Letter: F

• Fairclough, L. (LIB, Etobicoke—Lakeshore)

  • Affordable housing
    • government strategy, 412
  • Business - local
    • promotion of
      • Buy Ontario, Buy Canadian Day, 231
  • Buy Ontario
    • government strategy
      • procurement policy, 514
  • Commuting
    • multiple methods, 63
  • Correctional facilities
    • capacity and overcrowding, 530
  • Craft breweries
    • government strategy, 232
  • Drugs - illegal
    • use, prosecution
      • government strategy, 413
  • Education
    • government strategy, 125
  • Food banks
    • demographics, users, 412
  • GO Transit - stations
    • Mimico
      • accessibility, lack of, 731
  • Government accountability and oversight
    • special economic zones, 293
  • Health care
    • government strategy, 180
    • nature as, 62
    • referrals, 612
  • Health care - primary care
    • government strategy, 730
    • rostering
      • change over time, 731
  • Health information
    • Electronic Health Record
      • patient access, 592–593, 595
    • protection of privacy
      • Information and Privacy Commissioner, recommendations, 593
  • Hospital services
    • cost per stay, 730
  • Hospitals - funding
    • other jurisdictions, 730
  • Hospitals - infrastructure
    • as nation-building, 565
  • International trade - tariffs, United States
    • general remarks, 230
  • Interprovincial trade
    • facilitation of
      • and reciprocity, 231–233, 235
    • labour mobility
      • impact, 120–121
      • interprovincial recruitment and retention, 229–233, 236, 239
  • Judges
    • independence of, 529
  • Medical Officers of Health
    • class orders by local medical officers
      • Chief Medical Officer approval, 596
      • time sensitivity, 594
  • Members' inaugural speeches, 59–62
  • Members' statements
    • Mental health and addiction services, 254
  • Members'/ministers' constituencies
    • Etobicoke—Lakeshore, 60–61
  • Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 59–62
  • Mental health and addictions services
    • community programs
      • funding, 730
      • government funding, 433
    • in correctional facilities, 413
    • general remarks, 254
    • government strategy, 433
  • Mining industry - Indigenous communities
    • duty to consult, 297
  • More Convenient Care Act, 2025 (Bill 11)
    • second reading, 587, 592–596
  • Nurse practitioners
    • scope of practice
      • mandatory blood reporting, 595–596
  • Nurses - temporary agencies
    • accountability and oversight
      • fees, disclosure, 587, 594
    • wage premiums
      • impact of, 594
  • Opioid addiction
    • government response, 412
  • Opposition day motions
    • Hospital funding
      • responded to, 565
  • Personal health information
    • access to, 1213–1214
  • Pharmacists and pharmacies
    • MedsCheck program
      • billing, 731
  • Plan to Protect Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2025 (Bill 24)
    • second reading, 850, 895–899
  • Primary Care Act, 2025 (Bill 13)
    • second reading, 612–613
    • measuring impact, 613
  • Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5)
    • second reading, 275, 280, 284, 292–293, 297, 344, 352, 355
    • legal challenges, protection from, 280
  • Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
    • second reading, 120–121, 125, 229–233, 235–237, 239
    • impact
      • evaluation strategy, 231, 237
  • Protect Ontario Through Safer Streets and Stronger Communities Act, 2025 (Bill 10)
    • second reading, 529–530
  • Public health
    • measles
      • government strategy, 209
  • Question period
    • Homelessness
      • presented, 911
    • Mental health and addiction services
      • presented, 433
    • Public health
      • presented, 209
    • Public transit
      • presented, 714–715
  • Safer Municipalities Act, 2025 (Bill 6)
    • second reading, 411–414, 419
  • Special economic zones
    • accountability and oversight, 355
    • allocation
      • accountability and oversight, 284
    • in other jurisdictions, 344
  • Species at risk
    • government strategy, 275
    • protection
      • government strategy, 352
  • Supply Act, 2025 (Bill 18)
    • second reading, 730–731
  • Throne speech debate
    • participation, 59–63, 180, 358, 511, 514, 522, 525
  • Transit - by region
    • Etobicoke—Lakeshore, 715
  • Unhoused persons
    • cost to house, 731
    • encampments, 411
      • removal and jail capacity, 412
      • removal, impact of, 419
    • factors affecting, 413
    • government strategy, 911, 1198
    • and municipalities, 413
    • research and statistics, 411–412, 911
    • service needs, 412

• Fedeli, Hon. V. (PC, Nipissing)

  • Automotive industry - employment
    • government strategy, 382, 491–492, 771
  • Business
    • facilitation of
      • government strategy, 76–77
  • Business invesments
    • government strategy, 385–386
    • by region
      • Brantford, 385
  • Business investment
    • government strategy, 905, 910, 973, 1050–1051, 1112, 1114, 1273–1274
  • Canadian Free Trade Agreement
    • party-specific exemptions
      • in other jurisdictions, 74–75
      • removal, 74
  • Development projects
    • timelines, 1208
  • Economic development
    • government strategy, 143–144, 1345
  • Electric vehicles - batteries, manufacturing by site
    • Honda (Alliston)
      • postponement
        • employment, impact on, 768, 772
  • Employment
    • creation and loss, 155
      • government strategy, 430–431
  • Government accountability and oversight
    • response to tariffs, 205
  • International trade
    • missions
      • Asia, 156
      • Europe, 910
  • International trade - tariffs, United States
    • general remarks, 151
    • government response, 73–74, 141–142, 160, 1276
  • Interprovincial trade
    • barriers
      • impact, 74
    • direct-to-consumer alcohol sales, 76, 81
    • facilitation of, 1115
    • government strategy, 74
    • impact, 74
    • labour mobility, 75–76
    • mutual recognition of goods and services, 75, 1115
      • economic impact, 75
  • Mining industry
    • critical minerals, extraction, 1274
  • Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5)
    • amendments, 1209–1210
    • second reading, 141–144
    • endorsements, 1050
    • government strategy, 1208, 1210, 1216
  • Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
    • first reading, 33
    • second reading, 73–77, 81–82
    • statements by stakeholders, 82
  • Question period
    • Automotive industry
      • responded to, 151–152, 382–383, 491–492, 768–769, 771–772
    • Economic development
      • responded to, 385–386, 910
    • Government accountability
      • responded to, 160, 205, 263–264, 380–382, 905
    • International trade
      • responded to, 156
    • Job creation
      • responded to, 155
  • Regulations
    • and provincial economy, 263
    • reduction
      • other jurisdictions, 1051, 1110
  • Special economic zones
    • and duty to consult, 1344
    • government strategy, 160
    • and US tariffs, 1110, 1114–1116, 1344
  • Steel industry
    • government strategy, 1277
  • Trade with United States
    • economy, impact on, 73

• Fife, C. (NDP, Waterloo)

  • Court administration
    • government funding
      • reports and recommendations, 458
  • Court administration - backlogs
    • impact, 529
    • reports and recommendations, 458
    • stay of proceedings
      • sexual assault cases, 446
  • Court administration - criminal
    • sexual assault cases, 458, 467, 474
  • Doctors - family doctors
    • administrative responsibilities, 669–670
      • and attrition, 669
  • Economic development
    • government strategy, 236
  • Employment
    • rate of, 1115
  • Film and television industry
    • tax credits, 496
  • Forestry industry
    • US tariffs, impact on, 54
  • GO Transit - service expansion - by region
    • Waterloo, 669
  • Health care
    • delivery models
      • public vs. private, 668
  • Health care funding
    • economic impact, 669
  • Health care - primary care
    • access
      • impact on patient health, 669–670
    • government strategy, 668
    • rostering
      • and complex health issues, 671
    • team-based, 665, 669
      • access, 670
  • Health care system
    • and Canada Health Act principles
      • inclusion, 671
  • Hospitals - infrastructure
    • government funding, 710
    • as nation-building, 577, 711
  • Housing development
    • construction starts, 27
    • government funding, 27–28
  • International trade
    • government strategy, 237
  • International trade - tariffs, United States
    • film and television industry, 495
    • government response, 1115
    • motivating factors, 235
  • Interprovincial trade
    • facilitation of
      • and reciprocity, 238
    • labour mobility
      • as deregulation, 236–237
      • interprovincial recruitment and retention, 232, 236
    • mutual recognition of goods and services
      • as deregulation, 230, 237
  • Intimate partner violence
    • government response
      • consultations, 461
      • reports and recommendations, 460
      • standing committee on justice, study on, 460
  • Judges
    • independence of, 471
  • Justice system - reform
    • government strategy, 460
  • Members' statements
    • Waterloo region economy, 549
  • Mental health and addictions - children and youth
    • social media
      • impact on behaviour, 1205
  • Minden Hospital - Haliburton Highlands Health Services
    • emergency department, closure, 678
  • Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services
    • budget allocation, 533
  • More Convenient Care Act, 2025 (Bill 11)
    • second reading, 735–736
  • New Democratic Party
    • governing strategy, 59
  • Nurse practitioners
    • northern Ontario, 670
  • Nurses - temporary agencies
    • accountability and oversight, 736
    • hiring
      • cost, 735
      • impact, 682
  • Opposition day motions
    • Hospital funding
      • responded to, 577
  • Persons with disabilities
    • support services
      • Canadian Hearing Services, 668
  • Petitions
    • Land use planning, 214, 326
    • Veterans, 325
    • Youth mental health, 499
  • Primary Care Act, 2025 (Bill 13)
    • second reading, 665, 668–671, 678, 682, 686
    • regulation and enforcement, 668–669
    • yearly reports
      • demographic information, 669
  • Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5)
    • second reading, 342
  • Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
    • second reading, 230, 232, 235–238
    • stakeholder consultations, 237
  • Protect Ontario Through Safer Streets and Stronger Communities Act, 2025 (Bill 10)
    • second reading, 457–461, 467, 471, 474, 528–529, 533
  • Question period
    • Hospital funding
      • presented, 710–711
    • Housing
      • presented, 27–28
    • Ontario film and television industry
      • presented, 495
  • Sexual assault
    • justice system
      • government strategy, 459
  • Sexual assault crisis centres
    • wait-list, 458
  • Shelters and transitional housing
    • access, 459
  • Special economic zones
    • accountability and oversight, 342
  • Throne speech debate
    • participation, 54, 59, 63, 518
  • Unhoused persons
    • prosecution of, 460

• Firin, M. (PC, York South—Weston)

  • Business investment
    • government strategy, 1114
  • Council on Equality of Opportunity
    • advocacy work, 520, 522–523
  • Economic conditions
    • government strategy, 265
  • International trade - tariffs, United States
    • government response, 30
  • Interprovincial trade
    • facilitation of, 1115
  • Members' inaugural speeches, 519–522
  • Members' statements
    • Collins, Barb, 485
  • Members'/ministers' constituencies, 519–521
  • Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 519–523
  • Mining industry
    • government strategy, 30–31
  • Question period
    • Labour dispute
      • responded to, 265
    • Ontario economy
      • presented, 30–31
  • Throne speech debate
    • participation, 519–523

• Flack, Hon. R. (PC, Elgin—Middlesex—London)

  • Affordable housing
    • government strategy, 911
  • Building code
    • government strategy, 1200
  • Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit program
    • government funding, 393–394
  • Development projects
    • development charges, 1200–1201
    • timelines, 1200
  • Economic conditions
    • general remarks, 692
  • Greenbelt - boundary adjustments, process
    • RCMP investigation, 427
  • Housing
    • affordability, 757, 764
      • government strategy, 765
    • government strategy, 210–211
    • modular and factory built, 385
    • municipal partnerships, 211
  • Housing - affordable
    • government strategy, 776–777
  • Housing development
    • construction starts, 27
    • government strategy, 89, 710, 756
  • Housing development - approvals and permits
    • construction standards, 1281–1282
      • municipal authority, 756
    • minor variances
      • committees of adjustments, exemption, 756
    • new materials and products, 756, 764
    • required studies, limitation of, 756
  • Housing development - government funding
    • unhoused persons, 772
  • Housing development - infrastructure
    • government funding, 757
    • government strategy, 756–757
  • Housing development - municipal charges
    • development charges, 756
      • by-law development, 756–757
      • deferral until occupancy, 756
    • development charges, exemptions and discounts, 756
      • long-term care homes, 756, 764
  • Housing supply
    • government strategy, 257–258
  • Housing supply - population growth projections
    • general remarks, 755
  • Land use planning - ministerial zoning orders (MZOs)
    • conditional, 757
    • by site
      • Nanticoke Industrial Park, 210
  • Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 758
  • Mental health and addictions services
    • Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment (HART) Hubs, 394
  • Municipal Accountability Act, 2025 (Bill 9)
    • first reading, 267
    • second reading, 691–694, 700–701, 937
    • Integrity Commissioner, recommendations, 692
    • stakeholder consultations, 691–692
  • Municipal elections
    • nominations and registrations
      • electronic submission, 693
  • Municipal finances
    • funding programs, 693
    • Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund, 394
  • Municipal finances - COVID-19
    • provincial transfers
      • Ontario Social Services Relief Fund, 692–693
  • Municipal governance
    • accountability, 691–692
    • bad-faith actors, removal of, 691–694
      • criteria, 700
    • code of conduct, standard, 691–692
    • integrity commissioners
      • cost, 700
      • role of Integrity Commissioner of Ontario, 701
    • virtual meetings, 692
  • Municipal infrastructure
    • government funding, 693
  • Municipal-provincial relations
    • Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO), 694
  • Protect Ontario by Building Faster and Smarter Act, 2025 (Bill 17)
    • first reading, 562
    • second reading, 755–758, 764–765
    • stakeholder consultations, 755
  • Question period
    • Affordable housing
      • responded to, 385, 910–911
    • Government accountability
      • responded to, 427–428, 799–800
    • Homelessness
      • responded to, 776, 911
    • Housing
      • responded to, 27, 89, 210–211, 710, 776–777
    • Land use planning
      • responded to, 210
    • Supportive housing
      • responded to, 257–258, 772
  • Safer Municipalities Act, 2025 (Bill 6)
    • first reading, 213
    • second reading, 392–395, 401–402, 410
  • Supportive housing
    • government funding, 394
      • Homelessness Prevention Program, 394
      • Indigenous Supportive Housing Program, 394
  • Unhoused persons
    • encampments, 258, 392–393, 395
      • alternatives, availability, 401
      • government response, 393
    • government strategy, 776, 911, 1195–1196
    • policy development
      • consultations, 1351
  • Unhoused persons - encampments
    • community, impact on, 1195–1196
  • Unhoused persons - support programs and services
    • supportive housing, 393
    • temporary accommodations, 393

• Ford, Hon. D. (PC, Etobicoke North)

  • An Act to perpetuate an ancient parliamentary right (Bill 1)
    • first reading, 8
  • Cost of living
    • government strategy, 320
  • Government contracts
    • domestic procurement
      • Building Ontario Business Initiative (BOBI), 25
    • domestic vs. international corporations, 25
  • Housing supply
    • government strategy, 257–258
  • Indigenous relations
    • government strategy, 1346
  • Interprovincial trade
    • government strategy, 24
  • Mining industry
    • regulatory environment, 905–906
  • Question period
    • Employment supports
      • responded to, 24
    • First Nations consultation
      • responded to, 908
    • Government accountability
      • responded to, 905–906
    • Government contracts
      • responded to, 25
    • Ontario Science Centre
      • responded to, 803–804
    • Supportive housing
      • responded to, 258
    • Taxation
      • responded to, 319–320

• Fraser, J. (LIB, Ottawa South)

  • Appreciation
    • Paikin, Steve, 1270–1271
  • Bail program reform
    • gender-based violence cases, 461
  • Consumer protection
    • product labelling
      • domestic/international/interprovincial, 218
      • price increases, 218–219
  • Cost of living
    • affordability, 327
  • Debates re answers to question period
    • Government spending
      • presented, 947–948
  • Doctors - primary care
    • shortage
      • government strategy, 47
  • Education funding
    • allocation per student, 489–490
    • vs. inflation, 489
  • Education workers
    • appreciation for, 489
  • Electricity rates
    • government strategy, 316–317, 327
  • Government accountability and oversight
    • communication methods
      • personal device use, ministers, 205–206
    • special economic zones, 284–286
  • Government accountablity and oversight
    • special economic zones, 381
  • Government advertising
    • partisan, 801
  • Health care
    • medical records
      • access, 770–771
  • Health care - primary care
    • government strategy, 728
  • Health care services
    • fees for OHIP services
      • government strategy, 45, 620
  • Health information
    • protection of privacy, 746
      • data brokerage, 742–743, 745
      • de-identification, 741–743
      • Information and Privacy Commissioner, recommendations, 743–745
      • Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004, 744
  • Indigenous relations
    • general remarks, 1346
    • government strategy, 1275, 1346
  • International trade - tariffs, United States
    • jobs, impact on, 46–47
  • Intimate partner violence
    • general remarks, 461
  • Judges
    • independence of, 258–259, 462–463
  • Judicial appointments
    • conflict of interest, 160, 462, 464
    • vs. elections, 462
    • process, 464
  • Judicial education
    • sexual assault law, intimate partner violence and coercive control, 461
  • Landfills
    • Dresden
      • environmental assessment, 553–554
  • Measles
    • outbreaks, 429
      • government response, 429–430
    • vaccination
      • education and awareness, 429–430
  • Medical Officers of Health
    • Chief Medical Officer
      • communications, 745–746
  • Members'/ministers' remarks
    • withdrawn, 259
  • Members'/ministers' statements
    • withdrawn, 802
  • More Convenient Care Act, 2025 (Bill 11)
    • committee process, 770–771
    • second reading, 741–746
  • Municipal Accountability Act, 2025 (Bill 9)
    • second reading, 951
  • Nurse practitioner-led clinics
    • private vs. public, 744
      • government funding, 728
  • Nurse practitioners
    • as primary caregivers
      • OHIP coverage, 708
  • Nurses
    • nurse-to-patient-ratio, 707
    • recruitment and retention
      • private staffing agencies, 619
  • Nurses - temporary agencies
    • accountability and oversight, 744
    • other jurisdictions, 744
  • Ontario Health atHome
    • and French Language Services Act, 744
  • Ontario Place - lease of, redevelopment agreements
    • cancellation, 154
    • transparency and accountability, 25–27, 45–46, 87–89, 153–154, 205
  • Opioid addiction
    • overdoses and fatalities, 1346
  • Opposition day motions
    • Consumer protection
      • responded to, 218–219
    • Hospital funding
      • responded to, 570
    • Taxation
      • presented, 326–327
      • responded to, 338
  • Personal information
    • sale of collected data, 743
  • Post-secondary education - funding
    • program closures, 728
  • Primary Care Act, 2025 (Bill 13)
    • second reading, 678–679
    • regulation and enforcement
      • and sections 5 and 6, 679
  • Private members' public business
    • Pharmacare
      • responded to, 941
  • Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5)
    • consultations
      • with Indigenous communities, 973–974, 1111, 1275
    • second reading, 284–288
    • general remarks, 1050–1051, 1111–1113, 1276, 1345
    • public opinion, 1275–1276
    • revision of, 1209–1210
  • Protect Ontario Through Safer Streets and Stronger Communities Act, 2025 (Bill 10)
    • second reading, 461–464
  • Question of privilege
    • misrepresentation
      • responded to, 161
  • Question period
    • Education funding
      • presented, 488–489
    • Energy rates
      • presented, 316–317
    • First Nations consultation
      • presented, 907–908
    • Government accountability
      • presented, 25–27, 87–89, 153–154, 205–206, 380–382, 553–554, 907
    • Government spending
      • presented, 801–802
    • Health care
      • presented, 619–620
    • Health care funding
      • presented, 707
    • Justice system
      • presented, 258–260
    • Nurse practitioners
      • presented, 707–708
    • Protection of privacy
      • presented, 770–771
    • Public health
      • presented, 429–430
    • Taxation
      • presented, 315–316
  • Sacred Spaces, Safe Places Act, 2025 (Bill 16)
    • first reading, 499
  • School facilities - maintenance and repair
    • backlog, 47, 728
  • Special economic zones
    • accountability and oversight, 974, 1051
    • allocation
      • accountability and oversight, 286–288
    • Dresden, 907
    • and duty to consult, 908
    • Ontario Place, 154, 1112
  • Supply Act, 2025 (Bill 18)
    • second reading, 727–728
  • Taxation
    • reduction, 315–316
      • impact, 338
  • Throne speech
    • healthcare, 504
  • Throne speech debate
    • participation, 44–46, 504, 508, 518
  • Tributes
    • Ashby, Wayne, 1058
  • WSIB Coverage for Workers in Residential Care Facilities and Group Homes Act, 2025 (Bill 8)
    • first reading, 214

• French, J.K. (NDP, Oshawa)

  • Automotive industry - employment
    • government strategy, 317–318, 771–772
  • Highways and roads - construction and expansion
    • highway 401 tunneling
      • as nation-building project, 1211
  • International trade - tariffs, United States
    • government response, 129
  • Manufacturing industry
    • government strategy, 830
  • Members' statements
    • 44th Parliament, 83–84
    • Fiesta Week, 613–614
    • Lauer, Andrew, 968
  • Metrolinx
    • accountability and transparency, 1055–1056
  • Municipal Accountability Act, 2025 (Bill 9)
    • second reading, 933
  • Petitions
    • Social assistance, 810–811
  • Plan to Protect Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2025 (Bill 24)
    • second reading, 829–830
  • Private members' public business
    • Pharmacare
      • responded to, 941–942
  • Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
    • second reading, 128–129, 133
  • Question period
    • Automotive industry
      • presented, 317, 771–772
  • Safer Municipalities Act, 2025 (Bill 6)
    • second reading, 633
  • Special economic zones
    • 401 tunnel, 1211
  • Trucking industry
    • International Registration Plan, 133
  • Unhoused persons
    • encampments
      • alternatives, availability, 633