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No. 13	N^o 13

Votes and Proceedings	Procès-verbaux
Legislative Assembly of Ontario	Assemblée législative de l'Ontario
Wednesday December 10, 2003 Daytime Meeting - Sessional Day 22	Mercredi 10 décembre 2003 Séance de l'après-midi - jour de session 22
1^st Session, 38^th Parliament	1^re session 38^e législature


PRAYERS 1:30 P.M.			PRIÈRES 13 H 30
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS			DÉPÔT DES PROJETS DE LOI
The following Bills were introduced and read the first time:-			Les projets de loi suivants sont présentés et lus une première fois:-
Bill 20, An Act to amend the Occupational Health and Safety Act to increase the penalties for contraventions of the Act and regulations. Mr. Kormos.			Projet de loi 20, Loi modifiant la Loi sur la santé et la sécurité au travail en vue d'augmenter les peines en cas d'infraction aux dispositions de la Loi et des règlements. M. Kormos.
Bill 21, An Act to amend the Ontario Water Resources Act with respect to water source protection. Ms. Churley.			Projet de loi 21, Loi modifiant la Loi sur les ressources en eau de l'Ontario en ce qui concerne la protection des sources d'alimentation en eau. M^me Churley.
Bill 22, An Act to promote patients' rights. Ms. Martel.			Projet de loi 22, Loi visant à promouvoir les droits des patients. M^me Martel.

MOTIONS			MOTIONS
With unanimous consent, on motion by Mr. Bisson,			Avec le consentement unanime, sur la motion de M. Bisson,
Ordered, That notwithstanding the Order of the House dated November 26, 2003, when the House adjourns at 6:00 p.m. today, it shall stand adjourned until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning.

DEFERRED VOTES			VOTES DIFFÉRÉS
The deferred vote on the motion by Mr. Caplan that the Speech of His Honour the Lieutenant Governor to this House be taken into consideration as early as the first sessional day following passage of this motion was carried on the following division:-
AYES / POUR - 86

Agostino Arnott Arthurs Baird Barrett Bartolucci Bentley Berardinetti Bountrogianni Bradley Broten Brown Brownell Bryant Cansfield Caplan Chambers Chudleigh	Colle Cordiano Craitor Crozier Delaney Dhillon Di Cocco Dombrowsky Duguid Duncan Dunlop Eves Flaherty Flynn Fonseca Gerretsen Gravelle	Hardeman Hoy Hudak Jackson Jeffrey Kennedy Klees Kwinter Lalonde Leal Levac Marsales Martiniuk Matthews Mauro McGuinty McMeekin		McNeely Meilleur Miller Milloy Munro Orazietti O'Toole Ouellette Parsons Peters Peterson Phillips Pupatello Qaadri Ramal Ramsay Rinaldi	Runciman Ruprecht Sandals Sergio Smith Smitherman Sorbara Takhar Tascona Van Bommel Watson Wilkinson Wilson Wong Wynne Yakabuski Zimmer


NAYS / CONTRE - 6

Bisson Churley	Kormos	Marchese		Martel	Prue

PETITIONS			PÉTITIONS
Petition relating to protecting rights of consumers to purchase tobacco (Sessional Paper No. P-1) Mr. O'Toole.
Petitions relating to freezing and reducing tuition fees (Sessional Paper No. P-10) Mr. Brown and Mr. Ruprecht.
Petition relating to investigating the Toronto District School Board leasing arrangements (Sessional Paper No. P-11) Mr. Ruprecht.
Petitions relating to equity in education tax credit (Sessional Paper No. P-21) Mr. Hudak and Mr. Martiniuk.
Petition relating to a referendum allowing the citizens of the former Town of Dundas to vote on de-amalgamating from the City of Hamilton (Sessional Paper No. P-22) Mr. McMeekin.
Petition relating to helping needy students with tuition waivers, creating a rapid re-employment and training project and creating an employee training tax credit (Sessional Paper No. P-25) Mr. McMeekin.

ORDERS OF THE DAY			ORDRE DU JOUR
Opposition Day			Jour de l'opposition
Mr. Eves moved,			M. Eves propose,
That the Legislative Assembly call upon the government, To recognize that the government has imposed retroactive tax increases on the people of Ontario which is bad public policy and to recognize that the government is increasing the tax burden on low and middle income earners while at the same time breaking several of the more than 230 promises made during the 2003 general election campaign, To honour their promise to the people of Ontario from page 13 of the Liberal Platform document - Government That Works For You: The Liberal Plan for a More Democratic Ontario and "comply with the Taxpayer Protection Act and balanced budget legislation (and) not bend the law at whim." and That the Liberal government not pass Bill 2 until it has obtained the express permission of the people of Ontario by way of a referendum as required by the Taxpayer Protection Act, 1999 and in accordance with the Taxpayer Protection Pledge from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation signed by Mr. McGuinty. Premier of Ontario.
A debate arising, after some time, the motion was lost on the following division:-			Un débat s'ensuit et après quelque temps, la motion est rejetée par le vote suivant:-
AYES / POUR - 21

Arnott Baird Barrett Chudleigh Dunlop	Eves Flaherty Hardeman Hudak	Jackson Martiniuk Miller Munro		O'Toole Ouellette Runciman Scott	Sterling Tascona Wilson Yakabuski


NAYS / CONTRE - 66

Agostino Arthurs Bartolucci Bentley Berardinetti Bountrogianni Bradley Broten Brown Brownell Bryant Cansfield Caplan Chambers	Colle Cordiano Craitor Delaney Di Cocco Dombrowsky Duguid Duncan Flynn Fonseca Gerretsen Gravelle Hoy	Jeffrey Kennedy Kular Kwinter Lalonde Leal Levac Marsales Matthews Mauro McGuinty McMeekin McNeely		Meilleur Milloy Mitchell Mossop Orazietti Parsons Patten Peterson Phillips Qaadri Racco Ramal Ramsay	Ruprecht Sandals Sergio Smith Smitherman Sorbara Takhar Van Bommel Watson Wilkinson Wong Wynne Zimmer

The House then adjourned at 6:05 p.m.			À 18 h 05, la chambre a ensuite ajourné ses travaux.

le président Alvin Curling Speaker

SESSIONAL PAPERS PRESENTED PURSUANT TO STANDING ORDER 39(A):-			DOCUMENTS PARLEMENTAIRES DÉPOSÉS CONFORMÉMENT À L'ARTICLE 39(A) DU RÈGLEMENT
Ontario Securities Commission/Commission des valeurs mobilières de l'Ontario, Annual Report 2003 (No. 21).

December 10, 2003