Letter: S

• Sabawy, S. (PC, Mississauga—Erin Mills)

  • Employment
    • government strategy, 155–156
  • Members' statements
    • Cairns, Robert, 702
    • Egypt Festival, 702
    • Riding of Mississauga–Erin Mills, 200, 798
  • Members'/ministers' constituencies
    • Mississauga—Erin Mills, 200
  • Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
    • second reading, 193
  • Question period
    • Job creation
      • responded to, 155–156
    • Public transit
      • presented, 622
  • Transit - construction and expansion
    • government strategy, 622
  • Tributes
    • Cairns, Robert, 702

• Sandhu, A. (PC, Brampton West)

  • Employment services
    • training and retraining
      • Skills Development Fund, 492
  • Highways and roads
    • traffic congestion
      • government strategy, 977
  • Highways and roads - construction and expansion
    • Highway 413, 977
  • Members' statements
    • Malala Yousafzai Public School, 902–903
    • Mother's Day, 376
  • Ontario Place - lease of, redevelopment agreements
    • transparency and accountability, 86–89, 91–93
  • Question period
    • Government accountability
      • responded to, 86–93
    • Infrastructure funding
      • responded to, 808
    • Skills development
      • presented, 492–493
    • Water quality
      • responded to, 93
  • Sewage and wastewater infrastructure
    • Niagara region
      • government funding, 808

• Sarkaria, Hon. P.S. (PC, Brampton South)

  • Bicycles - bike lanes
    • removal
      • government funding, 774
  • Business - local
    • government strategy, 789
  • Economic development
    • by region
      • rural and northern Ontario, 314–315
  • Electric vehicles
    • government strategy, 788
  • Electricity supply
    • demand, 788
  • GO Transit
    • electrification
      • Lakeshore East line, 805
  • Government finances
    • government strategy, 787
  • Health care
    • capital projects, 787–788
  • Highways and roads
    • northern Ontario, 1281
    • traffic congestion
      • government strategy, 384, 788
  • Highways and roads - construction and expansion
    • Highway 401 tunneling, 788
  • Highways and roads - safety
    • Highway 11/17, 31
    • northern Ontario, 31
  • International trade - tariffs, United States
    • government response, 787–789
  • Light Rail Transit (LRT) - Eglinton Crosstown
    • general remarks, 492
  • Light Rail Transit (LRT) - Ottawa
    • uploading and expansion, 494
  • Mining industry
    • critical minerals, extraction, 788
  • Mining industry - Indigenous communities
    • participation in, 788
  • Nuclear energy
    • government strategy, 788
  • Plan to Protect Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2025 (Bill 24)
    • second reading, 787–789, 794–795
  • Population
    • growth projections
      • greater Golden Horseshoe area, 788
  • Question period
    • Cycling infrastructure
      • responded to, 383, 774
    • Highway safety
      • responded to, 31
    • Northern economy
      • responded to, 314–315
    • Public transit
      • responded to, 321, 386–387, 492, 494, 496, 558, 715, 805
    • Transportation infrastructure
      • responded to, 211–212, 379–380, 383–384, 560–561
  • Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) expansion - Scarborough subway extension
    • general remarks, 321
  • Transit
    • capital projects, 1348
    • government strategy, 492, 496, 980
  • Transit - by region
    • Etobicoke—Lakeshore, 715
  • Transit construction and expansion - by region
    • Toronto
      • Sheppard extension, 386
  • Transit development
    • general remarks, 1055–1056
    • government funding, 978

• Sarrazin, S. (PC, Glengarry—Prescott—Russell)

  • French-language debates
    • Déclarations des députées et députés
      • Événements divers à Glengarry–Prescott–Russell, 549

• Sattler, P. (NDP, London West)

  • Budget speech 2025 (May 15, 2025)
    • responded to, 964–966
  • Business - local
    • promotion of
      • Buy Ontario, Buy Canadian Day, 107
  • Buy Ontario
    • government strategy
      • procurement policy, 513–514
  • Canadian Free Trade Agreement
    • party-specific exemptions
      • removal, 104
  • Colleges and universities
    • government funding, 773
  • Council on Equality of Opportunity
    • advocacy work, 522
  • Drugs - illegal
    • municipal responses
      • London, 632
    • use in public places
      • law enforcement powers, 423
  • Government contracts
    • domestic vs. international corporations, 197
  • Health care
    • delivery models
      • public vs. private, 683
    • privatization, 666–667, 686
  • International trade - tariffs, United States
    • government strategy, 252
  • Interprovincial trade
    • barriers
      • impact, 105–106, 117–118
      • nature of, 104–105
    • direct-to-consumer alcohol sales
      • healthcare cost, 105
    • labour mobility
      • impact, 105
    • London, ON, impact on, 514–515
    • mutual recognition of goods and services, 106
      • as deregulation, 240
  • Intimate partner violence
    • epidemic, declaration of, 374
    • government response
      • consultations, 461
      • reports and recommendations, 457
  • Judicial appointments - Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee
    • assessment criteria, 538
  • Members' statements
    • Battle of the Atlantic Day, 310
    • Events in London West, 901–902
  • Members/ministers quoting
    • news media
      • interprovincial trade, 106
  • Mental health and addictions services
    • Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment (HART) Hubs
      • supportive housing, 631–632
  • Municipal Accountability Act, 2025 (Bill 9)
    • second reading, 948–952
  • Petitions
    • Education funding, 563
    • Environmental protection, 810
    • Ontario Place, 97–98
    • Tenant protection, 438
  • Post-secondary education
    • government funding, 504
    • government strategy, 95, 106
    • impact, 108
    • as nation-building, 514
    • reports and recommendations, 106–107
  • Post-secondary education - funding
    • per student, 1349
    • program closures, 106
    • reports and recommendations, 497
  • Primary Care Act, 2025 (Bill 13)
    • second reading, 666–667, 682–683, 686
  • Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5)
    • second reading, 252
  • Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
    • second reading, 103–108, 117–118, 193, 197, 240
  • Protect Ontario Through Safer Streets and Stronger Communities Act, 2025 (Bill 10)
    • second reading, 374, 457, 461, 538
  • Question period
    • University and college funding
      • presented, 95, 497, 773
  • Safer Municipalities Act, 2025 (Bill 6)
    • second reading, 423–424, 631–633
  • Supportive housing
    • capacity needed, 424, 631
    • impact, 632–633
    • statistics, 632
    • value for money, 424
  • Throne speech
    • post-secondary education
      • funding, 513–514
  • Throne speech debate
    • participation, 67, 504, 511, 513–515, 525
  • Trump, Donald (President of the United States)
    • government strategy, 514
    • jobs, impact on, 515
  • Unhoused persons
    • encampments, 423, 631
      • alternatives, availability, 633
      • prevalence, 631
      • removal, enforcement, 633
    • by region
      • London, 631
    • research and statistics, 631
    • service needs, 631
  • Unhoused persons - support programs and services
    • community supports
      • government funding, 632

• Saunderson, B. (PC, Simcoe—Grey)

  • Automotive industry
    • government strategy, 794
  • Cadets
    • Murray Whetung Community Service Award, 549–550
  • Court administration
    • government strategy, 641
  • Health care
    • capital projects, 834
  • Health care workers
    • education and training
      • recruitment and retention, impact on, 547
  • Housing development
    • government strategy, 642–643
  • Housing development - approvals and permits
    • construction standards
      • municipal authority, 762
    • new materials and products, 761
    • required studies, limitation of, 763
  • Housing development - infrastructure
    • government funding, 761
    • municipal role, 763
  • Housing development - municipal charges
    • development charges, 762
      • accountability and transparency, 762–763
      • credit flexibility, 762
      • deferral until occupancy, 762
      • framework, standardization, 762
      • rates paid, variability, 762
    • development charges, exemptions and discounts
      • impact, 762
      • long-term care homes, 762
  • Housing supply
    • government strategy, 761, 763
  • Housing supply - population growth projections
    • general remarks, 761
  • Infrastructure development
    • government funding, 821
  • Members' statements
    • Canadian cadet program, 549–550
    • Volunteer service awards, 549–550
  • Ontario University Athletics Week Act, 2025 (Bill 22)
    • first reading, 715
  • Parks
    • by location
      • Collingwood, 641
  • Plan to Protect Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2025 (Bill 24)
    • second reading, 794, 821, 834
  • Primary Care Act, 2025 (Bill 13)
    • second reading, 547
  • Protect Ontario by Building Faster and Smarter Act, 2025 (Bill 17)
    • second reading, 761–763, 870
  • Safer Municipalities Act, 2025 (Bill 6)
    • second reading, 632, 638–643, 650
    • statements from stakeholders, 640
    • Trespass to Property act, changes to, 640
  • Unhoused persons
    • encampments, 639
      • alternatives, availability, 642
      • government response, 639, 641
    • other jurisdictions, 643
  • Unhoused persons - support programs and services
    • general remarks, 639
    • government funding, 632, 641–642
    • government strategy, 640, 650
    • impact, 640

• Schreiner, M. (GRN, Guelph)

  • Agriculture industry - food processing
    • government strategy, 170
  • Appreciation
    • Paikin, Steve, 1271
  • Bail program - reform
    • general remarks, 1229
  • Environmental protection
    • general remarks, 169
  • International trade - tariffs, United States
    • general remarks, 169
  • Judicial appointments
    • politics in, 1228–1229
  • Land use planning - environmental assessments
    • exemptions, 348
  • Members' statements
    • Carberry, Braden, 767
  • Mining industry
    • general remarks, 348
  • Petitions
    • Environmental protection, 916
    • School facilities, 629
    • Services for the developmentally disabled, 163
  • Plan to Protect Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2025 (Bill 24)
    • second reading, 843–844
  • Private members' public business
    • Pharmacare
      • responded to, 944
  • Protect Ontario by Building Faster and Smarter Act, 2025 (Bill 17)
    • second reading, 880–881
  • Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5)
    • second reading, 348–349
    • suspension of, 1214
  • Protect Ontario Through Safer Streets and Stronger Communities Act, 2025 (Bill 10)
    • legislative process
      • consultations, 1229
  • Protect Our Food Act, 2025 (Bill 21)
    • first reading, 628
  • Question period
    • Government accountability
      • presented, 263
    • Land use planning
      • presented, 623–624
  • Ring of Fire development
    • environmental assessments, comprehensive, 170
    • Indigenous consultation and consent, 170
  • Social services
    • government funding, 170
  • Special economic zones
    • accountability and oversight, 263, 348–249
    • and duty to consult, 263, 348–349
    • farmland, 624
  • Species at risk
    • protection
      • environmental permit process, 348–349
      • habitat, definition of, 348
  • Throne speech debate
    • participation, 169–170
  • Tributes
    • Carberry, Braden, 767
  • Water protection
    • government strategy, 170

• Scott, C. (PC, Sault Ste. Marie)

  • Debates re answers to question period
    • Government accountability
      • responded to, 188
  • Doctors - primary care
    • recruitment and retention, 666
  • Economic development
    • government strategy, 188
  • Health care
    • access
      • northern Ontario, 665–666
  • Health care - primary care
    • access
      • northern Ontario, 666
    • general remarks, 665
    • Primary Care Action Plan, 665, 667
    • team-based, 666
  • Hospital services - emergency
    • government strategy, 667
  • Housing development
    • government strategy, 806
  • International trade
    • missions
      • Asia, 156
  • Members' statements
    • ARCH Hospice, 702–703
    • Sault College Cougars women's hockey team, 201
  • Mining industry
    • international involvement
      • limitation of, 145–146
    • regulatory environment, 157
      • other jurisdictions, 188
    • regulatory reform, 145
  • Northern Ontario School of Medicine
    • enrolment spaces, expansion, 666
  • Nurse practitioner-led clinics
    • funding, 667
  • Primary Care Act, 2025 (Bill 13)
    • second reading, 665–667
  • Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5)
    • second reading, 145–146
  • Question period
    • Government accountability
      • responded to, 157
    • International trade
      • presented, 156
  • Regulations
    • and provincial economy, 188

• Scott, L. (PC, Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock)

  • Broadband infrastructure development
    • impact on health care, 676
  • Community Health Centres (CHCs)
    • capital projects, by region
      • Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, 677
  • Extreme weather events
    • government strategy, 434
  • Health care
    • government strategy, 675
    • by region
      • Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, 676–677
  • Health care - funding
    • general remarks, 675
  • Health care - primary care
    • general remarks, 675
    • government funding, 675
    • government strategy, 676
    • Primary Care Action Plan, 676
    • teaching clinics, 676, 678
    • team-based, 676
  • Health care workers
    • recruitment and retention, 675–677
  • Hospital services - emergency
    • care models, programs, 677
  • Members' statements
    • Ice storm, 377
    • Seniors' services, 903
  • Mental health and addictions services
    • Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment (HART) Hubs, 638
  • Minden Hospital - Haliburton Highlands Health Services
    • CAT scanner
      • impact, 675, 678
    • emergency department, closure, 678
  • Nurse practitioner-led clinics
    • funding, 676
  • Nurse practitioners
    • scope of practice
      • expansion, 676
  • Nurses
    • appreciation, 675
  • Primary Care Act, 2025 (Bill 13)
    • second reading, 674–679
  • Question period
    • Emergency preparedness
      • presented, 434
    • Housing
      • presented, 805–806
  • Safer Municipalities Act, 2025 (Bill 6)
    • second reading, 638
  • Senior citizens
    • appreciation of, 903
  • Throne speech debate
    • participation, 173

• Shamji, A. (LIB, Don Valley East)

  • Budget 2025/2026
    • education, 827
    • health care, 826–827, 839
    • housing, 827
  • Business
    • government funding
      • Protecting Ontario Account, 826
  • Business - local
    • promotion of
      • Buy Ontario, Buy Canadian Day, 107
  • Cost of living
    • affordability, 337
  • Doctors - family doctors
    • administrative responsibilities, 657
      • vaccine logistics, 657
    • recruitment and retention, 596
    • shortage
      • attrition, 657, 664, 670
  • Employment
    • creation and loss
      • government strategy, 826
    • job creation and loss, 614
  • Francophone community
    • government services, access to, 589
  • Government accountability and oversight
    • special economic zones, 294–296
  • Government debt and deficit
    • general remarks, 826
  • Government expenditures
    • allocation of, 825–826
  • Health care
    • access
      • barriers to, 660
    • emergency
      • government funding, 709–710
    • government's duty to provide, 547–548
  • Health care - primary care
    • access
      • impact on patient health, 656–657
    • general remarks, 659
    • government strategy, 659, 664
    • Primary Care Action Plan, 826
      • high-priority postal codes, selection, 659
    • rostering
      • goals, 659
    • statistics, 66
    • team-based, 596, 656, 665
      • and allied health care professionals, 659–660
      • government funding, 665
  • Health care services
    • fees for OHIP services, 658
  • Health care system
    • and Canada Health Act principles, 658, 660
    • priorities, 574–575
    • statistics, 656, 658–659
  • Health care workers - recruitment and retention
    • compensation, 826
    • employment
      • temporary agencies, 658
  • Health Connect Ontario
    • wait-list
      • transparency, 661
  • Health information
    • protection of privacy, 660
  • Hospitals - infrastructure
    • as nation-building, 574
  • Housing development
    • construction starts
      • projections, 827
    • government strategy, 1203–1204
  • Housing development - construction
    • methods
      • modular housing, 827
  • International trade - tariffs, United States
    • reactions
      • time sensitivity, 297
  • Interprovincial trade
    • labour mobility
      • interprovincial recruitment and retention, 133–134
  • Land use planning - ministerial zoning orders (MZOs)
    • use of, 417
  • Measles
    • outbreaks
      • government response, 323
    • vaccination
      • government strategy, 432
  • Medical Officers of Health
    • class orders by local medical officers
      • Chief Medical Officer approval, 590–591
      • time sensitivity, 589–590
  • Members' statements
    • Job creation, 614
    • National Nursing Week, 614
  • Mental health and addictions services
    • Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment (HART) Hubs
      • implementation, 1347
      • and overdose rates, 419
  • Minden Hospital - Haliburton Highlands Health Services
    • emergency department, closure, 678
  • Mining industry - Indigenous communities
    • duty to consult, 295–298
  • More Convenient Care Act, 2025 (Bill 11)
    • second reading, 588–592, 596, 599–600
  • Nurse practitioners
    • compensation, 592
    • scope of practice
      • mandatory blood reporting, 591
  • Nurses - temporary agencies
    • accountability and oversight, 590
      • fees, disclosure, 590, 600
    • government strategy, 590
    • hiring
      • impact, 589
  • Ontario Health atHome
    • medical supplies, procurement contracts
      • shortages, 588
    • regional organizations, consolidation of
      • impact, 588
  • Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP)
    • private clinics, 658
  • Ontario Place - lease of, redevelopment agreements
    • cancellation, 89
  • Ontario Science Centre
    • closure
      • engineering report, 803
  • Opposition day motions
    • Hospital funding
      • responded to, 574–575
    • Taxation
      • responded to, 337–338
  • Pharmacists and pharmacies
    • MedsCheck program
      • billing, 658
  • Plan to Protect Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2025 (Bill 24)
    • second reading, 825–827, 839
  • Post-secondary education
    • French-language
      • access, 589
  • Primary Care Act, 2025 (Bill 13)
    • and Commitment to the Future of Medicare Act, 2004, 658
    • second reading, 547–548, 656–665, 670, 673, 678
    • regulation and enforcement, 657–658, 661–663
      • and sections 5 and 6, 662–664
  • Private members' public business
    • Pharmacare
      • responded to, 942
  • Protect Ontario by Building Faster and Smarter Act, 2025 (Bill 17)
    • second reading, 860–861, 867–868
  • Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5)
    • consultations
      • with Indigenous communities, 345
    • second reading, 276, 294–298, 340, 344–345
    • general remarks, 1279
    • legal challenges, protection from, 296
  • Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
    • second reading, 107, 129, 133–134
    • stakeholder consultations, 116
  • Public health
    • measles
      • government strategy, 206–207
  • Public health units
    • northern Ontario
      • amalgamation of units, 589–590
  • Question period
    • Government accountability
      • presented, 89–90, 709
    • Health care funding
      • presented, 709–710
    • Ontario Science Centre
      • presented, 803–804
    • Public health
      • presented, 206–207, 323, 431–432
  • Regulatory reform
    • planning process, 276
  • Rental housing
    • government strategy, 827
  • Safer Municipalities Act, 2025 (Bill 6)
    • second reading, 416–419
  • Special economic zones
    • allocation
      • accountability and oversight, 297
  • Taxation
    • reduction, 337
  • Throne speech debate
    • participation, 51–52, 62, 522, 526
  • Unhoused persons
    • encampments, 416
      • removal and jail capacity, 418
    • factors affecting, 418
    • government strategy, 1199
    • health care services, access, 418
    • prosecution of, 418
    • research and statistics, 417
  • Unhoused persons - support programs and services
    • impact, 417

• Shaw, S. (NDP, Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas)

  • Court administration - backlogs
    • impact, 468
  • French-language debates
    • Loi de 2025 pour protéger l’Ontario en favorisant le libre échange au Canada, projet de loi 2
      • deuxième lecture, 239
    • Loi de 2025 pour protéger l’Ontario en rendant les rues plus sûres et les collectivités plus fortes, projet de loi 10
      • deuxième lecture, 453
  • Health care - primary care
    • statistics, 751
  • Health information
    • protection of privacy
      • data brokerage, 745, 752
      • government liability, 752
  • Hospital services
    • department closures, 751
  • Hospital services - emergency
    • availability, 751
    • wait-time, 751
  • Hospitals - budgets
    • deficits, 751
  • International trade - tariffs, United States
    • film and television industry, 433
  • Judges
    • independence of, 463, 468
  • Landfills
    • Dresden
      • environmental assessment, 304
  • Measles
    • outbreaks, 751
  • Members' statements
    • Government accountability, 969
    • Red Dress Day, 310
  • Mining industry - Indigenous communities
    • duty to consult, 302–303
  • More Convenient Care Act, 2025 (Bill 11)
    • second reading, 738, 745, 751–753
  • Nurses - temporary agencies
    • hiring
      • cost, 738, 751–752
  • Occupational health and safety
    • education and awareness, safety
      • National Day of Mourning, 242
  • Pharmacists and pharmacies
    • MedsCheck program
      • billing, 752
  • Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5)
    • second reading, 302–305
    • general remarks, 969
  • Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
    • second reading, 234, 242
    • Indigenous communities, duty to consult, 234
  • Protect Ontario Through Safer Streets and Stronger Communities Act, 2025 (Bill 10)
    • second reading, 463, 468
  • Question period
    • Ontario film and television industry
      • presented, 432–433
  • Special economic zones
    • government strategy, 303–306
  • Species at risk
    • designation
      • government strategy, 1213
  • Throne speech debate
    • participation, 58

• Smith, Dave (PC, Peterborough—Kawartha)

  • Building Ontario Fund
    • general remarks, 793
  • Consumer protection
    • product labelling
      • domestic/international/interprovincial, 322–323
  • Cost of living
    • factors affecting, 329
    • government strategy, 315, 318, 321–322, 329–331
  • Debates re answers to question period
    • Government spending
      • responded to, 948
  • Economic conditions
    • government strategy, 316
  • Economic development - northern Ontario
    • government strategy, 793
  • Electricity system
    • surplus, battery storage, 792–793
  • Employment services
    • training and retraining
      • Skills Development Fund, 795
  • Energy conservation
    • efficiency programs
      • energy costs, impact on, 329
  • Fuel prices - taxation
    • rate reduction, extension, 792
  • Highway 407
    • tolls, removal of, 792
  • Housing development
    • government strategy, 710
  • Hydroelectricity industry
    • government strategy, 793
  • Infrastructure development
    • government strategy, 793
  • International trade - tariffs, United States
    • general remarks, 792
  • Interprovincial trade
    • barriers
      • impact, 792
  • Invest Ontario
    • government funding, 793
    • role of, 793–794
  • Members' statements
    • King Charles III Coronation Medal, 550
  • Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates
    • inflation, 331
  • Opposition day motions
    • Taxation
      • responded to, 329–331
  • Pension plans
    • government role, 1118–1119
  • Plan to Protect Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2025 (Bill 24)
    • second reading, 791–795, 844, 850
  • Question period
    • Ontario economy
      • responded to, 322–323
    • Taxation
      • responded to, 315–316, 318, 321–322
  • Tributes
    • King Charles III Coronation Medal
      • Ontario chapter of Canadian Peacekeepers, 550

• Smith, David (PC, Scarborough Centre)

  • Bail program reform
    • federal government, role of, 457
  • Members' statements
    • Family Service Toronto, 703
    • Member for Scarborough Centre, 201
  • Mining industry
    • government strategy, 208
  • Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5)
    • second reading, 278–279
  • Protect Ontario Through Safer Streets and Stronger Communities Act, 2025 (Bill 10)
    • second reading, 457
  • Question period
    • Housing
      • presented, 710
    • Mining industry
      • responded to, 208

• Smith, Hon. G. (PC, Parry Sound—Muskoka)

  • Housing development - approvals and permits
    • general remarks, 758
    • required studies, limitation of, 760
  • Housing development - municipal charges
    • development charges, 759
    • development charges, exemptions and discounts
      • impact, 759–760
  • Housing policy
    • upzoning
      • mid-density, 764
  • Housing supply
    • format diversity, 760
  • Interprovincial trade
    • direct-to-consumer alcohol sales, 131
    • impact, 130
    • labour mobility, 130–131
  • Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 758
  • Municipal Accountability Act, 2025 (Bill 9)
    • second reading, 694–697, 700
    • stakeholder consultations, 695
  • Municipal governance
    • bad-faith actors, removal of, 696
      • criteria, 696, 700
      • standard investigation process, 695–696
    • code of conduct, standard, 694–695, 700
    • general remarks, 694
    • integrity commissioners, 695
      • role of Integrity Commissioner of Ontario, 695
  • Municipal-provincial relations
    • Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO), 695
  • Protect Ontario by Building Faster and Smarter Act, 2025 (Bill 17)
    • second reading, 758–760, 764
    • stakeholder consultations, 758–759
  • Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
    • second reading, 130–131, 133
  • Trade with United States
    • government strategy, 133

• Smith, L. (PC, Thornhill)

  • Antisemitism
    • awareness and education initiatives, 149
  • Automobile thefts
    • government response, 1353
  • Court administration
    • government strategy, 421
  • Crime - government response
    • general remarks, 1353
  • Gender-based violence - prevention
    • programs
      • Ontario-STANDS, 70–71
  • Health care - primary care
    • teaching clinics, 735
  • Health care workers
    • recruitment and retention, 738
  • Housing development
    • government strategy, 806
  • Indigenous communities
    • government strategy
      • economic development, 777
  • Interprovincial trade
    • direct-to-consumer alcohol sales, 243
    • labour mobility, 229
  • Intimate partner violence
    • government response, 446
      • funding, 460
  • Justice centres
    • facilities, development of, 464
  • Members' statements
    • DANI's Place, 703
    • End Jew Hatred Day, 149
  • More Convenient Care Act, 2025 (Bill 11)
    • second reading, 595, 735, 738, 750
  • Municipal Accountability Act, 2025 (Bill 9)
    • second reading, 697–701
    • Integrity Commissioner, recommendations, 699
    • stakeholder consultations, 697–698
  • Municipal governance
    • accountability, 699
    • bad-faith actors, removal of, 697
    • code of conduct, standard
      • other jurisdictions, 698
  • Nurse practitioners
    • scope of practice
      • expansion, 750
      • mandatory blood reporting, 595
  • Ontario Sex Offender Registry
    • scope, 453
  • Primary Care Act, 2025 (Bill 13)
    • second reading, 670
  • Protect Ontario by Building Faster and Smarter Act, 2025 (Bill 17)
    • second reading, 858, 871, 884
  • Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
    • second reading, 192, 228–229, 243
  • Protect Ontario Through Safer Streets and Stronger Communities Act, 2025 (Bill 10)
    • second reading, 446, 453, 456, 460, 464, 472
  • Question period
    • Housing
      • responded to, 806
    • Indigenous economic development
      • presented, 777
  • Safer Municipalities Act, 2025 (Bill 6)
    • second reading, 418, 420–423
    • Trespass to Property act, changes to, 420–421
  • Throne speech debate
    • participation, 54, 66–67, 70–71
  • Unhoused persons
    • encampments, 418, 420
      • alternatives, availability, 422
      • government response, 423
      • impact, 423
      • public safety, 420
    • government funding, allocation, 423
    • and municipalities, 421
  • Unhoused persons - support programs and services
    • government funding, 421
    • government strategy, 422

• Smyth, S. (LIB, Toronto—St. Paul's)

  • Appreciation
    • Paikin, Steve, 1271
  • Budget 2025/2026
    • general remarks, 822
  • Health information
    • protection of privacy
      • data brokerage, 746
  • Housing development
    • government strategy, 1203
  • Jewish community
    • education and awareness
      • Jewish Heritage Month, 796
  • Light Rail Transit (LRT) - Eglinton Crosstown
    • delays
      • local businesses, impact on, 492
    • public-private partnerships (P3s), 492
  • Medical Officers of Health
    • class orders by local medical officers
      • Chief Medical Officer approval, 742
  • Members' inaugural speeches, 189–192
  • Members' personal narratives, 189–194
  • Members' statements
    • Jewish Heritage Month, 796–797
  • Members'/ministers' constituencies
    • Toronto—St. Paul's, 190–191
  • Mining industry
    • environmental impact, 289
  • Mining industry - Indigenous communities
    • duty to consult, 279
  • More Convenient Care Act, 2025 (Bill 11)
    • second reading, 742, 746
  • Municipal Accountability Act, 2025 (Bill 9)
    • second reading, 952–953, 955–956
  • News media
    • role of, 193
  • Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates
    • doubling, 558–559
  • Plan to Protect Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2025 (Bill 24)
    • second reading, 821–822
  • Protect Ontario by Building Faster and Smarter Act, 2025 (Bill 17)
    • second reading, 871, 893
  • Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5)
    • committee process, 301, 1216
    • consultations, 1054
    • second reading, 279, 289, 301
    • government strategy, 1216–1217
  • Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
    • second reading, 117, 133, 189–194
    • implementation
      • process, 117, 133
  • Protect Ontario Through Safer Streets and Stronger Communities Act, 2025 (Bill 10)
    • second reading, 460
  • Question period
    • Government accountability
      • presented, 160
    • Ontario Disability Support Program
      • presented, 558–559
    • Public transit
      • presented, 492
  • Special economic zones
    • accountability and oversight, 160
  • Unhoused persons
    • prosecution of
      • and court backlogs, 460

• Stevens, J. (NDP, St. Catharines)

  • Business - local
    • promotion of
      • Buy Ontario, Buy Canadian Day, 136
  • Consumer protection
    • product labelling
      • domestic/international/interprovincial, 225
  • Food prices
    • price gouging, 225
  • GO Transit - service expansion - by region
    • Niagara
      • St. Catharines, 558
  • Health care workers - recruitment and retention - international
    • immigration process, 1352
  • Hospitals - by region
    • Niagara
      • urgent care centre closures, 706
  • Hospitals - infrastructure
    • government strategy, 576
  • International trade - tariffs, United States
    • government response, 134–135
  • Interprovincial trade
    • labour mobility
      • and unions, 117
    • mutual recognition of goods and services
      • as deregulation, 136, 237
  • Members' statements
    • Government accountability, 903
    • National Nursing Week, 375
  • Nurses
    • National Nursing Week, 375
  • Opposition day motions
    • Consumer protection
      • responded to, 225
    • Hospital funding
      • responded to, 576
  • Petitions
    • Visitor parking fees, 500, 562
  • Protect Ontario by Building Faster and Smarter Act, 2025 (Bill 17)
    • second reading, 859, 871, 884–885
  • Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
    • second reading, 117, 134–136, 237
  • Question period
    • Health care funding
      • presented, 706
    • Infrastructure funding
      • presented, 808
    • Public transit
      • presented, 558
  • Sewage and wastewater infrastructure
    • Niagara region
      • government funding, 808
  • Special economic zones
    • accountability and oversight, 903
  • Waterloo, Region of
    • economy, 549

• Stiles, M. (NDP, Davenport)

  • Automotive industry
    • facility closures, 256–257
  • Automotive industry - employment
    • electric vehicles, 618
    • government strategy, 151, 313–314, 768
  • Buy Ontario
    • government strategy, 203
  • Consumer protection
    • product labelling, 217–218
      • domestic/international/interprovincial, 218
      • impact, 226
      • price increases, 218
  • Cost of living
    • food prices
      • government strategy, 203
  • Economic development
    • government strategy, 973
    • by region
      • rural and northern Ontario, 314–315
  • Electric vehicles - batteries, manufacturing by site
    • Honda (Alliston)
      • postponement
        • government strategy, 617–618
  • French-language debates
    • Jour de l'opposition
      • Protection du consommateur, 226
  • Government accountability and oversight
    • response to tariffs, 205
  • Government advertising
    • cost of, 906
    • partisan, 800, 906
  • Government contracts
    • domestic vs. international corporations, 24–25
  • Greenbelt - boundary adjustments, process
    • accountability and transparency, 427
    • FOI requests, 427
    • premier's staff
      • communication, personal devices, 799–800
  • Health care - northern Ontario
    • central command centre, 705–706
  • Health care system
    • emergency rooms
      • closures, 705
  • Highways and roads - construction and expansion
    • highway 401 tunnelling, 379–380
  • Hospitals - infrastructure
    • as nation-building, 552, 563–565, 578
  • Housing development
    • government funding, 488
  • Indigenous relations
    • general remarks, 1345
  • Infrastructure development
    • as nation-building, 769
  • Infrastructure development - funding
    • federal funds, allocation, 487–488
  • International trade
    • general remarks, 217
  • International trade - tariffs, United States
    • film and TV, 378–379
    • government response, 151, 257
    • income protection, 23–24
  • Landfills
    • Dresden
      • environmental assessment, 204
      • environmental assessment vs. environmental compliance approval, 1274–1275
  • Manufacturing industry
    • and United States tariffs, 24
  • Measles
    • outbreaks
      • government response, 428, 488
      • statistics, 428
    • vaccination
      • education and awareness, 428
  • Members'/ministers' remarks
    • withdrawn, 906, 1345
  • Members'/ministers' statements
    • withdrawn, 801
  • Nurses
    • recruitment and retention
      • private staffing agencies vs. public nurses, 551
  • Ontario Place - lease of, redevelopment agreements
    • cancellation, 85–86
  • Opposition day motions
    • Consumer protection
      • presented, 216–218
      • responded to, 225–226
    • Hospital funding
      • presented, 563–565
      • responded to, 578
  • Pension plans
    • government strategy, 24
  • Pharmacists and pharmacies
    • MedsCheck program
      • billing, 552
  • Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5)
    • consultations, 1109
    • general remarks, 1344
    • legal liability, 905, 972–973, 1110, 1344
    • public opinion, 971–972, 1049, 1111, 1344
    • suspension of, 1208
  • Question period
    • Automotive industry
      • presented, 151, 256–257, 313–314, 617–618, 768–769
    • Employment supports
      • presented, 23–24
    • Government accountability
      • presented, 85–86, 204–205, 427, 799–800, 905, 971–972
    • Government advertising
      • presented, 800–801, 906
    • Government contracts
      • presented, 24–25
    • Government investments
      • presented, 769
    • Health care
      • presented, 551–552
    • Hospital funding
      • presented, 552
    • Hospital services
      • presented, 705–706
    • Housing
      • presented, 487–488
    • Infrastructure funding
      • presented, 487–488
    • Northern economy
      • presented, 314–315
    • Ontario economy
      • presented, 86–87, 203–204
    • Ontario film and television industry
      • presented, 378–379
    • Public health
      • presented, 428, 488
    • Special education
      • presented, 152
    • Supportive housing
      • presented, 257–258
    • Transportation infrastructure
      • presented, 379–380
  • Special economic zones
    • accountability and oversight, 905, 972, 1048–1049, 1110, 1272–1273
      • worker protections, 973, 1274
    • laws, impact on, 1208
    • statements from stakeholders, 905
  • Steel industry
    • Canadian content requirements, 1276
  • Students - special needs
    • funding per student, 152
    • injuries and fatalities, 152
    • reports and recommendations, 152
  • Supportive housing
    • wait-list, 257–258
  • Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) expansion - Ontario Line
    • transit vehicles
      • content requirements, percentage, 315
  • Trade with United States
    • government strategy, 86–87
  • Unhoused persons
    • encampments, 258
  • Workplace safety
    • Injured Workers Day
      • moments of silence, 1048

• Surma, Hon. K. (PC, Etobicoke Centre)

  • Auditor General of Ontario - reports
    • 2024 Annual Report
      • Ontario Place redevelopment, 153
  • Highways and roads
    • traffic congestion
      • government strategy, 488
  • Housing development
    • government funding, 488
  • Infrastructure development
    • government strategy, 488
  • Members'/ministers' remarks
    • withdrawn, 153–154
  • Ontario Place
    • redevelopment of
      • government strategy, 154
  • Ontario Place - lease of, redevelopment agreements
    • transparency and accountability, 26–28, 30, 205
  • Protect Ontario by Building Faster and Smarter Act, 2025 (Bill 17)
    • second reading, 867–872
  • Question of privilege
    • misrepresentation
      • presented, 161
  • Question period
    • Government accountability
      • responded to, 26–28, 30, 153–154, 205–206, 384
    • Housing
      • responded to, 487–488
    • Infrastructure funding
      • responded to, 808–809
  • Sewage and wastewater infrastructure
    • Niagara region
      • government funding, 808–809