Legislative Assembly of Ontario

Legislative

Assembly
of Ontario

Assemblée

législative
de l’Ontario

Votes and Proceedings

Procès-verbaux

No. 105

No 105

1st Session
42nd Parliament

1re session
42e législature

Monday

May 13, 2019

Lundi

13 mai 2019

10:30 A.M.

10 H 30

PRAYERS

PRIÈRES

With unanimous consent,

Avec le consentement unanime,

On motion by Mme Des Rosiers,

Sur la motion de Mme Des Rosiers,

Ordered, That notwithstanding Standing Order 43(a)(iii), the Member for Ottawa—Vanier (Mme Des Rosiers) shall be permitted to speak for up to five minutes during the time allotted for the Opposition Day scheduled for May 13, 2019.

With unanimous consent,

Avec le consentement unanime,

On motion by Mr. Schreiner,

Sur la motion de M. Schreiner,

Ordered, That notwithstanding Standing Order 43(a)(iii), the Member for Guelph (Mr. Schreiner) shall be permitted to speak for up to five minutes during the time allotted for the Opposition Day scheduled for May 13, 2019.

The House expressed its condolence on the death of Peter Adams, Member for the Electoral District of Peterborough from September 10, 1987 to September 5, 1990.

ORAL QUESTIONS

QUESTIONS ORALES

The House recessed at 12:02 p.m.

À 12 h 02, la Chambre a suspendu la séance.

1:00 P.M.

13 H

The Speaker delivered the following ruling:-

Le Président a rendu la décision suivante :-

On May 13, 2019, the Member from Don Valley East (Mr. Coteau) submitted a notice of his intention to raise a question of privilege. I am now prepared to rule on the matter without hearing further from the Member, as Standing Order 21(d) permits me to do.

The notice alleges that the Minister of Children, Community and Social Services provided false information to the House regarding the government’s funding for services for children with autism. The Member points to incongruences between the program funding published in the Ministry’s Expenditure Estimates, and numbers cited by the Minister in the House, as evidence that the Minister deliberately misled the House. The Member alleges that this amounts to a contempt of the House.

The Member references the McGee test for determining whether a Member has deliberately misled the House, which has been cited by previous Speakers of this House. The McGee test (as set out on page 775, Fourth Edition) is as follows:

As Speaker Carr elaborated on June 17, 2002 (at page 102 of the Journals), and as I reiterated in a ruling on March 28 of this year:

McGee (on page 776, Fourth Edition) elaborates on the high threshold required for a finding of misleading the House:

In making his case, the Member for Don Valley East cites numbers taken from the 2017-2018 Public Accounts and compares them to the Estimates for the coming year, which I believe the Member inadvertently referred to in his submission as “the government’s recently released public accounts”. However, the difference in these documents is crucial to his accusation. The Public Accounts are an audited statement of the Province’s actual expenditures. The Estimates are simply a forecast of the Government’s proposed spending at a moment in time. They are open to fluctuations and amendments as circumstances change. These two documents report financial information in different ways from each other and are not cross-referential.

It is for this reason I cannot find that the requirements for a finding of misleading the House have been met, and a prima facie case of contempt has not been established. I thank the Member from Don Valley East for his submission.

INTRODUCTION OF BILLS

DÉPÔT DES PROJETS DE LOI

The following Bill was introduced and read the first time:-

Le projet de loi suivant est présenté et lu une première fois :-

Bill 113, An Act to amend the Ministry of Correctional Services Act with respect to solitary confinement. Mme Des Rosiers.

Projet de loi 113, Loi modifiant la Loi sur le ministère des Services correctionnels en ce qui concerne l’isolement cellulaire. Mme Des Rosiers.

MOTIONS

MOTIONS

Mr. Lecce moved,

M. Lecce propose,

That pursuant to Standing Order 6(c)(i), the House shall meet from 6:45 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Monday, May 13, 2019 for the purpose of considering government business.

Carried on division.

Adoptée au vote.

PETITIONS

PÉTITIONS

The Long-Term Care Homes Act (Sessional Paper No. P-13) Mme Gélinas.

Climate action plan and carbon pricing mechanisms (Sessional Paper No. P-59) Ms. Andrew, Mme Des Rosiers, Ms. Karpoche and Mr. Schreiner.

Memorial honouring war veterans (Sessional Paper No. P-68) Mr. Barrett.

Highway of Heroes tree campaign (Sessional Paper No. P-110) Mr. Hatfield.

Town of Oakville (Sessional Paper No. P-115) Mr. Crawford and Ms. Triantafilopoulos.

Ban on plastic bags and polystyrene packaging (Sessional Paper No. P-122) Mme Des Rosiers.

Post secondary education (Sessional Paper No. P-130) Mr. Glover.

Library funding (Sessional Paper No. P-134) Mr. Vanthof.

ORDERS OF THE DAY

ORDRE DU JOUR

Opposition Day

Jour de l’opposition

Ms. Horwath moved,

Mme Horwath propose,

Whereas climate change is currently harming human populations in Ontario through tornadoes, floods, forest fires and other environmental disasters, generating threats to human life through illness, injury and displacement; and

Whereas marginalized people, including working-class people, Indigenous, Black and other racialized peoples, young people, and women have suffered the most, and benefitted the least from the conditions that have led to the climate crisis; and

Whereas climate change is currently endangering the survival of many species of plants and animals in Ontario, as well as jeopardizing the health of our natural environment; and

Whereas climate change is currently contributing to massive property and infrastructure damage across Ontario through tornadoes, floods, forest fires and other environmental disasters; and

Whereas the increasing frequency of 100-year storm events have threatened the insurability of properties across Ontario; and

Whereas the cost of inaction is projected to be far higher than the cost of action, and credible research indicates the need for immediate, decisive action on climate change in order to avoid harmful impacts on our society, environment and economy;

Therefore, the Legislative Assembly calls on the Government of Ontario to declare a climate emergency in order to officially recognize climate change as a real threat to our environment, our people and our economy, and develop provincial strategies and an action plan that will mitigate these threats and preserve our province for future generations.

Debate arose and after some time,

Il s’élève un débat et après quelque temps,

The question was then put.

La question a ensuite été mise aux voix.

Lost on the following division:-

Rejetée par le vote suivant :-

AYES / POUR - 39

Andrew

Armstrong

Arthur

Bell

Berns-McGown

Bisson

Burch

Des Rosiers

Fife

Fraser

French

Gates

Gélinas

Glover

Harden

Hassan

Hatfield

Horwath

Hunter

Karpoche

Lindo

Mamakwa

Mantha

Miller (Hamilton East—Stoney Creek)

Monteith-Farrell

Morrison

Natyshak

Rakocevic

Schreiner

Shaw

Singh (Brampton Centre)

Stevens

Stiles

Tabuns

Taylor

Vanthof

West

Wynne

Yarde

NAYS / CONTRE - 68

Anand

Baber

Babikian

Bailey

Barrett

Bethlenfalvy

Bouma

Calandra

Cho (Scarborough North)

Cho (Willowdale)

Clark

Coe

Crawford

Cuzzetto

Downey

Dunlop

Elliott

Fedeli

Fee

Ford

Fullerton

Ghamari

Gill

Hardeman

Harris

Hogarth

Jones

Kanapathi

Karahalios

Ke

Khanjin

Kramp

Kusendova

Lecce

Martin

Martow

McDonell

McKenna

McNaughton

Miller (Parry Sound–Muskoka)

Mulroney

Nicholls

Oosterhoff

Pang

Park

Parsa

Pettapiece

Phillips

Piccini

Rasheed

Rickford

Roberts

Romano

Sabawy

Sandhu

Scott

Skelly

Smith (Bay of Quinte)

Smith (Peterborough—Kawartha)

Surma

Tangri

Thanigasalam

Thompson

Tibollo

Triantafilopoulos

Wai

Walker

Yakabuski

Second Reading of Bill 107, An Act to amend the Highway Traffic Act and various other statutes in respect of transportation-related matters.

Deuxième lecture du projet de loi 107, Loi modifiant le Code de la route et diverses autres lois à l’égard de questions relatives au transport.

Debate resumed and after some time the House recessed at 6:00 p.m.

Le débat a repris et après quelque temps, à 18 h, la Chambre a suspendu la séance.

6:45 P.M.

18 H 45

ORDERS OF THE DAY

ORDRE DU JOUR

Second Reading of Bill 107, An Act to amend the Highway Traffic Act and various other statutes in respect of transportation-related matters.

Deuxième lecture du projet de loi 107, Loi modifiant le Code de la route et diverses autres lois à l’égard de questions relatives au transport.

Debate resumed, during which the Acting Speaker (Ms. French) interrupted the proceedings and announced that there had been more than six and one-half hours of debate and that the debate was deemed adjourned.

Le débat a repris. La présidente suppléante (Mme French) a interrompu les travaux et a annoncé qu’il y avait eu plus de six heures et demie de débat et que le débat était réputé ajourné.

Second Reading of Bill 108, An Act to amend various statutes with respect to housing, other development and various other matters.

Deuxième lecture du projet de loi 108, Loi modifiant diverses lois en ce qui concerne le logement, les autres aménagements et d’autres questions.

Debate resumed and after some time the House adjourned at 9:30 p.m.

Le débat a repris et après quelque temps, à 21 h 30, la Chambre a ajourné ses travaux.

le président

Ted Arnott

Speaker

PETITIONS TABLED PURSUANT TO
STANDING ORDER 39(a)

PÉTITIONS DÉPOSÉES CONFORMÉMENT À L’ARTICLE
39 a) DU RÈGLEMENT

Changes to the Ontario Autism Program (Sessional Paper No. P-94) (Tabled May 13, 2019) Mr. Wilson.

SESSIONAL PAPERS PRESENTED PURSUANT TO STANDING ORDER 40

DOCUMENTS PARLEMENTAIRES DÉPOSÉS CONFORMÉMENT À L’ARTICLE 40 DU RÈGLEMENT

Certificate pursuant to Standing Order 108(f)(1) re intended appointments dated May 10, 2019 (No. 226) (Tabled May 10, 2019).

RESPONSES TO PETITIONS

RÉPONSES AUX PÉTITIONS

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):

(Tabled March 27, 2019) Mr. Anand.

Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Sessional Paper No. P-79):

(Tabled March 26, 2019) Ms. Karpoche.

(Tabled March 27, 2019) Mr. Piccini.