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Letter: J

Jones, Hon. S. (PC, Dufferin—Caledon)
- Agri-food industry
  - government strategy, 3977
- Budget 2026/2027
  - health care
    - hospitals, 3353
- Building a More Competitive Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 56)
  - second reading, 1441–1444
- Consumption and treatment services
  - Homeless and Addiction Recovery Treatment (HART) Hubs, 2914
- Doctors
  - regional shortages
    - northern Ontario, 483
- Doctors - education and training
  - internationally trained, 541–542
- Fertility services
  - northern Ontario, 1909–1910
- Hamilton
  - Board of Health, 476
- Health care
  - access
    - northern Ontario, 3012–3013
  - capital projects, 1353
  - duty to provide, 547–548
  - general remarks, 1350
  - government strategy, 1148–1150, 3101, 3284, 4207
  - medical records
    - access, 770–771
- Health care funding
  - general remarks, 1772, 1774, 3253–3254
  - inflation, 1772
- Health care - government funding
  - emergency care, 709–710
- Health care - primary care
  - government funding, 475–476, 2369
    - call for proposals, 476
  - government strategy, 31–32, 539–541, 1773, 2034, 3405, 3407–3408
  - objectives, 540
  - Philpott, Dr. Jane, 540
  - Primary Care Action Plan
    - accountability and transparency, 540
  - rostering
    - goals, 3285
    - statistics, 3289
  - team-based, 1117
    - government funding, 2612
- Health care services
  - clinics, service fees
    - OHIP-funded services, 1771
  - French-language services
    - government strategy, 2612
- Health care system
  - boards of health
    - Hamilton, 476
  - emergency rooms
    - closures, 705
  - government strategy, 3975–3976
- Health care workers
  - education and training, 541–542
  - labour disputes, 2368–2369
  - scope of practice, expansion, 476
  - temporary staff agencies, 476
- Health care workers - recruitment and retention
  - as-of-right initiative
    - interprovincial credentials, 1441–1443
  - education and training, 1442, 2267
  - general remarks, 476
  - government strategy, 1117, 2910–2911
  - underserved regions, 1442
- Health care workers - recruitment and retention - international
  - credential recognition, 1441, 2268
  - residency match
    - prioritization, 1444, 2267
- Health Connect Ontario
  - Health811 service, 477
- Health information
  - digital health identifiers, 477
  - Electronic Health Record, 477
    - patient access, 477–478
  - protection of privacy, 478, 484
- Home and community care
  - accountability and oversight, 3483–3484
- Hospital services - emergency
  - care models, programs, 1353
  - wait-time, 3624
- Hospitals
  - capital projects, 3353, 3487, 3698, 4473
  - government funding, 1775, 2480, 3014–3015, 3159, 3260, 3770
  - government strategy, 2484
  - parking fees, 386, 1117
  - staff loss, 2613, 3405
- Hospitals - budgets
  - government strategy, 2614, 4142
- Hospitals - by region
  - Niagara Health
    - urgent care centres, 706
- Hospitals - by site
  - capital projects
    - Mississauga Hospital, 1519
  - Kingston Hospital, 3259
  - Michael Garron Hospital, 3412–3413, 3623
- Hospitals - capacity and overcrowding
  - government strategy, 435–436, 3352–3353, 3560–3561
- Hospitals - construction and expansion - by site
  - Queensway Carlton Hospital
    - government funding, 556
- Hospitals - funding by site
  - Welland Hospital, 386
- Hospitals - infrastructure
  - government funding, 710, 769
  - as nation-building, 552
- Immunization
  - vaccines
    - hepatitis B virus, 483
- Indigenous communities
  - First Nations police services
    - mental health, 554
- Infrastructure development - funding
  - federal funds, allocation, 488
- Laboratory services
  - LifeLabs
    - Quest acquisition, 2910, 3215, 3912
- Measles
  - outbreaks
    - government response, 29–30, 323, 488–489
- Medical Officers of Health
  - class orders by local medical officers
    - Chief Medical Officer approval, 476, 478
- Members'/ministers' correction of record, 1846
- Mental health and addictions services
  - Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment (HART) Hubs, 483, 1346–1347, 1519–1520
    - implementation, 1347
- More Convenient Care Act, 2025 (Bill 11)
  - first reading, 324
  - second reading, 475–478, 483–484
  - third reading, 1148–1150
- Nurse practitioner-led clinics
  - vs. team-based primary care, 3285
- Nurse practitioners
  - education and training, 542
  - as primary caregivers
    - OHIP coverage, 708
  - recruitment and retention, 3163, 3285, 3406–3407, 3477–3478
  - scope of practice
    - mandatory blood reporting, 476
- Nurses
  - recruitment and retention, 484, 711–712, 1840–1841, 2484, 3160, 3253, 3404, 3771, 3844, 4472–4473
    - government funding, 1775
    - private staffing agencies, 619
      - vs. public nurses, 551, 714
- Nurses - temporary agencies
  - accountability and oversight
    - fees, disclosure, 477
- Ontario Drug Benefit Program
  - eligibility, 976
- Ontario Health atHome
  - and French Language Services Act, 476
- Patient Ombudsman
  - role of, 2269–2270
- Pediatric hospitals
  - government strategy, 1842
  - SickKids
    - recognition, 1842
- Personal health information
  - access, 1148–1149, 1213–1214
- Primary Care Act, 2025 (Bill 13)
  - first reading, 437
  - second reading, 539–542, 547–548
- Public health
  - government funding, 709
  - measles, 206–207, 209
- Question period
  - Addiction services
    - responded to, 1346–1347, 1519–1520, 2913
  - Agri-food industry
    - responded to, 3260
  - Children's health services
    - responded to, 1842
  - Fertility services
    - responded to, 1909–1910
  - First Nations police services
    - responded to, 554–555
  - Foreign-trained doctors
    - responded to, 2267
  - French-language health services
    - responded to, 2612
  - Government accountability
    - responded to, 709
  - Government investments
    - responded to, 769–770
  - Government spending
    - responded to, 32, 2480
  - Health care
    - responded to, 551–552, 619–620, 1117, 1350, 1771, 2034, 2910–2911, 3070–3071, 3289, 3405–3406, 3408, 3975–3976
  - Health care funding
    - responded to, 435–436, 556, 706–707, 709–710, 714, 1771–1775, 2484, 3014–3015, 3163, 3409, 3560–3561, 3844
  - Health care workers
    - responded to, 1773
  - Home care
    - responded to, 211, 3483–3484
  - Hospital funding
    - responded to, 552–553, 711, 2613–2614, 3101, 3253–3254, 3259–3260, 3352–3353, 3404–3405, 3412–3413, 3623–3624, 3698, 3770–3771, 4207
  - Hospital parking fees
    - responded to, 386, 1117
  - Hospital services
    - responded to, 386, 705–706, 1352–1353, 3159–3160, 3487, 4142
  - Infrastructure funding
    - responded to, 487–488
  - Laboratory services
    - responded to, 3214, 3912
  - Labour dispute
    - responded to, 2368–2369
  - Long-term care
    - responded to, 2269–2270
  - Northern health services
    - responded to, 3012–3013
  - Nurse practitioners
    - responded to, 708, 3285, 3406–3407, 3477–3478
  - Nurses
    - responded to, 560, 711–712, 1775–1776, 1840–1841
  - Nursing agencies
    - responded to, 714
  - Ontario budget
    - responded to, 3284
  - Ontario economy
    - responded to, 1519
  - Pharmacare
    - responded to, 976
  - Protection of privacy
    - responded to, 770–771, 1213–1214
  - Public health
    - responded to, 29–30, 206–207, 209–210, 323, 488–489
- Surgical procedures
  - Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome care, 3409
Jones, Hon. T. (PC, Chatham-Kent—Leamington)
- Agriculture industry
  - general remarks, 3260
  - government funding, 2537–2538, 2540
  - government strategy, 212, 2539
  - Risk Management Program (RMP)
    - government funding, 3260, 4479
- Agriculture industry - food processing
  - Grow Ontario Strategy, 913
- Agri-food industry
  - government strategy, 1389–1390, 4147
  - Grow Ontario Strategy, 213
  - Ontario Food Terminal, 3481–3482
  - research, innovation and technology, 4479
- Budget 2026/2027
  - agriculture, 3602–3603, 3605
  - firefighting, 3606
- Budget speech 2026 (March 26, 2026),
  - responded to, 3602–3603, 3605–3606
- Building Homes and Improving Transportation Infrastructure Act, 2026 (Bill 98)
  - second reading, 3594
- Emergency management
  - government strategy, 2711–2712
- Emergency Management Modernization Act, 2025 (Bill 25)
  - second reading, 1662, 1672
  - third reading, 2711–2712
- Food prices
  - factors affecting, 434
- Oil and gas wells
  - government strategy, 1992–1993
- Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
  - third reading, 1192
- Protecting Ontario’s Food Independence Act, 2026 (Bill 109)
  - first reading, 3977–3978
  - second reading, 4105–4109, 4113–4114
- Question period
  - Agriculture and food processing industries
    - responded to, 2539–2540
  - Agriculture industry
    - responded to, 2537–2538
  - Agri-food industry
    - responded to, 913, 1389–1390, 4147
  - Assistance to farmers
    - responded to, 212–213
  - Consumer protection
    - responded to, 435
  - Land use planning
    - responded to, 624, 3481–3482, 3977
- Resource Management and Safety Act, 2025 (Bill 27)
  - second reading, 1992–1994
- Special economic zones
  - farmland, 624
- Wildland fire management
  - government strategy, 1994
Jordan, J. (PC, Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston)
- Agriculture industry
  - government strategy, 212
- Agri-food industry
  - Grow Ontario Strategy, 213
  - maple syrup, 21
- Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport
  - expansion
    - economic impact, 4328
- Budget 2025/2026
  - health care, 1012
- Budget speech 2025 (May 15, 2025),
  - responded to, 1012, 1016–1017
- Building Billy Bishop Airport Act, 2026 (Bill 110)
  - second reading, 4324, 4328
- Building Homes and Improving Transportation Infrastructure Act, 2026 (Bill 98)
  - second reading, 3426, 3443
- Business - small and medium-sized
  - government strategy, 912
  - and United States tariffs
    - government strategy, 911
- Community health centres (CHCs)
  - general remarks, 747
- Doctors - primary care
  - recruitment and retention, 4075
- Employment
  - advertisements
    - fraudulent, prevention, 1472
- Employment standards
  - workplace safety, 1477
- Government notices of motion
  - Reappointment of Chief Medical Officer of Health (carried)
    - responded to, 3187–3188
- Health care
  - by region
    - Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, 751
  - statistics, 748
- Health care facilities - by site
  - North Lanark Community Health Centre, 1155
- Health care funding
  - general remarks, 747–748
- Health care - primary care
  - government funding
    - call for proposals, 748
  - government strategy, 545, 1154–1155
    - retention, 4001
    - stakeholder statements, 545–546
  - Primary Care Action Plan, 748
- Health care system
  - boards of health
    - Hamilton, 749
- Health care workers - recruitment and retention
  - as-of-right initiative, 3999–4000
  - education and training, 3999
  - government strategy, 748
  - statistics, 748
- Health care workers - recruitment and retention - international
  - credential recognition, 2216
  - Practice Ready Ontario program, 3999
  - residency match
    - prioritization, 3999, 4001
- Health information
  - Electronic Health Record
    - patient access, 749
- Hospitals - by site
  - Kingston Hospital, 4001
- Housing development - northern and rural Ontario
  - communal water and waste water systems, 3443
- Iamgold Corporation
  - legal liability
    - Superior Corporate Services Ltd., royalty dispute, 2219–2220
- International trade - tariffs, United States
  - economy, impact
    - rural Ontario, 1216
  - reactions
    - time sensitivity, 297
- Intimate partner violence
  - restraining orders, 534
- Labour policy
  - interprovincial mobility, 242
- Land use planning
  - approvals and permits, 2218
- Landfills
  - expansion, regulations, 4002
- Long-term care
  - care environment
    - Patient Ombudsman's report, 2269
- Long-term care - accountability and oversight
  - compliance and enforcement data publication
    - retention period, 2216
- Long-term care - beds, development and redevelopment
  - general remarks, 748
- Long-term care - COVID-19
  - impact of, 2219
- Long-term care - staff
  - recruitment and retention
    - government strategy, 1016–1017
- Medical Officers of Health
  - class orders by local medical officers
    - Chief Medical Officer approval, 749–750
- Members' statements
  - Autism treatment, 2149
  - Firefighters, 3551–3552
  - Government investments, 970
  - King Charles III Coronation Medal, 1762
  - Maple heritage, 21
  - Mental health and addiction services, 3400
  - Ontario Trillium Foundation grants, 426
  - Small business, 2787
- Mental health and addictions services
  - Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment (HART) Hubs
    - by site, Lanark Leeds and Grenville, 3400
- Mining industry.
  - approvals and permits process
    - government strategy, 2218
- More Convenient Care Act, 2025 (Bill 11)
  - second reading, 747–751
- Nurse practitioners
  - scope of practice
    - expansion, 749–750
    - mandatory blood reporting, 749
- Nurses - temporary agencies
  - accountability and oversight
    - fees, disclosure, 749
- Ontario Autism Program (OAP)
  - government funding, 2149
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates
  - and Canada Disability Benefit, 2217
- Ontario Health atHome
  - and French Language Services Act, 749
- Parks
  - alcohol consumption, 2218
- Personal information
  - Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA), 2219
- Petitions
  - International trade, 1526
- Pharmacists and pharmacies
  - MedsCheck program, 750
- Plan to Protect Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2026 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 3393
- Primary care.
  - government strategy, 4075
- Primary Care Act, 2025 (Bill 13)
  - second reading, 545–546, 674
  - third reading, 1154–1155
- Private members' public business
  - Rural Ontario,
    - responded to, 3387
  - Trail permits,
    - responded to, 1748
  - Water services,
    - responded to, 2299–2300
- Protect Ontario by Cutting Red Tape Act, 2025 (Bill 46)
  - second reading, 2216–2220
- Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5)
  - second reading, 297
- Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
  - second reading, 242
- Protect Ontario Through Safer Streets and Stronger Communities Act, 2025 (Bill 10)
  - second reading, 534
- Protecting Ontario’s Workers and Economic Resilience Act, 2026 (Bill 105)
  - second reading, 3998–4002
- Putting Student Achievement First Act, 2026 (Bill 101)
  - second reading, 3679, 3732
- Question period
  - Assistance to farmers
    - presented, 212–213
  - Bail reform
    - presented, 3486–3487
  - Health care
    - presented, 2678–2679
    - responded to, 4075
  - Long-term care
    - responded to, 2269
  - Ontario economy
    - presented, 2085
  - Rural Ontario
    - presented, 1216–1217
  - Small business
    - presented, 911–912, 1651
- Regulations
  - reduction, 3998
    - government strategy, 2217
    - monetary value, 2219
    - time impact, 2216–2217
- Rental housing
  - regulatory reform, 2218
- Resource Management and Safety Act, 2025 (Bill 27)
  - second reading, 1311
- Retirement homes
  - accountability and oversight, 4002
- School boards
  - accountability and oversight, 3679
  - chief executive officer model, 3732
- Sports and recreation
  - off-road vehicles (ORVs)
    - one-permit system
      - economic impact, 1748
- Strong mayor system
  - expansion, 2217
- Tourism industry - funding
  - Experience Ontario, 970
- Water treatment infrastructure
  - communal waste water system, 2299
    - statements by stakeholders, 2300
- Wildland fire management
  - resource sharing, 1311
- Working for Workers Seven Act, 2025 (Bill 30)
  - second reading, 1472, 1477
- Workplace safety
  - propane tank purging, 2217

Last updated Wednesday, May 13, 2026

House speaker index

Letter: J

Jones, Hon. S. (PC, Dufferin—Caledon)

Jones, Hon. T. (PC, Chatham-Kent—Leamington)

Jordan, J. (PC, Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston)