House speaker index

Letter: A

Allsopp, T. (PC, Bay of Quinte)
- Automotive industry - employment
  - electric vehicles, 618
  - government strategy, 313–314, 317–318, 4401–4402
- Base31 Community Association Act, 2026 (Bill Pr46)
  - first reading, 3849
  - second reading, 5031
  - third reading, 5031
- Better Regional Governance Act, 2026 (Bill 100)
  - second reading, 3886
- Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport - expansion
  - economic impact, 4131–4132
  - northern communities, 4832
- Budget 2026/2027
  - general remarks, 3319
- Budget speech 2026 (March 26, 2026),
  - responded to, 3527, 3605
- Building a More Competitive Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 56)
  - second reading, 1587
- Building Billy Bishop Airport Act, 2026 (Bill 110)
  - second reading, 4130–4135
  - third reading, 4832
- Building Homes and Improving Transportation Infrastructure Act, 2026 (Bill 98)
  - third reading, 4615–4619
- Business
  - government funding
    - Protecting Ontario Account, 2733
- Business investment
  - general remarks, 4402, 4541
  - government strategy, 1049, 1054, 2534
- Climate change
  - government strategy, 1980–1981
- Debates re answers to question period
  - Automotive industry
    - responded to, 1554
  - First Nations consultation
    - responded to, 1255
- Economic conditions
  - government strategy, 314
- Economic development
  - government strategy, 196, 1952, 2152
- Electric vehicles
  - incentivizing, 617
- Electric vehicles - batteries, manufacturing by site
  - Honda (Alliston)
    - postponement, 617–619
- Electricity supply
  - demand
    - government strategy, 1980
- Emergency management
  - climate change, 1671
- Emergency Management Modernization Act, 2025 (Bill 25)
  - second reading, 1671
- Employment
  - creation and loss, 3356
  - government strategy, 2476, 2733, 3353–3354, 3360
- Energy generation
  - government strategy, 1348
  - hydrogen strategy, 1950
- Energy industry
  - government strategy, 1348–1349
- Energy policy
  - access to grid, conditional, 1950
    - data centres, 1950
  - mandation of priorities, 1949
  - subsidization, 1950
- Government accountability and transparency
  - jet purchase, 3906
- Government advertising
  - as economic policy, 1904–1905
- Government orders
  - Committee sittings,
    - amendment to the amendment,
      - responded to, 2105–2108
- Health care workers - recruitment and retention
  - education and training
    - programs, 568
- Hospitals - infrastructure
  - government strategy, 567–569
- Housing development
  - government strategy, 4615
- Housing development - approvals and permits
  - site plan control, 4616–4617
  - site plan control, green standards, 4618
- Housing development - municipal charges
  - development charges
    - accountability and transparency, 4617
  - development charges, exemptions and discounts
    - not-for-profit retirement homes, 4617
- Housing - taxation
  - HST rebates, 4618–4619
- HST Relief Implementation Act (Residential Property Rebates), 2026 (Bill 114)
  - second reading, 4448
- International trade
  - government strategy, 4133–4135
- Interprovincial trade
  - mutual recognition of goods and services, 196–197
- Interprovincial trade - barriers
  - impact, 195–196
- Intimate partner violence
  - culture, 2105–2108
  - endemic declaration, 2106, 2108
  - general remarks, 2106–2107
  - government report, writing and publication, 4996
- Labour policy
  - interprovincial mobility, 198
- Land use planning - municipal plans
  - standardization, 4616
- Life sciences industry
  - government strategy, 4133
- Manufacturing industry - employment
  - job creation/loss, 2534
- Members' statements
  - The Children's Foundation gala, 3092
  - Constituency staff, 2667–2668
  - Craft breweries, 2148–2149
  - Health care, 4137
  - Hospital funding, 3553
  - Quinte Business Achievement Awards, 1640–1641
  - Quinte Health, 795–796
  - Trenton Golden Hawks hockey team, 486
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 4130–4131
- Members'/ministers' privileges
  - wearing of paraphernalia
    - ribbons, 3623
- Municipal Accountability Act, 2026 (Bill 9)
  - second reading, 957
- Ontario Energy Board (OEB)
  - hearing procedures, 1950
- Opposition day motions
  - Hospital funding,
    - responded to, 567–569
- Petitions
  - Interprovincial trade, 1583–1584
- Plan to Protect Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2026 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 3319
- Police services
  - victim support services, 2106
- Protect Ontario by Building Faster and Smarter Act, 2025 (Bill 17)
  - second reading, 880
- Protect Ontario by Securing Affordable Energy for Generations Act, 2025 (Bill 40)
  - second reading, 1944, 1949–1950, 1952, 1980–1981
- Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
  - second reading, 195–198
  - statements by stakeholders, 196
- Protecting Ontario’s Food Independence Act, 2026 (Bill 109)
  - second reading, 4714
- Protecting Ontario’s Streets and Communities Act, 2026 (Bill 119)
  - second reading, 4996
- Putting Student Achievement First Act, 2026 (Bill 101)
  - second reading, 3758
  - third reading, 4171, 4187
- Question period
  - Automotive industry
    - responded to, 313–314, 317–318, 617–619, 4401–4402
  - Energy policies
    - presented, 1348–1349, 1520
  - Government accountability
    - responded to, 1048–1049, 1054, 1904–1905, 2152, 2475–2476, 2534, 2733–2734, 4541
  - Government jet
    - responded to, 3906
  - Impaired drivers
    - presented, 2268–2269
  - Nuclear energy
    - presented, 4598
  - Ontario economy
    - presented, 266
  - Unemployment
    - responded to, 3353–3354, 3356, 3360
- Sexual violence and harassment - children and youth
  - sharing of explicit images, 2106
- Special economic zones
  - in other jurisdictions, 1054
- Students
  - mental health, 4187
- Tariffs - United States
  - general remarks, 195, 314
  - and special economic zones, 1048–1049
- Tariffs - United States, government strategy
  - general remarks, 266
- Transit
  - fare system integration
    - One Fare program, 4618
- Transit development
  - government funding, 4618
- Tributes
  - Hickey, Shannan, 796
- Water treatment infrastructure - municipal service corporations
  - general remarks, 4615–4617, 4619
Anand, D. (PC, Mississauga—Malton)
- Adoption
  - accountability and oversight, 4997
- Automobile thefts
  - Major Auto Theft Prosecution Response Team, 537–538
- Bail program - verification and supervision
  - offender monitoring, 537
- Better Regional Governance Act, 2026 (Bill 100)
  - second reading, 3919–3923
- Budget 2025/2026
  - post-secondary education, 900–901
- Budget speech 2026 (March 26, 2026),
  - responded to, 3828
- Building Homes and Improving Transportation Infrastructure Act, 2026 (Bill 98)
  - second reading, 3585
  - third reading, 4618
- Business
  - government funding, 2314
    - Ontario Together Trade Fund, 2332–2333
- Business environment
  - competitiveness, 344
  - government strategy, 348
- Business - local
  - promotion, 1280
- Children and youth in care
  - education and awareness
    - Children and Youth in Care Day, 796
- Colleges and universities
  - role, 900
  - statistics, 900
- Crime
  - prevalence, 535
- Driving - dangerous
  - regulation and enforcement, 3131
- Economic development
  - government strategy, 2331
- Education
  - government strategy, 1734
- Emergency management
  - government strategy, 1674–1676
  - Ontario Corps, 1674
- Emergency Management Modernization Act, 2025 (Bill 25)
  - consultations, 1566
  - second reading, 1566, 1674–1676
- Employment
  - creation and loss, 2314
- Employment services - training and retraining
  - special economic zones, 900–901
- Energy conservation
  - efficiency programs, 2332
- Energy policy
  - access to grid, conditional
    - data centres, 1939, 1941
  - government strategy, 1939
- Environmental protection
  - government strategy, 344
- Ethnic Media and Community Media Appreciation Week Act, 2026 (Bill 120)
  - first reading, 4747
- Film and television industry
  - tax credits, 2667
- Government orders
  - Committee sittings,
    - amendment to the amendment,
      - responded to, 2142–2144
- Greenhouse gas emissions. See also Climate change
  - Ontario emissions, Climate change; Ontario emissions, page 1941">1941
- Health care - primary
  - government strategy, 548
  - team-based, 663
- Health information
  - protection of privacy, 600
- Highways and roads - traffic congestion
  - economic impact, 320
  - general remarks, 320
- Housing supply
  - government strategy, 2332–2333
- Housing - taxation
  - HST rebates, 2333
- Human trafficking
  - coerced debts, protection from, 536
  - law enforcement
    - intelligence gathering, hotels and related businesses, 536
- Human trafficking - sex trafficking
  - children and youth
    - Ontario Sex Offender Registry, 536
- Indigenous communities - economic development
  - government funding, 901
- Infrastructure development - funding
  - general remarks, 2314
- Interprovincial trade - barriers
  - impact, 1280
- Intimate partner violence
  - culture, 2143
  - endemic declaration, 2143–2144
  - genders affected, 2143
  - government response, 536
  - non-reported, 2143
- Intimate partner violence - perpetrators
  - restraining orders, 536
- Intimate partner violence - prevention
  - government strategy, 2144
- Invest Ontario
  - government funding, 901
- Judicial appointments
  - process, 538
- Justice centres
  - facilities, development, 537
  - role, 536–537
- Keeping Criminals Behind Bars Act, 2026 (Bill 75)
  - second reading, 3131
  - third reading, 4467
- Licence plates
  - validation stickers
    - annual renewal fees, 2315
- Long-term care - staff
  - recruitment and retention
    - government strategy, 2332
- Manufacturing industry
  - Ontario Made Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit, 2315
- Members' statements
  - Children and Youth in Care Day, 796
  - Fairfax Centre for Free Enterprise, 4734
  - German Canadian Club Hansa, 1640
  - Hindu Heritage Month, 2148
  - Holiday messages, 2903
  - Ontario film and television industry, 2667
  - Pharmacists, 3093
  - Ronald McDonald House, 3553
  - Spirit Para Sport Association, 2903
  - Vision Health Month, 310, 4137
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 899
- Mining industry
  - approvals and permits process, 2315
  - international involvement
    - limitation of, 343
  - regulatory environment, 342–343
    - other jurisdictions, 343
  - regulatory reform, 343
- Mining industry - processing
  - Critical Minerals Processing Fund, 2315
- More Convenient Care Act, 2025 (Bill 11)
  - second reading, 600
- Municipal Accountability Act, 2026 (Bill 9)
  - third reading, 4765
- Municipal governance
  - general remarks, 3920–3921
- Municipal infrastructure
  - government funding, 2332
- Offenders
  - high-risk offenders registry
    - public access, 4946
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates
  - increase, 2333
- Optometry and optometrists
  - OHIP-covered services, 310
- Peel region - public service restructuring
  - general remarks, 2728–2729, 2748–2750
  - municipal independence, 2751
- Peel Transition Implementation Act, 2025 (Bill 45)
  - consultations, public, 2750–2751
  - second reading, 2724, 2728–2729, 2748–2751, 2755
- Petitions
  - Economic development, 2683
  - International trade, 1461, 1654, 1914
  - Interprovincial trade, 1125, 2096–2097, 2165, 2275
  - Ontario economy, 3636, 3702–3703, 3777–3778, 3852, 3916, 4217–4218
  - Taxation, 325
- Plan to Protect Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2025 (Bill 24)
  - second reading, 795, 899–901
- Plan to Protect Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2025 (No. 2) (Bill 68)
  - second reading, 2314–2315, 2331–2334
- Plan to Protect Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2026 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 3279
- Post-secondary education
  - admissions criteria, 1736
  - ancillary fees, 1735
  - government funding, 1701, 1735
  - government strategy, 1701–1702
- Post-secondary education - funding
  - general remarks, 2737
  - research and development, 1701–1702
- Primary Care Act, 2025 (Bill 13)
  - second reading, 548, 663
- Protect Ontario by Cutting Red Tape Act, 2025 (Bill 46)
  - second reading, 2186, 2203–2204
- Protect Ontario by Securing Affordable Energy for Generations Act, 2025 (Bill 40)
  - second reading, 1932, 1937–1941
- Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5)
  - consultations, Indigenous, 345
  - second reading, 339, 342–345, 347
- Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
  - third reading, 1105, 1186
- Protect Ontario Through Safer Streets and Stronger Communities Act, 2025 (Bill 10)
  - second reading, 534–538
- Protecting Ontario’s Streets and Communities Act, 2026 (Bill 119)
  - second reading, 4937, 4946, 4997
- Putting Student Achievement First Act, 2026 (Bill 101)
  - second reading, 3646, 3737, 3753, 3759
- Question period
  - Economic development
    - presented, 1280
  - Government investments
    - presented, 4143
  - Mining industry
    - presented, 4981
  - Nuclear energy
    - presented, 4981
  - Public transit
    - presented, 2798–2799
  - Small business
    - presented, 1776, 4073
  - Transportation infrastructure
    - presented, 320–321
  - University and college funding
    - responded to, 2737
- Regional governance
  - Regional Municipality of Niagara, 3922
- Resource Management and Safety Act, 2025 (Bill 27)
  - second reading, 1992
- Restraining orders
  - enforcement
    - outside of Ontario, 4937
- Ring of Fire development
  - general remarks, 2315
- School facilities
  - school resource officers, 1734
- Schools
  - attendance, 3646, 3737
- Sexual violence and harassment
  - Sexual Violence Advisory Group, 536
- Skilled trades
  - reputation, 1478–1479
- Skills Development Fund
  - impact, 1464, 2332
- Small- and medium-sized businesses
  - taxation, 4073
- Special economic zones
  - and duty to consult, 344
- Supporting Children and Students Act, 2025 (Bill 33)
  - second reading, 1701–1702, 1733–1736
- Tariffs - United States
  - general remarks, 342
  - mining industry, 504
- Tariffs - United States, government strategy
  - general remarks, 2314
- Teachers
  - education and training, 3759
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 504, 508, 515, 519
- 2343967 Ontario Inc. Act, 2026 (Bill Pr49)
  - first reading, 3850
- Water treatment infrastructure - municipal service corporations
  - general remarks, 3585
- Working for Workers Seven Act, 2025 (Bill 30)
  - second reading, 1464, 1473, 1476–1479
- Workplace health and safety
  - general remarks, 1477
Armstrong, T.J. (NDP, London—Fanshawe)
- Affordable housing
  - government strategy, 2964–2965
- Animal welfare
  - medical research, invasive, 4507
- Bail hearings
  - delays, 4508
- Bail program
  - general remarks, 3183
  - sureties
    - cash, 3144, 4507–4508, 4516
- Bail program - verification and supervision
  - programs, 4508–4510
- Better Regional Governance Act, 2026 (Bill 100)
  - committee process, 4371
  - second reading, 3918, 3932, 3935
  - third reading, 4369–4373, 4376
- Building Billy Bishop Airport Act, 2026 (Bill 110)
  - second reading, 4225, 4237
- Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement (CWELCC)
  - negotiation, 1454
- Developmental services
  - government funding, 4092
- Drugs - illegal
  - prevention
    - government strategy, 5023
- Early childhood educators (ECEs)
  - recruitment and retention
    - compensation, role, 1454
- Emergency management
  - government strategy, 2701–2702
  - ministerial authority, 2702
- Emergency Management Modernization Act, 2025 (Bill 25)
  - third reading, 2701–2702
- Employment standards
  - talent agencies, 4092
  - uniforms, required
    - compensation, 4092
- Employment standards - wage theft
  - recovery, 4092
- Energy industry
  - privatization, 1864
- Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act, 2025 (Bill 60)
  - second reading, 1852, 1861, 1863–1866, 1869
  - statements by stakeholders, 1865–1866, 1869
- Gender-based violence - prevention
  - community services, 2588
- Government accountability and transparency
  - general remarks, 4092–4093, 4371
- Government finances
  - general remarks, 4372–4373
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - accountability and oversight, 3918
- Health information
  - Electronic Health Record
    - patient access, 595
- Hospitals
  - staff loss, 3770–3771
- Keeping Criminals Behind Bars Act, 2026 (Bill 75)
  - second reading, 3144, 3183
  - third reading, 4507–4510, 4516
- Land use planning
  - regulations, 183
- Land use planning - environmental assessments
  - accountability and transparency, 4082
  - flood risks, 4093
  - regulatory reform, 4092
- Members' statements
  - Ark Aid Mission, 3964
  - Child care, 4589
  - Education funding, 2406
  - Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, 3348
  - Elevator maintenance, 484–485
  - Health care, 147–148, 1899
  - Housing, 2964–2965
  - Worth Fighting For campaign, 4136
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 4092
- More Convenient Care Act, 2025 (Bill 11)
  - second reading, 595
- Municipal Accountability Act, 2026 (Bill 9)
  - second reading, 925
- Municipal councillors - removal
  - general remarks, 925
- New Democratic Party (NDP)
  - housing policy, 1865
- Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP)
  - service coverage, 147–148
- Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP)
  - grant-to-loan ratio, 3166–3167
- Peel Transition Implementation Act, 2025 (Bill 45)
  - consultations, public, 2754
  - second reading, 2754, 2763–2764
  - legal immunity, 2764
- Pension Benefits Guarantee Fund (PBGF)
  - history, 1248
- Pension plans
  - protections, 1247–1248
    - bankruptcy, 1118
    - employer bankruptcy, 387–388
- Petitions
  - Education funding, 3169
  - Health care workers, 4684
  - Social assistance, 162, 2274
- Plan to Protect Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2026 (Bill 97)
  - third reading, 4050
- Post-secondary education
  - admissions criteria, 1736–1737
  - ancillary fees, 1736
  - government funding, 1736
  - government strategy, 1737
- Post-secondary education - funding
  - research and development, 1737
- Private members' public business
  - Gender-based violence,
    - responded to, 2588
  - Pension plans,
    - presented, 1247–1249
    - responded to, 1252–1253
  - Remembrance Day Observance Act, 2025 (Bill 65)
    - second reading, 2511–2512
- Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5)
  - committee, 283
  - consultations, 349, 354–355
  - consultations, Indigenous, 354
  - second reading, 283, 349, 353–356
- Protecting Ontario’s Streets and Communities Act, 2026 (Bill 119)
  - second reading, 5018, 5023
- Protecting Ontario’s Workers and Economic Resilience Act, 2026 (Bill 105)
  - second reading, 4082, 4089, 4091–4093
- Public safety officers
  - Constable Joe MacDonald Public Safety Officers' Survivors Scholarship Fund, 4510
- Question period
  - Child care
    - presented, 1454
  - Health care
    - presented, 3975–3976
  - Health care funding
    - presented, 3409
  - Hospital funding
    - presented, 3770–3771
  - Pension plans
    - presented, 387–388, 1118
  - Student assistance
    - presented, 3166–3167
- Regional governance
  - government strategy, 4373
- Regional governance - chairs
  - election vs. appointment, 3932, 4369–4370
    - statements by stakeholders, 4369
- Rental housing
  - elevators
    - maintenance and repair, 484–485
- Safer Municipalities Act, 2025 (Bill 6)
  - second reading, 411, 642
- School buses
  - government funding, 2406
- Skills Development Fund
  - accountability and transparency, 4050
- Special economic zones
  - accountability and oversight, 353, 355
  - environmental protection, 355
  - statements by stakeholders, 353–354
- Supporting Children and Students Act, 2025 (Bill 33)
  - second reading, 1736–1737
- Surgical procedures
  - Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome care, 3409
  - wait-time
    - public vs. private, 3975–3976
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 173, 183
- Unhoused persons
  - incarceration, 411
- Unhoused persons - support programs and services
  - demand, 642
  - by site
    - House of Hope (London)
      - government funding, 5018
- Unions
  - collective agreements
    - open periods, 4089
- Veterans - commemoration
  - moments of silence, 2512
  - Remembrance Day and Remembrance Week
    - education and awareness, 2511–2512
- Water treatment infrastructure - municipal service corporations
  - legal immunity, 1861
  - as privatization, 1864–1865
  - public ownership, 1863–1864
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) - benefits and coverage
  - workers over 65, 4093

Last updated Monday, October 26, 2026

House speaker index

Letter: A

Allsopp, T. (PC, Bay of Quinte)

Anand, D. (PC, Mississauga—Malton)

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