Speaker letter m House Hansard index Parliament 39 Session 1

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Letter: M

MacLeod, L. (PC, Nepean–Carleton)
- An Act to amend the Criminal Code, 2006 (Bill C-26), 1381
- Advertising
  - ban on advertising of sexual images of children under 16 years of age, 4114
- Agencies/boards/commissions/etc.
  - expenditures
    - accountability, 7333–7334, 7470
    - review by Integrity Commissioner, 7668
- Animal Health Act, 2009 (Bill 204)
  - second reading, 8444, 8448–8449
    - amendments, 8444
- Appointment process, 480
- Appointments
  - Anand, Raj (nomination as chair, Human Rights Legal Support Centre), 835–836
  - Coyne, Deborah (Health Services Appeal and Review Board), 7667
  - Curtis, Erica (North Simcoe Muskoka Local Health Integration Network), 942
  - Graham, Barbara Lynn (Champlain Community Care Access Centre), 942
  - Grossman-Ianni, Mina (Erie St. Clair Local Health Integration Network ), 942
  - Lougheed, Joan (Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario board of directors), 942
  - Lowe, Karen (Kincardine Police Services Board), 942
  - Salamat, Gemma (Council of the College of Midwives of Ontario), 942
  - Siddiquee, Yusra (Public Accountants Council for the Province of Ontario), 942
  - Vinayagamoorthy, Sivam (Mississauga-Halton Community Care Access Centre), 480, 942
- Apprenticeship training
  - ratio of tradespeople to apprentices, 7104–7105
- Apprenticeship training tax credit, 1368
- Autism services, 4190
- Awards
  - Foodland Ontario Retailer Award, 3278
  - New Business or the Year (Ottawa Chamber of Commerce), 4389
- Budget
  - pre-budget consultations, 4190–4193
- Budget Measures Act, 2009 (Bill 162)
  - second reading, 6097, 6117–6118
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 6158–6159
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (Bill 44)
  - second reading, 782–786
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (No. 2) (Bill 114)
  - second reading, 3589, 3609–3610
- Budget surplus
  - transfer of funds to municipalities for infrastructure projects, 810, 1022–1025, 1039
- Bullying
  - lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgendered, intersexed, queer (LGBTTIQ) teens
    - mandatory reporting of incidents, 5544, 5555–5557
- Canada Elections Act, S.C. 2000, c.9, 3022
- Canadian Armed Forces, 6473
- Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, 6314
- Canadian Payday Loan Association, 2409
- Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)
  - Ryan, Sid (president)
    - comments re ban on Israeli professors from speaking, teaching or doing research work at Ontario universities, 4786
- Centre Roberts/Smart Centre
  - government funding, 6752
- Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Part 1, Constitution Act, 1982)
  - section 15(1), 2088
- Child abuse, 6461
- Child abuse registry, 4114, 6461
- Child pornography
  - reporting
    - law enforcement, 451
- Child protection, 450–451, 4112, 4927
- Child sexual abuse
  - penalties, 451
- Children at risk, 4897–4898
- Children's fitness tax credit, 4191
- Children's Safety and Protection Rights Act, 2009 (Bill 130)
  - general discussion, 4112, 5549
  - first reading, 4114
- Colleges Collective Bargaining Act, 2008 (Bill 90)
  - third reading, 2915, 2927–2928, 2933–2934
- Colleges of applied arts and technology (CAATs)
  - Algonquin College, 2933–2934, 7116
  - collective bargaining
    - inclusion of part-time and sessional employees, 2927–2928
- Committee process
  - Bill 218, 9129
- Committees
  - Select Committee on the Economy, 6097
- Conflict of interest
  - Grier, Jason (lobbyist), 8541
- Congratulatory remarks
  - Forward, Brad (winner, National Driving Championship), 7037
- Conquest Vacations
  - closure, 6269, 6335, 6367–6368, 6439
- Consumer protection, 2358–2359
  - electricity rates, 5121
- Consumer Protection Amendment Act (Payday Loans), 2007 (Bill 205), 1380
- Consumer reporting agencies
  - duty to inform about missing or stolen information, 2358–2359
  - duty to truncate vital information, 2358
- Consumer Reporting Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 75)
  - second reading
    - public consultation, 2359
- Consumer reports, 2358
- Corporate tax reduction, 3416
- Cosmetic Pesticides Ban Act, 2008 (Bill 64)
  - second reading, 2011
- Criminal Code of Canada
  - section 293, 2208
- Debates re answers to oral questions
  - Government advertising
    - requested, 3021–3022
    - participation, 3021–3022
  - Taxation
    - requested, 8630, 8667
    - participation, 8630, 8666–8667
  - Travel industry
    - requested, 6367–6368
    - participation, 6367–6368
- Defendants
  - detention of defendants, 4114
- Doctors
  - international medical graduates (IMGs)
    - assessment/training, 155
    - removing barriers, 2727, 4004
- Drug abuse
  - Ottawa, 1209
- Drug abuse treatment programs, 337
  - Ottawa, 1209–1210
- Economic conditions, 493–494, 2011, 3414–3416, 3609–3610, 4190–4191, 4927, 5162
- Economic decline, 782, 3414–3416, 6158
- Economic growth
  - five-point economic plan, 3415
- Education Amendment Act (Keeping Our Kids Safe at School), 2009 (Bill 157)
  - second reading, 5544, 5549, 5555–5557
- Education Statute Law Amendment Act (Electronic Sexual Material), 2009 (Bill 202)
  - general discussion, 7896–7897
- eHealth Ontario
  - contracts, 7960–7961, 8025
    - IBM, 7873–7874
    - public inquiry, 8994
  - review by Standing Committee on Government Agencies, 7268–7269
- Electricity rates
  - increase, 5339, 5427
- Employment creation, 5427
- Employment insurance, 2796–2797
- Employment standards
  - allegations of abuse
    - Dhalla, Ruby case, 6592–6593, 6600
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Temporary Help Agencies), 2009 (Bill 139)
  - second reading, 5138–5142
  - third reading, 6363–6367
- Energy
  - renewable energy projects
    - cost increases for consumers, 6728
- Family law
  - reform, 4897–4898
- Family Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 133)
  - second reading, 4897–4898
- Federal government
  - transfer payments
    - equalization program, 2796
      - petitions, 2742
- Federal government record
  - Liberal (1993-2006)
    - Canada health and social transfer, 1030
- French-language debates
  - Déclarations des députés
    - Heures de séance, 821
- Fundraising
  - Dhadkan Group, 4331
- Government accountability, 9364–9365
- Government advertising
  - fairness campaign, 3021–3022
  - harmonized sales tax, 9405
- Government debt, 5922–5923
- Government expenditures, 4526
  - increase, 5919–5920
- Government notice of motions
  - Legislative reform
    - responded to, 1233–1236, 3126–3127
- Government orders
  - Committee sittings
    - responded to, 4190–4193
  - Federal-provincial fiscal policies
    - responded to, 2795–2798
  - Ontario economy
    - responded to, 3414–3416
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010), 3415, 9213–9214
    - tax increases, 6515
- Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 (Bill 150)
  - general discussion, 5121
  - second reading, 5157, 5162–5163, 5332, 5339–5340, 5342
  - third reading, 6728, 6732
- Greenhouse gas emissions
  - reduction
    - carbon tax, 2796
- Harmonized sales tax, 5616–5617, 5913–5914, 5920–5921, 6515–6516, 7385, 7755–7756, 8552–8553, 8630, 8796–8798, 8854, 9155
  - disclosure of documents re public meetings, 9035
  - exemptions, 8642–8643
  - impact on arts community, 9156–9157
  - impact on condominium owners, 8915
  - impact on doctors, 8666–8667
  - impact on funeral services, 5882–5883
  - impact on health care, 8839
  - impact on investment industry, 7430
  - impact on municipal government, 8838–8839
  - impact on senior citizens, 8915
  - impact on veterinary services, 8444, 8448
  - public consultation, 8597–8598, 8679–8680, 8742–8744, 8940, 8947–8948, 8994
- Health care funding
  - federal government funding, 1023
- Healthy Food for Healthy Schools Act, 2008 (Bill 8)
  - second reading, 305–306
- Heart disease, 4331
- Heritage conservation
  - Dickinson Square, 155
- Home energy audits, 5163
- Hospital funding
  - government funding
    - Ottawa, 9578
- Hospitals
  - Queensway Carleton Hospital, 9578
- Income tax
  - income splitting between married or common-law couples, 2550–2552
- Increasing Access to Qualified Health Professionals for Ontarians Act, 2008 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 2727–2728
  - third reading, 4004
- Interim supply motions
  - responded to, 155–156
- Interprovincial Policing Act, 2009 (Bill 203)
  - second reading, 7888, 7896–7897
- Investing in Ontario Act, 2008 (Bill 35)
  - second reading, 810, 1022–1025, 1029–1030, 1035, 1039
- Kindergarten
  - full-day, 8935
- Labour mobility, 8810
  - skilled trades, 7372
- Labour-sponsored investment funds, 1368
- Lake Simcoe Protection Act, 2008 (Bill 99)
  - second reading, 2694, 2708
  - third reading, 4351
- Layoffs
  - Dell Inc., 1299, 1367–1368
- Legislative procedure
  - members/ministers must be in own seats for recorded vote, 8944
  - private members' public business, 1235
- Legislative process
  - family friendly reforms, 123, 1098–1099, 1162, 1233–1236, 3127
    - consultation with opposition parties, 1233–1234
    - oral questions, 1234
  - reform, 3126–3127
- Legislature schedule/agenda
  - evening sittings, 821
  - family friendly hours, 821
- Libraries/schools
  - use of Internet filtering software, 7742–7743, 7896
- Livestock
  - disease prevention and control, 8448
- Long-term care, 350
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
  - wait lists
    - Ottawa, 5034–5035
  - wait times
    - Royal Ottawa Hospital, 5003, 5034
- Manitoba
  - payday loan industry regulation, 1384
- Manufacturing industry
  - layoffs, 782–783, 5919
  - unemployment, 1299
- Members'/ministers' constituencies/constituency events
  - Nepean–Carleton
    - city of Ottawa, 1722
    - diagnostic services, 5237
    - Women in Business Breakfast, 3379
- Members'/ministers' constituents
  - congratulatory remarks, 3278, 4389
  - obituaries, 729
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 4192, 4919, 4927
- Members'/ministers' privileges
  - information regarding intended appointee, 731–732
- Members/ministers quoting committee submissions
  - Robinson, Chris (professor, York University), 2407
  - Whitelaw, Bob (Whitelaw Public Policy Research and Consulting Inc.), 2407–2408
- Members/ministers quoting documents
  - Payday Loan Companies in Canada: Determining the Public Interest (Library of Parliament), 2406, 2409
- Members/ministers quoting electronic mail messages
  - Bishins, Bruce (president, Association of Retail Travel Agents of Ontario), 6368
  - harmonized sales tax, re, 7755–7756
  - Zaidi, Mukarram Ali (re removing barriers for international medical doctors), 2728
- Members/ministers quoting letters
  - harmonized sales tax, re, 6117–6118
  - Lagois Drafting and Construction Inc., 3798
  - McBride, Merv (constituent, Nepean–Carleton), 3798
  - merging goods and services tax and provincial sales tax, re, 6515–6516
- Members/ministers quoting magazine articles
  - Canadian Travel Press, 6439
- Members/ministers quoting newspaper articles
  - Globe and Mail (Toronto), 2796
  - National Post (Toronto), 2796
  - North Bay Nugget, 7874
  - Ottawa Citizen, 1138
  - Toronto Star, 810, 1023–1024, 7755
  - Toronto Sun, 810, 1024, 2359
- Members/ministers quoting reports
  - Special Report: Ontario's Electronic Health Records Initiative (Office of the Auditor General of Ontario), 8025
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Association of Canadian Search, Employment and Staffing Services, 5141
  - Buzny, Wlodzimierz (grand knight, Knights of Columbus), 4919
  - Canadian Federation of Independent Business, 8743
  - Canadian Payday Loan Association, 1381
  - Chivers, Doug (Oakville), 8852
  - Coffrey, Charles S. (lawyer), 6462
  - Coleman, Peter (president and CEO, National Citizens Coalition), 8743
  - Collins, Thomas (archbishop, Toronto), 4920
  - Cooke, Betty (Windsor), 8852
  - Credit Union Central of Ontario, 1384–1385, 2407–2408
  - Dalton, Warren (Scarborough–Rouge River), 8852
  - Desroches, Steve (councillor, Gloucester-South Nepean), 1138
  - Elman, Irwin (Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth), 6462
  - Gallimore, Natalie (constituent, Ottawa), 2550
  - Garchinski, Jim (spokesman, Public Sector Retiree Coalition), 8743
  - Garner, Jack (Barrie), 9156
  - Hallifax, Wulf (Mississauga), 9156
  - Hannah, Scott (Credit Counselling Society), 1381
  - Harder, Jan (councillor, Ottawa), 1138
  - Harper, Stephen (Prime Minister of Canada), 2795
  - Hindy, Aly Imam, 2214
  - Hogben, Alia (executive director, Canadian Council of Muslim Women), 2088, 2214
  - Holburn, Guy (Richard Ivey School of Business), 5340
  - Horne, Les (Defence for Children International), 6462
  - Keeping, Max (CTV news anchor), 6461
  - Kelly, Doreen (Orillia), 8915
  - Kennedy, Karyn (executive director, Boost), 6461
  - Killens, Larry (Algoma–Manitoulin), 8852
  - Landriault, Sara (president, National Family Childcare Association), 2551
  - Leinweber, Paul A. (London), 8852
  - Lynas, Art (Belleville), 8852
  - Macdonald, John A. (Canada's first prime minister), 2798
  - Marin, André (Ombudsman of Ontario), 6462
  - Marzolini, Michael (chairman, Pollara), 1383
  - McMillan, Christine (Chair, Council on Aging Network of Ontario), 8743–8744
  - Mill, John Stuart (British philosopher and political theorist), 9156
  - Ontario Association of Children Aid Societies, 6462
  - Parrish, Carolyn (Mississauga city councillor), 810
  - Post, Doris (Brant), 9156
  - Priest, Doug (Haliburton–Kawartha Lakes–Brock), 9156
  - Samuelson, Wayne (president, Ontario Federation of Labour), 5340
  - Sinclair, William (Oakville), 9156
  - Thompson, Clark and Jo-Ann (Timiskaming–Cochrane), 9156
  - Weir, Gerry (president, Ontario Real Estate Association), 5163, 5340
  - Wingle, James Matthew (bishop, St. Catharines), 4920
  - Winson, Rick (Barrie), 8852
  - Yip, Lisa (doctor), 2728
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - Liberal (1990-1995)
    - McGuinty, Dalton (Ottawa South), 7755
  - Liberal (1995-2003)
    - McGuinty, Dalton (Ottawa South)
      - as Leader of the Opposition, 7755, 8742
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - Aggelonitis, Sophia (Hamilton Mountain), 6439
  - withdrawal requested, 2518, 6517
  - withdrawn, 1039, 1145, 2127, 2201, 3470, 4060, 6439, 6600, 8743, 8994
- Members' statements
  - Child protection, 4112
  - City of Ottawa, 1722
  - CUPE resolution, 4786
  - Czapnik, Eric, 9410
  - Dhadkan Group, 4331
  - Diagnostic services, 5003, 5237
  - Employment, 1299
  - Family friendly reforms, 123
  - Forward, Brad, 7037
  - Government appointments, 941–942
  - Government spending, 4526
  - Green, Hilliard, 729
  - House sittings, 821
  - Human rights, 982
  - Legislative reform, 282
  - Moodie, D. Aubrey, 2037
  - Morris Newspaper Group, 4949
  - Ontario economy, 493–494
  - Polygamy, 2214
  - Premier's petition, 2742–2743
  - Public transit, 4686–4687
  - Ross, Ken, 3278
  - Sharma, Sunita and Neeta, 4389
  - Small Business Week, 3379
  - Taxation, 8947–8948
  - Village on Manotick, 6143
  - White, Tiffany, 8463
  - Wind farms, 8152
- Minimum wage
  - increase, 5232
- Ministerial responsibility, 7688
- Ministerial statements, responded to
  - Taxation, 8552–8553
  - Technical safety standards, 7041
- Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
  - Ontario cattle, hog and horticulture program, 8753
- Ministry of Government Services
  - hotel/conference expenditures, 4418, 4524
- Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
  - second career strategy, 524, 563
    - federal government funding, 2915
- Municipal infrastructure
  - government funding, 783
    - Nepean–Carleton, 1024
    - Ottawa, 1035
- National/independence/memorial days
  - Pope John Paul II Day, 4919–4920
- Nepean
  - history, 5919
- Nortel
  - pension plans, 9339
- Nurse practitioners
  - expansion of scope of practice, 8941
- Obituaries
  - Dicks, Glen (advertising executive, Barrhaven Independent), 4949
- OC Transpo
  - strike, 4686–4687, 4705
    - social service funding, 4698
- Ombudsman of Ontario
  - power to investigate children's aid societies, school boards or hospitals, 4114
- One Step Travel
  - public inquiry, 6269, 6335, 6439
- Ontario budget speech (26 March 2009)
  - responded to, 5904–5905, 5913–5914, 5918–5923
- Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 (Bill 183)
  - second reading, 7104–7105, 7116–7117
- Ontario health premium
  - exemption for Canadian Armed Forces personnel, 2798
- Ontario Labour Mobility Act, 2009 (Bill 175)
  - second reading, 7372, 8810
- Ontario Municipal Board (OMB)
  - residential development in Manotick, 6143
- Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), 4191–4192
- Ontario Tax Plan for More Jobs and Growth Act, 2009 (Bill 218)
  - second reading, 8796–8798, 8838–8839, 8852, 8854
  - third reading, 9155–9156
- Opposition day motions, presented
  - Taxation, 8742–8744
- Opposition day motions, responded to
  - Taxation, 6515–6516
- Oral questions, presented
  - Agency spending, 7333
  - Children's mental health services, 6752
  - Diagnostic services, 5034–5035
  - Drug treatment programs, 337, 1209–1210
  - Electronic health information, 7268–7269, 7960–7961, 8025
  - Employment standards, 6592–6593, 6600
  - Government accountability, 9364–9365
  - Government advertising, 2994–2995, 9266, 9405
  - Government appointments, 480
  - Government contracts, 7575, 8541
  - Government record, 9213–9214
  - Health care funding, 9578
  - Human rights, 835–836
  - Legislative reform, 1098–1099, 1162
  - Ministerial responsibility, 7688
  - Minister's record, 7873–7874
  - Ministry spending, 4418, 4524
  - Ontario economy, 1367–1368
  - Polygamy, 2088, 2125–2126, 2208, 2240–2241
  - Propane explosion, 2736
  - Public transit, 4697–4698, 4946
  - Public transportation, 4385, 4580
  - Renewable energy and conservation, 5120–5121
  - Sewage spill, 2200–2201
  - Skills training, 524, 563
  - Small business, 5232–5233, 5427
  - Taxation, 5616–5617, 5882–5883, 7384, 7430, 8597, 8642–8643, 8679–8680, 8915, 8994, 9035
  - Travel industry, 6269, 6335, 6439
  - Water quality, 294–295
  - Wildlife management, 3878–3879
- Organ donors, 5138
- Pamphlets
  - Vote for Fairness Ontario, 2994–2995
- Payday loan industry
  - consumer education, 2411
  - consumer protection, 2406–2409, 2417
  - regulation, 1380–1385
    - exemption for credit unions and caisses populaires, 2407–2408, 2411
    - independent advisory board to determine maximum cost of borrowing, 1383–1384
- Payday loans
  - Internet loans, 2408, 2411
- Payday Loans Act, 2008 (Bill 48)
  - second reading, 1380–1386
  - third reading, 2405–2411, 2417
- Pension Benefits Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 236)
  - second reading, 9339
- Petitions
  - Lord's Prayer, 656, 1576, 2528
  - Services for the developmentally disabled, 2033
  - Strandherd-Armstrong bridge, 28–29, 58, 81, 1214
  - Taxation, 6895–6896, 8657, 9330–9331
- Police services
  - cross-border policing, 7888
- Polygamy, 2125–2126, 2208, 2240–2241
  - law and legislation, 2088, 2214
- Private members' public business
  - Afghan family law
    - responded to, 6473–6474
  - Child Pornography Reporting Act, 2008 (Bill 37)
    - second reading, 450–451
  - Children's Safety and Protection Rights Act, 2009 (Bill 130)
    - second reading, 6460–6462, 6467
  - Consumer Reporting Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 75)
    - second reading, 2358–2359
  - Curriculum
    - responded to, 4927–4928
  - Education Statute Law Amendment Act (Electronic Sexual Material), 2009 (Bill 202)
    - second reading, 7742–7743
  - Fairness for Families Act, 2008 (Bill 88)
    - second reading, 2550–2551
  - Pope John Paul II Day Act, 2009 (Bill 25)
    - second reading, 4919–4920
  - Strandherd-Armstrong bridge
    - presented, 1137–1139, 1145–1146
  - Taxation
    - responded to, 7755–7756
- Propane explosions
  - Sunrise Propane, 2736, 7041
- Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth
  - advocacy to students in schools and children in hospitals, 4114
  - annual report, 4114
- Public accounts, 7575
- Public education campaigns
  - Children's Day, 4114, 6461
  - International Day of the Child, 4927
  - Small Business Week, 3379
- Public Sector Expenses Review Act, 2009 (Bill 201)
  - second reading, 7470
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 7667–7668
- Regulated Health Professions Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 141)
  - third reading
    - section 24, 8939
- Regulated Health Professions Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 179)
  - third reading, 8939–8940
- Remembrance Day, 3842
- Reports
  - Report on Removing Barriers for International Medical Doctors (Laurel C. Broten), 2727
  - Technical Standards and Safety Authority's Action Plan for Propane Safety Review Recommendations, 7041
- Road Safety Act, 2009 (Bill 126)
  - second reading, 4544–4545
    - public consultation, 4544–4545
- School construction
  - Riverside South Catholic school, 156
- School safety
  - reporting of violent incidents, 4114
- School science strategy, 4927
- Science/technology, 4927
- Sewage spills
  - Ottawa River, 2200–2201
    - public inquiries, 2201
- Small business, 5427
  - Ross, Ken case, 5427
- Speaker's rulings/statements quoted
  - Speaker Fraser (House of Commons), 8677
- Standing Orders
  - S.O. 21(c) Privilege - Notice to Speaker, 8753
  - S.O. 99(d) Written questions - Answers - delayed answers - decline to answer, 8753–8754
  - S.O. 106(e) Committees - Orders of reference, 732
- Strikes
  - Amalgamated Transit Union Local 279, 4580
- Student Achievement and School Board Governance Act, 2009 (Bill 177)
  - general discussion, 8935–8936
  - second reading, 7401
  - third reading, 8934–8936
- Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA), 7041, 8095
- Technical Standards and Safety Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 187)
  - second reading, 8095
- Temporary help agencies, 6367
  - regulation, 6365–6366
- Temporary help agency employees
  - continuance of employment, 6363
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 350, 436
- Tibet
  - anti-Chinese protests, 982
- Time allocation motions
  - Budget Measures Act, 2009 (Bill 162)
    - responded to, 6158–6159
  - Public Sector Expenses Review Act, 2009 (Bill 201)
    - responded to, 7667–7668
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)
  - strike, 4580
- Toxics Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 167)
  - second reading, 6314
- Transit systems
  - government funding
    - Ottawa, 4946
- Transportation infrastructure
  - Strandherd-Armstrong bridge, 155, 784, 1035, 4946
    - construction, 1137–1139, 1146
      - government funding, 1138–1139, 1146
- Transportation master plan
  - Ottawa, 4385
- Travel Industry Council of Ontario (TICO), 6269, 6439
- Tributes
  - Czapnik, Eric (constable killed in the line of duty, Ottawa Police Service), 9410
  - Fox, Charley (veteran), 3842
  - Moodie, S. Aubrey (former reeve, Nepean), 2037
  - White, Tiffany (recipient, Commitment to Care and Service Award for pharmacy technicians), 8463
- Unemployment, 1368, 5232
- Unemployment rate, 494, 785
- United States
  - Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), 7742
- Universities/colleges
  - York University
    - strike, 4705
- Water quality
  - schools, 294–295
- Websites
  - www.bullyingcanada.ca, 6460
- Wildlife management
  - coyotes, 3878–3879
- Workers
  - job retraining
    - government funding, 783
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 119)
  - second reading, 3795, 3798
- York University Labour Disputes Resolution Act, 2009 (Bill 145)
  - second reading, 4705
Mangat, A. (LIB, Mississauga–Brampton South)
- ABC CANADA Literacy Foundation
  - Family Literacy Day, 9371
- Adoption
  - international
    - bankruptcy of Imagine Adoption, 7827
- Anniversaries
  - Coral Place 15th anniversary, 2839
- Automobile parts industry, 5848
- Awards
  - Diversity Works awards (Peel Career Assessment Services), 4390–4391
- Birthdays
  - McCallion, Hazel (mayor, Mississauga), 5005
- Bridges
  - Confederation Parkway Bridge, 3241–3242
- Budget Measures Act, 2009 (Bill 162)
  - second reading, 6030
- Child poverty, 5206
- Children's services
  - Child Development Resource Connection Peel, 7923
- Colleges of applied arts and technology (CAATs)
  - Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, 7198–7199
    - Centre for Healthy Communities, 729
- Condolences
  - Morden, Gary (chief, Mississauga Fire Services), 3645
- Condominium corporations
  - reserve funds
    - requirements for adequate funding, 9582–9583
- Corporate tax exemptions
  - Ontario tax exemption for commercialization (OTEC)
    - eligibility for refund, 3030–3031
- Diabetes, 3934–3935, 3940
  - Gibson, Trevor case, 3934
  - Shepheard, Shawn case, 3935
  - Swaminathan, Siva case, 3935
- Diabetes Awareness Month Act, 2008 (Bill 113)
  - first reading, 3445
- Doctors
  - international medical graduates (IMGs)
    - removing barriers, 2726
- Early childhood education
  - full-day learning for four- and five-year-old children, 123
- Economic conditions, 5848
- Education funding
  - government funding, 123, 1503
- Employment insurance
  - resources for training for unemployed workers in manufacturing sector, 5848
- Employment insurance benefits
  - Ontario workers, 5848, 5854
- Energy
  - renewable energy, 5050
- Epilepsy Peel Region, 5431
- Farmers' markets
  - Square One Farmers' Market, 1559
- Full Day Early Learning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 242)
  - second reading, 9525
- Government notice of motions
  - Legislative reform
    - responded to, 1451
- Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 (Bill 150)
  - second reading, 5050
- Green industry, 5050
- Harmonized sales tax
  - impact on business, 8409
- Holidays
  - Family Day, 53
- Ideas for the Future Act, 2008 (Bill 100)
  - second reading, 3030–3031
- Increasing Access to Qualified Health Professionals for Ontarians Act, 2008 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 2726
- Kindergarten
  - full-day, 9525
- Legislative process
  - family friendly reforms, 1451
- Members'/ministers' constituencies/constituency events
  - Mississauga–Brampton South
    - Steppin' Out for the Arts, 5387
- Members'/ministers' inaugural speeches, 673–674
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 673
- Members'/ministers' privileges
  - wearing of pins/ribbons/buttons, 3930
- Members/ministers quoting news media
  - Canadian Press (CP), 1451
- Members/ministers quoting newspaper articles
  - Hamilton Spectator, 1451
  - Toronto Star, 1451
- Members' statements
  - Child Development Resource Connection Peel, 7923
  - Confederation Parkway Bridge, 3241–3242
  - Coral Place, 2839
  - Diversity Works awards, 4390–4391
  - Education funding, 123, 1503
  - Epilepsy Peel Region, 5431
  - Family Literacy Day, 9371
  - International Credit Union Day, 8264
  - International trade, 9223
  - Manufacturing jobs, 2676–2677
  - McCallion, Hazel, 5005
  - Member's family, 1615
  - Morden, Gary, 3645
  - Poverty, 1091
  - Punjabi music, 2353
  - Ryan, Susan, 4028–4029
  - Sheridan College, 7198–7199
  - Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, 729–730
  - Small business, 8112
  - Square One Farmers' Market, 1559
  - Steppin' Out for the Arts, 5387
  - Terrorist attacks, 4293
- Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
  - skills to jobs action plan, 730
- Missing persons
  - with dementia
    - Silver Alert program, 8521
- New Hermes Limited/New Hermes Limitée Act, 2009 (Bill Pr24)
  - first reading, 6996
- Ontario budget speech (25 March 2008)
  - responded to, 673–674
- Oral questions, presented
  - Condominium reserve funds, 9582–9583
  - Family Day, 53
  - International adoptions, 7827
  - Pharmaceutical industry, 526–527
  - Research and innovation, 3489
  - Taxation, 8409
- Petitions
  - Anti-smoking legislation, 618
  - Firearms control, 1000–1001, 1213, 1313–1314, 2297
  - Hospital funding, 342, 747–748
  - University labour dispute, 4788
- Pharmaceutical industry, 526–527
- Poverty Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 152)
  - second reading, 5206
- Poverty reduction strategy, 1091
- Private members' public business
  - Diabetes Awareness Month Act, 2008 (Bill 113)
    - second reading, 3934–3935, 3940
  - Employment insurance
    - presented, 5847–5849, 5854
  - Missing persons alert
    - responded to, 8521
- Public education campaigns
  - Diabetes Awareness Month, 3445, 3934–3935, 3940
  - International Credit Union Day, 8264
  - Small Business Month, 8112
- Research and innovation, 3489
- Services and Supports to Promote the Social Inclusion of Persons with Developmental Disabilities Act, 2008 (Bill 77)
  - second reading, 2065
- 6N Silicon Inc., 3030, 3489
- Teacher-student ratios, 1503
- Terrorist attacks
  - Mumbai, India, 4293
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 447
- Trade missions
  - India, 9223
- Tributes
  - Kaur, Surinder (Punjabi folk singer), 2353
  - Ryan, Susan (former president, Mississauga Real Estate Board), 4028–4029
- 2Source Manufacturing Inc.
  - government loan, 2676–2677
- Unemployment, 5848
Marchese, R. (NDP, Trinity–Spadina)
- Aboriginal communities
  - illegal sale of tobacco products, 1481
- Aboriginal land claims
  - Caledonia, 1480–1482
- Aboriginal youth
  - education, 2041
- Accommodation review committee (ARC), 3829
- Advanced Coronary Treatment Foundation
  - government funding, 2909
- Advertising
  - ban on advertising of food or drink for children under 13 years of age, 760
- Aftermarket brake pads
  - ban on use of asbestos, 7254–7255
- Agencies/boards/commissions/etc.
  - expenditures
    - review by Integrity Commissioner, 7617–7618, 7661–7662
  - subject to freedom of information requests, 9232–9233
- Agreement on Internal Trade, 8931
- Algoma University Act, 2008 (Bill 80)
  - third reading, 2154–2155
- American sign language (ASL), 2833
- Animal Health Act, 2009 (Bill 204)
  - second reading, 7993–7995, 7997, 7999, 8008–8009
    - public consultation, 8008–8009
- Anniversaries
  - Chopin, Fryderyk's birth 200th anniversary, 9583–9584
- Appreciation
  - teachers, 3099
- Apprenticeship training
  - Dell Inc., 1473
  - ratio of tradespeople to apprentices, 2853–2854, 7104, 7107, 7112, 8123–8124
- Apprenticeship training programs, 2476, 2853, 7115, 7126
  - completion rates, 6813, 7109, 8124
  - registration, 6813
- Apprenticeship training tax credit, 7110–7111
- Arts and culture
  - federal government funding
    - reduction, 2743
- Asbestos, 7254
- Automated external defibrillators (AED), 2909
- Automobile insurance
  - public, 6131
- Automobile insurance rates/premiums
  - young drivers, 6132
- Awards
  - Premier's Award for Teaching Excellence, 988
- Blind/visually-impaired persons
  - access to books in suitable formats, 9568–9569
- Books
  - The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Devra Davis), 6202–6203
- Bottled water, 3945–3946
  - prohibition on sale, 3945
- Budget
  - pre-budget consultations, 4187
- Budget deficit, 3629–3930
- Budget Measures Act, 2009 (Bill 162)
  - second reading, 6097–6102, 6114, 6122
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (Bill 44)
  - second reading, 915, 917–919, 921
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (No. 2) (Bill 114)
  - second reading, 3629–3633
- Budget surplus
  - transfer of funds to municipalities for infrastructure projects, 919
- Bullying
  - lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgendered, intersexed, queer (LGBTTIQ) teens, 6964–6965
    - disciplinary measures for aggressors, 5536, 5538
    - mandatory reporting of incidents, 5526, 5536–5539, 5543, 6966–6970
    - prevention, 6970
    - safety plans, 6969–6970
  - prevention, 9387–9388
  - social causes, 5538–5540, 5545
- Buy Ontario policy, 3403
- Cable/satellite providers
  - requirement to broadcast legislative proceedings of the province or territory, 3253–3254
- Call centres, 7108, 7117
- Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB), 9568
- Cemeteries
  - Clendennen Cemetery, 5483
  - protection, 5483–5484
  - St. Alban's Anglican Cemetery, 5484
- Child and Family Services Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 103)
  - third reading, 4874–4880
- Child care, 542–543
  - federal government funding, 542
  - government funding, 100, 542, 632–633
  - Quebec, 543
- Child care centres
  - for-profit sector, 543
- Children
  - immigrant children
    - access to education, 2604–2605
- Colleges Collective Bargaining Act, 2008 (Bill 90)
  - general discussion, 2530, 4944–4945
  - second reading, 2472, 2476–2482, 2507–2508
    - public consultation, 2508
  - third reading, 2915, 2918–2926, 2928, 2930, 2933, 2937–2938
- Colleges Collective Bargaining Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 68)
  - first reading, 1461–1462
- Colleges of applied arts and technology (CAATs)
  - Algoma University College, 2041, 2154–2155
  - collective bargaining, 235–236, 2451–2452, 4944, 8652
    - inclusion of part-time and sessional employees, 1248–1249, 1460, 1462, 2478–2481, 2507–2508, 2530, 2922–2923
    - provision against strikes and lockouts, 2481–2482, 2508
  - government funding, 2508, 2923, 2933, 2937
- Committee process
  - Bill 183, 7846
- Committee schedules/agendas, 4187
- Committees
  - Select Committee on Mental Health and Addictions, 4492
  - Select Committee on Municipal Governance, 5298
- Community health centres (CHCs), 4038
- Compensation
  - Truscott, Steven (victim of miscarriage of justice), 1991
  - victims of Dr. Charles Smith's work in child-death investigations, 4569
- Condominium corporations, 7256
  - reserve funds
    - installation of renewable energy/energy efficient technologies, 7257
    - repair/replacement of common elements, 7257
  - standard declaration, 7257
  - Trinity–Spadina, 6557–6558
  - warranty coverage for conversion condominiums, 7257, 7261
- Condominium owners, 7039
  - protection, 7256–7257
  - representation by proxies, 7257
- Condominium Owners Protection Act, 2009 (Bill 186)
  - first reading, 7039
  - second reading
    - public consultation, 7261–7262
- Condominium Review Board, 7257
  - appointment of review officers, 7261
- Construction workers, 3718
- Consumer protection
  - energy contracts, 9489–9491, 9493
  - security deposits for utilities and disconnections, 9247–9248
  - sub-metering electricity in apartments/apartment buildings, 9490–9491
- Consumer Protection Amendment Act (Advertising Food or Drink), 2008 (Bill 53)
  - general discussion, 3692
  - first reading, 760
- Coroner inquests
  - power of Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services to hold inquest repealed, 4569–4571
- Coroners Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 115)
  - second reading, 4569–4571
    - public consultation, 4569–4570
    - repeal of section 22 of Coroners Act, 4569–4570
- Corporate tax reduction, 5864, 5905, 6099, 8799–8800
- Cosmetic Pesticides Ban Act, 2008 (Bill 64)
  - second reading, 1838–1839, 1850–1851, 1854–1855, 2010, 2014–2019
- Cosmetic surgery
  - regulation, 4812
- Court cases/actions
  - Chen, David (store owner charged with kidnapping for apprehending thief), 8302–8303
- Curriculum
  - inclusion of industrial arts and family studies, 7120–7121
  - timeline for curriculum changes, 4658
- Dairy Farmers of Ontario
  - elementary school milk program, 3246
- Day Nurseries Amendment Act (Not for Profit Corporations), 2008 (Bill 26)
  - general discussion, 632–633
- Diabetes, 5290–5291
  - prevention, 4038–4040
- Discrimination, 6001
  - racial, 6001, 7061, 8135–8136
- Disease prevention, 5291–5292
- Doctor shortage, 4037–4038
- Doctors
  - international medical graduates (IMGs), 4037
    - practise in underserviced areas, 4038
- Driver education/training
  - fraudulent driver education certificates sold, 6131
- Economic conditions, 3402, 3485, 3560, 3631, 5143–5144
- Economic decline
  - 1990-1992
    - government response, 2868–2869
- Economic growth
  - five-point economic plan, 3401–3402
- Economic policy, 3632–3633
- Education, 4825
  - streaming process, 8136
- Education Amendment Act (Keeping Our Kids Safe at School), 2009 (Bill 157)
  - second reading, 5526, 5536–5545
  - third reading, 6834, 6836, 6964–6972
    - public consultation, 6834
- Education Amendment Act (Pupils with Diabetes), 2009 (Bill 137)
  - second reading
    - public consultation, 5291–5292
- Education funding
  - accountability, 2640
  - government funding, 3829, 6650
- Education funding reform, 2255
- Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO)
  - Assessment of Reading, Writing and Mathematics (Primary and Junior Division)
    - test scores, 1414
  - Earl, Lorna (member, board of directors)
    - conflict of interest, 7576
- Educational assistants
  - reduction, 5426
- eHealth Ontario
  - consultants, 7616
- Election Statute Law Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 231)
  - second reading, 9679, 9681–9685
- Elections/by-elections
  - barrier-free access, 9681–9682
  - third-party advertising, 9681–9682
- Electoral constituencies
  - renaming of Chatham–Kent–Essex to Chatham–Kent–Leamington, 3555
- Electoral process reform
  - students vote in home riding or riding in which they attend school, 9680
- Electricity rates, 5153
  - industrial rates, 3403
- Elementary school teachers, 3323
- Employers
  - requirement to contribute 1% of payroll amount to workforce training, 3258–3259
- Employment creation
  - transmission and distribution projects, 5031
- Employment insurance benefits
  - Ontario workers, 5852–5853
- Employment Protection for Foreign Nationals Act (Live-In Caregivers and Others), 2009 (Bill 210)
  - second reading, 8532–8536
- Employment-related benefits
  - organ donor leave, 5452
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Organ Donor Leave), 2009 (Bill 154)
  - second reading, 5452
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Temporary Help Agencies), 2009 (Bill 139)
  - second reading, 5138–5139, 5142–5145
- Energy
  - nuclear energy, 5030, 5155–5157, 6581–6583
  - renewable energy, 5014–5015, 5030, 5155–5157
    - solar, 5155–5156
    - wind, 5155–5156
  - renewable energy projects
    - domestic content requirements, 5031, 5159
- Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2010 (Bill 235)
  - second reading, 9484, 9488–9491, 9493
- Environmental assessment process, 4315
  - Don Cousens Parkway, 4315–4316
- Farmers
  - tobacco farmers
    - government funding, 6205
- Federal government
  - senate reform
    - elected senate, 8510–8512
- Foreign caregivers
  - protection, 8533–8536
- French-language debates
  - Déclarations ministérielles et réponses
    - Drapeau franco-ontarien, 2843
    - Journée internationale de la francophonie, 5477
- Full Day Early Learning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 242)
  - second reading, 9512–9523
- Germany
  - use of wind power, 2847
- Good Government Act, 2009 (Bill 212)
  - second reading, 8394
  - third reading, 9020–9022
- Government expenditures
  - decline, 921
- Government orders
  - Committee sittings
    - responded to, 4187
  - Federal-provincial fiscal policies
    - responded to, 2869–2871
  - Ontario economy
    - responded to, 3401–3404
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - nuclear energy, 6725, 6728
    - post-secondary education, 3874
  - NDP (1990-1995)
    - post-secondary education, 2930
  - PC (1995-2003)
    - child care, 542
    - education, 7359
    - post-secondary education, 7121
    - tax reduction, 5801–5802
- Government role, 3265
- Green economy, 5155
- Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 (Bill 150)
  - general discussion, 5030–5031
  - second reading, 5014–5015, 5153, 5155–5157, 5159
  - third reading, 6581–6584, 6724–6725, 6728
- Harmonized sales tax, 5452, 5802–5803, 5869–5873, 5905, 5913, 5921, 6100–6102, 6114, 6122, 8936, 9022, 9075
  - impact on condominium owners, 7436, 8733–8734
  - impact on employment, 7847, 8800, 9021
  - impact on rent rates, 7436
  - public consultation, 8800–8801, 9223
- Health care, 542
- Health regulatory colleges
  - ensure access to adequate numbers of regulated health professionals, 4037, 4039
- Healthy Food for Healthy Schools Act, 2008 (Bill 8)
  - second reading, 217–223, 489–490
- Heart disease, 2909
- Highway tolls, 2870–2871
- Highway Traffic Amendment Act (Speed-limiting Systems), 2008 (Bill 41)
  - third reading, 2593–2594
- Holiday messages, 9411–9412
- Home economics, 5291
- Hospital beds
  - long-term-care beds, 4120
- Housing
  - affordable
    - shortage, 99–100, 595
- Increasing Access to Qualified Health Professionals for Ontarians Act, 2008 (Bill 97)
  - third reading, 4037–4040
- Ireland
  - apprenticeship training programs, 7111
- Kindergarten, 100
  - full-day, 8314, 9328, 9512–9521, 9523
    - designated early childhood educators, 9515–9517, 9519
    - impact on daycare centres, 9520
    - site selection process, 9519
- Labour mobility, 6563, 8662, 8936, 8939–8932, 8948
  - francophones, 8248
  - impact of occupational standards, 8244–8246
  - role of federal government, 8244
- Lactose intolerance, 3246–3247
- Lake Simcoe
  - resort development, 2709
- Lake Simcoe Protection Act, 2008 (Bill 99)
  - second reading, 2699, 2704, 2708–2710
    - public consultation, 2708
- Language instruction
  - English as a second language (ESL), 6001
    - government funding, 5541, 6650
- Layoffs, 3401–3402
- Legislative procedure
  - motions
    - time allocation motions, 7845–7847
  - omnibus bills, 9020
- Legislative proceedings
  - televised
    - Ontario Parliament Network, 3253
- Legislative process
  - family friendly reforms, 2015, 2477, 2507
- Livestock
  - disease prevention and control
    - traceability systems, 7993–7994, 7999
  - protection, 7993
- Long-term-care facilities
  - oversight by Ombudsman, 3549–3550, 4120
  - personal care, 4120–4121
- Manitoba
  - manufacturing investment tax credit, 917–918
- Medical transplants
  - organ and tissue donation
    - presumed consent, 5452
- Members'/ministers' pension plans, 6098
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 4120–4121, 4303–4304, 6202, 7254, 8518
- Members/ministers quoting committee submissions
  - Canadian Union of Public Employees, 6967–6968
  - Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association, 6966
  - Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation, 6967
  - Thomas, Warren (president, Ontario Public Service Employees Union), 8203
- Members/ministers quoting documents
  - CAUT Almanac of Post-Secondary Education in Canada (Canadian Association of University Teachers), 2480
  - A Highly Skilled Workforce: Strengthening Ontario's Economic Advantage (Colleges of Ontario), 2481
- Members/ministers quoting letters
  - John Howard Society, 3014
- Members/ministers quoting newspaper articles
  - Kingston Whig-Standard, 70, 218
  - Thunder Bay Chronicle, 217–218
  - Toronto Star, 71, 919, 8534
  - Welland Tribune, 4492
- Members/ministers quoting reports
  - Environmental Assessment: A Vision Lost, 4315–4316
  - Equitable Education? The Cost of Extracurriculars in Ontario's Schools (Jonathan Scott, director of policy, Ontario Student Trustees' Association), 7834
  - Office of the Auditor General of Ontario Annual Report (2007), 6131
  - Office of the Auditor General of Ontario Annual Report (2008), 7108–7110
  - Ontario University Faculty Sound Warning Over Declining Quality (Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations), 5512
  - With Our Best Future in Mind: Report to the Premier by the Special Advisor on Early Learning (Charles Pascal), 9220–9521
  - A Review of the Colleges Collective Bargaining Act (Kevin Whitaker), 1248
  - Review of the Roots of Youth Violence (Roy McMurtry, Alvin Curling), 6001
  - The Road to Health: A Final Report on School Safety (School Community Safety Advisory Panel), 5541–5542
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Bischoff, Angela (Ontario Clean Air Alliance), 5157
  - Brooks, Chris (senior adviser of road safety, Australian Transport Safety Bureau), 2594
  - Cagney, Andrew (constituent, Toronto), 5157
  - Colour of Poverty Campaign, 7079
  - Corrado, Raymond (Centre for Restorative Justice, Simon Fraser University), 3015
  - Genest, Paul (president, Council of Ontario Universities), 988
  - Kaegh, Gwendolyn (constituent, Markham), 5157
  - Lurie, Steve (executive director, Canadian Mental Health Association), 4493
  - Magwood, Gary (constituent, Belleville), 5156
  - Miller, Cameron (constituent, Toronto), 5157
  - Milligan, John (mayor, Adelaide Metcalfe), 3829
  - Ontario Cattlemen's Association, 7995
  - Ontario Public School Boards' Association, 6944–6945, 7365–7367
  - parents, school fundraising, re, 221
  - Rostgaard, Tine (senior researcher, Danish National Centre for Social Research), 4121
  - Thomas, Warren (president, Ontario Public Service Employees Union), 2508
  - Tory, John (leader, PC Party), 5870
  - Toxics Reduction Scientific Expert Panel, 6303
  - Wingfield, Mark, 5157
- Members/ministers quoting websites
  - Ontario Black History Society, 8135
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - Liberal (1995-2003)
    - Bradley, James J. (St. Catharines), 8092
    - Duncan, Dwight (Windsor–Walkerville), 8092
    - McGuinty, Dalton (Ottawa South)
      - as Leader of the Opposition, 1163, 2255–2256
    - Milloy, John (Kitchener Centre)
      - as Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities), 7520
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - Duncan, Dwight (Windsor–Tecumseh)
      - as Minister of Finance/Chair of Management Board of Cabinet, 5802, 5870
    - McGuinty, Dalton (Ottawa South)
      - as Ontario Premier, 5802–5803, 5870–5871
    - McMeekin, Ted (Ancaster–Dundas–Flamborough–Westdale)
      - as Minister of Government and Consumer Services, 8094
  - PC (2003-2010)
    - Runciman, Robert W. (Leeds–Grenville), 5802
  - withdrawn, 7106
- Members' statements
  - Arts and cultural funding, 2743
  - Catholic school trustees, 2095
  - Chinese New Year, 9411–9412
  - Chopin, Fryderyk, 9583–9584
  - Community colleges, 8652
  - Community colleges collective bargaining, 1460, 2530
  - Condominium association, 6557–6558
  - Electric trains, 8263
  - Global Education Initiative, 3001
  - Government record, 9222–9223
  - Labour mobility, 8948
  - Ontario budget, 516
  - Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations, 886, 5580
  - School extracurricular activities, 7834
  - School pools, 5430
  - Student achievement, 6947
  - Taxation, 7436
  - Teachers, 4825
  - University labour dispute, 4426
  - Youth violence, 3967
- Mental health care, 4492–4493
  - reform, 4492–4493
- Midwives, 4038
- Milk, 3246–3247
- Minimum wage, 5143
  - increase, 918–919
- Ministerial statements, responded to
  - Algoma University College, 2041
  - Community colleges collective bargaining, 2451–2452
  - Education Week, 1414
  - Franco-Ontarian flag, 2843
  - Full-day kindergarten, 8314, 9328
  - Healthy schools, 70–71, 2909, 3692
  - Labour mobility, 6563–6564
  - Portuguese Canadian community, 2451
  - Premier's Awards for Teaching Excellence, 988
  - School boards, 6650
  - School safety, 4658–4659
  - Skilled trades, 6813–6814
  - Student achievement, 46, 6001–6002
  - Student assistance, 944–945
  - Student safety, 5475
  - Teachers, 7779
  - University funding, 988
  - World Teachers' Day, 3099
- Ministry of Education
  - collection of student achievement statistics based on ethnicity, 1569
  - equity and inclusive education strategy, 6001
  - school information finder, 5883, 5991, 6002, 6886–6887, 6944–6945, 6947, 7035–7036, 7079, 7193–7194
- Ministry of Education/Ministry of Health Promotion
  - healthy schools recognition program, 3692
- Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
  - assistive devices program, 3951
- Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
  - second career strategy, 7475, 7520, 7727–7728, 8027, 8123–8124, 8203, 8864–8865
- Missing persons
  - with dementia
    - Silver Alert program, 8518–8519
- Motor scooters
  - regulation, 6132
- Municipal Act, S.O. 2001, c. 25
  - amended by Bill 212, 8394
- Municipal government
  - governance, 5298–5299
- Municipal infrastructure
  - government funding, 100
- National/independence/memorial days
  - Black History Month, 8135–8137
- Nurse practitioners, 4038
- Nurses, 4038
  - school nurses, 5291
- Office of the Chief Veterinarian
  - authority, 7994–7995
- Ontario budget speech (25 March 2008)
  - responded to, 595
- Ontario budget speech (26 March 2009)
  - responded to, 5864, 5869–5873, 5905, 5913, 5921
- Ontario Catholic School Trustees' Association, 2095
- Ontario College of Trades, 6813–6814, 7106–7107, 7848–7849, 8123, 8203, 8243–8244
  - board of governors
    - composition of board
      - ban on donors of Working Families Coalition, 8123
  - membership fees, 7104
  - trade boards, 8124
- Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 (Bill 183)
  - general discussion, 8243–8244
  - second reading, 7104–7113, 7115, 7117, 7120–7121, 7126–7127
  - time allocation motion
    - amendments, 7846–7847
    - responded to, 7845–7850
  - third reading, 8202–8204
- Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations, 886
- Ontario Labour Mobility Act, 2009 (Bill 175)
  - general discussion, 9021, 9223
  - ministerial statement
    - public consultation, 6564
  - second reading, 8243–8248, 8662
    - section 9, 8246
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 8929–8931
- Ontario-Quebec agreements
  - Ontario-Quebec Trade and Cooperation Agreement, 8930
- Ontario Tax Plan for More Jobs and Growth Act, 2009 (Bill 218)
  - second reading, 8797, 8799–8801
- Opposition day motions, responded to
  - Government spending, 5801–5803
  - Rural schools, 2254–2258
  - Tobacco control, 1480–1482
  - Young offenders, 3013–3015
- Oral questions, presented
  - Access to education, 2604–2605
  - Apprenticeship training, 1473
  - Community colleges collective bargaining, 235–236, 1248–1249, 4944–4945
  - Conflict of interest, 7575–7576
  - Education, 5883, 5991
  - Education funding, 994–995, 2640–2641, 6190
  - Elementary teachers, 3323
  - Executive compensation, 4056–4057
  - Green power generation, 5030–5031
  - Health care, 3091
  - Law enforcement, 8302–8303
  - Post-secondary education, 501, 3485, 3874, 4902–4903, 8108
  - Private career colleges, 7429, 9545
  - Public transit, 6270
  - School boards, 651
  - School closures, 1163, 1366–1367, 2124, 3829
  - School facilities, 7385
  - School pools, 1058, 1105, 1572–1573
  - School support staff, 5426
  - Sign language in schools, 2833
  - Skills training, 7475, 7520, 7727–7728, 8027, 8864–8865
  - Special education, 9365
  - Special-needs students, 7269
  - Student achievement, 1569, 6886–6887, 6944–6945, 7035–7036, 7079, 7193–7194
  - Student grants, 6491
  - Taxation, 8733–8734, 9075
  - Teachers' collective agreement, 4620
  - Tuition, 610–611, 5950–5951, 6390, 8558
  - University and college funding, 2670, 5125, 5512
  - University labour disputes, 4382, 4651–4652
- Payday loans
  - borrowing costs, 1397
  - interest rate limit of 35%, 1395
  - interest rates, 1397
- Payday Loans Act, 2008 (Bill 48)
  - second reading, 1395, 1397–1398
- Pension benefits guarantee fund, 6098
- Pension plans
  - defined benefit pension plans, 6098–6099
  - portability
    - paramedics, 7247
    - public service, 7247
- Pesticides/herbicides
  - ban on use and sale of cosmetic pesticides, 1854, 2010, 2015–2017
    - exemptions
      - golf courses, 1838–1839, 1851, 1855, 2017, 2019
- Petitions
  - Car culture, 2034
  - Child safety, 6999–7000
  - Community colleges collective bargaining, 1373, 1891, 2035
  - Environmental protection, 1255–1256
  - Harbord Collegiate, 2526
  - Home care, 571
  - Non-profit housing, 618
  - Poverty, 4115
  - Reconstructive surgery, 9228
  - School pools, 1575
  - Taxation, 7841–7842
  - Tuition, 3498, 7092
  - University labour dispute, 4659
- Physical education, 221–222
- Physical education teachers, 1414, 3692, 4039, 5291
  - hiring, 2909
- Police officers
  - presence in schools, 4877, 4879–4880
- Political contributions, 5299
  - influencing political process, 9679, 9683–9684
- Politicians, 5299
- Post-secondary education, 3874
  - Reaching Higher: The McGuinty Government Plan for Postsecondary Education, 2481, 2670, 4382
- Poverty, 3692, 4039–4040
- Poverty reduction strategy
  - student nutrition program, 3246
- Private career colleges
  - Niagara-on-the-Lake Culinary School
    - closure, 9545
  - oversight, 7429
- Private health clinics, 3091
- Private members' public business
  - Accessibility for the disabled
    - responded to, 9568–9569
  - Anti-bullying initiatives
    - responded to, 9387–9388
  - Apprenticeship training
    - responded to, 2852–2854
  - Black History Month Act, 2009 (Bill 207)
    - second reading, 8135–8137
  - Condominium Owners Protection Act, 2009 (Bill 186)
    - second reading, 7256–7257, 7261–7262
  - Cultural diversity
    - responded to, 7060–7061
  - Day Nurseries Amendment Act (Not for Profit Corporations), 2008 (Bill 26)
    - second reading, 542–543
  - Diabetes Awareness Month Act, 2008 (Bill 113)
    - second reading, 3939
  - Education Amendment Act (Pupils with Diabetes), 2009 (Bill 137)
    - second reading, 5290–5292
  - Electricity Amendment Act (Protection Against Security Deposits), 2009 (Bill 228)
    - second reading, 9247
  - Employment insurance
    - responded to, 5851–5853
  - Environmental Assessment Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 123)
    - second reading, 4315–4316
  - Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Amendment Act (Institutions), 2009 (Bill 227)
    - second reading, 9232–9233
  - Highway Traffic Amendment Act (Aftermarket Brake Pad Standards), 2009 (Bill 181)
    - second reading, 7254
  - Inactive Cemeteries Protection Act, 2009 (Bill 149)
    - second reading, 5483–5484
  - Lake Superior Day
    - responded to, 4310
  - Legislative channel
    - responded to, 3253–3254
  - Long-term care
    - responded to, 4120–4122
  - Mental health and addiction services
    - responded to, 4492–4493
  - Milk in schools
    - responded to, 3246–3247
  - Missing persons alert
    - responded to, 8517–8519
  - Municipalities
    - responded to, 5298–5300
  - Northern York Region Power Conservation Act, 2008 (Bill 79)
    - second reading, 2847
  - Ontario College of Trades
    - responded to, 8122–8124
  - Pension plans
    - responded to, 7247
  - Registered Retirement Savings Protection Act, 2010 (Bill 96)
    - second reading, 3559–3560
  - Representation Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 104)
    - second reading, 3555
  - Senators' Selection Act, 2009 (Bill 67)
    - second reading, 8510–8512
  - Seniors' Ombudsman Act, 2008 (Bill 102)
    - second reading, 3549–3550
  - Single-Use Bottled Water Ban Act, 2008 (Bill 112)
    - second reading, 3945–3946
  - Skills training
    - presented, 3258–3260, 3264–3265
  - Smoke-Free Ontario Amendment Act (Cigarillos), 2008 (Bill 124)
    - second reading, 4303–4304
  - Taxation Amendment Act (Equipment Purchased for Persons with Disabilities), 2008 (Bill 109)
    - second reading, 3950–3951
  - Towing Industry Act, 2008 (Bill 87)
    - second reading, 2860–2861
  - Truscott, Steven
    - responded to, 1991
  - Zero Waste Day Act, 2010 (Bill 247)
    - second reading, 9564
- Private schools
  - Pretty River Academy (Collingwood)
    - government funding for new playing field, 7385
- Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth, 4874–4875, 4878
- Provincial safety and equity officer, 6001–6002
- Public education campaigns
  - Bullying Awareness and Prevention Week, 9387–9388
  - Franco-Ontarian flag day, 2843
  - Global Education Initiative, 3001
  - International Mother Language Day, 7060–7061
  - World Teachers' Day, 3099, 7779
- Public housing
  - government funding, 632
- Public libraries
  - government funding, 9568–9569
- Public Sector Expenses Review Act, 2009 (Bill 201)
  - second reading, 7616–7619
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 7659–7661
- Quebec
  - training levy, 3265
  - tuition fees, 99, 632
- Racial profiling, 8136
- Registered retirement savings plans
  - protection from creditors, 3559–3560
- Regulated health profession colleges
  - power to directly observe regulated health professionals, 4812
- Regulated Health Professions Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 141)
  - second reading, 4812
- Reports
  - Inquiry Into Pediatric Forensic Pathology in Ontario (Stephen Goudge), 4569–4570
  - Ontario University Faculty Sound Warning Over Declining Quality (Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations), 5512, 5580
  - A Review of the Colleges Collective Bargaining Act (Kevin Whitaker), 2478
  - Review of the Roots of Youth Violence (Roy McMurtry, Alvin Curling), 3967
  - The Road to Health: A Final Report on School Safety (School Community Safety Advisory Panel), 5475, 5540–5541, 5543–5544, 6001
  - Shaping a Culture of Respect in our Schools: Promoting Safe and Healthy Relationships (Report on Gender-based Violence, Homophobia, Sexual Harassment and Inappropriate Sexual Behaviour in Schools), 4658, 6964–6965
- Road Safety Act, 2009 (Bill 126)
  - third reading, 6130–6133
- Scandinavia
  - quality of life, 917
- School board budgets
  - budget deficits, 2256–2257
- School board trustees, 6650–6651
  - accountability, 7362–7363
  - autonomy, 7359–7360
  - Catholic school trustees
    - trustees to uphold board decisions, 7363–7364
  - code of conduct, 7364–7365
- School boards
  - audit committees, 7365
  - governance
    - reform, 8936–8937
  - oversight by Ombudsman, 2641
  - responsibility for student achievement, 7364
- School cafeterias
  - ban on trans fat in food and beverages, 217–220, 489
- School closures, 1163, 1366–1367, 2124, 3692
  - deferral, 3829
  - Metcalfe Central Public School, 3829
- School fundraising, 221, 6650
- School principals, 4658
- School safety, 5475
  - data collection, 4658
  - documentation by principal, 6836
  - government advertising, 4659
  - hiring of full-time social workers, 5542
  - partnership with community agencies, 4658
  - reporting of violent incidents, 4658, 5475, 6836
  - safety plan for harmed students, 6836
- School vending machines
  - ban on unhealthy food and beverages, 71, 218–220
- Schools
  - Africentric school, 8136
  - closure
    - northern Ontario, 2258
    - rural Ontario, 2255
- Senior citizens, 4121
- Shingwauk Education Trust, 2154
- Skilled trades, 7106
- Smoke-Free Ontario Amendment Act (Cigarillos), 2008 (Bill 124)
  - second reading
    - public consultation, 4304
- Smoking, 1480, 4303–4304
- Special education, 1414, 6001
  - Arrowsmith program at Toronto Catholic District School Board, 7269, 7358
  - government funding, 3402–3403, 5541–5542, 9365
- Special-needs students, 6650
- Speed limiters
  - Australia, 2594
  - reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, 2593
- Strikes
  - University of Windsor faculty members, 2670
- Student achievement, 6650, 7361
- Student Achievement and School Board Governance Act, 2009 (Bill 177)
  - second reading, 7351, 7358–7367
  - third reading, 8936–8937
- Student debt, 944–945, 2920–2921, 3485
- Student enrolment
  - decline, 2124
- Student evaluation
  - standardized, 46
- Student grants
  - distance grant, 6491
  - textbook and technology grant, 6491
- Student user fees, 501, 611
- Students
  - extracurricular activities, 7834
- Supply Act, 2008 (Bill 45)
  - second reading, 631–633
- Swimming pools
  - closure, 5430
- Tarion Warranty Corporation
  - board of directors, 7257, 7261
  - complaints, 7257
- Tax credits
  - manufacturing investment tax credit, 3404
  - purchase of equipment or devices for persons with disabilities, 3950
- Teacher collective agreements
  - Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario, 4620
- Teacher collective bargaining
  - Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario, 3323
- Teacher-librarians
  - reduction, 5426
- Teacher-student ratios, 9519–9520
- Teachers, 4658, 5291
  - English as a second language teachers, 1414
- Technical safety standards
  - regulation, 8095
- Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA), 8090–8091
  - appointment of directors, 8093–8094
- Technical Standards and Safety Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 187)
  - second reading, 8090–8096
- Temporary help agency employees, 5142–5145
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 98–102
- Time allocation motions
  - Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 (Bill 183)
    - responded to, 7845–7850
  - Ontario Labour Mobility Act, 2009 (Bill 175)
    - responded to, 8929–8931
  - Public Sector Expenses Review Act, 2009 (Bill 201)
    - responded to, 7659–7661
- Tobacco Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act, 2009 (Bill 155)
  - second reading, 5411, 6201–6205
- Tobacco products
  - ban on possession of unmarked cigarettes, 6098
  - ban on sale of cigarillos/flavouring agents, 4304
    - labelling, 4304
  - health warnings, 6305
  - illegal production, 5411
  - illegal sale, 6097–6098, 6205
- Tobacco products manufacturers
  - recovery of tobacco-related health care costs from manufacturers, 6202–6203
- Toronto District School Board
  - budget deficit, 651
  - international languages program, 8136
  - swimming pools
    - closure, 995, 1058, 1105, 1572–1573
- Toronto District School Board-Future Shop agreements
  - use of Future Shop colours in computer lab, 6190
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)
  - purchase of streetcars from Bombardier
    - government funding, 6270
- Towing industry
  - regulation, 2860–2861
- Toxic substances
  - reduction plan, 6301–6304
    - emissions reduction, 6302
    - fees, 6303
- Toxics Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 167)
  - second reading, 6299–6305
- Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA), 8929–8930
- Training for Workers Act, 2008 (Bill 107)
  - first reading, 3096
- Training programs, 3403–3404
- Transit systems
  - electric trains, 8263
  - purchase of mass transit vehicles
    - made in Ontario, 918
- Tributes
  - Snow, James (former Minister of Transportation and Communications), 6282
- Truck drivers
  - driving speed, 2594
- Trucks
  - speed limit capped at 105 km. per hour, 2594
- Tuition fees, 98–99, 632, 2920, 3485
  - flat fees
    - University of Toronto, 5885, 5950–5951, 6390
  - increase, 610–611
- United States
  - financial market crisis, 7659
  - Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Act, 6304
- Universities/colleges
  - contract teachers, 5142–5143
  - government funding, 102, 501, 631, 944–945, 988, 2480–2481, 2670, 2919–2920, 2928, 3402, 4382, 4651–4652, 4903, 5125, 5512, 8108
  - University of Toronto
    - government funding, 516
    - strike, 4651
  - University of Western Ontario
    - revenue shortfall, 4902
  - York University
    - contract teachers, 4426
    - strike, 4382, 4651
- University presidents
  - salaries/benefits, 4056–4057
- Voters/voting
  - voter turnout, 5298–5299
- Waste
  - nuclear/radioactive waste, 6728
- Waste management/programs
  - recycling
    - water bottles, 3945–3946
- Workers
  - job retraining
    - government funding, 7475
  - temporary workers, 5138–5139
  - training, 3258, 3264–3265
- Workforce skills development and recognition fund, 3096, 3258–3259
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 119)
  - second reading, 3718
- Young offenders
  - rehabilitation, 3014–3015
- Youth crime
  - prevention, 4875–4880
- Youth justice system
  - reform, 4876
- Youth/students
  - political involvement, 6130–6131
- Youth violence, 3967, 5475
Martiniuk, G. (PC, Cambridge)
- Agencies/boards/commissions/etc.
  - expenditures
    - accountability, 7601–7602
- Anniversaries
  - Stroke Recovery Association, Cambridge District 30th anniversary, 7835
- Automobile industry
  - General Motors of Canada Ltd.
    - pension plan, 7203
- Blind Persons' Rights Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 70)
  - first reading, 1724
- Budget
  - early disclosure of budget documents, 921–922
- Budget deficit, 3476
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (Bill 44)
  - second reading, 794, 921–924
- Cancer drugs
  - Avastin, 8920–8921
- Capital tax, 3476
- Christopher's Statute Law Amendment Act (Sex Offender Registry and Electronic Sexual Material), 2008 (Bill 128)
  - first reading, 4065–4066
- Clubs
  - Rotary International, 9322–9323
- Debates re answers to oral questions
  - Taxation
    - requested, 8803
    - participation, 8803
- Diabetes, 8547
  - type 1 diabetes, 5289–5290
- Doctors
  - patient-to-doctor ratio, 160
- Dollar
  - Canadian, 3474
- Economic decline, 2987
- Education Amendment Act (Pupils with Diabetes), 2009 (Bill 137)
  - first reading, 4427–4428
  - second reading
    - public consultation, 5295
- Education Statute Law Amendment Act (Electronic Sexual Material), 2009 (Bill 202)
  - first reading, 7393
- Employment creation
  - by government, 3476
- Employment-related benefits
  - organ donor leave, 5221–5222
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Organ Donor Leave), 2009 (Bill 154)
  - second reading, 5221–5222
- Food banks
  - Cambridge Self-Help Food Bank, 7696
- Full Day Early Learning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 242)
  - second reading, 9525–9526
- Government accountability, 7609–7610, 7715
- Government debt, 3475–3476
- Government expenditures, 3475–3476
- Government orders
  - Ontario economy
    - responded to, 3474–3476
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - hospitals, 921–922
- Government revenue, 2609, 3475–3476
- Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 (Bill 150)
  - second reading, 5437, 5446–5447, 5449
- Harmonized sales tax, 7202
  - impact on senior citizens, 8781, 8803
  - public consultation, 8803
- Hospital beds
  - long-term-care beds, 7203
    - shortage, 794
- Hospital expansion
  - Cambridge Memorial Hospital, 6143–6144
- Hospital funding
  - government funding, 6144, 9362–9363
    - Cambridge Memorial Hospital, 924, 6408–6409
  - population needs-based funding, 5382
- Hospital redevelopment
  - Cambridge Memorial Hospital, 5512, 5623, 6019
- Hospital services
  - emergency
    - reduction in Niagara region, 9363
- Hospitals
  - Cambridge Memorial Hospital
    - downsizing to urgent care centre, 5382
- Housing construction, 3476
- Ideas for the Future Act, 2008 (Bill 100)
  - second reading, 2986–2987
- Income disparity, 3475
- Kindergarten
  - full-day
    - site selection process, 9525–9526
- Legislative procedure
  - members/ministers must be in own seats for recorded vote, 8944
- Libraries/schools
  - use of Internet filtering software, 4066, 7739–7740, 7745–7746
- Long-term-care facilities
  - government funding, 3002
  - personal care, 7203
- Long-term-care workers
  - abuse, 3002
- Manufacturing industry
  - layoffs, 3474–3475
- Members'/ministers' constituencies/constituency events
  - Cambridge
    - Canada Day parade, 7150
    - Seniors' Education Day, 6995
- Members/ministers quoting letters
  - Falkiner, Sandy (Cambridge), 6019
  - Hook, Brian (parent), 5290
- Members/ministers quoting newspaper articles
  - Cambridge Times, 3474, 7740
  - Toronto Star, 922
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Rehmtulla, Raheema (PurePages, Internet filtering software company), 7740
  - TD Bank Financial Group, 3475
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - Smitherman, George (Toronto Centre)
      - as Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, 5449
  - withdrawn, 5230, 9120
- Members' statements
  - Canada Day parade, 7150
  - Diabetes, 8547
  - Food banks, 7696
  - Hospital funding, 6143–6144
  - Long-term care, 3002
  - Ontario budget, 5622–5623
  - Portuguese Canadian community, 7527
  - Remembrance Day, 8353
  - Rotary clubs, 9322–9323
  - Salvation Army, 8652
  - Seniors' Education Day, 6995
  - Stroke Recovery Association, 7835
  - Television industry, 8263–8264
- Military reservists
  - job-protected leave, 13
- Ministerial statements, responded to
  - Seniors' Month, 7202–7203
- Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
  - Next Generation of Jobs Fund, 3476
- Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
  - second career strategy, 3475
- National/independence/memorial days
  - Holodomor Memorial Day, 5307
- Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 (Bill 183)
  - second reading, 7212
- Opposition day motions, responded to
  - Electronic health information, 7715
  - Government accountability, 6018–6019
  - Hospital services, 6408–6409
  - Young offenders, 3019–3020
- Oral questions, presented
  - Cancer treatment, 8920–8921
  - Hospital funding, 5382, 5512, 9362–9363
  - Ontario economy, 2609
  - Taxation, 8781
- Patient-to-Doctor Ratio Act, 2007 (Bill 13)
  - first reading, 160
- Persons with disabilities
  - right to access places with guide dogs, 1724
- Petitions
  - Cambridge courthouse, 3283, 4299
  - Diabetes treatment, 4255, 4434–4436, 4634–4635, 5196–5197, 5245, 5435
  - Gasoline prices, 1721, 1926, 3780, 3885
  - Hospital funding, 5629, 6003, 6198, 6200, 6398, 6607, 7001, 7210, 7881, 8359–8360, 8469
  - Lord's Prayer, 426, 773, 1108, 1314–1315, 1892, 1927–1929
  - Military families, 82–84
  - Protection of minors, 5195–5196, 5244, 5433–5434, 5631, 6004, 6199–6200
  - Reconstructive surgery, 9005
  - Sexual reassignment surgery, 3284
  - Stroke survivors, 2573–2574, 3142
  - Stroke therapy, 3000, 3189
  - Taxation, 6815, 7240, 7529, 7701, 7737–7738, 7842, 7880, 8078, 8269–8270, 8358, 8659, 8792–8793
- Poverty Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 152)
  - second reading, 5254, 5259–5260
- Private members' public business
  - Automobile insurance
    - responded to, 7545
  - Education Amendment Act (Pupils with Diabetes), 2009 (Bill 137)
    - second reading, 5289–5290, 5295
  - Education Statute Law Amendment Act (Electronic Sexual Material), 2009 (Bill 202)
    - second reading, 7739–7740, 7745–7746
  - Holodomor Memorial Day Act, 2009 (Bill 147)
    - second reading, 5307
  - Tobacco Tax Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 199)
    - second reading, 7549–7550
- Public education campaigns
  - Seniors' Month, 7202–7203
  - World Diabetes Day, 8547
- Public Sector Expenses Review Act, 2009 (Bill 201)
  - second reading, 7601–7602, 7609–7610
- Pupils with diabetes
  - monitoring and treatment, 4427–4428, 5289–5290
- Regulations, 3476
- Remembrance Day, 8353
- Salvation Army
  - Christmas kettle campaign, 8652
- Senior citizens, 7202–7203
- Sex offender registry, 4066
- Television stations
  - local
    - closure, 8263–8264
- Tobacco Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act, 2009 (Bill 155)
  - second reading, 5412, 5644
- Tobacco products
  - illegal sale, 5412, 5644
- Tobacco tax
  - reduction, 7549–7550
- Toxic substances
  - reduction plan
    - definition of toxic substance, 7164
- Toxics Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 167)
  - third reading, 7164
- Unemployment rate, 3475
- United States
  - mortgage industry, 5447
- Young offenders
  - publication of names of young offenders convicted of violent crimes, 3019
- Youth/students
  - smoking, 7549
Matthews, Hon. D. (LIB, London North Centre)
- Aboriginal communities
  - health care, 9725
- Aboriginal youth, 3164
- Adoption, 3837–3838
  - international
    - bankruptcy of Imagine Adoption, 7827
- Air pollution
  - impact on health in Sarnia–Lambton, 9548
- Autism, 5835–5836
- Autism services, 25, 79, 693
  - government funding, 2090
  - intensive behavioural intervention (IBI), 25, 79, 482, 693, 1471–1472, 2090, 5826
    - Bunda, Sebastian case, 7692
    - government funding, 996, 7383
    - wait lists, 1883–1884
  - respite services, 25
  - summer camps, 25, 2090
- Awards
  - Stand Up for Kids Award
    - Wilkes, Jim (recipient), 3734
- Budget, 5509, 5615
- Cancer drugs
  - Avastin, 7962, 8920–8921, 9035
- Centre Roberts/Smart Centre
  - government funding, 6752–6753
- Child abuse, 3147–3148
  - Benevenga Day Care, 3273
  - reporting child abuse, 455–456, 3148
- Child and Family Services Review Board, 2638
- Child and Family Services Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 103)
  - general discussion, 5661
  - first reading, 2906
  - ministerial statement, 2906–2907
  - second reading, 3163–3164, 3166
  - third reading, 4831–4832
- Child care, 134, 562–563, 3135, 4522, 4618, 4783, 5735
  - federal government funding, 5508–5509, 5735, 6748
  - government funding, 1925–1926, 4783, 5735, 6748
  - subsidies, 1514–1515, 3376
- Child care centres, 3273
  - Benevenga Day Care, 3273
  - Treasure Island Daycare Centre, 3831–3832
- Child Development Institute
  - Earlscourt Girls Connection, 2491
  - government funding, 2491
- Child pornography
  - reporting, 456, 3734
- Child poverty, 174, 2779, 2828, 4519, 4862, 5041, 5198, 5271
- Child protection, 455–456
- Children in care
  - death, 4941–4942, 5002–5003
- Children's aid societies (CASs)
  - Children's Aid Society of Simcoe County
    - government funding, 7831–7832
  - complaint process, 2638
  - government funding, 3147–3148, 7771–7772
- Children's mental health care, 1425, 4864, 6273, 6487, 6753
  - government funding, 1425, 6273, 6488, 6753
- Children's nutrition programs
  - government funding, 7389
- Children's services, 4863
  - government funding, 3487–3488
    - Rainy River, 7731
    - Stormont–Dundas–South Glengarry, 1886
- Children's treatment centres
  - government funding, 1166
  - KidsAbility Centre for Child Development
    - government funding, 1165
- Community organizations, 3487
- Conferences/seminars/symposiums
  - Geneva Centre for Autism International Symposium (2008), 5835
- Correctional centres
  - youth facilities, 2907, 5661
    - Donald Doucet Centre, 2907
- Crown wards
  - services, 3734–3735
- Domestic violence, 3690
- Early childhood education
  - full-day learning for four- and five-year-old children, 4522, 4618, 4783, 5509
- Early years centres
  - government funding, 3046
- eHealth Ontario
  - contracts
    - Anzen Consulting Inc., 8861
    - public inquiry, 8027, 8456
  - evidence of inappropriate practices
    - disclosure, 8820
  - expenditures, 8544–8545
  - Hudson, Alan (former Chairman)
    - appearance before Standing Committee on Public Accounts, 8302
  - Kramer, Sarah (former CEO)
    - appearance before Standing Committee on Public Accounts, 8302
- Electronic health records, 8685
  - contract with Nightingale Informatix Corporation, 8453–8454
- Expert Panel on Infertility and Adoption, 6694–6695
- Family health teams, 9503
- Family law
  - non-parental child custody applicants required to provide a sworn statement, Children's Aid Society record and police records check, 4212
- Fatalities
  - Sampson, Katelynn (murder victim), 4948
  - Schlifer, Barbra (murder victim), 7698
- Federal-provincial agreements/programs
  - early learning and child care (ELCC) agreement, 3376
- Food banks
  - usage, 4247–4248
- Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.F.31
  - extension to hospitals, 8209–8210
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - health care, 8104, 8302, 9642–9643
    - senior citizens, 8106
  - NDP (1990-1995)
    - child care, 500
    - children's aid societies, 4942
  - PC (1995-2003)
    - mental health care, 6752
- Government service transfer to municipal jurisdiction
  - hospital capital costs
    - York region, 4942
- Grants
  - Promoting Healthy Equal Relationships grants program, 2251
- Health care
  - London, 8731–8731
  - out-of-country, 9639, 9695, 9724–9725
  - Parry Sound–Muskoka, 9269–9270
  - rural and northern Ontario, 8103–8104, 8407–8408, 9448
  - Sault Ste. Marie, 7920
- Health care executives
  - compensation, 8302
- Health care funding
  - government funding, 9271–9272, 9694–9695, 9722
    - out-of-country, 8868
  - Niagara region, 9220
- Health Professions Regulatory Advisory Council, 8938
- HIV (virus)
  - treatment, 8999
- H1N1 influenza A (swine flu)
  - cases, 8461
    - waiting period for test results, 8460–8461
  - emergency preparedness
    - availability of pediatric Tamiflu, 8455
    - availability of Tamiflu, 8461
  - health plan for influenza pandemic, 8406–8407, 8454–8455, 8495–8496
  - hospital capacity, 8346
    - emergency services, 8346–8347
- Home care
  - competitive bidding, 9450
- Hospital beds
  - long-term-care beds, 9494–9495
- Hospital closure
  - Toronto Grace Hospital, 9269–9270
- Hospital expansion
  - Milton District Hospital, 8308, 9080
- Hospital funding
  - government funding, 8144, 9360–9361, 9402–9403
    - Cambridge Memorial Hospital, 8349
    - Ottawa, 9578–9579
- Hospital redevelopment, 9647–9648
- Hospital services
  - emergency
    - reduction in Niagara region, 8212–8213
    - wait times, 3186, 8938–8939
- Hospitals
  - Ottawa Hospital, 9578–9579
  - Queensway Carleton Hospital, 9575–9576
  - Royal Ottawa Hospital
    - service and staff cuts, 9646–9647
- Housing
  - affordable, 3773, 3962
- Immunization
  - H1N1 influenza A (swine flu), 8213, 8301, 9079–9080
    - expanded to all children and senior citizens with underlying health conditions, 8544
    - expanded to all citizens, 8684
    - health care workers, 8495
    - high-priority groups, 8342–8343, 8404–8405, 8452–8453, 8493
    - inmates in jails and correctional centres, 8404
    - lineups at clinics, 8301, 8303–8304, 8347–8348, 8451–8452, 8454
    - number of doses administered, 8494–8495
    - 24-hour immunization clinics, 8304
- Income groups
  - low, 5198–5199
    - government funding, 7389
- Infant death
  - sleeping arrangements, 4941
- Infertility, 6694–6695
- Legislative procedure
  - tabling of documents, 8827
- Local health integration networks (LHINs)
  - boards of directors, 9314
  - executive salaries, 9311–9312
  - Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network
    - appointment of Barry Monaghan as CEO, 9359–9360
- Long-term-care facilities
  - layoffs, 8543–8544
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
  - wait times, 9450–9451, 9642
- Massacres
  - Montreal massacre (6 December 1989), 126, 4431–4432
- Members'/ministers' correction of record, 8461
- Members'/ministers' privileges
  - wearing of pins/ribbons/buttons, 3039, 4207
- Members/ministers quoting letters
  - MacQuarrie, Barb (community director, Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children in London), 456
- Members/ministers quoting reports
  - Special Report: Ontario's Electronic Health Records Initiative (Office of the Auditor General of Ontario), 8453
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Bielfeld, Arthur (June Callwood Campaign against Child Poverty), 4519
  - Callwood, June (journalist and social activist), 688
  - Capponi, Pat (mental health advocate), 4519
  - Closson, Tom (president, Ontario Hospital Association), 8210
  - Convery, Pat (executive director, Adoption Council of Ontario), 3838
  - Kitts, Jack (ex-officio governor, Board of Governors, Ottawa Hospital), 9646
  - Lankin, Frances (president and CEO, United Way Toronto), 4519
  - Law, Marcus (family health team doctor), 8685
  - McCarter, Jim (Auditor General of Ontario), 8102
  - McCuaig, Kerry (former executive director, Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care), 500
  - Mendelson, Michael (Caledon Institute of Social Policy), 688, 4519
  - Murphy, Emily (first female police magistrate in the British Empire), 3382
  - Nyberg, Gail (Daily Bread Food Bank), 688
  - Oliphant, Michael (director or research and communications, Daily Bread Food Bank), 688
- Mental health care
  - Brockville Mental Health Centre
    - transfer acute care unit to Brockville General Hospital, 9367
  - government funding, 6752
- Minimum wage
  - increase, 3528, 5198
- Ministerial statements, presented
  - Adoption Awareness Month, 3837–3838
  - Canadian Infertility Awareness Week, 6694–6695
  - Child Abuse Prevention Month, 3147–3148
  - Persons Day, 3382
  - Poverty, 5041–5042
  - Sexual Assault Prevention Month, 6497
  - Sexual harassment, 2250–2251
  - Sexual Harassment Awareness Week, 7155
  - Woman Abuse Prevention Month, 3690
  - Women's History Month, 3055
  - World Autism Awareness Day, 5835–5836
  - Young offenders, 2906–2907
- Ministers redirecting oral questions, 132, 379, 482, 608–609, 996, 1101, 1304, 1423, 1472, 2490, 3135, 3773, 3832, 6748
- Ministry of Children and Youth Services
  - respite services for families of children with autism, 693
  - seasonal camps for children with autism, 693
  - telepsychiatry program, 6273, 6488
  - youth opportunities strategy, 650, 2907, 3276–3277
- Ministry of Education
  - Safe Schools Action Team, 2251
- Ministry of Education/Ministry of Children and Youth Services
  - student support leadership initiative, 6488, 6553
- National child benefit supplement (NCBS)
  - clawback, 608–609, 649
- Ontario child benefit (OCB), 173–174, 456, 563, 608–609, 649, 1516, 2440, 2779, 3135, 3528, 3961–3962, 4104, 5683
- Ontario disability support program (ODSP), 4820
- Ontario disability support program (ODSP) benefits, 3732
- Ontario drug benefit program (ODB)
  - cuts to seniors' drug benefits, 8143–8144
- Ontario health insurance plan (OHIP)
  - inclusion of prostate-specific antigen test as insured service, 9080–9081
- Ontario Women's Directorate
  - domestic violence action plan, 125, 2251, 4432
- Ontario Works program benefits
  - back-to-school allowance, 649
  - winter clothing allowance, 649
- Oral questions
  - Health care
    - Special education, 8731–8732
- Oral questions, presented
  - Poverty, 2778
- Oral questions, responded to
  - Aboriginal health care, 9725
  - Access to information, 4325–4327, 4384
  - Affordable housing, 3773
  - AIDS treatment, 8999
  - Assistance to farmers, 6748
  - Assistance to the disabled, 5784
  - Autism services, 25, 79, 482, 693, 996, 1471–1472, 1883–1884, 2090, 5826, 7383, 7692
  - Cancer treatment, 7962, 8920–8921, 9035
  - Child abuse, 3273
  - Child care, 134, 500, 562–563, 1514–1515, 1925–1926, 3376, 3831–3832, 4618, 4783, 5508–5509, 5735
  - Child poverty, 688–690, 2779, 3487–3488
  - Child protection, 3734–3735, 4212, 4940–4942, 4947–4948, 5002–5003
  - Children and youth services, 1886
  - Children with special needs, 2491, 4808
  - Children's aid societies, 2638, 7771–7772, 7831–7832
  - Children's mental health services, 1425, 4863–4864, 6273, 6487–6488, 6553, 6752–6753
  - Children's services, 3046, 7731
  - Children's treatment centres, 1165–1166
  - Composting, 8866–8867
  - Diagnostic services, 9079–9081
  - Electronic health information, 8027, 8302, 8453–8456, 8544–8545, 8685, 8783–8784, 8820, 8861
  - Emergency services, 8345–8346
  - Executive compensation, 8302
  - Flu immunization, 8105, 8301, 8303–8304, 8342–8344, 8346–8347, 8403–8407, 8451–8454, 8458, 8493–8495, 8544, 8684, 9079–9080
  - Flu pandemic preparedness, 8454–8455, 8460–8461, 8495–8496
  - Freedom of information, 8209–8210
  - Government record, 8102
  - Health care, 8103–8104, 9269–9272, 9503, 9639, 9642–9643, 9695, 9725
  - Health care funding, 8868, 9220, 9450–9451, 9548, 9578–9579, 9694–9695, 9722
  - Home care, 9450
  - Hospital funding, 8144, 8212–8213, 8349, 9360–9361, 9367, 9402–9403, 9646–9648
  - Hospital services, 8308, 8346, 9080, 9575–9576
  - International adoptions, 7827
  - Local health integration networks, 9311–9312, 9314, 9359–9360
  - Long-term care, 8543–8544, 9494–9495
  - Low-income Ontarians, 608–609, 7389
  - Minimum wage, 4247–4248
  - National child benefit supplement, 649
  - Northern and rural health services, 9448
  - Ontario child benefit, 1516
  - Ontario disability support program, 4820
  - Ontario drug benefit program, 8143–8144
  - Palliative care, 9547
  - Patient safety, 9544, 9640–9641, 9690–9691, 9721
  - Patient transfers, 7920
  - Pay equity, 3877
  - Poverty, 173–174, 336, 1470, 1605, 1712, 2088, 2491–2492, 2602–2603, 2643, 2827–2828, 3134–3135, 3180–3181, 3238, 3528, 3640, 3732, 3876, 3961–3962, 4104, 4149–4150, 4327, 4519, 4521–4522, 4750, 4781–4782, 4861–4862, 5032, 5423, 5615, 5683, 6077, 6599–6600
  - Rural health services, 8407–8408
  - School nutrition programs, 378–379
  - Senior citizens, 8106
  - Sewage sludge, 9216–9217
  - Social assistance, 2440, 4289
  - Student assistance, 2490
  - Violence against women, 4213–4214
  - Workplace safety, 7433
  - Youth correctional facilities, 5661
  - Youth crime, 3085
  - Youth employment, 650–651
  - Youth services, 2294, 3276–3277, 7640–7641
- Palliative care
  - Ottawa area, 9547
- Patient safety
  - surgical errors and pathology results, 9690–9691, 9721
  - unnecessary mastectomies performed at Hôtel-Dieu Grace Hospital, 9544, 9640–9641
- Pay equity, 3877
- Positron emission tomography (PET)
  - availability in northeastern Ontario, 9079
- Poverty, 173–174, 336, 3528, 4104, 4327, 4519, 5271
  - social effects, 6425
- Poverty Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 152)
  - general discussion, 5423, 6077
    - public consultation, 6077, 6599
  - first reading, 5040
  - second reading, 5198–5199, 5202, 5271
  - third reading, 6421–6422, 6424–6425
- Poverty reduction strategy, 651, 689–690, 2490, 2602–2603, 2778–2779, 2827–2828, 3134–3135, 3180–3181, 3238, 3487–3488, 3528, 3640, 3961, 4104, 4149–4150, 4289, 4327, 4519, 4521, 4750, 4781–4782, 4832, 4861, 5032, 5041, 5198–5199, 5202, 5423, 5615, 5683, 6077, 6599–6600
  - community hub program, 4521
  - community opportunities fund, 4521
  - housing benefit, 3962
  - public consultation, 1470, 1605, 1712, 2088, 2491–2492, 2643, 2778, 2828, 3134–3135, 3773, 3876, 4149, 4327, 6421–6422
  - social assistance review, 5784
  - town hall meeting, 4861
  - 25 in 5 plan, 5032
- Private members' public business
  - Child Pornography Reporting Act, 2008 (Bill 37)
    - second reading, 455–456
- Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth
  - access to information, 4325–4327, 4941–4942
  - power to require a person to provide information, 4384
- Public education campaigns
  - Adoption Awareness Month, 3837–3838
  - Canadian Infertility Awareness Week, 6694–6695
  - Child Abuse Prevention Month, 3147, 3734, 7735
  - Children's Mental Health Week, 6553
  - Equality Rules, 2251, 3690
  - International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, 4213
  - International Women's Day, 5242
  - Neighbours, Friends and Families public education campaign, 125, 2251, 3690, 5242
  - Persons Day, 3382
  - Sexual Assault Prevention Month, 1727, 6497
  - Sexual Harassment Awareness Week, 2250–2251, 7155
  - White Ribbon Campaign, 126
  - Woman Abuse Prevention Month, 3690
  - Women's History Month, 3055
  - World AIDS Day, 8999
  - World Autism Awareness Day, 5835–5836
- Quebec
  - child care, 4783
  - poverty reduction strategy, 5423
- Regulated Health Professions Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 179)
  - third reading, 8938–8939
- Reports
  - Breaking the Cycle: Ontario's Poverty Reduction Strategy, 5041, 5198
  - The Cost of Poverty: An Analysis of the Economic Cost of Poverty in Ontario (Ontario Association of Food Banks), 4104
  - Hunger Count 2008: A Comprehensive Report on Hunger and Food Bank Use in Canada (Food Banks Canada), 424
  - Report of the Paediatric Death Review Committee and Deaths Under Five Committee (Office of the Chief Coroner), 4941, 4947–4948
  - Review of the Roots of Youth Violence (Roy McMurtry, Alvin Curling), 2907
  - The Road Ahead: Poverty Reduction in Ontario (Campaign 2000), 688–689
  - A Shared Responsibility: Ontario's Policy Framework for Child and Youth Mental Health (Ministry of Children and Youth Services), 6273, 6487
  - Survivor Voices: Welcoming Women to Make Change, 4432
  - 2008 Ontario Report Card on Child and Family Poverty (Campaign 2000), 4150
- Sewage spills
  - South Castor River (Vernon), 9216–9217
- Sexual assault, 1727, 6497
- Sexual harassment, 2250–2251, 7155
- Special-needs children
  - government funding, 4808
  - services, 4808
- Telehealth Ontario
  - increase in volume of calls due to H1N1 influenza A (swine flu), 8303–8304
- Violence against women
  - Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, 125–126, 4431–4432
  - Take Back the Night, 7698–7699
- Waste management/programs
  - composting
    - addition of sewage sludge, 8866–8867
- Websites
  - www.citizenship.gov.on.ca/owd/, 2251
  - www.ontariowomensdirectorate.gov.on.ca, 3055
- Women, 5242
- Women's services
  - abused women, 4214
- Working income tax benefit (WITB), 4781
- Workplace harassment/violence, 2251, 7433
- Young offenders
  - rehabilitation, 4831
  - repeat offenders, 2906–2907
- Youth justice, 2294
- Youth justice centres, 3164, 4832
- Youth justice system
  - closure of CASATTA and York Detention Centres, 7640–7641
  - reform, 3163–3164, 4831–4832
- Youth/students
  - public consultation, 2294
- Youth violence, 4832
Mauro, B. (LIB, Thunder Bay–Atikokan)
- Aboriginal communities
  - health care, 615
  - housing, 6336
- Aboriginal housing trust, 6337
- Aboriginal students
  - post-secondary education, 5233–5234
- An Act to amend the Canada Grain Act, Chapter 22 of the Statutes of Canada 1998 and Chapter 25 of the Statutes of Canada, 2007 (Bill C-39), 997
- Agencies/boards/commissions/etc.
  - expenditures
    - accountability, 7588–7589, 8622–8623
    - review by Integrity Commissioner, 7594–7595, 7598, 7602, 7615
- Apology, 5398
- Apology Act, 2009 (Bill 108)
  - third reading, 5398
- Appreciation
  - Wicklund, Kent (Canadian Conference of Sheet Metal Workers competition), 7084
- Apprenticeship training programs
  - government funding, 8949
  - women in skilled trades program, 7136
- Biomass energy, 5179
- British Columbia
  - forest industry, 3422
- Budget, 600
- Budget deficit, 3421–3422, 7594
- Budget Measures Act, 2009 (Bill 162)
  - second reading, 5934–5937
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (Bill 44)
  - second reading, 785, 794–795, 858–859
  - third reading, 1644–1645
- Business education tax, 659
  - reduction, 785, 823
- Buy in Canada for Mass Transit Vehicles Act, 2008 (Bill 39)
  - first reading, 369
- C. difficile outbreaks, 2464
  - public inquiries, 2465
- Cancer
  - prostate cancer, 2904–2905
- Capital works projects
  - government funding, 659–660
    - Thunder Bay, 3423, 6496
- Centre for Research and Innovation in the Bio-Economy (CRIBE), 896, 3032, 3424
- Citizens Panel on Increasing Organ Donations, 5225, 5367
- Colleges Collective Bargaining Act, 2008 (Bill 90)
  - third reading, 2938–2941
- Colleges of applied arts and technology (CAATs)
  - collective bargaining
    - inclusion of part-time and sessional employees, 2938, 2941
  - Confederation College, 2940
  - government funding, 2940
- Community safety programs
  - community policing partnership program, 4126
  - Safer Communities - 1,000 Officers Partnership program, 4126
- Compensation
  - victims of Dr. Charles Smith's work in child-death investigations, 4419
- Concerts
  - Rafiki Youth Choir, 6558
- Congratulatory remarks
  - Fort Williams Redskins football team, 3190
  - Sir Winston Churchill Collegiate and Vocational Institute students, 6394
- Consumer protection
  - energy contracts, 9217, 9261
- Corporate tax exemptions
  - Ontario tax exemption for commercialization (OTEC)
    - eligibility for refund, 3034
- Corporate tax reduction, 5934
- Correctional centres
  - youth facilities, 5661
- Court security, 4132
- Courthouses
  - construction
    - Thunder Bay, 4627
  - Thunder Bay–Atikokan, 5129
- Crime, 4126
- Crime against seniors
  - elder abuse, 2301
- Crime prevention programs, 4126–4127
- Doctors, 5431–5432, 5513
- Drivers
  - age discrimination, 4552–4553
  - impaired drivers
    - Operation Red Nose program (St. John's Ambulance), 8568
- Economic conditions, 3421
- Economic growth
  - five-point economic plan, 3424
- Elections/by-elections
  - barrier-free access, 8568
- Electricity rates
  - increase, 5178
- Electricity retailers/gas marketers
  - contracts, 4675
    - cheque cashing, 4675
    - reaffirmation letter, 4675
- Electronic health records, 8622
- Emergency management
  - pandemic, 1819
- Employment creation, 3422–3423
- Employment-related benefits
  - organ donor leave, 5225, 5367
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Organ Donor Leave), 2009 (Bill 154)
  - second reading, 5225–5227, 5367–5369
- Energy
  - renewable energy, 5178–5179
  - renewable energy projects
    - standard offer program, 5179
    - wind farms, 5179
- Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2010 (Bill 235)
  - second reading, 9261
- Environmental Protection Act (Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading), 2009 (Bill 185)
  - second reading, 7633
- Family health teams, 5432
- Federal government
  - police officer recruitment fund, 4125, 4127, 4132
  - transfer payments
    - equalization program, 3145
- Federal-provincial agreements/programs
  - Canada-Ontario affordable housing program agreement, 1210
- Festivals
  - Thunder Bay Blues Festival, 4950
- Forest industry
  - layoffs, 2809, 3422, 5935–5936
- Full Day Early Learning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 242)
  - second reading, 9512–9513, 9615, 9625
- Fundraising
  - Bachelors for Hope Charity Auction, 6891
  - Fresh Air Experience 10K fundraiser, 1408
  - Run for the Cure, 8548
- George Jeffrey Children's Centre, 1408
- Global Sticks Inc., 7649–7650
- Good Government Act, 2009 (Bill 212)
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 8568–8570
- Government notice of motions
  - Legislative reform
    - responded to, 1261–1264
- Government orders
  - Federal-provincial fiscal policies
    - responded to, 2808–2810
  - Ontario economy
    - responded to, 3421–3424
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010), 397
    - accountability, 7596–7597
    - research and innovation, 3031
  - NDP (1990-1995), 3421
  - PC (1995-2003), 660, 3421
    - accountability, 8429–8430
    - time allocation motions, 8568–8569
- Government service transfer to municipal jurisdiction, 3421
- Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 (Bill 150)
  - second reading, 5178–5180
- GRK Fasteners
  - tariffs paid, 8789, 8821
- Harmonized sales tax, 6512–6513
- Health care, 5513
- Health care funding
  - accountability and oversight, 8429–8430
  - government funding, 5226
  - Thunder Bay–Atikokan, 1049
- High technology industries
  - Tornado Medical Systems, 8263
- Hockey players
  - Gatherum, Dave, 5688–5689
- Hospital funding
  - government funding
    - Thunder Bay–Atikokan, 4626
- Hospitals
  - Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre
    - angioplasty, 883–884, 3444, 5036, 5368
    - Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute, 3032
- Housing
  - affordable
    - northern Ontario, 1211
- Ideas for the Future Act, 2008 (Bill 100)
  - second reading, 3031–3034
- Increasing Access to Qualified Health Professionals for Ontarians Act, 2008 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 2722
- Investing in Ontario Act, 2008 (Bill 35)
  - third reading, 1707
- Kindergarten
  - full-day, 9512–9513, 9615, 9625, 9650–9651
- Lac Seul First Nation
  - all-season road, 3441
- Layoffs, 3422
- Legislative process
  - family friendly reforms, 1261–1263
- Local health integration networks (LHINs), 6416
- Medical schools
  - Northern Ontario School of Medicine, 2464–2465, 5513
- Medical transplants
  - organ and tissue donation, 5367
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 3422
- Members/ministers quoting newspaper articles
  - Thunder Bay Source, 3033
- Members/ministers quoting television programs
  - The Agenda, 3422
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - NDP (2003-2010)
    - Hampton, Howard (Kenora–Rainy River)
      - as leader of the third party, 3880
  - PC (2003-2010)
    - Tory, John (Dufferin–Peel–Wellington–Grey)
      - as Leader of the Opposition, 1262
  - withdrawn, 3422
- Members' statements
  - Apprenticeship training, 8949
  - Atikokan generating station, 2967
  - Breast cancer, 6891
  - Cardiac care, 3444
  - Concert in Thunder Bay, 6558
  - Consumer protection, 2447
  - Court facility, 5129
  - Elder abuse, 2301
  - Federal-provincial fiscal policies, 3145
  - Fort Williams Redskins football team, 3190
  - Full-day kindergarten, 9650–9651
  - George Jeffrey Children's Centre, 1408
  - Global Sticks, 7649–7650
  - GRK Fasteners, 8789
  - Health care, 1049
  - Hockey, 5688–5689
  - Infrastructure program funding, 6496
  - Morrisseau, Norval, 157
  - Nurse practitioners, 5431–5432
  - Ontario budget, 600, 823
  - Organ donation, 1196
  - Prostate Cancer Awareness Week, 2904–2905
  - Public transit, 6603–6604
  - Research and innovation, 8263
  - Run of the Cure, 8548
  - School boards, 9697–9698
  - Sibley Ski Tour, 408
  - Sir Winston Churchill Collegiate and Vocational Institute, 4866, 6394
  - Skilled trades, 7084
  - Tamarack House, 5954
  - Thunder Bay Blues Festival, 4950
  - Thunder Bay paper mill, 3880
  - Transfer payments, 4626–4627
  - Transit vehicle contract, 6341
  - Turner, Logan, 1460
- Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
  - rural economic development (RED) program, 997
- Ministry of Northern Development and Mines
  - northern Ontario heritage fund, 3440
- Municipal elections/by-elections
  - contribution limits of $5,000 per contributor, 8569
- Municipal infrastructure
  - government funding, 2810
    - northern Ontario, 1645, 1707
    - Thunder Bay/Atikokan, 660–661, 795
  - northern Ontario
    - government funding, 5935
- Natural disasters
  - floods
    - Thunder Bay, 2390
- Neskantaga First Nation
  - multi-use complex, 3441
- Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC), 79–80, 660, 6945–6946
- Nurse practitioner-led clinics, 5431
- Nurses, 5513
- Occupational health and safety, 3831
- Occupational health and safety inspection, 3831
- Ontario budget speech (25 March 2008)
  - responded to, 659–661
- Ontario child benefit (OCB)
  - increase, 5934
- Ontario College of Trades, 7136
- Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 (Bill 183)
  - second reading, 7136
- Ontario health insurance plan (OHIP)
  - inclusion of prostate-specific antigen test as insured service, 884, 1049, 2904–2905
- Ontario health premium, 883–884, 912
- Ontario Power Generation fossil-fuel generating stations
  - Atikokan generating station
    - conversion to biomass, 2967
- Ontario Seniors' Secretariat
  - Ontario's strategy to combat elder abuse, 2301
- Opposition day motions, responded to
  - Electronic health information, 8621–8623
  - Health care oversight, 8429–8430
  - Hospital services, 6415–6416
  - Infectious disease control, 2464–2465
  - Taxation, 6512–6513
- Oral questions, presented
  - Aboriginal education, 5233–5234
  - Aboriginal housing, 6336–6337
  - Affordable housing, 1210–1211
  - Centre for Research and Innovation, 896
  - Consumer protection, 9217
  - Disaster relief, 2390
  - Employment, 997
  - Health care, 615, 5513
  - Manufacturing jobs, 8821
  - Mining industry, 6945–6946
  - Northern economy, 79–80, 653–654
  - Northern health services, 5036
  - Northern Ontario heritage fund, 3440–3441
  - Pediatric forensic pathology inquiry, 4419
  - Property taxation, 2294–2295
  - Public health, 1819
  - Road safety, 3377
  - Workplace safety, 3831
  - Youth correctional facilities, 5660–5661
- Organ donors
  - compensation, 1196
- Payday loan industry
  - regulation, 2447
- Payday Loans Act, 2008 (Bill 48)
  - general discussion, 2447
- PC Party documents/plans
  - health care funding, 2464
- Pension Benefits Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 236)
  - second reading, 9708
- Pension plans
  - reform, 9708
- Petitions
  - Employment insurance, 774
  - Federal-provincial fiscal policies, 2901–2902, 3452, 4829
  - Lord's Prayer, 2211, 2243–2244, 2494
  - Mental health services, 8554, 8614, 8739, 8791, 8833, 8953, 9085–9086
  - Property taxation, 2034–2035
  - University labour dispute, 4758
- Police officers
  - hiring, 4125–4127
- Police services, 4125
- Poverty Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 152)
  - second reading, 5559–5560, 5562
- Private members' public business
  - Ontario Energy Board Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 131)
    - second reading, 4674–4675
  - Police officers
    - presented, 4125–4127, 4132
- Provincial land tax (PLT)
  - unorganized municipalities/areas
    - public consultation, 2295
- Public education campaigns
  - organ and tissue donation, 5369
  - Prostate Cancer Awareness Week, 2904
- Public Sector Expenses Review Act, 2009 (Bill 201)
  - second reading, 7588–7589, 7594–7598, 7602, 7614–7615
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 7661–7662
- Public transportation
  - government funding, 7633
- Quebec
  - forest industry, 3422
- Receivership
  - Thunder Bay Fine Papers Inc., 3880
- Reports
  - Northwestern Ontario: Preparing for Change (Robert Rosehart), 653–654, 6945–6946
  - A Review of the Colleges Collective Bargaining Act (Kevin Whitaker), 2941
- Research and innovation
  - Thunder Bay–Atikokan, 3031–3032
- Road safety
  - wildlife collisions, 3377
- Road Safety Act, 2009 (Bill 126)
  - second reading, 4552–4553
    - public consultation, 4552–4553
- Savings and Restructuring Act, S.O. 1996, c.1, 8568
- School boards
  - amalgamation in Northwest Catholic District School Board, 9697–9698
- Schools
  - closure
    - rural Ontario, 2464
  - Sir Winston Churchill Collegiate and Vocational Institute
    - Dreamweavers program, 4866
- Senior citizens
  - government funding, 659
- Senior homeowners' property tax grants, 823
- Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre, 615
- Skilled trades, 7136
- Small business, 3422
- Smart Systems for Health Agency (SSHA), 8622
- Smoke-Free Ontario Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 1868
- Smoking
  - ban on smoking in cars with children present, 1868
- Spelling bees
  - Turner, Logan (winner, regional spelling bee), 1460
- Sports teams
  - Fort William Hurricanes, 5688–5689
- TBayTel Tamarack House, 5954
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 397–398
- Time allocation motions
  - Good Government Act, 2009 (Bill 212)
    - responded to, 8568–8570
  - Public Sector Expenses Review Act, 2009 (Bill 201)
    - responded to, 7661–7662
- Tobacco Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act, 2009 (Bill 155)
  - second reading, 5414
- Tobacco products manufacturers
  - recovery of tobacco-related health care costs from manufacturers, 5414
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)
  - purchase of streetcars from Bombardier, 6341, 6603–6604
- Transit systems
  - government funding, 3423
    - Thunder Bay–Atikokan, 4626–4627
  - purchase of mass transit vehicles
    - made in Canada, 369
- Tributes
  - Morrisseau, Norval (recipient, 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award), 157
- Trillium Gift of Life Network
  - program for reimbursing expenses of living organ donors (PRELOD), 5227, 5367–5368
- Workplace accidents/fatalities
  - cost to business, 3831
- York University Labour Disputes Resolution Act, 2009 (Bill 145)
  - second reading, 4764
McGuinty, Hon. D. (LIB, Ottawa South)
- AbitibiBowater
  - government funding, 3270
  - shutdown, 2895
- Aboriginal protests
  - development sites in Brantford, 2121
- An Act to amend the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, the Wage Earner Protection Program Act and Chapter 47 of the Statutes of Canada, 2005 (Bill C-12), 129–130
- An Act to perpetuate an ancient parliamentary right (Bill 1)
  - first reading, 8
- Agencies/boards/commissions/etc.
  - disclosure of untendered contracts, 7333
  - expenditures
    - accountability, 7686
    - review by Integrity Commissioner, 7331–7333, 7380, 7383, 7472
  - use of consultants
    - reduction, 7868
- Annual reports
  - Environmental Commissioner of Ontario Annual Report, 2006-2007 (Reconciling Our Priorities), 49
  - Office of the Auditor General of Ontario Annual Report (2007), 167
  - Office of the Auditor General of Ontario Annual Report (2008), 4572
  - Office of the Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth, 2007-2008 (90 Deaths, Ninety Voices Silenced), 4995
- Apprentices, 2086
- Apprenticeship training, 501, 519, 4243
  - Dell Inc., 2955
  - ratio of tradespeople to apprentices, 519
    - electrical apprentice, 1709
- Apprenticeship training programs, 3268
  - grants given to International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 793, 2484
- Automobile industry, 1710–1711, 2234, 2732, 2954–2955, 3958–3959, 4017, 4054–4055, 4245, 4857, 4900–4901, 5313, 5419–5421, 5569–5570, 5682–5683, 6991
  - auto investment plan, 4324
  - auto sector investment fund, 18–20, 48, 167, 1880–1883, 4244
  - Big Three (automobile manufacturers)
    - financial status, 4324
  - federal government funding, 3957–3960, 4017
  - federal-provincial partnership, 4244–4245
  - Fiat Group, 1604, 1710
  - financial assistance, 6076
  - Ford Motor Company of Canada
    - Flex crossover, 2290
  - funding agreement with government, 2287–2289
  - General Motors of Canada Ltd., 2234
    - Beacon project, 2234–2236
    - concession agreements with workers, 5313
    - equity stake, 6330
    - government funding, 2388, 4325, 6985
    - job guarantee in return for government assistance, 2289
    - layoffs, 1819, 1821–1822, 1879, 1881–1882, 1918–1919
    - participation of Canadian Auto Workers required to access government loans, 4748
    - plant shutdown, 2233
  - government funding, 2484, 3194, 4054, 4209, 4857, 4901, 6224–6225
  - Honda Canada, 6331
    - government funding, 3194
  - industry shutdowns
    - economic impact, 4330
  - investment, 2288–2290, 2387
  - layoffs, 2025–2026, 3958
  - Ontario automotive strategy fund, 1468
  - pension plans, 6188
  - Retire Your Ride program, 5570
  - transitional support, 5682
- Automobile insurance
  - use of credit score in granting insurance, 6886
- Automobile insurance benefits
  - reduction of maximum benefit for serious injuries to $50,000, 8408–8409
- Automobile insurance rates/premiums
  - increase, 8025–8026, 8028–8029
- Automobiles, 4245
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, R.S.C. 1985, c.B-3, 5572
- Bombardier Inc., 376
- Border crossings, 1603–1604
  - Detroit River International Crossing Study (Windsor-Essex Parkway), 1604
- Breastfeeding, 2958–2959
- Budget, 331, 3177, 4207, 4855–4858, 4899, 5181, 5228, 5422, 5504–5506, 5510, 5569–5570, 5576–5577, 5610–5613, 5657–5659, 5663–5665, 5678–5682, 5727–5730, 5989, 6076, 6181, 6223–6224, 6329–6330, 6382, 6484–6486, 6880–6881, 6984–6985, 6992, 7220–7221
  - balanced budget, 6550
  - budget speech rehearsal, 5661
  - savings, 3526
  - support for senior citizens, 5660, 5663
- Budget deficit, 496, 3432, 3485, 3524, 5180–5181, 5311, 5611, 5680, 7147, 8061–8062, 8205–8206, 8253, 9721–9722
- Budget Measures Act, 2009 (Bill 162)
  - general discussion
    - public consultation, 6223
- Budget surplus
  - transfer of funds to municipalities for infrastructure projects, 1570–1571
- Bullying, 5031
- Business education tax
  - reduction, 474
- Buy Ontario policy, 8209
- C. difficile, 2775–2776, 2953
- C. difficile outbreaks, 2082
  - investigation, 2776, 2956
  - public inquiries, 2389
- Canadian Mass Transit Vehicles Act, 2008 (Bill 31)
  - general discussion, 377
- Cancer Care Ontario
  - expenditures
    - internal audit, 7915–7916
- Capital tax
  - elimination, 293, 474, 2731, 3268, 4243, 5505, 5778–5779
  - reduction, 521, 767, 1469, 2955
- Capital works projects, 3193, 4210
  - environmental assessment process, 4900
  - government funding, 376, 3959, 4207, 4321–4322, 4577–4579, 4616, 4902, 5311, 5506–5507, 5613, 5681, 5944
  - as part of economic stimulus package, 7635–7636
- Capping Executive Compensation Act, 2009 (Bill 180)
  - general discussion, 6799
- Child care, 6746
  - federal government funding, 6746
  - government funding, 6746
- Child poverty, 687–688, 4418
- Children's aid societies (CASs)
  - government funding, 8787
- Children's mental health care, 1657
  - government funding, 1204, 1658
- Climatic changes, 171, 1246–1247
- Committees
  - Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs, 3316
- Conflict of interest
  - Grier, Jason (lobbyist), 8541, 8543
- Constitution Act, 2007 (Democratic representation) (Bill C-22), 179
- Construction workers
  - occupational health and safety, 4053
- Consumer spending, 4323
- Coroner inquests
  - Anzovino, Reilly (motor vehicle accident victim), 9689–9690
  - Osidacz, Jared (murder victim), 4754–4755
- Corporate income tax, 27
- Corporate tax exemptions
  - Ontario tax exemption for commercialization (OTEC), 738
- Corporate tax reduction, 330, 332, 374, 474–475, 560–561, 737–738, 765, 1512, 2287, 2289, 2662, 2731, 2955, 3194, 3268, 5505–5506, 5508, 5778–5779, 6076, 6223, 6690, 8207, 8252–8255
- Corporate taxes, 561
- Corporations
  - executive compensation caps for corporations receiving grant or loan from Ontario, 6800
- Correctional officers
  - abuse of sick leave, 4572–4573
- Cosmetic Pesticides Ban Act, 2008 (Bill 64)
  - general discussion, 1710
- Court of Appeal for Ontario rulings
  - agricultural labourers' right to unionize, 4021
- Demonstrations
  - aboriginal groups (Queen's Park), 2122
- Dental care, 3435
- Diabetes registry, 9687–9688
- Doctors, 4322
- Drug abuse treatment programs
  - Ottawa, 1209
- Eastern Ontario development fund, 4322
- Economic conditions, 764, 1202, 1658, 2662, 2729, 2952, 3133–3134, 3177–3178, 3192–3193, 3267–3268, 3432–3433, 3481–3482, 3524, 4018–4019, 5570–5571, 6223–6224
  - international, 3176–3178, 3193–3194, 3433–3434, 4208, 4244, 4324, 4380, 4855, 5229, 5313, 5612, 6073–6075
- Economic decline, 3134, 4899
  - international, 5504–5505, 5571, 6548
  - Japan, 3959
- Economic growth, 18–21, 330–332, 496–498, 565, 736, 738, 767, 1508, 2287, 5076–5077, 5311
  - five-point economic plan, 375, 474, 560, 767, 832, 1416–1417, 1468, 1565–1566, 1601–1602, 1658–1659, 2662, 2665, 2731–2732, 3134, 3178–3179, 3192–3195, 3269, 3434, 3525–3526, 4019, 4243, 4855–4856, 4899, 4902, 5030, 5182, 5228–5230, 5312, 6075
- Economic recovery, 5505
- Economic statement, 3177, 3432, 3481–3482
  - British Columbia, 3524–3525
  - 22 October 2008, 3524
- Economic strength, 4323–4324, 5570–5572, 5610–5612, 5657, 5659, 5666, 5678–5680, 6182, 6548, 6799
- Education funding
  - government funding, 1815, 3482, 4210, 5729–5730, 9718–9719
- eHealth Ontario
  - consultants, 7871
  - contracts, 7686, 7955–7957, 7960–7961, 8022–8023, 8025, 8060, 8101, 8206–8207, 8253–8254, 8407
    - Courtyard Group Ltd., 7636–7637
    - public inquiry, 8347–8348
  - expenditures, 7141–7144, 9034
    - disclosure, 7958–7959
    - investigation by Auditor General, 7036–7037
  - Hudson, Alan (former Chairman)
    - appearance before Standing Committee on Public Accounts, 8646
  - Kramer, Sarah (former CEO)
    - appearance before Standing Committee on Public Accounts, 8646
    - appointment, 7266–7267
  - review by Auditor General, 7141, 7143, 7189, 7220–7222, 8409
  - review by PricewaterhouseCoopers, 7141, 7143, 7265–7266, 7270
  - review by Standing Committee on Government Agencies, 7268–7269
- Electoral representation, 179
- Electricity rates, 168, 4993–4994, 5077
  - Germany, 4994
  - industrial rates, 21, 766–767, 4019, 4055
  - support for business, 6184
- Electricity rebates
  - northern pulp and paper electricity transition program, 49
- Electronic health records, 7027, 7144, 7917, 8066
- Employment, 376–377, 5988
- Employment creation, 18–21, 292–293, 331–332, 374, 561, 647–648, 738, 765, 1600–1601, 1813–1814, 2732, 2895, 3526, 3961, 4855–4857, 4902, 5077, 5117, 5183, 5659, 6799
- Employment insurance, 27, 292, 6486
- Employment insurance benefits, 1510–1511
  - Ontario workers, 2894, 3083–3084, 5029–5030, 5620
- Employment-related benefits
  - severance/termination payments, 5572
- Employment standards
  - allegations of abuse
    - Dhalla, Ruby case, 6744, 6801
  - pregnancy leave, 6684
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Wage Security), 2007 (Bill 6)
  - general discussion, 130
- Energy
  - nuclear energy, 77–78, 6185
  - renewable energy, 2483, 4214–4215, 6183, 6487
  - renewable energy projects, 5028
    - domestic content requirements, 5231
    - government funding, 5077
    - wind farms, 1247
- Energy conservation, 4993–4994, 6184
- Environmental protection, 49, 200
- Everbrite Solar, 5657
- Fairness for Military Families Act (Employment Standards and Health Insurance), 2007 (Bill 2)
  - first reading, 12–13
  - second reading, 15
  - third reading, 15
- Fatalities
  - Coxon, Florence (nursing home resident), 1602–1603
- Federal government
  - apology to aboriginal peoples, 2488–2489
  - constructive engagement policy with China, 833–834, 891, 990
  - transfer payments
    - equalization program, 478–479, 1467, 1509–1512, 1567–1568, 1602, 2662, 2664, 2729–2730, 2791–2792, 2894–2895, 2899, 2953, 3083–3085, 3194–3195, 3269–3271, 4243, 4423
      - online petition, 3269
      - Ontario to receive equalization payment, 3958, 6181
- Federal members'/ministers' remarks
  - Conservative (2006-2009)
    - Del Mastro, Dean (Peterborough), 8990
    - Flaherty, Jim (Whitby–Oshawa)
      - as Minister of Finance, 5181, 7636
    - Wallace, Mike (Burlington), 8990
- Federal political parties
  - platforms, 2893–2894
- Federal-provincial agreements/programs
  - Canada-Ontario labour market development agreement, 333
- Federal-provincial relations, 3271
- Food banks
  - usage, 4380
- Foot-and-mouth disease, 1711
- Foreign caregivers, 6681–6683
  - protection, 6683, 6744
  - rights, 6683–6684
- Forest industry
  - government funding, 49, 3179, 4019, 6228
- French-language debates
  - Déclarations ministérielles et réponses
    - Crise humanitaire au Sri Lanka, 6852
  - Loi de 2007 sur l'équité pour les familles des militaires (normes d'emploi et assurance-santé), projet de loi 2
    - première lecture, 13
  - Ordre du jour
    - Économie de l'Ontario, 3193–3194
    - Représentation électorale fédérale, 179
  - Questions orales
    - Régimes de retraite, 6228
- Government accountability, 7268, 9030–9032, 9365
- Government advertising
  - budget, 7221
- Government assets
  - sale, 9316
- Government-business partnerships, 6799
  - Diamond Aircraft, 3194
- Government consultants
  - expenditures, 8024–8025
- Government contracts
  - McKinsey and Co., 8208, 8642
  - Samsung C&T Corporation for wind turbines, 8537–8539
- Government expenditures, 5505
  - restraint measures, 4242, 8062–8063, 8102
- Government finance, 5076
- Government funding, 332, 375, 764–765, 4857, 5000–5001, 5311–5312, 5508, 5658–5659
- Government investments, 128–129, 6547
  - investment losses, 128, 169
  - review by Auditor General, 129
- Government notice of motions
  - Federal electoral representation
    - presented, 178–179
- Government orders
  - Federal-provincial fiscal policies
    - presented, 2790–2792
  - Ontario economy
    - presented, 3192–3195
- Government policy, 3178
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010), 496–497, 2791, 9264–9266, 9315–9316, 9446, 9687, 9720
    - employment creation, 330, 9443–9444, 9451
    - freedom of information, 7686
    - health care, 7473, 8024
    - poverty, 992
  - NDP (1990-1995)
    - children's mental health care, 1204
    - social assistance benefits, 4617
  - PC (1995-2003), 497, 561, 765–766, 1509, 1601–1602, 5508, 5776
    - budget deficit, 3482, 3484, 3524
    - hospital closures, 829
    - minimum wage, 1814
    - Ministry of the Environment, 292
    - nurses' layoffs, 3529
    - tax reduction, 330
    - York University strike, 4746
- Government revenue, 1417
  - reduction, 2729
- Government services, 829, 1202–1203, 2953, 3432, 3524, 3526, 5077, 5611, 5678, 5680
  - government funding, 764–767
  - reduction, 5001
- Graduation (statistics), 5312
- Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 (Bill 150)
  - general discussion, 4993–4994, 4999, 5027–5028, 5118, 5186, 5189, 5229, 5231, 5943, 6183, 6185, 7220
    - impact on electricity rates, 6487
    - public consultation, 4999
- Greenhouse gas emissions
  - reduction, 1246–1247
    - cap and trade system (emissions trading), 171
- Hanwha group, 3960
- Harmonized sales tax, 5422, 5611–5612, 5664, 5678–5682, 5684, 5727–5728, 5730, 5777–5779, 5988, 6073–6074, 6330, 6484–6485, 6690, 6880, 6984, 6992, 7188, 7380–7381, 7385–7386, 7475, 8596–8597, 8727–8729, 8779–8880, 9033
  - exemptions, 5683
  - federal Liberal party support, 7382
  - impact on construction jobs, 6548
  - impact on consumers, 9444–9445
  - impact on electricity rates, 8863–8864, 9444–9445
  - impact on employment, 7332, 8103, 8209, 8255, 8597, 8642–8646
  - impact on home heating costs, 7636–7637
  - impact on homebuyers, 6075
  - impact on housing industry, 5944, 6483–6485
  - impact on low-income consumers, 7267, 8539–8541
  - impact on rent rates, 7272–7273
  - impact on senior citizens, 8781
  - public consultation, 8725–8727, 8989–8992, 9032–9033
  - transition benefit
    - $1,000 for single parents or couples, 5728
- Hazardous waste management, 196, 292
- Health care, 4322, 5615–5616, 7222
  - government funding, 6382, 6384
  - out-of-country, 9573–9574
  - transfer of patient from Mexico to Canada
    - George-Pazzano, Victoria case, 6331
- Health care costs, 567
- Health care funding
  - government funding, 693, 889, 2394, 2899, 3485, 4322, 4381, 5512, 5660, 5729–5730, 6382, 6384, 7869–7870, 7957–7958, 8208, 9313–9314, 9361–9362
  - increase, 4417
  - Thunder Bay, 3179
- H1N1 influenza A (swine flu), 6329, 6382– 6384
  - emergency preparedness, 6384
  - health plan for influenza pandemic, 8405–8406
  - hospital capacity, 6384
  - information updates, 6329
- Holidays
  - Family Day, 19, 4909–4910
- Home care, 5662
  - competitive bidding, 566–567
- Home care workers
  - transportation compensation, 5662
- Home energy audits, 5028, 5189–5190, 6183
- Home energy rating report, 3333–3334
- Home insurance
  - use of credit score in granting insurance, 6886
- Hospital beds
  - closure, 889
- Hospital construction, 4321–4322
  - alternative financing and procurement (AFP), 4381, 4417, 4574
  - Brampton Civic Hospital, 73, 4573
- Hospital funding
  - government funding, 889, 4381, 4417, 5512, 9312–9313, 9363
    - Rouge Valley Health System, 2395
- Hospital housekeeping, 2960
- Hospital services
  - emergency
    - Port Colborne and Fort Erie, 6386, 7386–7387, 9689–9690
- Hospitals
  - Brampton Civic Hospital, 168
  - London Health Sciences Centre
    - untendered contracts awarded, 7473
  - reporting on C. difficile rates, 2735, 2776–2777, 2953–2954, 2956
  - Royal Ottawa Hospital
    - service and staff cuts, 9688–9689
- Housing
  - affordable
    - construction, 566, 691
    - federal government funding, 691
    - government funding, 5510, 5658–5659, 5779
- Immunization
  - H1N1 influenza A (swine flu), 8344–8345
    - private clinics, 8344–8345
- Imprisonment
  - aboriginal protesters, 2084
- Income tax reduction, 5944, 6073–6075, 6984, 7188
- Infrastructure Canada
  - Building Canada Fund (BCF), 4902
- International trade, 5506–5507, 6182
- Investing in Ontario Act, 2008 (Bill 35)
  - general discussion, 1570–1571
- Investment in Ontario, 375
- Job protection commissioner, 294, 3270
- John Deere
  - shutdown, 2664
- Kellogg Canada Inc.
  - Belleville manufacturing plant, 331
- Layoffs, 2664, 4210
  - Dell Inc., 1467
- Legislative process
  - family friendly reforms, 1097–1100
- Legislative sessions, 7220
- Legislature schedule/agenda
  - family friendly hours, 1097–1099
- Liberal Party
  - fundraising, 4018
- Live-In Caregiver Program (federal program), 6743
- Local health integration networks (LHINs), 6386
  - ban on sole-source contracts, 9263
  - Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network
    - contract with Courtyard Group Ltd., 9263–9264
- Long-term-care facilities
  - comfort allowance for residents, 3486
  - government funding, 497–498, 1603
- Manitoba
  - manufacturing industry, 2731
- Manufacturing industry, 18–21, 25, 48–49, 2664–2665, 3435, 4577
  - employment, 2954
  - government funding, 766
    - Hamilton, 333
    - Windsor, 333
  - jobs plan, 4324
  - layoffs, 168, 3193, 3270, 3317
    - China, 3959
    - government response, 1822
  - unemployment, 473, 648, 1203
- Members'/ministers' constituencies/constituency events
  - Ottawa–Orléans
    - Family Day, 4909–4910
- Members'/ministers' expenditures
  - Pupatello, Sandra (Minister of International Trade and Investment), 4908
- Members/ministers quoting authors
  - Webster, David Kenyon, 13
- Members/ministers quoting books
  - Public Power: The Fight for Publicly Owned Electricity (Howard Hampton), 4055
- Members/ministers quoting letters
  - Caplan, David (Minister of Health and Long-Term Care), 7189
  - Grant Jr., Peter (president, Grant Forest Products Inc.), 766
  - Jamieson, Shelly (secretary, Ontario Cabinet), 7959
  - Ontario Chamber of Commerce, 8103
- Members/ministers quoting newspaper articles
  - Toronto Star, 6183
  - Vancouver Sun, 5777
- Members/ministers quoting press releases
  - Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 9445
- Members/ministers quoting reports
  - Building Prosperity in a Canada Strong & Free (Preston Manning and Mike Harris), 8990
  - Navigating Through the Recovery: Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress Annual Report (Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress), 8727
  - Office of the Auditor General of Ontario Annual Report (2007), 196
  - Ontario Poised to Collect Equalization in 2010-11 (TD Economics Special Report), 2791
  - Prevention and Control of Hospital-acquired Infections (Office of the Auditor General of Ontario), 2954
  - RBC Economics Provincial Outlook, 737
  - Rx for Ontario's Manufacturing Sector (Canadian Federation of Independent Business), 2955
  - Special Report: Ontario's Electronic Health Records Initiative (Office of the Auditor General of Ontario), 7866–7868, 7915, 8022, 8061, 8101, 8254, 8407
  - TD Economics Special Report - Ontario Poised to Collect Equalization in 2010-11 (Don Drummond, Derek Burleton), 1510, 1568
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Blackstock, Sarah (Income Security Advocacy Centre), 5078
  - Capponi, Pat (mental health advocate), 7382, 8102
  - Cope, George (president and CEO, BCE), 5680
  - Crispino, Len (president, Ontario Chamber of Commerce), 474, 2792
  - Cunningham, Ian (president, Council of Ontario Construction Associations), 4053
  - Hargrove, Buzz (former president, Canadian Auto Workers), 2484–2485
  - Kitts, Jack (ex-officio governor, Board of Governors, Ottawa Hospital), 7387
  - Low, Donald (medical director of laboratories, Ontario Public Health Agency), 6329
  - Lyons, Jim (executive director, Heavy Construction Association of Windsor), 1604
  - Mackenzie, Hugh (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives), 9033
  - Martin, Roger (dean, Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto), 6484, 6881
  - Massara, Paul (chair, Toronto Board of Trade), 5118
  - McCarter, Jim (Auditor General of Ontario), 129
  - Network for Poverty Reduction, 8540
  - Nyberg, Gail (Daily Bread Food Bank), 7382–7383
  - Provincial Building and Construction Trades Council of Ontario, 6485
  - Schabas, Richard (medical officer of health, Hastings and Prince Edward counties), 2389, 2775
  - Spence, Adam (executive director, Ontario Association of Food Banks), 5078, 6985
  - Tory, John (former leader, PC Party), 8990
  - Tory, John (leader, PC Party), 1916
  - Warye, Kathy (chief executive, Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology), 2776
  - Weiss, Gordon (United Nations spokesman), 6851
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - NDP (2003-2010)
    - Gélinas, France (Nickel Belt), 9689
  - PC (1995-2003)
    - Runciman, Robert W. (Leeds–Grenville), 2484
      - as Minister of Economic Development and Trade, 834, 3482
  - PC (2003-2010)
    - Sterling, Norman (Carleton–Mississippi Mills), 8989
    - Arnott, Ted (Wellington–Halton Hills), 8989
    - Chudleigh, Ted (Halton), 8989
    - Dunlop, Garfield (Simcoe North), 4899
    - Hudak, Tim (Niagara West–Glanbrook), 8726, 8989
    - Jones, Sylvia (Dufferin–Caledon), 8989
    - Martiniuk, Gerry (Cambridge), 8989
    - O'Toole, John (Durham), 5029
    - Shurman, Peter (Thornhill), 8989
  - withdrawn, 988
- Members'/ministers' resignations
  - Bryant, Michael (Minister of Economic Development), 6879–6880
  - Caplan, David (Minister of Health and Long-Term Care), 7866
- Members'/ministers' travel
  - Pupatello, Sandra's travel to Middle East, 3135, 3183, 3194
- Mental health care
  - government funding, 2395
- Migrant workers
  - screening, 6383
- Military reservists
  - job-protected leave, 13
- Minimum wage, 3483–3484
  - increase, 650, 991, 4019, 5681, 5779
  - $10.25 an hour, 5681
- Mining Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.M.14, 2084
- Mining industry
  - consultation with First Nations, 50, 744, 2084
    - Neskantaga First Nation, 2026–2027
  - northern table discussions between government and Nishnawbe-Aski Nation, 744
  - provincial-aboriginal relations, 479
  - uranium exploration and mining, 77
- Minister of International Trade and Investment, 2664
- Ministerial responsibility, 7688
- Ministerial statements, presented
  - Humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka, 6851–6852
- Ministry expenditures, 2952
- Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
  - rural economic development (RED) program, 3194
- Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
  - advanced manufacturing investment strategy (AMIS) program, 18–20, 48, 3194, 3318, 4322, 4324
  - Next Generation of Jobs Fund, 19–20, 25, 167, 1816, 3194, 4322, 4324, 6989–6990
- Ministry of Finance
  - OntarioBuys, 5944
- Ministry of Health Promotion
  - Quest for Gold
    - Ontario athlete assistance program
      - military families exempted from one-year waiting period, 13
- Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, 4207–4208
  - Employment Ontario, 2388
    - Ontario skills development program, 2731
  - second career strategy, 2388, 3193–3194, 3270, 4746, 7958, 9451
  - skills to jobs action plan, 522, 738, 764–765, 767, 1417, 1467–1468
- Multibrid GmbH, 3961
- Municipal infrastructure, 4210
  - government funding, 2731, 4855–4856, 4858
- National housing strategy, 691
- NDP documents/plans
  - provincial sales tax, 5612
- Niagara Health System
  - government funding, 6386
- Niska North Inc., 6075
- Northern Ontario, 6486
- Nuclear generating stations
  - construction, 2485
  - cost overruns, 6185
- Nuclear industry, 6185
- Nurse practitioners, 830
- Nurses
  - hiring, 830, 3529, 4322
  - layoffs, 889
- Nursing students/graduates
  - nursing job guarantee, 3529
- Office of the Premier
  - expenditures, 4420
- Olympics
  - Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics
    - opening ceremonies, 2241
- Ontario child benefit (OCB), 991–992, 1516, 1661, 3435, 3483–3484, 4617, 5613, 5658–5659
  - increase, 5729, 5779
- Ontario disability support program (ODSP) benefits
  - increase, 693
- Ontario drug benefit program (ODB)
  - cuts to seniors' drug benefits, 8208
- Ontario Electronic Stewardship (OES)
  - waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) program, 3268
- Ontario Financing Authority, 128–129
- Ontario health insurance plan (OHIP)
  - coverage for eligible military families, 13
  - inclusion of PET scans as insured service, 1923–1924
- Ontario health premium, 896–897
- Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. (OLG)
  - purchase of foreign-made cars as casino contest prizes, 5418–5419
  - termination of CEO and board of directors, 7268
  - wrong date on tickets, 6184–6185, 6187
- Ontario Power Authority (OPA), 829
- Ontario Power Generation fossil-fuel generating stations
  - closure, 1246, 2482–2483, 4214, 7195–7196
- Ontario Power Generation nuclear generating stations
  - Darlington nuclear generating station
    - building of new reactors, 4215
- Ontario Sheet Metal Workers Training Centre, 3961
- Ontario Superior Court of Justice rulings
  - Justice Patrick Smith's rulings, 744
- Ontario Works program benefits
  - temporary care assistance (TCA), 1518
- Oral questions, responded to
  - Aboriginal affairs, 744
  - Aboriginal land claims, 6189–6190
  - Aboriginal rights, 479, 523, 1306, 2026–2027, 2084, 2122, 2488–2489
  - Access to health care, 1923–1924
  - Affordable housing, 565–566, 691
  - Agency spending, 7331–7333, 7383, 7685, 9034
  - Agricultural labour policy, 4021
  - Air quality, 2482–2483
  - Apprenticeship training, 501, 519, 1709, 2086
  - Assistance to farmers, 8109–8110
  - Auditor General's report, 7918
  - Automobile industry, 1467–1468, 1916–1919, 2025–2026, 2233–2236, 2287–2288, 2387–2388, 2484–2485, 3957–3959, 4017, 4054–4055, 4209, 4243–4245, 4330, 4748, 4900–4901, 5420–5421, 5569–5571, 5682–5683, 6330–6331
  - Automobile insurance, 8025–8026, 8028–8029, 8408–8409
  - Breastfeeding, 2958–2959
  - C. difficile, 2389, 2735, 2775–2777, 2953–2954, 2956
  - Cancer Care Ontario, 7914–7915
  - Child care, 1518, 6746
  - Child poverty, 687–688
  - Child protection, 4995–4996
  - Children's aid societies, 8787
  - Children's mental health services, 1204, 1657–1658
  - Climate change, 171, 1246–1247
  - Construction industry, 832
  - Consumer protection, 6886
  - Corporate tax, 1512, 8207
  - Correctional facility employees, 4572–4573
  - Diabetes registry, 9687–9688
  - Domestic violence, 892, 4754–4755
  - Drive Clean, 7143
  - Driver examination centres, 8410
  - Drug treatment programs, 1209
  - Economic development, 6989–6990
  - Education funding, 9718–9719
  - Education labour dispute, 4025
  - Electronic health information, 7027, 7036–7037, 7141–7144, 7189, 7221–7222, 7265–7270, 7686–7688, 7868–7869, 7871, 7916–7917, 7955–7961, 8022–8023, 8025, 8060–8061, 8066, 8101, 8206–8207, 8253–8254, 8347, 8407–8408, 8595, 8642, 8646
  - Employee wage protection, 129–130
  - Employment, 737–739, 765–766, 1202–1203
  - Employment insurance, 5029–5030
  - Employment supports, 4616, 7958
  - Energy rates, 4993–4994, 6183–6184
  - Environmental protection, 49–50
  - Events in Tibet, 2241
  - Executive compensation, 829, 6799–6800
  - Family Day, 19–20
  - Federal election, 3271
  - Federal Liberal election promises, 2893–2895
  - Federal-provincial fiscal policies, 3083–3085, 3269
  - Flu immunization, 8344–8345, 8405–8406
  - Forest industry, 4055
  - Fundraising, 3961, 4018
  - Gasoline prices, 6984–6985
  - Government accountability, 7268, 9030–9031, 9365
  - Government accounting practices, 1570–1571
  - Government assets, 9316
  - Government consultants, 8024–8025
  - Government contracts, 8537–8539, 8541, 8543
  - Government grants, 2483–2484
  - Government investments, 128–129, 169
  - Government record, 7220, 9031–9032, 9264–9266, 9315–9316, 9446, 9720–9722
  - Government services, 4417–4420
  - Government spending, 3316–3317, 7221, 7637–7638, 8062–8063
  - Green power generation, 1247, 6487
  - Hazardous waste, 196–197, 199–200, 292
  - Health care, 168, 5615–5616, 7473, 7869–7870, 8024, 9688–9689
  - Health care funding, 889, 2394–2395, 2899, 7957–7958, 8207–8208, 9312–9314, 9361–9362
  - Health premiums, 896–897
  - Home care, 566–567, 5662
  - Hospital funding, 73, 4381, 4573–4574, 5512, 9363, 9689–9690
  - Hospital services, 2960, 4322, 6386, 7386–7387
  - Hospital spending, 7474–7475
  - Human rights, 989–991
  - Hydro rates, 2485
  - Infectious disease control, 2082, 6329, 6382–6385
  - International trade, 832–834, 891, 3135, 3183, 7148–7149
  - Job creation, 561, 7635, 8209, 9443–9444, 9451
  - Legislative reform, 1097–1100
  - Local health integration networks, 9263–9264, 9311
  - Long-term care, 1602–1603
  - Manufacturing and forestry sector jobs, 3317–3318, 4857
  - Manufacturing jobs, 20–21, 25, 167–168, 291–294, 331–332, 375–377, 521–522, 648, 766–767, 1510–1511, 1604–1605, 1815–1817, 1819, 1821–1822, 1881–1883, 2663–2665, 2731–2732, 2954–2956, 3270, 3434–3435, 3959–3961, 4577–4578, 4856–4857, 5182–5183, 5228–5231, 5313–5314, 6075–6076, 6991–6992
  - Manufacturing sector, 48–49
  - Medical evacuation, 6331
  - Minimum wage, 650, 5681–5682
  - Mining industry, 9268, 9451–9452
  - Ministerial responsibility, 7688
  - Minister's expenses, 4908
  - Minister's record, 7913–7914
  - Minister's resignation, 6879–6880
  - Municipal taxation, 3180
  - Native land disputes, 2121
  - Northern Ontario, 6486
  - Nuclear energy, 4214–4215, 6185, 6882, 7195–7196
  - Nurses, 830, 3529
  - Ontario budget, 496–498, 560–561, 692–693, 4855, 4858, 5510, 5576–5577, 5661, 5727–5728, 6076, 6223–6224
  - Ontario child benefit, 1516
  - Ontario economy, 18–19, 21–22, 27, 331, 474–475, 478, 736–737, 764–765, 1416–1417, 1467–1469, 1508–1509, 1565–1568, 1600–1602, 1658–1659, 1813–1814, 1879–1880, 2286–2290, 2662, 2729–2730, 2952–2953, 3176–3179, 3316, 3432–3433, 3481–3482, 3484–3485, 3490, 3524–3526, 4018–4019, 4207–4208, 4210, 4242, 4321–4325, 4855–4856, 4899–4900, 4902, 5000–5001, 5077, 5117–5118, 5180–5181, 5229, 5311–5312, 5504–5505, 6181–6182, 6547, 7636, 8061–8062
  - Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp., 6184–6185, 6187, 7330–7331, 7380
  - Ontario public service, 4423, 5775–5776, 9444
  - Patient safety, 9689
  - Pension plans, 6186, 6188–6189, 6222–6226, 6228, 6881–6882, 6985, 7142
  - Pension reform, 9317–9318
  - Plant closures, 1251
  - Post-secondary education, 501, 4745–4747
  - Poverty, 991–992, 1661, 2390, 2666–2667, 2777, 3133–3134, 3319–3320, 3435–3436, 3483–3484, 4380–4381, 5078, 5183–5184, 5949
  - Premier's comments, 1710–1711
  - Premier's record, 7866–7868, 7912–7913
  - Property rights, 135
  - Protection for workers, 6681–6684, 6743–6744, 6801
  - Provincial debt, 8205–8206
  - Provincial deficit, 8253
  - Provincial purchasing policy, 746, 5418–5419, 5506–5507, 5943–5944, 6182–6183
  - Public transit, 6549–6550
  - Public transportation, 4385, 4580
  - Renewable energy and conservation, 4999, 5027–5029, 5076–5077, 5118, 5186, 5189–5190
  - Rural Ontario, 4578–4579
  - School pools, 1058
  - School safety, 2486
  - Severance payments, 5572
  - Sex offender registry, 167
  - Skills training, 2388
  - Small business, 4053–4054
  - Social assistance, 4617, 8731
  - Student grants, 6491
  - Student safety, 5031
  - Taxation, 330, 373–375, 473–474, 3267–3269, 4243, 5422, 5505–5506, 5508, 5571–5572, 5610–5613, 5657–5660, 5663–5666, 5678–5681, 5683–5684, 5728, 5776–5779, 5944, 5988–5989, 6073–6075, 6182, 6329–6330, 6483–6486, 6548, 6690, 6880–6881, 7188, 7267–7268, 7272–7273, 7332, 7380–7385, 7474, 7636–7637, 8102–8103, 8254–8255, 8539–8541, 8595–8597, 8642–8645, 8725–8729, 8777–8781, 8862–8864, 8989–8992, 9032–9033, 9444–9446
  - Thunder Bay economy, 3179
  - Tire disposal, 646–647
  - Tobacco control, 4572, 4803
  - Tourism, 2391
  - Transfer payments, 3486
  - Trillium drug program, 5665
  - TVOntario, 6982
  - Unemployment, 5620
  - University labour disputes, 4748, 4775–4779, 4799–4803
  - Uranium mine, 77–78
  - Windsor border crossing, 1603–1604
  - Women's issues, 5729–5730
  - Workers' compensation, 5783
- Patient safety
  - surgical errors and pathology results, 9689
- PC Party documents/plans, 764, 829, 5028, 5660
  - health care funding, 1657–1658, 5663, 5666
- Pension benefits guarantee fund, 6186, 6222, 6225, 6228
- Pension funds, 4619
- Pension plans, 6224, 6226, 6881–6882, 7142
  - defined benefit pension plans, 6881
  - reform, 9317–9318
- Political fundraising, 3961
- Post-secondary education, 4775, 4801–4803
  - Reaching Higher: The McGuinty Government Plan for Postsecondary Education, 501, 3179, 3193, 3268, 3317, 4324
- Poverty, 21–22, 693, 2666–2667, 2777, 3134, 3435–3436, 3483–3484, 5949
- Poverty Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 152)
  - general discussion, 5078
- Poverty reduction strategy, 565–566, 650, 687, 2666, 2777, 3319–3320, 3435, 3483–3484, 4380–4381, 4617, 5078, 5183–5184, 5949
  - public consultation, 1661, 2390, 2667, 2777
- Premier's travel, 3481–3482, 3490
- Property tax assessment
  - granny flats, 3317
- Protectionism, 5943–5944
- Provincial-aboriginal relations, 1306, 2122
- Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth, 4995–4996
- Public service, 561, 3316–3317, 4423, 5001, 5730, 5776
  - collective bargaining, 4418
  - increase, 9444
  - reduction, 7637
  - salaries above $100,000, 5775–5776
- Quebec
  - hydroelectric capacity, 49
  - use of wind power, 3960
- Regulations, 4900
- Rent increases, 6183
- Reports
  - Big Hit on GTA Middle-Class Homebuyers with the Ontario Budget's HST Proposals (Frank Clayton), 6483
  - Compulsory Certification Project (T.E. Armstrong), 2086
  - A Fine Balance - Safe Pensions - Affordable Plans - Fair Rules (Report of the Expert Commission on Pensions), 6188–6189, 7142
  - Navigating Through the Recovery: Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress Annual Report (Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress), 8726
  - Ontario Economic Accounts (Ministry of Finance), 3177
  - The Road Ahead: Poverty Reduction in Ontario (Campaign 2000), 687–688
  - Special Report: Ontario's Electronic Health Records Initiative (Office of the Auditor General of Ontario), 7913–7914, 7918, 8347
  - TD Economics Special Report - Time for a Vision of Ontario's Economy (Don Drummond, Derek Burleton), 2953
- Research and innovation
  - government funding, 3193
- Rural Ontario, 134
- Safe Schools Act, S.O. 2000, c.12, 5031
- Saskatchewan, 2894
- School attendance
  - raising compulsory school attendance to age 18, 1816
- School facilities
  - retrofit, 6182
- School safety, 2486
  - reporting of violent incidents, 2486, 5031
- Senior homeowners' property tax credits, 5660, 5663
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), 6329
- Sex offender registry
  - misallocation of operational funds, 167
- 6N Silicon Inc.
  - government funding, 3194
- Smoking, 4803
- Social assistance benefits, 3435, 4617
  - increase, 692, 4617
- Social assistance recipients
  - increase, 8731
- Social housing, 5510
  - government funding, 5658–5659
  - retrofit, 6183
- Speaker
  - election (28 November 2007)
    - congratulatory remarks, 18
- Sports competitions
  - Pan American Games bid (2015)
    - awarded to Toronto, 8731
- Sri Lanka
  - humanitarian crisis, 6851–6852
- Starz Animation Toronto, 6989
- Steel industry, 5228, 5314
- Strikes
  - Amalgamated Transit Union Local 279, 4580
  - DriveTest driving examiners, 8410
- Student assistance, 4776
  - Ontario student assistance program (OSAP), 4776–4777
- Student dropouts, 3268, 4243
- Student grants, 501, 6491
  - distance grant, 6491
  - textbook and technology grant, 6491
- Tamil Canadians
  - protests, 6851
- Tax credits
  - food producer donation tax credit, 8109–8110
  - manufacturing investment tax credit, 648, 739, 766, 1247, 1469
- Tax reduction, 331, 373–375, 474, 496–497, 737, 832, 1202, 1601, 2287, 2662, 2953, 5505–5506, 5679–5681, 5727–5728, 5777
- Taxation
  - tax reform package, 6181, 6690
- Taxes, 3267
- Tibet
  - anti-Chinese protests, 988, 991
- Tobacco products
  - sale to underage children, 4803
- Tobacco tax
  - law enforcement, 4572
- Toronto city council, 3180
- Toronto District School Board
  - government funding, 1058
  - swimming pools
    - closure, 1058
- Toronto Public Transit Service Resumption Act, 2008 (Bill 66)
  - first reading, 1401
  - second reading, 1401–1402
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)
  - purchase of streetcars from Bombardier
    - government funding, 6549
  - strike
    - resumption of service, 1401–1402
- Tourism industry, 2391
  - marketing campaign
    - There's No Place Like This, 2391
- Trade missions
  - China, 832–834, 891, 988, 3957
- Trade offices, 3194
  - China, 891
- Training programs, 1203, 2287
- Transit systems
  - 82% Ontario content in manufacture of transit vehicles
    - government funding, 5943
  - government funding, 50, 333, 521, 746, 2483, 5182–5183, 5507, 6486, 6549
  - Move Ontario 2020 plan, 746, 1247
  - purchase of mass transit vehicles
    - made in Ontario, 3270, 5506–5507
- Transportation master plan
  - Ottawa, 4385
- Tributes
  - Basrur, Sheela (former chief medical officer of health for Ontario), 2306
  - Runciman, Robert (interim leader of the opposition), 7217–7218
- Trillium drug program, 5665
- Unemployment, 5504, 6181
- Unemployment rate, 2732
- United States
  - automobile industry, 3957–3958, 4017, 4209
    - layoffs, 1917, 1919
  - C. difficile, 2775–2776
  - economic stimulus plan
    - buy-America provision, 7148–7149
  - financial market crisis, 2952
  - mortgage industry, 4244
- Universities/colleges, 501
  - collective bargaining, 4778, 4800
  - government funding, 4324, 4745, 4802, 5729
  - York University
    - collective bargaining, 4746–4748, 4775, 4777–4778, 4800
- University graduates
  - employment recruitment, 737–738
- U.S. Steel Canada, 5314
  - guarantee in return for government assistance, 5314
  - layoffs, 5228, 5314
  - shutdown, 5231
- Vehicle emission tests
  - Drive Clean program
    - audit, 7143
- Victims of domestic violence
  - Mowatt, Noellee
    - imprisonment, 892
- Waste
  - nuclear/radioactive waste, 6882
- Waste management/programs
  - nuclear/radioactive waste, 6882
  - tire recycling program, 646–647
- Websites
  - www.fairness.ca, 1567, 3083–3084
  - www.growingstronger.ca, 2667
- Wind turbines, 3960–3961
- Women, 5729–5730
- Workers
  - government support, 291–294
  - job retraining, 292–293, 1815
    - government funding, 1566
- Workers' compensation benefits
  - coverage for construction workers, 4053–4054
- Working Families Coalition
  - meeting with Minister of Finance, 2483–2484
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
  - hiring of chief prevention officer, 5783
- Xstrata PLC
  - shutdown of copper and zinc operations at Kidd Met site, 9451–9452
- Youth/student workers
  - summer jobs, 6491
McMeekin, T. (LIB, Ancaster–Dundas–Flamborough–Westdale)
- Appreciation
  - staff, Ministry of Government and Consumer Services, 2401
- Automobile industry, 3042–3043
- Awards
  - Canada's Top 100 Employers
    - Ontario Public Service, 3044, 3472
- Bullying
  - prevention, 9388–9389
- Business
  - doing business with Ontario government, 6043–6044
  - government assistance, 6043
- Capital works projects
  - government funding, 3473
- Cemeteries
  - Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries
    - accountability of board of directors, 7479–7480
- Consumer protection, 8355–8356
  - energy contracts, 9208–9209
  - identity theft, 1888–1889
  - security deposits for utilities and disconnections, 9208–9209
  - sub-metering electricity in apartments/apartment buildings, 9211
  - vacation clubs/time-shares, 1888
- Dominion Institute
  - memory project, 3841
- Economic conditions, 3471–3472
- Economic growth
  - five-point economic plan, 3472
- eHealth Ontario
  - contracts
    - IBM, 7872
- Election Statute Law Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 231)
  - second reading, 9292–9293
- Elections/by-elections
  - third-party advertising, 9292–9293
- Electoral process reform, 9292–9293
  - students vote in home riding or riding in which they attend school, 9293
- Employment creation, 3473
- Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2010 (Bill 235)
  - second reading, 9207–9210
- Fruit wines
  - sale at farmers' markets, 6684–6685
- Full Day Early Learning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 242)
  - second reading, 9610
- Government notice of motions
  - Legislative reform
    - responded to, 3122–3125
- Government orders
  - Ontario economy
    - responded to, 3471–3474
- Government vehicles
  - vehicles purchased, leased or rented should be manufactured and assembled in Canada, 3043
- Green economy, 3473
- Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 (Bill 150)
  - third reading, 6581–6582
- Health care workers, 3963
- Kindergarten
  - full-day, 9611
- Legislative procedure
  - private members' public business, 3124
- Legislature schedule/agenda, 3122–3124, 8046
- Liquor licences
  - by the glass service
    - hours of sale and service, 3140
- Manitoba
  - payday loan industry regulation, 2204, 2417
- Marijuana
  - regulations, 4822–4823
    - Kindos, Ted case, 4822, 6946
- Members'/ministers' constituencies/constituency events
  - Ancaster–Dundas–Flamborough–Westdale, 3472
  - Hamilton, 3473–3474
- Members/ministers quoting committee submissions
  - Lantz, Edward (ACORN Canada), 2402
  - Smith, Patti (National Money Mart), 2402
  - Vashti Persad, Judy (Toronto and York Region Labour Council), 2402
- Members/ministers quoting reports
  - Report of the Propane Safety Review Panel (Michael Birk, Susana Katz), 8977
  - Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA) Annual Report 2008-2009, 8042
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - McLean, Seaton (chair, Prince Edward County Winegrowers Association), 8026
- Members' statements
  - Martin, Brad, 9551–9552
- Ministerial statements, presented
  - Consumer protection, 602–603, 8355–8356
- Ministers redirecting oral questions, 480, 2208, 2564–2565, 2607
- Ministry of Government Services
  - green office, 3642
  - hotel/conference expenditures, 4418, 4524
  - reverse trade show for Ontario businesses, 6043–6044
- Oral questions, presented
  - High school students, 9645
  - Social workers, 9724
- Oral questions, responded to
  - Cemeteries, 7479–7480
  - Consumer protection, 1888–1889, 2089, 2203–2204, 2436–2437, 2439, 7579–7580
  - Environmental protection, 3642
  - Gasoline prices, 2564
  - Government regulations, 4822–4823, 6946
  - Government services, 2960–2961
  - Grape and wine industry, 6336, 7478, 8026
  - Health care workers, 3963
  - Manufacturing jobs, 3042–3043
  - Minister's record, 7872
  - Ministry spending, 4418, 4524
  - Ontario public service, 3044, 7191
  - Polygamy, 2088, 2125–2126, 2240–2241
  - Provincial purchasing policy, 4805, 6043–6044
  - Small business, 3575–3576, 5828
  - Wine industry, 3140, 6684–6685
- Payday loan agreements, 603
  - limit the cost of borrowing, 602–603
- Payday loan industry
  - consumer protection, 602–603, 2401–2402
  - regulation, 602–603, 2089, 2405, 2417–2418
- Payday Loans Act, 2008 (Bill 48)
  - general discussion, 2089, 2203–2204
  - first reading, 602
  - ministerial statement, 602–603
  - third reading, 2401–2402, 2405, 2417–2418
- Pension Benefits Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 236)
  - second reading, 9472
- Pension plans
  - reform, 9472
- Polygamy, 2125, 2240–2241
  - law and legislation, 2088
- Post-secondary education
  - Reaching Higher: The McGuinty Government Plan for Postsecondary Education, 3472
- Poverty, 5214
- Poverty Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 152)
  - second reading, 5214
- Private members' public business
  - Anti-bullying initiatives
    - responded to, 9388–9389
  - British Home Child Day Act, 2010 (Bill 241)
    - second reading, 9382–9383
- Propane explosions
  - Sunrise Propane, 8044, 8977
- Propane facilities
  - inspection, 8977
- Propane industry
  - insurance as a condition of licensing, 8041
- Propane safety review panel, 8041
- Public education campaigns
  - British Home Child Day, 9382–9383
  - Bullying Awareness and Prevention Week, 9388–9389
  - youth awareness campaign, 2089
- Public service, 3044, 3963
  - collective agreements, 7191
  - reduction, 7191
- Real estate fraud
  - consumer protection, 2439
- Real estate industry
  - phantom offers, 2439
- Regulated Health Professions Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 141)
  - third reading, 5588
- Remembrance Day, 3840–3842
- Reports
  - Report of the Propane Safety Review Panel (Michael Birk, Susana Katz), 8041
- Research and innovation
  - government funding, 3473
- ServiceOntario, 2960–2961
  - BizPal (business permits and licences), 3575–3576, 5828
  - online application
    - 15-day service guarantee, 2960
- Social workers, 9724
- Student dropout rate
  - reduction, 9645
- Tarion Warranty Corporation
  - compensation for warranty claims, 2436
  - in-house consumer advocate, 2436–2437
  - warranty coverage, 2437
- Technical safety standards, 8040
- Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA)
  - appointment of chief safety and risk officer, 8978
  - governance model, 8041–8042, 8977–8978
- Technical Standards and Safety Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 187)
  - second reading, 8040–8042, 8044, 8046
  - third reading, 8976–8979
- Tributes
  - Fox, Charley (veteran), 3841
  - Martin, Brad (Olympian snow boarder, 2010 Winter Olympics), 9551–9552
- Veterans' memorials
  - Queen's Park, 3841
- Wine
  - Ontario grapes in Ontario wine, 8026
  - Vintners Quality Alliance (VQA) wine, 8026
- Wine industry, 3140, 6336
- Working Families Coalition, 9292
McNeely, P. (LIB, Ottawa–Orléans)
- Appraisal Institute of Canada
  - Renova survey, 3335
- Awards
  - June Callwood Outstanding Achievement Award for Voluntarism, 1409
  - Leading Women, Building Communities Award, 5516
  - Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship
    - Kazmierski, Greg and Ellen Goodman (recipients), 3492
  - Orléans Chamber of Commerce People's Choice Business Awards, 8871–8872
- Books
  - Keeping Our Cool (Andrew Weaver), 3334
- Bridges
  - inter-provincial bridge
    - Ottawa–Vanier, 1140
  - Kettle Island, 2839
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (No. 2) (Bill 114)
  - second reading, 3615–3616
- Building codes, 3341
  - energy efficiency, 6727
  - revision, 6765
- Canadian Hydro Components (CHC), 7769
- Climate Change Awareness Act, 2009 (Bill 208)
  - first reading, 7878
- Climatic changes, 566, 2171, 7031, 8216, 8324–8325
- Conferences/seminars/symposiums
  - 2009 OGRA/ROMA Annual Conference, 5034
- Congratulatory remarks
  - Mayhew, Kyle (silver medalist, 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games), 5581–5582
  - Nash, Lori; Charlene Elgee, Karen Luttrell and Cathy MacDonald (recipients, June Callwood Outstanding Achievement Award for Voluntarism), 1409
- Consumer protection
  - energy contracts, 9211
- Corporate tax exemptions
  - Ontario tax exemption for commercialization (OTEC)
    - eligibility for refund, 3034
- Cosmetic Pesticides Ban Act, 2008 (Bill 64)
  - second reading, 1850, 2009–2011
- Court security, 5034
- Doctors
  - international medical graduates (IMGs), 2400–2401
    - removing barriers, 2726–2727, 4005
- Earth Hour, 566
- Economic conditions, 3615–3616
- Economic growth, 5011
- Education
  - parental involvement in education, 422–423
- Employment insurance benefits
  - Ontario workers, 3096, 3687
- Endangered species
  - polar bear, 7434–7435
- Energy
  - renewable energy, 5011, 5157–5158, 5176
    - feed-in tariff, 6726
  - renewable energy projects, 5058, 5362
    - buy-Ontario provision, 6765
    - employment creation, 5448, 6572, 6726, 6777
    - role of local distribution companies (LDCs), 6727
    - wind farms, 5439–5440
- Energy conservation, 5012, 5162, 6727, 6765, 9306
  - energy star program, 5011
  - government funding, 5353
- Energy Conservation Leadership Act, S.O. 2006, c.3, Sched. A, 3335
- Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2010 (Bill 235)
  - second reading, 9210–9211, 9306, 9484
- Energy efficiency, 3334
- Environmental education, 1461
- Environmental protection, 5129
- Environmental Protection Act (Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading), 2009 (Bill 185)
  - third reading, 9029
- Fairness for Military Families Act (Employment Standards and Health Insurance), 2007 (Bill 2)
  - general discussion, 76
    - impact on employers, 76
- Federal government
  - transfer payments
    - equalization program, 3096
- French-language debates
  - Déclarations des députés
    - Association française des municipalités de l'Ontario, 7483
    - Centre de services à la famille, 5954
    - Changement de climat, 2171
    - Communauté d'Orléans, 5238
    - Drapeau franco-ontarien, 2967, 7878
    - Ordre de la Pléiade, 6233
    - Prix décerné par la Fondation Trillium, 158–159
    - Rendement scolaire, 5432
    - Savoie, Gérald, 6995
  - Loi de 2008 sur l'Office des télécommunications éducatives de langue française de l'Ontario, projet de loi 55
    - deuxième lecture, 1956
  - Questions orales
    - Affaires francophones, 5511
    - Violence familiale, 9369
- Full Day Early Learning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 242)
  - second reading, 9534–9538
- Government service transfer to municipal jurisdiction
  - return to provincial jurisdiction, 4327–4328
- Green economy, 5058, 5176
- Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 (Bill 150)
  - general discussion, 9211
  - second reading, 5011–5012, 5058, 5157–5158, 5162, 5176, 5332, 5353, 5356, 5362, 5439–5440, 5442, 5448
  - third reading, 6572, 6725–6729, 6765, 6774, 6777
- Greenhouse gas emissions
  - reduction, 8325, 9029, 9077–9078
    - cap and trade system (emissions trading), 7031
- Health care
  - Orléans, 2249, 7437
- Health care funding
  - Ottawa, 1930
- Highway improvement
  - Highway 417 (Hunt Club interchange), 1140
- Highway Traffic Amendment Act (Speed-limiting Systems), 2008 (Bill 41)
  - second reading, 1085–1086
- Home energy audits, 5011, 5442, 6572, 6729, 6777
- Home Energy Rating Act, 2008 (Bill 101)
  - general discussion, 3279
  - first reading, 2840
- Hospital funding
  - government funding
    - Montfort Hospital, 2238
- Hospital services
  - emergency
    - wait times, 2238
- Housing
  - affordable
    - federal government funding, 4751
    - Ottawa, 4752
- Ideas for the Future Act, 2008 (Bill 100)
  - second reading, 3034
- Immigrants
  - services, 7831
- Increasing Access to Qualified Health Professionals for Ontarians Act, 2008 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 2724–2727
  - third reading, 4005
- Kindergarten
  - full-day, 9534–9538
- Knights of Columbus (Divine Infant Council)
  - refurbished computers for Orléans-Cumberland Community Resource Centre, 6340
- Local health integration networks (LHINs)
  - government funding, 3579
- Medical procedures
  - wait times, 3579
- Members'/ministers' constituencies/constituency events
  - Ottawa–Orléans
    - Climate Change Awareness Day, 886–887
- Members/ministers quoting documents
  - For a Better Ontario: Leadership Matters (PC Party Plan for Ontario's Future), 3335
- Members/ministers quoting newspaper articles
  - Globe and Mail (Toronto), 1140
  - Ottawa Citizen, 7830
- Members/ministers quoting reports
  - Chief Energy Conservation Officer Annual Report 2007 (Taking Action), 3335
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Chopik, Chris (car-free realtor), 3334–3335
  - Hammond, Sam (president, Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario), 9535
  - Mahon, Louis (president, council of the College of Early childhood Educators), 9534
  - Ryan, James (president, Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Federation), 9535
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - McGuinty, Dalton (Ottawa South)
      - as Ontario Premier, 9534
  - PC (2003-2010)
    - Miller, Norm (Parry Sound–Muskoka), 5442
    - O'Toole, John (Durham), 5442
- Members' statements
  - Access to health care, 3579
  - Bridge crossing, 2839
  - Climate change, 2171, 8216
  - Climate Change Awareness Day, 886–887
  - Employment insurance, 3687
  - Energy conservation, 3279
  - Environmental education, 1461
  - Environmental protection, 5129
  - Family Day, 4909–4910
  - Federal-provincial fiscal policies, 3096
  - Foreign-trained doctors, 2400–2401
  - Health care, 1930–1931, 2249
  - Kazmierski, Greg and Ellen Goodman, 3492
  - Leading Women, Building Communities Award, 5516
  - Mayhew, Kyle, 5581–5582
  - Orléans Chamber of Commerce People's Choice Business Awards, 8871–8872
  - Orléans-Cumberland Community Resource Centre, 6340
  - Orléans Family Health Hub, 7437
  - Orléans Y, 8033
  - Public transit, 4699–4700
  - Remembrance Day, 8547–8548
  - Skills training, 3053
  - St. Peter Knights, 4029
  - St. Peter Players, 6193
  - Steffi D, 5668–5669
  - Volunteers, 1409
- Military reservists
  - job-protected leave, 76
- Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
  - advanced manufacturing investment strategy (AMIS) program, 3053
- Ministry of Education
  - Parents Reaching Out grants, 423
- Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
  - aging-at-home strategy, 6886
- Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
  - second career strategy, 3053
- Municipal government services
  - government funding, 8307
- Natural Resources Canada
  - energy star program
    - EnerGuide scale, 3334
- Nurse practitioners, 2724
- OC Transpo
  - strike, 4699–4700
- Occupational Health and Safety Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.O.1
  - section 50, 3183
- Occupational health and safety inspectors, 3183
- Ontario French-language Educational Communications Authority Act, 2008 (Bill 55)
  - second reading, 1956
- Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB)
  - complaints, 3183
- Oral questions, presented
  - Affordable housing, 4751–4752
  - Anti-smoking legislation, 2028–2029
  - Climate change, 566
  - Eastern Ontario development, 7769
  - Endangered species, 7434–7435
  - Greenhouse gas emissions, 7031, 9077–9078
  - Hospital funding, 2238
  - Immigrant services, 7830–7831
  - Military families, 76
  - Municipal finances, 4327–4328
  - Municipal funding, 8307
  - Municipalities, 5034
  - Occupational health and safety, 3183
  - Parental involvement in education, 422–423
  - Poverty, 5423
  - Senior citizens, 6885–6886
  - Sewage spill, 2667
  - Tourism, 2522
  - Water quality, 2087
- Pesticides/herbicides
  - ban on use and sale of cosmetic pesticides, 1850, 2009
    - Ottawa, 2009–2010
- Petitions
  - Climate change, 9329, 9331–9332, 9508, 9553–9554
  - Community colleges collective bargaining, 2245
  - Federal-provincial fiscal policies, 3093
  - Hospital funding, 4396, 7782–7783
  - Lord's Prayer, 2297
  - Lung cancer, 2492
  - Reconstructive surgery, 8695
  - School facilities, 6566, 6759–6760, 6814–6815, 6952–6953
  - School funding, 6199, 6400–6401, 6452
  - University labour dispute, 4759–4760
- Poverty Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 152)
  - general discussion, 5423
  - second reading, 5250
- Poverty reduction strategy, 5423
- Private members' public business
  - Climate Change Awareness Act, 2009 (Bill 208)
    - second reading, 8324–8326, 8330–8331
  - Home Energy Rating Act, 2008 (Bill 101)
    - second reading, 3333–3335, 3341
  - Kindness Week
    - responded to, 7459
  - Strandherd-Armstrong bridge
    - responded to, 1139–1140
  - Wind turbines
    - responded to, 8336
  - Zero Waste Day Act, 2010 (Bill 247)
    - second reading, 9564–9565
- Provincial-aboriginal relations, 5176
- Provincial-municipal partnerships
  - provincial-municipal fiscal and service delivery review, 4327
- Public education campaigns
  - Climate Change Awareness Day, 8330–8331
  - Zero Waste Day, 9564–9565
- Quebec
  - poverty reduction strategy, 5423
- Remembrance Day, 8547–8548
- Reports
  - Report on Removing Barriers for International Medical Doctors (Laurel C. Broten), 2400–2401, 2724–2725
- Road safety
  - safeguards against street racing, 4534–4535
- Road Safety Act, 2009 (Bill 126)
  - second reading, 4534–4535
- Senior citizens
  - home care, 6885
- Sewage spills
  - Ottawa River, 2087, 2667
- Sports teams
  - St. Peter Knights, 4029
- St. Peter Catholic High School
  - St. Peter Players
    - Beauty and the Beast, 6193
- Tobacco Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act, 2009 (Bill 155)
  - second reading, 5640–5641
- Tobacco products
  - ban on retail display of cigarettes, 2028, 5641
- Tobacco products manufacturers
  - recovery of tobacco-related health care costs from manufacturers, 5641
- Tourism industry, 2522
  - government funding, 2522
  - marketing campaign
    - There's No Place Like This, 2522
- Transportation infrastructure
  - Strandherd-Armstrong bridge, 1139–1140
- Tributes
  - DiDomenicantonio, Steffi (Canadian Idol finalist), 5668–5669
- United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (Copenhagen), 9078
- Waste management/programs
  - waste reduction, 9564–9565
- Wind turbines
  - health effects, 5356
    - moratorium on new projects pending review of health effects, 8336
- Youth organizations
  - YMCA/YWCA
    - Orléans, 8033
Meilleur, Hon. M. (LIB, Ottawa–Vanier)
- Access to Adoption Records Act (Vital Statistics Statute Law Amendment), 2008 (Bill 12)
  - general discussion, 1250, 1304, 1307, 1363, 1423
    - public consultation, 1312
  - first reading, 159–160
  - ministerial statement, 161–162
  - second reading, 749–750
  - third reading, 1430–1431
- Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, S.O. 2005, c.11, 16, 2098, 3488
- Adoption
  - protection of privacy, 161, 750
- Adoption disclosure, 161–162, 749–750, 1250, 1304–1305
  - advertising campaign, 7076
  - backlog of disclosure requests, 8498
  - disclosure veto, 161–162, 1307, 6888, 7076
  - no-contact notice, 1304, 1307, 1363–1364, 1423, 1430
  - protection for victims of abuse, 1766
- Budget surplus
  - transfer of funds to municipalities for infrastructure projects, 1038–1039
- Child poverty, 481
- Community Living
  - Ontario, 5788–5789
- Developmental services institutions (DSI)
  - closure, 2129, 2394, 2762, 5733–5734, 5788–5789
- Domestic violence, 4289
  - government funding for programs to reduce domestic violence, 170
- Employment Protection for Foreign Nationals Act (Live-In Caregivers and Others), 2009 (Bill 210)
  - second reading, 8183–8184
- Families for a Secure Future
  - government funding, 1166
- Family Responsibility Office (FRO), 2641–2642
  - collection of arrears, 2642
  - reform, 8379, 8387
- Family Service Ontario, 6598
- Foreign caregivers
  - protection, 8183–8184
- Foster families, 3538–3539
- French-language debates
  - Déclarations ministérielles et réponses
    - Accessibilité pour les personnes handicapées, 2098–2099, 6892–6893, 7776–7777
    - Adoption, 162
    - Drapeau franco-ontarien, 2841–2842
    - Journée internationale de la francophonie, 469, 5475–5476
    - Journée internationale des personnes handicapées, 4429
    - Semaine du service à la clientèle, 3098
    - Semaine nationale des familles d'accueil, 3538–3539
    - TFO, 825
  - Loi de 2009 sur la saine gestion publique, projet de loi 212
    - deuxième lecture, 8378–8379
  - Loi de 2008 sur l'accès aux dossiers d'adoption (modification de lois en ce qui concerne les statistiques de l'état civil), projet de loi 12
    - deuxième lecture, 749–750
  - Loi de 2008 sur les mesures budgétaires et l'affectation anticipée de crédits (no 2), projet de loi 114
    - deuxième lecture, 3604
  - Loi de 2008 sur les services et soutiens favorisant l'inclusion sociale des personnes ayant une déficience intellectuelle, projet de loi 77
    - deuxième lecture, 2041–2043
    - troisième lecture, 2761–2762
  - Loi de 2008 sur l'Office des télécommunications éducatives de langue française de l'Ontario, projet de loi 55
    - deuxième lecture, 1618–1620, 1623–1624
  - Ordre du jour
    - Budget de l'Ontario de 2009, 5915–5917
  - Questions orales
    - Accès aux soins de santé, 3683
    - Accessibilité pour les personnes handicapées, 8413
    - Affaires francophones, 5511, 7832, 9691
    - Drapeau franco-ontarien, 2896–2897
    - Jeunesse francophone, 1924–192
    - Office des affaires francophones, 5831
    - Services en français, 2641, 8108–8109, 8211
    - Travailleurs sociaux, 9724
    - Violence familiale, 9369
- Good Government Act, 2009 (Bill 212)
  - second reading, 8378–8379, 8381, 8387
- Government record
  - PC (1995-2003)
    - family support arrears, 2642
- H1N1 influenza A (swine flu)
  - emergency preparedness
    - availability of Tamiflu, 8456
- Income groups
  - low, 771
- Interpreter and intervener services
  - government funding, 6989
- Investing in Ontario Act, 2008 (Bill 35)
  - second reading, 1038–1039
- Members'/ministers' correction of record, 9410
- Members/ministers quoting committee submissions
  - Cavoukian, Ann (Information and Privacy Commissioner), 1430
  - Coalition for Open Adoption Records, 1430
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Blumberg, Bruce (geneticist), 2761–2762
  - Frazee, Catherine (co-director, Ryerson/RBC institute for disability studies), 2043
  - Onley, David (Lieutenant Governor of Ontario), 16, 2042
  - Roosevelt, Franklin (32nd United States president), 2762
- Mental health care
  - government funding, 6598
- Ministerial statements, presented
  - Accessibility for the disabled, 2098–2099, 6892–6893, 7776–7777
  - Adoption, 161–162
  - Customer Service Week, 3098
  - International Day of Persons with Disabilities, 4428–4429
  - National Foster Family Week, 3538–3539
- Ministers redirecting oral questions, 2294, 4289, 5784, 6989, 8498
- Ministry of Community and Social Services
  - developmental services, 5235
  - passport program, 1166, 1972, 2029, 2834, 4473, 4579
  - special services at home program, 7192
- National/independence/memorial days
  - International Day of la Francophonie, 5476
- Ontario child benefit (OCB), 481, 1102, 3849, 8151
- Ontario disability support program (ODSP), 5383
- Ontario disability support program (ODSP) benefits, 5997
  - increase, 7918
  - overpayment, 9115, 9117
  - special diet allowance, 422, 9577–9578, 9723–9724
  - travel and transportation to and from medical appointments, 4753
- Ontario disability support program (ODSP) recipients, 2239
- Ontario French-language Educational Communications Authority Act, 2008 (Bill 55)
  - second reading, 1618, 1623
- Ontario March of Dimes
  - home and vehicle modification program (HVMP), 9546–9547
- Ontario Works program benefits, 3639
  - overpayment, 9115
  - temporary care assistance (TCA), 2393, 2784, 3139, 3233, 3321, 3373–3374, 3490, 3530, 3638–3639, 3680, 3771, 3827, 3849–3850, 4022–4023, 4058–4059, 4105–4106, 4151, 4211, 4290, 4422
    - government funding, 3849
    - income tested, 3638
- Opposition day motions, responded to
  - Child care, 3849–3850
- Oral questions, responded to
  - Accessibility for the disabled, 3485–3486, 3488–3489, 8413, 9036–9037
  - Adoption disclosure, 1250, 1304–1305, 1307, 1312, 1363–1364, 1423, 1766, 6888, 7076, 8498
  - Agency spending, 9117–9118
  - Assistance to the disabled, 5784, 5997
  - Child care, 2393, 2784, 3139, 3233, 3321, 3373–3374, 3490, 3530, 3638–3639, 3680–3681, 3771, 3827, 4022–4023, 4058–4059, 4105–4106, 4151, 4211, 4290, 4422
  - Diet supplements, 422
  - Disability benefits, 4383, 9695–9696
  - Family Responsibility Office, 2641–2642
  - Flu pandemic preparedness, 8456
  - Franco-Ontarian flag, 2897
  - Low-income Ontarians, 770–771, 7918
  - Mental health services, 6598, 6988–6989
  - National child benefit supplement, 481
  - Northern health travel grant, 4753
  - Ontario child benefit, 8151
  - Ontario disability support program, 2239
  - Pension plans, 6230
  - Poverty, 1101–1102, 8994–8995
  - Registered disability savings plans, 4379–4380
  - Services for disabled children, 5235, 7192
  - Services for the developmentally disabled, 235, 1166, 1972, 2029, 2031, 2129, 2393–2394, 2784, 2834, 4473, 4579, 5733–5734, 6942, 8824–8825, 9406–9407
  - Services for the disabled, 7874, 9546–9547
  - Social assistance, 4288–4289, 5383, 8729, 9115–9116, 9267, 9404, 9577–9578, 9723–9724
  - Social workers, 9724
  - Women's shelters, 170
- Pension plans, 6230
- Persons with disabilities, 2393, 4383, 4429, 5997
  - barrier-free access, 16, 2098–2099, 3098, 6892, 8413, 9036–9037
    - accessibility standards, 16, 5997, 6892
  - customer service, 7776–7777
  - developmental disabilities
    - deinstitutionalization, 2042
    - government funding, 2031
    - services, 2046, 8824–8825, 9407–9408
    - waiting list for services, 2031
  - government funding, 3485–3486, 5784
  - service agencies/application centres
    - inspections without warrant, 2784
  - services, 1982, 2761–2762, 3488, 4579, 6942
    - government funding, 7874
    - Patterson, Teddy case, 1972
  - social inclusion, 2761–2762
- Poverty, 481
  - older women, 6230
- Poverty reduction strategy, 6230
  - social assistance review, 5784
- Public education campaigns
  - Customer Service Week, 3098, 7776–7777
  - International Day of Disabled Persons, 16
  - International Day of Persons with Disabilities, 4428
  - National Access Awareness Week, 2098–2099, 6892
  - National Foster Family Week, 3538–3539
- Registered disability savings plans, 4379, 4383, 9695–9696
  - exempting registered disability savings plans from eligibility for disability support, 4429
  - exempting registered disability savings plans from eligibility for social assistance, 4383
  - regulations, 4379
- Services and Supports to Promote the Social Inclusion of Persons with Developmental Disabilities Act, 2008 (Bill 77)
  - general discussion, 2784, 2834, 5784, 6942, 8379
    - regulations, 5789, 6942
  - first reading, 1981
  - ministerial statement, 1982–1983
  - second reading, 2041–2043, 2046
  - third reading, 2761–2762, 2765
- Sign language interpreters, 3489
- Social assistance, 5383
  - reform, 9267
- Social assistance benefits
  - grandparents, 9404
  - increase, 4289, 8729
- Social Benefits Tribunal
  - expenditures
    - Miclash, Frank (acting chair), 9117
- Social workers, 9724
- Workers
  - injured workers, 3815
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 119)
  - second reading, 3806–3807, 3815
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), 3807
Miller, N. (PC, Parry Sound–Muskoka)
- Aboriginal communities
  - water quality, 885
- Aboriginal land claims
  - Caledonia, 7088
- Aboriginal peoples
  - education, 6197
- Aboriginal policy framework (APF), 644
- Access to Adoption Records Act (Vital Statistics Statute Law Amendment), 2008 (Bill 12)
  - third reading, 1439
- Adoption disclosure
  - protection for victims of abuse, 1439
- Agencies/boards/commissions/etc.
  - expenditures
    - accountability, 7567–7568
    - disclosure, 7568, 7589–7591, 8064
    - review by Integrity Commissioner, 7587–7588
  - subject to freedom of information requests, 9236–9237
- Agricultural industry
  - regulation, 2021–2022
- Animal protection
  - private zoos, 1803
  - regulation and enforcement, 3158–3159
- Animal protection organizations
  - use of term humane society restricted, 1803, 2013
- Anniversaries
  - Bracebridge Public Library 100th anniversary, 3534
- Apprenticeship training
  - ratio of tradespeople to apprentices, 2855, 3044, 6441, 7099, 7130–7134, 7136, 7856
  - small business, 7856
- Apprenticeship training programs
  - completion rates, 7133
- Automobile insurance
  - uninsured drivers, 7542
- Automobile insurance rates/premiums
  - increase, 8028–8029
  - young drivers, 7542–7543
- Automobile safety devices
  - seat belts
    - enforcement, 6134
- Automobiles
  - provincial sales tax exemption on new car sales, 5911
- Barrie-Innisfil Boundary Adjustment Act, 2009 (Bill 196)
  - second reading, 7511
- Batteries
  - deposit and return system, 229
- Battery Deposit and Return Act, 2007 (Bill 22)
  - first reading, 228–229
- Blue-green algae blooms
  - Sturgeon Bay, 2685–2686, 2713
- Books
  - Local Library, Global Passport: The Evolution of a Carnegie Library (Patrick Boyer), 3534
- Boundary adjustment
  - Barrie and Innisfil, 7511
- British Columbia
  - regulatory reduction, 4135, 4140
  - small business regulations, 3426
- Brochures
  - A Guide to Understanding Retail Sales Tax for your Business in Ontario (Small Business Pointers 901), 3425, 4134
- Budget, 599, 5664
  - pre-budget consultations, 4296–4297
- Budget deficit, 3624–3625, 5910–5911, 5914, 7588, 8064, 8146–8147, 9721–9722
- Budget Measures Act, 2009 (Bill 162)
  - second reading, 6105, 6122
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (Bill 44)
  - second reading, 780
  - third reading, 1902
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (No. 2) (Bill 114)
  - second reading, 3605, 3624–3625
- Budget surplus
  - transfer of funds to municipalities for infrastructure projects, 799
- Burk's Falls and District Health Centre
  - after-hours emergency services, 493
    - government funding, 1902
  - closure, 6387–6388
  - government funding, 6388
- Cable/satellite providers
  - requirement to broadcast legislative proceedings of the province or territory, 3254
- Cambodia
  - opening of Muskoka School (Siem Reap district), 9698
- Carbon monoxide detectors, 7450
- Casinos
  - Casino Niagara
    - untendered renewal of lease, 8208, 8255–8256
- Child and Family Services Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 103)
  - third reading, 4842
- Colleges Collective Bargaining Act, 2008 (Bill 90)
  - third reading, 2927
- Colleges of applied arts and technology (CAATs)
  - Georgian College
    - carpentry techniques program, 7134
- Community development trust fund, 6082, 6750–6751
- Congratulatory remarks
  - George, Maynard Sam (recipient, Order of Ontario), 4429
- Conservation officers
  - government funding, 237
- Construction industry
  - underground economy, 3719–3721
- Construction workers
  - occupational health and safety, 3719–3722
- Consumer protection
  - security deposits for utilities and disconnections, 9246–9247
- Coroner inquests
  - power of Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services to hold inquest repealed, 4371
- Coroners Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 115)
  - second reading, 4371
- Cosmetic Pesticides Ban Act, 2008 (Bill 64)
  - second reading, 1851, 1858, 2021–2022, 2216–2217
- Countering Distracted Driving and Promoting Green Transportation Act, 2009 (Bill 118)
  - second reading, 4201
- Credit unions, 7966–7967
- De Beers Canada
  - diamond mine (Victor project), 5626–5627, 6789
- Debates re answers to oral questions
  - Health care funding
    - requested, 4450–4451
    - participation, 4450–4451
  - Small business
    - requested, 4088–4089, 5405–5406
    - participation, 4088–4089, 5405–5406
  - Tobacco control
    - requested, 1087–1088
    - participation, 1087–1088
- Demonstrations
  - aboriginal groups (Queen's Park), 2168
- Destination marketing and management organizations (DMMOs), 6890
- Diamond royalty
  - De Beers Canada, 6447
- Doctor shortage, 2651
  - Bracebridge, 2725
- Driver licences, 2339
  - enhanced driver licences, 2426
  - graduated licences
    - daytime passenger restrictions for young drivers, 6134
    - restriction from carrying more than one passenger aged 19 and under, 4219, 4294
- Drivers
  - age discrimination, 4545–4548
- Driving
  - ban on use of cellular telephones and electronic entertainment devices while driving
    - global positioning system (GPS), 4201
    - hands-free devices, 4201
- Economic conditions, 366, 4811–4812, 5201
- Economic decline, 5910
- Economic growth, 366, 3424
  - five-point economic plan, 3424
- Education
  - Parry Sound–Muskoka, 6105
- Education funding reform, 213–214
- eHealth Ontario
  - expenditures
    - accountability, 7559
- Election Statute Law Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 231)
  - second reading, 9661, 9669, 9677–9678
- Electoral process reform, 9677–9678
  - special ballots, 9661
- Electricity rates
  - industrial rates, 9425
- Employment creation, 7638
- Employment Protection for Foreign Nationals Act (Live-In Caregivers and Others), 2009 (Bill 210)
  - third reading, 9194–9196
- Employment-related benefits
  - organ donor leave, 5218–5219, 5368
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Organ Donor Leave), 2009 (Bill 154)
  - second reading, 5218–5219, 5368
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Temporary Help Agencies), 2009 (Bill 139)
  - general discussion, 5283, 5406
  - second reading, 5135
  - third reading, 6353–6354, 6364, 6366
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Wage Security), 2007 (Bill 6)
  - general discussion, 672
- Endangered species, 2640
  - protection, 1969
- Endangered Species Act, 2007 (Bill 184)
  - general discussion, 1969, 2640
    - integration into forest management plans, 2290, 2352, 3426
- Energy
  - renewable energy, 5014
    - Copperhill Solar, 5441
  - renewable energy projects
    - cost increases for consumers, 5441, 5443, 6571, 6769
    - employment creation, 5925–5926, 6769
- Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2010 (Bill 235)
  - second reading, 9211
- Family law
  - pension plans, 4973
  - reform, 4973
- Family Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 133)
  - second reading, 4973
- Far North Act, 2009 (Bill 191)
  - ministerial statement
    - public consultation, 7157
- Federal-provincial-territorial agreements/programs
  - AgriRecovery program, 3735
- Fire sprinklers
  - mandatory fire sprinkler systems in new residential construction, 7449–7450
- First Nations Technical Institute, 644
- Foreign caregivers
  - protection, 9195–9197
- Forest industry
  - layoffs, 1774
  - Wood WORKS!, 7945
- Forest resources management
  - Nipissing Forest
    - safety in movement of logs, 3139
- France
  - pension plan reform, 9340–9341
- Government accountability
  - fiscal accountability, 7574
- Government-business partnerships, 3426–3427
- Government debt, 599
- Government expenditures, 780, 3577–3578, 4297
  - increase, 5910–5911
- Government notice of motions
  - Federal government policy
    - responded to, 9424–9426
  - Legislative reform
    - time allocation motion
      - responded to, 1530–1531
- Government orders
  - Ontario economy
    - responded to, 3424–3427
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010), 9424–9426, 9644
    - mining industry, 6789
  - PC (1995-2003)
    - mining industry, 5627, 6789–6790
- Great Lakes
  - protection, 3329
- Great Lakes Charter Annex Agreement, 3329
- Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact, 3329
- Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area Transit Implementation Act, 2009 (Bill 163)
  - second reading, 5726, 5898
- Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 (Bill 150)
  - general discussion
    - public consultation, 5005
  - second reading, 5014, 5173–5174, 5177, 5359, 5364, 5440–5443
    - authority of Ontario Energy Board, 5443
  - third reading, 6571, 6769, 6777–6778
- Harmonized sales tax, 5664, 5689, 5911–5913, 6122, 8735, 8795–8796, 8855, 8947, 9157–9159
  - economic impact, 7759
  - impact on investment industry, 8765
  - impact on real estate industry, 8764–8766
  - public consultation, 9158–9159
    - hosted by Ontario Road Builders' Association, 8866
  - transition benefit
    - $1,000 for single parents or couples, 5689
- Health care
  - alternate level of care, 6388
  - Parry Sound–Muskoka, 9269–9270
  - rural and northern Ontario
    - closure of Burk's Falls and District Health Centre, 8103–8104
- Healthy Food for Healthy Schools Act, 2008 (Bill 8)
  - second reading, 209, 213–215
- Highway Traffic Amendment Act (Child Passengers on Motorcycles), 2008 (Bill 117)
  - second reading
    - public consultation, 4488
- Highway Traffic Amendment Act (Speed-limiting Systems), 2008 (Bill 41)
  - second reading, 1078
  - third reading, 2587–2588
- Holidays
  - Family Day, 5388
- Home care workers
  - employment protection, 6364
- Home energy audits, 5014, 5177, 5440–5441, 6777–6778
- Horse racing industry
  - Barrie Raceway
    - decline in race dates, 7511
- Hospital budget deficits
  - Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare, 4289, 4450, 5842, 5847
- Hospital closure
  - Toronto Grace Hospital, 9269–9270
- Hospitals
  - West Parry Sound Health Centre
    - occupancy rate, 5847
    - responsibility for Rousseau, Whitestone and Britt nursing stations, 7437
- Housing
  - affordable
    - Parry Sound, 7534
- Ideas for the Future Act, 2008 (Bill 100)
  - second reading, 3119
- Immunization
  - H1N1 influenza A (swine flu), 8503
  - human papilloma virus (HPV), 8653
- Increasing Access to Qualified Health Professionals for Ontarians Act, 2008 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 2651–2652, 2725
- Industry shutdowns, 25, 5210
  - Cash Rolls of Canada, 3005, 3425
- Interprovincial Policing Act, 2009 (Bill 203)
  - second reading, 7905–7909
    - Part II, 7906–7907
    - Part III, 7907
    - Part IV, 7907
- Investing in Ontario Act, 2008 (Bill 35)
  - second reading, 799
- Jordan's Principle, 6196–6197
- Laboratory services
  - community-based
    - Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare, 2788
- Labour mobility, 8294, 8298, 8662
- Labour Relations Statute Law Amendment Act, S.O. 2005, c.15, 7133–7134
- Lake Simcoe Protection Act, 2008 (Bill 99)
  - second reading, 2685–2686, 2713
  - third reading, 4342–4343
- Lake Superior, 4311
- Land transfer tax
  - retroactive application to fractional ownership units, 7273–7274
- Land use planning
  - Far North, 7157
- Legal aid, 9222
- Legislative procedure
  - members/ministers imputing motive, 1529
  - ministerial statements, 4296
- Legislative proceedings
  - televised, 3254–3255
- Legislative process
  - family friendly reforms, 1407, 1530–1531
    - oral questions, 1407
- Local health integration networks (LHINs), 4289–4290, 6411
  - executive salaries, 9370
- Lofthouse Brass Manufacturing Ltd., 1605–1606
- Long-term-care facilities, 3436
- Mace, 5627
- Manufacturing industry
  - layoffs, 25
- Medical transplants
  - organ and tissue donation, 5368
    - consent reflected on health card or driver's licence, 5218, 5368
- Members'/ministers' constituents
  - appreciation, 1195–1196
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 5440–5441
- Members/ministers quoting committee submissions
  - Amsden, Barbara (director of research and strategy, Investment Funds Institute of Canada), 8765–8766
  - Bazely, James (President, Ontario Home Builders' Association), 8765
- Members/ministers quoting documents
  - Outgrowing Grow-ins (Fred Vettese), 9347
- Members/ministers quoting electronic mail messages
  - Beynon, Patsy (parent, Gravenhurst), 4546
  - Bill 126, re, 4547
  - Cormier, Wayne (owner, Cormier Adjusting Limited), 7132
  - French, Gary (councillor, Township of the Archipelago), 6353, 6366
  - Goldsmith, Philip, 4488
  - harmonized sales tax, re, 8689, 8735, 8767, 8871
  - Hickey, Blair (Bracebridge), 4488
  - McEachran, George and Sandra (constituents, Muskoka), 5913
  - O'Hearn, Katie, 4546
  - Rhiness, Kayla, 4546
  - Stinson Electrical, 7857
  - Tapley, Nancy (Tapley Bondi cottage resort, Muskoka), 5912
- Members/ministers quoting letters
  - agency expenditures, re, 7568
  - Andrew, Judith (vice-president, Canadian Federation of Independent Business), 3720
  - Bacon, Betty and Sue Watson (owners, Craft Room), 5236
  - Bracebridge-Muskoka Lakes school nutrition action committee, 215
  - Bradbury, Daniel (owner, Daniel's Computer Services and Web Design), 7542–7543
  - Dixon, Kim, Richard Adams and David Conn (mayors, McDougall, Parry Sound and Seguin), 7857
  - harmonized sales tax, re, 8768, 8795–8796
  - Home Instead Senior Care, 6364
  - Hopkins, Jamie (Santa's Village), 5236
  - Jamison, Mark (CEO, Magazines Ontario/Canada), 8768
  - Kaye Brothers (builders, Parry Sound), 5912
  - Knopf, Eva (immigration consultant and director, Select Nannies Inc.), 9194–9195
  - Nodwell, David (president, Muskoka Builders' Association), 4056
  - regulation of small business, re, 388
  - Robinson, Dale (mayor, McDougall), Richard Adams (mayor, Parry Sound), David Conn (mayor, Seguin), 7133
  - security deposits for utilities, re, 9246–9247
  - Smith, Kenneth (president, Bent Ply of Muskoka Ltd.), 5613
- Members/ministers quoting newspaper articles
  - Barrie Examiner, 1078
  - Beacon Star, 214
  - Globe and Mail (Toronto), 3119
  - Huntsville Forester, 4289
  - National Post (Toronto), 599
  - North Bay Nugget, 1774
  - Toronto Star, 799, 4488, 5917
- Members/ministers quoting press releases
  - Ministry of Northern Development and Mines, 6789–6790
- Members/ministers quoting reports
  - Examining the potential cost of the Ontario Green Energy Act (GEA), 2009 (London Economics International LLC), 6769
  - Office of the Auditor General of Ontario Annual Report (2007), 237
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Aunger, Pauline (president, Ontario Real Estate Association), 8766
  - Bartleman, James (former Lieutenant Governor), 885
  - Beardy, Stan (grand chief, Nishnawbe-Aski Nation), 6791–6792
  - Bryans, Dave (president, Ontario Convenience Stores Association), 1087–1088
  - Cho, Sonny (Ontario Korean Businessmen's Association), 994
  - Closson, Tom (president, Ontario Hospital Association), 5841
  - Coalition for Balanced Mining Act Reform, 6793–6794
  - Coles, Chris (chief superintendent, Ontario Provincial Police), 7236
  - Daynes, Steve (Staffing Connection), 5406
  - harmonized sales tax, re, 8947, 9042
  - Health Canada, 2217
  - Ingram-Haigh, Mary (president, Ontario Electrical League), 7856
  - Insurance Bureau of Canada, 2860
  - Lawley, Michael (executive director, Muskoka Tourism), 6890
  - Lim, Jamie (president, Ontario Forest Industries Association), 1969, 7946
  - Lockhart, Glenndon (Parry Sound), 2966
  - London Chamber of Commerce, 9721–9722
  - Mining Association of Canada, 6790
  - Muskoka Builders' Association, 4085
  - Nodwell, Dave (president, Muskoka Builders' Association), 4088
  - North Bay city council resolution 2009-765 re: harmonized sales tax, 9157
  - Samuelson, Wayne (president, Ontario Federation of Labour), 7236
  - Sanderson, Donald (CEO, West Parry Sound Health Centre), 5841
  - Sandler, Steve (president, Sturgeon Bay Pointe au Baril Ratepayers Association), 2713
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - withdrawn, 7133
- Members' statements
  - Aboriginal rights, 2168
  - Burk's Falls and District Health Centre, 493
  - Bus transportation, 2966
  - Credit unions and caisses populaires, 7966–7967
  - Digby, John, 1195–1196
  - Emergency dispatch services, 4222–4223
  - Endangered species, 2352
  - Flu immunization, 8503
  - Forest industry, 1774
  - Health care, 7437
  - Human papilloma virus, 8653
  - Laboratory services, 4222
  - Legal aid, 9222
  - Legislative reform, 1407
  - Local health integration networks, 9370
  - Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare, 2788
  - Muskoka Ambulance Service, 3095
  - Ontario budget, 599
  - Ontario economy, 366, 3577–3578
  - Ontario Winter Youth Games, 981
  - Organ and tissue donation, 5127
  - Provincial deficit, 9584
  - Public libraries, 3534–3535
  - Renewable energy, 5005
  - Road safety, 4219, 4294
  - School calendar, 5388
  - School in Cambodia, 9698
  - Service Ontario, 1091
  - Taxation, 5689, 8689–8690, 8735, 8870–8871, 8947, 9041–9042
  - Tourism, 2399, 6890
  - Water quality in aboriginal communities, 885
  - Workers' compensation, 3380
- Mining Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.M.14, 2168, 5627
  - reform consultation, 6788
  - regulations, 6796
- Mining Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 173)
  - second reading, 6788–6796, 6930
- Mining industry, 5627, 6447, 6788, 6930
  - consultation with First Nations
    - mining legislation and regulations, 6792–6793
  - environmental effects, 6793–6794
  - ground staking, 6791
  - surface rights vs. mineral rights, 6794
- Ministerial responsibility, 7566
- Ministerial statements, responded to
  - Aboriginal children's services, 6196–6197
  - First Nations Technical Institute, 644
  - George, Maynard Sam, 4429
  - Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact, 3329
  - Immigration information, 4296–4297
  - Ipperwash Provincial Park, 7087–7088
  - Land development, 7157
  - Metis Nation, 827
  - Mining industry, 5626–5627, 6446–6447
  - Pension plans, 9180–9181
  - Research and innovation, 5326
  - Small business, 3005
- Ministry of Community and Social Services
  - passport program, 2765, 2948
- Ministry of Education
  - pupil accommodation review guidelines, 4806
- Ministry of the Environment
  - certificates of approval, 3426, 4134
  - generation registration report, 419
- Ministry of Natural Resources
  - government funding, 237
- Muskoka Ambulance Service, 3095
- Netherlands
  - pension plan reform, 9341, 9460
- Nurse practitioners
  - expansion of scope of practice, 6916
- Nurses
  - northern Ontario, 6924
  - shortage, 401, 2651–2652
- Occupational health and safety inspectors, 3721
- Ontario budget speech (25 March 2008)
  - responded to, 672
- Ontario budget speech (26 March 2009)
  - responded to, 5910–5914, 5917, 5925–5926
- Ontario College of Trades, 7131, 7134–7136, 7856
  - membership fees, 7857
- Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 (Bill 183)
  - second reading, 7099, 7130–7136
    - public consultation, 7135–7136
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 7855–7857
- Ontario French-language Educational Communications Authority Act, 2008 (Bill 55)
  - second reading, 1623
- Ontario Labour Mobility Act, 2009 (Bill 175)
  - second reading, 8294, 8298, 8662
- Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. (OLG)
  - expenditures
    - disclosure, 7383
  - lawsuit by Buttcon Energy Inc. over violation of agreement re Windsor Energy Centre, 7426
- Ontario Northland Transportation Commission
  - bus service reduction, 2966
- Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA)
  - inspect and determine whether standards of care are met, 3153
  - training of inspectors or agents, 3153, 3159
  - warrantless entry for inspectors, 3159
- Ontario Tax Plan for More Jobs and Growth Act, 2009 (Bill 218)
  - second reading, 8763–8769, 8795–8796, 8855
  - third reading, 9157–9159
- Opposition day motions, responded to
  - Hospital services, 6411–6412
  - Workplace insurance, 4085
- Oral questions, presented
  - Agency spending, 7335, 7383
  - Apprenticeship training, 3044, 6441
  - Automobile insurance, 8028–8029
  - Disaster relief, 3735
  - Education funding, 4806
  - Endangered species, 1969, 2290
  - Forest industry, 2640
  - Government contracts, 8208, 8255–8256
  - Government record, 9721–9722
  - Health care, 8103–8104, 9269–9270
  - Health care funding, 4289
  - Hospital funding, 6387–6388
  - Job creation, 7638, 9644
  - Land transfer tax, 7273–7274
  - Manufacturing jobs, 25
  - Mining industry, 1605–1606
  - Minister's record, 7869
  - Northern Ontario development, 6082, 6750–6751
  - Ontario economy, 7574, 8064
  - Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp., 7426
  - Provincial debt, 8146–8147
  - Red tape reduction, 1820
  - Resource management, 237
  - Small business, 418–419, 2570, 3436, 3531, 3571, 3920, 4056, 5187–5188, 5283, 5613
  - Taxation, 5664–5665, 8679, 8866
  - Tobacco control, 956, 994, 1253
  - Tourism, 5236
  - Transportation of goods, 3139
  - Workers' compensation, 3373
  - Workplace insurance, 4104–4105, 4146–4147
- Oral questions, responded to
  - Tobacco control, 956
- Patients
  - alternate level of care patients, 5841–5842
    - Parry Sound–Muskoka, 6411–6412
- Payday loan agreements
  - limit the cost of borrowing, 2404
- Payday Loans Act, 2008 (Bill 48)
  - third reading, 2404
- PC Party
  - economic summit, 3005
- Pension benefits, 9340
- Pension Benefits Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 236)
  - second reading, 9340–9349, 9354–9355, 9358, 9459–9460
- Pension plans
  - defined benefit pension plans, 9341, 9459–9460
  - reform, 9349, 9358
    - asset transfers between plans, 9345–9346
    - layoffs and partial windups, 9344
    - plan members access to information, 9347
    - regulatory oversight, 9346–9347
- Persons with disabilities
  - developmental disabilities
    - government funding, 2046, 2053
  - individualized funding, 2765
- Pesticides/herbicides
  - ban on use and sale of cosmetic pesticides, 1851, 2216–2217
  - 2,4-D, 2217
- Petitions
  - Child care, 4956
  - Electricity supply, 5133
  - Emergency dispatch services, 3331, 3385, 3449, 3580, 3650, 3694–3695, 3741, 3844, 4118, 4160–4161, 4299–4300, 4398, 4531
  - Health care, 9278, 9330, 9456
  - Hospital funding, 775–776, 4828–4829, 4955, 5328, 5390, 5520, 5694–5695, 5743, 5838, 5891–5892, 5961–5962, 6005, 6090, 6149, 6344–6345, 6399, 7286, 7439, 7783, 8117–8118, 8507, 9184–9185
  - Laboratory services, 2647, 3386, 4335
  - Logging route, 3384, 3451–3452, 3581, 3692, 3739, 3846, 4117, 4160, 4221, 4299, 4336, 4397, 4587
  - Long-term care, 1521
  - Lord's Prayer, 507, 616, 959, 1428–1429, 1719, 1975, 2210, 2527
  - Ontario budget, 6285, 6400, 6699, 6952
  - Road safety, 4334, 4529
  - Sale of domestic wines and beers, 7440
  - Sales tax, 4955–4956, 5518, 5586–5587, 5629, 6346
  - School transportation, 8508
  - Taxation, 7092–7093, 7158–7159, 7236–7237, 7441, 7529–7530, 7584, 7656, 7738–7739, 7929, 8614, 8694–8695, 8876, 8955, 9047, 9049, 9182, 9331
  - Workplace insurance, 4068–4069, 4117, 4158, 4221, 4298, 5007
- Photo Card Act, 2008 (Bill 85)
  - second reading, 2328–2329, 2333, 2339, 2426
- Photo identification cards, 2328, 2333, 2339, 2426
  - privacy/security of information, 2328, 2426
- Police services
  - cross-border policing, 7905–7908
- Poverty, 5210, 5213–5214
- Poverty Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 152)
  - second reading, 5201, 5210, 5213–5214, 5560–5561
- Private members' public business
  - Apprenticeship training
    - responded to, 2855
  - Automobile insurance
    - responded to, 7542–7543
  - Electricity Amendment Act (Protection Against Security Deposits), 2009 (Bill 228)
    - second reading, 9246–9247
  - Fire safety
    - responded to, 7449–7450
  - Forest industry
    - responded to, 7945–7946
  - Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Amendment Act (Institutions), 2009 (Bill 227)
    - second reading, 9236–9237
  - Health care
    - presented, 5841–5842, 5847
  - Highway Traffic Amendment Act (Child Passengers on Motorcycles), 2008 (Bill 117)
    - second reading, 4488
  - Lake Superior Day
    - responded to, 4311
  - Legislative channel
    - responded to, 3254–3255
  - Planning Amendment Act (Enabling Municipalities to Require Inclusionary Housing), 2009 (Bill 198)
    - second reading, 7534–7535
  - Red Tape and Regulatory Review Act, 2008 (Bill 57)
    - second reading, 1152–1153
  - Red Tape Reduction Policy Act, 2008 (Bill 121)
    - second reading, 4133–4135, 4140
  - Small business
    - responded to, 7749
  - Taxation
    - responded to, 7758–7759
  - Tobacco Tax Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 199)
    - second reading, 7551
  - Towing Industry Act, 2008 (Bill 87)
    - second reading, 2859–2860
- Provincial-aboriginal agreements
  - Metis Nation of Ontario, 827
- Provincial Animal Welfare Act, 2008 (Bill 50)
  - second reading, 1802–1803, 2103–2104
    - section 6, 1803, 2013–2104
  - third reading, 3153, 3158–3159
- Provincial parks
  - Ipperwash Provincial Park
    - return to Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation, 4429
- Public education campaigns
  - Lake Superior Day, 4311
  - Salute to Small Business Month, 3005
  - Small Business Week, 3380
- Public Sector Expenses Review Act, 2009 (Bill 201)
  - second reading, 7558–7559, 7566–7568, 7587–7590, 7614
- Public transportation
  - integrated, 5898
- Red Leaves Hotel, 7133–7134
- Red Tape Commission, 1153, 7749
- Red Tape Reduction Policy Act, 2008 (Bill 121)
  - first reading, 3739
- Regulated Health Professions Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 141)
  - second reading, 4811–4812
- Regulated Health Professions Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 179)
  - second reading, 6916, 6924
- Regulations, 1152–1153
  - business compliance, 1820
  - reduction, 3739
- Reports
  - Breaking the Cycle: Ontario's Poverty Reduction Strategy, 5201
  - Cutting Through Pension Complexity: Easy Steps Forward for the 2010 Federal Budget (C.D. Howe Institute), 9343
  - A Fine Balance - Safe Pensions - Affordable Plans - Fair Rules (Report of the Expert Commission on Pensions), 9343–9344
  - Report of the Ipperwash Inquiry (Sidney Linden), 7087–7088
  - Report on the Five Year Review of Automobile Insurance (Financial Services Commission of Ontario), 7543
  - Special Report: Ontario's Electronic Health Records Initiative (Office of the Auditor General of Ontario), 7869
- Retail sales tax
  - elimination of retail sales tax from accommodations and attractions, 2329, 2333, 2399, 2426
- Road Safety Act, 2009 (Bill 126)
  - general discussion, 4296
    - public consultation, 4219
  - second reading, 4545–4549, 4562
    - public consultation, 4545–4549
  - third reading, 6134
- School cafeterias
  - ban on trans fat in food and beverages, 213–215
- School construction
  - Parry Sound, 4806
- School year
  - start of classes before or after Labour Day, 5236, 5388
- Schools
  - Almaguin Highlands Secondary School
    - ground-source heat pump, 4806
- ServiceOntario, 1091
- Services and Supports to Promote the Social Inclusion of Persons with Developmental Disabilities Act, 2008 (Bill 77)
  - second reading, 2045–2046, 2053
  - third reading, 2765, 2948
    - amendments, 2948
    - public consultation, 2948
- 716056 Ontario Limited Act, 2008 (Bill Pr6)
  - first reading, 368
- Signage
  - tourism-oriented directional signs (TODS), 3426
- Skilled trades, 7134–7135
- Small business, 3005, 3380, 3424–3427, 3436, 3531, 3571, 5187–5188
  - access-to-credit program, 5613
  - collection/remittance of provincial sales tax/goods and services tax, 3425, 4134
  - government assistance in complying with regulations, 2570
  - regulation, 418–419, 3005, 3380, 3426–3427, 3436, 3531, 5188, 5283, 5405–5406
  - regulatory reduction, 4133–4135, 4140
  - three-point plan, 3531
- Smoke-Free Ontario Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 1867
- Smoke shops
  - Argyle Street (Caledonia), 7088
- Smoking
  - ban on smoking in cars with children present, 1867
- Speed limiters, 1078
- Speed limits
  - enforcement, 2588
- Sports and recreation
  - hockey
    - Huntsville, 359
- Sports competitions
  - 2010 Ontario Winter Youth Games, 981
- Stem cell research
  - Nagy, Andras (Mount Sinai Hospital), 5326
- Temporary help agencies, 5406
  - regulation, 6353–6354
- Temporary help agency employees
  - protection
    - exemption for community care access centres (CCACs), 6364
- TFO
  - educational programming, 1623
  - separation from TVOntario, 1623
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 358–359, 388, 401
- Time allocation motions
  - Legislative reform
    - responded to, 1530–1531
  - Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 (Bill 183)
    - responded to, 7855–7857
- Tobacco products
  - ban on retail display of cigarettes, 956, 994, 1087–1088
    - extension of deadlines, 1253
  - illegal sale, 7909
- Tobacco tax
  - reduction, 7551
- Toronto District School Board
  - government funding, 5917
- Tourism industry, 2328–2329, 2333, 2339, 2399, 2426, 5236
  - Ontario tourism competitiveness study and action plan, 2426
- Tourism regions
  - combining Muskoka with York–Simcoe and Grey-Bruce, 6890
- Towing industry
  - regulation, 2859–2860
- Toxic substances
  - health risks, 6310
  - reduction plan
    - role of federal government, 6291
- Toxics Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 167)
  - second reading, 6291–6292, 6309–6310
- Training programs, 3605
- Transit systems
  - integrated, 5726
- Tributes
  - Gaunt, Murray (former member, Huron–Bruce), 7780–7781
  - George, Maynard Sam (recipient, Order of Ontario), 7236
- Trillium Gift of Life Network
  - organ and tissue donation, 5127
- Trillium Lakeheads District School Board
  - school closures, 6105
- Union certification
  - card-based certification, 7133–7134
- United Kingdom
  - pension plan reform, 9341–9342, 9355, 9460
- United States
  - affordable housing, 7534–7535
- Workers
  - out-migration of Ontario workers, 366
  - skilled worker shortage, 2855
  - skilled workers, 7130
- Workers' compensation benefits
  - coverage for construction company owners, 3920, 4088
  - coverage for construction workers, 3373, 3426, 3531, 3571, 3719–3722, 3724
- Working Families Coalition, 7133, 9669, 9677–9678
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 119)
  - general discussion, 4104–4105, 4147, 4296
    - impact cost analysis, 4104–4105
    - public consultation, 3920, 4056, 4085, 4088–4089
  - second reading, 3719–3722, 3724
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), 3719–3722
  - named insured system, 4146–4147
- Youth justice centres, 4842
Miller, P. (NDP, Hamilton East–Stoney Creek)
- Agencies/boards/commissions/etc.
  - disclosure of untendered contracts, 7335
  - expenditures
    - accountability, 7421, 7597
    - disclosure, 7395
    - review by Integrity Commissioner, 7553–7555, 7819, 7821
- Agreement on Internal Trade, 8289, 8291
- Air pollution, 546–547
  - Hamilton, 1311
- Air quality management
  - Hamilton, 503
- Animal Health Act, 2009 (Bill 204)
  - second reading, 8227, 8229–8231, 8233
    - public consultation, 8227
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 8573–8575
- Anniversaries
  - Battle of Stoney Creek 196th anniversary, 7197
- Apology, 5395
- Apology Act, 2009 (Bill 108)
  - third reading, 5395, 5404–5405
- Apprenticeship training programs, 7125
  - completion rates, 7124
- Aradco Management Ltd.
  - severance payments, 5514
- Athletes
  - government funding, 2843
- Automobile industry, 669, 2291, 5682
  - auto sector investment fund, 673
  - Ford Motor Company of Canada
    - Essex engine plant, 645
  - General Motors of Canada Ltd.
    - government funding, 2565
    - job guarantee in return for government assistance, 2566
    - layoffs, 2565
  - government funding, 5945–5946, 6010
  - layoffs, 2291
  - made-for-Ontario auto strategy, 5682
- Automobile insurance, 4461–4462
- Automobile parts industry
  - government funding, 5945
- Awards
  - Women of Distinction Award
    - LaFleshe, Barbara (nominee), 6047
- Barrie-Innisfil Boundary Adjustment Act, 2009 (Bill 196)
  - second reading, 7511–7515
- Bauer Industries
  - layoffs, 4946
- Books
  - Strange Fatality: The Battle of Stoney Creek, 1813 (James Elliott), 7197
- Boundary adjustment
  - Barrie and Innisfil, 7512–7515
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada
  - national conference, 1979
- Budget
  - job stimulus plan, 4818
- Budget Measures Act, 2009 (Bill 162)
  - general discussion, 6188, 6551
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (Bill 44)
  - second reading, 854–857, 859
  - third reading, 1644, 1655
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (No. 2) (Bill 114)
  - second reading, 3589–3590
- Budget surplus
  - transfer of funds to municipalities for infrastructure projects, 1284
- Building codes
  - revision, 6764–6765
- Bullying, 5605
- Buy Ontario policy, 5080, 6009–6010
- Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC)
  - government funding, 6669–6670
- Carpools, 4279–4280
- Child and Family Services Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 103)
  - third reading, 4871–4875, 4879
- Child care centres
  - for-profit sector, 540
    - Australia, 540
- Child poverty, 5272
- Children
  - physical activity, 1133–1134
- Children's nutrition programs
  - government funding, 856
- City of Toronto Act, 2006, S.O. 2006, c. 11, Sched. A
  - amended by Bill 212, 8566
- Climatic changes, 7625
- Collective agreements, 3234–3235
  - United Steelworkers and ArcelorMittal Dofasco Inc., 466
- Committee process
  - Bill 173, 7799
  - Bill 201, 7819
- Community Access to Child Health (CATCH), 6602–6603
- Community safety, 4871, 4873–4874
- Concurrence in supply debate (December 2009)
  - participation, 9137–9139
- Congratulatory remarks
  - athletes, 2843
- Conservation areas
  - Eramosa karst, 568–569, 655, 1117
    - protection of feeder lands, 2347–2348, 2578
    - public consultation, 2571
    - transfer to Hamilton Conservation Authority, 655, 2347, 2571
- Construction workers
  - occupational health and safety, 3889
- Consumer protection
  - building contractors, 8356–8357
  - energy contracts, 9210
- Corporate tax exemptions
  - Ontario tax exemption for commercialization (OTEC), 4403
- Corporate tax reduction, 6041, 9137–9138
- Corporations
  - executive compensation caps for corporations receiving grant or loan from Ontario, 6011
- Cosmetic Pesticides Ban Act, 2008 (Bill 64)
  - second reading, 1960–1961
- Countering Distracted Driving and Promoting Green Transportation Act, 2009 (Bill 118)
  - second reading, 4277, 4279–4281
    - public consultation, 4277, 4279–4280
- Crime against seniors
  - elder abuse, 6552
- Day Nurseries Amendment Act (Not for Profit Corporations), 2008 (Bill 26)
  - general discussion, 857
- Debates re answers to oral questions
  - Green power generation
    - requested, 1278
    - participation, 1278
- Demonstrations
  - Protect Our Pensions rally (23 April 2009, Queen's Park), 6707
- Development Charges Act, S.O. 1997, c.27, 1285
- Discipline, 5609
- Doctors
  - international medical graduates (IMGs)
    - removing barriers, 2887–2888
- Driver distractions, 4279–4280
- Driver education/training, 4460–4461
- Driver licences
  - graduated licences
    - extending length of G1 and G2 periods, 4460
    - restriction from carrying more than one passenger aged 19 and under, 4459–4460
    - zero blood alcohol concentration level for drivers 21 years of age or younger, 4459–4460
- Drivers
  - irresponsible drivers
    - penalties/fees, 4279
- Driving
  - ban on use of cellular telephones and electronic entertainment devices while driving, 4279–4280
- Economic conditions, 4281, 4859, 5121, 5214
  - Hamilton, 1644
- Economic decline
  - government response, 6011
  - Hamilton, 307–308, 6774
- Economic growth
  - five-point economic plan, 3217
- Economic policy, 2781
- Education Amendment Act (Keeping Our Kids Safe at School), 2009 (Bill 157)
  - second reading, 5599–5603, 5605, 5608–5609
- Education funding
  - government funding, 7408
- Education funding reform
  - Hamilton, 1116
- eHealth Ontario
  - consultants, 7820
  - contracts
    - Accenture Inc., 7557
    - Anzen Consulting Inc., 7557
    - Courtyard Group Ltd., 7557
  - expenditures, 7424, 7555–7556
  - Kramer, Sarah (former CEO)
    - compensation/severance payments, 5556
- Election Statute Law Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 231)
  - second reading, 9684–9685
- Elections/by-elections
  - campaign contributions, 2504
  - campaign ethics, 2504–2505
- Electric vehicles
  - rebates, 7626
- Electricity rates
  - increase, 6782
  - industrial rates, 5071
- Employment creation, 645, 1205
- Employment insurance
  - eligibility, 2781
  - reform, 2807
- Employment insurance benefits
  - Ontario workers, 2806–2807, 5029–5030
- Employment-related benefits
  - employee wage security program, 41–42, 106, 740–741
    - program administrator, 106
  - severance/termination payments, 5515, 5663, 6654–6655
    - Progressive Moulded Products, 8214
- Employment security, 7877
- Employment Standards Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 71)
  - general discussion, 2344
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Lay-offs), 2009 (Bill 239)
  - first reading, 9225
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Protection for Artists), 2009 (Bill 165)
  - general discussion, 6670
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Wage Security), 2007 (Bill 6)
  - general discussion, 300, 668–669, 740, 1117, 2486, 3217, 5514–5515, 5614, 5663–5664
    - public consultation, 741, 4946–4947, 6231
  - first reading, 41–42
- Energy
  - nuclear energy, 5069–5072
  - renewable energy, 5069–5072
    - feed-in tariff, 5070–5072
    - solar, 5070–5071
    - support for small business, 5437
    - wind, 5070–5071
  - renewable energy projects, 4943, 6770
    - employment creation, 6769
    - wind farms, 1247
- Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2010 (Bill 235)
  - second reading, 9210
- Energy efficiency
  - home retrofit program, 7626
- Environmental protection, 482
  - affordability of measures, 7626–7627
  - government funding, 857
- Environmental Protection Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.E.19
  - amended by Bill 212, 8567
- Environmental Protection Act (Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading), 2009 (Bill 185)
  - second reading, 7625–7630, 7632–7633
- Essar Steel Algoma Inc.
  - pipe plant, 3575
- Europe
  - livestock protection, 8230
- Family breakup
  - counselling, 5020
- Family Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 133)
  - second reading, 5020
- Farmers, 3059–3060
- Federal Accountability Act, S.C. 2006, c.9, 6007–6008
- Federal government
  - fiscal accountability, 6007–6008
  - transfer payments
    - equalization program, 3089
- Federal members'/ministers' remarks
  - NDP (2006-2009)
    - Angus, Charlie (Timmins James Bay), 6670
- Fire escapes
  - non-combustible fire escapes, 269
- Fire sprinklers
  - mandatory fire sprinkler systems in retirement homes, 7430–7431, 9067–9068
- Firefighters
  - presumptive legislation, 7391
  - workers' compensation claims
    - Morand, Gene case, 4524, 5386
- Forest industry
  - layoffs, 105
- Full Day Early Learning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 242)
  - second reading, 9637–9638
- Fundraising
  - earthquake victims in Abruzzo, Italy, 5998
- Good Government Act, 2009 (Bill 212)
  - second reading, 8384
    - public consultation, 8384
  - time allocation motion
    - public consultation, 8565
    - responded to, 8565–8568
    - schedule 8, 8565–8566
- Government consultants
  - expenditures, 8024–8025
- Government notice of motions
  - Select Committee on Elections
    - responded to, 2504–2505
- Government orders
  - Federal-provincial fiscal policies
    - responded to, 2806–2808
  - Ontario economy
    - responded to, 3216–3219
- Government procurement policy
  - vehicles for use by ministers, 5422
    - made in Ontario, 5422
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - environmental protection, 7625–7627
    - senior citizens, 8106
- Government service transfer to municipal jurisdiction, 1284
- Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area Transit Implementation Act, 2009 (Bill 163)
  - second reading, 5818–5819
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 5973–5975
- Green economy, 5069–5072
- Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 (Bill 150)
  - general discussion, 4943
  - second reading, 5051, 5069–5073, 5437
  - third reading, 6764–6765, 6769–6774, 6778, 6782
    - amendments, 6771
- Greenhouse gas emissions
  - reduction, 7626, 7629, 7632–7633
- Hamilton East Kiwanis Boys' and Girls' Club, 1979
  - Send a Kid to Camp campaign, 1155
- Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Community Care Access Centre
  - restructuring, 1716
- Harmonized sales tax, 6008–6009, 9073
  - impact on condominium owners, 8310
  - impact on employment, 9137
  - impact on senior citizens, 7335–7336, 8822
- Health care funding
  - accountability and oversight, 8431–8432
  - government funding, 5001
- Healthy Food for Healthy Schools Act, 2008 (Bill 8)
  - second reading, 250, 257, 264, 306–310, 317–318
  - third reading, 1132–1134
- Highway construction
  - moratorium on new 400-series highway construction, 5975
- Highway Traffic Amendment Act (Speed-limiting Systems), 2008 (Bill 41)
  - third reading, 2597–2598
- Home energy audits, 6778
- Hospital funding
  - government funding, 5001
    - Hamilton hospitals, 4949
- Hospital redevelopment
  - Cornwall Community Hospital
    - hiring local workers, 3966, 8290
- Hospital services
  - emergency
    - McMaster University Medical Centre, 2899–2900, 2995, 3046
- Ideas for the Future Act, 2008 (Bill 100)
  - third reading, 4403–4405
- Increasing Access to Qualified Health Professionals for Ontarians Act, 2008 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 2723, 2887–2888
- Industry
  - foreign-owned/controlled, 428–429
- Industry shutdowns, 5214
  - Ancam Technologies Ltd., 669
  - Closetmaid Corp., 1166
  - Lake Erie Steel, 5206
- Investing in Ontario Act, 2008 (Bill 35)
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 1283–1285
- Kindergarten
  - full-day
    - impact on teacher-student ratios, 9637
    - implementation, 9637
- Labour mobility, 8284, 8291–8292, 8807
  - public accountants, 7226–7227
  - skilled trades, 8250
    - regulation, 8289–8290
- Labour-sponsored investment funds, 4404
- Lake Simcoe
  - environmental protection, 7512–7513
- Lake Simcoe protection plan, 7511
- Layoffs, 3216–3218, 4693, 4997–4998, 5515
  - Hallmark Canada, 2344
  - Russel Metals Inc., 4997
  - Sterling Truck, 3921
  - TeleSpectrum Inc., 1607–1608
  - 3M Canada, 4577
- Legislative procedure
  - order and decorum and conduct of members in the House, 1286
  - private members' public business, 4280
- Legislative process
  - Bill 145, re, 4738
- Legislature schedule/agenda, 2074
- Livestock
  - disease prevention and control
    - regulation and enforcement, 8229–8230
  - protection, 8230–8231
- Local health integration networks (LHINs)
  - Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network, 2995
    - public consultation, 3046, 3052
- Long-term-care facilities
  - standard of care, 855
- Manitoba
  - driver education/training, 4461
  - renewable energy projects
    - geothermal energy generation, 6771
- Manufactured products
  - sales decline, 4818
- Manufacturing industry, 46
  - decline, 3067, 8838
  - Hamilton, 6991
  - jobs plan, 2344, 4693, 5030, 5121
  - layoffs, 105–106, 854–855, 1655, 2781, 3087, 3216–3217, 3921, 4577
    - Hamilton, 52, 3089
  - unemployment, 645, 1167, 1205
- MaRS Centre, 4404
- Members'/ministers' apologies to other members, 7411
- Members'/ministers' expenditures
  - Pupatello, Sandra (Minister of International Trade and Investment), 4906
- Members'/ministers' inaugural speeches, 306–308
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 306–307, 4461, 4772, 5231, 5239, 5272, 5608–5609
- Members/ministers quoting committee submissions
  - Kelly, Marie (assistant director, United Steelworkers), 6707
  - Lewenza, Ken (president, Canadian Auto Workers), 6707
  - Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 6377
- Members/ministers quoting documents
  - Deeming Adds Insult to Injury (Injured Workers' Consultants), 430–431
  - Ontario Federation of Labour, 1939–1940
  - The Perils of Experience Rating (Ontario Federation of Labour), 430
- Members/ministers quoting electronic mail messages
  - Briere, Shayna (Kitchener), 4460
  - Clare, Peter (Forest, Ontario), 2606
  - Gold, Dale (York University), 4460
  - Kempton, Allen (Anderson Collegiate and Vocational Institute), 4460
- Members/ministers quoting letters
  - harmonized sales tax, re, 8822, 9073
- Members/ministers quoting newspaper articles
  - Globe and Mail (Toronto), 4404
  - Hamilton Spectator, 7048
  - Toronto Star, 4460, 7513
  - Toronto Sun, 3771, 3852
- Members/ministers quoting press releases
  - Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, 8230
  - National Farmers Union, 8573–8575
- Members/ministers quoting reports
  - Declining Enrolment in Ontario Schools: an excerpt from the 2008 Annual Report on Ontario's Public Schools (People for Education), 2260
  - A Fine Balance - Safe Pensions - Affordable Plans - Fair Rules (Report of the Expert Commission on Pensions), 9350–9351
  - Impacts of Workplace Injury: Is This What Justice Meredith Envisioned? A Study of the Economic and Social Impacts of Workplace Injury and Illness, 7090
  - Office of the Auditor General of Ontario Annual Report (2007), 4460–4461
  - Office of the Auditor General of Ontario Annual Report (2008), 7124–7125
  - The Road to Health: A Final Report on School Safety (School Community Safety Advisory Panel), 5600–5601
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Campaign Lake Simcoe, 7514
  - David Suzuki Foundation, 5070
  - Elman, Irwin (Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth), 4872–4873
  - Greenpeace, 5070
  - Miller, Gord (Environmental Commissioner of Ontario), 7626
  - Pembina Institute, 5070
  - Provincial Building and Construction Trades Council of Ontario, 3650
  - Rankin, Tammy (expert on elder abuse in nursing homes), 6552
  - Toxics Reduction Scientific Expert Panel, 6379
  - World Wildlife Fund, 5070
- Members/ministers quoting websites
  - Children's Aid Society of Toronto, 4028
- Members'/ministers' record
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - Fonseca, Peter (Mississauga East–Cooksville)
      - as Minister of Labour, 6688–6689
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - Liberal (1990-1995)
    - McGuinty, Dalton (Ottawa South), 3218
  - Liberal (1995-2003)
    - Duncan, Dwight (Windsor–Walkerville), 9138
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - Duncan, Dwight (Windsor–Tecumseh)
      - as Minister of Finance/Chair of Management Board of Cabinet, 4403, 8304, 9138
    - Gerretsen, John (Kingston and the Islands)
      - as Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, 7512
    - McGuinty, Dalton (Ottawa South)
      - as Ontario Premier, 2807–2808, 4404, 5029
    - Meilleur, Madeleine (Ottawa–Vanier)
      - as Minister of Community and Social Services, 3851–3852
  - NDP (2003-2010)
    - Tabuns, Peter (Toronto–Danforth), 6771
  - withdrawn, 2900, 3047, 3530, 3771, 3853, 4422, 5378, 6045
- Members' statements
  - Battle of Stoney Creek, 7197
  - Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada, 1979
  - Child care, 3578, 4028, 5191–5192
  - Cochrane, Brian, 8606
  - Community Access to Child Health, 6602–6603
  - Day of mourning, 1408
  - Earthquake in Italy, 5998
  - Eramosa karst, 2578
  - Firefighters, 7391
  - Hamilton East Kiwanis Boys' and Girls' Club, 1155
  - Hospital funding, 4949
  - Job security, 7877
  - Labour dispute, 2247
  - LaFleshe, Barbara, 6047
  - Local health integration networks, 3052
  - Pension plans, 6232–6233, 9002
  - Professional hockey franchise, 6849
  - Severance payments, 5515
  - Social assistance, 982, 9453
  - Steel industry, 5239
  - Taxation, 8310
  - Taxi drivers, 1614
  - Union representation, 466
  - Winona Public School, 2134
  - Workplace safety, 4525
- Metrolinx
  - board of directors, 5974
- Minimum wage
  - increase, 856
- Mining Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 173)
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 7799
- Ministerial statements, responded to
  - Agency spending, 7395
  - Consumer protection, 8356–8357
  - Government investments, 645
  - International Volunteer Day, 4478
  - Manufacturing industry, 46
  - Olympic and Paralympic athletes, 2843
  - Pension plans, 9181–9182
  - Seniors' Month, 7203
  - Workers' compensation, 3649–3650
- Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
  - Ontario cattle, hog and horticulture program, 5085
- Municipal Act, S.O. 2001, c. 25
  - amended by Bill 212, 8566–8567
- Municipal infrastructure
  - government funding, 857, 1283, 4749
    - Hamilton, 1115, 1117
- National Hockey League (NHL)
  - NHL franchise for Hamilton, 6849
- National Steel Car
  - layoffs, 1607–1608
  - strike, 5947
- Natural disasters
  - earthquakes
    - Abruzzo, Italy, 5998
  - floods
    - Red Hill Creek (Hamilton), 7688–7689
- Navistar International Corp.
  - layoffs, 3921
- NDP
  - Buy Ontario strategy, 429
  - health care, 855–856
  - response to economic decline, 2808, 6655
- NDP documents/plans, 105
  - grow-Ontario plan, 5086
  - three-point plan, 3184
- Niagara Parks Commission
  - appointment of commissioners, 9171–9172
- Nortel
  - pension plans, 8147, 8304, 8599–8600, 8993, 9350
- Nowruz, 936
- Nurse practitioners, 6906
  - expansion of scope of practice
    - prescribing drugs, 6913
- Obesity
  - adolescence, 250
- Occupational health and safety
  - regulation and enforcement, 1937–1938
  - worker education, 4078–4080
- Occupational Health and Safety Amendment Act (Harassment and Violence), 2007 (Bill 29)
  - general discussion, 7813
- Occupational Health and Safety Amendment Act (Violence and Harassment in the Workplace), 2009 (Bill 168)
  - second reading, 7808–7809, 7813, 8012, 8016–8021
- Ontario budget speech (25 March 2008)
  - responded to, 666–669, 673
- Ontario child benefit (OCB), 3851–3852
- Ontario College of Trades, 7099
- Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 (Bill 183)
  - second reading, 7099–7100, 7105, 7122–7125, 7127
- Ontario disability support program (ODSP) benefits
  - early release of cheques for holiday season, 9039–9040
- Ontario health insurance plan (OHIP)
  - chiropractic/physiotherapy services
    - delisting, 174–175, 6913, 6924
- Ontario Labour Mobility Act, 2009 (Bill 175)
  - second reading, 8250, 8289–8292, 8294, 8298, 8807, 8810
    - section 8, 8289
- Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. (OLG)
  - expenditures
    - accountability, 7555
    - disclosure, 7395
    - meals by senior staff, 7469
- Ontario Power Authority (OPA), 5069–5070
- Ontario Tax Plan for More Jobs and Growth Act, 2009 (Bill 218)
  - second reading, 8838
- Ontario Works program benefits
  - temporary care assistance (TCA), 982, 1518, 2393, 2784, 3139, 3233, 3321, 3373, 3490, 3529–3530, 3578, 3680, 3771, 3827, 3851–3852, 4022–4023, 4028, 4058–4059, 4105, 4151, 4211, 4290, 4422, 5191–5192, 7203
    - appointment of independent expert to review program, 4211
- Opposition day motions, responded to
  - Child care, 3851–3853
  - Government accountability, 6007–6011
  - Health care oversight, 8431–8432
  - Ontario economy, 1115–1118
  - Pension plans, 6706–6708
  - Rural schools, 2260–2261
  - Workplace insurance, 4078–4080
  - Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, 1937–1940
- Oral questions, presented
  - Agency spending, 1885, 7767
  - Air quality, 503, 1311
  - Assistance to farmers, 5085–5086
  - Automobile industry, 2291, 2565–2566, 5682, 5945–5946
  - Child care, 1518, 2393, 2784, 3139, 3233, 3321, 3373, 3490, 3529–3530, 3680–3681, 3771, 3827, 4022–4023, 4058–4059, 4105, 4151, 4211, 4290, 4422
  - Chiropractic and physiotherapy services, 174–175
  - Collective agreements, 3234–3235
  - Community care access centres, 1716
  - Composting, 5126–5127
  - Conservation, 568–569, 655, 2347–2348
  - Cornwall Community Hospital, 3966
  - Disaster relief, 7688–7689
  - Employment insurance, 5029–5030
  - Employment standards, 300, 740–741
  - Employment supports, 2781, 4693, 4997–4998, 5121
  - Environmental protection, 482
  - Eramosa karst, 2571
  - Fire safety, 7430–7431
  - Firefighters, 4524, 5386
  - Government appointments, 9171
  - Government consultants, 8024–8025
  - Green power generation, 1247, 4943
  - Health care, 9271–9272
  - Health care funding, 5001
  - Infrastructure program funding, 4749
  - Injured workers, 200, 2606, 7146, 9039–9040
  - Labour mobility, 7226–7227
  - Local health integration networks, 2899–2900, 2995, 3046
  - Manufacturing jobs, 1166–1167, 2344, 3087, 3089, 3575, 3921, 4577, 4818, 4946–4947, 5231, 6991–6992
  - Manufacturing sector, 52
  - Minister's expenses, 4906
  - Ontario economy, 1205, 3184, 4859, 5080
  - Pension plans, 2127–2128, 6188, 6226, 6439–6440, 6550–6551, 6841–6842, 7521, 8147, 8304–8305, 8599–8600, 8993, 9576
  - Protection for workers, 5663–5664, 6231
  - Provincial purchasing policy, 5422
  - Public transit, 5190
  - Senior citizens, 6552, 8106
  - Severance payments, 2486–2487, 5514, 5614
  - Social assistance, 9404
  - Steel industry, 5947
  - Stelco, 5464
  - Taxation, 7335–7336, 8822, 9073
  - Termination and severance payments, 8214
  - Tourism, 4823
  - Unemployment, 1607–1608, 6041
  - Workers' compensation, 2205, 5467, 5783
  - Workplace safety, 771, 893–894, 954–955, 1161–1162, 2834–2835, 6687–6689, 8258
  - Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, 1921
- Oral questions, responded to
  - Pension plans, 8993
- PC Party documents/plans
  - economy, 4859
- Pension benefits, 2127
- Pension Benefits Amendment Act, 2007 (Bill 17)
  - general discussion, 2128, 2597–2598, 6233
  - first reading, 186
- Pension Benefits Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 236)
  - second reading, 9338–9339, 9349–9356, 9358, 9464
- Pension benefits guarantee fund, 2127, 6550–6551, 6841–6842, 7203, 7521, 8304, 9358
  - raising the amount guaranteed by the fund to $2,700 per month, 186
- Pension plans, 6188, 6232–6233, 6439–6440, 6456–6458
  - coverage, 6226
  - defined benefit pension plans, 6457–6458, 9464
  - province-wide pension plan, 6707–6708
  - reform, 3068, 8993, 9002, 9138–9139, 9338–9339, 9349–9356, 9359, 9576
    - asset transfers between plans, 9352
    - full windups, 9352
- Pesticides/herbicides
  - ban on use and sale of cosmetic pesticides
    - impact on municipalities, 1960–1961
- Petitions
  - Baby's Best Start, 3049–3050
  - Child care, 3844, 3884, 3931, 3970, 4034, 4070, 4479, 4528
  - Child protection, 6759
  - Eramosa karst, 8952
  - Home care, 425, 484, 570, 616, 774, 1065, 1256
  - Hospital funding, 4480
  - Hospital services, 300–301
  - Multiple myeloma, 4757–4758
  - Pension plans, 6049–6050
  - Personal support workers, 7209
  - Road safety, 6814
  - School facilities, 2350
  - Taxation, 7396, 7881, 8077–8078, 9184
  - University labour dispute, 4702, 4759
  - Upper Canada Village, 7161
  - Workplace harassment, 6451–6452
- Pharmacists
  - dispensing fees, 6900
- Photo Card Act, 2008 (Bill 85)
  - second reading, 2432
- Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.13
  - amended by Bill 212, 8566–8567
- Police officers
  - presence in schools, 4879
- Pollution, 2597–2598
  - Hamilton, 429–430, 1116
- Poverty, 856, 3087, 5272
- Poverty Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 152)
  - second reading, 5201–5202, 5206–5207, 5214, 5272
  - third reading, 6590
- Poverty reduction strategy, 5201–5202, 6590
- Premier Wire Ltd.
  - layoffs, 2486–2487
  - severance payments, 2486
- Private members' public business
  - Canadian Mass Transit Vehicles Act, 2008 (Bill 31)
    - second reading, 460–461
  - Capping Executive Compensation Act, 2009 (Bill 180)
    - second reading, 7048–7049
  - Day Nurseries Amendment Act (Not for Profit Corporations), 2008 (Bill 26)
    - second reading, 540
  - Employment Standards Amendment Act (Wage Security), 2007 (Bill 6)
    - second reading, 105–106, 112–113
  - Employment supports
    - responded to, 3067–3068
  - Fire Protection and Prevention Amendment Act (Fire Sprinkler Retrofitting), 2009 (Bill 214)
    - second reading, 9067–9068
  - Fire Protection Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 14)
    - second reading, 269
  - Labour Relations Amendment Act (Replacement Workers), 2009 (Bill 86)
    - second reading, 7934
  - News media
    - responded to, 6669–6670
  - Nowruz
    - responded to, 936
  - Pension plans
    - responded to, 6456–6458
  - Protection for workers
    - responded to, 6654–6656
  - Signage to Promote Ontario Grown Agricultural Food Products Act, 2008 (Bill 98)
    - second reading, 3058–3059
  - Smoke-Free Ontario Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 42)
    - second reading, 546–547
- Property tax assessment reform, 856
- Property tax increases, 1284
- Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth, 4875
  - access to information, 4872–4873
- Public education campaigns
  - Injured Workers' Day, 7146
  - National Day of Mourning, 1408
  - Seniors' Month, 7203
- Public Sector Expenses Review Act, 2009 (Bill 201)
  - second reading, 7421, 7424, 7469, 7553–7560, 7597
  - third reading, 7819–7821
- Quebec
  - use of wind power, 6771–6772
- Regulated Health Professions Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 141)
  - third reading, 5591, 5595–5597
- Regulated Health Professions Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 179)
  - second reading, 6900, 6906, 6912–6913, 6924–6925
- Reports
  - Discovering Ontario: A Report on the Future of Tourism (Ontario Tourism Competitiveness Study), 4823
  - A Fine Balance - Safe Pensions - Affordable Plans - Fair Rules (Report of the Expert Commission on Pensions), 7521, 8147, 8304, 8599–8600, 9139, 9338
  - Fundamentally Unsound: Manufacturing Job Losses and Labour Market Conditions in Hamilton (Ontario Federation of Labour), 3089
  - Impacts of Workplace Injury: Is This What Justice Meredith Envisioned? A Study of the Economic and Social Impacts of Workplace Injury and Illness, 7090
  - Ontario Economic Accounts (Ministry of Finance), 3216
  - The Road to Health: A Final Report on School Safety (School Community Safety Advisory Panel), 5599–5601
- Residential Tenancies Act, S.O. 2006, c.17
  - amended by Bill 212, 8567
- Road Safety Act, 2009 (Bill 126)
  - second reading, 4459–4462
    - public consultation, 4460–4461
    - regulations, 4459
- Safe Schools Act, S.O. 2000, c.12, 5601
- School board trustees
  - accountability, 7406–7408
- School boards
  - governance
    - reform, 7407
- School bus safety, 2598
- School cafeterias
  - ban on trans fat in food and beverages, 250, 1132
- School construction
  - Winona Public School, 2134
- School safety
  - alternative programming, 5601
  - creation of provincial safety and equity officer, 5600
  - designation of community hub schools, 5600
  - establishment of school-based teams, 5600
  - gender-based violence, 5601
  - hiring of child and youth counsellors, 5601
  - hiring of full-time social workers, 5601
  - increasing benchmark costs in funding formula, 5600
  - increasing funding of demographic component of learning opportunities grant, 5600–5601
  - reconstituting local priorities amount, 5601
  - reporting of violent incidents, 5599–5602
  - restoration of community outreach worker position, 5600
- School vending machines
  - ban on unhealthy food and beverages, 1132
- Schools
  - closure
    - northern Ontario, 2260
  - enrolment decline, 2260
- Securities industry
  - regulation, 3218
- Senior citizens, 7203
- Skilled trades
  - certification, 7100, 7105
    - impact on non-certified tradespeople, 7122–7123, 7127
- Smoke-Free Ontario Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 2073–2074
- Smoking
  - ban on smoking controlled substances in public places
    - enforcement, 546–547
  - second-hand smoke, 546
- Social assistance benefits
  - grandparents, 9404, 9453
- Speaker
  - election (28 November 2007)
    - congratulatory remarks, 41
- Special education
  - wait lists, 7408
- Speed limits, 2597
- Sports and recreation facilities
  - Hamilton
    - government funding, 1117
- Sports competitions
  - Paralympic Games, 2843
- Stock exchanges, 3218
- Strikes
  - GGS Plastic Engineering Inc., 2247
- Student Achievement and School Board Governance Act, 2009 (Bill 177)
  - second reading, 7406–7409, 7411
- Tax credits
  - manufacturing investment tax credit, 645, 855, 1167, 1247
- Taxicab drivers
  - protective shields, 1614
  - safety, 1614
- Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA), 8084
- Technical Standards and Safety Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 187)
  - second reading, 8084
- Television stations
  - CHCH TV (Hamilton), 6669
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 428–433, 436–437, 440–441, 444
- Time allocation motions
  - Animal Health Act, 2009 (Bill 204)
    - responded to, 8573–8575
  - Good Government Act, 2009 (Bill 212)
    - responded to, 8565–8568
  - Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area Transit Implementation Act, 2009 (Bill 163)
    - responded to, 5973–5975
  - Investing in Ontario Act, 2008 (Bill 35)
    - responded to, 1283–1285
  - Mining Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 173)
    - responded to, 7799
  - Workplace Safety and Insurance Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 119)
    - responded to, 3888–3890
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)
  - subway system, 5975
- Tourism industry
  - Haliburton, 4823
  - Hamilton, 1116
- Toxic substances
  - health risks, 6377–6378
  - reduction plan, 6378–6381
    - definition of toxic substance, 6379
    - regulation and enforcement, 6373
- Toxics Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 167)
  - second reading, 6373, 6376–6381
- Trade missions
  - China, 1205
- Trans fatty acids, 264
  - regulation, 317–318
- Transit systems
  - air-rail link between Union Station and Pearson airport
    - public consultation, 5190
  - Hamilton, 5818–5819, 5973
  - purchase of mass transit vehicles
    - made in Ontario, 460–461, 4818
- Tributes
  - Cochrane, Brian (late president, CUPE Local 416), 8606
- Unemployment, 4818, 4859, 6041
  - Hamilton, 429, 1115–1116
  - Hamilton East–Stoney Creek, 854
  - Windsor, 4906
- Unemployment rate, 6041
- United States
  - American Clean Energy and Security Act, 2009, 7627–7628
  - livestock protection, 8230–8231
- Universities/colleges
  - York University
    - collective bargaining, 4705–4706, 4731–4732
    - strike, 4725–4726, 4730–4733
- U.S. Steel Canada, 113, 4404–4405, 6991–6992
  - cogeneration facilities, 5437
  - pension benefits, 52
  - pension plans, 2127–2128, 6706–6707
  - shutdown, 5206, 5231, 5239, 7048–7049
- Venture capital, 4403–4404
- Veterans, 7203
- Volunteers, 4478
- Voters/voting
  - voter identification, 2504
- Waste management/programs
  - composting, 5126–5127
- Workers
  - injured workers, 200, 430–431, 2606, 4525, 6687, 7090, 7146
  - protection, 6688–6689
  - replacement workers
    - ban on use during strike or lockout, 7934
  - skilled worker shortage, 666–667, 8293
- Workers' compensation benefits, 200, 7090–7091
  - coverage for construction workers, 3649, 3710–3714, 4078–4080
  - coverage for independent construction operators, 4079
  - deeming, 2205
  - excluded workers, 1937
  - indexation, 431
  - injured workers, 7146
- Workers' rights, 4772
  - right to strike, 4714, 4730
- Workplace harassment/violence, 7808–7809, 8012, 8016–8021
- Workplace injuries
  - Heffern, Gordie case, 893–894, 954–955
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 119)
  - general discussion
    - public consultation, 4078–4080
  - second reading, 3710–3714
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 3888–3890
  - third reading, 4237–4239
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), 3712–3714, 4078–4080
  - expenditures
    - accountability, 1885, 7553
    - Mahoney, Steve (chair), 7767, 7819
  - experience rating system, 771, 893–894, 954–955, 1161–1162, 1885, 1921, 1938–1939, 2205, 2835, 3650, 6687, 8258
  - hiring of chief prevention officer, 5783
  - rates/premiums, 3713
  - Road to Zero (strategic plan 2008-2012), 430
- York University Labour Disputes Resolution Act, 2009 (Bill 145)
  - second reading, 4705–4706, 4713–4714, 4725–4726, 4730–4733, 4738, 4760, 4772
- Youth crime, 4873–4874
  - prevention, 4879
- Youth justice system
  - reform, 4871–4874
    - open detention, 4872
    - secure detention, 4872
- Youth/student workers
  - occupational health and safety, 1408
- Youth violence, 5600
Milloy, Hon. J. (LIB, Kitchener Centre)
- Aboriginal students
  - post-secondary education, 5233–5234
- Access to Adoption Records Act (Vital Statistics Statute Law Amendment), 2008 (Bill 12)
  - time allocation motion
    - presented, 1747
- Agreement on Internal Trade, 6560–6561
- Algoma University Act, 2008 (Bill 80)
  - first reading, 2039
  - ministerial statement, 2039
  - second reading, 2107–2109
  - third reading, 2147
- Apprentices, 6811
- Apprenticeship training, 2236, 3235, 6437
  - Dell Inc., 1473, 2236–2237
  - ratio of tradespeople to apprentices, 1369–1370, 1709–1710, 2666, 2829, 3044, 6441
    - electrical apprentice, 2829, 3087
  - reform, 2831
- Apprenticeship training programs, 238, 2385–2386, 4614, 7095, 7845, 7875
  - completion rates, 4614–4615
  - compulsory certification, 8195
  - government funding, 2340–2341
  - grants given to International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 793, 2386
  - registration in call centre trades, 4615
- Apprenticeship training tax credit, 7095
- Biotechnology industry, 7485
  - government funding, 7485–7486
- Colleges Collective Bargaining Act, 2008 (Bill 90)
  - first reading, 2448
  - ministerial statement, 2448
  - second reading, 2469–2471, 2473
- Colleges of applied arts and technology (CAATs)
  - Algoma University College, 2039–2040, 2107–2109
    - history, 2107–2108
    - independent university status, 2147
    - programs for aboriginal students, 2108, 2147
  - collective bargaining, 235–236, 2449
    - inclusion of part-time and sessional employees, 955–956, 1248–1249, 2448–2449, 2469–2471, 2473
  - Mohawk College
    - government funding, 2832
  - Northern College
    - Nor Tech Centre for Trades and Technology, 3878
- Community literacy agencies
  - government funding, 4519
- COSTI Immigrant Services
  - open doors project, 4649
- Doctors
  - training, 5513
- Earth Innovations Inc.
  - EcoTraction (natural, high-traction mineral), 4649
- Economic growth
  - five-point economic plan, 1516
- First Nations Technical Institute
  - government funding, 642
- French-language debates
  - Déclarations ministérielles et réponses
    - Métiers spécialisés, 6810
    - Mobilité de la main-d'oeuvre, 6560
    - Semaine nationale des biotechnologies, 7485
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - apprenticeship training, 2666, 2829, 3044, 3087
  - NDP (1990-1995)
    - post-secondary education, 3485, 3874, 4057, 4382–4383, 4903, 5079, 5125
    - tuition fees, 101
  - PC (1995-2003)
    - apprenticeship training, 2829, 3045, 3087, 4614
    - post-secondary education, 3874, 4689
    - universities/colleges, 895
    - York University strike, 4690
- Green industry
  - government funding, 7832
- High technology industries
  - Coral CEA, 8067
  - Ottawa, 8067–8068
- Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario
  - expenditures
    - disclosure, 9271
- Human Resources and Skills Development Canada
  - red seal program, 6561
- Industry
  - high-growth
    - government funding, 7692–7693
- Labour mobility, 6560–6561, 6687, 8592, 8663, 8904–8910
  - exceptions, 6688, 7227
- Layoffs, 2435–2436, 3041
  - Campbell Soup Company, 1515
- Liberal Party
  - fundraising, 4018
- Literacy
  - government funding, 7730
- Manufacturing industry
  - layoffs, 238
- McMaster-Mohawk bachelor of technology partnership, 1718
- Medical schools, 5948
  - Northern Ontario School of Medicine, 5513
  - student admission, 6943
- Members'/ministers' correction of record, 2677
- Members/ministers quoting newspaper articles
  - Sault Star, 2109
  - Toronto Sun, 2236
- Members/ministers quoting press releases
  - College Student Alliance, 611
  - Runciman, Robert (former Minister of Economic Development and Trade), 4616
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Machan, Andrew (former employee, Sterling Truck), 3637
  - Marsh, Sherry (student, Georgian College), 3569
- Ministerial statements, presented
  - Algoma University College, 2039–2040
  - Community colleges collective bargaining, 2448–2449
  - First Nations Technical Institute, 642
  - Labour mobility, 6560–6561
  - National Biotechnology Week, 7485
  - Skilled trades, 6810–6811
  - Student assistance, 943
  - University funding, 986–987
- Ministers redirecting oral questions, 4212, 4944, 6944, 8068
- Ministry of Research and Innovation
  - Ontario venture capital fund, 9575, 9577
- Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, 5618–5619
  - Employment Ontario, 2388, 2435–2436, 2487, 2898–2899, 3041, 3236, 4754, 5033, 5318
    - job creation partnerships, 4754
    - literacy and basic skills programs
      - government funding, 5081–5082
    - Ontario self-employment benefit, 4649, 7958
    - Ontario skills development program, 2487, 4754
  - First Generation program, 5382
  - job action centres, 2435, 3041, 3236, 3878
  - Ontario summer jobs strategy, 6844
  - Pathways to Education program, 2959, 5382
  - second career strategy, 1515, 2388–2389, 2435–2436, 2470, 3041, 3236, 3441–3442, 3569–3570, 3572–3573, 4519, 4698–4699, 4754, 5033, 5082, 7475, 7728, 7958, 8027, 8865, 9175, 9217–9218, 9582
    - advertising, 3637
    - Waterloo region, 7577
  - skills to jobs action plan, 1516, 2899, 3235, 4519, 5731
  - skills training infrastructure program (STIP), 3731, 4018
- Northern Ontario
  - skilled labour, 3878
- Nurses
  - training, 5513
- Occupational training, 3235
- Ontario College of Trades, 2666, 2829, 2831, 3044, 3087, 3235, 4614–4615, 6437, 6441, 6810–6811, 7094–7097, 7845, 8196
  - governance structure, 7097
- Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 (Bill 183)
  - first reading, 6810
  - ministerial statement, 6810–6811
  - second reading, 7094–7098
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 7844–7845
  - third reading, 8195–8197
- Ontario Labour Mobility Act, 2009 (Bill 175)
  - general discussion, 6687, 7226
  - first reading, 6559–6560
  - ministerial statement, 6560–6561
  - second reading, 8592, 8659–8661, 8663
  - time allocation motion
    - presented, 8904–8910
- Ontario Sheet Metal Workers Training Centre, 4018
- Oral questions, responded to
  - Aboriginal education, 5233–5234
  - Adult literacy, 7730
  - Agency spending, 9271
  - Apprenticeship training, 1369–1370, 1473, 1709–1710, 2340–2341, 2665–2666, 2829, 2831, 3044–3045, 3087, 4614–4615, 6441
  - Community colleges collective bargaining, 235–236, 955–956, 1248–1249
  - Economic development, 8067
  - Employment supports, 4648–4649, 5232, 5318, 7958, 7964
  - Executive compensation, 4056–4057
  - Fundraising, 3731, 4018
  - Health care, 5513, 6943
  - Labour mobility, 6687–6688, 7226–7227
  - Layoffs, 238
  - Literacy and basic skills, 4519, 5081–5082
  - Manufacturing jobs, 2898–2899
  - Northern Ontario, 3878
  - Ontario economy, 1515–1516
  - Post-secondary education, 895, 1472, 1718, 2573, 2959, 3485, 3873–3874, 4903, 5382, 5948, 8105–8106, 8108
  - Post-secondary education infrastructure, 7081–7082
  - Private career colleges, 8257, 9545
  - Research and innovation, 7692–7693, 7832, 9575, 9577
  - Skilled trades, 6437, 7875
  - Skilled trades development, 4615–4616
  - Skills training, 2236–2237, 2385–2386, 2388–2389, 2435–2436, 2487, 3041–3042, 3235–3236, 3441–3442, 3569–3570, 3572–3573, 3636–3637, 4698–4699, 4754, 5033, 5465, 5618–5619, 5731–5732, 7475, 7577, 7728, 8027, 8865, 9175, 9217–9218, 9582
  - Student assistance, 2490, 3772, 4818–4819
  - Student summer jobs, 6844
  - Tuition, 611, 2345, 5079, 5950–5951, 6390, 8558
  - University and college funding, 2670, 2832, 5122, 5125, 5512–5513, 6190–6191, 8868–8869
  - University labour disputes, 4211–4212, 4383, 4471–4472, 4520–4521, 4621, 4651–4652, 4689–4690, 4800–4801
  - University of Windsor, 8598–8599
- Political fundraising, 3731
- Post-secondary education, 101, 2107, 2959, 3874, 5512, 5948
  - enrolment, 1718
  - Reaching Higher: The McGuinty Government Plan for Postsecondary Education, 895, 2670, 2959, 3485, 3772, 3873, 4382, 4903, 5512, 5731
    - access to opportunities strategy, 3772, 5233–5234
- Private career colleges
  - Niagara-on-the-Lake Culinary School
    - closure, 9545
  - oversight, 8257
- Public education campaigns
  - National Biotechnology Week, 7485–7486
- Reports
  - Compulsory Certification Project (T.E. Armstrong), 2829, 7096, 8195–8196
  - Ontario in the Creative Age (Martin Prosperity Institute), 5079
  - A Review of the Colleges Collective Bargaining Act (Kevin Whitaker), 1248, 2449, 2469–2471
- Skilled trades, 6810–6811, 7094–7095
- Skills Canada-Ontario competition, 1709
- Social assistance recipients
  - post-secondary students, 2490
- Student assistance, 611, 2959, 3485, 3772, 3874, 4056–4057, 5079, 5885, 6390
  - Ontario student assistance program (OSAP), 3772, 4690, 4800–4801, 4819
    - Ontario access grant, 2959
- Student debt, 3485
- Student enrolment
  - increase, 2832
- Student grants, 2345, 5885, 6390
  - distance grant, 943, 1472
  - Ontario student opportunity grant (OSOG), 4801, 4819
- Students
  - northern Ontario, 2108
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 101
- Time allocation motions
  - Access to Adoption Records Act (Vital Statistics Statute Law Amendment), 2008 (Bill 12)
    - presented, 1747
  - Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 (Bill 183)
    - responded to, 7844–7845
  - Ontario Labour Mobility Act, 2009 (Bill 175)
    - presented, 8904–8910
- Training centres
  - government funding, 4615–4616
- Training programs, 2389, 4698–4699
- Tuition fees, 3873–3874, 5885
  - flat fees
    - University of Toronto, 5950–5951, 6390
  - increase, 2345, 8108
  - rate freeze, 2345
  - regulated tuition fee framework, 5950–5951
- Universities/colleges, 5512–5513, 5948
  - government funding, 895, 986, 1472, 1718, 2573, 2670, 2832, 4057, 4382, 4652, 4903, 5079, 5125, 5512, 5948, 6191, 8105–8106, 8108, 8868–8869
    - University of Windsor, 8598–8599
    - York University, 4652
  - graduate work, 5122
  - infrastructure projects, 6190, 7081–7082
  - University of Toronto
    - government funding, 4651–4652
    - School of International Studies, 2573
    - strike, 4651–4652
  - York University
    - bursary fund, 4819
    - collective agreements, 4382
    - collective bargaining, 4212, 4471–4472, 4520–4521, 4621, 4689–4690
    - strike, 4211, 4382, 4621, 4651–4652
- U.S. Steel Canada
  - layoffs, 5232
- Workers
  - job retraining
    - government funding, 7475
  - skilled worker shortage, 7875
  - skilled workers
    - certification, 6687
    - training, 5732
  - training, 7964
- Working Families Coalition
  - government funding for training centres, 4615
- York University Labour Disputes Resolution Act, 2009 (Bill 145)
  - second reading, 4740
- Youth/student workers
  - summer jobs, 5732, 6844
Mitchell, Hon. C. (LIB, Huron–Bruce)
- Aboriginal blockades
  - Highway 6 overpass, 1887
- Aboriginal communities
  - economic development, 7339–7340
- Addiction treatment programs
  - youth
    - government funding, 993–994
- Agricultural fairs
  - International Plowing Match and Rural Expo, 2677
- Agricultural industry
  - government funding, 637
  - supply management, 132–133
- Animal Health Act, 2009 (Bill 204)
  - general discussion, 9647
  - second reading, 8444
- Animal protection, 3158
  - rural Ontario, 1809
- Apology, 3514
- Apology Act, 2009 (Bill 108)
  - second reading, 3514
- Automobile industry
  - General Motors of Canada Ltd.
    - hiring, 8853
- Awards
  - Duke of Edinburgh's Award, 4843
  - Ontario Junior Citizen of the Year Award, 5323
  - Premier's Awards for Teaching Excellence, 3579–3580
- Barrie-Innisfil Boundary Adjustment Act, 2009 (Bill 196)
  - second reading, 7501
- Bone marrow
  - donation, 277–278
  - transplantation, 277
- Boundary adjustment
  - Barrie and Innisfil, 7501
- Bruce Power
  - retooling of reactors, 3294
- Budget
  - pre-budget consultations, 4264–4265
  - presentation of 2003 budget at Magna International, 4265
- Budget Measures Act, 2009 (Bill 162)
  - time allocation motion
    - public consultation, 6157
    - responded to, 6156–6158
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (Bill 44)
  - third reading, 1742
- Bullying
  - lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgendered, intersexed, queer (LGBTTIQ) teens
    - mandatory reporting of incidents, 5555
- Child and Family Services Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 103)
  - third reading, 4843–4844
- Child pornography
  - investigation, 2779
- Co-operative education programs, 9081
- Colleges Collective Bargaining Act, 2008 (Bill 90)
  - third reading, 2928–2930
- Colleges of applied arts and technology (CAATs), 2928–2929
  - collective bargaining
    - inclusion of part-time and sessional employees, 2929
- Conferences/seminars/symposiums
  - Is the Coast Clear (Fifth Conference on Lake Huron's Coastal Environment), 722
- Congratulatory remarks
  - Kloeze, Victor; Jacob McGavin and Allison Underwood (Canada-Wide Science Fair), 7151
  - Underwood, Ben; Jacob McGavin, Danielle Appavoo and Kaitlin Fisher (Canada-Wide Science Fair), 2446
- Corporate tax reduction, 3295
- Correctional centres, 4843
- Cosmetic Pesticides Ban Act, 2008 (Bill 64)
  - second reading, 2014
- Crime against seniors
  - elder abuse, 2392
- De Beers Canada
  - diamond mine (Victor project), 3184–3185
- Dead animal disposal, 6732–6733
- Debates re answers to oral questions
  - Electronic health information
    - participation, 8802–8803
- Diamond industry, 3185
- Discrimination
  - racial, 444
- Doctor fees/salaries, 295–296
- Driver licences
  - graduated licences, 4533
    - extending length of G1 and G2 periods, 4520
    - restriction from carrying more than one passenger aged 19 and under, 4520
- Economic growth
  - five-point economic plan, 3086, 3294
- Education, 887
- Education Amendment Act (Keeping Our Kids Safe at School), 2009 (Bill 157)
  - second reading, 5555, 5609
- Education funding
  - government funding, 887
- eHealth Ontario
  - evidence of inappropriate practices
    - disclosure, 8802–8803
- Employment creation, 1828–1829
- Employment-related benefits
  - severance/termination payments, 6653–6654, 6658
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Organ Donor Leave), 2009 (Bill 154)
  - second reading, 5219, 5451–5452
- Energy
  - biogas, 5161
  - nuclear energy, 5160–5161
  - renewable energy, 3530
  - renewable energy projects, 5159–5161
    - EPCOR Utilities Inc., 3530
    - public consultation, 6725–6726
    - wind farms, 5062
- Environmental Defence
  - blue flag program, 721, 728
- Family law
  - restraining orders, 4248
- Family Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 133)
  - general discussion, 4248
- Farmers
  - federal government funding, 1513
  - government funding, 9719–9720
  - occupational health and safety, 5317–5318
- Farming programs
  - risk management program, 1513
- Federal gas tax, 1546
- Federal-provincial-territorial agreements/programs
  - Annual Conference of Federal-Provincial-Territorial Ministers and Deputy Ministers of Agriculture, 9366
- Festivals, 1609–1610
- Food safety, 9547–9548
- Government notice of motions
  - Legislative reform
    - responded to, 1224–1227, 3125–3126
- Government orders
  - Committee sittings
    - time allocation motion
      - responded to, 4264–4265
  - Ontario economy
    - responded to, 3294–3295
- Government record
  - Liberal (1985-1990)
    - time allocation motions, 3895
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - freedom of information, 7717–7718
    - rural Ontario, 3105
    - time allocation motions, 4265
  - NDP (1990-1995)
    - time allocation motions, 3894
  - PC (1995-2003)
    - accountability, 7716
    - education funding reform, 2261
    - health care, 8437
    - rural Ontario, 2014
    - time allocation motions, 3894–3895, 4265
- Government service transfer to municipal jurisdiction
  - roads/bridges, 1547
- Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area Transit Implementation Act, 2009 (Bill 163)
  - second reading, 5819
- Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 (Bill 150)
  - general discussion
    - amendments, 6272
    - public consultation, 6272
  - second reading, 5062, 5159–5161, 5163
  - third reading, 6725, 6732–6733, 6770
- Hanover Veneer
  - government funding, 8111–8112
- Harmonized sales tax, 7775, 8549, 8737, 8785, 8853–8854
  - impact on agricultural industry, 6157
  - impact on industry in northern Ontario, 7429–7430
  - impact on investment industry, 7429–7430
  - impact on senior citizens, 8685–8686
- Health care
  - Huron–Bruce, 883
- Health care funding
  - accountability and oversight, 8438
- Highway Traffic Amendment Act (Speed-limiting Systems), 2008 (Bill 41)
  - general discussion, 5617–5618
  - second reading, 1015–1016
- Hockey Night in Canada
  - theme song, 2400
- Home energy audits, 5161, 6272
- Ideas for the Future Act, 2008 (Bill 100)
  - second reading, 3105
- Income tax reduction, 7392
- Increasing Access to Qualified Health Professionals for Ontarians Act, 2008 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 2888
- Infrastructure Ontario
  - municipal infrastructure investment initiative (MIII), 1547
- Katelyn Bedard Bone Marrow Association, 277
- Labour mobility, 8806
- Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation, 722
  - green ribbon beach program, 721–722, 728
- Lake Simcoe Protection Act, 2008 (Bill 99)
  - second reading, 2754, 2757–2758
- Legislative procedure
  - deferred votes, 3125
  - introduction of visitors, 3126
  - motions
    - time allocation motions, 3894, 7854
  - oral questions, 3125
    - preceded by five-minute bell, 3125
  - petitions
    - online petitions (e-petitions), 3126
  - private members' public business, 1226
    - can be sponsored by more than one member and by members of different parties, 3126
    - three private members' bills or resolutions debated each day, 3126
  - routine proceedings, 3126
- Legislative process
  - family friendly reforms, 1224–1227
    - evening sittings, 1226–1227
- Legislature schedule/agenda, 3125–3126
- Livestock
  - disease prevention and control, 8444
- Long-term-care facilities
  - government funding, 2904
- Medical transplants
  - organ and tissue donation, 277–278, 5219, 5451–5452
- Members'/ministers' constituencies/constituency events
  - Huron–Bruce
    - opening of Regional Equine and Agricultural Centre of Huron, 7583
- Members'/ministers' constituents
  - congratulatory remarks, 5323
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 1150, 3158
- Members/ministers quoting newspaper articles
  - Belleville Intelligencer, 8737, 8784
  - Globe and Mail (Toronto), 1828
  - National Post (Toronto), 8785
  - Ontario Farmer, 6157
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Arnold, Ken (president, Ontario Medical Association), 8802
  - Fantino, Julian (commissioner, Ontario Provincial Police), 2779
  - Ontario Federation of Agriculture, 5160
  - Strasberg, Suzanne (Ontario Medical Association), 6903
  - Wiseman, Nelson (professor, University of Toronto), 3125
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - withdrawn, 8685, 8785
- Members' statements
  - Education, 887
  - Energy conservation, 6949
  - Gaunt, Murray, 5787
  - Hanover Veneer, 8111–8112
  - Hockey Night in Canada, 2400
  - International Plowing Match, 2677
  - Long-term care, 2904
  - McGavin, Jacob, 5323
  - Ontario budget, 517
  - Ontario child benefit, 2039
  - Ontario economy, 1828–1829
  - Ontario market investment fund, 8072–8073
  - Ontario Trillium Foundation, 38, 3881
  - Premier's Awards for Teaching Excellence, 3579–3580
  - Regional Equine and Agricultural Centre of Huron, 7583
  - Rural summer jobs program, 5999–6000
  - Science fair, 2446, 7151–7152
  - Student achievement, 9081
  - Taxation, 7392, 7775, 8549, 8737
  - Walkerton Clean Water Centre, 3445
  - World Water Day, 5952
- Metrolinx
  - board of directors, 5819
  - closed meetings, 5819
- Mine workers
  - occupational health and safety, 1059
- Mining Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.M.14, 2208, 6490
  - reform consultation, 4059
  - section 35, 2207
- Mining Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 173)
  - general discussion, 6490
- Mining industry, 1252–1253
  - consultation with First Nations, 2208
  - resource benefits sharing, 6490
- Ministry inspectors, 2757–2758
- Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
  - food safety and traceability initiative (FSTI), 9547–9548
  - Ontario market investment fund (OMIF), 8072–8073
  - Pick Ontario Freshness strategy, 9401–9410
  - Rural Connections broadband program, 8149–8150
  - rural economic development (RED) program, 3086, 3295
  - rural summer jobs service program, 5999–6000
- Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration
  - strategic partnership initiative, 5664
- Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
  - Next Generation of Jobs Fund, 1828
- Ministry of Tourism
  - Celebrate Ontario, 1610
  - fun pass, 7078
- Municipal elections/by-elections
  - reform, 8260–8261
- Municipal infrastructure
  - government funding
    - rural Ontario, 637
  - municipal roads and bridges fund, 1546–1547
- Municipal Property Assessment Corp. (MPAC), 6514–6515
- Natural disasters
  - tornados (20 August 2009)
    - government funding for affected communities, 7523–7524
- Obituaries
  - Gaunt, Murray (former member, Huron–Bruce), 5787
- Ontario child benefit (OCB), 2039
- Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 (Bill 183)
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 7854–7855
- Ontario health premium, 882–883
- Ontario Labour Mobility Act, 2009 (Bill 175)
  - second reading, 8806
- Ontario Tax Plan for More Jobs and Growth Act, 2009 (Bill 218)
  - second reading, 8853–8856
- Ontario Trillium Foundation
  - grants, 3881
    - Huron–Bruce, 38
- Opposition day motions, responded to
  - Electronic health information, 7716–7718
  - Health care oversight, 8437–8438
  - Pension plans, 6708–6709
  - Rural schools, 2261–2262
  - Taxation, 6514–6515
  - Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, 1946
- Oral questions, presented
  - Aboriginal economic development, 7339–7340
  - Aboriginal rights, 2207–2208
  - Access to health care, 295–296
  - Addiction services, 993–994
  - Assistance to farmers, 1513
  - Child pornography, 2779–2780
  - Diamond mining, 3184–3185
  - Disaster relief, 7523–7524
  - Domestic violence, 4248
  - Elder abuse, 2392
  - Food safety, 4386
  - Green power generation, 6272
  - Health care, 4859–4860
  - Mining industry, 1058–1059, 1252–1253, 4059, 6490
  - Municipal elections, 8260–8261
  - Municipal government, 7961–7962
  - Native land disputes, 1887
  - Occupational health and safety, 5317–5318
  - Ontario public service, 7190–7191
  - Poverty, 8993–8994
  - Public libraries, 199
  - Renewable energy and conservation, 3530
  - Research and innovation, 3879
  - Road safety, 4519–4520
  - Rural infrastructure, 8149–8150
  - Rural Ontario, 3086
  - Supply management, 132–133
  - Taxation, 7429–7430, 8685–8686, 8784–8785
  - Tire disposal, 8410–8411
  - Tourism, 1609–1610, 7078
  - Trucking safety, 5617–5618
  - Veterans, 1821
  - Volunteers, 5664
  - Walkerton tragedy, 420
  - Water quality, 6230
  - Wildlife protection, 9220
- Oral questions, responded to
  - Agri-food industry, 9410
  - Agriculture programs, 9366
  - Animal health, 9647
  - Assistance to farmers, 9719–9720
  - Food safety, 9547–9548
- Pension plans
  - reform, 6708
- Petitions
  - Cemeteries, 6895, 8740
- Photo Card Act, 2008 (Bill 85)
  - second reading, 2338–2340
- Photo identification cards, 2338–2340
- Poverty Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 152)
  - second reading, 5254–5257
- Poverty reduction strategy, 8993–8994
- Private members' public business
  - Breast Cancer Screening Act, 2009 (Bill 200)
    - second reading, 7446
  - Highway improvement
    - responded to, 6663–6664
  - Katelyn Bedard Bone Marrow Awareness Month Act, 2007 (Bill 5)
    - second reading, 277–278
  - Municipalities
    - responded to, 5297
  - Protection for workers
    - presented, 6653–6654, 6657–6658
  - Public Transportation and Highway Improvement Amendment Act (Assistance to Municipalities), 2008 (Bill 38)
    - second reading, 1546–1547
  - Red Tape and Regulatory Review Act, 2008 (Bill 57)
    - second reading, 1150
  - Water quality
    - presented, 720–722, 728
- Property tax, 6514–6515
- Provincial-aboriginal relations, 2207
- Provincial Animal Welfare Act, 2008 (Bill 50)
  - second reading, 1809–1810
  - third reading, 3158
- Provincial-municipal partnerships
  - provincial-municipal fiscal and service delivery review, 5297
- Public education campaigns
  - Canadian Agricultural Safety Week, 5317
  - Count Me In Community Challenge, 6949
  - Energy Conservation Week, 6949
  - Local Government Week, 7961–7962
  - World Water Day, 5952
- Public service
  - collective agreements, 7190–7191
  - reduction, 7191
- Raw milk, 4386
- Regulations
  - reduction, 1150
- Reports
  - Physicians in Canada: Average Gross Fee-For-Service Payments, 2005-2006 (Canadian Institute for Health Information), 296
  - A Review of the Colleges Collective Bargaining Act (Kevin Whitaker), 2930
- Research and innovation, 3295, 3879
- Road safety, 4519–4520
- Road Safety Act, 2009 (Bill 126)
  - second reading, 4533, 4548
    - public consultation, 4548
- Rural libraries, 199
  - government funding, 199
- Rural Ontario
  - economic development, 3086
  - employment creation, 3086
  - government funding, 517
- School boards
  - Huron–Bruce, 2261
- School safety
  - reporting of violent incidents, 5609
- Sex offenders, 2780
- Skilled trades
  - rural Ontario, 7854–7855
- Speed limiters, 1015–1016
  - driver/operator to set maximum speed at 105 kilometres per hour, 5617–5618
- Supply Act, 2008 (Bill 45)
  - second reading, 636–637
- Tax rebates
  - gasoline tax rebate
    - highway construction, maintenance or operation, 6663–6664
- Taxation
  - tax reform package, 6708
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 444
- Time allocation motions
  - Budget Measures Act, 2009 (Bill 162)
    - responded to, 6156–6158
  - Committee sittings
    - responded to, 4264–4265
  - Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 (Bill 183)
    - responded to, 7854–7855
  - Workplace Safety and Insurance Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 119)
    - responded to, 3894–3895
- Tourism industry, 1610, 2338
- Toxics Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 167)
  - second reading, 6376
    - public consultation, 6376
- Transit systems
  - gasoline tax funding, 5819
- Tributes
  - Gaunt, Murray (former member, Huron–Bruce), 7779–7780
- Truck safety, 5617
- United States
  - terrorist attacks on World Trade Center, Pentagon and Pennsylvania (11 September 2001), 2338
- Veterans, 1821
- Violence against women, 4248
- Volunteers, 5664
- Volvo Motor Graders Ltd.
  - shutdown, 3295
- Wage Earner Protection Program Act, S.C. 2005, c.47, s.1, 6653–6654
- Walkerton Clean Water Centre, 3445, 5952
- Waste management/programs
  - tire recycling program
    - fee exemptions for farmers, 8410–8411
- Water supply
  - contamination
    - Walkerton, 1150, 5952
      - compensation for claimants, 420
  - source protection
    - impact on farmers, 6230
- Wildlife protection
  - deer, 9220–9221
- Women's services
  - abused women
    - government funding, 4248
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 119)
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 3894–3895
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
  - experience rating system, 1946
Moridi, R. (LIB, Richmond Hill)
- Algoma University Act, 2008 (Bill 80)
  - second reading, 2109–2110
- Anniversaries
  - Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam 100th anniversary, 2170
  - Lions Club of Richmond Hill 70th anniversary, 2037
- Apprenticeship and Certification Act, S.O. 1998, c.22, 7135
- Apprenticeship training
  - ratio of tradespeople to apprentices, 2856, 7135
- Apprenticeship training programs, 3260
  - completion rates, 7131
- Awards
  - Gairdner award, 4389
- Budget
  - pre-budget consultations
    - Richmond Hill, 4824
- Budget deficit, 3605
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (No. 2) (Bill 114)
  - second reading, 3605
- Capital works projects, 5280–5281
- Charitable fundraising
  - World Partnership Walk, 1827
- Colleges Collective Bargaining Act, 2008 (Bill 90)
  - second reading, 2471–2472, 2476, 2528–2509
  - third reading, 2910–2916, 2918, 2926–2927, 2937
- Colleges of applied arts and technology (CAATs), 2471, 2911–2912, 2918
  - Algoma University College
    - independent university status, 2109
    - programs for aboriginal students, 2109–2110
  - collective bargaining, 2471–2472
    - inclusion of part-time and sessional employees, 2471–2472, 2476, 2508–2509, 2913–2915
  - government funding, 2912
  - programs, 2471, 2476
- Congratulatory remarks
  - Rajan, Bilaal (author, fundraiser, children's rights activist, UNICEF Canada ambassador and former legislative page), 6193–6194
- Corporate tax exemptions
  - Ontario tax exemption for commercialization (OTEC)
    - eligibility for refund, 3113
- Corporate taxes
  - federal-provincial harmonization, 1572
- Cosmetic Pesticides Ban Act, 2008 (Bill 64)
  - second reading, 1855
- Cultural industry
  - government funding, 9315
- Dialysis
  - Vaughan and York region, 4905
- Drivers
  - impaired drivers
    - driver licence suspension, 6495
- Driving
  - ban on use of cellular telephones and electronic entertainment devices while driving, 6495
- Economic development, 2911
- Economic growth
  - five-point economic plan, 3260
- Employers
  - requirement to contribute 1% of payroll amount to workforce training, 3260
- Energy
  - nuclear energy, 5338
  - renewable energy, 5338
  - renewable energy projects, 5159
- Environmental protection, 11, 3642
- Full Day Early Learning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 242)
  - second reading, 9627
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - apprenticeship training, 2855–2856, 7113
  - NDP (1990-1995)
    - post-secondary education, 2926
- Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 (Bill 150)
  - second reading, 5159, 5338
- Greenhouse gas emissions, 8329
- Harmonized sales tax, 5913, 5926
- Health care, 4905
- Hospital redevelopment
  - York Central Hospital, 5280
- Hospitals
  - York Central Hospital
    - dialysis satellite unit, 4905
- Housing
  - affordable
    - government funding, 7920–7921
- Ideas for the Future Act, 2008 (Bill 100)
  - second reading, 3113
- Immunization
  - influenza, 4109
- Kidney diseases, 4905
- Kindergarten
  - full-day, 9627
- Kurdish community, 8736
- Kyoto Protocol on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 8329
- Language instruction
  - English as a second language (ESL), 9172
- Members'/ministers' constituencies/constituency events
  - Richmond Hill, 9371
- Members'/ministers' inaugural speeches, 628–629
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 628–629
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Dillon, Patrick (Provincial Building and Construction Trades Council), 7117
  - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (German philosopher), 7059
  - Lazaridis, Mike (founder, Research In Motion), 7146–7147
  - Matsuura, Kolchiro (director-general, UNESCO), 7059
  - Ontario Home Builders' Association, 7117
  - Swift, Jonathan (satirist and author), 629
  - Yeats, William Butler (poet and dramatist), 629
- Members' statements
  - Bannister, David, 8414
  - David Dunlap Observatory, 227
  - Eid al-Adha, 4527
  - Eid-Ul-Fitr, 3003
  - Environmental protection, 11
  - Full-day kindergarten, 8691
  - Gairdner awards, 4389
  - Hakimi, Karim, 3737–3738
  - International Mother Language Day, 324, 4910–4911
  - International Women's Day, 5323–5324
  - Kurdish community, 8736
  - L'Arche Daybreak, 7340
  - Lions Club of Richmond Hill, 2037
  - Muslim community, 2170
  - Nowruz, 467–468, 5517
  - Ontario budget, 4824
  - PCI Geomatics, 6275
  - Rajan, Bilaal, 6193–6194
  - Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, 5284
  - Road safety, 6495
  - Services for the developmentally disabled, 2676
  - Stardust Ball, 4154
  - Take Our Kids to Work Day, 8463
  - Town of Richmond Hill, 9371
  - World Partnership Walk, 1827
  - Youth employment, 7696
- Ministry of Education
  - literacy and numeracy strategy, 4290
- Ministry of Government Services
  - green office, 3642
- Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
  - influenza immunization program, 4109
- Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
  - skills to jobs action plan, 2914, 3260
- Nowruz, 467–468, 933–934, 939, 5517
- Oak Ridges moraine
  - greenbelt plan, 957
- Observatories
  - David Dunlap Observatory
    - closure, 227
- Occupational Health and Safety Amendment Act (Violence and Harassment in the Workplace), 2009 (Bill 168)
  - second reading, 7808
- Ontario budget speech (26 March 2009)
  - responded to, 5913, 5926
- Ontario Chamber of Commerce
  - export market access (global expansion program), 3045
- Ontario College of Trades, 7098–7099, 7131
  - board of governors, 7104, 7212
- Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 (Bill 183)
  - second reading, 7098–7101, 7104, 7113–7114, 7117, 7121, 7126, 7131, 7135, 7212
- Oral questions, presented
  - Affordable housing, 7920–7921
  - Corporate tax, 1571–1572
  - Cultural funding, 9315
  - Dialysis, 4905
  - Education funding, 4290
  - Environmental protection, 3642
  - Flu immunization, 4109
  - Greenbelt, 957
  - Infrastructure program funding, 5280–5281
  - Language training, 9172
  - Public transit, 5830
  - Research and innovation, 7146–7147
  - Small business, 3045
  - Technology in schools, 9448–9449
- Payday loan industry
  - regulation, 1394
- Payday Loans Act, 2008 (Bill 48)
  - second reading, 1394–1395
- PCI Geomatics, 6275
- Persons with disabilities
  - developmental disabilities
    - government funding, 2062
    - L'Arche Daybreak (Richmond Hill), 7340
- Pesticides/herbicides
  - ban on use and sale of cosmetic pesticides, 1855
- Petitions
  - Anti-smoking legislation, 839
  - David Dunlap Observatory, 201, 340, 383, 485, 570, 619, 657, 776, 1575, 1719–1720
  - Firearms control, 2092
  - Human rights, 7285
  - Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 2527, 2645
  - University labour dispute, 4701, 4759
- Post-secondary education
  - Reaching Higher: The McGuinty Government Plan for Postsecondary Education, 2471
- Private members' public business
  - Apprenticeship training
    - responded to, 2855–2856
  - Climate Change Awareness Act, 2009 (Bill 208)
    - second reading, 8329
  - Cultural diversity
    - presented, 7058–7059, 7064
  - Human rights
    - responded to, 9243
  - Nowruz
    - presented, 933–934, 939
  - Provincial Parks and Major Provincial Tourist Attractions Sign Act, 2008 (Bill 21)
    - second reading, 1779
  - Skills training
    - responded to, 3260
- Provincial parks and tourist attractions
  - bilingual signs, 1779
- Public education campaigns
  - International Mother Language Day, 324, 4910–4911, 7058–7059, 7064
  - International Women's Day, 5323–5324
  - Ontario Human Rights Day, 9243
  - Take Our Kids to Work Day, 8463
- Religious holiday observance
  - Eid al-Adha, 4527
  - Eid Ul-Fitr, 3003
- Reports
  - A Review of the Colleges Collective Bargaining Act (Kevin Whitaker), 2472, 2508–2509, 2912–2913
- Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, 5284
- Road safety, 6495
- Sault Ste. Marie
  - history, 2109
- Schools
  - use of environmentally friendly technologies, 9448–9449
- Services and Supports to Promote the Social Inclusion of Persons with Developmental Disabilities Act, 2008 (Bill 77)
  - second reading, 2062
- Skilled trades, 7100–7102
- Small business, 3045
- Smoking
  - health risks, 6208
- Social housing
  - government funding, 5913
- Social service agencies
  - Reena, 2676
- Supply Act, 2008 (Bill 45)
  - second reading, 628–629
- Tobacco Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act, 2009 (Bill 155)
  - second reading, 6208
- Tobacco products manufacturers
  - recovery of tobacco-related health care costs from manufacturers, 6208
- Toxic substances
  - reduction plan, 6314
- Toxics Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 167)
  - second reading, 6314
- Trades Qualification and Apprenticeship Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.T.17, 7135
- Tributes
  - Bannister, David (former chair, York Central Hospital board of trustees), 8414
  - Hakimi, Karim (founder, Hakim Optical), 3737–3738
- Universities/colleges
  - government funding, 2927
  - University of Ontario Institute of Technology, 2937
- Workers
  - training, 3260
- Workplace harassment/violence, 7808
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 119)
  - second reading, 3814
- York Central Hospital Foundation
  - Stardust Ball, 4154
- York University Labour Disputes Resolution Act, 2009 (Bill 145)
  - second reading, 4733, 4767
- Youth/students
  - employment
    - Heritage Skills Development Centre, 7696
  - participation in science fairs, 7146
Munro, J. (PC, York–Simcoe)
- Access to Adoption Records Act (Vital Statistics Statute Law Amendment), 2008 (Bill 12)
  - second reading, 750–752
- An Act to amend the Criminal Code (Age of Protection) and to make consequential amendments to the Criminal Records Act, 2007 (Bill C-22), 555
- Adoption, 3839
  - protection of privacy, 162, 751–752
- Animal Health Act, 2009 (Bill 204)
  - second reading, 8444–8445
- Animal protection, 734–735
  - hobby farms, 735
  - regulation and enforcement, 735
  - warrantless entry, 735
- Annual reports
  - Office of the Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth, 2007-2008 (90 Deaths, Ninety Voices Silenced), 4947
- Apprenticeship training
  - ratio of tradespeople to apprentices, 7114
- Arts and culture, 6147
- Auditor General
  - report expenses for programs or services in annual report, 3244, 3749, 3755–3756
- Auditor General Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 110)
  - first reading, 3244
- Autism services, 481–482
  - government funding, 1773–1774
- Barrie-Innisfil Boundary Adjustment Act, 2009 (Bill 196)
  - second reading, 7495, 7502–7507
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 8984–8986
  - public consultation, 7233
- Bone marrow
  - transplantation, 277
- Boundary adjustment
  - Barrie and Innisfil, 6942, 7233, 7503–7506, 8984–8986
- Budget, 5237–5238
  - pre-budget consultations, 4265–4266
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (Bill 44)
  - second reading, 916
- Budget surplus, 4266
  - transfer of funds to municipalities for infrastructure projects, 817
- Bullying, 6393–6394, 6835–6836
- C. difficile outbreaks
  - public inquiries, 2464
- Canadian Museum for Human Rights
  - government funding, 5781
- Capital works projects
  - government funding, 3302–3303
- Child and Family Services Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 103)
  - second reading, 3166–3171
  - third reading, 4835–4838
- Child and Family Services Statute Law Amendment Act, S.O. 2006, c.5, 3856–3857
- Child care, 539–540
- Child care centres
  - for-profit sector, 539
- Child Development Institute
  - Earlscourt Girls Connection, 2491
  - government funding, 2491
- Child poverty
  - reduction, 5637
- Child protection, 4212, 6466–6467
- Children in care
  - death, 5002
- Children with disabilities
  - government funding, 3750
- Children's mental health care, 1613–1614, 4863–4864, 5387, 6272
  - government funding, 1657–1658, 4581, 6273, 6494
- Cities and towns
  - growth, 3749–3750
- Citizenship, 3281
- Cogeneration of electric power and heat, 5438
- Conferences/seminars/symposiums
  - central Ontario automotive sector economic symposium, 599
  - Men of Courage: the First Provincial Conference on Male Sexual Victimization, 555
- Corporate tax reduction, 4266
- Cosmetic Pesticides Ban Act, 2008 (Bill 64)
  - general discussion, 2165
- Court cases/actions
  - Baldwin, Jeffrey (victim of child abuse), 4157
  - Sampson, Katelynn (murder victim), 4156–4157
- Courthouses
  - accessibility, 4157
- Early years centres, 540
  - closure
    - Stroud, 3046
- Economic conditions, 3301–3302
- Economic growth, 3302
  - five-point economic plan, 3301–3303
- Education Amendment Act (Keeping Our Kids Safe at School), 2009 (Bill 157)
  - second reading, 5609
  - third reading, 6835–6837, 7011
    - public consultation, 6835
- eHealth Ontario
  - contracts
    - IBM, 7872
  - referral to Standing Committee on Public Accounts, 7716
- Employment creation
  - by government, 3302
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Organ Donor Leave), 2009 (Bill 154)
  - second reading, 5225–5226
- Energy, 5063
  - renewable energy projects
    - generation costs, 5436
- Environmental protection
  - regulation and enforcement, 2712
- Expert Panel on Infertility and Adoption, 6695
- Family health teams, 3750
- Family law
  - financial disclosure, 4157
- Fatalities
  - Baldwin, Jeffrey (victim of child abuse), 4212
  - Sampson, Katelynn (murder victim), 4156–4157, 4212
- Federal government
  - transfer payments
    - equalization program
      - Ontario to receive equalization payment, 3302
- Federal members'/ministers' remarks
  - Conservative (2006-2009)
    - Brown, Patrick (Barrie), 7505
- Fires
  - Red Barn Theatre, 6084
- Government accountability, 6017
- Government debt, 817
- Government expenditures
  - increase, 5805
- Government investments, 3301–3302
- Government notice of motions
  - Legislative reform
    - time allocation motion
      - responded to, 1536–1537
- Government orders
  - Committee sittings
    - time allocation motion
      - responded to, 4265–4266
  - Federal-provincial fiscal policies
    - responded to, 2810–2811
  - Ontario economy
    - responded to, 3301–3303
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - fossil-fuel generating stations, 5435–5436
  - PC (1995-2003)
    - economic growth, 5805
    - health care funding, 1658
    - poverty reduction, 6590
- Government revenue, 4266
- Government service transfer to municipal jurisdiction
  - education, 916
- Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area Transit Implementation Act, 2009 (Bill 163)
  - second reading, 5774
- Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 (Bill 150)
  - second reading, 5063, 5435–5438, 5440
    - authority of Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, 5436
- Handguns
  - ban, 3016
- Harmonized sales tax, 5615, 6147
  - impact on business, 7519–7520
  - impact on consumers, 8356
  - impact on real estate industry, 5689–5690
  - impact on small business, 8072
- Health care funding
  - York–Simcoe, 3241
- Healthy Food for Healthy Schools Act, 2008 (Bill 8)
  - second reading, 254
  - third reading, 1135
- Heritage conservation
  - Alma College, 1507, 1929–1930
- Holland Marsh
  - construction of peaker plant, 7228–7229
- Hospital funding
  - government funding, 5431
- International marketing centres, 3302
- International trade, 3302
- Interprovincial Policing Act, 2009 (Bill 203)
  - second reading, 7892
- Investing in Ontario Act, 2008 (Bill 35)
  - second reading, 817, 819
  - third reading, 1699
- Katelyn Bedard Bone Marrow Association, 277
- Lake Simcoe
  - cleanup, 6048
  - environmental protection, 7233
  - protection
    - federal government funding, 2747–2748
    - government funding, 2747, 2751
- Lake Simcoe Protection Act, 2008 (Bill 99)
  - second reading, 2712, 2747–2749, 2751
  - third reading, 4357–4359
- Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority, 2748–2749
- Lake Simcoe watershed
  - environmental protection, 558, 2619
- Land use planning
  - Barrie, 7495
- Law enforcement, 4157
- Layoffs, 3301
- Learning Through the Arts, 6147
- Legislative procedure
  - motions
    - time allocation motions, 8639
- Legislative process
  - family friendly reforms, 1536–1537
    - oral questions, 1408
    - scheduling for committee meetings, 1562–1563
- Livestock
  - disease prevention and control, 8444–8445
- Magna International Inc.
  - layoffs, 4266
- Manufacturing industry
  - layoffs, 4266
- Medical transplants
  - organ and tissue donation, 5225–5226
- Members'/ministers' constituencies/constituency events
  - York–Simcoe
    - Bowl for Kids Sake, 9454
- Members/ministers quoting committee submissions
  - Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians, 6588
  - Association of Ontario Health Centres, 6587
  - Canadian Mental Health Association, 6589
  - Canadian Union of Public Employees, 6588
  - Elman, Irwin (Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth), 4835
  - Family Service Toronto-Ontario Campaign 2000, 6587
  - Geigen-Miller, Matthew (Defence for Children International), 4835
  - Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction, 6587–6588
  - Houselink Community Homes, 6588
  - Howcroft, Ian (vice-president, Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, Ontario division), 1945
  - Income Security Advocacy Centre for the 25 in 5: Network for Poverty Reduction, 6588
  - Lally, Pauline (Sister of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul), 6588
  - Liversidge, Les, 1945
  - March of Dimes, 6588
  - Phillips, Randall (Chiefs of Ontario), 6587
  - Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 6589
  - Voices for the Street, 6588
- Members/ministers quoting electronic mail messages
  - Bill 196, re, 7505
- Members/ministers quoting letters
  - Canadian Federation of Independent Business, 8089–8090
  - disclosure of adoption information, re, 751–752
  - McElrea, Karen (Pefferlaw), 4266
- Members/ministers quoting newspaper articles
  - The Innisfil Examiner, 7503
  - Innisfil Scope, 7504
  - National Post (Toronto), 5436
  - St. Catharines Standard, 3166–3167, 3302
  - Toronto Star, 4266
  - Toronto Sun, 4836–4837
  - York Region News, 6835–6836
- Members/ministers quoting reports
  - Crossover Kids: Care to Custody (Judy Finlay), 4836
  - Enhancing Public Trust and Confidence: Recommendations for Revisions to Policies and Procedures Governing Trustee Expenses at Toronto Catholic District School Board (Norbert J. Hartmann), 7404
  - Office of the Auditor General of Ontario Annual Report (2008), 6210
  - Prosperity, Inequality and Poverty (Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity), 6589
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Belobaba, Edward (judge, Superior Court of Justice), 162
  - Canadian Federation of Independent Business, 7519
  - Foley, Mike (Foley Restoration), 4084–4085
  - Martin, Roger (dean, Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto), 3303
  - Riddell, Sarah (sergeant, York Regional Police), 6835
  - Rymell, Rob, 4084–4085
  - TD Bank Financial Group, 3302
- Members/ministers quoting websites
  - www.fairgrowth.ca, 7503
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - McGuinty, Dalton (Ottawa South)
      - as Ontario Premier, 3303
  - PC (2003-2010)
    - Barrett, Toby (Haldimand–Norfolk), 6210–6211
- Members' statements
  - Alma College, 1929–1930
  - Anti-bullying initiatives, 6393–6394
  - Autism treatment, 1773–1774
  - Bowl for Kids Sake, 9454
  - Canadian Youth Business Foundation, 8606–8607
  - Children's mental health services, 1613–1614, 4581, 5387, 6494
  - Clothing allowances, 2299–2300
  - Health care and social services funding, 3241
  - Heritage Week, 4908–4909
  - Holland Marsh, 7228–7229
  - Hospital funding, 5431
  - Lake Simcoe, 6048
  - Legislative reform, 1408
  - Ontario budget, 5237–5238
  - Ontario economy, 599
  - Ontario Public Library Week, 3380
  - Poverty, 3491–3492
  - Red Barn Theatre, 6084
  - Sexual abuse, 555
  - Small business, 8072
  - Stroud Early Years Centre, 3968
  - Taxation, 5689–5690
  - University labour dispute, 4756
  - World AIDS Day, 8948–8949
- Minimum wage
  - increase, 3491
- Ministerial statements, responded to
  - Adoption, 162
  - Adoption Awareness Month, 3839
  - Animal protection, 734–735
  - Arts and cultural funding, 1506–1507, 6147
  - Canadian Infertility Awareness Week, 6695
  - Citizenship Week, 3281
  - Consumer protection, 8356
  - Environmental protection, 2619
  - Family law, 4156–4157
  - Lake Simcoe watershed, 558
  - Municipal planning, 7233–7234
  - Persons Day, 3382–3383
  - Poverty, 5042–5043
  - Sexual Harassment Awareness Week, 7157
  - Small business, 7838
  - Young offenders, 2908
- Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure
  - Places to Grow program, 3302–3303
- Municipal government restructuring
  - Barrie's plan to annex parts of Innisfil, 7034–7035
- Municipal infrastructure
  - government funding, 599
    - York–Simcoe, 1127
  - York region, 3749–3750
- Municipalities
  - government funding, 819
- National/independence/memorial days
  - Heritage Week, 4908–4909
- Natural gas generating stations
  - northern York region, 1717, 2848, 3925
- Ontario Arts Council
  - government funding, 1506
- Ontario child benefit (OCB), 2299–2300, 3857
- Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 (Bill 183)
  - second reading, 7114
- Ontario Early Years Centres
  - Stroud, 3968
- Ontario Labour Mobility Act, 2009 (Bill 175)
  - second reading, 8810–8811
- Ontario Power Authority (OPA)
  - integrated power system plan (IPSP), 1717
- Ontario Trillium Foundation, 7199
- Ontario Works program benefits
  - back-to-school allowance, 2299
  - temporary care assistance (TCA), 3857
  - winter clothing allowance, 2299–2300
- Opposition day motions, responded to
  - Child care, 3856–3857
  - Electronic health information, 7716
  - Government accountability, 6017–6018
  - Government spending, 5805
  - Infectious disease control, 2464
  - Ontario economy, 1127
  - Workplace insurance, 4084–4085
  - Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, 1944–1945
  - Young offenders, 3016–3017
- Oral questions, presented
  - Access to information, 4326–4327
  - Autism services, 481–482
  - Child protection, 4212, 4947, 5002
  - Children with special needs, 2491
  - Children's mental health services, 1657–1658, 4863–4864, 6272–6273
  - Children's services, 3046
  - Cultural funding, 5781
  - Electricity supply, 1717, 3925
  - Minister's record, 7872
  - Municipal planning, 6942, 7034–7035
  - Pesticides, 2165
  - Poverty, 5615
  - Services for the developmentally disabled, 235
  - Sewage treatment, 8070
  - Taxation, 7519, 7725–7726
  - Tobacco control, 7695
- Persons with disabilities
  - community accommodation program, 235
- Pesticides/herbicides
  - ban on use and sale of cosmetic pesticides
    - exemptions
      - pest control, 2165
- Petitions
  - Alma College, 1722, 1890–1891, 2166
  - Diabetes treatment, 5246
  - Electricity supply, 4529, 4633
  - Hospital services, 2836–2837
  - Innisfil Early Years Centre, 3385, 3740, 4159, 4257
  - Lord's Prayer, 425–426, 508, 530, 617–618, 658, 696, 776, 1108–1109, 1427, 1520, 1577, 1612, 1977–1978, 2211–2212, 2443
  - Municipal government, 7210
  - Power plant, 2613
  - Sales tax, 5046
  - Taxation, 6816, 7001, 7161, 7398, 7880, 8078, 8268, 8657–8658, 8833, 8953–8954, 9183, 9329–9330
- Photo Card Act, 2008 (Bill 85)
  - second reading, 2285
- Photo identification cards
  - privacy/security of information, 2285
- Police services
  - cross-border policing, 7892
- Post-secondary education, 3303
- Poverty Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 152)
  - second reading, 5247–5250, 5633, 5637
  - third reading, 6586–6591
- Poverty reduction strategy, 3491, 5042, 5615, 5633, 6586–6589
- Private members' public business
  - Auditor General Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 110)
    - second reading, 3749–3750, 3755–3756
  - Children's Safety and Protection Rights Act, 2009 (Bill 130)
    - second reading, 6466–6467
  - Day Nurseries Amendment Act (Not for Profit Corporations), 2008 (Bill 26)
    - second reading, 539–540
  - Katelyn Bedard Bone Marrow Awareness Month Act, 2007 (Bill 5)
    - second reading, 276–277
  - Northern York Region Power Conservation Act, 2008 (Bill 79)
    - second reading, 2848
  - Red Tape and Regulatory Review Act, 2008 (Bill 57)
    - second reading, 1153
  - Small business
    - presented, 7746–7747, 7753
- Propane explosions
  - Sunrise Propane, 8087–8088
- Protests
  - Marinoiu, Stefan (hunger striker), 1773–1774
- Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth
  - access to information, 4326–4327, 4947
- Provincial Animal Welfare Act, 2008 (Bill 50)
  - ministerial statement
    - public consultation, 735
- Public education campaigns, 276–277
  - Adoption Awareness Month, 3839
  - Bullying Awareness Week, 6835
  - Canadian Infertility Awareness Week, 6695
  - Citizenship Week, 3281
  - Ontario Public Library Week, 3380
  - organ and tissue donation, 276
  - Persons Day, 3382–3383
  - Sexual Harassment Awareness Week, 7157
  - World AIDS Day, 8948–8949
- Regulations, 1153
  - reduction, 6017
- Reports
  - Review of the Roots of Youth Violence (Roy McMurtry, Alvin Curling), 4836, 5387, 6494
  - Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress Seventh Annual Report (Leaning Into the Wind), 4266
  - Time for Action: A Report on Violence Affecting Youth (John Tory), 3168
- Road Safety Act, 2009 (Bill 126)
  - third reading, 5983
- School board trustees
  - autonomy, 7403–7404
- School boards
  - appointment of supervisors by government, 7405
  - governance
    - reform, 7406
- School cafeterias
  - ban on trans fat in food and beverages, 1135
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
  - public inquiries, 2464
- Sewage spills
  - Sibbald Provincial Park sewage lagoon, 8070
- Sexual harassment, 7157
- Sharon Temple
  - government funding, 5781
- Small business, 8072
  - government assistance in complying with regulations, 7753
  - regulation, 7746–7747
  - regulatory reduction, 7838
- Student Achievement and School Board Governance Act, 2009 (Bill 177)
  - second reading, 7403–7406
    - section 28, 7403
- Summit meetings
  - Canadian Youth Business Foundation Youth Entrepreneurship Summit, 8606–8607
- Teacher professional development days, 7403
- Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA)
  - appointment of chief safety and risk officer, 8088
  - appointment of directors, 8088
  - governance model, 8088–8089, 8091, 8640
- Technical Standards and Safety Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 187)
  - second reading, 8086–8092
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 8639–8640
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 444
- Time allocation motions
  - Barrie-Innisfil Boundary Adjustment Act, 2009 (Bill 196)
    - responded to, 8984–8986
  - Committee sittings
    - responded to, 4265–4266
  - Legislative reform
    - responded to, 1536–1537
  - Technical Standards and Safety Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 187)
    - responded to, 8639–8640
- Tobacco Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act, 2009 (Bill 155)
  - second reading, 6209–6212
  - third reading, 6829
- Tobacco products
  - illegal sale, 6210–6212, 6829, 7696, 8356
- Tobacco products manufacturers
  - recovery of tobacco-related health care costs from manufacturers, 6209–6210
- Toxic substances
  - reduction plan
    - role of federal government, 6381
- Toxics Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 167)
  - second reading, 6381
- Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA), 7747
- Trans fatty acids, 254
- Transit systems, 5774
  - smart cards, 5774
- TVOntario, 6996
- Unemployment rate, 3302
- Universities/colleges
  - York University
    - strike, 4756
- Victims of crime
  - youth crime, 3168
- Workers
  - skilled worker shortage, 3303
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 119)
  - general discussion, 4266
    - public consultation, 4084
  - third reading, 4239–4240
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
  - experience rating system, 1944–1945
  - unfunded liability, 7725–7726
- Young offenders, 2908
- Youth crime, 3166–3167
  - prevention, 3168–3169
- Youth justice system
  - reform, 4835–4837
- Youth programs
  - Focus on Fathers, 3169
- Youth violence, 4836
Murdoch, B. (PC, Bruce–Grey–Owen Sound)
- Agricultural fairs
  - International Plowing Match and Rural Expo, 3145
- Agricultural industry
  - government funding, 858
- Artists
  - McLaughlin, Gary, 4526
- Awards
  - Premier's Farm Innovation Award, 2446
  - Saugeen Territory Awards of Recognition and Success, 4063
  - Tommy Cooper Award, 1047
- Bottled water
  - prohibition on sale, 3944
    - impact on employment, 3944
- Budget Measures Act, 2009 (Bill 162)
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 6151–6152
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (Bill 44)
  - second reading, 858
- Budget surplus
  - transfer of funds to municipalities for infrastructure projects, 1030
- Cemeteries
  - prohibition on relocation of inactive cemeteries, 6754
- Child poverty, 5952
- Community Living
  - Owen Sound and District
    - pay increase for non-unionized development workers, 1670–1671
- Congratulatory remarks
  - Pringle, Bob (recipient, Tommy Cooper Award), 1047
- Cosmetic Pesticides Ban Act, 2008 (Bill 64)
  - second reading, 1862
- Court security
  - costs, 53–54
- Elections/by-elections
  - 10 October 2007, 9
- Elections Ontario
  - performance audit, 9
- Epilepsy, 1459
- Fundraising
  - Nail and Snail, 6392–6393
  - Relay for Life, 6947
- Government debt
  - increase, 1044
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010), 363
  - PC (1995-2003)
    - election promises, 1043
- Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area Transit Implementation Act, 2009 (Bill 163)
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 5969–5970
- Harmonized sales tax, 8917, 8923
- Highway construction
  - Highway 410 to Highway 10 (Brampton), 8789
- Highway improvement
  - Highway 6 (Mar to Tobermory), 2670–2671
- Hospital construction
  - Markdale hospital, 3684, 8413
- Inactive Cemeteries Protection Act, 2009 (Bill 149)
  - general discussion, 6754
- Infrastructure Ontario
  - municipal infrastructure investment initiative (MIII), 600–601
    - list of successful applicants, 615–616
- Investing in Ontario Act, 2008 (Bill 35)
  - second reading, 1030–1031, 1043–1045
- Legislative procedure
  - motions
    - time allocation motions, 5969–5970
  - speech should be related to topic being discussed, 1017
- Legislative process
  - family friendly reforms, 2431
  - independent members included, 6152
- Livestock
  - protection, 1679–1680
- Members'/ministers' appreciation
  - Gerretsen, John (Kingston and the Islands)
    - as Minister of the Environment, 8606
- Members'/ministers' constituencies/constituency events
  - Bruce–Grey–Owen Sound
    - beef producers, 1239–1240
    - Bruce–Grey–Owen Sound award winners, 2615
- Members'/ministers' constituents
  - congratulatory remarks, 4063
- Members/ministers quoting letters
  - David, Michael (director, Canadian Hard of Hearing Association), 3948
  - Gold, Michelle (senior director, Canadian Mental Health Association), 3949
- Members/ministers quoting lyrics
  - Blowin' in the Wind (Bob Dylan), 6582
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Pringle, Bob (recipient, Tommy Cooper Award), 1047
- Members' statements
  - Access to information, 601
  - Beef producers, 1239–1240
  - Bruce–Grey–Owen Sound award winners, 2615
  - Cemeteries, 6754
  - Child poverty, 5952–5953
  - Community Living workers, 1670–1671
  - Elections, 9
  - Epilepsy, 1459
  - Highway construction, 8789
  - Hockey, 4526
  - International Plowing Match, 3145
  - Markdale Hospital, 8413
  - Municipal finances, 600–601
  - Nail and Snail, 6392–6393
  - Neustadt sewage lagoon, 8606
  - Premier's Farm Innovation Award, 2445–2446
  - Pringle, Bob, 1047–1048
  - Relay for Life, 6947
  - Saugeen Territory Awards of Recognition and Success, 4063
  - Tartan Day, 757
  - Taxation, 8923
- Municipal government services
  - northern and rural Ontario
    - government funding, 8068
- National/independence/memorial days
  - Tartan Day, 757
- Ontario budget speech (26 March 2009)
  - responded to, 5760
- Oral questions, presented
  - Court security, 53–54
  - Highway improvement, 2670–2671
  - Hospital services, 3684
  - Municipal government, 8068
  - Municipal infrastructure, 615–616
  - Taxation, 8917
  - Tobacco control, 5734
- Paintings
  - Blue Sky-White Snow, 4526
- Pesticides/herbicides
  - ban on use and sale of cosmetic pesticides, 1862
- Petitions
  - All-terrain vehicles, 1669
  - Anti-smoking legislation, 1426, 1890, 2674, 2963–2964
  - Beer retailing and distribution, 3187, 4035
  - Child protection, 3541, 3651, 3932, 4034, 6346
  - Gasoline prices, 2672–2673, 3000, 6567, 6698
  - Green power generation, 6757, 6897, 8315
  - Hospital funding, 27, 240, 1002, 1668, 2093, 2613, 5962–5963
  - Lord's Prayer, 341, 384, 505–506, 529, 655, 774, 839–840, 999, 1064, 1255, 1257–1258, 1476, 1669, 2094, 2442, 2444, 2612
  - Motorcycle safety, 4688, 5586, 5743, 6345
  - Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 1211, 2999
  - Road safety, 6565
  - Services for the developmentally disabled, 2445
  - Taxation, 6150, 6344, 6566, 6697, 6759, 6954, 7208, 7344, 7346, 7653–7654, 8037, 8039, 8419–8420, 8613, 8791
  - Water metering, 2963
  - Youth Action Alliance, 8422–8423, 8613–8614, 8793
- Photo Card Act, 2008 (Bill 85)
  - second reading, 2431
- Photo identification cards, 2431
- Poverty reduction strategy
  - 25 in 5 plan, 5953
- Private members' public business
  - Single-Use Bottled Water Ban Act, 2008 (Bill 112)
    - second reading, 3944–3945
  - Taxation Amendment Act (Equipment Purchased for Persons with Disabilities), 2008 (Bill 109)
    - second reading, 3948–3949, 3954–3955
  - Wind turbines
    - presented, 8331–8332, 8338
- Provincial Animal Welfare Act, 2008 (Bill 50)
  - second reading, 1679–1680
- Public Sector Expenses Review Act, 2009 (Bill 201)
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 7657
- Right to Play (humanitarian organization), 6392–6393
- Road Safety Act, 2009 (Bill 126)
  - second reading, 4538–4539
    - public consultation, 4538–4539
- Speaker
  - election (28 November 2007)
    - congratulatory remarks, 9
- Supply Act, 2008 (Bill 45)
  - second reading, 634–635
- Tartans, 757
- Tax credits
  - purchase of equipment or devices for persons with disabilities, 3948–3949
- Taxation Amendment Act (Equipment Purchased for Persons with Disabilities), 2008 (Bill 109)
  - first reading, 3146
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 363
- Time allocation motions
  - Budget Measures Act, 2009 (Bill 162)
    - responded to, 6151–6152
  - Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area Transit Implementation Act, 2009 (Bill 163)
    - responded to, 5969–5970
  - Public Sector Expenses Review Act, 2009 (Bill 201)
    - responded to, 7657
- Tobacco Control Statute Law Amendment Act, S.O. 2005, c.18
  - enforcement, 5734
- Transportation infrastructure
  - Bruce–Grey–Owen Sound
    - government funding, 634
- Waste management/programs
  - recycling
    - water bottles, 3944
- Water and sewer infrastructure
  - Neustadt sewage lagoon, 8606
- Welechenko Transport Ltd. Act, 2009 (Bill Pr23)
  - first reading, 5955
- Wind turbines
  - health effects
    - moratorium on new projects pending review of health effects, 8331–8333
Murray, G.R. (LIB, Toronto Centre)
- Biodiversity, 9643–9644
- Early childhood education
  - importance in rural areas, 9617–9618
- Environmental protection, 9643–9644
- Full Day Early Learning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 242)
  - second reading, 9616–9620
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - health care, 9584
- Harmonized sales tax, 9618
- Housing
  - affordable, 9273
- Kindergarten
  - full-day, 9620
- Members'/ministers' inaugural speeches, 9616–9618
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Mandela, Nelson (antiapartheid activist and former President of South Africa), 9616
- Members' statements
  - Affordable housing, 9273
  - Health care, 9584
- Occupational health and safety
  - regulation and enforcement, 9498
- Oral questions, presented
  - Biodiversity, 9643–9644
  - Social assistance, 9267
  - Workplace safety, 9498
- Pension Benefits Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 236)
  - second reading, 9476–9477
- Private members' public business
  - Sustainable Water and Waste Water Systems Improvement and Maintenance Act, 2010 (Bill 237)
    - second reading, 9395–9396
- Social assistance
  - reform, 9267
- Standing Orders
  - S.O. 23(i) Rules of Debate - Matters out of order in debate - Imputes false or unavowed motives, 9549
- Water utilities
  - regulation, 9395–9397