Speaker letter w House Hansard index Parliament 41 Session 1

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Letter: W

Walker, B. (PC, Bruce–Grey–Owen Sound)
- Abattoirs
  - regulatory compliance, 2683
- Aggregate sites, 2469
- Agricultural labourers
  - minimum wage, 497
- Agriculture Insurance Act (Amending the Crop Insurance Act, 1996), 2015 (Bill 40)
  - second reading, 2575–2576, 2682–2685
  - third reading, 4496–4497
- Air ambulance services
  - oversight of, 910–911, 986–987
- All-terrain vehicles (ATVs)
  - use on highways, 2277
- Alternative Financial Services Statute Law Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 156)
  - second reading, 8741–8742, 8761, 9037–9042, 9161–9162, 9173–9174
- Appreciation
  - Bryden, Marion, 1998
  - Pan/Para Pan American 2015 Games athletes, 5629
- Assistive devices program (ADP)
  - government funding, 7804
  - wait times, 8851–8852
- Automobile insurance fraud
  - anti-fraud task force, 736–737
- Automobile safety inspection program
  - cost, 2280
- Bees
  - population decline, 2683
- Better Business Climate Act, 2014 (Bill 7)
  - second reading, 1388–1394, 1406
- Blood and blood products
  - from paid donor systems, 1117–1118, 1124–1125
  - sufficient supply, 1122–1123, 1184
  - supply of plasma, 1952–1953
- Blood donation and collection
  - co-existence of voluntary and commercial systems, 1953–1954
- Blood donation and collection, prohibition on payment
  - exemption for Canadian Blood Services, 1126
  - exemption for research purposes, 1126
- Bruce Power
  - long-term agreement with IESO, 7058
- Budget 2014
  - balanced budget, 243
  - program spending, 244–246, 298
- Budget 2016
  - deficit, 8104–8105, 8420
  - general remarks, 8109, 8118
- Budget deficit, 104, 243–244
- Budget Measures Act, 2015 (Bill 144)
  - second reading, 6592, 6610
- Budget speech 2014 (July 14, 2014)
  - responded to, 243–246
- Budget speech 2016 (February 25, 2016)
  - responded to, 8104–8107, 8109, 8118, 8126–8127, 8131–8132
- Building Ontario Up Act (Budget Measures), 2015 (Bill 91)
  - second reading, 4044–4051
- Building Opportunity and Securing Our Future Act (Budget Measures), 2014 (Bill 14)
  - second reading, 295–298
- Business development
  - general remarks, 1393–1394
- Canadian artists
  - Tom Thomson, 390
- Cap-and-trade, economic impact
  - cost, 8987
  - energy costs, 8477–8478
- Centres of excellence
  - for environmental illnesses, 1043
- Cheque cashing services
  - government-issued cheques
    - fee limit, 9038, 9040
- Child Care Modernization Act, 2014 (Bill 10)
  - second reading, 930–931
- Child care reform
  - public consultation, 931
- Child care reform, economic impact
  - in rural areas, 1239
- Child care subsidies
  - national program, 1238–1241
  - in Quebec, 1240–1241
- Childhood cancer
  - awareness month, 9136–9137
  - personal accounts, 9137
- Children and youth in care
  - protection after age 16, 2678, 7087–7088
- Chronic fatigue syndrome
  - research funding, 4332
- Cider producers
  - government support, 6348–6349
- Class sizes
  - increase, 6715
- Climate Change Mitigation and Low-carbon Economy Act, 2016 (Bill 172)
  - third reading, 9430, 9444–9449, 9457, 9467
- Committees
  - study of estimates, 2499
- Community care access centres (CCACs)
  - executive salaries, 1782–1783
  - government funding, 1533
- Concurrence in supply debate (March 2015)
  - participation, 2498–2500
- Connecting Links Program
  - renewal, 8105
- Courthouses
  - security screening, 1643
- Cycling strategy
  - paved shoulders on highways, 2277
- Debt retirement charge (DRC)
  - general remarks, 244
- Development charges
  - effect on home affordability, 5027
  - reporting of, 5026–5027
- Developmental services
  - government funding, 1433–1434
  - residential services, 4269, 8470
- Doctor shortage
  - in northern and rural Ontario, 8148–8149
- Down syndrome awareness, 8469–8470
- Driver fines, collection
  - by municipality, 2274, 2279
- Drivers
  - medical reporting on, 2280
  - "slow down, move over" laws, 2262–2263, 2279
  - yielding to funeral processions, 2262
- Drivers, impaired by drugs
  - penalties, 6855
- Drivers, use of hand-held devices
  - demerit points, 2274, 2279
- Ebola virus disease
  - infection control measures, 692, 820
- E-cigarettes
  - control and prevention of use, 1761–1763
  - as smoking cessation tool, 1763–1765, 3206, 4524–4526
- Education funding, 6716
- Educational assistants
  - layoffs, 4576–4577, 5234, 5937–5938, 6212–6213, 6715
- Elder abuse
  - duty of health care providers to report, 7240
- Election contributions
  - limits, third party, 5735–5737, 5742–5743
- Election Finances Statute Law Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 201)
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 9669–9674
- Electoral Boundaries Act, 2015 (Bill 115)
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 6168–6171
- Electricity price mitigation
  - for low-income households, 7680
- Emergency service providers
  - appreciation, 7466
- Employment and unemployment
  - employment rate, 367
  - general remarks, 245
- Ending Coal for Cleaner Air Act, 2015 (Bill 9)
  - second reading, 4307–4308
- Energy industry
  - general remarks, 9275–9276
- Energy rates
  - affordability, 3606–3607
  - effect on business and labour market competition, 492, 7679–7680, 8105–8106
  - general remarks, 1240
  - increase, 4364, 6387
- Energy rates, additional charges
  - global adjustment charge, 6386–6387
- Energy Statute Law Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 135)
  - second reading, 6386–6389, 6391, 6398–6399, 6834, 6846
  - third reading, 9212, 9216–9217, 9230
- Environmental illnesses, 1043
- Exercise
  - as component of health, 3205–3206
- Family support payments
  - in arrears, 6855–6856
- Farm assistance programs
  - coverage and payments, 2683
- Fast food menu labelling
  - general remarks, 1756–1757
  - implementation and consultation, 1441–1442, 1758–1759
- Federal government
  - immigrant selection programs
    - Expression of Interest (EOI), 2738
- Fighting Fraud and Reducing Automobile Insurance Rates Act, 2014 (Bill 15)
  - second reading, 736–737
- Financial literacy
  - government support, 9038
- Food prices, 2683–2684
- Fox, Terry
  - charity races, 3121
- Fruit farming
  - apple industry, 228, 2682, 3760, 8106
- Gas plant cancellations, email deletion
  - general remarks, 2966
- Gasoline prices
  - affordability, 7681
- Gasoline tax revenue
  - for rural municipal infrastructure, 2275, 6855
- Government accountability
  - effect on size and cost of bureaucracy, 947
  - reform, 955
- Government advertising
  - third-party advertising
    - spending limit, 2143, 6715, 7980, 8538
    - transparency, 6715
- Government debt, 104, 243, 245–246, 4046, 6856–6857, 8985–8986
- Government orders
  - Order of business
    - responded to, 4800–4802
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-present)
    - agriculture industry, 2576
    - general remarks, 8985
- Government service transfer, 8105
- Government spending
  - general remarks, 1240
- Great Lakes
  - water levels, 5646–5647, 5801
- Great Lakes conservation
  - municipal autonomy, 5647–5648
- Great Lakes conservation initiatives
  - geographically focused, 5647–5648
- Great Lakes Protection Act, 2015 (Bill 66)
  - third reading, 5646–5648
- Health care funding
  - federal government transfer, 5852
  - general remarks, 4047, 8107, 8202
  - reducing residency placements, 5852
  - reduction, 3027–3028, 3790, 5852–5853, 6857
- Health care in rural Ontario
  - government funding, 5853–5854
- Health care workers
  - layoffs, 5852, 8421
- Health regulatory colleges
  - investigative powers, 1121
  - reporting requirements, 1121
- Health sector organizations
  - disclosure of OHIP billings over $100,000, 3131
- Heritage conservation
  - Juno Beach Project, 2839
- Highways in rural Ontario
  - winter maintenance, 2279, 2282
- Home care funding
  - reform, 3722–3723
- Honours and awards
  - Lieutenant Governor's Ontario Heritage Awards, 7765
- Hospital construction
  - by hospital
    - Markdale Hospital, 104, 243, 245, 296
- Hospital funding, by hospital
  - Markdale hospital, 81–82, 8107
- Hospital pharmacies
  - inspection, 1124, 1126
- Hydro One Inc. oversight
  - exemptions, 4048
  - by government
    - exemptions, 4045–4046
- Hydro One Inc. privatization
  - general remarks, 5590–5593
- Hydro One Inc. privatization, economic impact
  - on energy rates, 4047–4048
- Hydro One Inc. privatization, revenue
  - to pay electricity debt, 4047, 6592
- Hydro One Inc. privatization, review
  - report by Financial Accountability Officer, 6389
- Immigrants, employment
  - foreign credential recognition, 2734, 2736
  - registry of employers and recruiters, 2737
- Immigration rates
  - decline in Ontario, 2735–2736
- Immunization
  - as preventive and public health strategy, 3861–3862
  - registry, 4456–4457
- Independent child care providers (ICPs)
  - oversight, 931
  - role in child care industry, 1239
- Intensive behavioural intervention (IBI)
  - wait-list, 9514–9515
- Interns and co-op students
  - payment for work, entitlement, 509
- Invasive Species Act, 2015 (Bill 37)
  - third reading, 5801–5803
- Invasive species inspectors
  - number of, 5802
  - powers of, 5802
- Invasive species management
  - sufficient funding and resources, 5803
- Invasive species management, landowners
  - rights and responsibilities, 4800
- Invasive species types
  - emerald ash borer, 5801–5802
  - phragmites, 4801–4802
- Jobs for Today and Tomorrow Act (Budget Measures), 2016 (Bill 173)
  - second reading, 7678–7681, 7683
- Legislative procedure
  - answers to written questions, 9422
  - time allocation motions, 1384
- Legislative staff, 8205
- Libel and slander
  - qualified privilege, 2967
- Liquefied natural gas (LNG)
  - as transportation fuel, 3140–3141
- Long-term care
  - government funding, 7680–7681
  - safety of patients and staff, 7504
  - wait times, 868, 3574–3576, 5853, 7125–7126, 7241
- Long-term care beds
  - new, 5853, 6480–6481, 6857, 6943
  - shortage, 8126
- Long-term care facilities
  - standard of care, 5559
  - understaffing, 7681, 8107
- Making Healthier Choices Act, 2015 (Bill 45)
  - second reading, 1756–1768, 3176, 3195, 3205–3206
  - third reading, 4524–4533, 4552
- Marine Emergency Duties Training Centre
  - relocation, 104, 295–296, 386
- MaRS Discovery District building
  - Phase 2 development
    - loan, 1241
- Members' statements
  - Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, 9810
  - Black History Month, 7342–7343
  - Bruce Grey Music Hall of Fame, 4472
  - Bruce Power, 7058
  - Bye, Janice, 6805
  - Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, 5113–5114
  - Hawthorne, Duncan, 8855
  - Hepworth-Shallow Lake Rotary Club, 643–644
  - History Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1491
  - Holodomor, 4584
  - Impact! Youth Summit, 9952–9953
  - Insurance Bureau of Canada, 6700
  - Lieutenant Governor's Ontario Heritage Awards, 7765
  - Macphail, Agnes, 3004–3005
  - McArthur, Leo, 8041
  - Multiple sclerosis, 4670
  - Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, 764
  - Muslim community, 5505–5506
  - Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Association of Ontario, 1043, 4332
  - National Immunization Awareness Week, 3861–3862
  - Naturopathic medicine, 4375
  - Ontario Bioscience Innovation Organization, 8361–8362
  - Ontario Heritage Award for Youth Achievement, 2839
  - Ontario Scottish community, 8409–8410
  - Ontario Senior Achievement Awards, 1272–1273
  - Pan Am and Parapan Am athletes, 5629
  - Perry, Cailyn, 4427–4428
  - School closures, 8953
  - School nutrition programs, 86
  - Tara cenotaph, 6533–6534
  - Thomson, Tom, 390
  - Veterans, 2373–2374
  - Volunteers, 6152
  - Wiarton Willie Festival, 7450
  - World No Tobacco Day, 9709
- Members'/ministers' birthdays
  - Kwinter, Monte (York Centre), 2969
- Members'/ministers' constituencies
  - Bruce–Grey–Owen Sound, 106
- Members'/ministers' correction of record, 643
- Members'/ministers' inaugural speeches, 101–104
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 4528
- Members'/ministers' privileges
  - wearing of paraphernalia
    - ribbons, 5103
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - withdrawn, 986, 1170–1171, 1384, 1386, 4014, 7678
- Mental health care
  - accessibility, 7465–7466
- Mental health patients, involuntary detention
  - beyond 6 months, 5971–5972
- Mental Health Statute Law Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 122)
  - second reading, 5970–5975, 6189, 6299, 6302–6303
- Minimum wage indexed to inflation
  - economic impact, 491, 496–497
- Ministerial statements
  - Cancer Awareness Month
    - responded to, 3968–3969
  - Community Living Day
    - responded to, 4269–4270
  - Ebola virus
    - responded to, 820
  - Healthy living
    - responded to, 1441–1442
  - Long-term care
    - responded to, 867–868
  - Ontario Public Library Week
    - responded to, 547
  - Personal support workers
    - responded to, 9592–9593
  - Seniors' Month
    - responded to, 9769–9770
  - Social workers
    - responded to, 2611–2612
- Motor vehicle dealers
  - permits and validations, 7023
- Multiple sclerosis disease and patients
  - awareness, 4670
- Municipal Elections Modernization Act, 2016 (Bill 181)
  - second reading, 8536–8540, 8542, 8646
- Municipal planning
  - advisory committee, 5025–5026
- Municipal planning, official plans
  - appeals and amendments, 5024–5025
- Naturopathy, 4375
- Neonicotinoid use
  - reduction, 1765
- Nuclear generating stations
  - phase out, 8987
- Nurses
  - layoffs, 3027
- Nutrition for children
  - breakfast and school programs, 86
- Obesity in children
  - prevention, 1756–1758
- Ontario disability support program (ODSP)
  - work-related benefit, 4724–4725
- Ontario history
  - Black community, 7342–7343
- Ontario Immigration Act, 2015 (Bill 49)
  - second reading, 2734–2741, 2748–2749, 2757
- Ontario Retirement Pension Plan Act (Strengthening Retirement Security for Ontarians), 2016 (Bill 186)
  - second reading, 8983–8989
- Ontario Retirement Pension Plan, economic impact
  - affordability, 8986, 8988–8989
  - on business and labour market competition, 244, 297, 4046–4047, 8984, 8986
  - job losses, 8984
  - on small and medium-sized businesses, 8986
- Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 80)
  - second reading, 3412
- Opposition day motions
  - Autism treatment
    - responded to, 9514–9515
  - Child care
    - responded to, 1238–1241
  - Electoral reform
    - responded to, 8822–8823
  - Government contracts
    - responded to, 9275–9277
  - Government policies
    - responded to, 8420–8421
  - Government's agenda
    - responded to, 3026–3028
  - Health care funding
    - responded to, 5851–5854
  - Teachers' collective bargaining
    - responded to, 6714–6716
- Oral questions
  - Air ambulance service
    - presented, 910–911, 986–987, 1031–1032
  - Apple industry
    - presented, 228, 3760
  - Assistive devices
    - presented, 7804, 8851–8852
  - Autism treatment
    - presented, 9124–9125
  - By-election in Sudbury
    - presented, 2367, 2551–2552, 2648–2649, 2781, 2834–2835, 5278–5279
  - Doctor shortage
    - presented, 8148–8149
  - Electoral reform
    - presented, 2143, 3223, 7980
  - Employment supports
    - presented, 4724–4725
  - Executive compensation
    - presented, 1782–1783
  - Fundraising
    - presented, 8293–8294
  - Health care
    - presented, 5825–5826
  - Health care funding
    - presented, 3790, 7503–7504, 8202
  - Home care
    - presented, 1533, 3722–3723
  - Hospital funding
    - presented, 81–82
  - Hospital services
    - presented, 4262
  - Hydro rates
    - presented, 3606–3607, 4364
  - Infectious disease control
    - presented, 692
  - Job creation
    - presented, 367, 386
  - Long-term care
    - presented, 5559, 6480–6481, 6943, 7125–7126
  - Physiotherapy services
    - presented, 5059–5060
  - School closures
    - presented, 8948
  - Services for the developmentally disabled
    - presented, 1433–1434
  - Social Assistance Management System
    - presented, 1591–1592, 1679–1680, 1731, 2097, 3099–3100, 3163, 3328–3329, 4014
  - Special education
    - presented, 4576–4577, 6212–6213
  - Special-needs students
    - presented, 5234, 8674
  - Teachers' collective bargaining
    - presented, 5937–5938
  - Victims of crime
    - presented, 537
- Ornge
  - mismanagement, 1031–1032
- Patient transport, non-emergency
  - fees, 6854–6855
  - regulation, 6850, 6854–6855
- Payday loan borrowers
  - credit counselling, 8761
- Payday loans and lenders
  - repayment period, 9038–9039
- Personal support workers
  - registry, 9592
- Petitions
  - Agricultural colleges, 207–208
  - Alzheimer's disease, 868–869, 1599, 1948, 2259–2260, 2562, 2717, 2939–2940, 4024, 4949
  - Automotive dealers, 9651
  - Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, 6158, 7650
  - Health care, 2258, 2489, 2720, 5066–5067, 5239–5240, 5946
  - Hydro rates, 25, 89–92, 207, 479, 548–549, 701, 703–704, 822, 923, 1155, 1158, 1370, 1601, 1950, 2720, 3389, 4477–4478, 5240, 5346, 6810
  - Markdale hospital, 205, 241, 375, 8735
  - Minimum wage, 375–376
  - Off-road vehicles, 3170, 4026–4027, 4950
  - Ontario College of Trades, 27, 288
  - Ontario Retirement Pension Plan, 4270–4271, 4480, 5565, 5633, 5947, 6160, 6328, 6536–6537, 6587, 7061, 8507–8508
  - Physiotherapy services, 482
  - Privatization of public assets, 6585, 7451–7452, 8088, 8505, 9031, 9193, 9427
  - Rural and northern Ontario transportation, 481, 926, 1600
  - Rural schools, 8300
  - Sauble Beach land claim, 5944–5945, 6156–6157, 6588, 9427–9428
  - School closures, 8959, 10004
  - Taxation, 1373, 1851, 2560–2561, 2941–2942, 3172, 3386, 4026, 5567, 5733, 5947, 9426
  - Tire disposal, 291
  - Wind turbines, 925, 1602, 1746
  - Workplace insurance, 206, 392, 1157, 1849
- Physiotherapy
  - for people age 20 to 64, 5059, 5853
- Police and policing
  - responding to mental health crises, 5973
- Police record checks
  - annual checks, valid for multiple organizations, 5699–5700
- Police record checks, cost
  - prohibitive cost, 5704–5705
- Police Record Checks Reform Act, 2015 (Bill 113)
  - second reading, 5699–5700, 5704–5705
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 5957–5958
- Political fundraising, reform
  - consultation, 9669–9670
  - general remarks, 8293–8294, 9672–9673
- Pooled registered pension plans
  - for the self-employed, 4488–4489
  - voluntary participation, 4489–4490
- Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act, 2015 (Bill 57)
  - third reading, 4488–4490
- Post-traumatic stress disorder in emergency service providers
  - presumptive legislation
    - general remarks, 7463–7464
  - prevention and treatment, 7464, 7468, 7481–7482
- Prescription drugs
  - funding
    - for Kuvan, 7825
- Prescription drugs for seniors
  - cost increase, 8106
- Private members' public business
  - Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
    - presented, 9136–9137
    - responded to, 9143
  - Climate change
    - responded to, 8477–8478
  - Cutting Red Tape for Motor Vehicle Dealers Act, 2015 (Bill 152)
    - second reading, 7023
  - Growing Ontario's Craft Cider Industry Act, 2015 (Bill 110)
    - second reading, 6348–6349
  - Highway Traffic Amendment Act (Number Plates and Carrying Racks), 2016 (Bill 191)
    - second reading, 9150–9151
  - Highway Traffic Amendment Act (Off-Road Vehicles), 2015 (Bill 46)
    - second reading, 2224
  - Long-Term Care Homes Amendment Act (Preference for Veterans), 2015 (Bill 87)
    - second reading, 3574–3576
  - Natural Gas Superhighway Act, 2016 (Bill 76)
    - second reading, 3140–3141
  - Ontario Down Syndrome Day Act, 2016 (Bill 182)
    - second reading, 8469–8470
  - Protecting Victims of Occupational Disease Act, 2015 (Bill 98)
    - second reading, 5312
  - Protection of Vulnerable Seniors in the Community Act, 2015 (Bill 148)
    - second reading, 7240–7242
  - Rare diseases
    - responded to, 7824–7825
  - Right to Care Act (Children 16 Years of Age and Older), 2015 (Bill 54)
    - second reading, 2678
  - Ryan's Law (Ensuring Asthma Friendly Schools), 2015 (Bill 20)
    - second reading, 665
  - Safe Roundabouts Act, 2015 (Bill 65)
    - second reading, 2672–2673
  - Service clubs
    - responded to, 2218–2219
  - Special Interest Groups Election Advertising Transparency Act, 2015 (Bill 96)
    - second reading, 5735–5737, 5742–5743
  - Terry Fox Day Act, 2015 (Bill 61)
    - second reading, 3121
  - Transparent and Accountable Health Care Act, 2015 (Bill 78)
    - second reading, 3131
  - Vaccinations
    - responded to, 4456–4457
  - Workers Day of Mourning Act, 2016 (Bill 180)
    - second reading, 8482
- Production insurance
  - overpayment recovery, 2576
- Production insurance coverage expansion
  - general remarks, 2575
- Property owners
  - granting access to trails, 8325–8326
- Property rights
  - trespassing prevention/compensation
    - damage compensation, 8327–8328
- Protecting Condominium Owners Act, 2015 (Bill 106)
  - second reading, 5326–5327, 5330
- Protection of Public Participation Act, 2015 (Bill 52)
  - second reading, 2951–2952, 2959, 2964–2969
- Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth
  - investigative powers
    - scope, 7087
- Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 117)
  - third reading, 7086–7088
- Provincial and demonstration schools
  - closure, 8674
- Provincial nominee program (PNP)
  - nominations allocated to Ontario, 2737
- Public education campaigns – Community development
  - Ontario Public Library Week, 547
  - Seniors' Month, 9769–9770
- Public education campaigns – Culture
  - Tartan Day, 8409–8410
- Public education campaigns – Disability
  - Community Living Day, 4269–4270
- Public education campaigns – Health
  - ALS Awareness Month, 9810
  - Cancer Awareness Month, 3968–3969
  - Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, 5113–5114
  - National Immunization Awareness Week, 3861–3862
  - World No Tobacco Day, 9709
- Public education campaigns – Historical/National
  - Holodomor Memorial Day, 4584
- Public libraries
  - government funding, 547
- Public Sector and MPP Accountability and Transparency Act, 2014 (Bill 8)
  - second reading, 941–942, 946–952, 955
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 1169–1172
  - third reading, 1868–1871
- Public sector executives
  - salary caps, 1869
- Referenda
  - on ranked ballot system, 8537–8538, 8540
- Regional economic clusters
  - planning, 1391
- Regulations for small and medium-sized businesses
  - general remarks, 492
- Renewable energy projects
  - general remarks, 2959
- Restorative care
  - closure at Chesley hospital, 5852–5853
  - government funding, 3027
- Rural economic development, 4801
- Safeguarding Health Care Integrity Act, 2014 (Bill 21)
  - second reading, 1117–1127, 1129, 1184
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 1384–1386
  - third reading, 1951–1955
- School boards
  - asthma policies, 665
- School closures by region
  - Bruce–Grey–Owen Sound, 7679, 8948, 8953, 8985
- Schools
  - government funding, 243, 296
- Scottish community, 8409–8410
- Security for Courts, Electricity Generating Facilities and Nuclear Facilities Act, 2014 (Bill 35)
  - second reading, 1642–1643
- Senior citizens
  - general remarks, 867
- Senior citizens, programs
  - general remarks, 9769–9770
- Service clubs
  - charitable gaming and fundraising, 2219
- Smart Growth for Our Communities Act, 2015 (Bill 73)
  - second reading, 5009–5010, 5022, 5024–5027, 5029, 5034–5035
- Social Assistance Management System (SAMS)
  - malfunction, 1591–1592, 1679–1680, 8986
  - report by PricewaterhouseCoopers, 3163, 3328–3329
  - third-party adviser, 2097
- Social Assistance Management System (SAMS), implementation
  - cost overruns, 2499–2500, 3099–3100, 4014
- Social services, 243, 2611–2612
- Special Interest Groups Election Advertising Transparency Act, 2015 (Bill 96)
  - first reading, 4023–4024
- Statements by stakeholders
  - school boards, asthma policies, 665
- Strategic lawsuits
  - effect on public participation, 2469, 2965–2967
- Strategic lawsuits, early dismissal mechanism
  - awarding of costs, 2967
  - general remarks, 2966
  - hearings, 60-day timeline, 2967
- Strategic lawsuits, examples
  - in the forest industry, 2959
  - involving elected officials, 2951–2952, 2965–2966, 2969
  - involving private individuals, 2951
- Strategic lawsuits, prevention
  - general remarks, 2968
  - statements by stakeholders, 2964
- Strengthening and Improving Government Act, 2015 (Bill 85)
  - third reading, 6850–6851, 6853–6857
- Strengthening Consumer Protection and Electricity System Oversight Act, 2015 (Bill 112)
  - second reading, 5581, 5590–5593, 5595, 5602–5603
- Stronger Workplaces for a Stronger Economy Act, 2014 (Bill 18)
  - second reading, 491–492, 496–497, 509
- Student grants
  - based on average tuition cost, 7678
- Sudbury by-election 2015
  - government accountability, 2834–2835
  - Liberal affiliates under investigation, 2648–2649, 2781
  - offers of employment to candidates, 2552
- Sudbury by-election 2015, bribery allegations
  - general remarks, 2367
- Supporting Ontario's First Responders Act (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder), 2016 (Bill 163)
  - second reading, 7463–7468, 7481–7482
- Supporting Ontario's Trails Act, 2016 (Bill 100)
  - second reading, 8324–8330
  - third reading, 9728–9729
- Surgical procedures
  - wait times
    - cataract surgery, 5825–5826
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 60–61, 100–104, 106
- Time allocation motions
  - Election Finances Statute Law Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 201)
    - responded to, 9669–9674
  - Electoral Boundaries Act, 2015 (Bill 115)
    - responded to, 6168–6171
  - Police Record Checks Reform Act, 2015 (Bill 113)
    - responded to, 5957–5958
  - Public Sector and MPP Accountability and Transparency Act, 2014 (Bill 8)
    - responded to, 1169–1172
  - Safeguarding Health Care Integrity Act, 2014 (Bill 21)
    - responded to, 1384–1386
- Tobacco, contraband
  - filling a market gap, 4526
  - general remarks, 1760–1761, 1766–1767, 4552
  - sale to youth, 4526–4527
- Tobacco, flavoured
  - menthol, 1760
  - sale to youth, prohibition, 1441, 4530
- Trail access easements
  - forced or voluntary agreements, 8324
  - general remarks, 8325–8327
  - transferability, 8324, 8327
- Trails
  - land use agreements, 9729
- Transportation
  - rural Ontario, 296–297, 2280, 2282, 6855
- Transportation infrastructure
  - roundabouts
    - safe use, 2672
- Transportation Statute Law Amendment Act (Making Ontario's Roads Safer), 2015 (Bill 31)
  - second reading, 1657–1658, 1662, 2262–2263, 2274–2275, 2277–2280, 2282
- Tributes
  - Macphail, Agnes, 3004–3005
- Utility task vehicles (UTVs)
  - use on highways, 2224, 2449–2450
- Victim services
  - government funding, 537
- Water and sewer infrastructure
  - frozen pipes and broken watermains, 4050
- Wind turbine siting
  - community input/opposition, 2965, 2968
  - on Great Lakes, 5648
- Workers' right to be informed
  - of employment standards, 509
- Workplace accidents/fatalities
  - general remarks, 8482
- Workplace mental health
  - traumatic mental stress and PTSD, 7466
- Youth
  - smoking and drinking, 3176, 3195
Wilson, J. (PC, Simcoe–Grey)
- Agriculture Insurance Act (Amending the Crop Insurance Act, 1996), 2015 (Bill 40)
  - second reading, 2576–2578
- Appreciation
  - Blair, Bill (former chief of the Toronto Police Service), 3727–3728
- Automobile accident fatalities
  - on winter roads, 4188–4189
- Automobile industry
  - government strategy, 1781
  - government support, 4827
- Automobile insurance
  - reform, 741–742
- Aviation fuel tax
  - comparison to other regions, 362
  - effect on jobs, 377
  - effect on small airports, 377
- Budget 2014
  - balanced budget, 38
  - general remarks, 224–225
  - program spending, 242–243
- Budget 2015
  - general remarks, 3716, 4931–4932
- Budget deficit, 9–10
- Budget speech 2014 (July 14, 2014)
  - responded to, 241–243
- Budget speech 2015 (April 23, 2015)
  - responded to, 3837–3838
- Canadian history
  - contribution of Sir John A. Macdonald, 2026–2028
- Cap-and-trade, economic impact
  - cost, 3372–3373, 3737
- Carbon tax, 1309–1310
- Christmas Tree Day Act, 2015 (Bill 16)
  - first reading, 285
- Cirillo, Cpl. Nathan, 595, 1078
- Committees
  - role of committee system, 2577
- Community care access centres (CCACs)
  - government funding, 1585–1586
- Developmental services
  - day programming, 1038
- Disaster relief
  - for forest fire and tornado victims, 812–813
- Economic conditions, 191–192
- Education funding, 1310–1311
- Electoral boundaries
  - match to federal ridings, 6168–6169
- Employment and unemployment
  - employment rate, 241
- Energy rates
  - increase, 3738, 4363
- Energy rates, additional charges
  - global adjustment charge, 2034
- Fire safety, 1789–1790
- Fire services, 7225
- Forest industry
  - Christmas tree farms, 1537, 6583
- General Motors of Canada Ltd.
  - Oshawa plant closure, 1781, 2993–2994
- Government advertising
  - partisan ads
    - made with public funds, 3953–3954
  - third-party advertising
    - general remarks, 6170
    - spending limit, 3222–3223
- Government credit ratings, 76, 125, 242
- Government debt, 37, 3017–3018
- Government notice of motions
  - Sir John A. Macdonald
    - responded to, 2026–2028
- Health care funding
  - federal government transfer, 3850–3851
  - reduction, 687–688
- High school construction
  - Wasaga Beach, 6645
- Highway maintenance in winter
  - review and standards, 4009–4010, 4194
- Home care funding
  - reform, 3797
- Hospices, 327–328, 3054, 5727–5728
- Hospital funding, by hospital
  - Stevenson Memorial Hospital, 5167
- Hydro One Inc. oversight
  - exemptions, 3837–3838
- Hydro One Inc. privatization
  - general remarks, 3598–3599, 3838, 4773–4774
  - public opinion, 6218
- Hydro One Inc. privatization, economic impact
  - on energy rates, 3665–3666
- Hydro One Inc. privatization, revenue
  - to pay electricity debt, 3494–3495, 3543–3544
- Hydro One Inc. privatization, review
  - review by Auditor General, 3666–3667
- Hydro One Inc. services
  - overbilling, 4461, 4660
- Intensive behavioural intervention (IBI)
  - for children over age 5, 9509
- Livestock
  - sheep, mortality, 2576
- Livestock insurance
  - mortality coverage, 2576–2577
- Long-term care
  - wait times, 4089–4090, 4991–4992
- MaRS Discovery District building
  - government purchase agreement
    - disclosure, 466
- Members' statements
  - Blair, Bill, 3727–3728
  - Christmas Tree Day, 6583
  - Collingwood Elvis Festival, 458
  - Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario, 2606
  - McKay, Kevin, 9493
  - Mount Sinai Hospital nurses, 3550–3551
  - Privatization of public assets, 6218
  - Service clubs, 4471
  - Stevenson Memorial Hospital, 5167
  - Tenant protection, 6370
  - Wind turbines, 7513
- Members'/ministers' privileges
  - wearing of clothing items
    - historical costume, 9576
  - wearing of paraphernalia
    - flowers, 9797
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - on Auditor General 2014 annual report, 2034–2035
  - withdrawn, 1356, 2090, 2365, 3294, 3544, 3851, 8929
- Mining industry
  - electricity costs, 851–852
  - general remarks, 6155
- Ministerial statements
  - Mining industry
    - responded to, 6155–6156
- Nurses
  - employment, 242, 688–689
  - Magnet honour awards, 3550–3551
- Ontario Retirement Pension Plan
  - general remarks, 241
- Ontario Retirement Pension Plan, economic impact
  - job losses, 3737, 4932
  - on small and medium-sized businesses, 4826
- Opposition day motions
  - Autism treatment
    - responded to, 9509
  - By-election in Sudbury
    - presented, 2616–2617
  - Government's agenda
    - responded to, 3017–3018
  - Ontario budget
    - presented, 3737–3738
  - Sexual harassment
    - responded to, 1503–1504
- Oral questions
  - Air ambulance service
    - presented, 910, 1079
  - Automotive industry
    - presented, 1781–1782, 2993–2994
  - By-election in Sudbury
    - presented, 2090–2091, 2196, 2243–2244, 2365, 2395–2396, 2413–2415, 2474–2475, 2642–2643, 2703–2704, 2824–2825, 2882–2883, 2925–2926
  - Christmas tree industry
    - presented, 1537
  - Community care access centres
    - presented, 1585–1586
  - Disaster relief
    - presented, 812–813
  - Education funding
    - presented, 1310–1311, 6645
  - Electoral reform
    - presented, 3222–3223
  - Energy policies
    - presented, 2033–2035, 3372–3373
  - Fire safety
    - presented, 1789–1790, 7225
  - Government accountability
    - presented, 466–467
  - Government advertising
    - presented, 3953–3954
  - Health care
    - presented, 687–688
  - Health care funding
    - presented, 3850–3851
  - Hospice care
    - presented, 327–328, 3054, 5727–5728
  - Hydro One
    - presented, 4461, 4660
  - Hydro rates
    - presented, 851–853, 4363
  - Long-term care
    - presented, 4089–4090, 4889–4890, 4991–4992
  - Nurses
    - presented, 688–689
  - Ontario budget
    - presented, 9–10, 76, 124–125, 191–192, 224–225, 3716, 4931–4932
  - Ontario Retirement Pension Plan
    - presented, 4826–4827
  - Priority hiring of veterans in Ontario public service
    - presented, 4146
  - Privatization of public assets
    - presented, 465–466, 3323–3324, 3494–3495, 3543–3544, 3598–3599, 3666–3667, 4572, 4773–4774
  - Privatization of public services
    - presented, 271–272
  - School closures
    - presented, 1357
  - Service clubs
    - presented, 3280–3281
  - Services for the developmentally disabled
    - presented, 1038
  - Social Assistance Management System
    - presented, 1584–1585
  - Special-needs students
    - presented, 8667
  - Taxation
    - presented, 362, 377–378, 1309–1310, 1356–1357
  - Teachers' labour disputes
    - presented, 4189, 4254–4255, 4320, 4414–4415, 4460, 4571, 4659, 4715–4716
  - Tenant protection
    - presented, 8251
  - Wind turbines
    - presented, 452, 1080, 1213, 7445–7446, 8622–8623, 8902
  - Winter highway maintenance
    - presented, 4009–4010, 4188–4189
- Ornge
  - accounting practices, 1079
  - mismanagement, 910
- Petitions
  - Hospice funding, 551, 822, 1050, 1496, 1747, 2614, 3012–3013, 4151, 4845, 4998, 6375
  - Hospital funding, 5787–5788, 7623–7624, 7867–7868, 7940, 8161, 8369, 8577, 8807–8808, 9264, 9594
  - Hydro rates, 5410, 5788, 6894
  - Ontario College of Trades, 240
  - Physiotherapy services, 289
  - Shale Beach, 4153
  - Taxation, 3733–3734, 4478, 5789
  - Tenant protection, 6373, 6443–6444, 6585, 6893, 8809
  - Wind turbines, 1495
- Points of privilege
  - Policy statements, disclosure to media
    - presented, 9905–9906, 9908
- Pork industry
  - porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) virus, 2577
- Private members' public business
  - Service clubs
    - presented, 2211–2214
    - responded to, 2219
  - Wind turbines
    - presented, 8928–8930
    - responded to, 8935–8936
- Production insurance coverage expansion
  - general remarks, 2576
  - statements by stakeholders, 2577
- Provincial and demonstration schools
  - closure, 8667
- Public assets, sale of
  - reviews
    - by Auditor General, 465
- Public sector workers
  - layoffs, 271–272
- Public service pension plans
  - cost, 852–853
- Remembrance Day
  - remarks on, 1078
- Renewable energy
  - as government policy, 2033–2034
- Rent control
  - for land-lease communities, 6370, 8251
- Residential schools
  - general remarks, 4880
- Resignation of members
  - to procure an office or employment, 2642
- Restoring Planning Powers to Municipalities Act, 2014 (Bill 48)
  - first reading, 1492
- School closures
  - general remarks, 1357
- Service clubs
  - financial audits, 2219
  - licensing and regulations, 2211–2214
  - study by select committee, 3280–3281, 4471
  - taxes, 2219
- Sexual harassment in the workplace
  - study by select committee, 1503–1504
- Shootings in Ottawa
  - remarks and condolences, 579
- Social Assistance Management System (SAMS)
  - malfunction, 1584–1585
- Speakers' rulings quoted
  - Speaker Milliken (House of Commons), 9906
  - Speaker Regan (House of Commons), 9906
- Statements by stakeholders
  - government credit rating, 242
- Sudbury by-election 2015
  - appointment of candidates, 2595
  - government accountability, 2596, 2642, 2703–2704, 2925–2926
  - Liberal affiliates under investigation, 2253–2254, 2413–2415, 2616–2617
  - offers of employment to candidates, 2595, 2617
- Sudbury by-election 2015, bribery allegations
  - general remarks, 2090–2091, 2365
  - investigation, 2196, 2474–2475
  - questioning by police, 2824–2825, 2883
- Teacher collective bargaining
  - general remarks, 4571, 4659
- Teacher strikes
  - effect on students, 4254–4255, 4414–4415, 4460
  - general remarks, 4320, 4715–4716
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 37–38
- Transit funding sources
  - sale of Hydro One Inc., 3323–3324
- Tributes
  - Kormos, Peter (former member for Welland), 8842–8843
  - McCague, George (former member for Dufferin–Simcoe), 3371–3372
- Veterans
  - access to public service jobs, 4146
- Veterans Employment Act, 2015 (Bill 97)
  - first reading, 4150
- Wind turbine siting
  - community input/opposition, 1080
- Wind turbines
  - projects, 8622–8623
- Wind turbines near Collingwood airport
  - general remarks, 452, 1213, 7445–7446, 7513, 8902
  - safety concerns, 8929–8931
Wong, S. (LIB, Scarborough–Agincourt)
- Accessibility for disabled persons
  - provincial strategy, 1733
- Agriculture Insurance Act (Amending the Crop Insurance Act, 1996), 2015 (Bill 40)
  - second reading, 2354–2355
- Albanian community
  - heritage month, 8268
- Alternative financial services
  - consumer protection, 8739
- Alternative Financial Services Statute Law Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 156)
  - second reading, 8739
- Alternative medicine centres
  - Centre for Integrative Medicine (Scarborough), 922
- Appreciation
  - Blair, Bill (former chief of the Toronto Police Service), 3765
- Asian community, 4671
- Autism services
  - government funding, 9514
- Automobile insurance claims
  - prejudgment interest, 620
- Automobile insurance claims, dispute resolution
  - by Licence Appeal Tribunal, 619–620
- Better Business Climate Act, 2014 (Bill 7)
  - second reading, 1302
- Budget speech 2015 (April 23, 2015)
  - responded to, 3938, 4175
- Building Opportunity and Securing Our Future Act (Budget Measures), 2014 (Bill 14)
  - second reading, 313
  - third reading, 416
- Cap-and-trade revenue
  - use in greenhouse gas reduction projects, 8005
- Child care by independent providers
  - care by parents or relatives, 905
- Child care inspectors
  - powers and duties, 904–905
- Child Care Modernization Act, 2014 (Bill 10)
  - second reading, 904–905, 907
- Child care reform
  - administrative penalties, 904
  - general remarks, 907
- Child performers
  - employment standards, 891–892
- Children's dental care
  - for low-income groups, 8949
- Chinese community, 2200
- Climate change
  - general remarks, 166
- Climate Change Mitigation and Low-carbon Economy Act, 2016 (Bill 172)
  - second reading, 8005
  - third reading, 9338, 9521–9522
- Coal-fired electricity generation
  - ban, 4306
- Community health care, 3365
- Consent and Capacity Board (CCB)
  - power to order patient transfer or treatments, 6447
- Construction industry
  - collective agreements, length of open period, 566
- Curriculum
  - sex education
    - modernization, 2477–2478
- Data on university and college programs
  - collection and online publication, 5898
- Development charges
  - general remarks, 3656, 4916
- Driver fines, collection
  - general remarks, 2111
- Ebola virus disease
  - infection control measures, 534
- Education programs
  - Achieving Excellence, 166
  - funding for parent involvement, 542
- 839255 Ontario Inc. Act, 2016 (Bill Pr36)
  - first reading, 7289
- Elder abuse
  - duty of health care providers to report, 7238–7239
- Electoral Boundaries Act, 2015 (Bill 115)
  - second reading, 5358
- Employment agencies
  - fees, 565
  - general remarks, 566
  - liability for unpaid wages, 565
- Employment and Labour Statute Law Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 109)
  - second reading, 6081–6082
- Employment standards
  - employers' self-audit, 566
  - enforcement tools, 566
- Ending Coal for Cleaner Air Act, 2015 (Bill 9)
  - second reading, 4306
- Energy Statute Law Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 135)
  - second reading, 6628–6629
- Fair Practices Commissioner
  - to investigate complaints against WSIB, 6081
- Fighting Fraud and Reducing Automobile Insurance Rates Act, 2014 (Bill 15)
  - second reading, 618–620
- Filipino-Chinese community, 2200
- Foreign live-in caregivers
  - recruitment, 565
- Fox, Terry
  - about, 3119–3120
  - appreciation day, 3120–3122
- Full-day kindergarten
  - roll-out, 166
- Government orders
  - Order of business
    - responded to, 4806
- Great Lakes conservation
  - aboriginal community involvement, 4873
- Great Lakes Protection Act, 2015 (Bill 66)
  - second reading, 4873
- Greenhouse gas reduction
  - general remarks, 4806
- Health Information Protection Act, 2016 (Bill 119)
  - second reading, 6931
- Honours and awards
  - for leadership by women and girls, 3553
  - in teaching and education, 6647
  - for volunteer service, 3385
- Hydro One Inc. privatization, revenue
  - for infrastructure development, 4175
- Immigrant services
  - Newcomer Settlement Program (NSP), 9637–9638
- Immigrants, employment
  - bridge training programs, 2528–2529
  - foreign credential recognition, 2134, 2529, 2735
- Immigration rates
  - in other provinces, 2528
- Income tax
  - on highest income earners, 167
- Independent child care providers (ICPs)
  - oversight, 904
- Independent child care providers (ICPs), complaints against
  - registry, 905
- Infrastructure for Jobs and Prosperity Act, 2015 (Bill 6)
  - second reading, 4156–4157
- Invasive species
  - general remarks, 4316–4317
- Invasive Species Act, 2015 (Bill 37)
  - second reading, 4316–4317
- Jobs and Prosperity Fund
  - general remarks, 165
- Jobs for Today and Tomorrow Act (Budget Measures), 2016 (Bill 173)
  - second reading, 7781
- Labour and employment law, review, 7930
- Lyme disease
  - public awareness and education, 1550
- Making Healthier Choices Act, 2015 (Bill 45)
  - second reading, 3197
- Members' statements
  - Agincourt Collegiate Institute, 3285, 3966
  - Agincourt Junior Public School, 408
  - Armenian festival, 86–87
  - Armenian genocide anniversary, 8734–8735
  - Asian Heritage Month, 4671, 9083
  - Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, 5507
  - Blair, Bill, 3765
  - Carefirst Seniors and Community Services Association, 8208
  - Centre for Integrative Medicine, 922
  - Children and Youth in Care Day, 4428
  - Community awards, 6647
  - GECO munitions factory, 6108
  - Greek Independence Day, 3006
  - Leading Women, Leading Girls, Building Communities, 3553
  - Mid-Autumn Festival, 5288–5289
  - Model Parliament, 2557, 7620
  - National Nursing Week, 9313
  - National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week, 3728
  - Noria, Dhun, 2375
  - Reading Circle, 8678
  - Rotary Club of Toronto-Don Mills, 9538
  - Seniors Community Grant Program, 1690
  - Seniors' Month, 9859
  - Sir John A. MacDonald Collegiate Institute, 2894
  - Snow Queen 2014, 2049
  - Student achievement, 542
  - Terry Fox Day, 5169
  - Volunteers, 3385
  - Ward, Sheila, 8040–8041
  - Wong Association of Ontario, 2200
- Members'/ministers' accountability, 166
- Members'/ministers' appreciation
  - Prue, Michael (former member for Beaches–East York), 313
- Members'/ministers' birthdays
  - Crack, Grant (Glengarry–Prescott–Russell), 3323
- Mental Health Statute Law Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 122)
  - second reading, 6446–6447
- Minimum wage indexed to inflation
  - general remarks, 167, 565
- Municipal infrastructure, construction
  - employment for apprentices, 4157
- Municipal infrastructure, funding
  - general remarks, 313, 416
- Nurses
  - general remarks, 7614–7615
  - occupational health and safety, 566
- Occupational training programs
  - grants and other funding, 234
- Ontario history
  - women, 6108
- Ontario Immigration Act, 2015 (Bill 49)
  - second reading, 2134, 2528–2529, 2735
- Ontario Retirement Pension Plan
  - general remarks, 2171, 2173
  - public consultation, 2171
- Ontario Retirement Pension Plan Act, 2015 (Bill 56)
  - second reading, 2170–2173
  - third reading, 3830–3831
- Ontario Retirement Pension Plan, administration
  - management at arm's length, 2171
- Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Amendment Act, 2015 (Bill 80)
  - second reading, 3401
- Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA)
  - inspections and inspectors, 3401
- Opposition day motions
  - Autism treatment
    - responded to, 9514
- Oral questions
  - Accessibility for the disabled
    - presented, 1733–1734
  - Dental care
    - presented, 8949
  - Employment standards
    - presented, 7930
  - First responders
    - presented, 2599
  - Healthy living
    - presented, 919–920
  - Infectious disease control
    - presented, 534–535
  - International trade
    - presented, 6364–6365
  - Newcomer Settlement Program
    - presented, 9637–9638
  - Nurses
    - presented, 7614–7615
  - Pan Am Games
    - presented, 5163–5164
  - Pay equity
    - presented, 5725
  - Research and innovation
    - presented, 6645–6646, 6745
  - Road safety
    - presented, 9416
  - Seniors
    - presented, 9951–9952
  - Skills development
    - presented, 234
  - Tobacco control
    - presented, 1270
- Palliative care
  - government funding, 7781
- Pan/Parapan American Games 2015
  - general remarks, 5163–5164
- Pan/Parapan American Games 2015, sports facilities
  - accessibility, 1734
  - use by athletes and the community, 5164
- Pay equity
  - steering committee, 5725
- Payday loans and lenders
  - unlicensed lenders, 8739
- Pension funds
  - as economic driver, 3430
- Personal health information, breaches of privacy
  - by non-practising health care providers, 6931
- Petitions
  - Caregivers, 8088–8089, 8214, 8861
  - Credit unions, 412
  - Diagnostic services, 5462–5463
  - Distracted driving, 2106, 2258–2259, 2380, 2720
  - Elder abuse, 7517, 7622, 7715, 8260, 8301–8302, 8736, 9498–9499, 9651, 9772–9773
  - French-language education, 3342–3343, 3917–3918
  - Government services, 2150–2151, 2381
  - Health care, 549, 600, 649, 701, 870–871, 924, 1093–1094, 1225–1226, 1280, 1371, 1546
  - Immigration policy, 2201, 2561, 2719
  - Lung health, 7235–7236, 8046, 8213
  - Minimum wage, 139
  - Ontario Drug Benefit Program, 2379
  - Ontario Retirement Pension Plan, 187–188
  - Personal-injury lawyers, 5066
  - Public transit, 141, 189
  - School trustees, 870
  - Terry Fox Day, 3387, 3798, 3919, 4588
  - Waste reduction, 375
- Police Record Checks Reform Act, 2015 (Bill 113)
  - second reading, 5763
- Polling stations
  - sufficient number, 4970
- Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act, 2015 (Bill 57)
  - second reading, 3430
- Post-secondary students
  - tuition grants, 166
- Poverty reduction
  - general remarks, 167
- Pregnancy loss and infant death
  - general remarks, 7781
- President of the Treasury Board, 167
- Private members' public business
  - Albanian Heritage Month Act, 2016 (Bill 145)
    - second reading, 8268
  - Electoral reform
    - responded to, 4970
  - Highway Traffic Amendment Act (School Bus Camera System), 2014 (Bill 50)
    - second reading, 2077
  - Life Lease Act, 2016 (Bill 160)
    - second reading, 7409–7410
  - Lyme disease
    - responded to, 1550–1551
  - Pathways to Post-Secondary Excellence Act (Post-Secondary Educational Report), 2015 (Bill 127)
    - second reading, 5898
  - Post-stroke recovery services
    - responded to, 3365
  - Prohibiting Driving with Unlawful Handguns Act, 2014 (Bill 24)
    - second reading, 1566–1567
  - Protecting Child Performers Act, 2015 (Bill 17)
    - second reading, 891–892
  - Protecting Passenger Safety Act, 2015 (Bill 53)
    - second reading, 3563–3564
  - Protection of Vulnerable Seniors in the Community Act, 2015 (Bill 148)
    - second reading, 7238–7239, 7245
  - Ryan's Law (Ensuring Asthma Friendly Schools), 2015 (Bill 20)
    - second reading, 663–664
  - Safeguarding our Communities Act (Patch for Patch Return Policy), 2015 (Bill 33)
    - second reading, 4223
  - Terry Fox Day Act, 2015 (Bill 61)
    - second reading, 3119–3121, 3126–3127
  - Water fluoridation
    - responded to, 1560–1561
- Production insurance
  - amendments to legislation, 2355
- Protecting Condominium Owners Act, 2015 (Bill 106)
  - second reading, 5323
- Protection of Public Participation Act, 2015 (Bill 52)
  - second reading, 2960–2961
- Protection of Vulnerable Seniors in the Community Act, 2015 (Bill 148)
  - first reading, 6650
- Public education campaigns – Children and families
  - Children and Youth in Care Day, 4428
- Public education campaigns – Community development
  - Seniors' Month, 9859
  - Terry Fox Day, 5169
- Public education campaigns – Culture
  - Asian Heritage Month, 4671, 9083
- Public education campaigns – Health
  - ADHD Awareness Month, 5507
  - National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week, 3728
- Public education campaigns – Historical/National
  - Armenian genocide anniversary, 8734–8735
- Public education campaigns – Professional associations and occupations
  - National Nursing Week, 9313
- Public education campaigns – Women
  - Women's History Month, 6108
- Regional economic clusters
  - general remarks, 1302
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
  - unused contribution room, 2170
- Reports by committees
  - Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs, 1943–1944, 3286, 3554, 4787, 6535, 7134, 8299
- Retirement planning, 2170
- Road safety
  - government initiatives, 9416
- Ryan's Law (Ensuring Asthma Friendly Schools), 2015 (Bill 20)
  - third reading, 3936–3937
- Safeguarding Health Care Integrity Act, 2014 (Bill 21)
  - second reading, 1250–1251
- School boards
  - asthma policies, 663–664, 3936–3937
  - before- and after-school child care and programs, 905
- School buses
  - safety, 2077
- School programs
  - sports and recreation, 919–920
- Security for Courts, Electricity Generating Facilities and Nuclear Facilities Act, 2014 (Bill 35)
  - second reading, 1574, 1642
- Senior citizens, programs
  - community participation grant, 1690
  - government funding, 9951–9952
- Sexual Violence and Harassment Action Plan Act (Supporting Survivors and Challenging Sexual Violence and Harassment), 2016 (Bill 132)
  - second reading, 7039–7041
- Smart Growth for Our Communities Act, 2015 (Bill 73)
  - second reading, 3655–3656, 4916
- Strategic lawsuits
  - advisory panel recommendations, 2961
  - effect on public participation, 2961
- Strategic lawsuits, early dismissal mechanism
  - general remarks, 2961
- Strengthening and Improving Government Act, 2015 (Bill 85)
  - second reading, 5207
- Stronger Workplaces for a Stronger Economy Act, 2014 (Bill 18)
  - second reading, 564–568
- Students
  - model Parliament, 7620
- Supporting Ontario's First Responders Act (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder), 2016 (Bill 163)
  - second reading, 7522–7523, 7525–7526
- Taxicabs, unlicensed
  - safety concerns, 3563–3564
- Temporary foreign workers, recruitment
  - fees, 564
- Temporary foreign workers' rights
  - general remarks, 565
  - possession of personal documents, 564
- Terry Fox Day Act, 2015 (Bill 61)
  - first reading, 2000
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 165–168
- Tobacco control
  - general remarks, 1270
- Towing industry
  - consumer protection, 619
- Traffic congestion
  - general remarks, 167
- Transit funding
  - general remarks, 168
- Transportation Statute Law Amendment Act (Making Ontario's Roads Safer), 2015 (Bill 31)
  - second reading, 2111
- Tributes
  - Frankford, Robert (former member for Scarborough East), 8140–8141
  - Ward, Sheila, 8040–8041
- Universities and colleges, sexual violence on campus
  - public reporting of sexual violence data, 7039
- Waste-Free Ontario Act, 2016 (Bill 151)
  - second reading, 7730
- Water fluoridation
  - general remarks, 1560–1561
- Workers' right to be informed
  - in chosen language, 565
- Workers' rights
  - general remarks, 567
- Workers' rights re: wage recovery
  - elimination of $10K cap, 565
- Workplace mental health
  - traumatic mental stress and PTSD, 2599
- Youth employment
  - government funding, 165, 3938
- Youth/student workers
  - occupational health and safety, 566
Wynne, Hon. K.O. (LIB, Don Valley West)
- Aboriginal communities
  - quality of life, 8454–8455
  - water quality, 9639
- Aboriginal youth
  - fatalities, coroner inquests, 385
- An Act to perpetuate an ancient parliamentary right (Bill 1)
  - first reading, 8
- Agencies/boards/commissions/etc.
  - privatization, 82, 127–129
- Air ambulance services
  - reform, 910–911, 1031–1032
- Applied behaviour analysis (ABA)
  - government funding, 8568
- Appreciation
  - Hall, Barbara, 2418
- Attacks in Paris, 6355–6356
- Attawapiskat First Nation
  - suicide epidemic, 8499–8500
- Autism services
  - general remarks, 8564–8565, 8898, 9120
  - government funding, 7637, 8788–8789, 9013–9014, 9849–9850, 9852
  - program reform, 9632, 9848–9849
- Automobile industry
  - government support, 2993–2994
  - investment in, 6366
- Automobile insurance rates
  - reduction, 274, 6938
- Aviation fuel tax
  - comparison to other regions, 362, 378
  - effect on small airports, 378
  - price mitigation programs, 362
- Beer, sale in grocery stores
  - licences, 3758–3759
- Bees
  - population decline, 1527
  - winter mortality, 1734
- Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement
  - Premier's statement on, 9952
- Bridges
  - Burgoyne Bridge replacement, 8731–8732
- Budget 2014
  - Auditor General review, 364, 379–380, 397–398, 448
  - balanced budget, 1206
  - general remarks, 76–78, 177, 194, 224–225, 323–324
- Budget 2015
  - general remarks, 3597–3598, 3754, 3782–3784, 3900–3901, 4085–4086, 4323, 4776–4777, 4931–4932
  - public consultation, 4012
- Budget 2016
  - deficit, 7634, 7706
  - general remarks, 7505–7506, 7610–7613, 7635–7636, 8029
  - northern Ontario, 7701–7702
  - services for seniors, 8245
- Budget deficit, 9–10, 530–531, 582, 1728
- Business development
  - general remarks, 583
- Cap-and-trade
  - general remarks, 7613
- Carbon tax, 3156
- Cemetery of Huronia Regional Centre
  - disturbance of graves, 9187–9188
- Child care centres, 9306–9307
- Child care reform
  - general remarks, 1730
- Child care system
  - $15-a-day program, 4990
  - government funding, 17–18, 1931–1932, 7923, 8146
- Children and youth in care
  - protection after age 16, 6636
- Children's dental care
  - preventive care, 1837–1838
- Cirillo, Cpl. Nathan, 595
- Climate change
  - general remarks, 1310, 6941
  - government programs, 6737
  - government response to, 6589–6590
- Climate change action plan
  - general remarks, 9699–9700
- Climate change, impact on
  - the economy, 7332–7333
- Collective bargaining
  - rights of teachers, 8897–8898
- Committees
  - procedure, 173
- Conversion therapy
  - as contrary to standards of medical practice, 3346
- Coroner inquests
  - boating accident in Sudbury, 2040
- Correctional centres
  - mental health services, 7380
- Correctional centres, conditions in
  - unsafe conditions, 7381, 7976
- Correctional officers
  - hiring/staffing, 8617, 8619
- Couillard, Hon. Philippe
  - address to the Ontario Legislature, 4250–4251
- Curriculum
  - sex education
    - modernization, 2311
    - public consultation, 1207–1208, 2135–2136
- Debates re answers to oral questions
  - Member's conduct
    - responded to, 9288–9289
- Developmental services
  - government funding, 177, 197
  - report by select committee, 177–178
  - wait-list, 3102
- Disaster relief for flood victims
  - in Prince Edward–Hastings, 229
- Disaster relief for ice storm victims
  - funding and interim payments, 6743
- Discrimination
  - against women, 7615–7616
- Doctors
  - compensation, 5619, 5826–5827, 6426, 6936, 8244, 8491–8492
- Documentary film
  - about Premier Kathleen Wynne, 4466, 4834–4835
- Domestic violence
  - prevention and response, 5722
- Ebola virus disease
  - outbreak in West Africa, 535
- Economic conditions, 191–192, 1208, 3227, 4982, 5555, 7335
- Economic growth, 979–980, 1138
- Education funding, 1263, 1310–1311, 1480, 2999–3000, 3326, 3755, 4467, 4937, 6052–6053, 7637
- Electoral reform
  - open process, 8790–8792
- Electricity price mitigation
  - general remarks, 3752–3753, 4372–4373
  - for low-income households, 8894–8895
  - for northern industrial consumers, 4881
- Electricity price mitigation programs
  - based on household and income size
    - Ontario Electricity Support Program (OESP), 3101, 3157, 3161–3162
- Elliott Lake inquiry
  - recommendations, 637
- Emergency service, hospital
  - government funding, 8724
- Employment and unemployment
  - employment rate, 193, 196
  - in southwestern Ontario, 1269
- Employment creation, 1261
- Energy conservation
  - initiatives, 6690–6691
- Energy East Pipeline, 1733
- Energy industry
  - general remarks, 4364, 6738–6739
- Energy rates
  - general remarks, 3753, 7437
  - increase, 3607
- Farm assistance programs
  - Risk Management Program (RMP), 7644
- Federal-provincial relations
  - fiscal arrangements, 1268
- Food processing industry
  - fire in Bonduelle plant, 368
- Ford, Rob
  - death of, 8145
- Forest fires in Fort McMurray, Alberta, 9067
- Forest industry in Fort Frances
  - kraft mill
    - sale of, 1260
- French language
  - historical ban in elementary schools, 7446–7447
- French-language debates
  - Débat sur la motion d'ajournement
    - Conduite d'un député, 9288
  - Déclarations ministérielles et réponses
    - Semaine nationale des soins infirmiers, 4378
  - Questions orales
    - Changement climatique, 6940–6941
    - Éducation postsecondaire en français, 9307–9308
    - Élection partielle à Sudbury, 2317–2319, 2422
    - L'Université de l'Ontario français, 7388
    - Secrétaire générale de la Francophonie, 1589
- Gas plant cancellations, investigation
  - by justice policy committee
    - report writing, 445
  - report, 2137–2139
- Gender equality, 2700
- Government accountability
  - general remarks, 2037
- Government advertising
  - digital ads, Auditor General oversight, 4016–4017
  - partisan ads
    - general remarks, 9854
  - third-party advertising
    - general remarks, 4016
    - spending limit, 19
    - transparency, 3223, 7980
- Government consultants, 913
- Government credit ratings, 12–13, 125–126, 224
- Government documents
  - release to Financial Accountability Officer, 9751–9752
- Government expenditures
  - teacher expenses
    - accountability, 6048–6049
    - general remarks, 6049–6050
- Government policy statements
  - funding announcements, 1483
- Government revenue, 1206
- Government services
  - general remarks, 1032–1033
- Government spending
  - general remarks, 2927–2928
- Government tenders
  - polling organizations, 9847–9848
- Greenhouse gas emissions
  - credits
    - bought from California, 9303
    - supply and demand, 9988–9989
  - general remarks, 3497
- Health care
  - quality assurance report, 1312
  - wait times, 1312–1313
- Health care funding
  - general remarks, 2996, 5333, 5396, 5821–5822, 6736, 7438–7439, 7503–7504, 7608–7609, 7922, 9633–9634
  - investment, 9989
- Health care reform
  - general remarks, 1428, 3158
- Highway maintenance in winter
  - equipment, 4011
  - general remarks, 4136, 6935–6936
- Home care
  - general remarks, 7561–7562
  - wait times, 6991
- Home heating
  - government programs, 9942–9943
- Hospital funding
  - general remarks, 8623–8624
  - increase, 8491, 8496, 9945
- Hospital maintenance
  - government funding, 9635–9636, 9753–9754, 9991
- Housing Services Corp.
  - expenses, 5880–5881
- Human trafficking
  - government response, 7383–7384
- Hydro One Brampton, 4082
- Hydro One Inc., executive salaries
  - general remarks, 5227, 5618, 6425, 8895–8896
- Hydro One Inc. oversight
  - by government, 3668, 4014, 5051, 5105, 5448–5449, 6937–6938, 6994
- Hydro One Inc. privatization
  - consultations, 4084, 4138
  - general remarks, 3785–3786, 4934, 5103
  - protection of public interests, 3601, 3903–3904, 4139, 4884, 5774, 6051
  - statements by stakeholders, 3667–3668
- Hydro One Inc. privatization, economic impact
  - on energy rates, 1139–1140, 4257–4258, 5052, 5277–5278
  - executive salaries, 5225
- Hydro One Inc. privatization, revenue
  - for infrastructure development, 3600–3601, 3756, 3903, 3905, 4012–4014, 4016, 4085, 4139, 4256, 4322–4323, 4462–4464, 4574–4575, 4662–4663, 4774–4776, 4778, 4828–4830, 4983–4984, 5052, 5106, 5226, 5774, 5934, 6428–6429, 6739, 7331–7332
- Hydro One Inc. privatization, review
  - review by Financial Accountability Officer, 4984–4985, 5053
- Hydro One Inc. services
  - customer service standards, 4660
  - in northern Ontario, 6996–6997
- Hydro One Inc. shares
  - 40% government ownership, 3903–3904, 4718–4719, 5105
  - 60% private ownership, 3786
  - cost, 5773
  - initial public offering (IPO), 6358
  - total revenue, 5824, 6638–6639, 6880
- Independent child care providers (ICPs)
  - oversight, 383–384
- Intensive behavioural intervention (IBI)
  - age restrictions, 8349
  - wait-list, 8562–8563, 9119–9120, 9126, 9186, 9249–9250, 9797–9798
- International trade
  - with Israel, 9801–9802
- International trade with China
  - general remarks, 6427–6428
  - trade mission, 914
- Interprovincial trade
  - free trade, 634
- Jean, Michaëlle
  - elected Secretary General of the International Organisation of La Francophonie, 1589
- Jobs and Prosperity Fund
  - general remarks, 176
- Land claims
  - Algonquins of Ontario, 1676
- Legislative precinct
  - openness and accessibility, 635
  - security, 633
- LGBTQ people
  - specific health needs, 3346
- Liberal Party
  - fundraising by Gerry Lougheed, 2478–2479
  - staff, 2480
- Light rail transit (LRT)
  - Hamilton, 4579
- Manufacturing industry
  - employment and job creation, 5104
  - growth and decline, 227–228
- MaRS Discovery District building
  - government purchase agreement
    - disclosure, 466–467
- Members'/ministers' anniversaries
  - Bradley, Jim (St. Catharines), 9998
- Members'/ministers' conduct
  - remarks to Leader of the Third Party
    - by Chiarelli, Bob (Ottawa West–Nepean), 9125–9126
- Members'/ministers' correction of record, 1932, 4020, 6484, 7644, 9022, 9301–9302
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 3346
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - on Auditor General 2014 annual report, 1991, 2035
  - withdrawn, 2827
- Mental health care
  - government funding, 7275
- Mercury poisoning in Grassy Narrows First Nation
  - continued contamination, 9944
  - monitoring, 9990
  - remediation of Wabigoon River, 9637, 9706–9707, 9802–9803
- Metrolinx
  - staff, wages, 365, 378
- Ministerial statements
  - National Nursing Week
    - presented, 4378
- Motorcycle safety
  - helmet use, exemptions, 9704
- Municipal infrastructure
  - deficit, 3323, 4367, 5225–5226, 5825, 5934
  - general remarks, 175, 3325–3326, 3784–3785
- Municipal infrastructure, construction
  - as employment generator, 4322
- Municipal infrastructure, funding
  - federal funding, 6050–6051, 8145
  - general remarks, 3784, 4138–4139
  - through corporate tax increase, 5935
  - through sale of public assets, 3785, 4933
- Municipalities
  - consultation with, 980–981
- Muslim community
  - hate crimes against, 6356
- Natural gas
  - accessibility in rural Ontario, 9752
- Neonicotinoid use
  - reduction, 1528
  - in treated seeds, 8028
- Nuclear energy
  - government support, 9012
- Nurses
  - appreciation, 4378
  - employment, 7381, 8491, 9180, 9249
- Office of the Auditor General of Ontario
  - annual report for 2014, 1929–1930, 1983–1984
- Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC), 2418
- Ontario Northland Transportation Commission (ONTC)
  - privatization, 6052
- Ontario Public Service (OPS)
  - sexual harassment, policies against, 1034
- Ontario-Quebec relations, 1478
- Ontario Retirement Pension Plan
  - general remarks, 176
  - as replacement for CPP enhancement, 1477–1478
- Oral questions
  - Aboriginal affairs
    - responded to, 8454–8455
  - Aboriginal land claims
    - responded to, 1676
  - Aboriginal programs and services
    - responded to, 8499–8500
  - Access to information
    - responded to, 1428–1429, 8850–8851
  - Accessibility for the disabled
    - responded to, 1267
  - Air ambulance service
    - responded to, 531, 910–911, 986–987, 1031–1032, 8071–8073, 8142–8143
  - Anti-Semitism
    - responded to, 9801–9802, 9952
  - Assistance to farmers
    - responded to, 7644
  - Asthma
    - responded to, 15
  - Autism treatment
    - responded to, 6474, 8349, 8562–8565, 8567–8568, 8788–8789, 8898, 9013, 9119–9121, 9123, 9126–9127, 9186, 9249–9250, 9632–9633, 9797–9798, 9848–9850, 9852
  - Automobile insurance
    - responded to, 1208–1209, 6938
  - Automotive industry
    - responded to, 2993–2994, 5104
  - Beekeeping industry
    - responded to, 1734
  - By-election in Sudbury
    - responded to, 2090–2091, 2094–2096, 2099–2100, 2136, 2138–2140, 2187–2192, 2196, 2243–2247, 2249–2251, 2311–2313, 2315–2316, 2318–2319, 2362–2369, 2371, 2395–2397, 2413–2417, 2419, 2421–2423, 2474–2882, 2925–2926, 2929–2930, 2998, 3160, 3226, 3328, 3909, 5331–5332, 5334, 5339, 5395–5397, 5445–5448, 5551–5553, 6478, 6879, 7380
  - Child advocate
    - responded to, 1587
  - Child care
    - responded to, 17–18, 1931–1932, 4990, 5725, 7923–7924, 9306–9307
  - Child protection
    - responded to, 6636
  - Children's aid societies
    - responded to, 6993
  - Christmas tree industry
    - responded to, 1537
  - Class size
    - responded to, 4937
  - Climate change
    - responded to, 6638, 6689–6691, 6737, 6940–6941, 7218–7219, 7332–7333, 7921, 9302–9304, 9699–9700
  - Committee membership
    - responded to, 173
  - Community care access centres
    - responded to, 1585
  - Coroner's inquest
    - responded to, 2040
  - Correctional facilities
    - responded to, 7380–7381, 7976
  - Correctional services
    - responded to, 8617, 8619
  - Crown attorneys
    - responded to, 8252
  - Curriculum
    - responded to, 1207–1208, 2135–2136
  - Dental care
    - responded to, 1837–1838
  - Disaster relief
    - responded to, 229, 6743
  - Domestic violence
    - responded to, 5722, 7568–7569, 7615–7616
  - Drug shortage
    - responded to, 1844–1845
  - Economic outlook
    - responded to, 6740
  - Education funding
    - responded to, 1263, 1310–1311, 2999–3000, 3101, 7439, 7637
  - Election advertising
    - responded to, 19
  - Election finances
    - responded to, 9798–9799, 9850–9851
  - Electoral reform
    - responded to, 3222–3223, 7980, 8791–8792, 8847–8848, 8896–8897, 9014–9015
  - Elliot Lake inquiry
    - responded to, 637
  - Employment
    - responded to, 7278, 7281, 7334–7335
  - Energy policies
    - responded to, 1677–1678, 1984–1985, 2033–2036, 3497, 3604–3605, 6738–6739, 6986–6987, 7217–7218, 7331–7332, 7436–7437, 9072–9074, 9121–9122, 9253, 9700, 9752–9754, 9942–9943, 9988–9989, 9996
  - Environmental assessment
    - responded to, 1733
  - Executive compensation
    - responded to, 3158–3159, 3331–3332, 5225, 5550, 5617–5618, 6359, 6425–6426
  - Federal-provincial fiscal policies
    - responded to, 1268, 8145–8146
  - Fire in Tecumseh
    - responded to, 368
  - Firefighters
    - responded to, 4983
  - First responders
    - responded to, 6687–6688, 6694, 7276
  - Fiscal review
    - responded to, 364–365, 379–380, 397–399, 448
  - Forest industry
    - responded to, 981–982, 1260
  - Fundraising
    - responded to, 8285–8289, 8291, 8293–8294, 8296, 8350–8352, 8397–8400, 8402, 8447–8448, 8450–8451, 8490, 8492–8494, 8563–8566, 8569, 8620–8622, 8669, 8724, 8845–8846
  - Government accountability
    - responded to, 466–467, 1313, 1479–1480, 1987–1988, 2036–2037, 2398, 2550, 2709, 9177–9179, 9702, 9751
  - Government advertising
    - responded to, 4016–4017, 9854
  - Government announcements
    - responded to, 1483
  - Government anti-racism programs
    - responded to, 3003–3004
  - Government appointments
    - responded to, 8722–8723
  - Government contracts
    - responded to, 1033–1034, 9847–9848
  - Government fiscal policies
    - responded to, 530–531, 582, 3227
  - Government policies
    - responded to, 7610–7612
  - Government services
    - responded to, 1729–1731
  - Government spending
    - responded to, 3755
  - Government's agenda
    - responded to, 1838–1839, 2927–2928, 2995–2997, 3102, 3326–3327
  - Government's record
    - responded to, 1929–1930, 1932–1933, 1982–1984, 6990, 7283, 8074
  - Health care
    - responded to, 1312–1313, 1428, 5618–5619, 6427–6428
  - Health care funding
    - responded to, 5332–5333, 5396, 5821–5822, 5826–5827, 6426, 6637, 6736, 6936, 7277–7278, 7333–7334, 7381, 7502–7504, 7561–7562, 7609, 7922–7923, 7977, 8244, 8491–8492, 8846, 9633–9634, 9698, 9989
  - Highway tolls
    - responded to, 4987
  - Home care
    - responded to, 3493, 6991–6992
  - Horse racing industry
    - responded to, 453
  - Hospital funding
    - responded to, 7438–7439, 8496, 8623–8624, 9305, 9635, 9753, 9800–9801, 9945, 9991
  - Hospital services
    - responded to, 8724
  - Housing Services Corp.
    - responded to, 5880–5881
  - Human rights
    - responded to, 2418
  - Human trafficking
    - responded to, 7383–7384
  - Huronia Regional Centre for the Developmentally Disabled
    - responded to, 9187–9188
  - Hydro One
    - responded to, 4660, 6992–6993, 6996–6997
  - Hydro rates
    - responded to, 3157, 3606–3607, 3752–3754, 3788, 4255, 4364, 4372–4373, 7220–7221, 8894–8896
  - Infectious disease control
    - responded to, 8627
  - Infrastructure program funding
    - responded to, 3225–3226, 4013–4014
  - International trade agreement
    - responded to, 5620–5624, 5721–5723
  - Interprovincial trade
    - responded to, 634
  - Job creation
    - responded to, 4982
  - Legislative precinct security
    - responded to, 635
  - Liberal Party staff
    - responded to, 2480
  - Lobbyists
    - responded to, 8618
  - Manufacturing jobs
    - responded to, 227–228, 5830, 6366
  - Member's conduct
    - responded to, 9125–9126
  - Mental health services
    - responded to, 7275
  - Mercury poisoning
    - responded to, 9637, 9706–9707, 9802, 9944, 9990
  - Mining industry
    - responded to, 363
  - Minister's comments
    - responded to, 1991
  - Municipalities
    - responded to, 980–981
  - Northern health services
    - responded to, 7979
  - Northern Ontario
    - responded to, 7701–7702
  - Nuclear energy
    - responded to, 6941–6942, 9012–9013
  - Nurses
    - responded to, 5876, 9179–9181, 9249–9251, 9304
  - Ontario budget
    - responded to, 10, 12–13, 76–79, 125–126, 128–129, 175–177, 191–195, 224–227, 274, 323–324, 363–364, 395, 447, 3597–3598, 3782–3784, 4881–4882, 4931–4932, 7505–7506, 7559–7561, 7564–7565, 7612–7613, 7635–7636, 7700–7701, 7706, 8029–8030, 8145
  - Ontario Drug Benefit Program
    - responded to, 7636, 7702–7703, 7978–7979, 8030, 8196–8198, 8246
  - Ontario economy
    - responded to, 979–980, 1138, 1206, 1208, 5555, 7382
  - Ontario public service
    - responded to, 11–12, 1427
  - Ontario Retirement Pension Plan
    - responded to, 3098–3099, 4826–4827
  - Pan Am Games
    - responded to, 1528–1529
  - Pension plans
    - responded to, 330, 1477–1478
  - Pesticides
    - responded to, 1527–1528, 8028–8029
  - Post-secondary education
    - responded to, 1737
  - Poverty
    - responded to, 6479
  - Power plants
    - responded to, 445, 2091–2092, 2137–2138
  - Premier's record
    - responded to, 2997–2998
  - Priority hiring of veterans in Ontario public service
    - responded to, 4146
  - Privatization of public assets
    - responded to, 465–468, 532–533, 584–585, 912–913, 981, 1139–1140, 3100–3101, 3161–3162, 3224, 3323, 3325–3326, 3495–3497, 3500, 3598–3602, 3665–3669, 3671, 3756, 3784–3787, 3900–3901, 3903–3905, 4012, 4014–4018, 4082, 4084–4086, 4138–4139, 4256–4258, 4322–4323, 4367, 4462–4463, 4574–4575, 4662–4663, 4717–4719, 4774–4778, 4828–4830, 4883–4885, 4933–4934, 4983–4985, 5051–5054, 5103–5107, 5226–5228, 5397–5398, 5448–5449, 5552, 5620, 5718–5721, 5773–5774, 5823–5825, 5874–5876, 5934–5935, 6050–6052, 6054, 6358–6361, 6428–6429, 6475–6477, 6638–6639, 6739, 6877–6878, 6880–6881, 6937–6938, 6989, 6994–6995, 7219–7220, 7440, 8400–8401
  - Privatization of public services
    - responded to, 78, 82, 127–128, 272–274
  - Provincial budget
    - responded to, 7634
  - Public participation
    - responded to, 3161
  - Public safety
    - responded to, 633
  - Public sector compensation
    - responded to, 365, 378–379, 396–397
  - Public services
    - responded to, 1032–1033, 2093
  - Public transit
    - responded to, 4579
  - Retail alcohol sales
    - responded to, 3758–3759
  - Ring of Fire
    - responded to, 4464–4465
  - Road safety
    - responded to, 9704
  - Rural infrastructure
    - responded to, 6482
  - School closures
    - responded to, 589
  - School facilities
    - responded to, 9799–9800, 9943–9944
  - Secretary General of La Francophonie
    - responded to, 1589
  - Senior citizens
    - responded to, 8245
  - Services for the developmentally disabled
    - responded to, 177–178, 197
  - Sexual harassment
    - responded to, 913–914, 982–983, 985, 1034, 1529–1530, 9181–9183, 9185
  - Small business
    - responded to, 583, 1478, 1930–1931
  - Social Assistance Management System
    - responded to, 1584–1587, 1678–1679, 3099–3100, 3329, 6942, 6995, 9017–9018
  - Special-needs students
    - responded to, 8666–8669
  - Steel industry
    - responded to, 1261, 8199
  - Taxation
    - responded to, 362, 377–378, 1309–1310, 1727–1728, 3156, 7613
  - Teachers
    - responded to, 5050–5051
  - Teachers' collective bargaining
    - responded to, 5873–5874, 5932–5933, 5936–5937, 6048–6050, 6052–6053, 6688–6689, 8194–8195, 8897–8898
  - Teachers' labour disputes
    - responded to, 3907, 4254, 4320, 4367, 4467, 4571–4574, 4661, 4715, 4721
  - Trade development
    - responded to, 914
  - Transportation infrastructure
    - responded to, 8731–8732
  - Tuition
    - responded to, 8073–8074, 8077
  - TVO documentary
    - responded to, 4466, 4834–4835
  - Unemployment
    - responded to, 196, 1269
  - Unpaid leave
    - responded to, 3910
  - Violence against women
    - responded to, 6940
  - Water quality
    - responded to, 2042–2043, 9639
  - Wind turbines
    - responded to, 382–383, 7339, 8249, 9070–9071
  - Winter highway maintenance
    - responded to, 4009–4011, 4136, 6877, 6935–6936
- Ornge
  - aircraft lease from AgustaWestland, 8142–8143
  - report by standing committee, 531
- Pan/Parapan American Games 2015
  - athletes' village, 2369
  - general remarks, 4987
- Pan/Parapan American Games 2015, security
  - procurement, 1529
- Partner Assault Response (PAR) Program
  - program reform, 6940
- Personal support workers
  - pay increase, 3293
- Persons with disabilities
  - employment access, 1267
- Police shooting of Andrew Loku
  - special investigation, 8850–8851
- Political fundraising
  - cabinet ministers' targets, 8291, 8402
  - conflict of interest, 8450–8451, 8846, 9015
  - and stakeholder consultation, 8287
- Political fundraising, reform
  - consultation, 8287–8289, 8294, 8352, 8565–8566, 8569, 8620, 8669–8670, 8848, 9014, 9850–9851
  - general remarks, 8286, 8289, 8293–8294, 8351, 8397–8398, 8400, 8447–8448, 8490, 8563–8564, 8618, 8847–8848, 8896–8897, 9798–9799
  - open process, 8492–8494, 8621–8622, 8724
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
  - workers' compensation
    - general remarks, 4983
- Post-traumatic stress disorder in emergency service providers
  - presumptive legislation
    - general remarks, 6587–6588, 6694, 7276–7277
- Poverty reduction
  - general remarks, 6479
- Power Workers' Union (PWU)
  - ownership of Hydro One shares, 4017–4018
- Prescription drugs
  - shortage, 1844–1845
- Prescription drugs for seniors
  - deductible, 7702, 7979, 8246
  - general remarks, 8030
  - for low-income groups, 7636
- Private members' public business
  - Affirming Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Act, 2015 (Bill 77)
    - second reading, 3345–3346
- Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth
  - investigative powers
    - scope, 1587
- Provincial and demonstration schools
  - enrolment, 8669
  - program review, 8667
- Public assets
  - privatization, 6361
  - review, 194, 226, 272–274, 380, 467–468, 912, 1479, 2995, 3100, 3496–3497, 3666, 4717, 4883–4884
- Public assets, sale of
  - general remarks, 466, 532–533, 585, 3158, 3224, 3786–3787
  - recommendations by advisory council, 3500
  - reviews
    - by advisory council, 465, 584
- Public education campaigns – Professional associations and occupations
  - National Nursing Week, 4378
- Public education campaigns – Women
  - International Women's Day, 2700–2701
- Public records
  - preservation and retention, 9178
- Public sector compensation, 396–397
- Public sector executives
  - salary caps, 3158, 3331–3332
- Public sector workers
  - collective bargaining, 1427, 2093
  - layoffs, 12, 78–79, 226–227
- Public-private partnerships
  - benefits of, 1033–1034, 6360
  - general remarks, 1988
- Queen Elizabeth II
  - reign of 63+ years, 4977–4978
- Racism and anti-racism
  - government initiatives, 3003–3004
- Renewable energy
  - as government policy, 2033
- Residential school survivors
  - reconciliation with, 9621–9623
- Residential schools
  - general remarks, 4879
  - Ontario government apology, 9622
- Resignation of members
  - to procure an office or employment, 2247, 2250–2251, 2315–2316
- Retirement savings
  - affordability, 4827, 4882
- Retirement security, 330, 4826–4827
- Ring of Fire
  - transportation infrastructure, 4464–4465
- Ring of Fire development
  - regional framework agreement, 363
- School boards
  - asthma policies, 15
  - transfer payments to, 3101
- School closures
  - general remarks, 589
- School facilities
  - state of disrepair, 9799
- Senior citizens
  - medication, affordability, 8196–8198
- Sexual harassment by MPPs
  - accusations against Kim Craitor, 9288–9289
  - issues of confidentiality, 9181–9183, 9185
- Sexual harassment in the workplace
  - general remarks, 913–914, 982–983, 985
  - study by select committee, 1529–1530
- Sexual violence and harassment
  - general remarks, 2704–2705
- Sexual violence and harassment prevention
  - It's Never Okay campaign, 2700–2701
- Shootings in Ottawa
  - anniversary, 5871–5872
  - remarks and condolences, 579
- Sikh community
  - motorcycle helmet use, exemption, 9704
- Smart meters
  - efficacy of, 1983–1986, 2034–2036
- Social Assistance Management System (SAMS)
  - contract with IBM, 9018
  - frontline staff, 3329
  - malfunction, 1584–1586, 1679, 1730
  - report by Auditor General, 6942
- Social Assistance Management System (SAMS), implementation
  - cost overruns, 3099–3100
  - general remarks, 9017
- Sporting events
  - Grey Cup 2015, 6875
- Steel industry
  - plant closures, 8199
- Student grants
  - for families earning less than $50K, 8073–8074
- Sudbury by-election 2015
  - appointment of candidates, 2090–2091, 2094, 2096, 2100, 2140, 2243–2245, 2543, 2545, 2595–2596, 2600–2601
  - candidacy of Andrew Olivier, 2245–2246, 2312
  - election of Glenn Thibeault, 2544, 2547
  - Liberal affiliates under investigation, 2187, 2704
  - nomination process, 2483
  - offers of employment to candidates, 2138–2139, 2249
- Sudbury by-election 2015, bribery allegations
  - general remarks, 2189–2190, 2192, 2196, 2371, 2417, 5331–5332
  - investigation, 2099, 2188–2189, 2191, 2362–2364, 2414–2416, 2419, 2421, 2475–2476, 2480, 2484, 2545, 2597, 2603–2604, 2702–2704, 2706–2707, 2773–2776, 2778, 2780, 2834, 2925–2926, 2998, 3160
  - questioning by police, 2824–2827, 2829, 2833, 2835, 2929, 3328, 3909
- Teacher collective bargaining
  - contract for 2014/2015, 4367, 5050, 5873–5874, 5933
  - general remarks, 3907, 4254, 4571–4574, 4715, 6052–6053
- Teacher strikes
  - advice by Education Relations Commission, 4573
- Teachers
  - compensation, 6049
  - unpaid leaves of absence, 3910
- Tire manufacturing
  - expansion of Goodyear plant, 3788
- Transit funding
  - general remarks, 177, 3598–3600, 3666
- Transit funding sources
  - private sector partnership, 3225–3226
  - sale of public assets, 3500
- Trans-Pacific Partnership
  - general remarks, 5620–5622, 5721–5723
- Trans-Pacific Partnership, economic impact
  - supply management system, 5624
- Tributes
  - Côté, Ernest, 2472
- Trillium Trust
  - as transit funding vehicle, 447
  - transparency and accountability, 395
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission
  - special addresses concerning, 9621–9623
- Universities and colleges
  - enrolment, low-income students, 8077
- Universities and colleges, senior administration
  - payment in lieu of annual leave, prohibition, 3331
- Violence against women
  - general remarks, 7568–7569
- Water supply
  - source water protection, 2042–2043
- Wind turbine siting
  - local decision-making, 1677–1678
  - local support, 382–383
- Wind turbines, offshore
  - cancellation of Trillium Power Wind 1 project, 9179
  - development, 7339
  - research, 9070–9072, 9074, 9122
- Women
  - in politics, 2483

House speaker index

Letter: W

Walker, B. (PC, Bruce–Grey–Owen Sound)

Wilson, J. (PC, Simcoe–Grey)

Wong, S. (LIB, Scarborough–Agincourt)

Wynne, Hon. K.O. (LIB, Don Valley West)