Speaker letter g House Hansard index Parliament 44 Session 1

House speaker index

Letter: G

Gallagher Murphy, D. (PC, Newmarket—Aurora)
- Automobile thefts
  - general remarks, 471
- Business - local
  - promotion of
    - Buy Ontario, Buy Canadian Day, 107
- Colleges and universities
  - government funding, 626
    - students' futures, impact on, 626
- Council on Equality of Opportunity
  - advocacy work, 523
- Cybercrime
  - government strategy, 460
- French-language debates
  - Loi de 2025 pour plus de soins commodes, projet de loi 11
    - deuxième lecture, 599
  - Loi de 2025 pour protéger l’Ontario en favorisant le libre échange au Canada, projet de loi 2
    - deuxième lecture, 124
- Health care
  - access
    - government strategy, 599, 682
- Health care - primary care
  - government strategy, 683
  - teaching clinics
    - government funding, 673–674
- Health care workers
  - recruitment and retention
    - statistics, 598
- Health information
  - digital health identifiers, 598–599
  - Electronic Health Record
    - patient access, 598–600
- Hospitals - capacity and overcrowding
  - EMS offload delays, 682
- Long-term care - beds, development and redevelopment
  - government strategy, 764
- Members' personal narratives, 597–598
- Members' statements
  - Mills, Kevin, 484
- More Convenient Care Act, 2025 (Bill 11)
  - second reading, 596–600
- Municipal Accountability Act, 2025 (Bill 9)
  - second reading, 955
- Nurse practitioners
  - scope of practice
    - expansion, 598, 667
- Nurses - temporary agencies
  - accountability and oversight
    - fees, disclosure, 600
  - hiring, 600
- Primary Care Act, 2025 (Bill 13)
  - second reading, 667, 673–674, 682–683
- Protect Ontario by Building Faster and Smarter Act, 2025 (Bill 17)
  - second reading, 764
- Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5)
  - second reading, 276
- Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
  - second reading, 107, 116
- Protect Ontario Through Safer Streets and Stronger Communities Act, 2025 (Bill 10)
  - second reading, 460, 471
- Question period
  - University and college funding
    - presented, 626
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 523
Gates, W. (NDP, Niagara Falls)
- Auditor General of Ontario - reports
  - 2024 Annual Report
    - emergency rooms, capacity and overcrowding, 681, 837
- Automotive industry
  - government strategy, 82
  - "sell in Canada, build in Canada," 382
- Automotive industry - employment
  - government strategy, 382
- Budget 2025/2026
  - health care, 837
  - sewage and wastewater, 839
- Consumer protection
  - product labelling
    - domestic/international/interprovincial, 219
- Doctors - family doctors
  - administrative responsibilities, 680
- Employment
  - job creation and loss
    - environmental standards, impact on, 276
- Environmental protection
  - government strategy, 279
- Food prices
  - price gouging, 219
- Health care
  - access
    - barriers to, 682
    - remote and fly-in communities, 358
    - rural Ontario, 599
  - delivery models
    - public vs. private, 680, 683
- Health care funding
  - per person, 681
- Health care - primary care
  - access
    - impact on health care system, 680
  - government strategy, 587
- Health care system
  - privatization, 680
- Hospital services - emergency
  - capacity and overcrowding, 679–680, 839
  - wait-time, 681
- Hospitals
  - agency nurses, use of
    - cost, 680
- Hospitals - by site
  - Douglas Memorial Hospital
    - urgent care centre closure, 703, 706
  - Douglas Memorial hospital (Fort Erie)
    - hours, 667, 679, 681, 837
  - Niagara Health - Niagara-on-the-Lake
    - closure, 837
- Hospitals - capacity and overcrowding
  - EMS offload delays, 681–682
- Hospitals - staff
  - per capita, 681
- International trade - tariffs, United States
  - auto sector, 219
  - jobs, impact on, 199–200
  - tourism industry, 837
- Long-term care - COVID-19
  - fatalities, 683
- Members' statements
  - Automotive industry, 199–200
  - Hospital parking fees, 84
  - Hospital services, 703
- More Convenient Care Act, 2025 (Bill 11)
  - second reading, 587, 599
- Municipal Accountability Act, 2025 (Bill 9)
  - second reading, 955
- Nurses - temporary agencies
  - hiring
    - impact, 682
- Opposition day motions
  - Consumer protection
    - responded to, 219
  - Hospital funding
    - responded to, 569–570
- Plan to Protect Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2025 (Bill 24)
  - second reading, 836–839, 844
- Post-secondary education - funding
  - per student, 1349
- Primary Care Act, 2025 (Bill 13)
  - second reading, 667, 679–683
- Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5)
  - second reading, 275–276, 279, 351, 355
  - economic impact, 351
- Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
  - second reading, 82, 196–197
- Question period
  - Automotive industry
    - presented, 382
  - Health care funding
    - presented, 706
  - Infrastructure funding
    - presented, 808
- Resource Management and Safety Act, 2025 (Bill 27)
  - consultations, 1259
- Safer Municipalities Act, 2025 (Bill 6)
  - second reading, 418–419
- Sewage and wastewater infrastructure
  - Niagara region
    - government funding, 808
  - by region
    - Niagara, 839
- Special economic zones
  - accountability and oversight, 355
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 358
- Tourism industry
  - staycation tax credit, 838
- Unhoused persons
  - government funding, allocation, 419
- Urgent care
  - government strategy, 569–570, 844
- Wine industry
  - local wines
    - in-store shelf space, 196–197, 219
Gélinas, F. (NDP, Nickel Belt)
- Budget speech 2025 (May 15, 2025)
  - responded to, 1007–1008, 1016
- Business - local
  - promotion of
    - Buy Ontario, Buy Canadian Day, 243
- Cancer - colon
  - screening, age eligibility, 41
- Climate change
  - government strategy, 1312
- Consumption and treatment services - sites
  - closures
    - impact of, 177
- Disability services
  - Children's Community Network
    - funding, 550
- Emergency services
  - 911 access
    - northern Ontario, 41
- Energy conservation
  - retrofit programs
    - rebates, access to, 19
- Environmental protection
  - impact, 1107–1108
- Fertility services
  - northern Ontario
    - government funding, 41
- Fire rangers
  - reclassification, 1310
  - recruitment and retention, 1240
- French-language debates
  - Affaires d'intérêt public émanant des députées et députés
    - Logements abordables, 1031
  - Débat sur le discours du trône
    - participation, 167–168
  - Jour de l’opposition
    - Protection du consommateur, 224–225
  - Loi de 2025 pour des municipalités plus sûres, projet de loi 6
    - deuxième lecture, 636
  - Loi de 2025 pour plus de soins commodes, projet de loi 11
    - deuxième lecture, 581, 586, 588, 737
  - Loi de 2025 pour protéger l’Ontario en favorisant le libre échange au Canada, projet de loi 2
    - deuxième lecture, 239–240
  - Loi de 2025 sur les soins primaires, projet de loi 13
    - deuxième lecture, 613
  - Pétitions
    - Garde d'enfants, 917
    - Services de santé mentale, 36
    - Soins de la vue, 34, 164, 390, 500–501, 630
    - Soins de santé, 326
    - Subventions aux résidents du Nord pour frais de transport à des fins médicales, 630
  - Pètitions
    - Personnel de première ligne, 812
- Health Care is Not for Sale Act (Addressing Unfair Fees Charged to Patients), 2025 (Bill 7)
  - first reading, 213
- Health care - primary care
  - government strategy, 587
  - interdisciplinary teams
    - government funding, 609–610
    - recruitment and retention, 609
  - team-based models
    - impact evaluation, 613
- Health care services - by region
  - Hamilton Centre
    - social determinants of health programs, 59
- Health care system
  - boards of health
    - Hamilton, 579–580
    - responsibilities, 580
  - government strategy, 611–612
  - privatization, 91
  - public opinion, 579
- Health information
  - Electronic Health Record
    - patient access, 587
  - protection of privacy, 585, 741
    - Information and Privacy Commissioner, recommendations, 585
    - Ontario Health, 586, 594
- Home and community care
  - government strategy, 42
- Home and community care - staff
  - compensation
    - for travel, 581
  - recruitment and retention, 581
  - shortage
    - impact on patient-staff continuity, 582
- Hospitals - by site
  - Health Sciences North, 572
- Housing - by region
  - Gogama
    - public housing, surplus, 40–41
- Immunization
  - vaccines
    - hepatitis B virus, 483
- Interprovincial trade
  - facilitation of
    - and reciprocity, 240
  - labour mobility
    - impact on health care, 238
    - interprovincial recruitment and retention, 239
  - mutual recognition of goods and services
    - as deregulation, 240
- Intimate partner violence
  - epidemic, declaration of, 460, 470–471
- Judges
  - transfer eligibility for new judges
    - bilinguality, 456
- Long-term care
  - models of care
    - Finlandia Village, 503
- Long-term care facilities - by site
  - Finlandia Village, 503
- Long-term care - public vs. private
  - funding, use of, 155
- Medical equipment
  - AED (automatic defibrillators)
    - registry, 40
- Medical Officers of Health
  - class orders by local medical officers, 583–584
- Members' statements
  - Emergency services, 1047
  - Home Renovation Savings Program, 19
  - Services for persons with disabilities, 550
- Mental health and addictions services
  - wait-list, 410
  - wait-time, 651
- Mining industry
  - abandoned mines
    - responsibility, 1310–1311
- Mining industry - Indigenous communities
  - duty to consult, 71
- More Convenient Care Act, 2025 (Bill 11)
  - second reading, 483, 579–588, 735, 741, 749
- Municipal Accountability Act, 2025 (Bill 9)
  - second reading, 926
- 911 services
  - availability of, 1047
- Northern Ontario School of Medicine
  - funding, 610–611
  - general remarks, 610–611
- Nurse practitioner-led clinics
  - general remarks, 610
  - quality of care, 613
- Nurse practitioners
  - scope of practice, 584
    - expansion, 749
    - mandatory blood reporting, 584–586
- Nurses
  - nurse-to-patient-ratio, 560
- Nurses - temporary agencies
  - accountability and oversight
    - fees, disclosure, 582, 587
  - hiring
    - impact, 582–583, 735
  - hiring practices, 582
  - northern Ontario, 583
  - other jurisdictions, 583
- Ontario Health atHome
  - and French Language Services Act, 581
- Opposition day motions
  - Hospital funding
    - responded to, 572
- Patient-to-Nurse Ratios for Hospitals Act, 2025 (Bill 19)
  - first reading, 627–628
- Personal support workers (PSWs)
  - shortage
    - impact on patient care, 582
- Peter Kormos Memorial Act (Saving Organs to Save Lives), 2025 (Bill 4)
  - first reading, 34
- Petitions
  - Anti-vaping initiatives for youth, 214
  - Assistive devices, 164, 389–390, 916–917
  - Blood and plasma donation, 98
  - Cancer screening, 390
  - Cancer treatment, 35, 162–163, 390, 629–630, 917
  - Caregivers, 35, 165
  - Child care, 392
  - Emergency services, 35–36, 325–326, 501, 628–629, 811–812
  - Front-line workers, 98–99, 326
  - Gasoline prices, 98, 391, 501
  - Health care, 36, 97, 164, 391–392, 500, 629, 812
  - Health care funding, 98, 326, 630
  - Herbicides, 499–500
  - Highway safety, 35, 215–216, 917–918
  - Labour legislation, 216, 629
  - Long-term care, 390–391
  - Lupus, 811
  - Mental health services, 324
  - Northern Health Travel Grant, 36, 216
  - Pharmacare, 916
- Post-secondary education
  - impact, 108
- Primary Care Act, 2025 (Bill 13)
  - second reading, 609–613
- Private members' public business
  - Pharmacare
    - responded to, 946
- Protect Ontario by Building Faster and Smarter Act, 2025 (Bill 17)
  - second reading, 867, 872–876, 881, 883–884, 888
- Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
  - second reading, 108, 238–240, 243
- Protect Ontario Through Safer Streets and Stronger Communities Act, 2025 (Bill 10)
  - second reading, 456, 460, 470–471
- Question period
  - Health care
    - presented, 91
  - Long-term care
    - presented, 155
  - Nurses
    - presented, 559–560
- Safer Municipalities Act, 2025 (Bill 6)
  - second reading, 410, 632–633, 647, 651
- School facilities - maintenance and repair
  - impact, 867
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 40–42, 55, 59, 71, 177, 503
- Unhoused persons
  - encampments
    - removal, enforcement, 633
  - prosecution of
    - financial penalties, 647
- Wildland fire management
  - fire inspectors
    - powers
      - Indigenous communities, 1307, 1310
  - plans, 1311
Gilmour, A. (NDP, Parkdale—High Park)
- Autism services
  - service capacity
    - treatment wait-list, 794–795
- Budget 2025/2026
  - climate change, 821
- Budget speech 2025 (May 15, 2025)
  - responded to, 962–964
- Children and youth in care
  - fatalities, 912
- Education
  - government strategy, 125–126
- French-language debates
  - Budget de l’Ontario de 2025 (15 mai 2025), 964
  - Loi de 2025 pour protéger l’Ontario en favorisant le libre échange au Canada, projet de loi 2
    - deuxième lecture, 122, 124
- Government accountablity and oversight
  - special economic zones, 701
- Hospitals - infrastructure
  - as nation-building, 570
- Housing development
  - government strategy, 124–125
- Indigenous relations
  - government strategy, 280
- LGBTQ2S+ community
  - discrimination against, 177
- Members' inaugural speeches, 122–124
- Members' personal narratives, 122–125
- Members' statements
  - Government accountability, 701
  - Riding of Parkdale–High Park, 148
- Members'/ministers' constituencies
  - Parkdale—High Park, 148
- Mining industry
  - approvals and permits process
    - government strategy, 341
- Opposition day motions
  - Hospital funding
    - responded to, 570
- Petitions
  - Social assistance, 163, 812
- Plan to Protect Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2025 (Bill 24)
  - second reading, 794–795, 821
- Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5)
  - second reading, 280, 340–342
- Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
  - second reading, 122–126
- Question period
  - Child and family services
    - presented, 912
  - Homelessness
    - presented, 776
  - Special-needs students
    - presented, 319
- Ring of Fire development
  - Indigenous consultation and consent, 123
- Special economic zones
  - accountability and oversight, 342
  - and duty to consult, 341–342
  - general remarks, 340–341
- Students - special needs
  - injuries and fatalities, 319
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 177
- Unhoused persons
  - government strategy, 776
  - Manitoba, 776
Glover, C. (NDP, Spadina—Fort York)
- Budget speech 2025 (May 15, 2025)
  - responded to, 1009–1013
- Consumer protection
  - product labelling
    - domestic/international/interprovincial, 221–222
    - price increases, 222
- Craft breweries
  - government strategy, 232
- Economic conditions
  - general remarks, 221
- Government accountability and oversight
  - personal phone use, Premier, 384
- Government finances
  - general remarks, 795
- Health care
  - uninsured, 612
- Hospitals - by site
  - Haliburton Highlands Heath Services (HHHS) - Minden
    - emergency room closure, 702
- Hospitals - infrastructure
  - as nation-building, 570–571
- International trade - tariffs, United States
  - American partnerships, impact on
    - nuclear power generation, 301
- Israel-Hamas war
  - impact on civilian populations, 1340
- Members' statements
  - Community Recognition Awards, 149
  - Hospital services, 702
- More Convenient Care Act, 2025 (Bill 11)
  - second reading, 741, 750
- Nuclear generation facilities
  - Bruce Power
    - government funding, 300
- Nurses - temporary agencies
  - hiring
    - cost, 741
- Ontario Place - lease of, redevelopment agreements
  - cancellation, 93
  - Therme, 146
- Opposition day motions
  - Consumer protection
    - responded to, 221–222
  - Hospital funding
    - responded to, 570–571
- Petitions
  - Ontario Place, 96–97
- Pharmacists and pharmacies
  - MedsCheck program
    - billing, 750
- Plan to Protect Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2025 (Bill 24)
  - second reading, 795, 898–899
- Primary Care Act, 2025 (Bill 13)
  - second reading, 612
- Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5)
  - second reading, 146, 288, 293, 300–301, 306
- Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
  - second reading, 232, 242
- Question period
  - Government accountability
    - presented, 93, 384
- Special economic zones
  - allocation
    - accountability and oversight, 288
  - government strategy, 306
  - Ontario Place, 1215
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 62
- Wildland fire management
  - government funding, 1311
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
  - reform, 242
Gretzky, L. (NDP, Windsor West)
- Autism services
  - wait-list, 836
- Automotive industry - employment
  - government strategy, 491–492
- Budget 2025/2026
  - health care, 835
  - social services, 836
- Canadian Hearing Services
  - labour disputes, 806
- Children's aid societies (CASs)
  - budget deficits, 836
- Education funding - special education
  - general remarks, 840
- Employment
  - rate of, 836
- Health care - funding
  - per capita, 835
  - public vs. private, 835
- Health care system
  - government strategy, 674
- Highways and roads - construction and expansion
  - government strategy, 264
- Intimate partner violence
  - government strategy, 838
- Job creation and loss
  - Windsor West, 614
- Members' statements
  - Riding of Windsor West, 614
- Mental health and addictions
  - government strategy, 836
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP)
  - access, barriers, 836
- Persons with disabilities
  - services for
    - labour disputes, 264–265
- Plan to Protect Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2025 (Bill 24)
  - second reading, 835–836, 838–839
- Primary Care Act, 2025 (Bill 13)
  - second reading, 674, 677
- Public health
  - government funding, 835
  - measles
    - government strategy, 835
- Question period
  - Automotive industry
    - presented, 491–492
  - Labour dispute
    - presented, 264–265, 806
- Strong mayor system
  - general remarks, 1341
- Transportation infrastructure development
  - government strategy, 264
- Unhoused persons
  - government strategy, 836
  - prosecution of, 836
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
  - staff
    - labour dispute, 1266–1267
Grewal, H.S. (PC, Brampton East)
- Highway 413
  - government strategy, 773
- Highways and roads
  - traffic congestion
    - government strategy, 90–91, 320–321, 773
- Highways and roads - construction and expansion
  - Highway 413, 977
- Members' statements
  - Government investments, 83, 766
- Question period
  - Public transit
    - responded to, 622
  - Transportation infrastructure
    - responded to, 90–91, 264, 320–321, 773, 977
- Transit - construction and expansion
  - government strategy, 622
Gualtieri, S. (PC, Mississauga East—Cooksville)
- Highway 413
  - government strategy, 773
- Highways and roads
  - traffic congestion
    - government strategy, 90, 772
- Members' inaugural speeches, 171–172
- Members' personal narratives, 171–174
- Members' statements
  - Events in Mississauga East–Cooksville, 425–426, 969
  - ProAction Cops & Kids, 20
- Members'/ministers' constituencies
  - Mississauga East–Cooksville, 172–173
- Question period
  - Transportation infrastructure
    - presented, 90, 772–773
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 170–174
- Women
  - in leadership roles, 173

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House speaker index

Letter: G

Gallagher Murphy, D. (PC, Newmarket—Aurora)

Gates, W. (NDP, Niagara Falls)

Gélinas, F. (NDP, Nickel Belt)

Gilmour, A. (NDP, Parkdale—High Park)

Glover, C. (NDP, Spadina—Fort York)

Gretzky, L. (NDP, Windsor West)

Grewal, H.S. (PC, Brampton East)

Gualtieri, S. (PC, Mississauga East—Cooksville)