
- Heart disease
  - education and awareness, 3536
- Highways and roads safety
  - injuries and fatalities
    - cyclists, 1954
- Home and community care
  - family caregivers
    - support benefits, 9036–9037
- Hospitals
  - parking fees, 9849
- Hospitals - capacity and overcrowding
  - government funding, 1983
- Housing
  - access
    - government strategy, 2073
  - access to
    - impact on health and well-being, 8442
- Housing development - construction
  - land availability, 2074
- Housing development - infrastructure
  - general remarks, 8451
- Housing development - major transit station areas
  - parking minimums, removal of
    - accessibility requirements, 8439
- Housing policy
  - government strategy
    - statements by stakeholders, 2070, 2072
  - stakeholder consultation, 8447
- Human trafficking - prevention
  - general remarks, 2198
- Immunization
  - respiratory illnesses vaccines
    - seniors, access to, 5655
- Independent health facilities - diagnostic and surgical procedures, expansion
  - general remarks, 2549
- Indigenous communities
  - arts and culture, 3482
- Intimate partner violence
  - epidemic, declaration of, 6001, 7092, 8297, 8317, 10557
  - impact of
    - statements by stakeholders, 1851
- Intimate partner violence - victims
  - affordable housing, access, 2446
  - barriers to leaving, 1786
    - housing, 1787
  - demographics, 8297
  - fatalities
    - demographics of, 2191
  - services
    - community services
      - operational funding, 1786
      - staffing levels, 1786
- Jurors and juries
  - compensation, 1801
- Justice system
  - pretrial detention
    - vs. community based interventions, 9216
- Keeping Students in Class Act, 2022 (Bill 28)
  - second reading, 1050, 1100–1102, 1104–1105
- Land use planning - environmental assessments, class environment assessments
  - 30-day review period, purpose of
    - public consultation, 2585
- Legislative Assembly - facility rehabilitation
  - accessibility standards, 2841
  - cultural diversity and representation, 2834
- Legislative procedure
  - public consultation, 2073
- Legislative procedure - Standing Orders
  - presiding officers, selection of
    - diversity and representation, 265–266
    - party representation, 267
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Economy Act, 2023 (Bill 91)
  - second reading, 3492–3493
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 46)
  - second reading, 1732, 1795–1796, 1801, 1842
- Light Rail Transit (LRT)
  - public-private partnerships (P3s)
    - project delays, 1963–1964
- Light Rail Transit (LRT) - Eglinton Crosstown
  - government communications, 2249
  - minister-community communications, 7660–7661
  - opening date, 10314
  - public-private partnerships (P3s)
    - project delays, 1964
      - local businesses, impact on, 1964
- Lockouts
  - The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists, 9047
- Long-term care - residents
  - care plans
    - sexuality and gender appropriate care, 1352
  - spousal separation and unification, 1352
- Making Psychotherapy Services Tax-Free Act, 2023 (Bill 61)
  - first reading, 2193–2194
- Members' statements
  - Arts and cultural funding, 2791
  - Arts and culture, 11052
  - Black Mental Health Week, 7654
  - Consumer protection, 10487
  - Cost of living, 149
  - Cystic fibrosis, 2176
  - Education funding, 8516
  - Environmental protection, 1606–1607
  - Gender-based violence, 7092
  - Government spending, 10037
  - Green, Evelyn, 671
  - Member for Toronto–St. Paul's, 4965–4966
  - Ontario Place, 6868
  - Riding of Toronto–St. Paul's, 22–23
  - Road safety, 1954
  - Violence against women, 1065–1066
- Members'/ministers' constituencies
  - Toronto–St. Paul's, 22
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - withdrawn, 2071, 2348, 3092, 5000, 5705, 6916, 7691, 8866, 10037, 10491
- Mental health and addictions
  - maternal
    - diagnosis, barriers to, 2224
    - education and awareness, 2224–2225
    - equity-seeking groups, 2224
- Mental health and addictions services
  - access to
    - service fees, 7692
  - universal coverage, 9936–9937
- Metrolinx
  - project delays, 10776
    - CEO accountability, 5523, 9677
    - public inquiry, 9677–9678
  - Verster, Phil (CEO)
    - replacement, 10825
- Mining industry
  - environmental assessments
    - consultation with, 2684
- Mining industry - Indigenous communities
  - Indigenous consultation and consent, 2696
- Mining sites - closure plans
  - technical review by qualified professions, 2692
- Ministerial statements
  - Black History Month
    - responded to, 2197–2198
  - Child abuse prevention
    - responded to, 943
  - Human trafficking
    - responded to, 2198
  - International Women's Day
    - responded to, 2732–2733, 7673–7674
  - National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
    - responded to, 2042, 7075–7076
  - Woman Abuse Prevention Month
    - responded to, 1786–1787
  - Women's History Month
    - responded to, 10001–10002
- Ministry of Transportation
  - ministerial accountability, 2249
- Municipal Act, 2001, S.O. 2001, c. 25
  - annexation, 2341
- Municipal by-laws
  - passage
    - prescribed number of councillors, 2067
      - impact on representation, 1616, 2069
- Municipal finances
  - municipal-provincial up/downloading, 10352–10353
- Municipal governance - policy development
  - accountability and transparency
    - consultation, 2068
- Municipal governance - strong mayor system
  - provincial priorities, 700
  - statements by stakeholders, 2069
- New Democratic Party (NDP)
  - housing policy, 10188
- Newspapers
  - community publications
    - appreciation, 3173–3174
    - funding, 3174
  - "newspaper," definition of, 3172–3173
    - statements by stakeholders, 3173
- Nurses
  - patient-to-nurse ratio
    - statements by stakeholders, 9567
- Nurses - recruitment and retention
  - patient-to-nurse ratio, impact, 9566–9567
- Ontario Child Advocate
  - office, closure, 8714
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates
  - and cost of living, 3290
- Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP)
  - service eligibility
    - prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, 2589
- Ontario Place
  - lease of, redevelopment agreements, 3289
- Ontario Place - redevelopment
  - conflict of interest, 6868
- Ontario Science Centre
  - Don Mills and Eglinton site
    - lease terms, 6915–6916
- Opposition day motions
  - Affordable housing
    - responded to, 10188
  - Education funding
    - responded to, 3092, 9066
  - Government accountability
    - responded to, 10621–10622
  - Government advertising
    - responded to, 7945
  - Health care
    - responded to, 2391–2392, 7742
  - Health care workers
    - responded to, 1385
  - Mental health services
    - responded to, 2624, 9936–9937
  - Municipal funding
    - responded to, 10352–10353
- Pay equity - gender wage gap
  - care sector, 8425
- Pay Transparency Act, 2018, S.O. 2018, c. 5
  - enactment, 8425
- Pediatric health care
  - government funding, 1336
- Petitions
  - Access to health care, 1532–1533, 3384
  - Addiction services, 9382, 10659
  - Affordable housing, 945, 10317
  - Arts and cultural funding, 2972
  - Cancer screening, 8366
  - Child care, 10387
  - Climate change, 1719–1720
  - Doctor shortage, 10055–10056
  - Education funding, 3081–3082, 3438, 6923, 9596
  - Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, 825, 1325–1326, 5599, 6011, 6925, 10615
  - Employment standards, 233
  - Endometriosis, 5531–5532, 7675, 9594–9595
  - Gender-based violence, 2044
  - Health care, 945, 1720–1721, 2256, 10316
  - Human rights education, 9124
  - Labour dispute, 686–687
  - Labour legislation, 5008
  - Land use planning, 163–164, 231, 1621
  - Long COVID, 3263, 5067–5068
  - Long-term care, 5068
  - Mental health services, 2382
  - Ontario Place, 5534, 10388
  - Police in schools, 9595–9596
  - Prescription contraceptives, 6784
  - Sexual violence and harassment, 9125
  - Skills training, 825–826
  - Social assistance, 943–945, 2046, 2674, 6009, 6924, 9057–9058, 9596, 9931, 10344, 10660
  - Tenant protection, 944, 3261–3262, 5009, 5225, 9382, 9597, 10658
  - Tuition, 10318
- Police services
  - systemic discrimination
    - general remarks, 10863
- Post-secondary education
  - blue-ribbon panel, recommendations
    - funding, 7683, 7690
  - cost of, 1287
  - policies and reporting, racism and hate
    - implementation funding, 7691–7692
  - statements by stakeholders, 7690–7691
  - tuition
    - fee freeze, 7691
- Post-secondary education - faculty/staff
  - collective bargaining, 7690
  - sexual misconduct against students
    - use of non-disclosure agreements, 1288
- Post-secondary education - funding
  - general remarks, 7691
  - policy development and implementation, 7690
- Post-secondary education - international students
  - tuition, 7690
- Post-secondary education - mental health and addictions
  - student mental health policies
    - implementation funding, 7691–7692
  - supports and services
    - government funding, 7692–7693
- Post-secondary education - sexual violence and harassment
  - general remarks, 1287
  - incidence rates, 1288
- Prescription drugs
  - national pharmacare program, 9585
- Prescription drugs - funding
  - for cystic fibrosis, 2176
- Private members' public business
  - Arts and cultural funding
    - presented, 10921–10923
    - responded to, 10927
  - Cancer screening
    - responded to, 2589–2590
  - Caregivers
    - responded to, 9036–9037
  - Community school liaison officer programs
    - responded to, 10863
  - Day of Reflection for Indian Residential Schools Act, 2024 (Bill 221)
    - second reading, 10759
  - Domestic violence
    - responded to, 1850–1851
  - Fixing Long-Term Care Amendment Act (Till Death Do Us Part), 2022 (Bill 21)
    - second reading, 1352
  - Gender Affirming Health Care Advisory Committee Act, 2024 (Bill 42)
    - second reading, 7463
  - Group of Seven Day Act, 2023 (Bill 78)
    - second reading, 3481–3483
  - Heart Valve Disease Awareness Act, 2024 (Bill 66)
    - second reading, 3536
  - Indigenous health care
    - responded to, 5794–5795
  - Intimate Partner Violence Epidemic Act, 2024 (Bill 173)
    - second reading, 8297
  - Maternal Mental Health Day Act, 2023 (Bill 33)
    - second reading, 2224–2225
  - Patient-to-Nurse Ratios for Hospitals Act, 2024 (Bill 192)
    - second reading, 9566–9567
  - Public transit
    - responded to, 11178–11179
  - Rent Control for All Tenants Act, 2024 (Bill 48)
    - second reading, 11141–11142
  - Safe and Healthy Communities Act (Addressing Gun Violence), 2022 (Bill 9)
    - second reading, 770–771
  - Supporting Ontario's Community, Rural and Agricultural Newspapers Act, 2023 (Bill 73)
    - second reading, 3172–3174
- Progress on the Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 36)
  - second reading, 1335–1336, 1343
  - third reading, 1978–1979, 1983
- Protecting our Crowns (Training Requirements with respect to Black, Indigenous, Racialized, Natural and Textured Hair Types) Act, 2023 (Bill 147)
  - first reading, 6004
- Public sector compensation - increase cap
  - impact on women, 3375
- Public sector compensation - increase cap, health care workers
  - general remarks, 34
  - nurses, non-profit long-term care
    - arbitration decisions, 3375
- Queen's Park Restoration Act, 2023 (Bill 75)
  - second reading, 2834, 2841
- Question period
  - Affordable housing
    - presented, 1373, 10499
  - Anti-racism activities
    - presented, 2602–2603, 2907
  - Arts and cultural funding
    - presented, 3040, 5885, 7889–7890, 8060, 9929
  - Cancer screening
    - presented, 8575
  - Child care
    - presented, 11109–11110
  - Consumer protection
    - presented, 2798
  - Cost of living
    - presented, 3504
  - Domestic violence
    - presented, 8317, 10557
  - Education funding
    - presented, 1557–1558
  - Gender-based violence
    - presented, 1782, 2026, 2191, 6001, 6879–6880
  - Government accountability
    - presented, 6915–6916
  - Government fiscal policies
    - presented, 224
  - Health care
    - presented, 2549, 2722, 5655–5656, 8865–8866, 10443
  - Health care workers
    - presented, 34
  - Home care
    - presented, 557
  - Hospital parking fees
    - presented, 9849
  - Justice system
    - presented, 9216
  - Labour dispute
    - presented, 1075–1076, 5219–5220, 9047
  - Long-term care
    - presented, 557
  - Municipal government
    - presented, 1616
  - Pay equity
    - presented, 3375, 8425
  - Pharmacare
    - presented, 9585
  - Public transit
    - presented, 1963–1964, 2249, 5523, 6174–6175, 7660–7661, 9677–9678, 10314, 10775–10776, 10825
  - Shelter services
    - presented, 2446
  - Small business
    - presented, 9316–9317
  - Student safety
    - presented, 5000
  - Supportive housing
    - presented, 877
  - Tenant protection
    - presented, 743, 2969, 5709, 10708–10709
- Racism and anti-racism
  - anti-Black racism, 2197
    - government response to, 2602–2603
- Reducing Inefficiencies Act (Infrastructure Statute Law Amendments), 2023 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 2575, 2585
- Refugees
  - community supports and initiatives, 6510
- Rent control
  - exceptions
    - impact on tenants, 5266
  - and housing supply, 130
  - as tenant protection, 11142
- Rental housing
  - government strategy, 1585
  - rent increases
    - above-guideline, 743, 10708
- Rental housing - affordable
  - availability of, 3287
- Rental housing - evictions
  - due to demolition
    - impact of, 5709
- Rental housing - tenant protections
  - general remarks, 2969, 8437
  - replacement bylaws, 1373, 2073
    - statements by stakeholders, 2068–2069
- Residential schools
  - day of reflection for, 10759
- Road safety
  - fatalities
    - cyclists, 1954
- School boards
  - expenditures
    - due to COVID-19, 3092, 3288
- School boards - funding
  - by board
    - Toronto District School Board, 2907
  - general remarks, 8516
  - student supports, impact on, 3092
- Schools
  - systemic racism in, 2198
- Sexual violence and harassment
  - government funding, 1288–1289
  - government strategy, 1289
  - offenders
    - counselling, 1287, 1289
  - prevention
    - education, consent, 1290
  - services and supports
    - government funding, 1286
    - in hospitals, availability of, 1343
- Social assistance programs - benefit rates
  - general remarks, 3287
- St. Thomas - Central Elgin Boundary Adjustment Act, 2023 (Bill 63)
  - consultation, 2341
  - second reading, 2341
  - third reading, 2461
- Strengthening Accountability and Student Supports Act, 2024 (Bill 166)
  - second reading, 7683, 7689–7693
- Strengthening Post-secondary Institutions and Students Act, 2022 (Bill 26)
  - second reading, 1286–1290
  - scope of, 1288
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022 (Bill 3)
  - second reading, 125, 130, 142, 147
  - third reading, 695, 700
- Students
  - LGBTQ2S+ students
    - personal information sharing practices, 5000
- Supporting Children's Futures Act, 2024 (Bill 188)
  - second reading, 8714, 8716, 8722, 8724
- Supportive housing
  - access, 2069
- Supportive housing - development
  - development and construction, 914
- Teachers
  - shortage, 9066
  - teachers for visually impaired students (TVI), 9066
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 61, 63
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) expansion - Ontario Line
  - cost of, 1983
- Transit
  - government funding
    - municipalities, 11178– 11179
- Tributes
  - Green, Evelyn, 671
  - Munro, Lily Oddie (former member for Hamilton Centre), 837
  - Saini, Kartik, 1954
  - Sullivan, Barbara (former member for Halton Centre), 2204
- TVO
  - collective bargaining
    - government role in, 5219–5220
- Unhoused persons
  - encampments
    - municipal response, 2068
  - prevalence of, 3287
- Victim Quick Response Program
  - claims, time limit, 9936–9937
- Women
  - education and awareness
    - International Women's Day, 2732, 7673–7674
    - Women's History Month, 10001–10002
- Working for Workers Act, 2023 (Bill 79)
  - third reading, 5018
- Working for Workers Six Act, 2024 (Bill 229)
  - second reading, 10735, 10739, 10747, 10907
- Your Health Act, 2023 (Bill 60)
  - second reading, 2351, 2465
Armstrong, T.J. (NDP, London—Fanshawe)
- Adoption
  - records access, next of kin
    - statements by stakeholders, 3064
- Affordable Homes and Good Jobs Act, 2023 (Bill 134)
  - second reading, 5265
- Affordable housing
  - access, 8776
  - fourplexes, 8775–8776
  - government strategy, 670
  - maintenance and repairs, 8443
  - non-market housing
    - government role in, 8442
- Affordable housing - access
  - general remarks, 3963–3964
- Affordable housing - by region
  - London, 23, 6397, 6400
- Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario Amendment Act, 2024 (Bill 155)
  - second reading, 7125
- Agri-food industry
  - government strategy, 7125
  - organic foods
    - regulation, 5849–5850, 5852
- Appreciation
  - Decker, Todd (Clerk of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario), 4054
  - Wright Clinic, 1066
- Automobile thefts
  - and licence plate auto-renewal, 8774–8775
- Better for Consumers, Better for Businesses Act, 2023 (Bill 142)
  - second reading, 5844, 5849–5853
  - third reading, 6957
- Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 (Bill 39)
  - second reading, 1445, 1538, 1541, 1543
  - statements by stakeholders, 1543
  - third reading, 2110, 2112
- Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act, 2023 (Bill 98)
  - second reading, 3661, 3756
- Budget 2023/2024
  - developmental services
    - housing, 3274
  - health care
    - health care workers, 4293
  - health care workers, 4293
  - housing, 4361
  - social assistance recipients, 4362
  - transportation, 3182, 3267
- Budget 2024/2025
  - allocation of funds, 10163
  - cost of living, 10162–10163
  - social services, 10163
- Budget speech 2023 (March 23, 2023)
  - responded to, 3267, 3274
- Building a Better Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 180)
  - second reading, 8151, 8207, 8216, 8218
- Building a Strong Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 85)
  - second reading, 3182
  - third reading, 4293, 4299, 4308, 4341, 4359–4362, 4375
- Building a Strong Ontario Together Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 146)
  - second reading, 6025–6026
  - third reading, 6725, 6732, 6742–6746, 6749–6750
- Building Infrastructure Safely Act, 2023 (Bill 153)
  - public consultation, 6646–6648, 6666
- Building Infrastructure Safely Act, 2024 (Bill 153)
  - second reading, 6639, 6644–6648, 6651–6652, 6667
- Building More Mines Act, 2023 (Bill 71)
  - second reading, 2689, 2694, 2708
  - third reading, 4097, 4110, 4146–4147
- Building Ontario For You Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 216)
  - second reading, 10146–10147, 10162–10163, 10202–10205
- Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement (CMELCC)
  - child care operators
    - funding formula, timelines, 9214–9215, 9268
  - government funding
    - accountability and transparency, 8868, 9169
- Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement (CWELCC)
  - implementation timelines, 9234
- Cannabis production
  - home cultivation, restrictions
    - child care facilities, 7033
- Carbon pricing programs, provincial
  - referendum, 8773
- Child care
  - government funding, 6880
  - government strategy, 5410
- Child care funding
  - before- and after- school programs
    - special education, 4375
  - funding models, 7236
- Child care - spaces
  - development
    - government funding, 8218
  - wait-list, 9346
- Child care - staff
  - compensation, 10441
    - impact on retention, 9346
    - wage grid, 6180, 6880
  - recruitment and retention
    - compensation, role of, 7068
    - government strategy, 10441
  - shortage, 9314–9315
    - impact on availability, 9345
- Child protection system
  - general remarks, 3964
- Child welfare
  - abuse and neglect
    - duty to report, 8608
- Childcare and Early Years Workforce Strategy Advisory Committee Act, 2024 (Bill 191)
  - first reading, 8807–8808
- Children and youth in care
  - alternative placements
    - safety, 8607
  - foster and group homes
    - for-profit vs. not-for-profit, 8602
    - inspections, 8608
      - fines, 8609
  - services, access, 8610
- Children's aid societies (CASs)
  - government funding, 10162–10163
- Civil liability exemption - COVID-19
  - application
    - long-term care, 4299
- Colleges and universities
  - board of governors
    - term limits, 5694
- Communities
  - social needs of, 3965
- Community housing
  - wait-list
    - by region
      - London, 9511
- Construction industry
  - worker safety, 6645
- Consumer protection
  - advocate, creation of, 6957
  - contracts
    - cancellation, 5851–5852
    - standardization, 5852
  - credit reports, 5853
  - notices of security interest (NOSIs), 5850–5851
- Convenient Care at Home Act, 2023 (Bill 135)
  - second reading, 5374, 5384, 5619–5620, 5629
- Coroners
  - construction-related deaths
    - annual review
      - recommendations, implementation of, 7040
- Cost of living
  - general remarks, 1310
- Cost of living - by region
  - London, 3013
- Court administration
  - sheriffs
    - write execution, 7034
- Court administration - backlogs
  - general remarks, 7032
- Court administration - reform
  - digital services
    - impact on costs, 7047
- Cutting Red Tape, Building Ontario Act, 2024 (Bill 227)
  - second reading, 10523
- Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act, 2024 (Bill 185)
  - second reading, 8393, 8440–8443, 8448
  - third reading, 9511
- Cybersecurity
  - children and youth, 9758
  - public agencies
    - government funding, 9753
- Dental care
  - community clinics
    - access, low-income individuals, 1066
- Developmental services
  - housing supports, 1363
- Doctors
  - administrative responsibilities, 8324
- Doctors - family doctors
  - access
    - impact on patient health, 3195
  - access to, 8323–8324
  - shortage, 10146
- Doctors - primary care
  - shortage, 2436
- Driver's licences
  - fees, 8773
- Driving - careless/distracted
  - penalties, 9714
- Driving - impaired
  - penalties
    - enforceability, 9709
- Early childhood educators (ECEs)
  - compensation, 4446, 5397–5398
    - salary scale, 5411, 6026
  - recruitment and retention
    - and immigration policy, 7599
- Education funding
  - government strategy, 4964–4965
- Education workers - collective bargaining
  - back-to-work legislation, 1110
- Employment standards - wage theft
  - government strategy, 11107–11108
- Enhancing Access to Justice Act, 2023 (Bill 157)
  - scope of, 7043
- Enhancing Access to Justice Act, 2024 (Bill 157)
  - second reading, 7031–7034, 7040, 7047
  - third reading, 7531, 7569
- Food prices
  - price gouging, 5853
- Get It Done Act, 2024 (Bill 162)
  - second reading, 7429, 7577
  - third reading, 8773–8777, 8879
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - legal actions and proceedings, 1445, 1790
  - legal proceedings, 1445, 1790
- Greenbelt - boundary adjustments, process
  - accountability and transparency, 5906, 5913
- Greenbelt - development on
  - general remarks, 1445
- Greenbelt Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 136)
  - second reading, 5906, 5913
- Hate and hate-related activities
  - prevention, 4812
- Hazel McCallion Act (Peel Dissolution), 2023 (Bill 112)
  - second reading, 4509, 4520
  - third reading, 4734
- Health care - primary care
  - access
    - impact on patient health, 588
  - access to, 10845
- Health care services - delivery
  - private vs. public, 2792
- Health care workers
  - compensation, 10706
- Health care workers - recruitment and retention
  - violence against, 5039
- Helping Homebuyers, Protecting Tenants Act, 2023 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 3626–3630, 3636, 3640–3641, 3759, 3767
  - third reading, 4693, 4718
- Heritage properties
  - designation and registrations
    - timelines, 8393
- Highway 407 ETR
  - tolls, 8774, 8879
    - transport trucks, 8777
- Home and community care - delivery models
  - not-for-profit vs. for-profit, 5619
- Honouring Our Veterans Act, 2023 (Bill 65)
  - third reading, 5670–5673
- Hospital services - emergency
  - wait-time, 1267
- Housing
  - access to
    - impact on health and well-being, 8442
  - affordability
    - policy development, 5144
- Housing development - approvals and permits
  - pre-approved designs
    - accessibility requirements, 8448
- Housing development - construction
  - format diversity, 117
  - municipal-provincial partnerships
    - and consultation processes, 1658
  - as social determinant of health, 126
- Housing development - major transit station areas
  - parking minimums, removal of
    - accessibility requirements, 8441
- Housing development - municipal charges
  - development charges, exemptions and discounts, 3759
    - impact on municipalities, 1541, 3636, 3759
- Immigration
  - Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP)
    - reform, 240
- Improving Real Estate Management Act, 2024 (Bill 151)
  - second reading, 6390, 6397–6401, 6414
- Indigenous communities
  - adoption records, access
    - next of kin, 3064
- Infrastructure Ontario (IO)
  - real estate services
    - contracts, oversight, 6399–6400
- Islamophobia
  - government response to, 9637
- Judges
  - recruitment and retention, 2919
- Judicial appointments
  - backlog
    - per diem judges, use of, 1769–1770, 1790, 2919
- Judicial appointments - Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee
  - annual reports, 7031, 7531
- Judicial education
  - sexual assault law, intimate partner violence and coercive control, 3964–3965
    - evaluation process, 3965
    - legislative process, 4808
- Jurors and juries
  - compensation, 2923
  - questionnaires
    - electronic, 1790
- Keeping Students in Class Act, 2022 (Bill 28)
  - second reading, 1044, 1110, 1192–1193
- Kinesiology
  - as a regulated health profession, 5850
- Labour disputes
  - replacement workers
    - ban on, 10038
- Land use planning - environmental assessments
  - infrastructure projects
    - regulatory reform, 8774
- Land use planning - municipal official plans
  - urban boundary expansion, 8775, 8777
  - urban boundary expansion, reversal, 6300
- Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB)
  - adjudicators
    - training of, 3629
  - governance and transparency, 3628–3629
  - role of, 3640
- Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) - hearings
  - tenants, 4360
  - wait-time
    - impact on small landlords, 8440
- Law Society of Ontario
  - compensation fund
    - applications, time limit, 7031
- Legal aid services
  - eligibility requirements
    - income, 7032
  - government funding, 1791, 7034
- Legislation
  - referendums, 8776–8777
- Legislative Assembly - facility rehabilitation
  - energy-efficient technologies, 2819
- Less Red Tape, More Common Sense Act, 2023 (Bill 139)
  - second reading, 5694
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 46)
  - second reading, 1767–1770, 1790–1792, 1811, 1817
  - third reading, 2919, 2923, 2932
- Line fences
  - general remarks, 8441
- Locates
  - and broadband, 6648
  - construction costs, impact on, 6647
  - educating public, 6647–6648
  - fees for, infrastructure owner, 6667
  - in Indigneous and northern communities, 6646
  - timelines, 6647
- London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC)
  - regional epilepsy program
    - closure due to staffing, 252
- London, Ontario
  - attack in (June 6, 2021), 9637
- Long-term care
  - younger residents, 11038
- Long-term care - beds
  - wait-list
    - impact on patient health, 3306
- Long-term care - COVID-19
  - liability protections, 5384
- Long-term care - residents
  - care plans
    - culturally and linguistically appropriate care, 4424
- Manufacturing industry - facility development
  - global investments
    - government strategy, 2325–2326
- Members' statements
  - Adoption disclosure, 3064
  - Affordable housing, 23, 5144
  - Assisted housing, 1665–1666
  - Autism treatment, 8516
  - Child care, 5397–5398, 7599
  - Clerk of the Assembly, 4054
  - Doctor shortage, 2436
  - Education funding, 4964–4965
  - Government accountability, 7092–7093
  - Health care, 588, 2792
  - H.O.M.E. Program, 9041–9042
  - Homelessness, 10986
  - Long-term care, 3306
  - Nurses, 6431–6432
  - Replacement workers, 10038
  - Tenant protection, 4435
  - Wake, Colleen, 9577
  - The Wright Clinic, 1066
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 3962–3963
- Members'/ministers' privileges
  - kaffiyeh, wearing of, 8992
- Mental health and addictions - housing
  - general remarks, 126
- Mental health and addictions services
  - access to
    - impact of, 9935
  - universal coverage, 9935–9936
- Mining industry - Indigenous communities
  - Indigenous consultation and consent, 2694
- Mining sites - closure plans
  - ministerial authority, 4110
  - technical review by qualified professions, 2708
- Mining sites - development
  - financial assurance, phased, 4097
- More Convenient Care Act, 2024 (Bill 231)
  - third reading, 10845, 10852
- More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 (Bill 23)
  - second reading, 864, 920
  - third reading, 1658
- Municipal governance - strong mayor system
  - public consultation, 124
- Municipal restructuring - Peel Region
  - public consultation, 4734
  - transition board, creation of, 4520
- New Democratic Party (NDP)
  - housing policy, 10190
- New home construction industry
  - consumer protection
    - remote inspections, 5844
- Nurses
  - recruitment and retention
    - working conditions, impact of, 6431–6432
- Nurses - temporary agencies
  - accountability and oversight
    - fees, disclosure, 10852
- Occupational health and safety
  - injuries and fatalities
    - employer registry for, 1767
- Ontario Autism Program (OAP)
  - statements by stakeholders, 8516
  - wait-list, 8702
- Ontario Child Advocate
  - office, closure, 8608
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP)
  - housing allowance
    - rent vs. board and lodge, 3013
  - housing allowance, board and lodge
    - exemptions, 3013
    - reform, 3013
      - statements by stakeholders, 3014
    - reports and recommendations, stakeholders, 3014
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates
  - general remarks, 3013
  - housing status, 2932
- Ontario One Call
  - northern call centre, 6646
  - role, 6644–6645
  - statistics
    - digging damage, 6644
  - timelines, enforcement, 6647
- Opposition day motions
  - Affordable housing
    - responded to, 10190
  - Mental health services
    - responded to, 9935–9936
- Pay equity - gender wage gap
  - and access to child care, 8431
- Persons with developmental disabilities - adults
  - housing, 8442
- Petitions
  - Addiction services, 10387, 11069
  - Adoption disclosure, 2315, 2382–2383, 2674, 2868, 2912, 3045, 3081, 3261, 3622, 3750, 4336, 7106–7107, 7426–7427, 7560, 7734, 8201, 8434–8435
  - Child care, 5066, 9319
  - Health care workers, 4137
  - Housing, 5224–5225, 5354, 5660–5661
  - Labour dispute, 1083, 1162
  - Nurses, 6014, 6370
  - Sexual violence and harassment, 9225
  - Social assistance, 9554, 11067
  - Special-need students, 3149
  - Tuition, 7425–7426
  - Wearing of kaffiyehs, 8809, 8992
- Photo ID cards
  - fees, 8773
- Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 2)
  - second reading, 237, 240, 252
- Planning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 150)
  - second reading, 6300
- Police officers
  - per capita, 3963
- Police officers - education and training
  - programs, types of, 3964
  - training programs, scope of, 4799
- Police officers - employment
  - recruitment, application process
    - barriers to, 3963
- Police services
  - government communications
    - language and terminology, 3980
  - mental health calls, 3964
- Police services - community relations
  - community partnerships, crime reduction, 3963
- Post-secondary education
  - policies and reporting
    - ministerial authority, 8891
    - ministerial directives, enforcement, 8839–8840
- Post-secondary education - faculty/staff
  - sexual misconduct against students
    - on campus vs. off-campus, 1175
- Post-secondary education - sexual violence and harassment
  - institutional policies, standards
    - consistency, 1862
- Private members' public business
  - Advocate for Older Adults Act, 2023 (Bill 101)
    - second reading, 4424
  - Childcare and Early Years Workforce Strategy Advisory Committee Act, 2024 (Bill 191)
    - second reading, 9345–9347, 9350–9351
  - Social assistance
    - presented, 3012–3014
    - responded to, 3018
- Probation and parole
  - violations
    - return to correctional facility, 7033
- Progress on the Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 36)
  - second reading, 1310, 1363
- Public assets
  - centralization, entities
    - transferal to Ministry of Infrastructure, 6414
- Queen's Park Restoration Act, 2023 (Bill 75)
  - second reading, 2819
- Question period
  - Affordable housing
    - presented, 10497
  - Autism treatment
    - presented, 8702
  - Child care
    - presented, 4446, 5410–5411, 6180, 6880, 7068, 7236, 8431, 8868, 9169, 9214–9215, 9268, 9314–9315, 10441
  - Child care workers
    - presented, 4974
  - Emergency services
    - presented, 1267
  - Employment standards
    - presented, 11107–11108
  - Health care
    - presented, 3194–3195, 8323–8324, 10227, 10706–10707
  - Islamophobia
    - presented, 9637
  - Tenant protection
    - presented, 4063
- Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 (Bill 212)
  - second reading, 10015
- Reducing Inefficiencies Act (Infrastructure Statute Law Amendments), 2023 (Bill 69)
  - third reading, 3835, 3885
- Rental housing
  - affordability, 6725
  - elevators
    - maintenance and repair, 6397
- Rental housing - affordable
  - availability of, 8440
- Rental housing - evictions, 4435
  - due to renovations, 4308, 4341, 4693
    - approval process, 4718
    - statements by stakeholders, 4359–4360
  - regulations, 4360
  - statements by stakeholders, 3626–3627
- Rental housing - tenant protections
  - general remarks, 4360–4361
- Safer Roads and Communities Act, 2024 (Bill 197)
  - second reading, 9709, 9714
- Schools - provincial and demonstration schools
  - government funding, 3756
- Senior citizens
  - advocate for older adults
    - creation of office, 4424
    - in other jurisdictions, 4424
- Sexual assault crisis centres
  - government funding, 7033–7034
- Sexual violence and harassment
  - sexual extortion
    - victim demographics, 7031–7032
- Shelters and transitional housing
  - government funding
    - year round, 8441
  - by site
    - Ark Aid Mission, 10497
- St. Thomas - Central Elgin Boundary Adjustment Act, 2023 (Bill 63)
  - second reading, 2325–2326, 2333
- Strengthening Accountability and Student Supports Act, 2024 (Bill 166)
  - third reading, 8839–8840, 8891
- Strengthening Cyber Security and Building Trust in the Public Sector Act, 2024 (Bill 194)
  - second reading, 9753, 9758
- Strengthening Post-secondary Institutions and Students Act, 2022 (Bill 26)
  - second reading, 1175
  - third reading, 1862
- Strengthening Safety and Modernizing Justice Act, 2023 (Bill 102)
  - second reading, 3962–3966, 3980
  - legislative timeline, 3965
  - third reading, 4799, 4808, 4812
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022 (Bill 3)
  - second reading, 117, 124, 126
  - third reading, 669–670
- Student debt
  - notices of default, removal of, 6732
- Support for Seniors and Caregivers Act, 2024 (Bill 235)
  - second reading, 11038
- Supporting Children's Futures Act, 2024 (Bill 188)
  - second reading, 8602, 8606–8610
- Supportive housing
  - availability of, 8441
  - government strategy, 2112
  - wait-list, 1665
- Supportive housing - development
  - development and construction, 1665
  - general remarks, 1538
- Surgical procedures
  - wait-time, 10227
- Taxation
  - taxpayer rebates, 10163
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 55
- Tributes
  - Wake, Colleen, 9577
- Unhoused persons
  - government strategy, 10986
  - health care, access to
    - mobile programs, by region
      - London, 9041–9042
- Veterans
  - notable people, 5671–5672
- Victim Quick Response Program
  - claims, time limit, 7032
  - compensation amounts, 7569
- Victims of crime
  - emotional distress, presumption of
    - eligible crimes, 7032
- Vital Statistics Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 87)
  - first reading, 3078–3079
- Voter participation
  - youth engagement, 5043
- Wilmot township
  - agricultural land, expropriation, 8774
- Working for Workers Act, 2023 (Bill 79)
  - third reading, 5029, 5039, 5043, 5072
- Working for Workers Five Act, 2024 (Bill 190)
  - second reading, 9234
- Working for Workers Four Act, 2024 (Bill 149)
  - third reading, 7756
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
  - relocation, 1790, 2333
- Your Health Act, 2023 (Bill 60)
  - second reading, 2409
Arnott, Hon. T. (PC, Wellington—Halton Hills)
- Election of Speaker, 1–2
- Speaker's statements
  - debate process, 6326

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House speaker index

Letter: A

Allsopp, T. (PC, Bay of Quinte)

Anand, D. (PC, Mississauga—Malton)

Andrew, J. (NDP, Toronto—St. Paul's)

Armstrong, T.J. (NDP, London—Fanshawe)

Arnott, Hon. T. (PC, Wellington—Halton Hills)