Letter: L

• Leardi, A. (PC, Essex)

  • Agriculture industry - food processing
    • appreciation for, 147
  • Bail program - offenders
    • sureties, 2146
  • Budget 2025/2026
    • comments on
      • Ontario Chamber of Commerce, 830
    • health care, 1004–1007
      • capital projects, 1005–1006
      • primary care, teams, 1005, 1078
    • long-term care, 1006–1007
  • Budget speech 2025 (May 15, 2025),
    • responded to, 1004–1008, 1019–1020, 1078
  • Business investment
    • government strategy, 340
  • Consumption and treatment services
    • Homeless and Addiction Recovery Treatment (HART) Hubs, 2159
  • Contraception
    • universal access, federal, 1008
  • Court administration
    • virtual hearings, 447
  • COVID-19 - government response
    • general remarks, 430
  • Doctors
    • residency
      • Ontario high school requirement, 1715
  • Emergency management
    • climate change, 1668
    • government strategy, 1664–1667
    • infrastructure, critical, 1668
    • municipalities
      • emergency response plan, 1666
      • grants, 1666–1667
    • Ontario Corps, 1665, 1667–1668
  • Emergency Management Modernization Act, 2025 (Bill 25)
    • second reading, 1664–1669
  • Employment services - training and retraining
    • POWER Centres, 1463
  • Family law
    • court orders, 452
  • French-language debates
    • Affaires d'intérêt public émanant des députées et députés
      • Loi de 2025 pour la promotion et la protection des librairies franco-ontariennes, projet de loi 58
        • deuxième lecture, 2133
    • Loi de 2025 pour protéger l’Ontario en favorisant le libre-échange au Canada, projet de loi 2
      • deuxième lecture, 235, 240
    • Loi de 2025 sur les soins primaires, projet de loi 13
      • deuxième lecture, 542–545, 612–613
    • Pétitions
      • Commerce interprovincial, 1462
  • Gender-based violence
    • general remarks, 2145
  • Government orders
    • Committee sittings,
      • amendment to the amendment,
        • responded to, 2144–2147
  • Health care funding
    • general remarks, 2155
  • Health care - primary care
    • government strategy, 548
    • Primary Care Action Plan, 1004–1005
    • rostering, 1005
    • teaching clinics, 1005
  • Health care system
    • boards of health
      • Hamilton, 482
    • government strategy, 91
  • Health care workers - recruitment and retention
    • education and training
      • Learn and Stay Grant, 1005
  • Health information
    • Electronic Health Record
      • patient access, 482
    • protection of privacy
      • de-identification, 741
      • Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004, 745
  • Hospitals - infrastructure
    • government strategy, 577–578
  • Housing
    • infrastructure development, 1975
  • Housing development - municipal charges
    • development charges
      • deferral until occupancy, 879
    • development charges, exemptions and discounts
      • cost projections, 880
  • Independent health facilities - diagnostic and surgical procedures, expansion
    • cataracts, 1006
  • International trade
    • North American Trade Organization (NATO)
      • mining, 18
  • International trade - tariffs, United States
    • government strategy, 17
  • Interprovincial trade
    • facilitation of
      • and reciprocity, 232, 237–238
    • general remarks, 17
    • skilled workers, 71
  • Intimate partner violence
    • government report, writing and publication, 2145
    • restraining orders
      • process, 2146
  • Intimate partner violence - perpetrators
    • judicial process
      • conditional release, 2146
  • Intimate partner violence - victims
    • services
      • coordination, 2145
      • legal, 2146
  • Labour policy
    • interprovincial mobility, 198
  • Long-term care - beds, development and redevelopment
    • by region
      • Essex, 1006–1007
  • Measles
    • and public health units, 429
    • vaccination, 428, 431–432
      • education and awareness, 428–430
  • Medical Officers of Health
    • Chief Medical Officer
      • communications, 745
    • class orders by local medical officers
      • Chief Medical Officer approval, 482–483, 736, 750
  • Members' statements
    • Housing, 1704
    • Housing-Enabling Water Systems Fund, 2261
    • Long-term care, 1204
    • Sun-Brite Foods Inc, 147
    • Taxation, 613
  • Members'/ministers' constituencies
    • Essex
      • taxation, 613
  • Members'/ministers' privileges
    • wearing of paraphernalia
      • pins, 147, 1204, 1507
  • Mining industry
    • opening a mine, 298
    • Sudbury
      • tariffs, impact on, 503
  • Mining industry - Indigenous communities
    • economy, impact on, 280
  • More Convenient Care Act, 2025 (Bill 11)
    • second reading, 481–483, 735–736, 741–742, 745–746, 750–751
  • New Democratic Party (NDP)
    • housing policy
      • cost of, 888
  • Nurse practitioner-led clinics
    • general remarks, 1008
  • Nurse practitioners
    • general remarks, 735–736, 742
    • scope of practice
      • certification of death, 481
      • mandatory blood reporting, 481
      • statements from stakeholders, 482
    • statistics, 481
  • Ombudsman of Ontario
    • appreciation, 1765
    • general remarks, 1765
  • Opposition day motions
    • Hospital funding,
      • responded to, 577–578
  • Petitions
    • International trade, 1224–1225, 1461, 1525, 1583, 2274
    • Interprovincial trade, 1124, 1653, 1778–1779, 1849, 2096, 2164–2165
    • Taxation, 164, 215, 325, 391
  • Plan to Protect Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2025 (Bill 24)
    • second reading, 830, 845, 849
  • Police officers
    • education and training
      • intimate partner violence training, 2146
  • Primary Care Act, 2025 (Bill 13)
    • second reading, 548, 671, 674
  • Private members' public business
    • Digital privacy protection,
      • responded to, 1095
    • Marriage Amendment Act, 2025 (Bill 31)
      • second reading, 1625–1626
    • Pharmacare,
      • responded to, 944–946
  • Probation and parole
    • enforcement programs, 447
  • Protect Ontario by Building Faster and Smarter Act, 2025 (Bill 17)
    • second reading, 876, 879–880, 885, 888
    • general remarks, 1065
    • time allocation motion,
      • presented, 1065
  • Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5)
    • consultations
      • with Indigenous communities, 340
    • second reading, 280, 286–288, 292, 298, 304–307, 339–340, 352
    • economic impact, 352
  • Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
    • second reading, 81, 125, 198, 232, 237–238
    • impact
      • by region
        • Essex, 81
  • Protect Ontario Through Safer Streets and Stronger Communities Act, 2025 (Bill 10)
    • second reading, 447, 452
  • Question period
    • Addiction services
      • responded to, 2159
    • Foreign-trained doctors
      • responded to, 1715
    • Government accountability
      • responded to, 2155
    • Health care
      • responded to, 91
    • Infrastructure funding
      • presented, 1974–1975
    • Northern Ontario development
      • presented, 1774
    • Public health
      • responded to, 428–432
  • Ring of Fire development
    • environmental impact, 306
  • Safer Municipalities Act, 2025 (Bill 6)
    • second reading, 646–647
    • time allocation motion,
      • presented, 1065
  • School facilities - capital projects
    • new school construction, 849
  • Special economic zones
    • allocation, 339
    • general remarks, 339, 876
    • government strategy, 307
  • Throne speech debate
    • participation, 16–19, 55, 63, 66, 71, 177–178, 503, 514
  • Time allocation motions
    • Protect Ontario by Building Faster and Smarter Act, 2025 (Bill 17),
      • presented, 1065
    • Safer Municipalities Act, 2025 (Bill 6),
      • presented, 1065
  • Trump, Donald (President of the United States)
    • government strategy, 514
  • Unhoused persons
    • encampments
      • government response, 646, 1065
    • government strategy, 647
  • United States
    • relationship with Canada, 16–17
  • Water management
    • infrastructure, 1974
  • Water management - infrastructure
    • government funding by region
      • LaSalle, 1704
  • Water treatment infrastructure
    • government funding, 2261
  • Working for Workers Seven Act, 2025 (Bill 30)
    • second reading, 1463

• Lecce, Hon. S. (PC, King—Vaughan)

  • Economic development
    • government strategy, 1346
  • Electricity rates
    • government strategy, 316–317
  • Electricity system
    • surplus, battery storage
      • procurement, 1826
  • Emergency management
    • by region
      • Ottawa River, 207
  • Energy conservation
    • efficiency programs, 2324
      • energy costs, impact on, 2087
  • Energy generation
    • requirement predictions, 1823
  • Energy industry
    • domestic procurement
      • subsidization, 1832
  • Energy policy
    • access to grid, conditional
      • data centres, 1824
    • mandation of priorities, 1826–1827
  • Energy rates
    • affordability
      • government strategy, 2271
  • Fuel prices - taxation
    • rate reduction, 316–317
  • Government contracts
    • domestic procurement
      • energy sector, 1824–1825
  • Indigenous communities
    • duty to consult
      • energy and development projects, 1297
  • International trade - tariffs, United States
    • government response, 30, 137, 1346, 1824
  • Interprovincial trade
    • economy, impact on, 1103–1104
  • Members'/ministers' statements
    • withdrawn, 1216
  • Mines and mining
    • PAK project, Frontier Lithium, 1826
  • Mining industry
    • approvals and permits process, 139
    • critical minerals, extraction, 1387–1388
    • duty to consult, 1297–1298
    • economic impact, 139, 141
    • government strategy, 31, 139, 141, 1113
    • infrastructure development, 140
    • international involvement
      • limitation of, 140–141
    • opening mines
      • government strategy, 1297–1298
    • other jurisdictions, 138
    • public opinion, 138
    • regulatory environment, 138, 972
      • other jurisdictions, 146
      • stakeholder consultation, 138
  • Mining industry - Indigenous communities
    • consultation and consent, 139–140, 147
    • participation in
      • Indigenous Participation Fund, 974
  • Natural resources
    • ownership, Canadian, 1297
  • Nuclear energy industry
    • expansion and refurbishment, 318–319
    • general remarks, 1826
  • Nuclear generation facilities - small modular reactors (SMRs)
    • development, 319, 2324
  • Protect Ontario by Securing Affordable Energy for Generations Act, 2025 (Bill 40)
    • first reading, 1221
    • second reading, 1823–1827, 1832–1833
    • feedback from stakeholders, 1826
  • Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5)
    • first reading, 96
    • second reading, 137–141, 146–147, 348–349
    • endorsements, 349, 975
    • general remarks, 1052
    • government strategy, 1210–1211
    • Indigenous feedback, 803
    • third reading, 1295–1298
  • Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
    • third reading, 1103–1104, 1183
  • Question period
    • Energy policies
      • responded to, 2087–2088, 2271, 2324
    • Energy rates
      • responded to, 316–317
    • Flood prevention
      • responded to, 207–208
    • Government accountability
      • responded to, 972, 974–975, 1052–1053, 1056, 1113–1114, 1210–1211, 1215–1216, 1275, 1277, 1346
    • Indigenous affairs
      • responded to, 803
    • Mining industry
      • responded to, 1387–1388
    • Nuclear energy
      • responded to, 318–319
    • Ontario economy
      • responded to, 30–31
  • Regulations
    • reduction
      • other jurisdictions, 972
  • Renewable energy
    • government strategy, 1825
  • Ring of Fire development
    • special economic zone, 139
  • Special economic zones
    • general remarks, 139
    • and US tariffs, 1056
  • Species at risk - protection
    • compliance enforcement, 146–147

• Lennox, R. (NDP, Hamilton Centre)

  • Building a More Competitive Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 56)
    • second reading, 1444, 1506
  • Consumption and treatment services
    • impact, 401, 405
    • and overdose prevention, 404
  • Consumption and treatment services - sites
    • closures
      • impact of, 1067
  • Doctors
    • administrative responsibilities
      • tools to address, 606–607
  • Doctors - primary care
    • compensation models
      • capitation and salaried, 547, 605–606
    • recruitment and retention, 607–608
  • Drugs - illegal
    • use in public places
      • penalties, 403
      • safety, 402
      • and supervised consumption sites, 401, 403
    • use, prosecution
      • impact, 404
  • Emergency management
    • wildland fire management, 1608
  • Emergency Management Modernization Act, 2025 (Bill 25)
    • second reading, 1608
  • Government contracts
    • domestic procurement, 1459
  • Health care
    • referrals, 606, 612
    • uninsured, 608, 612
  • Health care - primary care
    • objectives, 604
    • team-based, 603–604
  • Health care services - by region
    • Hamilton Centre
      • Shelter Health Network, 59
  • Health care workers
    • wages
      • recruitment and retention, impact on, 547
  • Health care workers - recruitment and retention - international
    • residency match
      • requirements, 1444
  • Hospital services - emergency
    • capacity and overcrowding, 565–566
  • Housing
    • statistics, 2417–2418
  • Immunization
    • measles, 29
  • Interprovincial trade
    • mutual recognition of goods and services
      • as deregulation, 197
  • Legislative procedure
    • public consultation, 1068
  • Legislative procedure - motions
    • time allocation, 1068
  • Measles
    • outbreaks
      • government response, 29, 489
    • vaccination
      • education and awareness, 489
  • Members' inaugural speeches, 55–58
  • Members' statements
    • Hamilton Homeless Mortality Data Project, 201
    • Housing, 1639
    • Nurses, 766
  • Members'/ministers' constituencies
    • Hamilton Centre, 56–59
  • Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 56, 58
  • Mental health and addictions
    • government strategy, 404
  • Mental health and addictions services
    • government strategy, 1067–1068
    • Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment (HART) Hubs
      • evaluation strategy, 405, 1068, 1347
      • implementation, 1068
    • wait-list, 410
  • Midwives
    • recruitment and retention, 1506
  • New Democratic Party
    • governing strategy, 59
  • Nurses
    • compensation
      • wage parity, 1840
    • nurse-patient ratio, 1841
    • wages, 766
  • Ontario Drug Benefit Program
    • eligibility, 975–976
  • Opioid addiction
    • overdoses and fatalities
      • and incarceration, 403
    • treatment services
      • access, 404
      • Ontario Drug Benefit coverage, 404–405
      • wait-time, 405
  • Opposition day motions
    • Hospital funding,
      • responded to, 565–566
  • Petitions
    • Child care, 1850
    • Education funding, 1850
    • Foreign-trained doctors, 1914
    • Housing, 1850
    • Pharmacare, 1849
    • Social assistance, 215, 1915
  • Pharmacists and pharmacies
    • MedsCheck program, 606–607
  • Primary Care Act, 2025 (Bill 13)
    • second reading, 546–547, 603–609, 612
  • Private members' public business
    • Pharmacare,
      • presented, 939–941
      • responded to, 946–947
  • Protect Ontario by Building Faster and Smarter Act, 2025 (Bill 17)
    • time allocation motion,
      • responded to, 1065–1068
  • Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
    • second reading, 125, 197
  • Question period
    • Manufacturing jobs
      • presented, 1459
    • Nurses
      • presented, 1840–1841
    • Pharmacare
      • presented, 975–976
    • Public health
      • presented, 29, 489
    • Steel industry
      • presented, 1277
  • Safer Municipalities Act, 2025 (Bill 6)
    • second reading, 401–406, 410–411
    • time allocation motion,
      • responded to, 1065–1068
    • Trespass to Property act, changes to, 411
    • third reading, 1196–1197
  • Steel industry
    • Canadian content requirements, 1277
  • Supportive housing
    • impact, 403–404
  • Throne speech debate
    • participation, 55–59, 522
  • Time allocation motions
    • Protect Ontario by Building Faster and Smarter Act, 2025 (Bill 17),
      • responded to, 1065–1068
    • Safer Municipalities Act, 2025 (Bill 6),
      • responded to, 1065–1068
  • Unhoused persons
    • community projects, Hamilton
      • tracking deaths, 201
    • encampments
      • removal, impact of, 406, 1066
    • factors affecting, 402, 1066
    • general remarks, 1065–1066
    • government strategy, 1196–1197
    • incarceration
      • cost vs. housing, 1066
    • research and statistics, 402
  • Unhoused persons - support programs and services
    • government funding, 1066–1067