Intervenant, lettre v, Index du Journal des débats de la Chambre, législature 42, session 1

Index des intervenants à la Chambre

Letter: V

Vanthof, J. (NDP, Timiskaming–Cochrane)
- Access to Natural Gas Act, 2018 (Bill 32)
  - second reading, 1852, 1860–1861, 1863
  - third reading, 2674–2675, 2846
- Agricultural land
  - alternate uses, environmental preservation and services, 1289–1290
- Agriculture industry
  - regulations, 2755–2756
  - regulatory reform, 5830
- Agriculture industry - support programs
  - risk management programs
    - cap on, 6867
- Agri-food industry
  - biosecurity, 6803–6804
  - disease outbreaks, 6803
  - Foodland Ontario program, 1121
  - whistle-blower protection, 6806–6808, 6816
- Agri-food premises - security from trespass
  - animal protection zones
    - general remarks, 6804–6805
  - owners/occupiers
    - right to carry out arrest, 6805–6806, 6824
  - vs. right to protest, 6802–6803
  - vs. transparency, 6804, 6806
  - trespassing offences
    - under duress/false pretense, 6806–6807
    - limitation on proceedings, 6806–6807, 6816, 6820
- Alcohol retail - buck-a-beer
  - incentives, 677, 729
  - via minimum price floor, 729
- Alcohol retail - expansion
  - consultation, 5491
- Ambulance services
  - amalgamation, 4446–4447
- Animal protection system
  - government funding, 6641
- Animal protection system - reform
  - consultation process, 5457
  - interim period
    - ministerial authority
      - appointment of chief inspector, 5456
    - resource allocation, 5456
- Animal welfare inspectors
  - training
    - general remarks, 6640–6641
    - livestock, 6642
- Animal welfare - livestock
  - farmers
    - training, 5456
  - general remarks, 6640
  - role of farm organizations, 5456
- Animal welfare offences
  - "distress," definition of, 6642
- Animal welfare offences - penalties
  - major offences, 6641
- Assistive Devices Program (ADP)
  - wait times, 1793
- Automated external defibrillators (AEDs)
  - public registry, 6241
- Beer Store, The - master framework agreement cancellation
  - and business environment, 5491
  - consultation, 5574
  - general remarks, 5573
- Bees Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. B.6
  - general remarks, 5831
- Better for People, Smarter for Business Act, 2019 (Bill 132)
  - second reading, 5829–5833
- Better Local Government Act, 2018 (Bill 5)
  - time allocation motion
    - amendment
      - responded to, 728–729, 767, 788
    - amendment to the amendment
      - presented, 729
- Blair, Brad
  - termination of, 3468
- Bringing Choice and Fairness to the People Act (Beverage Alcohol Retail Sales), 2019 (Bill 115)
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 5491–5492
  - third reading, 5573–5574
- Broadband access
  - economic impact, 2331–2332, 2336
  - as essential service, 2331–2332
  - impact on business environment, 2332
  - in northern and rural Ontario, 2331–2332, 4228
  - in schools, 2332
- Building construction, truss and lightweight (TLC)
  - identification, in case of fire, 1506–1507
- Building Transit Faster Act, 2020 (Bill 171)
  - second reading, 7193–7196
- Business
  - capital cost depreciation rate, 4538
- Cabinet ministers
  - business assets in trust, 6219
- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
  - duty to protect, 2954
- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms - s.33: notwithstanding clause
  - government use of, 989
  - historical use, 989
  - threshold for use, 989
- Cap and Trade Cancellation Act, 2018 (Bill 4)
  - second reading, 852, 863
- Cap-and-trade cancellation - economic impact
  - general remarks, 811–812
- Carbon tax (federal)
  - cost of, disclosure
    - on gas pumps, 4492
- Class sizes - increase
  - class stacking, 4135, 4227, 4583
  - general remarks, 4583–4584
- Climate change
  - and agriculture industry, 1290
  - extreme weather due to, 4920
  - extreme weather due to, northern Ontario, 852
  - general remarks, 3141
  - in northern Ontario, 5001
- Committee process
  - and public consultation, 219, 288, 728–729
- Comprehensive Ontario Police Services Act, 2019 (Bill 68)
  - second reading, 3318–3319
- Crown liability
  - scope
    - legal challenge, 6463
- Crystal-Kirkland Mines, Limited Act, 2018 (Bill Pr1)
  - first reading, 1282
  - second reading, 2871
  - third reading, 2871
- Dairy industry
  - processing plant regulations, 3161
  - supply management, 63
- Debates re answers to question period
  - Government spending
    - presented, 4693–4694
- Disaster relief
  - access to, 4618–4619
- Education
  - e-learning credit requirements, 4135, 4227–4228, 4584
  - staff-to-student ratio, 4583
- Education reform
  - student walkout (April 4, 2019), 4135
- Efficient Local Government Act, 2018 (Bill 31)
  - second reading, 988–989
- Electricity generation
  - percentage supplied by OPG, 2954
- Electricity rates
  - government strategy, 3141
  - reduction, financing for, 3141
  - time-of-use (TOU) pricing
    - general remarks, 3141
- Electricity supply - surplus
  - sale to other jurisdictions, 3141
- Emergency first responders
  - Public Safety Radio Network (PSRN), 4936
- Emergency services
  - availability of, 3318–3319
- Employment
  - job vacancies, 4538
- Farm organizations
  - registration with, 3162
- Farmers
  - mental health of, 4407–4408
- Farming
  - mycotoxin contamination
    - impact on crop viability, 2205
    - production insurance, 2205
- Farms
  - electronic registration, 3161
  - public tours, 6804–6805
  - trespass on, 5457
  - trespassing incidents, 6804
- French, Dean
  - conduct of, 2200
- French-language debates
  - Déclarations des députées et députés
    - Affaires francophones, 2523
    - Subventions destinées à l'éducation, 4135
  - Jour de l'opposition
    - Services en français, 2709, 6197
  - Période de questions
    - Services en français, 2730
  - Pétitions
    - Sécurité routière, 5525
- Gas plant cancellations
  - cost of, 64, 220, 288
- Government advertising
  - oversight by Auditor General, 4940
- Government contracts - limited liability provisions
  - affected industries, 288–289
  - effect on business environment, 220–222, 289–290
  - no litigation clauses, 288
- Government downsizing
  - consultation process
    - Toronto City Council, 767, 788
- Government finances
  - pre-budget consultations, 2954
- Government finances - line-by-line review
  - selection of auditors, 63–64
- Government notice of motions
  - Select Committee on Financial Transparency
    - time allocation motion
      - amendment
        presented, 1260–1261
      - responded to, 1259–1260
- Government orders
  - Select Committee on Financial Transparency
    - amendment
      - responded to, 1220–1222
  - Standing orders
    - amendment (carried)
      - responded to, 1658–1660
    - amendment to the amendment (lost)
      - responded to, 1140–1142
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2018)
    - fiscal policies, 1221
  - PC (2018-present)
    - energy, 3141
    - legislative process, 476, 1659, 3940
- Government services
  - front-line staff
    - loss through attrition, 2560
  - online delivery, northern and rural Ontario, 3940
- Green Energy Act, 2009, SO 2009, c 12, Schedule A
  - legislative precedence, 220
- Green Energy Repeal Act, 2018 (Bill 34)
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 1830
- Green Ontario Program (GreenON) cancellation
  - retrofit rebates
    - impact on consumers, 56
- Greenbelt
  - protection of, 3162
- Health care funding
  - general remarks, 2089
- Health care - northern Ontario
  - Northern Health Travel Grant, 6685
- Health care services - delivery
  - private vs. public, 3251, 4159
- Health care system - reform
  - consultation process, 3863–3864
- Hospital services
  - patient transfer
    - in northern Ontario, 3864
- Hospital transfers
  - critical situations, guaranteed care, 6654–6655
- Hospitals
  - closures and mergers, 2089
- Hospitals - overcrowding
  - general remarks, 2089
- Hydro One leadership - compensation reform
  - limited liability provision, 220
- Hydro One privatization
  - FAO review of, 292
- Indigenous communities - health care
  - government strategy, 3251
  - mental health services, children and youth, 3146
- Infrastructure - telecommunications
  - expansion, 2331
  - in other provinces, 2331
  - private sector development
    - general remarks, 2336
    - return on investment, 2332
- Labour relations
  - collective bargaining, 2954
- Labour Relations Amendment Act (Protecting Ontario's Power Supply), 2018 (Bill 67)
  - second reading, 2953–2955
- Legislation
  - of previous governments, 5574
- Legislative drafting
  - specificity in, 2675
- Legislative process
  - filibustering, 1141, 1659
  - general remarks, 1142
  - historically, 1141
  - House schedules
    - notice of, 1664
  - methods for expressing opposition, 1659
  - omnibus bills
    - relationship between schedules, 219
  - private members' business, 3360
  - time allocation, 219, 788, 1259–1261, 5491
- Livestock transport
  - biosecurity, 6805
- Local health integration networks (LHINs)
  - centralization under Ontario Health, 3251
- Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT)
  - french-language services, 4853–4854
- Managing Transformation: A Modernization Action Plan for Ontario (2018)
  - recommendations
    - re public assets, sale/lease of, 1222
- Meat processing facilities
  - closure, 6867
- Members' statements
  - Automobile insurance, 5961
  - Climate change, 4920
  - Consideration of Bill 156, 6519–6520
  - Dudley-Hewitt Cup, 4236
  - Education funding, 4135
  - Firefighting in northern Ontario, 22, 415–416
  - Government's agenda, 934
  - Mining industry, 3531–3532
  - Northern transportation, 1594–1595
  - Road safety, 7027
  - Snowmobiling, 2052
  - Temagami Country Christmas, 2864
- Members'/ministers' conduct
  - Premier, 1176–1177
- Members'/ministers' constituencies
  - Timiskaming–Cochrane, 6803
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 218
- Members/ministers quoting
  - other members, 4940
    - government finances, 1221
    - time allocation motions, 287–289, 728
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - withdrawn, 852
- Mental health care - children and youth
  - access to, 3146
- Mental health services - children and youth
  - wait times, 934
- Mining industry
  - permitting process, 3531–3532
  - regulatory environment, 3531–3532
- Ministerial statements
  - Health care
    - responded to, 3251
  - Mental health in agriculture
    - responded to, 4407–4408
  - Ontario Agriculture Week
    - responded to, 1444
- Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
  - budget, 4404, 6867
- More Homes, More Choice Act, 2019 (Bill 108)
  - second reading, 4853–4854
- Municipal planning
  - "open-for-business" by-law
    - municipal response, 3162
- Municipalities
  - government services, transfer of
    - energy contract cancellation costs, 288
  - provincial transfer payments, 4705–4706
  - provincial transfer payments, changes to, 4910–4911
- Natural gas - access to
  - in northern and rural Ontario, 1860
- Natural gas expansion
  - as incentive for development, 1861, 2674
  - program criteria
    - eligibility, 1861, 1863, 2674, 2846
  - program reach, 2675, 2846
  - target communities, 1852, 1861, 1863, 2675
- Natural gas expansion - cost of
  - funding source, 1860–1861
  - rate protection program
    - regulatory charge
      - amount, 1861, 2674
      - application, 1861
- Natural gas expansion - project approval
  - return on investment
    - for distributors, 1861, 2674
- Natural Gas Grant Program (NGGP)
  - cancellation, 1860
  - funding, 1860
- Neonicotinoid use
  - regulatory reform, 5831
- News media
  - Ontario News Now, 4693, 4940
- Newspapers
  - community and local
    - role of, 3940
- 911 services
  - access in northern Ontario, 4936, 6242
- North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
  - legal challenges under
    - Adams mine landfill site, 288
- Office of French Language Services Commissioner
  - transfer of role, 2730
- Officers of the Legislature
  - resources for, 1222
- Ontario Drug Benefit Program (ODBP)
  - review of, 2411
- Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP)
  - service coverage review, 4158
- Ontario Northland Transportation Commission (ONTC)
  - refurbishment shop, 5806
- Ontario Power Generation (OPG)
  - operations shutdown/start-up
    - timelines for, 2954
  - staff
    - recruitment and termination, 2200
- Ontario Power Generation (OPG) - collective bargaining (2018)
  - history of negotiations
    - government response to, 2954
  - strike, prohibition of
    - impact on collective bargaining process, 2954
    - as response to strike notice, 2954
- Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) - commissioner
  - appointment of Ron Taverner
    - investigation by Ombudsman, 2932
    - process independence, 3755–3756
    - process independence, disclosure by Brad Blair, 3468–3469
    - request for public inquiry, 3468–3469
    - request for review by justice committee, 3756
- Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Amendment Act (Interim Period), 2019 (Bill 117)
  - second reading, 5456–5457
- Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA)
  - enforcement of animal protection legislation
    - general remarks, 5456
    - geographic coverage, 5456
  - staff
    - training, 5456
- Ontario's Fair Hydro Plan
  - continuation of, 292
- Opposition day motions
  - Climate change
    - responded to, 5001
  - Education funding
    - responded to, 4583–4584
  - French-language services
    - responded to, 6197
- Opposition parties
  - role of, 1141, 1659
  - support for government policy, 2560
- Organic products
  - certification and labelling, 2755–2756
- Palliative care
  - access to
    - northern Ontario, 397
- The People's Health Care Act, 2019 (Bill 74)
  - time allocation motion
    - amendment
      - responded to, 3863–3864
  - legislative timeline, 3864
- Petitions
  - Education funding, 5476
  - Landfill, 1239–1240
  - Library services, 4985–4986, 5568
  - Men's mental health and addiction services, 3974, 4316, 7258
  - Public sector compensation, 5799
- Premier's Office
  - travel expenses, disclosure, 4663, 4693–4694
- Private members' public business
  - Alternate Land Use and Services Program for Agricultural Land Act, 2018 (Bill 28)
    - second reading, 1289–1291
  - Broadband service
    - presented, 2331–2332
    - responded to, 2336
  - Brunt and Kendall Act (Ensuring Safe Firefighter and Trainee Rescue Training), 2018 (Bill 10)
    - second reading, 2116–2117
  - Buy in Canada for Mass Transit Vehicles Act, 2019 (Bill 133)
    - second reading, 5806
  - Combating Antisemitism Act, 2020 (Bill 168)
    - second reading, 7268–7269
  - Compassionate Care Act, 2018 (Bill 3)
    - second reading, 396–397
  - Defibrillator Registration and Public Access Act, 2019 (Bill 141)
    - second reading, 6241–6242
  - End the Public Funding of Partisan Government Advertising Act, 2019 (Bill 101)
    - second reading, 4940
  - Human Rights Code Amendment Act (Genetic Characteristics), 2018 (Bill 40)
    - second reading, 1702–1703
  - Hydro rates
    - responded to, 3141
  - Making Northern Ontario Highways Safer Act, 2019 (Bill 125)
    - second reading, 6020
  - 9-1-1 Everywhere in Ontario Act, 2019 (Bill 75)
    - second reading, 4936
  - Northern Health Travel Grant Advisory Committee Act, 2019 (Bill 144)
    - second reading, 6685
  - Organic Products Act, 2018 (Bill 54)
    - second reading, 2755–2756
  - Rea and Walter Act (Truss and Lightweight Construction Identification), 2018 (Bill 33)
    - second reading, 1506–1507
  - Registered Professional Planners Act, 2019 (Bill 70)
    - second reading, 3360
  - Right to Timely Mental Health and Addiction Care for Children and Youth Act, 2019 (Bill 63)
    - second reading, 3146
  - Safeguarding our Information Act, 2018 (Bill 55)
    - second reading, 2750–2751
  - Supporting Ontario's Community, Rural and Agricultural Newspapers Act, 2019 (Bill 78)
    - second reading, 3940
- Protecting What Matters Most Act (Budget Measures), 2019 (Bill 100)
  - second reading, 4538
- Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth
  - transfer of oversight role, 2344
- Provincial Animal Welfare Services Act, 2019 (Bill 136)
  - third reading, 6640–6642
- Public accounts 2017-2018
  - review by Auditor General, 1221
- Public education campaigns - agriculture
  - Ontario Agriculture Week, 1444
- Question period
  - Ambulance services
    - presented, 4446–4447
  - Anti-racism activities
    - presented, 1176–1177
  - Assistance to farmers
    - presented, 2205, 6867
  - Assistive devices
    - presented, 1793
  - Beverage alcohol sales
    - presented, 677, 5505
  - Children's services
    - presented, 2344
  - Climate change
    - presented, 811–812
  - Disaster relief
    - presented, 4618–4619
  - Executive compensation
    - presented, 2200
  - Firefighting in northern Ontario
    - presented, 636–637
  - Food safety
    - presented, 7432–7433
  - Foodland Ontario
    - presented, 1121
  - French-language services
    - presented, 2730
  - Government accountability
    - presented, 2932, 3468–3469, 3755–3756, 4301–4302, 6463
  - Government advertising
    - presented, 4492
  - Government contracts
    - presented, 330
  - Government spending
    - presented, 4663
  - Government's record
    - presented, 476
  - Health care
    - presented, 2089, 4158–4159
  - Health care funding
    - presented, 6654–6655
  - Hydro rates
    - presented, 292
  - International trade
    - presented, 1379
  - Municipal finances
    - presented, 4705–4706, 4910–4911
  - Northern transportation
    - presented, 235–236, 1730–1731
  - Ontario budget
    - presented, 4404
  - Premier's business
    - presented, 6219
  - Release of documents
    - presented, 2044–2045
  - Rural schools
    - presented, 4227–4228
  - Special investigations unit
    - presented, 4233
  - Taxation
    - presented, 2411
  - Winter highway maintenance
    - presented, 6223–6224, 6360
- Rail service
  - Ontario Northland passenger rail service, 63, 235–236, 1594–1595, 1730–1731
- Registered Professional Planners (RPPs)
  - general remarks, 3360
  - regulation of
    - general remarks, 3360
- Regulations
  - compliance, 3164
  - role of, 3531
- Regulations - reduction
  - government strategy
    - targets, 3360
- Renewable energy contracts
  - in private sector, 220
- Renewable energy contracts - cancellation
  - fiscal impact, 66–67
  - general remarks, 220
  - no litigation provision, 64
- Restoring Ontario's Competitiveness Act, 2019 (Bill 66)
  - second reading, 3160–3164
- Restoring Trust, Transparency and Accountability Act, 2018 (Bill 57)
  - second reading, 2560
- Road maintenance in winter
  - Highway 11, 1594, 1730
  - private contractors, 3251
- Road maintenance in winter - northern Ontario
  - classification, 6223, 6360
  - road closures, 6360
  - and safety, 6020
- Road safety
  - Highway 11, 7027
  - in school zones, 7027
- Schools
  - Internet access, 4584
- Security from Trespass and Protecting Food Safety Act, 2020 (Bill 156)
  - second reading, 6802–6808, 6816, 6820, 6824, 6946–6947, 6950–6951, 7020–7021, 7024–7025, 7062–7063, 7065–7066, 7071–7072, 7074–7075, 7077–7078, 7080
- Select Committee on Financial Transparency
  - and Auditor General, role of, 1259–1260
  - disclosure of documents, 2044–2045, 2750–2751
  - mandate, 1220–1221
  - scope, 1221–1222, 1260
  - and Standing Committee on Public Accounts, role of, 1260
  - witness selection, 1260
- Select committees
  - general remarks, 1220
- Smarter and Stronger Justice Act, 2020 (Bill 161)
  - second reading, 7284
- Snowmobiling
  - general remarks, 2052
- Social services
  - government funding, 2344
- Special Investigations Unit (SIU)
  - government funding, 4233
  - mandate, 4233
- Standing Orders
  - amendment (2018)
    - general remarks, 1141, 1660
    - impact on debate time, 1659
    - involvement of opposition parties, 1142
    - review at committee, 1142
  - general remarks, 1140, 1658–1659
- Statements by stakeholders
  - broadband access, 2332
- Strikes
  - back-to-work legislation
    - impact on bargaining process, 2954
- Taxation
  - personal tax rate
    - high-income surtaxes, 2411
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 56, 62–64, 66–67
- Time allocation motions
  - Better Local Government Act, 2018 (Bill 5)
    - amendment
      - responded to, 728–729, 767, 788
    - amendment to the amendment
      - presented, 729
  - Bringing Choice and Fairness to the People Act (Beverage Alcohol Retail Sales), 2019 (Bill 115)
    - responded to, 5491–5492
  - Green Energy Repeal Act, 2018 (Bill 34)
    - responded to, 1830
  - The People's Health Care Act, 2019 (Bill 74)
    - amendment
      - responded to, 3863–3864
  - Select Committee on Financial Transparency
    - amendment
      - presented, 1260–1261
    - responded to, 1259–1260
  - Urgent Priorities Act, 2018 (Bill 2)
    - responded to, 287–290
- Toronto
  - infrastructure, 989
- Trade with United States
  - dairy industry, 62–63
- Transportation
  - access to
    - northern Ontario, 1594–1595
- Transportation services
  - in northern Ontario
    - passenger rail cancellation, 235–236
- Tributes
  - Gadwa, Jerry, 416
- Trucks, commercial
  - insurance requirements, 5961
- United Conservative Party of Alberta
  - leadership race (2017), 4301–4302
- United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) - impact on industry
  - dairy industry, 1379
- Université de l'Ontario français
  - cancellation of, 2730
- Urgent Priorities Act, 2018 (Bill 2)
  - second reading, 218–222
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 287–290
  - consultation process, 289–290
- Weather events
  - drought
    - impact on farmers, 2205
- White Pines Wind Project - cancellation
  - cost
    - general remarks, 330
    - responsibility for, 288
  - impact on business environment, 330
- Wildfires in northern Ontario
  - containment strategies, 22
  - economic impact, 637
  - general remarks, 62, 636
  - government response to, 416
  - inter-provincial aid, 22

Index des intervenants à la Chambre

Letter: V

Vanthof, J. (NDP, Timiskaming–Cochrane)