Speaker letter w House Hansard index Parliament 39 Session 1

House speaker index

Letter: W

Watson, J. (LIB, Ottawa West–Nepean)
- Aboriginal communities
  - housing, 743, 6336–6337
- Aboriginal housing trust, 6337
- Ambulance services
  - land ambulances
    - government funding, 188
- Association of Municipalities of Ontario
  - memorandum of understanding with provincial government, 188, 4329
- Awards
  - Heather Crowe Award, 2137
  - I Love Greenbelt award
    - art contest, 7080
- Barrie-Innisfil Boundary Adjustment Act, 2009 (Bill 196)
  - first reading, 7231
  - ministerial statement, 7232–7233
  - second reading, 7491–7494, 7496
  - time allocation motion
    - presented, 8982–8983
- Boundary adjustment
  - Barrie and Innisfil, 6942, 7232–7233, 7491–7494, 7496, 8982–8983
- Brownfield sites
  - redevelopment, 1662, 2520
    - regulatory and liability issues, 2519
- Budget Measures Act, 2009 (Bill 162)
  - second reading, 5940
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (Bill 44)
  - second reading, 915–916, 924
- Budget surplus
  - transfer of funds to municipalities for infrastructure projects, 420
- Building codes, 2639–2640
- Capital works projects
  - government funding
    - Hamilton, 7689
- Child and Family Services Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 103)
  - third reading, 4834
- Child care
  - federal government funding, 6748
- Colleges of applied arts and technology (CAATs)
  - Algonquin College, 7131
- Commercial passenger vehicles
  - licensing restrictions, 7271, 9172–9173
- Committees
  - Select Committee on the Economy, 3466–3467
  - Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs, 3465–3466
- Conferences/seminars/symposiums
  - 2009 OGRA/ROMA Annual Conference, 5034
- Congratulatory remarks
  - Patel, Esha (winner, I Love Greenbelt award art contest), 7080
- Construction industry
  - strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs), 7826–7827
- Debates re answers to oral questions
  - Affordable housing
    - participation, 679–680
- Drug abuse treatment programs
  - Ottawa, 1210
- Durham regional council
  - council members, 773
- Eastern Ontario development fund, 527
- Economic growth
  - five-point economic plan, 3466–3467
- Election finances
  - audits and legal fees incurred by city of Vaughan re finance abuses, 6806
- Elections/by-elections
  - St. Paul's, 7337
- Explosions
  - 2 Secord Avenue, 2736–2737
- Federal government
  - homelessness partnership initiative, 2607
- Federal-provincial agreements/programs
  - affordable housing, 132, 743, 1106, 1609
  - Canada-Ontario affordable housing program agreement, 1210–1211, 1659–1660, 3135
    - government funding, 2566
- Fire sprinklers
  - mandatory fire sprinkler systems in new residential construction, 502, 2639
- French-language debates
  - Déclarations ministérielles et réponses
    - Allocations-logement, 411–412
    - Finances municipales, 188
    - Infrastructure municipale, 370
    - Logements à prix abordables, 5740
    - Logements abordables, 8610–8611
    - Municipalités, 1505–1506
    - Planification municipale, 7232–7233
    - Semaine des administrations locales, 3446
  - Loi de 2009 sur la modification des limites territoriales entre Barrie et Innisfil, projet de loi 196
    - deuxième lecture, 7491
  - Questions orales
    - Financement municipal, 8307
    - Impôts fonciers, 5317
- Good Government Act, 2009 (Bill 212)
  - second reading, 8470–8473, 8475
    - public consultation, 8475
- Government-Association of Municipalities of Ontario agreements, 4216
- Government notice of motions
  - Legislative reform
    - responded to, 1319–1321
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - crime prevention, 4834
    - economic policy, 1114
    - health care, 1114
    - rent increases, 5782
  - NDP (1990-1995)
    - affordable housing, 1609, 2566
    - rent increases, 5782, 7273
  - PC (1995-2003)
    - budget deficit, 1113
    - government service transfer to municipal jurisdiction, 915
    - hospital closures, 3466
    - rent increases, 5782
- Government service transfer to municipal jurisdiction, 175, 420, 2161, 3731
  - return to provincial jurisdiction, 3488, 3682–3683, 3730–3731, 3767–3768, 4217, 4327–4328, 4863, 5034, 5383, 5427, 6189, 7492
    - court security costs, 4025
- Greenbelt plan, 6488, 7080, 7338
  - expansion, 338–339
    - Oakville, 338
    - public consultation, 338–339
  - housing development in Palgrave Estates area (Caledon), 3320
- Harmonized sales tax
  - impact on rent rates, 7337
- Health care funding
  - Ottawa, 924
- Healthy Food for Healthy Schools Act, 2008 (Bill 8)
  - second reading, 253
- Highway improvement
  - Highway 404 (Mulock to Green Lane), 916
  - Highway 417, 93
- Highway Traffic Amendment Act (Speed-limiting Systems), 2008 (Bill 41)
  - second reading, 1082–1083
- Hospital redevelopment
  - Queensway Carleton Hospital, 93
- Housing
  - affordable, 132, 239–240, 370, 379, 1474, 1513, 1609, 1659–1660, 2566, 3830, 5282, 5740–5741, 5782, 6045
    - federal government funding, 743, 4751–4752
    - government funding, 525, 528, 609, 679–680, 1211, 4652, 5510, 5781–5782, 7195, 7272, 7643, 7771, 7920–7921, 8610–8611, 8646–8647, 9120–9121
    - Home Ownership Alternatives Non-Profit Corp., 7771
    - Ottawa, 4752
    - Peel region, 4652
    - people with mental illness and victims of domestic violence, 5426
    - Peterborough, 743, 4469
    - public consultation, 4469
    - public consultation on affordable housing strategy, 7271–7272
  - federal government funding, 6748
  - supportive housing
    - people with drug and alcohol addiction, 2607
- Housing rehabilitation
  - renovation and rehabilitation fund, 2292–2293
- Infrastructure Ontario
  - municipal infrastructure investment initiative (MIII), 371, 1505, 5317
- Investing in Ontario Act, 2008 (Bill 35)
  - general discussion, 420–421, 2671, 3488, 3527
- Lake Simcoe
  - environmental protection, 7493, 8983
- Land use planning, 7491–7492
  - Barrie, 7492
  - sustainability, 1506
- Landlord and tenant, 4523–4524
  - tenants' protection, 2736–2737, 7689
- Landlord and Tenant Board
  - electronic hearing, 7228
  - oral hearing, 7228
- Legislative procedure
  - order and decorum and conduct of members in the House, 3466
- Legislative process
  - family friendly reforms, 1320–1321
    - oral questions, 1319
- Local appeal bodies (LABs), 2128
- Members'/ministers' anniversaries
  - Lalonde, Jean-Marc (Glengarry–Prescott–Russell), 2240
- Members'/ministers' birthdays
  - Matthews, Deborah (London North Centre), 8502
- Members/ministers quoting letters
  - Witmer, Elizabeth re provincial rent bank program, 2957
- Members/ministers quoting newspaper articles
  - Mississauga News, 104
  - Nepean This Week, 3770
  - St. Catharines Standard, 1320
  - Sudbury Star, 1320
  - Toronto Star, 104, 1320, 7271, 8473
  - Vaughan Today, 8826
- Members/ministers quoting reports
  - Ombudsman of Ontario Annual Report (2007-2008), 3271
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Anderson, Roger (regional chair, regional municipality of Durham), 3488, 3731
  - Association of Chiefs of Police/Ontario Association of Police Services Boards, 4025
  - Best, Dan (director of community services, county of Dufferin), 679
  - Callery, Ray (president, Association of Municipal Managers, Clerks and Treasurers of Ontario), 3446
  - Canadian Housing and Renewal Association, 2607
  - Cartwright, John (president, Toronto and York Region Labour Council), 3466
  - Crispino, Len (president, Ontario Chamber of Commerce), 4216
  - Dirks, Yutaka (Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario), 8611
  - Eisenberger, Fred (mayor, Hamilton), 3378
  - Francis, Eddie (mayor, Windsor), 3768
  - Gardiner, Don (president, Canadian Snowbirds Association), 8471
  - Hume, Peter (Ottawa city councillor and president, Association of Municipalities of Ontario), 915–916, 3446, 3770
  - Jackson, Brian (mayor, Innisfil), 7035
  - Kerur, Sharad (executive director, Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association), 379, 679, 1609, 2566–2567
  - Kolb, Emil (regional chair, Peel region), 4652
  - Laughren, Tom (mayor, Timmins), 5317
  - Lawson, Hugh (president, Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association), 3466, 5782
  - Mawby, Russell (director of housing, Ottawa), Eileen Dooley (United Way), 411
  - McCallion, Hazel (mayor, Mississauga), 370, 3768
  - Miller, David (mayor, Toronto), 521, 3527, 5579
  - Norris, Christine (president, Association of Municipal Managers, Clerks and Treasurers of Ontario), 8472
  - O'Brien, Larry (mayor, Ottawa), 52, 521, 916, 7639
  - Parish, Steve (mayor, Ajax), 8472
  - Poirier, Jo-Anne (CEO, Ottawa Community Housing), 5510
  - Reycraft, Doug (president, Association of Municipalities of Ontario), 420–421, 1571, 3466
  - Rodriguez, John (mayor, Sudbury), 3767
  - Savoline, Joyce (chair, Halton Region), 9219
  - Shapcott, Michael (Wellesley Institute), 679
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - NDP (2003-2010)
    - DiNovo, Cheri (Parkdale–High Park), 5781
  - PC (1995-2003)
    - Eves, Ernie (Parry Sound–Muskoka)
      - as Deputy Premier/Minister of Finance, 4329
  - withdrawn, 609, 2163, 2240, 2897, 5574, 8787
- Memorandum of understanding (MOU), 3437
- Military reservists
  - job-protected leave, 103
- Ministerial statements, presented
  - Affordable housing, 5740–5741, 8610–8611
  - Local Government Week, 3445–3446
  - Municipal finances, 188
  - Municipal infrastructure, 370–371
  - Municipal planning, 7232–7233
  - Municipalities, 1505–1506
  - Shelter allowances, 411–412
- Ministers redirecting oral questions, 502, 1424, 3135, 3316, 3527, 4025, 6942
- Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing
  - affordable housing program, 7194–7195
  - Ontario disaster relief assistance program (ODRAP), 2390–2391, 5574
  - provincial rent bank program, 743, 1474, 1512–1513, 2032, 2240, 2957, 3831, 5283, 5741
    - Waterloo region, 2957
  - rent supplement program, 3773, 5741
  - rental opportunity for Ontario families (ROOF), 411–412, 1660
- Municipal Elections Act, S.O. 1996, c. 32
  - amended by Bill 212, 8470–8471
- Municipal elections/by-elections
  - contribution limits of $5,000 per contributor, 8471
  - date change to fourth Monday in October, 8471
  - reform, 8260–8261
  - Vaughan, 8825–8826
  - voters required to provide proof of identity and residence, 8472
- Municipal government, 3437, 3446
  - use of referenda, 8782–8783
- Municipal government restructuring
  - Barrie's plan to annex parts of Innisfil, 7035
  - Essex, 4329
  - Kawartha Lakes, 4329
- Municipal government services
  - government funding, 51, 8306–8307
- Municipal infrastructure
  - federal government funding, 103–104
  - government funding, 521, 1505, 3378, 3488, 3768, 4217
- Municipalities, 4863
  - federal government funding, 51
  - government funding, 1424, 2671, 3527
    - Kawartha Lakes, 4908
    - London, 1105–1106
  - green ideas to save money, 6189
- Natural disasters
  - floods
    - Red Hill Creek (Hamilton), 7688–7689
  - tornados (20 August 2009)
    - Town of Blue Mountains, 8785–8786
- Oak Ridges moraine
  - greenbelt plan, 957
- Obesity
  - children, 253
- OC Transpo
  - strike
    - social service funding, 4698
- Ontario College of Trades, 7131
- Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 (Bill 183)
  - second reading, 7131
- Ontario disability support program (ODSP), 175
  - transfer of costs to provincial government, 188
- Ontario disability support program (ODSP) benefits, 3438
- Ontario drug benefit program (ODB), 175, 3438
  - transfer of costs to provincial government, 188
- Ontario Municipal Board (OMB), 897
  - citizen liaison office, 1715
  - Geranium Corp. case, 1715
  - hearings
    - development on Eastern Ave., 897
    - Kimvar Enterprises Inc., 3276
  - reform, 1715, 2128
- Ontario property and sales tax credit, 3271–3272
- Opposition day motions, responded to
  - Ontario economy, 1113–1114, 3465–3467
- Oral questions, responded to
  - Aboriginal housing, 4246, 6336–6337
  - Aboriginal land claims, 5386
  - Affordable housing, 132, 239–240, 525, 528, 742–743, 1210–1211, 1474, 1609, 1659–1660, 2240, 2292–2293, 2566–2567, 2607, 2671–2672, 3773, 3830–3831, 4469, 4652, 4751–4752, 5282–5283, 5781–5782, 6045, 7194–7195, 7271–7272, 7643, 7771, 7920–7921, 8646–8647, 9120–9121, 9218–9219
  - Assistance to farmers, 6748
  - Brownfield sites, 1662, 2519–2520
  - City of Ottawa, 7638–7639
  - City of Vaughan, 6806
  - Disaster relief, 2390–2391, 5574, 7524, 7688–7689, 8785–8786
  - Drug treatment programs, 1210
  - Durham regional council, 773
  - Eastern Ontario development, 527
  - Employment lands, 897
  - Environmental protection, 6488
  - Fire safety, 502, 2639–2640
  - Government accounting practices, 1571
  - Greenbelt, 338–339, 957, 3320, 7080, 7338
  - Low-income Ontarians, 609
  - Municipal elections, 8260–8261
  - Municipal finances, 51–52, 1105–1106, 3378, 3730–3731, 3767–3768, 3770, 4025, 4327–4328, 5426–5427, 8459–8460
  - Municipal funding, 8306–8307
  - Municipal government, 3437, 7961–7962, 8068, 8826
  - Municipal infrastructure, 420–421
  - Municipal planning, 6942, 7035
  - Municipal restructuring, 4329
  - Municipal taxation, 175, 4216–4217
  - Municipalities, 1424, 2161, 4863, 4908, 5034, 6189, 8783
  - Ontario budget, 521, 5510
  - Ontario economy, 3315
  - Ontario Municipal Board, 1715, 2128, 3276
  - Property taxation, 3271–3272, 3438, 4328–4329, 5084, 5317, 5579
  - Public participation, 7826–7827
  - Public transit, 4698
  - Rent bank programs, 1512–1513, 2032, 2957
  - School nutrition programs, 379
  - Social assistance, 5383
  - Taxation, 7273, 7337
  - Taxi operators, 7271, 9172–9173
  - Tenant protection, 2736–2737, 4523–4524, 5619–5620, 7228, 7689
  - Transfer payments, 3488, 3527, 3682–3683
- Ottawa River
  - cleanup, 4328
- Poverty Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 152)
  - second reading, 5564–5565
- Property tax assessment, 3315, 5084
  - freeze-until-sale assessment, 3271
  - increase, 3271, 4328
- Property tax increases, 4328, 5084, 5579
- Provincial-municipal partnerships, 3770, 5317
  - provincial-municipal fiscal and service delivery review, 188, 2161, 3438, 3682, 3730, 3767, 3770, 4025, 4327, 5579, 6189
- Provincial-municipal relations, 188, 370, 3438, 3730–3731, 4217
- Public education campaigns
  - Local Government Week, 3437, 3445–3446, 7961–7962
- Public transportation
  - Ottawa, 7638–7639
- Rent control, 5283
- Rent increases, 4523–4524, 5620, 6045
  - cap on rent increase, 4523, 5620
- Reports
  - Cities Now (Hazel McCallion), 51
  - Provincial-Municipal Fiscal and Service Delivery Review (Facing the Future Together), 3770
  - Simcoe Area: A Strategic Vision for Growth, 7233
- Residential Tenancies Act, S.O. 2006, c.17, 2736–2737, 4523, 5619–5620
- Rural Ontario
  - infrastructure investment, 5034
- School vending machines
  - ban on unhealthy food and beverages, 253
- Senior homeowners' property tax grants, 5084
- Skilled trades, 7131
- Smoke-Free Ontario Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 2137–2138
- Smoking
  - ban on smoking in workplaces/enclosed public places, 2137
  - second-hand smoke, 2138
- Social contract, 3767
- Social housing, 2240, 4469
  - government funding, 2671
    - Ottawa, 2671
  - repair, 5282
- Speed limiters
  - impact on greenhouse gas emissions, 1083
- Standing Orders
  - S.O. 106(d) Committees - Orders of reference, 3465–3466
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 92–93, 102–104
- Throne speech quoted, 240
- Time allocation motions
  - Barrie-Innisfil Boundary Adjustment Act, 2009 (Bill 196)
    - presented, 8982–8983
- Tobacco Control Statute Law Amendment Act, S.O. 2005, c.18, 2137
- Tobacco-related diseases
  - Crowe, Heather (lung cancer victim), 2137
- Toronto
  - government funding, 4863
- Tourism industry
  - government funding
    - Ottawa, 103
- Transfer payments
  - Ontario municipal partnership fund (OMPF), 188, 8068, 8459–8460
- Transit systems
  - Move Ontario 2020 plan, 51
- Voters/voting
  - voter turnout, 3437
- Youth justice centres
  - William Hay Centre, 4834
Wilkinson, Hon. J. (LIB, Perth–Wellington)
- Atreo Medical Inc.
  - CPRGlove, 4110
- Awards
  - Biotechnology Industry Organization's International Leadership Award, 6689
  - Premier's Innovation Awards, 1518
  - Premier's Summit Award, 7034
- Bioindustrial Innovation Centre, 3090
- Biomass energy, 3090
- Biomedical research, 1462–1463
- Budget
  - pre-budget consultations, 4272
- Cancer, 1249, 1462–1463
- C2C Link Corp., 4695–4696
- Centre for Research and Innovation in the Bio-Economy (CRIBE), 896
- Certicom, 7034
- Colleges of applied arts and technology (CAATs)
  - Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
    - digital media and communications, 4388
- Colleges Ontario Network for Industry Innovation (CONII), 6889
- Consumer protection
  - energy contracts, 9484
- Corporate tax exemptions
  - biofuel industry, 3109
  - Ontario tax exemption for commercialization (OTEC), 690
    - eligibility for refund, 3107–3111
- Digital media, 761–762, 4388
- Echologics Engineering Inc., 4753–4754
- Ecobee Inc., 5685
- Economic growth
  - five-point economic plan, 1462
- EcoVu Analytics Inc., 7225–7226
- Employment creation, 5685
- Energy
  - renewable energy, 1308–1309
  - renewable energy projects
    - Verdant Power tidal power project, 1308
- Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2010 (Bill 235)
  - second reading, 9484
- Everbrite Solar, 5663
- Fairs
  - Canada-Wide Science Fair, 7146
- Federal-provincial agreements/programs
  - harmonized sales tax, 7519
- Forums (discussion and debate)
  - Cleantech Forum, 5663
- French-language debates
  - Déclarations ministérielles et réponses
    - Recherche et innovation, 5324–5325
    - Recherche scientifique, 6497–6499
- Government notice of motions
  - Legislative reform
    - time allocation motion
      - responded to, 1534–1536
  - Personal health information protection
    - presented, 2223
- Government orders
  - Committee sittings
    - time allocation motion
      - responded to, 4272
- Green technology, 5662
  - commercialization, 5662–5663
- Harmonized sales tax, 8785, 8839, 8917–8918, 9407–9408
  - economic impact, 7522
  - impact on business, 7519–7520, 8409
  - impact on cell phone fees, 8648
  - impact on condominium owners, 8733–8734
  - impact on cost of books and newspapers, 8729–8730
  - impact on employment, 7475–7476, 7960, 8542, 9076
  - impact on food items, 7385
  - impact on gasoline prices, 9541–9542
  - impact on investment industry, 7429–7430
  - impact on low-income consumers, 8211–8212
  - impact on manufacturing industry, 8106–8107, 8734
  - impact on real estate industry, 7767–7768, 8257, 8784
  - impact on rent rates, 7335–7336
  - impact on senior citizens, 8256, 8259, 8600–8601, 8686
  - impact on sport, recreation and physical activities, 7917, 8305, 8648
    - hockey, 8684–8685
  - impact on technology industry, 7870
  - impact wholesale trade sector, 7638–7639
  - public consultation, 8867
  - transition benefit
    - $1,000 for single parents or couples, 7520
    - $300 for individuals, 7519
- Hospital redevelopment
  - Stratford General Hospital, 6416
- Ideas for the Future Act, 2008 (Bill 100)
  - second reading, 3107–3111
  - third reading, 4366–4367
- Income tax reduction, 7386, 8063–8064, 8836
- International Cancer Genome Consortium, 1463
- International Consortium of Anti-Virals, 1765, 6387
- Lake Simcoe Protection Act, 2008 (Bill 99)
  - third reading, 4350
- Land transfer tax
  - retroactive application to fractional ownership units, 7273–7274
- Layoffs
  - Campbell Soup Company, 1569
- Legislative process
  - family friendly reforms, 1534–1536
- Linamar Consumer Products
  - Solaris lawn mower, 1664
- Manufacturing industry
  - decline, 8839
- MaRS Centre, 4367
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 2143
- Members/ministers quoting letters
  - Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association, 3181
  - Westley, Meg (chair, Avon Maitland District School Board), 2264
- Members/ministers quoting newspaper articles
  - Globe and Mail (Toronto), 8867
- Members/ministers quoting proverbs
  - Chinese proverb, 762
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Cooke, Dave (former Minister of Education), 7409
  - Gerwing, Dave (president, Menova Energy Inc.), 3577
  - Kay, Alan (computing pioneer), 1463
  - Kidder, Annie (executive director, People for Education), 7410
  - Larzaidis, Mike (chairman, Research in Motion), 2437
  - Lievonen, Mark (president and CEO, Sanofi Pasteur Canada), 1051
  - Peroni, Paula (president, Ontario Catholic School Trustees' Association), 7410
  - Rémillard, Richard (executive director, Canada's Venture Capital and Private Equity Association), 299
  - Spence, Chris (director of education, Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board), 7410
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - PC (2003-2010)
    - MacLeod, Lisa (Nepean–Carleton), 1570
  - withdrawn, 8725
- Menova Energy Inc.
  - Power-Spar system, 3577
- Ministerial statements, presented
  - Research and innovation, 761–762, 1050–1051, 1462–1463, 5325
  - Scientific research, 6497–6499
  - Venture Capital Fund, 188
- Ministers redirecting oral questions, 1515
- Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
  - Next Generation of Jobs Fund, 1050–1051, 1569, 3489
    - funding for GE Canada manufacturing facility (Peterborough), 9118–9119
- Ministry of Research and Innovation
  - emerging technologies fund, 5685
  - Global Leadership Round in Genomics and Life Sciences, 6499
    - government funding, 6752
  - Ideas to Market strategy, 299
  - innovation demonstration fund (IDF), 1664, 3489, 7225
  - investment accelerator fund (IAF), 4110, 4695, 4753
  - Ontario innovation agenda, 1462–1463, 1570, 3107, 6498
  - Ontario Research Fund (ORF), 1462, 3532, 6387
  - Ontario venture capital fund, 189, 299, 1462, 5685
  - programs and funding, 7147
- Ontario BioAuto Council Investment Fund, 4809
- Ontario centres of excellence, 4388
- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, 1462–1463
  - government funding, 1249
  - research grants
    - Wan, Yonghong (McMaster Institute for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology), 1249–1250
- Ontario Research and Innovation Council, 1462
- Ontario Tax Plan for More Jobs and Growth Act, 2009 (Bill 218)
  - second reading, 8834–8836, 8839
- Opposition day motions, responded to
  - Hospital services, 6416–6417
  - Rural schools, 2263–2264
- Oral questions, responded to
  - Biotechnology, 6689
  - Centre for Research and Innovation, 896
  - Clean technology, 5662–5663
  - Digital media, 4388
  - Environment industry, 7225–7226
  - Government advertising, 9266
  - Government record, 9268
  - Land transfer tax, 7274
  - Manufacturing jobs, 9118–9119
  - Medical research, 4110–4111, 5187, 5428
  - Ontario economy, 1569
  - Pharmaceutical industry, 526–527
  - Pharmaceutical research, 1765–1766
  - Renewable energy and conservation, 1308–1309
  - Research and innovation, 299, 690, 953–954, 1062–1063, 1104, 1249–1250, 1518, 1570, 1664, 2437–2438, 3089–3090, 3181, 3489, 3577, 3833, 3879–3880, 4326, 4695–4696, 4753–4754, 4809, 5321, 5469–5470, 5685, 6387, 6751–6752, 7034, 7146–7147
  - Research and innovation in Mississauga South, 6889
  - Taxation, 7334–7336, 7385–7386, 7429–7430, 7475–7476, 7519–7520, 7522, 7576–7577, 7639–7640, 7767–7768, 7829, 7870, 7917, 7960, 8063–8064, 8106–8107, 8211–8212, 8256–8257, 8259, 8305, 8409, 8542, 8600–8601, 8648, 8684–8686, 8729–8730, 8733–8734, 8784–8785, 8822, 8867, 8917–8918, 9076, 9407–9408, 9541–9542
  - University research and innovation, 3532
- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
  - Hawking, Stephen (research chair), 4326
- Pharmaceutical industry, 526–527, 1051
- Plasco Energy Group Inc.
  - plasma arc technology, 1664
- Purdue Pharma Canada, 4326
- REGEN Energy, 4696, 4753
- Reports
  - Competitive Alternatives: KPMG's Guide to International Business Location, 3879
  - The 2009 OCETA SDTC Cleantech Growth and Go-to-Market Report, 5662
- Research and development programs/projects
  - International Barcode of Life, 953–954
- Research and innovation, 761, 1462, 3879
  - government funding, 690, 762, 2437, 3109, 3181, 4111, 5187, 5428, 6498, 6689, 6751–6752
    - Mississauga South, 6889
- Research in Motion Limited, 3108
- Rural Ontario
  - research and innovation, 3833
- Sanofi Pasteur Canada
  - research facility, 1062–1063
    - government funding, 1051
- Schools
  - Perth–Wellington
    - closure, 2264
- Science/technology
  - government funding, 2437
- Senior citizens
  - tax reduction, 9076
- 6N Silicon Inc., 3489
- Smoke-Free Ontario Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 2143–2144
- Speaker
  - election (28 November 2007)
    - congratulatory remarks, 189
- Stem cell research
  - Nagy, Andras (Mount Sinai Hospital), 5187, 5325
- Stonehedge Bio-Resources Inc., 5321
- Structural Genomics Consortium
  - Edwards, Aled (director and CEO), 6387
- Student Achievement and School Board Governance Act, 2009 (Bill 177)
  - second reading, 7409–7410
- Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA), 8095
- Technical Standards and Safety Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 187)
  - second reading, 8095
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 96–97
- Time allocation motions
  - Committee sittings
    - responded to, 4272
  - Legislative reform
    - responded to, 1534–1536
- Unitron Hearing, 7034
- Universities/colleges
  - Carleton University
    - research funding, 3532
  - Ontario College of Art and Design
    - digital media laboratory, 761
  - Trent University, 1765
  - University of Ottawa
    - research funding, 3532
  - University of Waterloo
    - digital media institute and convergence centre, 761–762
  - University of Western Ontario
    - Institute for Chemicals and Fuels for Alternative Resources, 3833
- Venture capital, 4367, 5685
Wilson, J. (PC, Simcoe–Grey)
- Accountants
  - certification, 6563
- Algoma University Act, 2008 (Bill 80)
  - second reading, 2110–2112
- Animal Health Act, 2009 (Bill 204)
  - second reading, 8232, 8237–8240, 8242
- Animal protection
  - penalties for abusing animals, 3153
- Annual reports
  - Office of the Auditor General of Ontario Annual Report (2008), 4613–4614
- Apprenticeship training, 500
  - ratio of tradespeople to apprentices, 944, 1369–1370, 2665–2666, 2831, 3086–3087, 3629–3630, 4614–4615, 6563, 6812
- Apprenticeship training programs
  - completion bonus, 3086–3087
  - completion rates, 4614–4615
  - registration in call centre trades, 4615
- Awards
  - Lieutenant Governor's Heritage Award for Youth Achievement, 639
  - Premier's Award for Teaching Excellence, 987
- Boundary adjustment
  - Barrie and Innisfil, 7234
- Bruce Power, 3628–3629
- Budget
  - presentation of 2003 budget at Magna International, 6141
  - public consultation, 6141
- Budget deficit, 3625–3628
- Budget Measures Act, 2009 (Bill 162)
  - second reading, 5939–5940
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 6152–6153
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (Bill 44)
  - third reading, 1645
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (No. 2) (Bill 114)
  - second reading, 3625–3630
- Children's aid societies (CASs)
  - Children's Aid Society of Simcoe County
    - government funding, 8501
    - "tree for a child" campaign, 1559
- Colleges of applied arts and technology (CAATs), 3775
  - Algoma University College, 2040
    - history, 2111–2112
    - independent university status, 2110–2111
- Compensation
  - York University students, 4690, 4700, 4776–4777, 4800–4801
- Congratulatory remarks
  - Alliston Hornets hockey team, 1979
  - Cameron Street Public School environmental club, 639
  - McCague, George Raymond (recipient, Elgin Blakely citizen of the year), 1156
  - Ramirez, Oswaldo (recipient, postgraduate family medicine preceptor of the year award), 5953
- Construction industry
  - underground economy, 3818
- Corporate taxes, 737, 3626
- Demonstrations
  - Canadian Federation of Students, 3873–3874
  - students protesting post-secondary tuition fees, 8310–8311
- Dialysis, 1264
- Doctor fees/salaries, 3681–3682
- Doctor shortage
  - rural Ontario, 7436–7437
- DriveTest Labour Dispute Resolution Act, 2009 (Bill 225)
  - first reading, 8738
- Economic conditions, 3625, 3818
- eHealth Ontario
  - contracts, 8427
- Election Statute Law Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 231)
  - second reading, 9293, 9660–9661
- Elections/by-elections
  - campaign contributions, 9661
  - third-party advertising, 9293
- Employment creation
  - by government, 4614
- Energy
  - renewable energy projects
    - cost increases for consumers, 6768–6769
    - employment creation, 6768
- Full Day Early Learning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 242)
  - second reading, 9636
- Government debt
  - increase, 6153
- Government notice of motions
  - Legislative reform
    - responded to, 1264–1266
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - doctor shortage, 2726
    - energy policy, 6766–6767
    - post-secondary education, 4711–4712
  - PC (1995-2003)
    - employment creation, 4614
    - energy policy, 6766–6767
- Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 (Bill 150)
  - third reading, 6765–6770
- Harmonized sales tax, 5940, 6152–6153
  - impact on transportation and warehousing industry, 7576–7577
  - public consultation, 8680, 8976
- Health care funding
  - accountability and oversight
    - investigation by Ombudsman, 8427–8428
- Heritage conservation
  - Frederick Banting homestead, 225
- Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario
  - expenditures
    - disclosure, 9271
- Hospital beds
  - long-term-care beds, 4119–4120, 4125
    - Simcoe–Grey, 4118–4120, 4125, 4248–4249
- Increasing Access to Qualified Health Professionals for Ontarians Act, 2008 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 2722–2723, 2726
- Interprovincial Policing Act, 2009 (Bill 203)
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 8975–8976
- Kindergarten
  - full-day
    - impact on daycare centres, 9636
- Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation
  - green ribbon beach program, 726–727
- Legislative procedure
  - introduction of bills, 7837
  - motions
    - time allocation motions, 8974
  - private members' public business, 1265–1266
- Legislative process
  - family friendly reforms, 1263–1266
- Liberal Party
  - fundraising
    - holding event at Ontario Sheet Metal Workers Training Centre, 4017–4018
- Livestock
  - disease prevention and control
    - compensation to farmers for livestock destroyed, 8238
    - regulation and enforcement, 8238
    - traceability systems, 8240
  - protection, 8232
- Manufacturing industry
  - layoffs, 944
- Members'/ministers' constituents
  - congratulatory remarks, 3144
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 118–119, 4119
- Members/ministers quoting documents
  - Hospitals of Ontario Pension Plan Submission Brief to the Ontario Expert Commission on Pensions, 7242
  - Ontario Municipal Employees' Retirement System Submission Brief to the Ontario Expert Commission on Pensions, 7242
- Members/ministers quoting electronic mail messages
  - Barclay, Bill (Beild House Country Inn and Spa), 3820
  - Bill 145, re, 4710
  - Fernando, Anika (Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities), 2831
  - Fess, Rick (Doner-Hosley Insurance), 3819
  - Langman, Kerry and Brent (Advantage Homes), 3820
  - McFarland, John (master electrician, Nu-Tek Electric), 3819
  - McLaren, Don (McLaren Equipment Ltd.), 3819
  - Quinn, Madeline (Assante Financial Management), 3819
  - Vereecke, Marino (chartered accountant), 3819
- Members/ministers quoting letters
  - Coursey, David (paramedic, Simcoe county), 7242
  - Hardy, Gord (president, Ontario Cattlemen's Association), 8238–8239
  - Rath, Randy (press gallery president), 1264
  - Rinaldi, Lou re apprenticeship ratios, 2666
  - Walsh, Tom (mayor, Adjala-Tosorontio), 7234
- Members/ministers quoting magazine articles
  - Maclean's, 4711
- Members/ministers quoting newspaper articles
  - Alliston Herald, 6848
  - Blue Mountains Courier-Herald, 8785
  - Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 2266–2267
  - Toronto Star, 8428–8429
  - Toronto Sun, 38
- Members/ministers quoting reports
  - Conservation Review Board hearing report re Banting homestead, 225
  - A Fine Balance - Safe Pensions - Affordable Plans - Fair Rules (Report of the Expert Commission on Pensions), 7241–7242
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Bill 145, re, 4709
  - Canadian Federation of Students, 8311
  - Hill, Kerri-Lynne (parent), 6848
  - Morrison, Thelma (journalist), 38
  - Ontario Federation of Agriculture, 8239–8240
- Members/ministers quoting websites
  - Algoma University College, 2111–2112
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - McGuinty, Dalton (Ottawa South)
      - as Ontario Premier, 6848
- Members' statements
  - Alliston Hornets, 466, 1979
  - Children's Aid Society of Simcoe County, 1559
  - College Week, 3775
  - Disaster relief, 8112
  - Doctor shortage, 7436–7437
  - Driver examination centres, 8872
  - Environmental club of Cameron Street Public School, 639
  - Fire in Wasaga Beach, 38
  - Frederick Banting homestead, 225
  - Mallory family, 3144
  - McCague, George, 1156
  - Pension plans, 7526
  - Ramirez, Oswaldo, 5953
  - Skills training, 3834
  - Tecumseth North Elementary School, 6848
  - Town of the Blue Mountains, 7391
  - Tuition, 8310–8311
  - University labour dispute, 4700
- Minimum wage, 119
  - increase, 118–119
  - $10 an hour, 118
- Ministerial statements, responded to
  - Algoma University College, 2040–2041
  - Emergency preparedness, 6563
  - Labour mobility, 6562–6563
  - Municipal planning, 7234
  - Premier's Awards for Teaching Excellence, 987–988
  - Skilled trades, 6812
  - Student assistance, 943–944
  - University funding, 987
- Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
  - second career strategy, 3236, 4745
    - Gaston, Ben case, 5033
    - Kiss, Ernest case, 5033
    - Zuccola, Peter case, 5618
  - skills training infrastructure program (STIP), 3731
- Municipal infrastructure
  - government funding
    - northern Ontario, 1645
- Natural disasters
  - tornados (20 August 2009)
    - Town of Blue Mountains, 7391, 7435, 8112, 8785
- Nowruz, 938
- Ontario College of Teachers, 6812
- Ontario College of Trades, 6812
- Ontario Energy Board Amendment Act, 2000 (Bill 100), 6770
- Ontario Sheet Metal Workers Training Centre, 3961
- Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA)
  - warrantless entry for inspectors, 3152
- Opposition day motions, responded to
  - Health care oversight, 8426–8428
  - Rural schools, 2266–2267
- Oral questions, presented
  - Access to health care, 3681–3682
  - Agency spending, 9271
  - Apprenticeship training, 500–501, 1369–1370, 2665–2666, 2831, 3086–3087, 4613–4614
  - Children's aid societies, 8501
  - Disaster relief, 7435, 8785
  - Driver examination centres, 8918–8919, 9221
  - Employment, 737–738
  - Fundraising, 3731–3732, 3961, 4017–4018
  - Minister's comments, 4248–4249
  - Ontario budget, 6141
  - Police officers, 172–173
  - Post-secondary education, 894–895, 3873–3874, 4745–4746, 8105–8106
  - School closures, 6337
  - Skilled trades development, 4615
  - Skills training, 3236, 5033, 5618
  - Taxation, 8680
  - University labour disputes, 4690, 4776–4777, 4800–4801
- Pension Benefits Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 236)
  - second reading, 9464, 9467, 9472
- Pension Benefits Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 195)
  - general discussion, 7243
  - first reading, 7231
- Pension plans
  - portability
    - paramedics, 7241–7243, 7248–7249, 9467
    - public service, 7241–7243, 7526
  - reform, 9464, 9472
  - transfer of assets, 7231
- Petitions
  - Angus Early Years Centre, 2673, 2740–2741
  - Apprenticeship training, 2741, 4118
  - Children's aid societies, 9280, 9375
  - Doctor shortage, 7397, 7438
  - Education labour dispute, 4397
  - Elmvale District High School, 6853, 8421, 8505, 8694, 9230, 9376, 9651
  - Frederick Banting homestead, 137, 176, 202
  - Gasoline prices, 3091
  - Highway 26, 83, 139, 177
  - Lord's Prayer, 342, 385, 508, 900, 1001, 1063–1064, 1107, 1256, 1518, 1575, 1668, 1720, 1771, 1823, 1976, 2034, 2092, 2131, 2165, 2246, 2296, 2349–2350, 2492, 2526
  - Pension plans, 7238, 7397, 7439–7440, 7928, 8225, 8422, 8791, 9047–9048, 9279
  - Pope John Paul II, 82, 1978, 2574, 2610
  - Sales tax, 5586, 5961, 6151
  - School facilities, 28, 58, 83, 138–139, 7396
  - School transportation, 138, 177
  - Services for the developmentally disabled, 177–178
  - Sexual reassignment surgery, 3092–3093, 3450, 3499, 3652, 4116–4117
  - Stevenson Memorial Hospital, 56, 137, 177
  - Taxation, 6345–6346, 6564–6567, 6758, 6814, 7237, 7343, 7398, 7440–7441, 7840, 8117, 8315, 8615, 8740–8741, 8793, 8874–8875, 9046, 9228, 9280, 9653
  - Tuition, 3777–3778, 3845, 4115–4116, 4221, 4703, 4757, 4828, 5587–5588, 6148, 6760, 8223–8224, 8794
  - University labour dispute, 4701
  - Workplace insurance, 4069, 4222
- Pit bulls
  - ban, 1684
- Police officers
  - hiring, 172–173
- Political fundraising, 3731, 3961
- Private members' public business
  - Employment Standards Amendment Act (Raising the Minimum Wage), 2007 (Bill 7)
    - second reading, 118–119
  - Long-term care
    - presented, 4118–4120, 4125
  - Nowruz
    - responded to, 938
  - Pension plans
    - presented, 7241–7243, 7248–7249
  - Smoke-Free Ontario Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 42)
    - second reading, 552
  - Tire disposal
    - responded to, 932–933
  - Water quality
    - responded to, 726–727
- Private-public partnerships, 3628
- Provincial Animal Welfare Act, 2008 (Bill 50)
  - second reading, 1683–1684, 1687
  - third reading, 3152–3153
- Public education campaigns
  - College Week, 3775, 3834
  - Emergency Preparedness Week, 6563
  - Skilled Trades Awareness Week, 3834
- Regulated Health Professions Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 141)
  - third reading, 5594
- Rural Ontario medical program (ROMP), 5953
- School closures
  - Elmvale District High School, 6337
  - Tecumseth North Elementary School, 6848
- Schools, 2266–2267
- Small business, 3817–3818
- Smoke-Free Ontario Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 1868
- Smoking
  - ban on smoking in cars with children present, 1868
- Sports teams
  - Alliston Hornets, 466
- Strikes
  - DriveTest driving examiners, 8872, 8918–8919, 9221
- Student grants
  - distance grant, 943
- Time allocation motions
  - Budget Measures Act, 2009 (Bill 162)
    - responded to, 6152–6153
  - Interprovincial Policing Act, 2009 (Bill 203)
    - responded to, 8975–8976
- Tire tax, 932
- Tuition fees, 3873
- Unions, 3820
- Universities/colleges
  - collective bargaining, 4690
  - government funding, 894–895, 943–944, 987, 2040, 3873–3874, 8105–8106
  - strike, 4690, 4745
  - York University
    - strike, 4700, 4709–4712, 4745, 4776
- University graduates
  - employment recruitment, 737–738
- Wasaga Beach
  - fires, 38
  - police services, 172
  - tourism marketing, 726–727
- Workers' compensation benefits
  - coverage for construction workers, 3817–3818
- Working Families Coalition, 9293
  - government funding for training centres, 4615
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 119)
  - second reading, 3817–3820, 3822
- York University Labour Disputes Resolution Act, 2009 (Bill 145)
  - second reading, 4709–4712
Witmer, E. (PC, Kitchener–Waterloo)
- Aftermarket brake pads
  - ban on use of asbestos, 7250–7251
  - standards and specifications, 7250
- Agencies/boards/commissions/etc.
  - expenditures
    - accountability, 7425
    - disclosure, 7422–7424
- Appointments
  - King, Arlene (chief medical officer of health of Ontario), 6235
- Appreciation
  - Sullivan, Barbara (chair, Health Professions Regulatory Advisory Council), 6696
- Asthma, 6645
- Autism, 5836–5837
- Awards
  - Klaus Woerner Skilled Trades Hall of Fame Award, 5285
- Bail
  - O'Brien, Nathaniel (murder suspect), 3726
- Black History Month Act, 2007 (Bill 182), 8134
- Blackouts/brownouts
  - 14 August 2003, 5333
- Bone marrow
  - donation, 278
  - registry, 278–279
- Booklets
  - Ontario Schools Code of Conduct, 6002
- Budget, 4516
  - budget date, 4937
  - pre-budget consultations, 4516
- Budget deficit, 3479, 3486, 3515–3516, 5227, 5656, 5703
- Budget Measures Act, 2009 (Bill 162)
  - general discussion
    - public consultation, 6232
- Bullying
  - prevention, 9366–9367, 9383–9385, 9390
- C. difficile, 2892, 2953–2954
  - infection control in hospitals, 1884–1885, 2024–2025
- C. difficile outbreaks, 2082, 2201–2202, 2204, 2234–2235, 2452–2453, 2582, 2953
  - government response, 2659
  - investigation, 2775–2777, 2825–2826, 2893, 2954
  - Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital, 2452
  - mortality rates, 2234
  - northern Ireland, 2433, 2453
  - public inquiries, 1971, 2082, 2120, 2123–2124, 2155–2156, 2202, 2205, 2345–2346, 2433, 2452–2454, 2601–2602, 2635
- Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate, 8128–8129
- Cancer screening programs
  - breast cancer screening program
    - inclusion of women aged 40 to 49, 7444
- Carbon monoxide detectors
  - requirement to install carbon monoxide detectors in all residential buildings, 5859
- Catholic Family Counselling Centre, 6602
- Cemeteries, 5483
  - prohibition on relocation of inactive cemeteries, 5482–5483
  - protection, 5482–5483
- Charitable fundraising
  - Walk of Hope, 7279–7280
- Children's aid societies (CASs)
  - Children's Aid Society of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo
    - government funding, 7924
- College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO), 4853
- Committees
  - Select Committee on Municipal Governance, 5302
  - Select Committee on the Economy, 3480, 4387
  - select committees, 4516
- Condominium corporations, 7260
  - fees, 7260
  - reserve funds
    - installation of renewable energy/energy efficient technologies, 7260
    - repair/replacement of common elements, 7260
  - standard declaration, 7260
- Congratulatory remarks
  - Dunlop, Garfield (Simcoe North), 5285
- Coroner inquests
  - Casa Verde nursing home (North York), 1656–1657
  - Dupont, Lori (murder victim)
    - jury recommendations, 1206
- Corporate tax reduction, 497
- Corporate taxes, 497
- Cosmetic surgery, 4630
  - regulation, 4850–4851
- Curriculum
  - mathematics, 8107
- Demonstrations
  - Niagara-region groups protesting health-care service cuts (29 April 2009), 6402
- Dental hygienists
  - expansion of scope of practice, 6903
- Diabetes registry, 7189–7190
- Doctor shortage, 1517, 1660–1661, 2581, 2653–2654, 3991–3995
- Doctors, 4322
  - accepting new patients, 1517
  - hiring freeze, 6686, 6695
  - international medical graduates (IMGs), 3990–3995
    - removing barriers, 2655, 3990
- Driver education/training, 1176
- Economic conditions, 4516
- Economic decline, 3515
- Economic development, 4387
- Economic growth, 497, 3516
  - five-point economic plan, 3480, 3516
- Education Amendment Act (Pupils with Diabetes), 2009 (Bill 137)
  - second reading
    - public consultation, 5294
- Education funding
  - government funding, 9718–9719
- Education funding reform, 317
- eHealth Ontario, 5823, 5945
  - consultant fees, 7030
  - contracts, 7030
    - Accenture Inc., 7224
    - Courtyard Group Ltd., 7030, 7032, 7224
  - expenditures, 7143
    - disclosure, 7422–7424
  - Hudson, Alan (former Chairman)
    - appearance before Standing Committee on Public Accounts, 8625
  - Kramer, Sarah (former CEO)
    - appearance before Standing Committee on Public Accounts, 8625
- Electronic health records, 6903–6904
  - protection of privacy, 2230–2232
- Emancipation Day Act, 2008 (Bill 111)
  - general discussion, 8134–8135
- Employment creation, 497, 5124
  - by government, 3516
  - by private sector, 3480
- Employment Protection for Foreign Nationals Act (Live-In Caregivers and Others), 2009 (Bill 210)
  - third reading, 9200
- Energy
  - renewable energy, 5330–5331
- Family health teams, 6904
- Fatalities
  - Coxon, Florence (nursing home resident), 1656
  - Hawkins, Richard, Laurie, Jordan and Cassandra (victims of carbon monoxide poisoning), 5859
  - Stryland, Krista (real estate agent), 4630
- Federal government
  - budget, 4516
- Federal-provincial relations, 3271
- Financial literacy, 7939–7940
- Focus for Ethnic Women, 3055–3056
- Foreign workers
  - protection, 9200
- French-language debates
  - Déclarations ministérielles et réponses
    - Journée de l'affaire «personne», 7969–7970
- Full Day Early Learning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 242)
  - second reading, 9629–9636
- Government advertising
  - bus shelter advertisement re Bill 150, 5419–5420, 5428–5429
- Government-business relations
  - bidding for government business, 3574–3575
- Government consultants
  - hiring, 3963
- Government expenditures, 3515–3516
- Government notice of motions
  - Legislative reform
    - responded to, 1227–1233, 3129–3131
    - time allocation motion
      - responded to, 1522–1523
  - Personal health information protection
    - responded to, 2230–2232
- Government orders
  - Ontario economy
    - responded to, 3479–3480, 3515–3516
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - C. difficile outbreaks, 2893
    - health care, 5704
    - hospital services, 6402
    - tax increases, 5704
  - PC (1943-1985)
    - road safety, 7251
  - PC (1995-2003)
    - budget deficit, 5702–5703
    - doctor shortage, 2657–2658
    - early childhood education, 9630
    - education, 6002
    - health care, 4464
    - health care funding, 6383
    - health promotion, 1913
    - hospital services, 6384
    - nurses, 830, 4109, 5274
    - road safety, 1175
- Gravesites of Former Premiers Act, 2006 (Bill 25), 5482
- Green economy, 5330–5331
- Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 (Bill 150)
  - general discussion, 4999, 5124
    - impact on health, 6044
    - public consultation, 4999
  - second reading, 5330–5331, 5333
- Harmonized sales tax, 5666, 5703
  - impact on homebuyers, 7260
  - impact on housing industry, 6488–6489, 6492, 6519–6520
  - public consultation, 8686–8687
  - transition benefit
    - $1,000 for single parents or couples, 5666
- Health care, 497, 4819, 6383–6384
  - accessibility, 3515, 3990, 4208–4209
  - strategic plan, 6987–6988
- Health care reform, 2658–2659, 3997
- Health care workers
  - shortage
    - Kitchener–Waterloo, 2655–2656
- Health professionals
  - collaboration in patient care, 6906
  - expansion of scope of practice, 6695, 6901
  - setting up of independent human resource planning body, 3992
- Health regulatory colleges, 3991, 4850–4851
  - duty to help internationally trained health professionals practise in Ontario, 2581–2582
- Healthy Food for Healthy Schools Act, 2008 (Bill 8)
  - second reading, 317
- Highway Traffic Amendment Act (Speed-limiting Systems), 2008 (Bill 41)
  - second reading, 1175–1177, 1179
    - public consultation, 1179
- Home children (Canadian immigrants), 9379–9380
- Hospital beds, 4208
  - acute care beds, 5846–5847
  - long-term-care beds, 3688, 4123, 5847
    - Simcoe–Grey, 4123
- Hospital budget deficits, 990
- Hospital funding
  - government funding, 990, 3486, 4283, 4322, 4464, 4819
    - Cambridge Memorial Hospital, 5511
    - high-growth hospitals, 4283
  - population needs-based funding, 4464
- Hospital services, 6383
  - Cambridge Memorial Hospital, 5511
  - emergency, 1164, 1310–1311
    - government funding, 1164
    - wait times, 1164, 2024
  - reduction, 4283, 4322–4323
  - young adults with thalassemia and sickle cell disease, 6884–6885
- Hospitals
  - reporting on C. difficile rates, 2120, 2433–2434, 2453, 2776, 2892, 2956
  - reporting on patient safety indicators, 2453, 2635
  - Ross Memorial Hospital
    - mental health unit, 4940
- Increasing Access to Qualified Health Professionals for Ontarians Act, 2008 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 2653–2661
  - third reading, 3989–3995, 3997
- Interprovincial Policing Act, 2009 (Bill 203)
  - second reading, 7721
- Juvenile arthritis, 5471–5472
- Kindergarten
  - full-day, 8313–8314, 9326, 9636
    - impact on daycare centres, 9632
    - implementation, 9632
    - program cost, 9631–9632
- Labour Relations and Employment Statute Amendment Act, 1995 (Bill 7), 7932–7933
- Layoffs, 3480, 3515–3516
- Legislative procedure
  - answers to written questions, 9580
  - introduction of visitors, 3131
  - oral questions
    - preceded by five-minute bell, 3130–3131
    - timing of question period, 3130–3131
  - petitions, 3131
    - online petitions (e-petitions), 3131
  - private members' public business, 3131
  - routine proceedings, 3130–3131
- Legislative process
  - family friendly reforms, 1204–1205, 1227–1233
    - amendments, 1229–1233
    - consultation with opposition parties, 1227–1228
    - evening sittings, 1230
    - oral questions, 1229, 1248, 1522–1523
  - reform, 3129–3131
- Legislature schedule/agenda, 3130–3131, 6847
  - family friendly hours, 1177
- Local health integration networks (LHINs), 6402
- Long-term-care facilities, 198, 4123
  - comfort allowance for residents, 3486
  - government funding, 520
  - nursing care, 3486
  - personal care, 198, 519–520, 1657, 3687–3688, 4123
  - standard of care, 317, 520
- Manufacturing industry
  - unemployment, 497
- Medical officers of health, 2891–2892, 4148–4149
- Medical procedures
  - wait times, 194–195
- Medical schools
  - Northern Ontario School of Medicine, 3991–3992
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 4123, 9378–9379
- Members/ministers quoting committee submissions
  - Mayers, Catherine (Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario), 3995
  - Zuliani, Preston (chair, council, College of Physicians and Surgeons), 3992
- Members/ministers quoting documents
  - Results-based Plan Briefing Book 2009-10 (Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care), 7423
- Members/ministers quoting electronic mail messages
  - doctor shortage, re, 3991
  - removing barriers for international doctors, re, 2661
  - Yip, Lisa (doctor), 2655
- Members/ministers quoting letters
  - Bruno, Sam (cancer patient), 2364
  - doctor shortage, re, 2653–2654
  - Harper, Grace re nursing shortage, 2656
  - Maskens, Deborah (kidney cancer patient), 2364
  - Paraskevopoulos, Margo and Eric, 2364–2365
  - Tory, John (leader, PC Party Ontario), 1228
- Members/ministers quoting newspaper articles
  - Brantford Expositor, 9633
  - Globe and Mail (Toronto), 2307
  - Guelph Mercury, 2204
  - Hamilton Spectator, 1164, 2956, 6686
  - Kingston Whig-Standard, 5703
  - Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 5656
  - National Post (Toronto), 7353
  - Sudbury Star, 3991
  - Toronto Star, 2201, 2204
- Members/ministers quoting radio programs
  - CBC Radio, 890
- Members/ministers quoting reports
  - Enhancing Public Trust and Confidence: Recommendations for Revisions to Policies and Procedures Governing Trustee Expenses at Toronto Catholic District School Board (Norbert J. Hartmann), 7354–7355
  - Office of the Auditor General of Ontario Annual Report (2006), 7355
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Atkinson, Irene (school trustee, Toronto District School Board), 9632
  - Breault, Celeste (LaSalle), 278
  - College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO), 4851–4852
  - Coran, Ken (president, Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation), 9384
  - Eng, Susan (vice-president of advocacy, Canada's Association for the Fifty Plus), 5703–5704
  - Fortier, Judy (Lavigne), 278
  - Gaudet, Kevin (director, Canadian Taxpayers' Federation), 5704
  - Giannone, Frank (president, Ontario Home Builders' Association), 6488
  - Grinspun, Doris (executive director, Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario), 2656
  - Hammond, Sam (president, Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario), 9384
  - Hession, Ray (chairman, Ontario Health Quality Council), 2232
  - Hewitt, Warren (doctor), 2826
  - Jones, Stephanie (vice-president, Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association), 5703
  - Kerkhoff, Tom (president, London Home Builders' Association), 6492
  - Ladoucer, Dawson (bullying victim), 9384–9385
  - McGeer, Allison (director of infection control, Mount Sinai Hospital), 1971
  - Miner, Rick (President Emeritus, Seneca College), 9634
  - Moritz, Marion (executive director, Orleans Urgent Care Clinic), 1517
  - O'Brien, Christopher (president, Ontario Association of Nuclear Medicine), 2363
  - Ontario Hospital Association, 2231–2232
  - Ontario Pharmacists' Association, 6902
  - Ontario Real Estate Association, 5703
  - Peroni, Paula (president, Ontario Catholic School Trustees' Association), 9384
  - Pollock, Greg (president and CEO, Advocis), 5703
  - Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario and Nurse Practitioners' Association of Ontario, 6902
  - Robinson, Jan (registrar, College of Physiotherapists of Ontario), 6902
  - Ryan, James (president, Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Federation), 9384
  - Social Planning Network, 5704
  - Urbain, Jean-Luc (chief of nuclear medicine, University of Western Ontario), 652, 2364
  - Werden, Don (trustee, Grand Erie District School Board), 9632
  - White, Graham (professor, department of political science, University of Toronto), 1522–1523
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - Liberal (1995-2003)
    - Gravelle, Michael (Thunder Bay–Superior North), 1228
    - McGuinty, Dalton (Ottawa South)
      - as Leader of the Opposition, 2452, 4323, 6232, 6489
    - Smitherman, George (Toronto Centre–Rosedale), 2083
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - Bradley, James J. (St. Catharines)
      - as Minister of Transportation, 1204
    - Bryant, Michael (St. Paul's)
      - as Minister of Aboriginal Affairs/government House leader, 1228
    - Caplan, David (Don Valley East)
      - as Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, 5822, 7189
    - Duncan, Dwight (Windsor–Tecumseh)
      - as Minister of Finance/Chair of Management Board of Cabinet, 1205
    - Gravelle, Michael (Thunder Bay–Superior North)
      - as Minister of Northern Development and Mines, 1204
    - McGuinty, Dalton (Ottawa South)
      - as Ontario Premier, 7191
    - Smitherman, George (Toronto Centre)
      - as Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, 2024, 2452, 2658
  - PC (1995-2003)
    - Mushinski, Marilyn (Scarborough Centre)
      - as Minister of Citizenship, Culture and Recreation, 8135
  - withdrawal requested, 2465
  - withdrawn, 195, 2082, 2120, 2892, 2895, 4149, 5732, 5997
- Members'/ministers' resignations
  - Smitherman, George (Toronto Centre), 9224
- Members' statements
  - Catholic Family Counselling Centre, 6602
  - Children's aid societies, 7924
  - Diagnostic services, 758
  - Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month, 5471–5472
  - Long-term care, 3687–3688
  - Martin, Yvonne, 9371
  - Nursing Week, 6692
  - Ontario budget, 6232
  - Skilled trades, 5285
  - Walk of Hope, 7279–7280
  - World Asthma Day, 6645
- Midwives
  - expansion of scope of practice, 6903
- Ministerial statements, responded to
  - Foreign-trained doctors, 2581–2582
  - Full-day kindergarten, 8313–8314, 9327
  - Health professions, 6695–6696
  - Patient safety, 4630
  - Persons Day, 7969–7970
  - Student achievement, 6002
  - Student safety, 5474–5475
  - Teachers, 7778
  - Women's History Month, 3055–3056, 7969–7970
  - World Autism Awareness Day, 5836–5837
- Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration
  - grants to community organizations
    - Ontario Cricket Association, 5996
- Ministry of Education
  - equity and inclusive education strategy, 6002
- Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
  - diabetes strategy, 7191
- Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Statute Law Amendment Act, S.O. 1999, c.10, 5655
- Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
  - second career strategy, 4754, 9217–9218, 9634
    - Waterloo region, 7577
- Motor vehicle accidents, 7250–7251
- Municipal government
  - governance, 5301
- National/independence/memorial days
  - Black History Month, 8134–8135
- Nurse practitioners
  - expansion of scope of practice, 6902
- Nurses, 1985, 3515, 4208, 6692
  - hiring, 3529, 3963, 4109, 4322, 5273, 6229
  - layoffs, 4208–4209, 5273–5274
    - Rouge Valley Health System, 829–830, 890
  - safety, 1206
  - shortage, 2656–2657, 3994–3995
- Ontario Black History Society, 8135
- Ontario Building Officials Association Act, 1995 (Bill Pr 40), 7932
- Ontario drug benefit program (ODB)
  - coverage for Myozyme, 4522
    - Troy, Greg case, 4651
- Ontario health insurance plan (OHIP)
  - inclusion of PET scans as insured service, 1923–1924
- Ontario health premium, 3479, 3963
  - exemption for Canadian Armed Forces personnel, 14
- Ontario Poet Laureate, 8128–8129
- Ontario Power Generation fossil-fuel generating stations
  - Lakeview generating station
    - closure, 5333
- Opposition day motions, presented
  - Hospital services, 6401–6402
  - Infectious disease control, 2452–2454
- Opposition day motions, responded to
  - Electronic health information, 8625
  - Taxation, 6519–6520
  - Workplace insurance, 4082–4083
- Oral questions, presented
  - Access to health care, 194–195, 652–653, 1164, 1310–1311, 1517, 1923–1924, 2023–2024, 4522
  - Answers to written questions, 9580
  - Anti-bullying initiatives, 9366–9367
  - C. difficile, 1884–1885, 2024–2025, 2601–2602, 2635, 2775–2777, 2825–2826, 2892–2893, 2953–2954, 2956
  - Curriculum, 8107
  - Doctor shortage, 1660–1661, 6686
  - Education funding, 9718–9719
  - Electronic health information, 5822–5823, 5881, 5944–5945, 7030, 7032, 7143, 7189–7190, 7224
  - Federal election, 3270–3271
  - Government accountability, 5996
  - Green power generation, 6044, 6078, 6227
  - Health care, 4819, 6383–6384, 6987–6988
  - Health care funding, 4208–4209, 6884–6885
  - Health care workers, 3962–3963
  - Hospital funding, 990, 4282–4283, 4464, 5511
  - Hospital services, 4322–4323
  - Infectious disease control, 1971, 2082–2083, 2120, 2123–2124, 2155–2156, 2201–2202, 2204–2205, 2234–2235, 2345–2346, 2433–2434, 6271
  - International trade, 6846–6847
  - Legislative reform, 1204–1205, 1248
  - Long-term care, 198, 519–520, 1656–1657, 5461–5462
  - Member's advertising, 5419–5420
  - Ministry contracts, 7191
  - Nurses, 829–830, 890, 1206, 3529, 4109, 5273–5274, 6229
  - Ontario budget, 497, 4516
  - Ontario drug benefit program, 4651
  - Ontario economy, 4387, 5227
  - Prescription drugs, 2209–2210
  - Public health, 2891–2892, 4148–4149
  - Renewable energy and conservation, 4999, 5124
  - Rural health services, 4939–4940
  - School boards, 9121
  - School calendar, 5379–5380
  - School closures, 8823
  - Skills training, 4754, 7577, 9217–9218
  - Small business, 3574–3575
  - Taxation, 5666, 6488–6489, 6492, 8686
  - Transfer payments, 3486
  - Violent crime, 3726–3727
- Orleans Urgent Care Clinic
  - decline in service, 1517
- Patient safety, 4851, 6696
- Patients
  - alternate level of care patients, 5847
- PC Party documents/plans
  - health care funding, 652, 1661, 4149
- Personal Health Information Protection Act, S.O. 2004, c.3, Sched. A
  - review by Standing Committee on Social Policy, 2230
- Petitions
  - Hospital funding, 5840, 6400, 6505
  - Long-term care, 6401, 7283–7284
  - Lord's Prayer, 1065, 2525
  - Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 2297
  - Reconstructive surgery, 9229
  - Sale of domestic wines and beers, 8118
  - School transportation, 8118–8119, 8316–8317
  - Taxation, 8874, 9048
- Pharmacies
  - pharmacy claims exceeding Formulary prices, 198
- Pharmacists
  - expansion of scope of practice, 6902
- Phoenix Centre for Children and Families
  - government funding, 14
- Physiotherapists
  - expansion of scope of practice, 6901–6902
- Poets
  - Frost, Robert (Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry), 8129
- Poets Laureate, 8129
- Police services
  - cross-border policing, 7721
- Pompe disease
  - Troy, Greg case, 4522
- Positron emission tomography (PET), 652–653, 758, 2363–2365, 2370
- Powers of attorney
  - conditions to prevent abuse, 8717–8718
- Prescription privileges, 2209
  - public consultation, 2210
- Private members' public business
  - Anti-bullying initiatives
    - presented, 9383–9385, 9390
  - Black History Month Act, 2009 (Bill 207)
    - second reading, 8134–8135
  - Breast Cancer Screening Act, 2009 (Bill 200)
    - second reading, 7443–7444
  - British Home Child Day Act, 2010 (Bill 241)
    - second reading, 9379–9380
  - Condominium Owners Protection Act, 2009 (Bill 186)
    - second reading, 7260
  - Congenital Heart Disease Awareness Day Act, 2009 (Bill 178)
    - second reading, 8882
  - Diagnostic services
    - presented, 2363–2365, 2370
  - Education Amendment Act (Pupils with Diabetes), 2009 (Bill 137)
    - second reading, 5294
  - Financial literacy
    - responded to, 7940–7941
  - Fuel safety
    - responded to, 3343–3344
  - Hawkins Gignac Act (Carbon Monoxide Detectors), 2009 (Bill 143)
    - second reading, 5858–5859
  - Health care
    - responded to, 5846–5847
  - Healthy schools
    - responded to, 2372
  - Highway Traffic Amendment Act (Aftermarket Brake Pad Standards), 2009 (Bill 181)
    - second reading, 7250–7251
  - Inactive Cemeteries Protection Act, 2009 (Bill 149)
    - second reading, 5482–5483
  - Katelyn Bedard Bone Marrow Awareness Month Act, 2007 (Bill 5)
    - second reading, 278–279
  - Kindness Week
    - responded to, 7455–7457
  - Labour Relations Amendment Act (Replacement Workers), 2009 (Bill 86)
    - second reading, 7932–7933
  - Long-term care
    - responded to, 4122–4123
  - Municipalities
    - responded to, 5301–5302
  - Ontario Poet Laureate
    - responded to, 8128–8129
  - Protection of Vulnerable and Elderly People from Abuse Act (Powers of Attorney), 2009 (Bill 188)
    - second reading, 8717–8718
  - Small business
    - responded to, 7752–7753
  - Smoke-Free Ontario Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 42)
    - second reading, 552
- Propane explosions
  - Sunrise Propane, 3343–3344
    - daily reports on the progress of inspections of propane facilities, 3343–3344
    - government funding to assist people, 3343
    - review of 911 call system, 3343
    - setting up of information centre, 3343
    - testing of soil and air for toxic substances, 3343
- Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee (PIDAC), 2953
- Public education campaigns
  - Bone Marrow Awareness Month, 278
  - British Home Child Day, 9379–9380
  - Bullying Awareness and Prevention Week, 9383–9385, 9390
  - Congenital Heart Disease Awareness Day, 8882
  - "Eat Local: Live Fresh," 2372
  - International Day Against Homophobia, 1985
  - Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month, 5471
  - Kindness Week, 7455–7457
  - Nursing Week, 6692
  - Persons Day, 7969–7970
  - Women's History Month, 7969–7970
  - World Asthma Day, 6645
  - World Autism Awareness Day, 5836
  - World Teachers' Day, 7778
- Public health units
  - local pandemic influenza contingency plan, 6271
    - isolation and quarantine facilities, 6271
- Public Sector Expenses Review Act, 2009 (Bill 201)
  - second reading, 7422–7425
- Red Tape Commission, 7752–7753
- Regulated health profession colleges
  - college supervisors, 6905
- Regulated Health Professions Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 141)
  - first reading
    - public consultation, 4630
  - second reading, 4850–4854
  - third reading, 5591–5595
- Regulated Health Professions Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 179)
  - second reading, 6901–6906
- Reports
  - Early Years Study: Reversing the Real Brain Drain, Final Report (F. Mustard, M. McCain), 9629–9630
  - Good Nursing, Good Health: An Investment for the 21st Century (Nursing Task Force), 2657
  - With Our Best Future in Mind: Report to the Premier by the Special Advisor on Early Learning (Charles Pascal), 9629
  - Part Two Report of the Walkerton Inquiry: A Strategy for Safe Drinking Water (Dennis O'Connor), 2891–2892
  - Prevention and Control of Hospital-acquired Infections (Office of the Auditor General of Ontario), 2953
  - Report on Removing Barriers for International Medical Doctors (Laurel C. Broten), 2582
  - Smart Systems for Health Agency: Operational Review (Deloitte & Touche LLP), 5945
- Road safety, 7250–7251
- Role models
  - Basrur, Sheela (former chief medical officer of health for Ontario), 3056
  - Fairclough, Ellen (former federal Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 3056
- Rural hospitals, 4940
  - services, 4940
- Safe Schools Act, S.O. 2000, c.12, 6002
- School board trustees
  - autonomy, 7353, 7358
  - Catholic school trustees
    - trustees to uphold board decisions, 7354
- School boards
  - appointment of supervisors by government, 7354
  - governance
    - reform, 7352–7353
  - larger boards performing services for and distributing funds to smaller boards, 9121
  - purchasing practices, 7355–7356
- School cafeterias
  - to serve healthy, local Ontario foods, 2372
- School closures, 8823–8824
- School safety, 6002
  - principal to notify parents of victims, 5474
  - reporting of violent incidents, 5474
  - school staff to address inappropriate or disrespectful behaviour among students, 5474
- School year
  - start of classes before or after Labour Day, 5379–5380
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), 2452
  - public inquiries, 2124
- Smart Systems for Health Agency (SSHA), 2231, 5822–5823, 7030
  - expenditures, 5881
    - disclosure, 7422–7424
  - value-for-money audit, 5822–5823, 5944–5945, 5996
- Smoke-Free Ontario Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 1911–1913, 1915
- Smoke shops
  - Argyle Street (Caledonia), 5656
- Smoking, 5655–5656
  - ban on smoking in cars with children present, 552, 1911–1913
  - ban on smoking in workplaces/enclosed public places, 552
  - health risks, 1913
  - second-hand smoke, 1913
- Special education
  - government funding, 9631
- Speed limiters, 1175
  - impact on greenhouse gas emissions, 1177
  - vehicle exemptions, 1177
- Standing Orders
  - S.O. 9(a) Meetings of the House - Daily adjournment, 1232
  - S.O. 8(a) Meetings of the House - Meeting time, 1231
  - S.O. 30(a) Routine Proceedings - Order of Routine Proceedings, 1232
  - S.O. 9(b) Meetings of the House - Recess, 1232
  - S.O. 38(b) Petitions - Presentation in House, 1232
  - S.O. 79(b.1) Public Bills - 3 readings for all bills, 1233
  - S.O. 37(b) Routine Proceedings - Proceedings on adjournment, 1232
  - S.O. 11(e) Meetings of the House - Same, 1232
  - S.O. 96(e) Private Members' Public Business - Recess, 1233
  - S.O. 37(e) Routine Proceedings - Proceeding not to take place, 1232
- Student Achievement and School Board Governance Act, 2009 (Bill 177)
  - second reading, 7352–7358
- Supply Act, 2009 (Bill 161)
  - second reading, 5702–5705
- Time allocation motions
  - Legislative reform
    - responded to, 1522–1523
- Tobacco Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act, 2009 (Bill 155)
  - second reading, 5655–5656
- Tobacco Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act, SBC 2000, c.30, 5655
- Tobacco products
  - illegal sale, 5655
- Tobacco products manufacturers
  - recovery of tobacco-related health care costs from manufacturers, 5655
- Tributes
  - Basrur, Sheela (former chief medical officer of health for Ontario), 2306–2307
  - Marteau, Yvonne (nurse killed in Haitian earthquake, January 12, 2010), 9371
  - Runciman, Robert (interim leader of the opposition), 7217
- Trucking industry
  - vehicle maintenance and safety, 1176
- Unemployment, 5227
- United States
  - Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), 5655
- Universities/colleges
  - government funding, 4712
  - York University
    - strike, 4712
- Violence against women, 3727, 9044–9045
- Volatile fuels
  - safety, 3343
- Wind turbines
  - health effects, 5331, 6044, 6078, 6227
- Workers
  - job retraining, 9633–9634
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 119)
  - general discussion
    - public consultation, 4082–4083
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), 4082–4083
  - unfunded liability, 4083
- York University Labour Disputes Resolution Act, 2009 (Bill 145)
  - second reading, 4712–4713
Wynne, Hon. K.O. (LIB, Don Valley West)
- ABC CANADA Literacy Foundation
  - Family Literacy Day, 4697
- Aboriginal children
  - education, 4249
- Adult education, 3185
- Advanced Coronary Treatment Foundation
  - government funding, 2907, 3237
- American sign language (ASL), 2833
- Appreciation
  - teachers, 43, 3097
- Autism services, 482
  - intensive behavioural intervention (IBI), 4423–4424
    - wait lists, 996–997
- Automated external defibrillators (AED), 2907
- Awards
  - Eat Smart! Healthy School Program, 204
  - Premier's Award for Teaching Excellence, 43, 1130, 7777
  - Premier's Awards for Teaching Excellence, 986, 6597
- Books, 4697
- Bullying, 6831
  - lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgendered, intersexed, queer (LGBTTIQ) teens
    - mandatory reporting of incidents, 5521–5522
  - student engagement in prevention and reporting, 5527
- Child and Family Services Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 103)
  - second reading, 3365–3366
- Children
  - immigrant children
    - access to education, 2605
- Court cases/actions
  - Sampson, Katelynn (murder victim), 4150
- Curriculum
  - mathematics, 8107–8108
- Driver licences
  - enhanced driver licences, 9319
  - recreational vehicles, 9500
- Early childhood education
  - full-day learning for four- and five-year-old children, 6991
- Education, 381, 1104
  - character development program, 4291
  - parental involvement in education, 423
- Education Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.E.2, 7346
- Education Amendment Act (Keeping Our Kids Safe at School), 2009 (Bill 157)
  - general discussion, 5616, 7075
  - first reading, 5473
  - ministerial statement, 5473–5474
  - second reading, 5521–5523, 5527
  - third reading, 6831–6832
- Education funding, 200
  - accountability, 2640–2641
  - government funding, 1060, 1104–1105, 1367, 1422, 2083, 2127, 4806, 6188, 6190
    - school foundation grant, 2258, 3829, 6690
- Education funding reform, 898, 1422–1423
- Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO)
  - Assessment of Reading, Writing and Mathematics (Primary and Junior Division), 7036
  - Earl, Lorna (member, board of directors)
    - conflict of interest, 7576
  - Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT), 7223–7224
- Electrical safety
  - mandatory installation of surge protectors in new residential and commercial construction, 7055
- Elementary school teachers, 3323
- Employment insurance, 5953
- Financial literacy, 8349–8350
- Foreign caregivers
  - protection, 6063–6064
- French-language debates
  - Déclarations ministérielles et réponses
    - Conseils scolaires, 6648–6649
    - Écoles saines, 69, 2907, 3689
    - Enseignants et enseignantes, 7777–7778
    - Jardin d'enfants à temps plein, 8313
    - Journée mondiale des enseignants, 3097–3098
    - Prix du premier ministre pour l'excellence en enseignement, 986
    - Rendement scolaire, 43–44, 5324, 6000–6001
    - Sécurité dans les écoles, 4657
    - Sécurité des élèves, 5473–5474
    - Semaine de l'éducation, 1410–1411
    - TFO, 824–825
  - Loi de 2009 modifiant la Loi sur l'éducation (sécurité de nos enfants à l'école), projet de loi 157
    - troisième lecture, 6831–6832
  - Loi de 2009 sur le rendement des élèves et la gouvernance des conseils scolaires, projet de loi 177
    - deuxième lecture, 7346–7351
  - Loi de 2008 sur l'Office des télécommunications éducatives de langue française de l'Ontario, projet de loi 55
    - troisième lecture, 2379–2380
- French-language education, 2379
  - federal government funding, 2294
- Governance review committee, 6274, 6648
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - education, 7350–7351
    - rural schools, 2083
  - PC (1995-2003)
    - school closures, 1105, 2237
- Government-teacher relations, 6597
- Graduation (statistics), 1410, 5324, 6080
- Health care
  - out-of-country, 9726
- Healthy Food for Healthy Schools Act, 2008 (Bill 8)
  - general discussion, 3237
  - first reading, 67–68
  - ministerial statement, 68–69
  - second reading, 204–206
  - third reading, 1129–1130
- Independent Learning Centre
  - general educational development, 3185
- Investing in Ontario Act, 2008 (Bill 35)
  - second reading, 975
- Kindergarten
  - full-day, 8069, 8312–8313, 8458
- Language instruction
  - English as a second language (ESL)
    - government funding, 692, 898
- Legislature schedule/agenda
  - adjournment for International Plowing Match and Rural Expo, 7070
- Long-term-care facilities, 4249
- Manufacturing industry, 5953
- Members/ministers quoting letters
  - Alway, Richard (supervisor, Toronto, District Catholic School Board), 7269
- Members/ministers quoting newspaper articles
  - Brockville Recorder and Times, 2259
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Atkinson, Irene (school trustee, Toronto District School Board), 1163
  - Chartrand, Denis (former director, Council of Directors of Education and member, Governance Review Committee), 7350–7351
  - Chevalier, Madeleine (school trustee and chair, Governance Review Committee), 7350
  - Jordan, Sherry (president, Eventfully Yours), 2734
  - Olsen, Carole (chair, Canadian Education Association), 7351
- Ministerial statements, presented
  - Education Week, 1410–1411
  - Full-day kindergarten, 8312–8313
  - Healthy schools, 68–69, 2907–2908, 3689–3690
  - Premier's Awards for Teaching Excellence, 986
  - School boards, 6648–6649
  - School safety, 4657
  - Student achievement, 43–44, 5324, 6000–6001
  - Student safety, 5473–5474
  - Teachers, 7777–7778
  - World Teachers' Day, 3097–3098
- Ministers redirecting oral questions, 4249, 8458
- Ministry of Education
  - anti-bullying programs, 5381
  - collection of student achievement statistics based on ethnicity, 1569
  - dual credits, 3047
  - equity and inclusive education strategy, 6000–6001, 8137
  - expenditures
    - Eventfully Yours, 2669–2670, 2734
  - healthy schools
    - Eating Well Looks Good on You, 3689
  - hotel and conference expenses, 4421
  - literacy and numeracy strategy, 4290
  - parent involvement committees, 5124
  - Parents Reaching Out grants, 423, 5123–5124
  - pupil accommodation review guidelines, 1367, 2091, 2237, 2669, 4806
  - Safe Schools Action Team, 2515, 5521, 6831
    - recommendations, 5522–5523
  - school information finder, 5883, 5991–5992, 6080, 6886–6887, 6945, 7035–7036, 7194
    - public consultation, 7079
  - student success strategy
    - expansion of co-operative education, 3047
    - specialist high skills major, 3047, 5324
- Ministry of Education/Ministry of Health Promotion
  - healthy schools recognition program, 205–206, 3237, 3689–3690
- Ministry of Health Promotion
  - EatRight Ontario, 206
- Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
  - Pathways to Education program, 26, 5379
- Multiculturalism, 937
- National/independence/memorial days
  - Black History Month, 8137
- Near North District School Board, 741–742
- Nowruz, 936–937
- Obesity
  - children, 204
- Ontario French-language Educational Communications Authority Act, 2008 (Bill 55)
  - first reading, 823
  - ministerial statement, 824–825
  - third reading, 2379–2380
- Opposition day motions, responded to
  - Rural schools, 2258–2259
- Oral questions, presented
  - Public transit, 9368–9369
- Oral questions, responded to
  - Aboriginal education, 4249
  - Access to education, 2605
  - Autism services, 482, 996–997, 1472, 4423–4424, 7692
  - Child protection, 4150
  - Class size, 2782, 4472–4473
  - Conflict of interest, 7576
  - Curriculum, 8107–8108
  - Driver licences, 9319
  - Education, 5883, 5991–5992, 6804
  - Education funding, 200, 995, 1422–1423, 2294, 2640–2641, 2669–2670, 2734, 3185, 4290–4291, 4697, 4806, 5123–5124, 6188, 6190, 7578
  - Elementary teachers, 3323, 4694, 4750–4751, 4804–4805
  - ESL funding, 898
  - Financial literacy, 8349–8350
  - Full-day kindergarten, 1663, 6991, 8069, 8458
  - Fundraising, 9543–9544
  - Healthy schools, 3237
  - High school students, 3047
  - Minister's comments, 4249
  - Ministry spending, 4421
  - Ontario budget, 692
  - Parental involvement in education, 423
  - Pathways to Education, 26
  - Public transit, 9367–9368, 9499, 9696
  - Recreational vehicles, 9500
  - School boards, 651–652, 1714, 6274, 6842–6843, 9121
  - School calendar, 5126, 5379–5380
  - School closures, 381–382, 741–742, 898, 1104–1105, 1163, 1366–1367, 2083–2084, 2091, 2124–2125, 2127, 2237, 3829, 6337, 8823–8824, 9122–9123
  - School facilities, 3732–3733, 8998
  - School pools, 1060, 1105, 1372, 1573
  - School safety, 2515, 2567, 2604, 2636–2637, 2961, 3377–3378, 3772–3774, 3966, 5616
  - School support staff, 5426
  - School transportation, 1975, 6690, 8028
  - School transportation funding, 1055–1056, 6231, 6986
  - School trustees, 1889, 2030, 2392–2393
  - Sign language in schools, 2833
  - Special-needs students, 7269
  - Student achievement, 1569, 6080, 6886–6887, 6945, 7035–7036, 7079, 7194, 7223–7224
  - Student safety, 5380–5381, 7075
  - Teachers, 6597
  - Teachers' collective agreement, 4620
  - Teachers' collective bargaining, 4820–4821
  - Teachers' pensions, 771
  - Toronto Catholic District School Board, 4575, 6747
  - Tourism, 5236
  - Transportation, 9581
  - Transportation infrastructure, 9726
  - TVOntario, 6983
  - Water quality, 295
  - Youth services, 769
- Playgrounds
  - McKenzie-Smith Bennett public school
    - closure, 8998
- Political contributions
  - Greater Toronto Airports Authority donation to Ontario Liberal Party, 9543–9544
- Private members' public business
  - Black History Month Act, 2009 (Bill 207)
    - second reading, 8137
  - Caregiver and Foreign Worker Recruitment and Protection Act, 2009 (Bill 160)
    - second reading, 6063–6064
  - Employment insurance
    - responded to, 5853
  - Municipal Residential and Commercial Surge Protector Act, 2009 (Bill 176)
    - second reading, 7055–7056
  - Nowruz
    - responded to, 936–937
- Private schools
  - government funding, 2294
- Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), 43
- Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), 43
- Public education campaigns
  - Education Week, 1410
  - World Teachers' Day, 3097, 7775–7776
- Public transportation
  - government funding, 9367–9368, 9499
  - Ottawa
    - fare increase, 9696
  - Pickering–Scarborough East, 9581
- Reports
  - Investing in Public Education: Advancing the Goal of Continuous Improvement in Student Learning and Achievement (Education Equality Task Force), 7355
  - With Our Best Future in Mind: Report to the Premier by the Special Advisor on Early Learning (Charles Pascal), 8069
  - Reach Every Student: Energizing Ontario Education (Ministry of Education), 1410
  - School Board Governance: A Focus on Achievement (governance review committee), 6648–6649
  - 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), 4657, 6831–6832
- School board funding
  - Good Places to Learn grant, 3733
  - government funding
    - rural school boards, 2237
  - school renewal grant, 3732–3733
- School board trustees
  - Catholic school trustees
    - trustees to uphold board decisions, 6842, 7347–7348
  - code of conduct, 7348
- School boards
  - appointment of supervisors by government, 7349–7350
  - audit committees, 7349
  - directors to advise board of decisions contrary to provincial legislation, 6842–6843
  - governance, 6274, 6648
    - reform, 7347
  - larger boards performing services for and distributing funds to smaller boards, 9121
  - oversight by Ombudsman, 2641
- School bus transportation, 6986
  - government funding, 1055–1056, 1975, 6231, 6690
  - procurement process, 8028
- School cafeterias
  - ban on trans fat in food and beverages, 69, 1129–1130
    - exemptions on special event days, 1130
- School closures, 382, 898, 1367, 2091, 2127, 3829, 8823–8824
  - deferral, 3829
  - Elmvale District High School, 6337
  - moratorium, 2084, 2091
  - Phelps Central Public School, 741–742
  - St. Paul's, 9122–9123
- School-community relations, 6831
- School facilities
  - extended use, 769
- School fundraising, 6190
- School libraries
  - government funding, 7578
- School safety, 2961, 3377–3378, 3774, 4657, 5473, 6831–6832
  - principal to notify parents of victims, 5474, 5616, 6832, 7075
  - reporting of violent incidents, 2567, 2604, 2636–2637, 2961, 3772–3774, 3966, 4150, 5473–5474, 6831–6832
  - school staff to address inappropriate or disrespectful behaviour among students, 5474, 6832
  - student assault, 2515
- School support staff, 5426, 6597
- School vending machines
  - ban on unhealthy food and beverages, 69
- School year
  - start of classes before or after Labour Day, 5126, 5236, 5379
- Schools
  - enrolment, 6188
  - enrolment decline, 2259
  - government funding, 898, 2258
  - healthy activities, 2907–2908
- Simcoe County District School Board
  - government funding, 6337
- Special education
  - Arrowsmith program at Toronto Catholic District School Board, 7269
  - government funding, 6188
- Student achievement, 43, 651, 1422, 6000, 6080, 6649, 7224
- Student Achievement and School Board Governance Act, 2009 (Bill 177)
  - general discussion, 6842
  - first reading, 6648
  - ministerial statement, 6648
  - second reading, 7346–7352
- Student enrolment
  - decline, 1366–1367, 1423, 2124–2125
- Student evaluation, 6804
  - pan-Canadian assessment program (PCAP), 1410–1411
- Student grants
  - supported schools allocation, 2258
- Teacher collective agreements, 4694, 4750–4751, 4804–4805
  - Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario, 4620, 4820
- Teacher collective bargaining
  - Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario, 3323, 4694, 4750, 4804–4805
- Teacher pension funds, 771
- Teacher-student ratios
  - cap, 2782
  - reduction, 4472–4473
- Teachers
  - student success teachers, 3366
- TFO, 824–825, 2379–2380
- Toronto Catholic District School Board
  - compliance with ministry policies, 6747
  - government funding, 1663
  - payment for work done by CEC Mechanical Ltd., 4575
  - school board trustees
    - expenditures, 1714, 1889, 2030, 2392–2393
- Toronto District School Board, 1163
  - general discussion, 1060
  - governance, 651–652
  - government funding, 652, 975, 1105
  - swimming pools
    - closure, 995, 1105, 1372, 1573
- Toronto District School Board-Future Shop agreements
  - use of Future Shop colours in computer lab, 6190
- Tourism industry, 5236
- Transit systems
  - GO Transit
    - noise reduction in west Toronto diamond project, 9368–9369
- TVOntario, 6983
  - De Wilde, Lisa (chief executive officer), 6983
- Underground railroad, 8137
- Water quality
  - schools, 295
- Youth programs
  - focus on youth program, 769