Speaker letter t House Hansard index Parliament 41 Session 2

House speaker index

Letter: T

Tabuns, P. (NDP, Toronto–Danforth)
- Affordable housing
  - portable housing benefit, 506
  - regulatory barriers, 506–507
- Aggregate, recycled
  - in total extraction tonnage limits, 1397
- Aggregate Resources and Mining Modernization Act, 2017 (Bill 39)
  - second reading, 1395–1399
- Aggregate resources management
  - environmental protection, 1396
  - reform
    - public consultation, 6723
- Aggregate resources management, consultation
  - A Blueprint for Change, 1396
- Aggregate sites
  - dormant permits, 1397
  - environmental assessments, 1395
- Air pollution
  - in Sarnia–Lambton, 5766–5767
- Alterntaive-level-of-care beds
  - reopening of Humber River regional hospital, Finch Avenue site, 5279
- Budget 2017
  - city of Toronto, response to, 4233
- Budget Measures Act (Housing Price Stability and Ontario Seniors' Public Transit Tax Credit), 2017 (Bill 134)
  - second reading, 4707–4708
- Building Better Communities and Conserving Watersheds Act, 2017 (Bill 139)
  - second reading, 5146, 5267
  - third reading, 6723–6724
- Building Ontario Up for Everyone Act (Budget Measures), 2016 (Bill 70)
  - second reading, 1830, 1835–1836
- Burden Reduction Act, 2017 (Bill 27)
  - second reading, 623
- Cannabis, regulation of
  - general remarks, 6498–6499
- Cannabis, Smoke-Free Ontario and Road Safety Statute Law Amendment Act, 2017 (Bill 174)
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 6497–6499
- Cap and trade
  - in California
    - impact on emissions reduction, 7419
  - vs. carbon tax, 7421–7422
  - emissions reduction, 7421
  - offset credits
    - cost of, 7419
- Cap and trade, economic impact
  - cost effectiveness, 7421
- Carbon pricing
  - in other provincial jurisdictions, 7419
- Carbon pricing programs
  - impact on low- and middle-income households, 7418
- Carbon tax
  - in British Columbia
    - impact on emissions, 7418–7419
    - impact on households, 7418
  - vs. cap and trade, 7421–7422
- Child care
  - affordability, 1747
- Climate change
  - adapting to, 1125
  - general remarks, 7418
  - government accountability, 7420
  - government programs, 2191
  - government strategy, 7422
  - impact of, 7417
  - weather events caused by, 7417
    - flooding, cost of, 7417–7418
- Climate Change Mitigation and Low-carbon Economy Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 62)
  - first reading, 1416–1417
- Climate Change Mitigation and Low-Carbon Economy Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 62)
  - first reading, 1416–1417
- Conservation authorities
  - general remarks, 6724
- Construction Lien Amendment Act, 2017 (Bill 142)
  - second reading, 5028, 5030–5032, 5034
- Construction liens
  - prompt payment regime
    - enforcement, 5030–5032, 5034
  - regulatory reform, general remarks, 5028
- Coroner inquests
  - death of Andrew Loku (killed by police officer)
    - implementation of recommendations, 5458
- Corporations
  - executive compensation, 2878
- Disaster relief
  - for Gogama oil spill, 848
- East York Foundation Act, 2017 (Bill Pr63)
  - first reading, 3830
- Economic inequality
  - general remarks, 5704
- Electric power failures
  - extended power outage during 2013 ice storm, 168, 228
- Electricity billing
  - customers facing disconnection
    - consumer protection [advanced notice], 1849
  - rural customers in arrears, 191–192
- Electricity conservation
  - time-of-use rates, 1915–1916, 3182
- Electricity generation
  - cost, 3183
- Electricity transmission
  - privatization, 234, 623
- Elevators
  - traffic analysis, mandatory in building permit application process, 3693
- Energy affordability
  - for the general public, 4294–4295
  - for hospitals, 3005–3006
  - for households running medical equipment, 160
  - for low-income groups, 3564
  - in rural Ontario, 226–227, 724, 3610, 3821
- Energy contracts
  - with non-utility generators [overspending], 169
- Energy industry
  - community-based projects, 1034
  - privatization, 168, 229–230
- Energy policy
  - general remarks, 4123
  - NDP plan, 4391–4392
- Energy production
  - oversupply, cost, 137, 230–231, 4394
  - oversupply of baseload generation, 1034–1035, 4711
  - oversupply, sale to other jurisdictions, 227
- Energy rate increases
  - caused by privatization of energy industry, 407, 3303
- Fair Hydro Act, 2017 (Bill 132)
  - second reading, 4388–4394, 4396
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 4454–4456
  - third reading, 4710–4712
- Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017 (Bill 148)
  - second reading, 5701–5704
- Filipino Heritage Month Act, 2017 (Bill 181)
  - first reading, 6565
- Floods, rainwater
  - damage from
    - cost of, 7417–7418
  - insurance, 7418
- Fossil fuels
  - importation of, 7423
- French-language education
  - general remarks, 6598–6599
- Gas plant cancellations, email records
  - charges laid against David Livingston and Laura Miller, 4818–4819
- GO Transit
  - electrification, 5238
- GO Transit service expansion
  - cost, 7386
  - in GTA, 6564
- Government advertising
  - partisan, 3288–3289
- Government orders
  - Climate change
    - responded to, 7417–7424
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-present)
    - climate change, 7420
- Government service transfer
  - to municipalities, 2776, 2779, 2784
- Greenhouse gas emissions
  - credits
    - cost of, 7419
- Greenhouse gas reduction
  - in energy sector, 7420
  - general remarks, 1607
  - government targets, 6084, 7421, 7594
  - impact on global temperatures, 7418
  - methane emissions, 7423
  - in other jurisdictions, 7419–7420
  - through economic policy, 7423
  - through investments in housing and business efficiency, 7423
  - through regulation, 7419–7420
- Greenhouse Gas Reduction Account (GGRA)
  - funds used for infrastructure, 228
- Harmonized sales tax (HST)
  - exemptions
    - for electricity bills, 22
  - rebate on provincial share (8%)
    - for electricity bills, 23, 169, 231
- Health clinics
  - private clinics, 6686
- Home and community care
  - access to, 2661
  - wait times, 935–938
- Hospital construction
  - Simcoe–Grey, 4788–4790
- Hospitals
  - private, 6686
- Housing prices
  - affordability, in Greater Toronto Area (GTA), 4017–4018
- Hydro One Inc.
  - executive salaries, 3503–3504, 3869, 5507
  - prepayment meters, 6507, 6555–6556
  - purchase of Avista Corporation, 6460
  - purchase of Toronto Hydro, 2670–2671
  - rate increase application, 6392, 6459
  - regulation by OEB, 5808
- Hydro One Inc. privatization
  - deferred tax benefit, 1063–1064, 6754
  - departure tax, 5606
  - general remarks, 4070–4071, 4192–4193, 4391–4392, 4722–4723
  - transparency and accountability, 6753–6754
- Hydro One Inc. privatization, economic impact
  - lost revenues, 1708, 3182
  - on low-income consumers, 360–361
- Hydro One Inc. privatization, revenue
  - accounting and use of, 1063, 1121–1122, 4354
  - for infrastructure development, 4396
- Indigenous communities
  - pollution in, 5876
- Industrial Conservation Initiative (ICI)
  - program participation
    - extended to smaller consumers, 231–232
- Jonathan's Law (Employee Leave of Absence When Child Dies), 2016 (Bill 31)
  - first reading, 524
- Korean community
  - appreciation, 7080–7081
  - heritage month, 4096, 7080–7081
- Korean Heritage Month Act, 2017 (Bill 123)
  - third reading, 7080–7081
- Leaves of absence
  - bereavement leave for parents
    - in cases of child death from accident or illness, 522, 2259–2261
- Legislative procedure
  - motions
    - time allocation, 6497–6499
  - quorum, 6108
- Medical assistance in dying (MAID)
  - in other jurisdictions, 2660
- Medical Assistance in Dying Statute Law Amendment Act, 2017 (Bill 84)
  - second reading, 2656, 2660–2661
- Members' statements
  - Bereavement leave, 522
  - Child care, 1747
  - Climate change, 1125, 2191, 6084
  - Disaster relief, 848
  - GO Transit, 5238, 6564
  - Health care, 6686
  - McDermott, Dan, 2748
  - Mercury poisoning, 247, 1414
  - Public transit, 4779–4780, 7483
  - Tenant protection, 3709–3710
  - Water quality, 3014–3015
- Members'/ministers' correction of record, 7528
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - withdrawn, 5765
- Mercury poisoning in Grassy Narrows First Nation
  - funding for assessment, 247
  - poisoning treatment centre, 6680, 6730
  - remediation of Wabigoon River, 1790–1791, 1961–1962
    - delay, 1414, 1830
- Metrolinx
  - GO station approvals
    - alleged directives from Ministry of Transportation, 7386
- Ministerial statements
  - Climate change
    - responded to, 7594
  - Hydro rates
    - responded to, 137
  - Nanjing Massacre Commemorative Day
    - responded to, 7110–7111
  - Rouge National Urban Park
    - responded to, 5888
  - Waste Reduction Week
    - responded to, 5619
- Ministry of Energy
  - review by Auditor General
    - compliance with, 5714, 5874
- Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
  - directive powers
    - aggregate resources management, 1396, 1398–1399
- Modernizing Ontario's Municipal Legislation Act, 2017 (Bill 68)
  - second reading, 2431, 2775–2777, 2779, 2784
- Municipal councils
  - authority to make investments, 2776–2777
  - oversight by Integrity Commissioner, 2777
  - vacating of seats due to parental leave
    - prevention, 2779
- Municipal planning
  - inclusionary zoning, 7191
- Municipal planning, inclusionary zoning
  - general remarks, 505, 507
- Municipalities
  - sale of property in tax arrears, 2776
- Nanjing massacre
  - commemoration, 7110–7111
- Nanjing Massacre
  - acts of violence and rape by Japanese army, 2251–2252, 6001–6002
  - commemoration, 6002–6003
- New homes sector
  - consumer protection, 6112
- Nuclear generating stations
  - Bruce Power
    - as private nuclear generator, 229
- Ontario Electricity Support Program (OESP)
  - cost to implement, 792
- Ontario Energy Board (OEB)
  - approval of rate increases, 230
  - audit of rate increases, 232
  - fixed-rate delivery charges, 233
  - role of, 4392–4393
- Ontario Human Rights Code amendments
  - genetic information as a protected ground, 1381–1382
- Ontario Municipal Board (OMB)
  - reform, 5146
  - review, 4329
- Ontario Place
  - privatization, 1244–1245
- Ontario Power Generation (OPG)
  - executive salaries, 3460, 3767
- Ontario Rebate for Electricity Consumers Act, 2016 (Bill 13)
  - second reading, 225–234
- Ontario Seniors' Public Transit Tax Credit, 4697–4798
- Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP)
  - free tuition, 7507
- Ontario's Fair Hydro Plan
  - advertisement of on hydro bills, 6817–6819
  - financing of, 4388–4389, 5662, 5925–5926
  - general remarks, 3702–3703
  - government advertising, 4492
  - impact on long-term energy costs, 4390–4391, 4455, 4711, 4768–4769, 5764–5766, 5967–5968, 6016
  - review by Financial Accountability Officer, 4611
- Opioid abuse
  - overdose deaths
    - as public health emergency, 5593
  - public awareness campaign, government funding for, 5594
- Opposition day motions
  - Energy policies
    - responded to, 1033–1035
  - Hydro rates
    - responded to, 1708, 3182–3183
  - Privatization of public assets
    - responded to, 655–656, 6753–6754
- Oral questions
  - Affordable housing
    - presented, 4677–4678, 7191
  - Air quality
    - presented, 5766–5767
  - Automobile insurance
    - presented, 4440
  - By-election in Sudbury
    - presented, 1352–1353, 1408
  - Energy policies
    - presented, 22–23, 944, 1011–1012, 1849, 3821, 3869, 4123–4124, 4294–4295, 4611, 4722–4723, 5507, 5808, 6555–6556, 6817–6819
  - Environmental protection
    - presented, 5876
  - Executive compensation
    - presented, 3460, 3503–3504, 3767
  - Government accountability
    - presented, 5714, 5764–5766, 5874
  - Government accounting practices
    - presented, 5925–5926
  - Health care funding
    - presented, 5279
  - Housing policy
    - presented, 4017–4018
  - Hydro One
    - presented, 5606
  - Hydro rates
    - presented, 191–192, 724, 2442–2443, 3005–3006, 3303, 3564, 3610, 3702–3703, 4354, 4768–4769, 5662, 5967–5968, 6015–6016, 6392, 6459–6460, 6507
  - Hydro rebates
    - presented, 792
  - Mental health services
    - presented, 5458
  - Mercury poisoning
    - presented, 1790–1791, 1961–1962, 3965, 6680, 6730
  - Ontario Energy Board
    - presented, 460
  - Ontario Place
    - presented, 1244–1245
  - Power plants
    - presented, 4818–4819
  - Privatization of public assets
    - presented, 360–361, 1063–1064, 1121–1122, 2670–2671, 4070–4071, 4193, 4243
  - Public transit
    - presented, 2289, 7386
  - Renewable energy
    - presented, 407
  - Smart meters
    - presented, 1915–1916
  - Tenant protection
    - presented, 3257–3258, 3364–3365, 3411–3412, 3504, 3609
- Organic agriculture
  - benefits of, 6585
- Organic agri-food industry
  - regulation of, 6584–6585
- Organic Products Act, 2017 (Bill 153)
  - first reading, 4946
- Palliative care
  - access to, 2656
- Parental leave
  - extension for municipal councillors, 2777
- Paris Agreement
  - government support for, 1606
- Patients First Act, 2016 (Bill 41)
  - second reading, 935–938, 940
- Payday loans and lenders
  - regulation, 1953
- Petitions
  - Curriculum, 1315
  - Environmental protection, 6274
  - Injured workers, 6398–6399
  - Nuclear safety, 6226–6227
  - Pharmacare, 7067
  - Privatization of public assets, 2148, 4209
- Poet Laureate
  - defined, 7711
  - in other jurisdictions, 7712
- Prescription drugs
  - universal access to, 4233
- Private members' public business
  - Affordable housing
    - responded to, 6811–6812
  - Climate change
    - responded to, 1606–1608
  - End the Public Funding of Partisan Government Advertising Act, 2017 (Bill 112)
    - second reading, 3288–3289
  - Enhancing Shareholder Rights Act, 2017 (Bill 101)
    - second reading, 2877–2878
  - Hospital funding
    - responded to, 4788–4789
  - Human Rights Code Amendment Act (Genetic Characteristics), 2016 (Bill 30)
    - second reading, 1381–1382
  - Jonathan's Law (Employee Leave of Absence When Child Dies), 2016 (Bill 31)
    - second reading, 2260–2261, 2266–2267
  - Korean Heritage Month Act, 2017 (Bill 123)
    - second reading, 4096
  - Nanjing Massacre
    - responded to, 6001–6003
  - Nanjing Massacre Commemorative Day Act, 2016 (Bill 79)
    - second reading, 2251–2252
  - Nick's Law (Opioid Abuse Awareness), 2017 (Bill 161)
    - second reading, 5593–5594
  - Organic Products Act, 2017 (Bill 153)
    - second reading, 6584–6585, 6591
  - Poet Laureate of Ontario Act (In Memory of Gord Downie), 2018 (Bill 186)
    - second reading, 7711–7712
  - Post-secondary education
    - responded to, 7507–7508
  - Registered Professional Planners Act, 2017 (Bill 122)
    - second reading, 4329
  - Reliable Elevators Act, 2017 (Bill 109)
    - second reading, 3693–3694
  - Ticket Speculation Amendment Act (Purchase and Sale Requirements), 2016 (Bill 22)
    - second reading, 491–492
- Promoting Affordable Housing Act, 2016 (Bill 7)
  - second reading, 505–509, 1053–1055
- Public assets
  - privatization, 4243
- Public education campaigns - Environment
  - World Water Day, 3014–3015
- Public education campaigns—Environment
  - Waste Reduction Week, 5619
- Public transportation
  - government funding, 7483
- Putting Consumers First Act (Consumer Protection Statute Law Amendment), 2017 (Bill 59)
  - second reading, 1953
- Real Rent Control Act, 2017 (Bill 144)
  - first reading, 4781
- Registered professional planners
  - definition and title protection, 4329
- Renewable energy
  - cost to generate, 1708
  - generation, impact on energy rates, 4389
  - public ownership and development, 171
- Rent control
  - vacancy decontrol, 506, 1055, 3709–3710
- Rent increases
  - impact on senior citizens, 3257–3258
  - units built after 1991, 3364–3365, 3411–3412, 3504, 3609
- Rent Protection for All Tenants Act, 2017 (Bill 106)
  - first reading, 2898
- Rental housing
  - affordable units, cap on, 7191
- Rouge National Urban Park, 5888
- Safer School Zones Act, 2017 (Bill 65)
  - third reading, 4339
- Social housing
  - funding for maintenance and repairs, Toronto, 4677–4678
  - as municipal responsibility, 505–506
  - rehabilitative repairs/retrofits, 6812
  - sale, transfer, or dissolution, 505
  - wait list, 6811–6812
- STEM fields
  - education, 7508
- Strengthening Protection for Ontario Consumers Act, 2017 (Bill 166)
  - second reading, 6112
- Stronger, Fairer Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2017 (Bill 177)
  - second reading, 6598–6599
- Stronger, Healthier Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2017 (Bill 127)
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 4232–4234
- Sudbury by-election 2015
  - allegations of offer of employment/political office to Glenn Thibeault, 1352–1353, 1408
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 160, 167–171
- Ticket sale and purchase
  - legalization of reseller market, 491–492
- Time allocation motions
  - Cannabis, Smoke-Free Ontario and Road Safety Statute Law Amendment Act, 2017 (Bill 174)
    - responded to, 6497–6499
  - Fair Hydro Act, 2017 (Bill 132)
    - responded to, 4454–4456
  - Stronger, Healthier Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2017 (Bill 127)
    - responded to, 4232–4234
- Toronto Hydro
  - funding for delayed/deferred capital upgrades, 460
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)
  - direct provincial funding, 2289
- Transit planning
  - downtown relief line (Toronto), 4779–4780
- Tributes
  - McDermott, Dan, 2748
- Union certification, card-based
  - expansion of, 5702–5703
- University and college faculty members
  - precarious employment, 7507
- Water quality
  - strategies, 3014–3015
- Wind turbine projects
  - suspension of Windstream Energy project
    - cost of claim, 944, 1011–1012
Takhar, H.S. (LIB, Mississauga–Erindale)
- Anti-Sikh riots of 1984
  - as act of genocide, 3485–3486
- Corporations
  - director nomination and election, 2872–2873
  - executive compensation, 2873–2874
  - shareholder requisition threshold, 2873, 2880
- Enhancing Shareholder Rights Act, 2017 (Bill 101)
  - first reading, 2750
- Highway safety
  - texting zones, 2863
- Members' statements
  - Diwali, 5462–5463
  - Edhi, Abdul Sattar, 690–691
  - Epilepsy South Central Ontario, 6129
  - ErinoakKids Centre for Treatment and Development, 2138–2139
  - Family Day Walkathon, 2961
  - Sikh community, 3775–3776
  - University of Toronto Mississauga, 4361, 6866
- Private members' public business
  - Enhancing Shareholder Rights Act, 2017 (Bill 101)
    - second reading, 2872–2874, 2879–2880
  - Safe Texting Zones Act, 2017 (Bill 19)
    - second reading, 2863
  - Sikh massacre
    - responded to, 3485–3486
- Sikh community
  - heritage month, 3775–3776
- Tributes
  - Edhi, Abdul Sattar, 690–691
- Universities and colleges
  - University of Toronto Mississauga, 6866
- University of Toronto Mississauga
  - expansion, government funding for, 4361
Taylor, M. (NDP, Hamilton Mountain)
- Accessibility for persons with disabilities
  - general remarks, 6831–6832
- Affordable housing, supply
  - wait lists, 1058
- Aggregate Resources and Mining Modernization Act, 2017 (Bill 39)
  - second reading, 1393
- Anti-Racism Act, 2017 (Bill 114)
  - second reading, 3526–3531, 3809–3810
- Anti-Racism Directorate, 3527
- Asbestos
  - health risks, 2413–2414
- Autism treatment
  - direct funding, 2747, 3368
  - government funding, 849
  - intensive behavioural intervention (IBI)
    - age restrictions, 802
    - for children over age 5, 77
  - in schools, 5969
  - wait times, 6862
- Budget speech 2017 (April 27, 2017)
  - responded to, 3920, 3924–3925, 4428
- Cancer treatment
  - rare cancers
    - no coverage by OHIP, 1624
- Cancer treatment drugs
  - rare cancers
    - coverage by OHIP, 2242
- Cannabis, legalization of
  - impact of timeline on provincial regulation, 6420
- Cannabis, Smoke-Free Ontario and Road Safety Statute Law Amendment Act, 2017 (Bill 174)
  - second reading, 6358–6359, 6405, 6412, 6420
- Child and youth mental health care
  - government funding, 7502
  - statistics and outcomes, 7496
  - suicide prevention, 7522
  - wait lists, 7061–7062, 7604
  - wait times, 6461–6462, 7054, 7478, 7495
- Child care centres
  - funding for Yes I Can Nursery School (Toronto, Ontario), 2131
- Child and family programs
  - reform, 2742–2743
- Child Protection Information Network (CPIN)
  - implementation delay, 2554, 2691
- Child protection system
  - data collection and sharing, 2690–2691
  - focus on rights of children and youth, 2686–2687
  - government funding, 1027–1028
  - Katelynn's Principle, 1805–1806, 4637, 4752, 4754
  - lead agencies, 2687–2688
  - oversight, 2688
  - services that are culturally appropriate, 2685
- Child protection workers
  - strike by CUPE Local 4914'
    - negotiations, 582
- Child and youth mental health care
  - government funding, 3924
  - wait lists, 3920
- Children and youth in care
  - deaths, 7580–7581
  - outcomes for, 6217
- Children with disabilities
  - education accessibility standard, 6823–6824
  - treatment, 6824, 6832
- Children and youth in care
  - government support for, 4639
  - indigenousand African Canadian, 1125–1126, 3527–3528, 4752–4754
  - protection up to age 18, 2687
  - residential care
    - inspections/licensing, 2690
- Children's aid societies (CASs)
  - amalgamations, 2688
  - board membership, 2689
  - caseload caps, 1618
  - ministry oversight
    - residential placement advisory, 2689
- Children's aid society workers
  - duty to report, 2685–2687
- Construction Lien Amendment Act, 2017 (Bill 142)
  - second reading, 4950, 4954, 5274
- Construction liens
  - prompt payment regime
    - enforcement, 4950
- Developmental services
  - government funding, 4247
  - Passport program, funding
    - wait lists, 4252, 4428
- Disclosure of Information Relating to the Protection of Children Act, 2016 (Bill 51)
  - first reading, 1024
- Election Finances Statute Law Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 2)
  - second reading, 451
- Election Statute Law Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 45)
  - second reading, 1195
- Elections/by-elections
  - fixed election date
    - move from fall to spring, 1195
- Emergency medical services
  - offloading delays, 7634–7635
- Emergency service, hospital
  - wait times, 4300–4301
- Emergency services, hospitals
  - bed shortage and wait times, 6011–6012
- Employment, precarious
  - increase in, 6279
- Energy affordability
  - for households running medical equipment, 246
  - for seniors, 46
  - for small business owners, 377
- Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017 (Bill 148)
  - second reading, 5403, 5408, 5699–5700
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 6279–6280
- Fairness in Procurement Act, 2018 (Bill 194)
  - second reading, 7344
- Genetic testing
  - as preventive health measure, 1384
- GO Transit service expansion
  - in Hamilton, 6511
- Government advertising
  - partisan, 4212
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-present)
    - mental health funding, 7604
- Habitat for Humanity, 1056
- Health care
  - general remarks, 6442
  - privatization, 5734
- Hindu community
  - appreciation, 1377
- Home Capital, investigation by Ontario Securities Commission, board of directors
  - resignations of Jim Keohane and Kevin Smith, 4213
- Hospitals
  - government funding, 6343
  - occupancy rate, 6343
- Hydro One Inc. privatization, economic impact
  - on electricity rates, 376–377
- Indigenous children
  - living in group homes, protection of, 4445–4446
- Indigenous children and youth
  - mental health care, 7496
- Justice system
  - access to, 5773
- Katelynn's Principle Act (Decisions Affecting Children), 2016 (Bill 57)
  - first reading, 1310
- Leaves of absence
  - for survivors of domestic or sexual violence, 6280
- Legislative procedure
  - time allocation motions, 6279
- Lockouts
  - staff of Nipissing and Parry Sound Children's Aid Society, 2339
- Members' statements
  - Access to justice, 5773
  - Autism treatment, 77, 849, 2747
  - Cancer treatment, 1624
  - Child and family services, 6217
  - Child and youth mental health services, 7061–7062
  - Diwali, 896
  - Down syndrome, 2961
  - HairStory, 1125–1126
  - Hamilton Community Food Centre, 3710–3711
  - Hydro rates, 246
  - Masotti, Justin, 2242
  - Pension plans, 5338–5339
  - Service dogs, 6736–6737
  - Services for the developmentally disabled, 4252
  - Tree of Stars, 7639
- Members'/ministers' constituencies
  - Hamilton Mountain, 7639
- Mental health and addictions
  - Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions, creation of, 5004–5005
- Mental health care
  - government funding, 7603–7604
- Mental illness
  - prevalence, 7603
  - stigma, 7603
- Minimum wage
  - and poverty, 5700
- Minimum wage increase
  - effect on WSIB benefits, 6280
  - general remarks, 2795, 6279
- Minimum wage increase, economic impact
  - on low-income earners, 5403
- Ministerial statements
  - Adoption Awareness Month
    - responded to, 1801, 6135
  - Autism Awareness Month
    - responded to, 802
  - Child Abuse Prevention Month
    - responded to, 1027–1028, 5888
  - International Day of Persons with Disabilities
    - responded to, 6831–6832
  - National Disability Employment Awareness Month
    - responded to, 5466–5467
  - World Autism Awareness Day
    - responded to, 3267–3268
- Motherisk program
  - forensic testing, errors in, 3255–3256
- Occupational health and safety
  - employer-mandated unsafe footwear
    - ban on, 5796
- Ontario Human Rights Code amendments
  - genetic information as a protected ground, 1384
- Ontario Rebate for Electricity Consumers Act, 2016 (Bill 13)
  - second reading, 317
- Opioid abuse
  - overdose deaths
    - as public health emergency, 5134
- Opposition day motions
  - Energy policies
    - responded to, 376–377
  - Government accountability
    - responded to, 4212–4213
  - Mental health services
    - responded to, 7603–7604
- Oral questions
  - Ambulance services
    - presented, 7634–7635
  - Autism treatment
    - presented, 2131, 3368, 3615, 5969, 6862
  - By-election in Sudbury
    - presented, 5054–5055
  - Child protection
    - presented, 4445–4446, 7580–7581
  - Children's mental health services
    - presented, 6461–6462, 7054, 7478, 7522
  - Children's services
    - presented, 2742–2743
  - GO Transit
    - presented, 6511
  - Government policies
    - presented, 130
  - Health care funding
    - presented, 2391, 4300–4301
  - Hospital services
    - presented, 6011–6012
  - Labour dispute
    - presented, 582, 1618–1619, 2186–2187, 2339
  - Minimum wage
    - presented, 2795
  - Motherisk poster
    - presented, 3255–3256
  - Services for children with disabilities
    - presented, 6823–6824
  - Services for the developmentally disabled
    - presented, 1123, 4247
- Pan/Parapan American Games 2015, sports facilities
  - Hamilton stadium
    - built through P3, 4954
- Payday loans and lenders
  - interest rate cap, 1637, 1724, 1776
- Pension plans
  - protection of, 5338–5339
- Persons with traumatic brain injuries (TBIs)
  - care and support
    - government funding, 2391
- Petitions
  - Anti-smoking initiatives for youth, 7327–7328
  - Child care, 1627–1628
  - Employment standards, 736, 1191
  - Energy conservation, 2304, 2351
  - Grandview Children's Centre, 2801, 3718, 4026
  - Health care funding, 2149, 2246, 3905
  - Hospital funding, 2453, 4626, 4945–4946
  - Injured workers, 7006, 7066, 7328–7329, 7445, 7595–7596
  - Long-term care, 6923
  - Pharmacare, 4943, 4998–4999, 5070, 5169, 5400, 5467–5468, 5729, 5775–5776, 5940, 6138, 6170, 6275, 6401, 6922, 7446, 7596
  - Primary health care, 3107–3108
  - Privatization of public assets, 35, 1188, 1315, 1625, 2352–2353, 2452, 3719, 3906, 4364–4365
  - Services for children with disabilities, 5620, 7329–7330
  - Services for disabled children, 4832–4833
  - Shingles vaccine, 735
- Political fundraising
  - cabint ministers' quotas, 4213
- Political fundraising reform
  - amendments to Bill 2, 451
- Poverty
  - general remarks, 6279
- Private members' public business
  - Asbestos Use Prohibition Act, 2017 (Bill 88)
    - second reading, 2413–2414
  - Fairness in Minimum Wage Act, 2017 (Bill 172)
    - second reading, 6175
  - Hindu Heritage Month Act, 2016 (Bill 56)
    - second reading, 1377
  - Hospital services
    - responded to, 6343–6344
  - Human Rights Code Amendment Act (Genetic Characteristics), 2016 (Bill 30)
    - second reading, 1384
  - Illegal Pill Press Act, 2017 (Bill 126)
    - second reading, 5133–5134
  - Katelynn's Principle Act (Decisions Affecting Children), 2016 (Bill 57)
    - second reading, 1805–1806, 1812
  - Mental health services
    - presented, 7495–7497
    - responded to, 7502
  - Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions Act, 2017 (Bill 149)
    - second reading, 5004–5005
  - Protecting Vulnerable Persons in Supportive Living Accommodation Act, 2017 (Bill 135)
    - second reading, 4570
  - Putting Your Best Foot Forward Act, 2017 (Bill 168)
    - second reading, 5796
  - Ticket Speculation Amendment Act (Purchase and Sale Requirements), 2016 (Bill 22)
    - second reading, 490–491
  - WSIB Coverage for Workers in Residential Care Facilities and Group Homes Act, 2017 (Bill 145)
    - second reading, 6179–6180
- Promoting Affordable Housing Act, 2016 (Bill 7)
  - second reading, 1052, 1056–1058
- Protecting Patients Act, 2017 (Bill 87)
  - second reading, 3123–3124, 3327
- Protecting Students Act, 2016 (Bill 37)
  - second reading, 749–750
- Public education campaigns - Children
  - Child Abuse Prevention Month, 1027–1028
- Public education campaigns - Disability
  - National Disability Employment Awareness Month, 5466–5467
- Public education campaigns—Children and families
  - Adoption Awareness Month, 6135
  - Child Abuse Prevention Month, 5888
- Public education campaigns—Community development
  - World Down Syndrome Day, 2961
- Public education campaigns—Disability
  - Autism Awareness Month, 802
  - International Day of Persons with Disabilities, 6831–6832
- Putting Consumers First Act (Consumer Protection Statute Law Amendment), 2017 (Bill 59)
  - second reading, 1637, 1724, 1776
- Racism and anti-racism
  - race-based data collection, collection and use, 3527, 3809–3810
- Racism and anti-racism, anti-indigenous racism, 3528–3529
- Sales, door-to-door
  - consumer protection, 1724
- School Boards Collective Bargaining Amendment Act, 2017 (Bill 92)
  - second reading, 2474, 2478–2479
- Service dogs
  - access to, in public institutions, 6736–6737
- Social housing
  - as municipal responsibility, 1052
  - sale, transfer, or dissolution, 1057
- Strengthening Protection for Ontario Consumers Act, 2017 (Bill 166)
  - second reading, 5949–5950
- Strengthening Quality and Accountability for Patients Act, 2017 (Bill 160)
  - second reading, 5734, 5743
- Strikes
  - children's aid workers, CUPE 4914, 2186–2187
  - replacement workers, 6280
  - workers of Peel Children's Aid Societies, 1618–1619
- Strikes, college faculty
  - back-to-work legislation, 6629
- Stronger, Fairer Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2017 (Bill 177)
  - second reading, 6442, 6629
- Stronger, Healthier Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2017 (Bill 127)
  - second reading, 4047, 4147
- Sudbury by-election 2015, bribery allegations
  - investigation
    - Premier's participation in hearings, 5054–5055
- Supporting Children, Youth and Families Act, 2017 (Bill 89)
  - second reading, 2330, 2554, 2683–2691, 2693, 2805, 2811, 2814, 2818, 2820
  - public consultation, 4638
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 4637–4639
  - third reading, 4752–4755
- Supportive housing, private
  - regulation of, 4570
- Tarion
  - oversight, 5950
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 46
- Ticket sale and purchase
  - legalization of reseller market, 490–491
- Time allocation motions
  - Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017 (Bill 148)
    - responded to, 6279–6280
  - Supporting Children, Youth and Families Act, 2017 (Bill 89)
    - responded to, 4637–4639
- Tributes
  - Deans, Ian (former member for Wentworth), 2053–2054
- Unions
  - access to, 6280
- Voters
  - provisional registration for youth age 16 and 17, 1195
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
  - deeming, 6180
  - history of, 6179–6180
- Youth justice facilities
  - secure isolation/de-escalation, 2689
  - use of mechanical restraints
    - authority and limitations, 2689–2690
Thibeault, Hon. G. (LIB, Sudbury)
- Agriculture industry
  - investment in, 2954
- Cap and trade
  - costs, disclosed on natural gas bills, 2060
- Coal-fired electricity generation
  - plant closures, 4400
- Community care access centres (CCACs)
  - executive staff
    - salaries, 3362–3363
- Debates re answers to oral questions
  - Hydro rates
    - responded to, 2989–2990
- Electricity billing
  - customers facing disconnection, 3511
    - consumer protection [advanced notice], 366, 1849
  - disconnections, 1746, 6206
    - ban during winter months, 2235, 6995
  - itemized costs, 456
- Electricity conservation
  - time-of-use rates, 1916
- Electricity export
  - to reduce energy rates, 66–67
- Electricity generating facilities
  - overbilling by, 6992–6993, 7052
    - Ontario Power Generation, 7049
    - recovery of funds, 7094–7095
- Electricity price mitigation
  - for industrial customers
    - Industrial Conservation Initiative, 206, 240, 2841, 4373
    - Northern Industrial Electricity Rate Program, 206, 2558
  - for low-income groups
    - Low-Income Energy Assistance Progarm (LEAP), 205, 362
  - for northern Ontario
    - Northern Ontario Energy Credit, 205
  - in rural Ontario, 793–794, 6459
  - for small businesses, 206, 841, 1960, 2058, 2063
  - through support programs and tax credits, 358, 793–794, 807, 894, 1010–1011, 1019, 1175–1176, 1575, 1746, 1841, 1919, 2057, 2063, 2292, 2388–2389, 2448
- Electricity price mitigation programs
  - Affordability Fund, 5926
  - general remarks, 6678
  - Industrial Conservation Initiative, 1520, 1914, 1917, 1961, 2954
  - Industrial Conservation Initiative (ICI), 3362–3363
  - The Northern Industrial Electricity Rate Program, 6079
  - Rural and Remote Rate Protection Program, 6612
- Electricity pricing
  - general remarks, 2341
- Electricity subsidies
  - delivery charge subsidy for rural Ontario
    - 12% increase, 192, 206, 724, 806, 2563
    - eligibility [low-density rural areas only], 458–459, 639
- Energy affordability
  - for the general public, 785
  - for hospitals, 2840–2841, 2886
  - for industry, 785, 2892
  - for long-term care homes, 1017
  - for low-income groups, 3417
  - for municipalities, 2886–2887
  - in rural Ontario, 3821
  - for seniors, 4249, 4356, 4360
  - for small business owners, 4680–4681, 5278–5279
- Energy industry
  - emissions-free system, 407
- Energy production
  - long-term planning, 2179–2180, 2234, 4371–4372
  - oversupply
    - sale to other jurisdictions, 6455–6457, 6503
  - revenue, 6116
- Energy rate increases
  - caused by privatization of energy industry, 4194–4195
  - due to debt retirement charge, 4353–4354
  - due to delivery charges, 3658
  - for farmers, 2989–2990
  - for hospitals, 2952, 7132
  - impact on community groups, 3415
  - impact on manufacturing industry, 3459–3460
  - in rural Ontario, 2567
- Energy rates
  - comparison to other cities/provinces, 1579
- Energy rates, additional charges
  - global adjustment charge
    - retroactive payment to Northland Power, 1175
- Energy reliability
  - comparison to other provinces, 404
  - government initiatives, 288–289
- Fair Hydro Act, 2017 (Bill 132)
  - first reading, 4306
  - second reading, 4367–4373, 4395–4396, 4400
- French-language debates
  - Loi de 2017 pour des frais d'électricité équitables, projet de loi 132
    - troisième lecture, 4712
  - Questions orales
    - Tarifs d'électricité, 4351–4352
- Fuel market
  - review, 2187–2188
  - transparency, 2187
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-present)
    - energy policy, 4368–4369
    - northern Ontario, 5158–5159
- Greenhouse Gas Reduction Account (GGRA)
  - funds used to offset impact of cap-and-trade on industrial consumers, 206
- Greenhouse gas reductions
  - government initiatives, 4368–4369
- Harmonized sales tax (HST)
  - rebate on provincial share (8%)
    - for electricity bills, 135–136, 206, 840, 1519–1520, 1914, 2233–2234
- Home heating
  - retrofits
    - access in northern Ontario, 1577–1578
- Hydro One Inc.
  - Avista Corp., purchase, 4884
  - executive salaries, 3300, 3869, 4021, 5503, 5507
  - general remarks, 7132
  - ombudsman for, 3565
  - ombudsman's resignation, 3656–3657
  - prepayment meters, 6507, 6555–6556, 6613, 6678, 6727–6728, 6775, 6994–6995
  - purchase of Avista Corporation, 6460, 6995
  - rate increase application, 6392, 6612
  - regulation by OEB, 5808–5809
- Hydro One Inc. privatization
  - departure tax, 5606–5607
  - general remarks, 4070–4071
- Hydro One Inc. privatization, economic impact
  - revenue generation, 189, 1961, 2180, 5968, 6775–6776
- Hydro One Inc. privatization, revenue
  - for infrastructure development, 237–238, 406, 457–458, 681, 1474
- Hydro One Inc. shares
  - percentage private ownership, 457–458
- Hydroelectric power
  - procured on as-needed basis, 6456
- Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO)
  - actuarial loss of $80 million, 1010
  - market renewal, 5971, 7051
- Industrial Conservation Initiative (ICI)
  - program participation
    - extended to smaller consumers, 206, 360, 364, 807, 1013
- Interprovincial trade
  - electricity trade
    - agreement between Quebec and Ontario, 1014–1015, 4370
- Local distribution companies (LDCs)
  - consolidation, 456–457, 680
  - disconnections during winter, 2287–2288, 2510–2511, 2612
- Members'/ministers' correction of record, 795, 2617, 6083–6084, 6464–6465, 7058, 7139
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - on northern Ontario, 5158–5159, 5229
  - withdrawn, 189
- Ministerial statements
  - Hydro rates
    - presented, 135–136
- Ministry of Energy
  - freedom of information requests, response to, 4296, 4302
  - Ontario's Long-Term Energy Plan, 5966, 5968, 6016
  - review by Auditor General
    - compliance with, 5713–5714, 5762, 5764, 5805–5808, 5922–5923
- Natural gas
  - accessibility and rural Ontario
    - government funding
      - Natural Gas Access Loan program, 2564
- Natural gas billing
  - cap-and-trade cost, disclosure, 5335
- Natural gas, billing
  - cap-and-trade cost, disclosure, 5104–5105
- Northern Ontario
  - government investment in, 6079–6080, 6823, 7137
- Northern Ontario Heritage Fund
  - general remarks, 6782–6783
- Nuclear energy
  - role in energy system, 4395–4396
- Nuclear generating stations
  - Darlington
    - new construction, defferral, 205
  - refurbishment
    - Darlington, 5811
    - Darlington and Bruce, 6460
- Ontario Electricity Support Program
  - funding for low-income groups, 205, 241, 633, 895–896
  - government funding, 887–888
- Ontario Electricity Support Program (OESP)
  - expansion of, 4775–4776
  - funding for low-income groups, 785–786, 792–794, 1185, 1913, 2233
- Ontario Power Generation (OPG)
  - executive salaries, 3302, 3411, 3413–3414, 3460, 3767
- Ontario Rebate for Electricity Consumers Act, 2016 (Bill 13)
  - first reading, 134
  - ministerial statement, 135–136
  - second reading, 204–207
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 395
  - third reading, 806–807
- Ontario's Fair Hydro Plan
  - advertisement of on hydro bills, 6817–6818, 7050–7051
  - financing of, 4373, 5661–5662, 5710, 5712, 5719, 5921–5922, 5925
  - general remarks, 2608–2610, 2613–2614, 2616, 2738–2739, 2842–2843, 2958, 3009, 3094, 3205, 3303, 3564, 3610, 3702–3703, 4123–4124, 4191–4192, 4243, 4295, 4351–4352, 4354, 4358, 4724, 4939–4940, 5806–5807, 6387, 7129
  - government advertising, 3821–3822, 4492, 4609
  - government advertising, expenditures on, 5156––5157, 5230–5231, 5281–5282
  - impact on long-term energy costs, 4436–4439, 4498, 4536–4538, 4610, 4768, 5764–5765, 5970
  - review by Financial Accountability Officer, 4353, 4611–4612
  - transparency and accountability, 5766
- Oral questions
  - Agri-food industry
    - responded to, 1917
  - By-election in Sudbury
    - responded to, 1353
  - Electricity supply
    - responded to, 288–289, 1014–1015
  - Energy contracts
    - responded to, 2511–2512, 5155–5156, 6116
  - Energy policies
    - responded to, 66–67, 356–357, 404–405, 455–456, 631, 720, 723–724, 784–785, 886–888, 944, 1011–1013, 1849, 1960–1961, 2060–2061, 2179–2181, 2284–2285, 2287–2288, 2338–2339, 2341, 2384, 2508, 2510–2511, 2557, 2559, 2561–2564, 2608–2611, 2614, 2837, 3092, 3511, 3612, 3821–3822, 3869, 4123–4124, 4294–4297, 4609–4612, 4680–4681, 4724, 4939–4940, 5104–5105, 5335, 5503, 5507, 5808–5809, 5926, 5966, 6019–6020, 6206, 6455–6457, 6503–6504, 6555–6556, 6613–6614, 6678–6679, 6725–6728, 6775–6776, 6782, 6817–6819, 6992–6995, 7049–7052, 7094–7095, 7129, 7132
  - Executive compensation
    - responded to, 3300, 3302, 3362–3363, 3411, 3413–3414, 3460, 3767, 4021
  - Fiscal accountability
    - responded to, 5806
  - Forest industry
    - responded to, 2558, 2612–2613
  - Gasoline prices
    - responded to, 2187–2188
  - Government accountability
    - responded to, 5713–5714, 5762–5766, 5805–5808, 5922–5923
  - Government accounting practices
    - responded to, 5710, 5719, 5921–5922, 5925–5926
  - Government advertising
    - responded to, 4492, 5156–5157, 5230–5231, 5281–5282
  - Government policies
    - responded to, 237–238
  - Government's record
    - responded to, 69–70, 7132
  - Green power generation
    - responded to, 5928
  - Greenhouse gas emissions
    - responded to, 4884
  - Greenhouse industry
    - responded to, 3570
  - Hydro charges
    - responded to, 3461
  - Hydro One
    - responded to, 3565, 3656–3657, 5606–5607
  - Hydro rates
    - responded to, 192, 240–241, 357–358, 360, 362, 364–366, 404, 458–459, 639, 678–679, 724, 894–896, 1009–1011, 1015, 1017, 1019, 1060, 1067, 1175–1176, 1185, 1519–1520, 1574–1575, 1577–1579, 1746, 1841–1842, 1913–1915, 1919, 2057–2058, 2063, 2233–2235, 2292, 2337, 2342, 2386, 2388–2389, 2441–2446, 2448, 2506–2507, 2512, 2514, 2516, 2567, 2611–2613, 2615–2616, 2738–2740, 2839–2843, 2886–2887, 2892, 2952, 2954, 2958–2960, 3009–3011, 3094–3095, 3159–3160, 3205–3206, 3303, 3415, 3417, 3459–3460, 3505–3506, 3564, 3571, 3610, 3658, 3702–3703, 4191–4192, 4194–4195, 4249, 4302, 4351–4354, 4356, 4358, 4360, 4436–4439, 4498, 4536–4538, 4769, 4775–4776, 5278–5279, 5661–5662, 5712–5713, 5807, 5968, 5970–5971, 6016, 6079–6080, 6387–6388, 6392, 6459–6460, 6507, 6612–6613
  - Hydro rebates
    - responded to, 785–786, 792–794
  - Investment in northern Ontario
    - responded to, 6823
  - Northern Ontario
    - responded to, 5158–5159, 5229
  - Northern Ontario Heritage Fund
    - responded to, 6782–6783
  - Nuclear power facilities
    - responded to, 5811, 6460
  - Ontario budget
    - responded to, 3607
  - Ontario Energy Board
    - responded to, 460
  - Pension plans
    - responded to, 5389
  - Poverty
    - responded to, 1845–1846
  - Privatization of public assets
    - responded to, 188–189, 361, 406, 456–458, 633, 680–682, 840–841, 1474, 1614–1615, 4070–4071, 4190–4191, 4193, 4243, 7190
  - Protection of privacy
    - responded to, 3562–3563
  - Public transit
    - responded to, 3211
  - Renewable energy
    - responded to, 407
  - Ring of Fire
    - responded to, 7137
  - Small business
    - responded to, 3304
  - Smart meters
    - responded to, 1916
  - Wind turbines
    - responded to, 2062
- PC Party election platform
  - People's Guarantee
    - carbon tax, 6726–6727
    - energy rates, 6625
- Political fundraising
  - conflict of interest, 188–189
- Protecting Vulnerable Energy Consumers Act, 2017 (Bill 95)
  - first reading, 2321
- Public assets
  - privatization, 4190–4191
- Renewable energy
  - general remarks, 5928, 6019
  - government funding, 2062
- Renewable energy contracts
  - overspending on, 5155–5156
  - renegotiation to reduce costs, 205, 362
- Renewable energy projects
  - large renewable procurement (LRP II)
    - suspension, 356, 361, 364, 1012
- Sears Canada
  - pension assets, protection of, 5389
- Smart grid
  - fund, 6782
- Sudbury by-election 2015
  - allegations of offer of employment/political office to Glenn Thibeault, 1353, 4821
- Time allocation motions
  - Ontario Rebate for Electricity Consumers Act, 2016 (Bill 13)
    - responded to, 395
- Toronto Hydro
  - funding for delayed/deferred capital upgrades, 460
  - privatization proposal, 406
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)
  - impact of high energy rates, 3211
- Transportation infrastructure
  - government funding, 5764
- Trillium Trust
  - transit funding, 7190
- Wind turbine projects
  - suspension of Windstream Energy project
    - cost of claim, 720, 723–724, 886, 2338–2339
Thompson, L.M. (PC, Huron–Bruce)
- Affordable housing
  - portable housing benefit, 5883
- Aggregate Resources and Mining Modernization Act, 2017 (Bill 39)
  - second reading, 1461, 1464
- Aggregate resources management
  - fees and royalties, 1461
  - mapping of aggregate deposits, 1464
  - reform
    - public consultation, 6722–6723
- Agriculture
  - events
    - International Plowing Match, 4893
- Agriculture industry
  - employment, 5811–5812
  - sustainable practices, 1605
  - youth interest and involvement, 3210–3211
- Anti-Human Trafficking Act, 2017 (Bill 96)
  - second reading, 3425–3426
- Appreciation
  - Ecker, Janet, 2518–2519
- Bees
  - health, 267
- Bills/sections
  - title translation
    - Fairness in Procurement Act, 2018 (Bill 194), 7344
- Budget 2017
  - gender-based, 3678
- Building Better Communities and Conserving Watersheds Act, 2017 (Bill 139)
  - second reading, 5252, 5259–5260, 5262
  - third reading, 7039–7044
- Canada's sesquicentennial, 4684
- Cap and trade
  - general remarks, 5392
  - offset credits
    - purchase from California, 1741–1742
- Cap and trade, economic impact
  - on energy rates, 25–26
  - general remarks, 7573
- Certified crop advisers
  - decrease in number, 268
  - restrictions on professional activities
    - impact on farmers, 268
- Childhood Apraxia of Speech Awareness Day Act, 2017 (Bill 131)
  - first reading, 4254
- Climate change
  - consultation with farmers, 7572
- Community care access centres (CCACs)
  - quality of service, 1085
- Computer literacy, 6685–6686
- Conservation authorities
  - government funding, 7042
- Conservation authorities, boards of directors
  - appointment of, 7041–7042
  - inclusion of local representatives on, 7041–7042
  - professional qualifications of, 5260
- Conservation authorities, reform
  - stakeholder consultation, 7040–7041
- Conservation officers
  - warrantless entry powers, 7041
- Construction Lien Amendment Act, 2017 (Bill 142)
  - second reading, 5483
- Cutting Unnecessary Red Tape Act, 2017 (Bill 154)
  - second reading, 5303, 5306
  - third reading, 6070–6073
- Dairy cows
  - CanWestDHI awards, 5290
- Debates re answers to oral questions
  - Home care
    - presented, 6490
  - Mental health services
    - presented, 7657–7658
- École Polytechnique massacre
  - anniversary, 6916
- Economic conditions, 7342
- Economic policies
  - impact on business competitiveness, 7337
- Election Statute Law Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 45)
  - second reading, 1263
- Electric vehicles
  - general remarks, 1604
- Energy affordability
  - for the general public, 999
  - in rural Ontario, 1044–1045
  - for small business owners, 29, 2292
- Energy production
  - oversupply, 6485
- Energy rate increases
  - effect on business and labour market competition, 6485
- Environmental registry
  - environmental review requests, 1184
- Fairness in Procurement Act, 2018 (Bill 194)
  - second reading, 7336–7344, 7355, 7363, 7369
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 7457–7463
- Farmers
  - donations to food banks, 795
- Federal government
  - taxation policy, farmers, 5233
- Firefighters
  - volunteer firefighters
    - appreciation, 1021
- Flood risk management, 5252
- Forest industry
  - endangered species, 6507
  - regulatory framework, 7636
- Gasoline tax revenue
  - rural Ontario allocation, 3087
- Government order
  - Climate change
    - responded to, 7617–7619
- Government orders
  - Climate change
    - responded to, 7572–7573
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-present)
    - business competitiveness, 7337
- Greenhouse gas emissions
  - credits
    - bought from other states/provinces, 2014
- Greenhouse gas reduction
  - and carbon sequestration, 7572
  - in chemical industry, 1605
  - public consultation, 7618
- Home and community care
  - new government agency
    - relationship with SEIU, 6206, 6490
- Home inspectors, licensing and regulation
  - general remarks, 3382
- Indigenous children
  - living in group homes, protection of, 4441
- Indigenous communities
  - economic development, 7196
- International trade
  - Trans-Pacific Partnership, 6462–6463
  - with United States
    - Buy American policies, 7338–7340
    - impact on provincial economy, 7342
      - auto industry, 7363, 7462
- International trade agreements
  - Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, 5519–5521
  - North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
    - renegotiation of, 3874
    - and subnational procurement, 7338, 7459
  - World Trade Organization Agreement on Government Procurement
    - and subnational procurement, 7459
- Land use planning, reform
  - general remarks, 7039
- Legislative procedure
  - answers to written questions, 1356
  - motions
    - time allocation, 7457–7458
  - referral to committee
    - amendments, 7460, 7462–7463
    - public consultation, 7460
- Legislative process
  - briefings, 7336–7337
  - consultation, 7458
- Long-term care
  - access to
    - in rural Ontario, 6551
- Long-term care beds
  - shortage, 7379
- Long-term care facilities, regulation of
  - notification, 5865
- Long-term care facilities, restraints and confinement, 5865
- Lyme disease
  - increasing prevalence of, 4447
- Manufacturing industry
  - decline
    - due to cost of electricity, 7341
    - due to economic conditions, 7340–7341
- Medical assistance in dying (MAID), providers
  - conscience rights, 2827–2828
    - effective referrals, 4185
  - registered nurses, 4180–4181
- Medical Assistance in Dying Statute Law Amendment Act, 2017 (Bill 84)
  - second reading, 2318–2319, 2542, 2827–2830
  - third reading, 4180–4181, 4185
- Members' statements
  - Affordable housing, 5883
  - Battle of Vimy Ridge, 3311
  - Bayfield, 3015
  - "Be an Explorer," 5721
  - Belmore Maple Syrup Festival, 3170
  - Brodhagen, Amanda, 5237
  - Bruce Power, 3371
  - Canada sesquicentennial, 4684
  - Community newspaper, 2018
  - Cowbell Brewing Co., 2961
  - Culbert's Bakery, 3773–3774
  - Dairy farmers, 5290
  - Daughters of the Vote, 2849
  - Ecker, Janet, 2518–2519
  - Formosa Lions park nativity scene, 6866
  - Gay Lea Foods Co-operative, 1692
  - Gill, Sheetal and Khushali Shah, 7199
  - Goderich and Clinton Kinsmen and Kinette TV auction, 7587
  - Goderich cenotaph poppy installation, 1254–1255
  - Harry Potter festival, 5463
  - Homecoming, 7105
  - Huron Perth Agriculture and Water Festival, 3573
  - Hydro rates, 29, 641
  - International Plowing Match, 4893
  - Lyme disease, 4447
  - Mann, Charles, 2393–2394
  - One Laptop per Child, 6685–6686
  - Pennington, Christopher, 897
  - Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, 6516
  - Royal visit, 4201
  - Sacred Heart School Mildmay, 7388
  - Show Your 4-H Colours, 6086
  - Treaties Recognition Week, 6320
  - Van Dieten, Derek, 795
  - Violence against women, 6916
  - Violence against women and children, 6396
  - Volunteer firefighters, 1021
  - Wightman Telecom, 3969–3970
  - Wind turbines, 6465, 6967
  - Women's House, 1484
- Members'/ministers' constituencies
  - Huron–Bruce, 1484, 1692, 3015, 3170, 3573, 3773–3774
  - Huron–Bruce, 5237, 7105, 7388, 7587
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - withdrawn, 999
- Mental health care
  - access to, 5865
  - beds
    - shortage, 7577–7578
  - initiatives in Huron–Bruce, 7657
- Mercury poisoning in Grassy Narrows First Nation
  - transparency and accountability, 6395
- Minimum wage increase, economic impact
  - on small business, 6908–6909
- Ministerial statements
  - International trade
    - responded to, 5519–5520
  - Persons Day
    - responded to, 5725–5726
- Modernizing Ontario's Municipal Legislation Act, 2017 (Bill 68)
  - second reading, 2498
- Monarchy, royal visits
  - Princess Margriet of the Netherlands, 4201
- Motor vehicle dealers
  - permits and validations, 6071
- Neonicotinoid use
  - reduction, 193
- Neonicotinoids
  - restrictions on use, 267
- Nuclear generating stations
  - Bruce Power
    - general remarks, 3371
- OHIP+
  - coverage interruptions/drugs not covered, 7657
- Ontario College of Teachers, disciplinary committee
  - investigation process, timeline and efficiency, 779
  - public access to decisions, 779
- Ontario Municipal Board (OMB)
  - to be replaced by Local Planning Appeal Tribunal, 5259–5260
    - transition process, 6723
- Ontario Tire Stewardship
  - fees, 2563
  - program cancellation, 2447–2448
- Opposition day motions
  - Energy policies
    - responded to, 1044–1045, 6485–6486
  - Pharmacare
    - responded to, 3992–3993
- Oral questions
  - Agri-food industry
    - presented, 3210–3211, 4985, 5811–5812
  - Child protection
    - presented, 4441
  - Climate change
    - presented, 1741–1742, 2014
  - Drive Clean
    - presented, 3306–3307
  - Endangered species
    - presented, 6506–6507
  - Energy policies
    - presented, 25–26
  - Environmental protection
    - presented, 1184
  - Forest industry
    - presented, 7636
  - Government's record
    - presented, 5392
  - Health care funding
    - presented, 841
  - Home care
    - presented, 6206
  - Hydro rates
    - presented, 357, 2292
  - Indigenous economic development
    - presented, 7196
  - International trade
    - presented, 3874, 6462–6463, 7314–7315
  - Long-term care
    - presented, 6551, 7379
  - Mental health services
    - presented, 7577–7578
  - Mercury poisoning
    - presented, 6395
  - Minimum wage
    - presented, 6908–6909
  - Pesticides
    - presented, 193
  - Renewable energy
    - presented, 727
  - School closures
    - presented, 1618
  - Taxation
    - presented, 5233
  - Waste diversion
    - presented, 2447–2448, 2563
  - Wind turbines
    - presented, 3614–3615, 3968–3969, 4766, 4890–4891, 7135
- Patients First Act, 2016 (Bill 41)
  - second reading, 935, 939, 1084–1085
- Payments to health care professionals/organizations, disclosure of
  - public database
    - cost of, 5865–5866
- PC Party
  - environmental policy, 7617–7618
- Personal support workers
  - working conditions, 939
- Petitions
  - Agriculture industry, 34, 249–250, 901
  - Agri-food industry, 3376–3377
  - Apraxia, 1031, 3376, 3669, 3779, 3979, 4256, 4451
  - Bruce Power, 4452
  - Criminal justice policies, 5468, 5522–5523
  - Dietitians, 7396–7397
  - Energy storage, 5242, 5293, 5470
  - Health care, 3778, 4550
  - Health care funding, 2521
  - Hospital funding, 4690
  - Hydro rates, 137–138, 805–806, 899–900, 1028, 1492, 2304, 3175, 3672, 4453, 6136, 6691
  - Lyme disease, 7113, 7330
  - Primary health care, 2394–2395
- Prescription drugs
  - funding
    - for Copaxone, 3993
- Private members' public business
  - Climate change
    - responded to, 1603–1605
  - Gasoline Tax Fairness for All Act, 2017 (Bill 93)
    - second reading, 3087
  - Hazel McCallion Day Act, 2016 (Bill 16)
    - second reading, 253–254
  - Ontario budget
    - responded to, 3677–3678
  - Supporting Agricultural Experts in their Field Act, 2016 (Bill 4)
    - second reading, 266–268, 273–274
- Professional pest advisers
  - changes to definition, 268
  - decrease in number, 268
  - restrictions on professional activities, 267–268
- Promoting Affordable Housing Act, 2016 (Bill 7)
  - second reading, 999
- Protecting Students Act, 2016 (Bill 37)
  - second reading, 777–781
- Protectionist policies
  - Buy American
    - government response, 7314
  - feed-in tariff (2009), 7340
- Protectionist policies, United States
  - Buy American, 7336, 7338–7340
  - government response to, 7355
    - selective regulation, 7461
- Public education campaigns - Historical/National
  - Battle of Vimy Ridge 100th anniversary, 3311
- Public education campaigns—Historical/National
  - Treaties Recognition Week, 6320
- Public education campaigns—Violence, sexual violence and harassment
  - International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, 6396
- Public education campaigns—Women
  - Persons Day, 5725–5726
- Public procurement
  - policy framework, 7337, 7458–7459
- Public procurement, reciprocal access
  - regulations limiting
    - consultation on, 7341–7342
    - impact on NAFTA renegotiations, 7338
    - proportionality of, 7338
    - proportionality of, definition, 7459, 7461
  - regulatory authority
    - oversight and transparency, 7341, 7460, 7462
- Putting Consumers First Act (Consumer Protection Statute Law Amendment), 2017 (Bill 59)
  - third reading, 3382
- Regulatory burdens
  - general remarks, 5305, 6070–6072
- Renewable energy contracts
  - feed-in tariff (2009), 7340
- Retiring the Debt Retirement Charge Act, 2017 (Bill 133)
  - first reading, 4363–4364
- Road safety
  - radar speed signs, 4668
  - school and community safety zones
    - definition of, 4482
- Safer School Zones Act, 2017 (Bill 65)
  - third reading, 4471–4472, 4481–4484, 4668
- School Boards Collective Bargaining Amendment Act, 2017 (Bill 92)
  - second reading, 2526
  - third reading, 3025–3026
- School closures
  - Bruce County, 778–779
  - in rural Ontario, 2526
- School staff
  - non-teaching staff accused of sexual misconduct
    - revocation of letters of permission, 779–780
- Schools in rural Ontario
  - closures
    - community impact, 1618
- Sexual abuse by teachers
  - teacher certification
    - revocation, 779
- Skills gap
  - in agri-food industry, 7337
- Strengthening Quality and Accountability for Patients Act, 2017 (Bill 160)
  - second reading, 5864–5866
- Students
  - model parliament, 7199
- Supporting Agricultural Experts in their Field Act, 2016 (Bill 4)
  - first reading, 32
- Surgical procedures
  - wait times, 841
- Teacher strikes
  - additional advanced notice, 3026
- Teachers
  - duty to report, 777–778
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 47
- Time allocation motions
  - Fairness in Procurement Act, 2018 (Bill 194)
    - responded to, 7457–7463
- Tributes
  - Mann, Charles, 2393–2394
- Vehicle emissions tests
  - fees, cancellation, 3306–3307
- Watersheds and wetlands
  - definitions, 7040–7041
- Wind turbines
  - effect on health, 4766, 4890–4891
    - noise, 3614–3615, 3968–3969
  - impact on health, 6485, 6967
  - infrasound, 6465
  - noise pollution, 7135
- Women
  - in politics, 254
- Women, right to vote
  - 100th anniversary of, 3677–3678

House speaker index

Letter: T

Tabuns, P. (NDP, Toronto–Danforth)

Takhar, H.S. (LIB, Mississauga–Erindale)

Taylor, M. (NDP, Hamilton Mountain)

Thibeault, Hon. G. (LIB, Sudbury)

Thompson, L.M. (PC, Huron–Bruce)