Letter: B

• Bail hearings

  • bail support teams
    • Rae, 465

• Bail program

  • government funding
    • Wong-Tam, 442
  • statistics
    • Tabuns, 530
  • sureties
    • Tabuns, 530
    • ability to supervise
      • Tabuns, 530–531

• Bail program - offenders

  • recidivism
    • Ciriello, 465–466

• Bail program - reform

  • ankle monitors, cost
    • Ciriello, 1229
    • Downey, 366–367

• Bail program reform

  • federal government, role of
    • Hamid, 528
    • Smith, David, 457
  • gender-based violence cases
    • Fraser, 461

• Bail program - reform

  • general remarks
    • Downey, 375
    • Riddell, 375
    • Schreiner, 1229
  • government strategy
    • Downey, 1225–1226

• Bail program reform

  • government strategy
    • Hamid, 528, 535
    • Pang, 455, 457
      • Wong-Tam, 442, 452

• Bail program - reform

  • reverse onus
    • Downey, 367

• Bail program reform

  • systemic review
    • Rae, 465

• Bail verification and supervision

  • bail bed programs
    • Tabuns, 530
  • offender monitoring
    • Anand, 537
    • Hamid, 528
    • Pang, 455
  • vs. pretrial detention
    • Tabuns, 530
  • programs
    • Tabuns, 531

• Basic Income Pilot cancellation

  • class action suit
    • Vaugeois, 970

• Bicycles - bike lanes

  • arterial roads
    • McMahon, 843
  • economic impact
    • McMahon, 841
  • government strategy
    • Oosterhoff, 843
  • litigation
    • Downey, 383
    • McMahon, 383
  • other jurisidictions
    • McKenney, 842
    • McMahon, 843
  • removal
    • Bowman, 831
    • McMahon, 841
    • government funding
      • McMahon, 774
      • Sarkaria, 774
  • traffic congestion
    • McMahon, 842
    • Oosterhoff, 842

• Bill 142, Better for Consumers, Better for Businesses Act, 2023

  • impact of
    • Riddell, 220

• Bill 200, Homeowner Protection Act, 2024

  • impact
    • Riddell, 220–221

• Bills referred to committee

  • Government bills
    • Municipal Accountability Act, 2025 (Bill 9), 983
    • Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5), 389
    • Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2), 244

• Black community

  • awards
    • African Caribbean and Black Excellence Scholarship Awards
      • Triantafilopoulos, 1205

• Border security

  • government strategy
    • Bethlenfalvy, 784

• Broadband infrastructure development

  • impact on health care
    • Scott, L., 676

• Budget 2025/2026

  • Schreiner, 843–844
  • affordability
    • Bell, 724
    • Hazell, 840
  • alcohol sales
    • Hazell, 840
  • arts and culture industry
    • McMahon, 842
  • business and employment
    • Bell, 819–820
    • Bowman, 823
    • Thompson, 833
  • climate change
    • Gilmour, 821
    • McMahon, 842
  • comments on
    • Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario
      • Bowman, 823
    • Eastern Ontario Wardens' Caucus
      • Thompson, 831
    • Fraser Institute
      • Bowman, 824
    • Ontario Chamber of Commerce
      • Bowman, 830
      • Leardi, 830
    • Western Ontario Wardens' Caucus
      • Thompson, 831
  • education
    • Bell, 815–816
    • Blais, 828
    • Hazell, 840–841
    • McMahon, 841–842
    • Pasma, 846–848
    • Shamji, 827
    • Thompson, 833
  • fire services
    • Bourgouin, 843
  • general remarks
    • Bell, 822
    • Bethlenfalvy, 779
    • Blais, 831
    • Bowman, 825
    • Smyth, 822
  • government strategy
    • Bethlenfalvy, 804
    • Darouze, 804
  • health care
    • Bell, 814–815
    • Blais, 828
    • Gates, 837
    • Gretzky, 835
    • McMahon, 842
    • Pasma, 846
    • Shamji, 826–827, 839
    • Thompson, 832
  • housing
    • Bell, 816–818
    • Shamji, 827
  • infrastructure
    • Thompson, 832
  • police services
    • Kerzner, 845
  • post-secondary education
    • Bell, 818–819
    • Blais, 828–829
    • Bowman, 824
    • Thompson, 833
  • pre-budget consultations
    • Association of Municipalities of Ontario
      • Bell, 726–727
    • Fix Our Schools
      • Bell, 725–726
    • Ontario Alliance to End Homelessness
      • Bell, 817
    • Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations
      • Bell, 727
    • Ontario Council of Hospital Unions
      • Bell, 725, 814
    • Ontario Federation of Agriculture
      • Bell, 727, 820
    • Ontario Medical Association
      • Bell, 724–725
    • Ontario Public Transit Association
      • Bell, 727
    • Unifor
      • Bell, 724
  • program spending
    • vs. inflation
      • Bowman, 823
    • per capita
      • Bowman, 824
  • rural economic development
    • Thompson, 832–833
  • sewage and wastewater
    • Gates, 839
    • Kernaghan, 839
  • social services
    • Gretzky, 836
  • transit
    • Hazell, 841

• Budget speech 2025 (May 15, 2025),

  778–785, 959–968, 998–1023, 1035–1045
  • presented
    • Bethlenfalvy, 778–785
  • responded to
    • Bailey, 1008
    • Bell, 959–962
    • Bowman, 966–968, 998–1004, 1008
    • Burch, 1043–1045
    • Collard, 1013–1014, 1016, 1038
    • Cuzzetto, 1038–1039
    • Fairclough, 1035–1039, 1042
    • Fraser, 1035
    • Gélinas, 1007–1008, 1016
    • Gilmour, 962–964
    • Glover, 1009–1013
    • Harris, 1043
    • Jordan, 1012, 1016–1017
    • Kernaghan, 1012
    • Leardi, 1004–1008, 1019–1020
    • McKenney, 1039
    • Rae, 1020, 1042
    • Sandhu, 1013, 1016
    • Sattler, 964–966, 1012, 1020
    • Shaw, 1020, 1038
    • Smith, L., 1011, 1015, 1017–1020
    • Smyth, 1007
    • Stevens, 1008, 1019, 1043
    • Vanthof, 1042
    • Vaugeois, 1016, 1021–1023
    • Vickers, 1039–1043
    • Watt, 1014–1017

• Building code

  • government strategy
    • Flack, 1200

• Building Ontario Fund

  • general remarks
    • Smith, Dave, 793

• Business

  • facilitation of
    • government strategy
      • Fedeli, 76–77
      • Hardeman, 808
      • Kanapathi, 808
  • government funding
    • conditions
      • Bell, 819
    • Protecting Ontario Account
      • Bowman, 823
      • Shamji, 826
    • Venture Ontario
      • Bethlenfalvy, 781

• Business environment

  • competitiveness
    • Anand, 344
  • government strategy
    • Anand, 348

• Business investment

  • government strategy
    • Allsopp, 1049, 1054
    • Bethlenfalvy, 779
    • Dixon, 910
    • Dowie, 339–340
    • Fedeli, 905, 910, 973, 1050–1051, 1112, 1114, 1273–1274
    • Firin, 1114
    • Leardi, 340
    • Rosenberg, 729
    • West, 347

• Business investments

  • government strategy
    • Fedeli, 385–386
    • Hardeman, 385
  • by region
    • Brantford
      • Fedeli, 385
      • Hardeman, 385

• Business - local

  • government strategy
    • Sarkaria, 789
  • promotion of
    • Anand, 1280
    • Crawford, 1280
    • Pasma, 228
    • Buy Ontario, Buy Canadian Day
      • Bailey, 158
      • Crawford, 80, 158, 908–909
      • Dowie, 132
      • Fairclough, 231
      • Gallagher Murphy, 107
      • Gélinas, 243
      • McCarthy, 197
      • Sattler, 107
      • Shamji, 107
      • Stevens, 136
      • Tangri, 118
      • Vaugeois, 243
    • Ontario Made program
      • Tangri, 119

• Business - small- and medium-sized

  • closures
    • Bowman, 328
  • general remarks
    • Kernaghan, 333
  • government strategy
    • Bailey, 159
    • Bell, 336
    • Crawford, 159
    • Jordan, 912
    • Pierre, 713
    • Tangri, 387, 713, 912
    • Wai, 387
  • reports and recommendations
    • Canadian Federation of Independent Business
      • Kernaghan, 102–103
  • and United States tariffs
    • government strategy
      • Bowman, 115
      • Hazell, 122
      • Jordan, 911
      • Kernaghan, 121
      • Tangri, 121–122, 911–912
  • US tariffs, impact on
    • Bowman, 50

• Business structures

  • employee-owned
    • Kernaghan, 333–334

• Business - taxation

  • small business tax rate
    • statements by stakeholders
      • Bowman, 328–329

• Buy Ontario

  • government strategy
    • Crawford, 203–204
    • Stiles, 203
    • West, 502
    • procurement policy
      • Fairclough, 514
      • Sattler, 513–514