Speaker letter n House Hansard index Parliament 39 Session 1

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Naqvi, Y. (LIB, Ottawa Centre)
- An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1807)
  - bicentenary of British legislation, 23
- Afghanistan
  - women's rights, 6472
- Ambulance services
  - government funding, 4626
- Animal protection, 3153
- Anniversaries
  - Hellenic community in Ottawa 80th anniversary, 7967
  - Westboro Village Business Improvement Area 30th anniversary, 5689
- Annual reports
  - Office of the Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth, 2008-2009, 9501
- Appreciation
  - Patten, Richard (former member, Ottawa Centre), 6192
- Awards
  - Canada's Top 100 Employers
    - Ontario Public Service, 3044
- Bail, 3661–3662
- Bicycles
  - electric bicycles, 5986
- Biotechnology industry, 6689
- Budget, 5735
  - pre-budget consultations, 3787, 4188
- Budget deficit, 4188
- Budget Measures Act, 2009 (Bill 162)
  - second reading, 6030–6031
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 6166–6167
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (No. 2) (Bill 114)
  - second reading, 3586–3591, 3595, 3616, 3625
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 3787
- Bullying
  - prevention, 9386–9387
- Business education tax
  - reduction, 3588
- C. difficile outbreaks
  - public inquiries, 2462
- Cancer
  - prostate cancer, 4154–4155
- Cancer drugs
  - Avastin, 9034–9035
- Capital tax
  - elimination, 3588
- Capital works projects
  - government funding, 4188, 5759–5760, 6167
    - Ottawa, 8464
- Celiac disease, 6496
- Child poverty, 4150, 4861, 5212–5213
- Christopher's Law (Sex Offender Registry) Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 16)
  - second reading, 700–701
- Chronic fatigue syndrome, 6755
- City of Ottawa Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 194)
  - first reading, 7200
- Colleges Collective Bargaining Act, 2008 (Bill 90)
  - third reading, 2938
- Colleges of applied arts and technology (CAATs)
  - Algonquin College, 7116
    - government funding, 2938
- Committee schedules/agendas, 4188
- Community health centres (CHCs), 367
- Community safety, 3054, 3662, 3763
  - complaints regarding properties used for activities that adversely affect community, 3736, 3756–3757
- Conferences/seminars/symposiums
  - BIO International convention, 6689
- Congratulatory remarks
  - Bulka, Rabbi Reuven (recipient, key to the city, Ottawa), 9372
  - Gray, Herb (chancellor, Carleton University), 5998
- Construction workers
  - occupational health and safety, 1102
- Consumer protection
  - sub-metering electricity in apartments/apartment buildings, 7145
- Corporate tax exemptions
  - Ontario tax exemption for commercialization (OTEC), 3410
    - eligibility for refund, 3038
- Corporate taxes
  - federal-provincial harmonization, 3587
- Cosmetic Pesticides Ban Act, 2008 (Bill 64)
  - general discussion, 1301
- Crime prevention, 3967
- Crime Prevention Ottawa, 3967–3968
- Dental care
  - government funding, 392–393
- Diabetes
  - education
    - Ottawa Centre, 8653
- Doctors
  - international medical graduates (IMGs)
    - removing barriers, 3926, 3996
- Driver licences, 2276–2277
- Easter Seals Ontario, 5623
- Economic conditions, 3409–3410, 3586–3589, 3595, 3616, 3770, 4187–4188, 5427
- Economic decline
  - government response, 5809–5810
  - international, 6012
- Economic development
  - Ottawa region, 7383–7384
- Economic growth, 3787
  - five-point economic plan, 3586, 3589, 3787
- EcoVu Analytics Inc., 7225–7226
- Education, 1408–1409
- Education Amendment Act (Keeping Our Kids Safe at School), 2009 (Bill 157)
  - third reading, 6834
- Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO)
  - Assessment of Reading, Writing and Mathematics (Primary and Junior Division)
    - test scores, 1408–1409
- Educational levels
  - salaries, 3532
- 827291 Ontario Ltd. Act, 2008 (Bill Pr7)
  - first reading, 683–684
- Election Statute Law Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 231)
  - second reading, 9670–9672, 9674
- Elections/by-elections
  - barrier-free access, 9674
- Electoral process reform, 9671
  - students vote in home riding or riding in which they attend school, 9671–9672
- Employment standards, 4984–4985
- Employment Standards Act, S.O. 2000, c.41, 5022
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Temporary Help Agencies), 2009 (Bill 139)
  - second reading, 4984–4985, 5021–5024
- Energy
  - renewable energy, 5059
  - renewable energy projects, 5060–5062
    - wind farms, 5061
- Energy conservation, 7145
- Environmental Protection Act (Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading), 2009 (Bill 185)
  - second reading, 7309, 7633–7634
- Fair Access to Regulated Professions Act, S.O. 2006, c.31, 5022
- Federal government
  - homelessness partnership initiative, 2607
- Festivals
  - Canadian Tulip Festival, 6647
  - Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, 7583–7584
  - Rideau Canal Festival, 2300–2301
  - Westfest 2008, 2616
  - Winterlude, 4950
- Fibromyalgia, 6755
- Fire sprinklers
  - mandatory fire sprinkler systems in retirement homes, 7452–7453
- First aid training, 9595–9506
- French-language debates
  - Questions orales
    - Services en français, 8108
- Fundraising
  - United Way of Ottawa and Dave Smith Youth Treatment Centre, 8947
- Global Reporting Initiative, 6058
- Government notice of motions
  - Legislative reform
    - time allocation motion
      - responded to, 1531–1532
- Government-Ontario Medical Association agreements, 3927
- Government orders
  - Committee sittings
    - responded to, 4187–4188
  - Ontario economy
    - responded to, 3409–3410
- Government service transfer to municipal jurisdiction, 2671
- Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 (Bill 150)
  - general discussion, 6030
  - second reading, 5059–5063
- Greenhouse gas emissions
  - reduction
    - cap and trade system (emissions trading), 7309, 7633–7634
- Handguns
  - ban, 3662
- Harmonized sales tax, 6522–6523, 8836–8837
- Health care
  - out-of-country, 9695
- Health care funding
  - government funding, 2462, 5735
  - Ottawa, 1607
- Healthy Food for Healthy Schools Act, 2008 (Bill 8)
  - second reading, 260
- High technology industries
  - Ottawa, 8067–8068
- Highway safety
  - Highway 417 (Ottawa), 1175
- Highway Traffic Amendment Act (Speed-limiting Systems), 2008 (Bill 41)
  - second reading, 1172–1173, 1175
- Hospital funding
  - government funding, 5736
- Hospitals
  - Montfort Hospital, 1606
  - reporting on patient safety indicators, 2462
  - Royal Ottawa Hospital, 1606
    - infection prevention and control program, 2462
- Housing
  - affordable
    - government funding, 392, 525, 5907, 5910, 6167, 9120–9121
    - Ottawa Centre, 5906
    - people with mental illness and victims of domestic violence, 5426
    - public consultation on affordable housing strategy, 7271–7272
  - supportive housing
    - people with drug and alcohol addiction, 2607
- Ideas for the Future Act, 2008 (Bill 100)
  - second reading, 3038
- Immigrants, 5021–5022
  - bridge training programs, 6990
  - services, 8456–8457, 9545–9546
- Immunization
  - H1N1 influenza A (swine flu)
    - expanded to all children and senior citizens with underlying health conditions, 8544
- Income tax reduction, 8836–8837
- Increasing Access to Qualified Health Professionals for Ontarians Act, 2008 (Bill 97)
  - general discussion
    - public consultation, 3926
  - third reading, 3996
- Investment in Ontario, 3586–3589
- Landlord and tenant
  - tenants' protection, 3757
- Legal aid
  - government funding, 7479
- Legislative process
  - family friendly reforms, 1531–1532
- Long-term-care facilities
  - standard of care, 3587
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
  - wait times, 9450–9451
- Medical procedures
  - wait times
    - Ottawa region, 4699
- Members'/ministers' birthdays
  - Johnson, Rick (Haliburton–Kawartha Lakes–Brock), 7140
- Members'/ministers' constituencies/constituency events
  - Ottawa Centre
    - Capital Food Blitz, 2398–2399
    - Community Cup, 6947–6948
    - Timeraiser, 4254
- Members'/ministers' inaugural speeches, 91–92
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 2462, 6472, 9670–9671
- Members/ministers quoting documents
  - city of Ottawa resolution re fire sprinkler systems, 7453
- Members/ministers quoting newspaper articles
  - Ottawa Citizen, 3589, 3827, 7454–7455
- Members/ministers quoting reports
  - Do Poor Children Become Poor Adults? Lessons for Public Policy from a Cross Country Comparison of Generational Earnings Mobility (Miles Corak), 5213
  - OECD Interim Economic Outlook, 6012
  - Ottawa's Vital Signs 2008: The City's Annual Checkup (Community Foundation of Ottawa), 5212
  - Report of the Ipperwash Inquiry (Sidney Linden), 1493
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Hudson, Alan (neurosurgeon in charge of the wait times strategy), 4699
  - O'Brien, Larry (mayor, Ottawa), 1143
  - Tory, John (leader, PC Party), 3044
- Members' statements
  - Ambulance services, 4626
  - Asian Heritage Month, 1929
  - Bulka, Reuven, 9372
  - Canadian Tulip Festival, 6647
  - Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation, 981, 2744
  - Capital Food Blitz, 2398–2399
  - Carleton University charity ball, 885
  - Celiac disease, 6496
  - City of Ottawa, 3836
  - Community Cup, 6947–6948
  - Community health centres, 367
  - Community safety, 3736
  - CPR Month, 8414
  - Crime prevention, 3967–3968
  - Czapnik, Eric, 9410–9411
  - Diabetes, 8653
  - Easter Seals Month, 5623
  - Education, 1408–1409
  - Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, 6755
  - First aid training, 9505–9506
  - Fundraising, 8947
  - Gray, Herb, 5998
  - Hellenic Community of Ottawa, 7967
  - Infrastructure program funding, 8464
  - Islamic History Month, 3444–3445, 8112–8113
  - Kindness Week, 4826, 9274–9275
  - Mental Illness Awareness Week, 3191
  - Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, 7583–7584
  - Olympic athletes, 9651
  - Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization, 4333
  - Parenting and family literacy centres, 226
  - Patten, Richard, 6192
  - Pesticides, 1301
  - Poverty, 1894
  - Prostate cancer, 4154–4155
  - Ramadan, 7438
  - Rideau Canal Festival, 2300–2301
  - Stewart, Bernie, 9128
  - Timeraiser, 4254
  - Village of Westboro, 5689
  - Westfest 2008, 2616
  - Winterlude, 4950
  - Youth Services Bureau, 9323
- Menova Energy Inc.
  - Power-Spar system, 3577
- Mental illness, 3191
- Ministry of the Attorney General
  - aboriginal community justice programs, 5383–5384
    - government funding, 5384
- Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration
  - Roots of Freedom grants, 23
- Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
  - Next Generation of Jobs Fund, 3587
- Ministry of Finance
  - economic stimulus plan, 3410
- Ministry of Health Promotion
  - action plan for healthy eating and active living, 7964–7965
- Ministry of Research and Innovation
  - Ontario innovation agenda, 1570
  - Ontario Research Fund (ORF), 690, 3409–3410
- Municipal government services
  - Ottawa, 3836
- Municipal infrastructure
  - government funding, 1143, 3770
  - Ottawa, 3836
- Municipalities
  - government funding, 2671
- National/independence/memorial days
  - Islamic History Month, 3444–3445
- Non-profit organizations
  - Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation, 981, 2744
- Nortel
  - pension plans, 9339, 9478–9479, 9702–9703
- Occupational health and safety, 1102
- Ontario budget speech (26 March 2009)
  - responded to, 5759–5760, 5906–5910
- Ontario child benefit (OCB)
  - increase, 5908, 6167
- Ontario College of Trades, 7115–7116
- Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 (Bill 183)
  - second reading, 7115–7118
- Ontario French-language Educational Communications Authority Act, 2008 (Bill 55)
  - second reading, 1631
- Ontario property and sales tax credit, 3587
- Ontario Securities Commission (OSC)
  - to establish best practice corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting standards, 6057–6058
- Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA)
  - affiliation of humane societies, 3153
- Ontario Tax Plan for More Jobs and Growth Act, 2009 (Bill 218)
  - second reading, 8836–8837
- Opposition day motions, responded to
  - Government accountability, 6012–6013
  - Government spending, 5809–5810
  - Hospital services, 6415
  - Infectious disease control, 2462
  - Taxation, 6522–6523
  - Tobacco control, 1493–1494
  - Violent crime, 3661–3662
- Oral questions, presented
  - Abolition of British slave trade, 23
  - Aboriginal affairs, 5383–5384
  - Affordable housing, 525, 2607, 2671, 7271–7272, 9120–9121
  - Amateur sport, 3827–3828
  - Biotechnology, 6689
  - Cancer treatment, 9034–9035
  - Children and youth, 9501
  - Consumer protection, 7145
  - Economic development, 7383–7384, 8067–8068
  - Education funding, 7578
  - Environment industry, 7225–7226
  - Flu immunization, 8544
  - Full-day kindergarten, 9364
  - Health care, 3926–3927, 5735–5736, 9695
  - Health care funding, 9450–9451
  - Health promotion, 7964–7965
  - Hospital funding, 1606–1607
  - Hospital services, 4699, 4945
  - Immigrant services, 8456–8457, 9545–9546
  - Immigrants' skills, 6990
  - Legal aid, 7479
  - Municipal finances, 3770, 5426–5427
  - Ontario public service, 3043–3044
  - Post-secondary education, 2959
  - Post-secondary education infrastructure, 7081
  - Poverty, 4149–4150, 4861
  - Research and innovation, 690, 1569–1570, 3577
  - Sewage spill, 2667
  - Small business, 297
  - Tenant protection, 5619–5620
  - University and college funding, 5122
  - University research and innovation, 3532
  - Workplace safety, 1102
- Ottawa Board of Health, 7200
- Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization (OCISO), 4333
- Ottawa Congress Centre, 3625
- Parenting and family literacy centres
  - government funding
    - Ottawa Centre, 226
- Payday loan industry
  - consumer protection, 5023
- Pension Benefits Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 236)
  - second reading, 9339, 9358–9359, 9478–9479, 9702–9704
- Pension plans
  - reform, 9358–9359, 9478–9479
- Persons with disabilities
  - services, 2765
- Pesticides/herbicides
  - ban on use and sale of cosmetic pesticides, 1301
- Petitions
  - Community safety, 1668, 1824, 2212, 2298, 2494, 2611, 2963, 3049, 3051, 6345, 6505, 6565
  - Emancipation Day, 4397–4398
  - Interprovincial bridge, 4587, 4634, 5197, 5245, 5389–5390, 5434–5435, 5586, 5744, 6451
  - Ontario budget, 6567
  - Reconstructive surgery, 9006, 9652
- Photo Card Act, 2008 (Bill 85)
  - second reading, 2276–2277
  - third reading, 3863
- Post-secondary education, 2959, 5122
- Poverty, 4861, 5211
- Poverty Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 152)
  - second reading, 5211–5215
- Poverty reduction strategy, 1894, 4861, 5212–5215
  - public consultation, 4149–4150
  - town hall meeting, 4861
- Private members' public business
  - Afghan family law
    - responded to, 6472
  - Anti-bullying initiatives
    - responded to, 9386–9387
  - Corporate reporting requirements
    - responded to, 6057–6058
  - Fire safety
    - responded to, 7452–7453
  - Kindness Week
    - presented, 7454–7455, 7460
  - Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act, 2010 (Bill 106)
    - second reading, 3756–3757, 3763
  - Strandherd-Armstrong bridge
    - responded to, 1143–1144
- Property tax assessment
  - granny flats, 3586–3587
- Provincial-aboriginal relations
  - justice system, 5383
- Provincial Animal Welfare Act, 2008 (Bill 50)
  - third reading, 3153
    - section 6, 3153
- Provincial-municipal partnerships, 525
  - provincial-municipal fiscal and service delivery review, 3770
- Provincial-municipal relations, 1143, 4626
- Public education campaigns
  - Asian Heritage Month, 1929
  - Bullying Awareness and Prevention Week, 9386–9387
  - Celiac Awareness Month, 6496
  - CPR Month, 8414
  - Diabetes Awareness Month, 8653
  - Easter Seals Month, 5623
  - Islamic History Month, 8113–8114
  - Kindness Week, 4826, 7454–7455, 7460, 9274–9275
  - Mental Illness Awareness Week, 3191
  - Movember, 4154–4155
- Public service, 3044
- Religious holiday observance
  - Ramadan, 7438
- Rent increases, 5619–5620
  - cap on rent increase, 5620
- Reports
  - Carrots and Sticks for Starters: Current Trends and Approaches in Voluntary and Mandatory Standards for Sustainability Reporting, 6057
  - Ontario Economic Accounts (Ministry of Finance), 6012–6013
  - 2008 Ontario Report Card on Child and Family Poverty (Campaign 2000), 4150
- Residential Tenancies Act, S.O. 2006, c.17, 5619–5620
- Road Safety Act, 2009 (Bill 126)
  - third reading, 5986
- Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act, 2010 (Bill 106)
  - general discussion, 3662, 3736
  - first reading, 3054
- School cafeterias
  - ban on trans fat in food and beverages, 260
- School libraries
  - government funding, 7578
- School safety
  - reporting of violent incidents, 6834
- School vending machines
  - ban on unhealthy food and beverages, 260
- Securities industry
  - regulation, 3588–3589
- Services and Supports to Promote the Social Inclusion of Persons with Developmental Disabilities Act, 2008 (Bill 77)
  - third reading, 2764–2765
    - public consultation, 2764
- Sewage spills
  - Ottawa River, 2667
- Sex offender registry
  - compliance rates, 701
  - coordination with national sex offender registry, 700
  - registration requirements, 700–701
- Skilled trades
  - government funding, 7118
- Small business, 297, 3595
  - corporate income tax deduction threshold, 3588
- Smoke-Free Ontario Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 1878
- Smoking
  - ban on smoking in cars with children present, 1878
- Smoking cessation programs
  - Ottawa, 1493
- Social housing, 2671
  - government funding
    - Ottawa, 2671
- Speed limiters, 1172, 1175
  - impact on greenhouse gas emissions, 1172
- Sport Canada
  - athlete assistance program
    - Beres, Mike case, 3827
- Sports and recreation facilities, 3828
- Sports competitions
  - Pan American Games bid (2015), 3828
- Tax credits
  - Ontario innovation tax credit, 3588
- Temporary help agencies, 4984–4985
  - fees charged to employees, 5022
  - providing information to employees, 5023
  - regulation, 5021
  - reprisal by client of temporary help agencies prohibited, 5023
- Temporary help agency employees
  - removing barriers to permanent employment, 5023
- TFO, 1631
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 91–92, 94, 392–393
- Time allocation motions
  - Budget Measures Act, 2009 (Bill 162)
    - responded to, 6166–6167
  - Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (No. 2) (Bill 114)
    - responded to, 3787
  - Legislative reform
    - responded to, 1531–1532
- Tobacco products
  - illegal sale, 1089–1090
    - regulation and enforcement, 1493, 3588
- Tobacco tax, 3588
- Transit systems
  - Ottawa, 1143–1144
- Transportation infrastructure
  - Strandherd-Armstrong bridge, 1143
- Tributes
  - Czapnik, Eric (constable killed in the line of duty, Ottawa Police Service), 9410–9411
  - Olympic athletes (2010 Winter Olympics), 9651
  - Stewart, Bernie (constituent), 9128
- Universities/colleges
  - Carleton University
    - charity ball, 885
    - graduate work, 5122
    - research funding, 3532
  - infrastructure projects, 7081
- Workers
  - temporary workers
    - rights, 5021–5024
- York University Labour Disputes Resolution Act, 2009 (Bill 145)
  - second reading, 4733
- Youth services organizations
  - Youth Services Bureau, 9323