Legislative Assembly of Ontario

Legislative

Assembly
of Ontario

Assemblée

législative
de l’Ontario

Votes and Proceedings

Procès-verbaux

No. 40

No 40

1st Session
42nd Parliament

1re session
42e législature

Wednesday
October 24, 2018

Mercredi

24 octobre 2018

9:00 A.M.

9 H

PRAYERS

PRIÈRES

The Speaker addressed the House:-

Le Président s’adresse à la Chambre :-

I beg to inform the House that, pursuant to Standing Order 71(b), the Member for Waterloo (Ms. Fife) has notified the Clerk of her intention to file notice of a reasoned amendment to the motion for Second Reading of Bill 47, An Act to amend the Employment Standards Act, 2000, the Labour Relations Act, 1995 and the Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 and make complementary amendments to other Acts (Sessional Paper No. 86).

The Order for Second Reading of Bill 47 may therefore not be called today.

ORDERS OF THE DAY

ORDRE DU JOUR

Motion for allocation of time on Bill 34, An Act to repeal the Green Energy Act, 2009 and to amend the Electricity Act, 1998, the Environmental Protection Act, the Planning Act and various other statutes.

Debate resumed and after some time,

Le débat a repris et après quelque temps,

The question was then put.

La question a ensuite été mise aux voix.

Vote deferred.

Le vote est différé.

At 9:57 a.m., the Government House Leader indicated that no further morning business would be called and therefore the House recessed.

À 9 h 57, le leader parlementaire du gouvernement a indiqué que l’ordre du jour de la séance du matin étant épuisé, la Chambre suspendait ses travaux.

10:30 A.M.

10 H 30

ORAL QUESTIONS

QUESTIONS ORALES

DEFERRED VOTES

VOTES DIFFÉRÉS

Motion for allocation of time on Bill 34, An Act to repeal the Green Energy Act, 2009 and to amend the Electricity Act, 1998, the Environmental Protection Act, the Planning Act and various other statutes.

Carried on the following division:-

Adoptée par le vote suivant :-

AYES / POUR - 71

Anand

Baber

Babikian

Bailey

Barrett

Bethlenfalvy

Bouma

Calandra

Cho (Willowdale)

Clark

Coe

Fullerton

Ghamari

Gill

Hardeman

Harris

Hillier

Hogarth

Jones

Kanapathi

Karahalios

Ke

McDonell

McNaughton

Miller (Parry Sound–Muskoka)

Mitas

Mulroney

Nicholls

Oosterhoff

Pang

Park

Parsa

Pettapiece

Sarkaria

Scott

Simard

Skelly

Smith (Bay of Quinte)

Smith (Peterborough–Kawartha)

Surma

Tangri

Thanigasalam

Thompson

Tibollo

AYES / POUR - Continued

Crawford

Cuzzeto

Downey

Dunlop

Elliott

Fedeli

Fee

Khanjin

Kramp

Kusendova

Lecce

MacLeod

Martin

Martow

Phillips

Piccini

Rasheed

Roberts

Romano

Sabawy

Sandhu

Triantafilopoulos

Wai

Walker

Wilson

Yakabuski

Yurek

NAYS / CONTRE - 37

Andrew

Armstrong

Arthur

Begum

Bell

Berns-McGown

Bisson

Bourgouin

Coteau

Des Rosiers

Fife

Fraser

Gates

Gélinas

Glover

Gretzky

Harden

Hassan

Hatfield

Horwath

Hunter

Karpoche

Kernaghan

Lalonde

Lindo

Mamakwa

Monteith-Farrell

Morrison

Natyshak

Rakocevic

Schreiner

Shaw

Stevens

Tabuns

Taylor

Vanthof

West

Ordered, That, pursuant to Standing Order 47 and notwithstanding any other Standing Order or Special Order of the House relating to Bill 34, An Act to repeal the Green Energy Act, 2009 and to amend the Electricity Act, 1998, the Environmental Protection Act, the Planning Act and various other statutes, when the Bill is next called as a Government Order, the Speaker shall put every question necessary to dispose of the Second Reading stage of the Bill without further debate or amendment; and

That, the vote on Second Reading may not be deferred pursuant to Standing Order 28(h); and

That, at such time the Bill shall be ordered referred to the Standing Committee on Social Policy; and

That the Standing Committee on Social Policy be authorized to meet on Monday, October 29, 2018 and Tuesday, October 30, 2018 from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. for public hearings on the Bill; and

That the Clerk of the Committee, in consultation with the Committee Chair, be authorized to arrange the following with regard to Bill 34:

• That the deadline for requests to appear be 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 25, 2018; and

• That, the Clerk of the Committee provide a list of all interested presenters to each member of the Sub-committee and their designate following the deadline for requests to appear by 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 25, 2018; and

• That, each member of the Sub-committee or their designate provide the Clerk of the Committee with a prioritized list of presenters to be scheduled, chosen from the list of all interested presenters received by the Clerk, by 12:00 p.m. on Friday, October 26, 2018; and

• That each witness will receive up to ten minutes for their presentation followed by ten minutes divided equally amongst the recognized parties for questioning; and

That the deadline for filing written submissions be 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 30, 2018; and

That the deadline for filing amendments to the Bill with the Clerk of the Committee shall be 12:00 p.m. on Monday, November 5, 2018; and

That the Standing Committee on Social Policy shall be authorized to meet on Monday, November 12, 2018 from 9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. and from 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. for clause-by-clause consideration of the Bill; and

That on Monday, November 12, 2018 at 5:30 p.m., those amendments which have not yet been moved shall be deemed to have been moved, and the Chair of the Committee shall interrupt the proceedings and shall, without further debate or amendment, put every question necessary to dispose of all remaining sections of the Bill and any amendments thereto. At this time, the Chair shall allow one 20-minute waiting period pursuant to Standing Order 129(a); and

That the Committee shall report the Bill to the House no later than Tuesday, November 13, 2018. In the event that the Committee fails to report the Bill on that day, the Bill shall be deemed to be passed by the Committee and shall be deemed to be reported to and received by the House; and

That, upon receiving the report of the Standing Committee on Social Policy, the Speaker shall put the question for adoption of the report forthwith, and at such time the Bill shall be ordered for Third Reading, which Order may be called that same day; and

That, notwithstanding Standing Order 81(c), the Bill may be called for Third Reading more than once in the same sessional day; and

That, in the case of any division relating to any proceedings on the Bill, the division bell shall be limited to 10 minutes.

The House recessed at 11:57 a.m.

À 11 h 57, la Chambre a suspendu la séance.

3:00 P.M.

15 H

REPORTS BY COMMITTEES

RAPPORTS DES COMITÉS

Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills:-

Comité permanent des règlements et des projets de loi d’intérêt privé :-

Bill Pr1, An Act to revive Crystal-Kirkland Mines, Limited.

Bill Pr2, An Act to revive 2063434 Ontario Limited.

Reported without amendment.

Rapport est fait sans propositions d’amendement.

Report adopted.

Rapport adopté.

Ordered for Second Reading.

Ordonnés pour la deuxième lecture.

PETITIONS

PÉTITIONS

Health and physical education curriculum (Sessional Paper No. P-2) Mr. Schreiner.

Implementing minimum wage (Sessional Paper No. P-4) Ms. Andrew, Ms. Karpoche and Ms. Singh (Brampton Centre).

Health Sciences North (Sessional Paper No. P-46) Mme Gélinas.

Sanctions for any person convicted under any of sections 83.18 to 83.221 of the Criminal Code of Canada (Sessional Paper No. P-62) Mr. Piccini, Mr. Roberts and Mr. Sabawy.

ORDERS OF THE DAY

ORDRE DU JOUR

Second Reading of Bill 32, An Act to amend the Ontario Energy Board Act, 1998.

Deuxième lecture du projet de loi 32, Loi modifiant la Loi de 1998 sur la Commission de l’énergie de l’Ontario.

Debate resumed and after some time,

Le débat a repris et après quelque temps,

At 6:00 p.m., the following matter was considered in an adjournment debate.

À 18 h, la question suivante a été examinée dans un débat d’ajournement.

Member for London—Fanshawe (Ms. Armstrong) to the Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care – Home care.

The House adjourned at 6:10 p.m.

À 18 h 10, la Chambre a ajourné ses travaux.

le président

Ted Arnott

Speaker

RESPONSES TO PETITIONS

RÉPONSES AUX PÉTITIONS

Implementing minimum wage (Sessional Paper No. P-4):

(Tabled August 14; September 17, 2018) Ms. Andrew.

(Tabled September 19, 20, 24, 2018) Ms. Karpoche.

(Tabled August 9, 13, 2018) Ms. Singh (Brampton Centre).

(Tabled August 13; September 17, 2018) Ms. Stiles.

(Tabled September 24, 2018) Mr. West.

Rural public transit (Sessional Paper No. P-27):

(Tabled August 9, 2018) Mr. Gravelle.