Speaker letter b House Hansard index Parliament 43 Session 1

House speaker index

Letter: B

Babikian, A. (PC, Scarborough—Agincourt)
- Affordable housing
  - federal government funding, 3760
- Appreciation
  - news media
    - National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada, 629–630
- Armenia
  - genocide (1915), 8695
- Asian community
  - Asian Heritage Month, 9253–9254
- Better for Consumers, Better for Businesses Act, 2023 (Bill 142)
  - second reading, 5844
- Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 (Bill 39)
  - second reading, 1445, 1500, 1504
- Black community
  - Black History Month, 8050
- Budget speech 2024 (March 26, 2024)
  - responded to, 8339
- Carbon tax
  - cost of housing, impact on, 9510
  - impact of
    - on senior citizens, 5887
- Carbon tax - impact by industry
  - agri-food, 9262
  - emergency services, 9552
  - long-term care sector, 8363
- Chinese community
  - racism, history of
    - awareness and education, 2297
- Climate change
  - agricultural industry, impact on, 2337
- Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act, 2024 (Bill 185)
  - third reading, 9506, 9510
- Economic conditions
  - inflation
    - government response, 1261
- GO Transit
  - Scarborough service, 5516
- GO Transit - stations
  - construction
    - station contribution fees, 5183
- Greek community
  - education and awareness
    - Oxi Day, 1449
- Health care - capital projects
  - by region
    - Scarborough, 2792
- Health care funding - by region
  - Scarborough, 2152
- Helping Homebuyers, Protecting Tenants Act, 2023 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 3760
  - third reading, 4719
- Housing development - construction
  - cost of
    - government strategy, 1445
  - population growth projections, 121
  - and population growth projections, 121
- Housing development - provincial building targets
  - general remarks, 1527
- Housing policy
  - government strategy, 1528
- Housing supply - population growth projections
  - general remarks, 1500
- Infrastructure development
  - capital projects
    - government strategy, 2625
  - government strategy, 2561
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 46)
  - second reading, 1760, 1764, 1791, 1814
- Long-term care - beds, development and redevelopment
  - general remarks, 8363
- Long-term care - funding
  - general remarks, 8515–8516
- Members' statements
  - Anti-racism activities, 2297
  - Armenian genocide anniversary, 4003, 8695
  - Asian Heritage Month, 9253–9254
  - Black History Month, 8050
  - Bridletowne Neighbourhood Centre, 5144
  - Events in Scarborough–Agincourt, 9842–9843
  - GO Transit, 5516
  - Health care, 2792
  - Long-term care, 8515–8516
  - Love, Scarborough campaign, 2152
  - Lunar new year, 7777–7778
  - National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada, 629–630
  - Oxi Day, 1449
  - Public transit, 5986
  - Riding of Scarborough–Agincourt, 81
  - Scarborough subway extension, 7193
  - Sri Varasiththi Vinaayagar Hindu Temple of Toronto, 4698
  - Tamil genocide, 9253–9254
- Members'/ministers' constituencies
  - Scarborough–Agincourt, 81
- More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 (Bill 23)
  - third reading, 1644, 1664
- Municipal councillors
  - legislative tools, 1504
- Municipal governance - strong mayor system - effect on housing development
  - general remarks, 495
- National Housing Strategy (federal) - funding
  - provincial allocation, 1644
- New Deal for Toronto Act, 2023 (Bill 154)
  - second reading, 6888
- News media
  - National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada, 629–630
- Ontario Science Centre
  - general remarks, 6888
- Orthodox Christian community
  - Armenian Orthodox Church, 7810
- Petitions
  - Health care workers, 2554–2555
  - Police funding, 4871
- Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 2)
  - second reading, 208, 212, 241
- Preventing Unethical Puppy Sales Act, 2024 (Bill 159)
  - second reading, 8544, 8557–8558
- Private members' public business
  - Chinese Heritage Month Act, 2024 (Bill 183)
    - second reading, 9145–9146
  - Community safety
    - responded to, 10472–10473
  - Orthodox Christian Week Act, 2024 (Bill 167)
    - second reading, 7810
- Public assets
  - centralization, entities
    - economic impact, 2530
- Puppy mills
  - isolation of sick dogs in, 8557–8558
- Question period
  - Fiscal and economic policy
    - presented, 1261
  - Housing
    - presented, 495, 1527–1528
  - Immigrants' skills
    - presented, 4704–4705
  - Infrastructure funding
    - presented, 2725
  - Public transit
    - presented, 2165, 7199
  - Red tape reduction
    - presented, 4445–4446
  - Skilled trades
    - presented, 4704, 5056, 9679
  - Taxation
    - presented, 5887, 8363, 9262, 9552
  - Transit-oriented communities
    - presented, 5706
  - Transportation infrastructure
    - presented, 4706–4707, 10226–10227
  - Victim services
    - presented, 5320
- Reducing Inefficiencies Act (Infrastructure Statute Law Amendments), 2023 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 2530, 2561, 2572
- Regulations - business
  - reduction
    - as economic policy, 4445–4446
- Skilled trades
  - labour shortage
    - government strategy, 9679
- Skilled trades - employment
  - recruitment and retention
    - immigrant populations, 4704–4705
- Skilled trades - recruitment and retention
  - government strategy, 5056
  - immigrant populations, 4704–4705
- St. Thomas - Central Elgin Boundary Adjustment Act, 2023 (Bill 63)
  - second reading, 2337, 2347
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022 (Bill 3)
  - second reading, 121–122
- Tamil genocide
  - commemoration, 9253
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) expansion
  - Sheppard subway, 5986
  - Sheppard subway extension
    - community consultation, 7193
- Transit
  - fare system, integration
    - One Fare program, 7199
  - government strategy, 5183–5184
- Transit infrastructure development
  - government strategy, 4706–4707
- Transit infrastructure development - by region
  - Scarborough, 5183–5184
- Transit systems
  - government strategy, 2165
- Transit-oriented communities
  - and housing supply, 5706
- Transportation for the Future Act, 2023 (Bill 131)
  - second reading, 5183–5185
- Transportation infrastructure development
  - general remarks, 10226–10227
- Victim services
  - government funding
    - Victim Support Grant, 5320
- Your Health Act, 2023 (Bill 60)
  - second reading, 2348
Bailey, R. (PC, Sarnia—Lambton)
- Affordable Homes and Good Jobs Act, 2023 (Bill 134)
  - legislative timeline, 5209
- Affordable Homes and Good Jobs Act, 2023 (Bill 134)
  - second reading, 5209
- Agri-food industry
  - northern Ontario, 7235–7236
- Amber Alerts
  - general remarks, 3955
- Animal welfare - reform
  - animal removal
    - by inspectors, 4784
  - statement of account
    - recoverable costs, types of, 4784
- Appreciation
  - Lapaine, Mike, 1771–1772
- Apprenticeships
  - employment tools and supports
    - Sarnia–Lambton Apprentice Job Match tool, 2435–2436
- Bail program reform
  - federal government, role of, 3327–3328
- Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 (Bill 39)
  - third reading, 2095
- Building a Strong Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 85)
  - second reading, 3129
- Building Infrastructure Safely Act, 2024 (Bill 153)
  - second reading, 6629, 6640–6644
- Building More Mines Act, 2023 (Bill 71)
  - second reading, 2688, 2696–2697
  - third reading, 4118
- Business - small- and medium-sized
  - government strategy, 8929
- Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS)
  - general remarks, 1963, 2924–2925
  - greenhouse gas emissions, 1963
  - regulatory framework, 4629
- Carbon tax
  - home heating, impact on cost of, 9997
  - northern and rural Ontario, impact on, 9998
- Carbon tax - impact by industry
  - skilled trades, 8929
- Colleges and universities - funding
  - Ontario Research Fund
    - recipients
      - Lambton College, 545
- Convenient Care at Home Act, 2023 (Bill 135)
  - second reading, 5379
- Coroners
  - construction-related deaths
    - annual review, 7538
  - postmortem examinations
    - collection, retention, and storage of samples, 4784
    - sample collection, retention, and storage, 3923, 4784
    - samples, collection, retention, and storage, 3923
- Critical Minerals Strategy
  - for electric vehicle production, 2696–2697
- Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act, 2024 (Bill 185)
  - third reading, 9502
- Debates re answers to question period
  - Northern emergency services
    - responded to, 4429
- Diabetes
  - education and awareness
    - Diabetes Awareness Month, 1206
- Economic development
  - government strategy, 5274
- Enhancing Access to Justice Act, 2024 (Bill 157)
  - third reading, 7535–7536, 7538–7539
- Enhancing Professional Care for Animals Act, 2024 (Bill 171)
  - third reading, 9290
- Fire safety
  - enforcement
    - administrative monetary penalties, 7535–7536
- Fire Safety Commission
  - appeal process, reform, 3924
- Fire services
  - deputy fire marshals
    - amount of, 3923–3924
  - recovery of costs provisions
    - municipal and provincial, 3923
  - reform, 4784–4785
- Fire services - reform
  - governance structure, 3923–3924
- Firefighters and fire services
  - deputy fire marshals
    - amount of, 3923–3924
  - recovery of costs provisions
    - municipal and provincial, 3923
  - reform, 4784–4785
    - governance structure, 3923–3924
- Francophone community
  - government services, access to, 10340–10341
- Government notices of motion
  - Bail reform
    - responded to, 3327–3328
- Government services
  - digital delivery
    - accessibility of, 1560
- Gun violence
  - government strategy
    - ministerial programming, 774–775
- Health care services - delivery
  - mobile clinics
    - by region
      - Sarnia—Lambton, 6357
- Health facilities - by site
  - Pathways Health Centre for Children (Sarnia)
    - government funding, 7091
- Highways and roads - construction and expansion
  - Highway 40 widening (Sarnia–Lambton)
    - public consultation, 6683
- Hospitals - capital projects by site
  - Charlotte Eleanor Englehart Hospital (Petrolia), 9041
- Infrastructure development
  - government strategy, 6641
- Judicial education
  - sexual assault law, intimate partner violence and coercive control, 3937
- Keeping Energy Costs Down Act, 2024 (Bill 165)
  - second reading, 7289, 7315, 7327
- Labour force
  - government strategy, 676–677
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Economy Act, 2023 (Bill 91)
  - third reading, 4615, 4629
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 46)
  - second reading, 1764
  - third reading, 2924–2925
- Locates
  - dedicated locator model, 6629, 6642
  - jobs, 6644
  - timelines, 6643
- Medical Officers of Health
  - appointments by region
    - Lambton county, 3134
- Members' statements
  - Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, 4853
  - Children's aid societies, 4124
  - College funding, 545
  - Deputy Chief Julie Craddock, 2660
  - Diabetes Awareness Month, 1206
  - Freemasonry, 8979
  - Government investments, 7091, 9472
  - Gregory A. Hogan Catholic School, 1310–1311
  - Health care, 10430
  - Health care funding, 9041
  - Highway improvement, 6683
  - Homelessness and assisted housing, 3606
  - Lambton College Lions women's basketball team, 7778
  - Lambton College women's basketball team, 7545
  - Lambton county medical officer of health, 3134
  - Lapaine, Mike, 1771–1772
  - Mental health and addiction services, 6357
  - Municipal elections, 809
  - Reconnect Ontario program, 215
  - Resignation of member for Lambton–Kent–Middlesex, 5340
  - Sarnia Lambton Chamber of Commerce, 5049
  - Sarnia-Lambton Rebound, 10038–10039
  - Skilled trades, 2435–2436
- Members'/ministers' resignations
  - McNaughton, Monte (Lambton–Kent–Middlesex), 5340
- Mental health and addictions - children and youth
  - behaviours
    - school avoidance, 2493
- Mental health and addictions services - children and youth
  - government strategy, 2493
- Mining industry - Critical Minerals Strategy
  - for electric vehicle production, 2696–2697
- Missing persons
  - government funding
    - Ontario Community Safety and Policing Grant, 3955
- Missing persons - investigative tools
  - Project Lifesaver, 3955–3956
    - statements by stakeholders, 3956
- Municipal elections
  - general election (2022), 809
- Municipal governance - structure
  - two-tier
    - provincial assessment, facilitators, 2095
- 911 services
  - government funding
    - Next Generation 911 (NG-911), 4429
  - government strategy, 4429
- Ontario One Call
  - history, 6640–6641
  - role, 6640–6641
- Police officers - employment
  - recruitment and retention, 3941
- Post-secondary education
  - free speech, 8833
- Private members' public business
  - Consumer protection
    - responded to, 10094
  - Missing persons
    - presented, 3955–3956
    - responded to, 3960
  - Safe and Healthy Communities Act (Addressing Gun Violence), 2022 (Bill 9)
    - second reading, 774–775
- Question period
  - Children's mental health services
    - presented, 2493–2494
  - Employment
    - presented, 5274
  - Environmental protection
    - presented, 1963
  - French-language services
    - presented, 10340–10341
  - Government policies
    - presented, 676–677
  - Government services
    - presented, 1560
  - Northern agri-food industry
    - presented, 7235–7236
  - Skilled trades
    - presented, 1156
  - Taxation
    - presented, 8929, 9997–9998
- Reducing Inefficiencies Act (Infrastructure Statute Law Amendments), 2023 (Bill 69)
  - third reading, 3885
- Safer Streets, Stronger Communities Act, 2024 (Bill 223)
  - second reading, 10427–10428, 10454
- Sarnia Police Services
  - Deputy Chief Julie Craddock, 2660
- School facilities - capital projects
  - new school construction
    - Gregory A. Hogan Catholic School (Sarnia), 1311
  - by school board
    - St. Clair Catholic District School Board, 9472
- Skilled trades
  - promotion of, 2435–2436
- Skilled trades - employment
  - labour shortage
    - government strategy, 1156
  - recruitment and retention
    - women, 1156
      - support programs, 1156
- Skilled trades - recruitment and retention
  - women, 1156
    - support programs, 1156
- St. Thomas - Central Elgin Boundary Adjustment Act, 2023 (Bill 63)
  - third reading, 2455
- Strengthening Accountability and Student Supports Act, 2024 (Bill 166)
  - third reading, 8833
- Strengthening Post-secondary Institutions and Students Act, 2022 (Bill 26)
  - second reading, 1286–1287, 1296
- Strengthening Safety and Modernizing Justice Act, 2023 (Bill 102)
  - second reading, 3923–3924, 3937, 3941
  - third reading, 4783–4786, 4815
- Tourism industry - funding
  - Reconnect Ontario
    - allocation by region, 215
- Tributes
  - Brandt, Andrew S. (former member of Sarnia), 7109–7110
  - Huget, Robert "Bob" (former member for Sarnia), 2211–2212
- Unhoused persons
  - housing, access
    - Sarnia-Lambton, 3606
- Working for Workers Act, 2023 (Bill 79)
  - third reading, 5076–5077
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
  - relocation
    - impact of, 5274
- Your Health Act, 2023 (Bill 60)
  - second reading, 2432
Barnes, P. (PC, Ajax)
- Affordable Energy Act, 2024 (Bill 214)
  - second reading, 10057–10058
- Alternate-level-of-care (ALC) patients
  - impact on hospital resources, 384
- Alternate-level-of-care (ALC) patients - transfer to long-term care facilities
  - general remarks, 383–384
- Alternate-level-of-care (ALC) patients - transfer to long-term care facilities, non-preferred home
  - general remarks, 384–386
  - regulations, scope of, 384
- Appreciation
  - Kailayanathan, Shanjay, 2793
  - police services
    - Durham Regional Police Service, West Division, 8636
  - Wong, Ethan, 7653
  - Wong, Julianna, 7653
- Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act, 2023 (Bill 98)
  - second reading, 3601–3604, 3686, 3695, 3701–3702
  - third reading, 4880–4881
- Black community
  - Black History Month, 2297
  - notable members, 2297
- Black Youth Action Plan
  - general remarks, 7411–7412
- Business - small- and medium-sized
  - government strategy, 1967
- Cancer - prostate cancer
  - general remarks, 5145
- Carbon tax
  - economic impact, 8574
- Carbon tax - impact by industry
  - emergency services, 8323
  - trucking, 7610–7611
- Charities and non-profit organizations - by site
  - Homebound Wellness Centre (Ajax), 1448
- Children and youth in care
  - foster and group homes
    - vetting, 8634
- College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO)
  - international applicants
    - number of, 1124
  - international credentials
    - recognition of
      - statements by stakeholders, 1124
- Community events - by region
  - Ajax, 929
- Community organizations
  - by region
    - Ajax, 590
- Community services
  - by region
    - Ajax, 4003–4004
- Community services - by region
  - Ajax, 4003–4004
- Construction industry
  - personal protective equipment (PPE) standards
    - size variety, 2966–2967
  - work sites
    - menstrual products availability, 8911
    - safety equipment availability, 8911–8912
    - washroom facility access, 2967
- Curriculum
  - Black history, 7093
  - science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), 1054
- Curriculum - math
  - content, 1054
  - school supports, 1054
- Debates re answers to question period
  - Provincial schools
    - responded to, 7391–7392
- Doctors
  - shortage
    - government strategy, 795
- Education
  - EQAO testing and results, 1054
    - funding, 1054
  - reports and recommendations, 3701–3702
- Education - COVID-19
  - government funding
    - catch-up payments, 1054
  - impact on mental health
    - students, 1053
  - impact on student development, 1053, 1055
- Education funding
  - funding streams, 3603
  - Grants for Student Needs (GSN), 1054
    - staff, hiring of, 1054
  - program allocation, 1054–1055
- Education - in-school learning
  - government strategy, 1055
- Education policy
  - ministerial authority, 3602–3603
- Education - student outcomes
  - government strategy, 3602
- Education workers - collective bargaining
  - back-to-work legislation, 1056
- Education workers - labour disputes
  - strikes
    - amount of, history, 1055
- Education workers - labour disputes, union contracts and negotiations
  - terms of, 1057
- Employment services
  - training and retraining
    - government funding, 9548
- Employment standards
  - enforcement
    - fines, 8912
  - harassment, definition
    - virtual, 8911
  - sick notes, 8912
  - washroom conditions, 8911
- Entrepreneurship
  - government strategy, 553
- Fire rangers
  - fire season as one year, 10271
- Government orders
  - Appointment of House officers / Committee membership
    - responded to, 276–277
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - labour policy, 8912–8913
- Health care - primary care
  - access
    - availability of health human resources, 1123
- Health care system - capacity
  - services
    - government strategy, 1123
- Hospitals - capacity and overcrowding
  - government strategy, 383
- Keeping Students in Class Act, 2022 (Bill 28)
  - second reading, 1053–1057
- Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) - hearings
  - wait-time, 3547
- Legislative procedure - Standing Orders
  - presiding officers, selection of, 276
    - diversity and representation, 277
- Long-term care - beds
  - infection control
    - isolation rooms, reopening, 384
  - wait-list, 384
- Long-term care - beds, development and redevelopment
  - number, 384–385
  - by region
    - Durham, 386
- Long-term care facilities - by site
  - Lakeridge Gardens (Ajax), 402
- Long-term care facilities - construction
  - accelerated build pilot program, 385
- Long-term care - operators
  - admission requirements, 384
- Long-term care - reform
  - government funding, 386
- Long-term care - staff
  - recruitment and retention
    - government funding, 385
    - initiatives, 385
- Long-term care - standards of care
  - average hours of care, 385
- Manufacturing industry - employment
  - government strategy, 553
- Members' statements
  - Abilities Centre Acessibility Awards, 2792–2793
  - Ajax Pumpkinville, 929
  - Black History Month, 2297, 7093
  - Community support services, 4003–4004
  - Durham Community Action Group, 4563
  - Durham Youth Services, 5767
  - Homebound Wellness Centre, 1448
  - Homelessness, 3496
  - Islamic Society of Ajax, 590–591
  - Maverick's Donuts, 8977
  - Operation White Heart installation, 9843
  - Police, 8636
  - Post-secondary education and skills training, 22
  - Prostrate cancer, 5145–5146
  - Refugee services, 6510
  - Rexall pharmacist care clinic, 10298
  - The Sashbear Foundation, 9420
  - Special Olympics, 8311
  - Wong, Ethan, 7653
  - Wong, Julianna, 7653
- Members'/ministers' constituencies
  - Ajax, 17–18
- Members'/ministers' inaugural speeches, 16–19
- Members/ministers quoting
  - reports
    - School Board Governance, A Focus on Achievement, 3701–3702
- Mental health and addictions
  - education and awareness
    - community organizations, 9420
- Military history
  - by region
    - Ajax, 2845
- Military personnel
  - reservists
    - job protected leave, 8912
- More Beds, Better Care Act, 2022 (Bill 7)
  - second reading, 383–386, 401–402
- Nurses
  - accreditation
    - internationally trained, amount of, 1129
  - enrolment rates, funding, 1124
  - internationally trained
    - registration process, timeline, 1124
      - economic impact, 1124
  - shortage, 1123
- Nurses - employment
  - working conditions
    - burnout and stress, 1123
- Nurses - recruitment and retention
  - programs, funding, 1124
- Occupational health and safety
  - government strategy, 10310
  - heat stress, 10309–10310
- Personal support workers (PSWs)
  - education and training
    - tuition supports
      - funding, 22
- Pharmacists and pharmacies
  - role of, expansion, 10298
- Private members' public business
  - First responders
    - presented, 9825–9826
    - responded to, 9830
  - Honouring Our Veterans Act, 2023 (Bill 65)
    - second reading, 2845
  - Injured Workers Day Act, 2024 (Bill 118)
    - second reading, 9455–9456
  - Nurses
    - presented, 1123–1125
    - responded to, 1129
- Public safety
  - government strategy, 9995–9996
- Question period
  - Accessibility for seniors and persons with disabilities
    - presented, 2379
  - Anti-racism activities
    - presented, 7411–7412
  - Education funding
    - responded to, 4013–4014
  - Forest firefighting
    - responded to, 10271
  - Immigrants' skills
    - responded to, 10442–10443
  - Manufacturing jobs
    - presented, 553
  - Medical schools
    - presented, 795
  - Northern economy
    - responded to, 9548
  - Northern Ontario development
    - presented, 29–30
  - Public safety
    - presented, 9995–9996
  - Public transit
    - presented, 2189
  - Seniors' services
    - presented, 5525–5526
  - Small business
    - presented, 1967
  - Taxation
    - presented, 7610–7611, 8323, 8574–8575, 9638–9639
    - responded to, 9116–9117, 9215
  - Tenant protection
    - presented, 3547–3548
  - Veterans
    - presented, 3506–3507
    - responded to, 10311
  - Women's employment
    - presented, 879, 2966–2967
  - Workplace safety
    - responded to, 10309–10310
- Regulations - business
  - reduction, 1967
- Ring of Fire development
  - general remarks, 29–30
  - Indigenous participation, 30
- Safer Streets, Stronger Communities Act, 2024 (Bill 223)
  - second reading, 10458–10462, 10466
- School board trustees
  - role of, 3601–3602
  - training and code of conduct, 3602, 4880
    - stakeholder consultation, 3686, 3695
- School boards - directors of education
  - training and performance metrics, 3602, 4880
- School boards - information sharing practices
  - to parents
    - requirements, 3602
- Schools - provincial and demonstration schools
  - government strategy, 7391–7392
- Senior citizens
  - active living centres, 5526
  - community accessibility
    - government strategy, 2379
  - health and well-being, 5525–5526
- Skilled trades
  - government funding
    - Skilled Trades Strategy, 22
- Skilled trades - education and training
  - Skills Development Fund, 9117
- Soldier's Aid Commission
  - government funding, 3507
- Sporting events
  - Special Olympics, 8311
- Supporting Children's Futures Act, 2024 (Bill 188)
  - second reading, 8634
- Teachers - additional qualifications
  - government funding
    - math, 1054
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 16–19, 61
- Transportation systems
  - government strategy, 2189
- Tributes
  - Dickson, Joe (former member for Ajax–Pickering), 830
  - Godfrey, Charles Morris (former member for Durham West), 2209
- Unhoused persons
  - community support initiatives
    - by region
      - Ajax, 3496
- Veterans
  - career support, 10311
- Women
  - employment, support programs
    - Investing in Women's Futures, 879
  - in the workforce
    - harassment, 8911
- Working for Workers Five Act, 2024 (Bill 190)
  - second reading, 8911–8913
  - third reading, 9835–9840
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
  - presumptive coverage, fire rangers
    - cancers, heart injuries & PTSD, 8912
  - presumptive coverage, miners
    - cancers, 8973
- World War I
  - Canadian contributions
    - black community, 2845
    - Black community, 2845
Begum, D. (NDP, Scarborough Southwest)
- Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005, SO 2005, c 11
  - standards, review of
    - transit, 3408
- Accessibility standards
  - legislated targets
    - Onely Report, recommendations, 3408
- Affordable housing
  - general remarks, 1546
- Affordable housing - access
  - general remarks, 188–189, 1554, 7061
- Agricultural land
  - loss of
    - annual rate, 1918
- Agricultural land - zoning
  - agricultural impact assessments, 1918
- Alternate-level-of-care (ALC) patients
  - transfer to home and community care, 6553
- Alternate-level-of-care (ALC) patients - transfer to long-term care facilities
  - consent, 419–420
    - sharing of personal health information, 420
  - patient refusal
    - billing structure, 420–421
  - statements by stakeholders, 488
- Alternate-level-of-care (ALC) patients - transfer to long-term care facilities, non-preferred home
  - public consultation, 575
  - regulations, costs to patient, 365
  - regulations, distance, 365
  - statements from stakeholders, 420, 422
- Ambulance services
  - service availability
    - regional shortages, 390
- Appointments to agencies, boards, and commissions
  - conflict of interest, 6895
- Auditor General of Ontario
  - role of, 6894
- Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 (Bill 39)
  - democracy, 1499
  - second reading, 1499, 1546
  - public response, 2120
  - third reading, 2136
- Budget 2022/2023
  - program allocation, 3033–3034
- Budget 2023/2024
  - committee presentations, 4401
  - education, 3278, 4401, 4403
  - general remarks, 4400
  - housing, 4402
  - Indigenous communities, on-reserve, 4281
  - municipal affairs and housing, 3267
  - supportive housing, 4401
- Budget speech 2023 (March 23, 2023)
  - responded to, 3267, 3278
- Building a Strong Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 85)
  - third reading, 4281, 4400–4403, 4408, 4418
- Business
  - corporate governance, digital administration
    - accessibility, 3513
  - debt load
    - due to COVID-19, 3520
  - washroom facilities access, 2974
- Canadian Mental Health Association
  - government funding, 2626
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO)
  - capacity and overcrowding
    - Canadian Red Cross support, 1979
- Communities
  - social needs of, 3977
- Community housing
  - wait-list, 188, 2854
- Condominium Authority Tribunal
  - jurisdiction, 4436–4437
- Conservation authorities
  - creation, history of
    - effect of Hurricane Hazel and flooding, 1554
- Convenient Care at Home Act, 2023 (Bill 135)
  - committee process
    - stakeholder consultation, 6551
- Convenient Care at Home Act, 2023 (Bill 135)
  - third reading, 6549–6554, 6556
- COVID-19 - essential service workers
  - "essential," definition of and criteria, 1000, 1130, 2976
  - manufacturing industry
    - fatalities, 1131
      - Toronto Star investigation, 1130–1131
- Debates re answers to question period
  - Employment standards
    - presented, 1130–1131
- Doctors
  - practice-ready assessment programs, 219
- Driving - careless/distracted
  - causing injury or death
    - fines and penalties, 6232
- Education funding
  - staffing levels, impact on, 3497
- Education - mental health
  - students, 2626
- Education workers - collective bargaining
  - back-to-work legislation
    - legislative procedure, 1157
    - penalties, financial, 1110
    - statements by stakeholders, 1111, 1113
- Education workers - compensation
  - general remarks, 1110
  - impact on retention, 1057
- Education workers - labour disputes, union contracts and negotiations
  - public response, 1156
- Education workers - role in schools
  - effect on students, 1110
- Employment
  - labour shortage, 1311
- Employment - COVID-19
  - essential workers
    - fatalities, 1699
  - sick days, paid
    - provincial program, termination of, 2980
- Employment standards
  - Canadian work experience
    - employer prohibition to request, 6568, 6572
  - enforcement
    - workplace inspections, number of, 2976
  - layoffs and terminations
    - part-time employees, 2982
    - remote employees, 2977
  - lost wage claims
    - enforcement, 4649
    - investigations, number of, 4649–4650
- Employment Standards Act, 2000, SO, c 41
  - scope of, 2981
- Employment standards - wage theft
  - protections, 6570
- Enhancing Public Transit Accessibility Act, 2023 (Bill 82)
  - first reading, 2863–2864
- Food banks - usage
  - demographics, 1458
  - rates, 1457, 4401, 6066
    - social assistance recipients, 2979
- Food security
  - government strategy, 6066
- GO Transit - stations
  - construction
    - station contribution fees, 5186, 6482
- Government expenditures
  - general remarks, 4401
- Government finances
  - contingency funds
    - allocation, 1111
- Government notices of motion
  - Attacks on Israel
    - amendment to the amendment
      - responded to, 5395–5396, 5414–5416
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - labour policy, 2976
- Greenbelt
  - boundary adjustments, reversal, 4988
- Greenbelt - boundary adjustments, process
  - accountability and transparency, 5458–5459
  - RCMP investigation, 5458
- Greenbelt - development on
  - general remarks, 1554
  - land availability, 5158
- Greenbelt Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 136)
  - second reading, 5927
- Health care
  - privatization, 51
- Health care - primary care
  - virtual appointments and telehealth
    - access, 1875
- Health care services
  - access, 337
  - government strategy, 52
  - wait-time, 1387
- Health care system
  - health human resources
    - government strategy, 420–421
  - structural stressors
    - government response, 488
- Health care workers - COVID-19
  - burnout and stress, 1699
- Health care workers - recruitment and retention
  - general remarks, 1387
  - government relations, 4408
  - pandemic pay
    - eligibility, 1699–1700
- Health care workers - recruitment and retention - international, 3532
  - credential recognition, 52, 219, 1125
    - statements by stakeholders, 1125
- Highways and roads safety
  - pedestrians, 4132, 6232
- Home and community care
  - access, 6549–6550
  - vs. health care institutions
    - cost of, 6550
  - privatization, 6550, 6556
- Home and community care - delivery models
  - for-profit, 6553
- Home and community care - reform
  - partnership with municipalities and non-profit providers, 6551
- Home and community care - staff
  - gender-appropriate care, 6550–6551
- Hospital services - emergency
  - wait-time, 1387
- Hospitals - capacity and overcrowding
  - by region
    - Scarborough, 1251
- Hospitals - capital projects
  - general remarks, 1251
- Hospitals - funding by site
  - Scarborough Health Network, 421
- Hospitals - staff
  - staffing levels, impact of, 1251–1252
- Housing development - construction
  - format diversity, 188
- Human trafficking - labour trafficking
  - government response, 3145–3146
- Immigrants - access to professions and trades
  - Canadian experience, 2978
  - discrimination against, 2978–2979
  - foreign credentials, recognition of, 6571
  - general remarks, 2981
  - government strategy, 2978
- Immigration
  - application process, timelines, 1311
- Improving Real Estate Management Act, 2024 (Bill 151)
  - second reading, 6391, 6401, 6404
- Indigenous communities - living conditions
  - general remarks, 51
- Indigenous education
  - school facilities, northern Ontario
    - geographic accessibility
      - impact on student health and well-being, 1904–1905
- Indigenous relations - reconciliation
  - recommendations, 1905
- Infrastructure Ontario (IO)
  - real estate services
    - contracts, oversight, 6391
- Islamophobia
  - government response to, 5416
- Israel
  - attacks on (October 7, 2023), 5414
- Israel-Hamas war
  - impact on Canada, 5415
  - impact on civilian populations, 7055
  - impact on Palestinian territories, 5414–5415
- Jurors and juries
  - diversity and representation, 1800
- Keeping Students in Class Act, 2022 (Bill 28)
  - second reading, 1057, 1110–1111, 1113–1114
- Labour relations
  - collective bargaining, 2982
- Land use planning - ministerial zoning orders (MZOs)
  - conflict of interest, 5927
- Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB)
  - Ombudsman investigation and recommendations
    - Administrative Justice Delayed, Fairness Denied (2023), 4061–4062
- Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) - hearings
  - backlogs
    - impact of, 7137
- Legislative Assembly Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 51)
  - second reading, 1934–1935
- Legislative precinct
  - members' office space, availability of, 1935
- Less Red Tape, More Common Sense Act, 2023 (Bill 139)
  - third reading, 6220
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Economy Act, 2023 (Bill 91)
  - second reading, 3513, 3517, 3520
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 46)
  - second reading, 1740, 1795–1796, 1800
- Light Rail Transit (LRT) - Eglinton Crosstown
  - delays, 3905, 5186–5187
  - transparency, 3905
- Linguistic identity
  - International Mother Language Day, 2175–2176
- Long-term care - administration
  - licensing
    - for-profit, 6551, 6553
- Long-term care - residents
  - care plans
    - culturally and linguistically appropriate care, 6550
  - geographic location
    - impact on patient health, 6551
  - living conditions, 203
    - air conditioning, 202–203
  - spousal separation and unification
    - wait-list, 1352
- Long-term care - sector capacity
  - general remarks, 575
- Members' statements
  - Autism treatment, 2792
  - Bangladeshi Heritage Month, 2540–2541
  - Centennial College A-Building, 5398
  - Condominium residents, 4436–4437
  - Conflict in Middle East, 7055
  - Cricket clubs, 787
  - Education funding, 3497
  - Greenbelt, 4988
  - Hasan, Iqbal, 3540
  - Health care, 337
  - International Mother Language Day, 2175–2176
  - Labour shortage, 1311
  - Landlord and Tenant Board, 7137
  - Tenant protection, 6264
- Mental health and addictions services
  - wait-time, 1715
- Mental health and addictions services - funding
  - allocation rate, 3980
  - annual rate, 1715
- Metrolinx
  - performance of, 5187
- Military personnel
  - reservists
    - job protected leave, 2977, 2982
- More Beds, Better Care Act, 2022 (Bill 7)
  - second reading, 365, 414, 419–423
  - third reading, 575
- Municipal councillors
  - role of, 189
- Municipal governance - strong mayor system
  - council administration and authority, 190
  - public consultation, 191
- Nurses - recruitment and retention
  - non-practicing, 1125
- Occupational health and safety
  - government funding, 1984
  - workplace violations, 2979
- Ontario Autism Program (OAP)
  - wait-list, 2792
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates, 2979
  - combined with CPP
    - impact on, 4006
  - increase, 4006
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates, increases, 4006
- Ontario Health atHome
  - home and community care, contract procurement
    - for-profit vs. not-for-profit, 6550
  - service providers, 6552
    - employment models, 6551
- Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP)
  - coverage expansion
    - prescription contraception, 2621
  - prescription contraception, 2621
  - service coverage
    - virtual care services
      - in relation to doctor shortage, 1875
- Ontario Place
  - lease of, redevelopment agreements, 4401
- Ontario Provincial Police (OPP)
  - strategic plans, components of
    - language and terminology, 3977
- Opposition day motions
  - Health care workers
    - responded to, 1387
  - Mental health services
    - responded to, 2626–2627
- Pediatric hospitals
  - capacity and overcrowding
    - due to staff shortage, 1979
- Peel Region
  - urban boundary expansion
    - land ownership, conflict of interest, 5938
- Personal support workers (PSWs)
  - recruitment and retention
    - employment models, impact of, 6552
- Petitions
  - Accessibility for persons with disabilities, 3263–3264
  - Adoption disclosure, 2869, 3045
  - Affordable housing, 2809, 4271
  - Alzheimer's disease, 2045, 3512
  - Anti-vaping initiatives for youth, 1721
  - Autism treatment, 4074
  - Automobile insurance, 1789
  - Climate change, 1719
  - Government accountability, 2134
  - Health care, 1720, 1789, 2735, 5332
  - Health care workers, 4230–4231, 4272, 6924–6925
  - Housing, 3556
  - Injured workers, 4072, 6449–6450
  - Labour dispute, 1086, 1163
  - Land use planning, 1326, 2867, 4074
  - Long-term care, 6923–6924
  - Ontario Place, 6068–6069, 6701
  - Public transit, 2047
  - Social assistance, 605, 1682
- Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 2)
  - second reading, 198, 202–203
- Police officers - education and training
  - formal vs. informal, 3978
  - reports and recommendations, stakeholders, 3980
- Police officers - employment
  - shortage
    - due to long-term leave, 3977
- Police officers - occupational health and safety
  - general remarks, 3978
- Police services
  - additional service agreements, 3976
  - government communications
    - language and terminology, 3980
  - government strategy
    - language and terminology, 3978
  - victim support services
    - community partnerships, 3977–3978
- Post-secondary education
  - barriers to
    - tuition, 3979
  - employment services
    - personal information collection, 2979
  - funding, 6220
  - international students
    - employment standards, 2977
- Private members' public business
  - Cleaning Up Corruption Act, 2023 (Bill 148)
    - second reading, 6894–6895
  - Enhancing Public Transit Accessibility Act, 2023 (Bill 82)
    - second reading, 3407–3409, 3412
  - Fixing Long-Term Care Amendment Act (Till Death Do Us Part), 2022 (Bill 21)
    - second reading, 1352–1353
  - Health care
    - responded to, 1251–1252
  - Moving Ontarians Safely Act, 2023 (Bill 40)
    - second reading, 6231–6232
  - Nurses
    - responded to, 1125–1126
  - Protecting Agricultural Land Act, 2022 (Bill 27)
    - second reading, 1918
  - Stay Home If You Are Sick Act, 2022 (Bill 4)
    - second reading, 1699–1700
- Progress on the Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 36)
  - second reading, 1335, 1340
  - third reading, 1979, 1984
- Question period
  - Access to prescription contraceptives
    - presented, 2721
  - Affordable housing
    - presented, 2854, 7061
  - Ambulance services
    - presented, 390
  - Assistance to persons with disabilities
    - presented, 4006
  - Employment standards
    - presented, 1000, 4649–4650
  - Fiscal and economic policy
    - presented, 3033–3034
  - Food banks
    - presented, 1457–1458, 6066
  - Foreign-trained health care workers
    - presented, 219
  - Government accountability
    - presented, 5458–5459, 5938–5939
  - Government policies
    - presented, 2120
  - Health care
    - presented, 1875
  - Housing
    - presented, 4263
  - Labour dispute
    - presented, 1156–1157
  - Land use planning
    - presented, 5158
  - Landlord and Tenant Board
    - presented, 4061–4062
  - Long-term care
    - presented, 488
  - Mental health services
    - presented, 1715
  - Municipal development
    - presented, 1554
  - Protection for workers
    - presented, 3145–3146
  - Public transit
    - presented, 3255, 3905, 4218–4219, 4920–4921
  - Road safety
    - presented, 4132
  - School facilities
    - presented, 3672
  - Student safety
    - presented, 2164
- Rental housing
  - affordability, 4263
- Rental housing - evictions
  - due to demolition, 7061
- Rental housing - tenant protections
  - impact on tenants, 6264
- Rest stops
  - washroom facilities, 2977
- Road safety
  - pedestrians, 4132
- School facilities - maintenance and repair
  - backlog, 3672
- Schools - violence in
  - student health and safety, 2164
- Social assistance programs
  - benefit rates, combined with CPP
    - impact on, 2979
- Social assistance programs - recipients
  - personal information
    - collection of, 2979
- Sports and recreation
  - facilities, access
    - cricket clubs, 787
- Strengthening Post-secondary Institutions and Students Act, 2022 (Bill 26)
  - third reading, 1904–1905, 1908, 1913
- Strengthening Safety and Modernizing Justice Act, 2023 (Bill 102)
  - second reading, 3976–3980
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022
  - language and terminology, 189
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022 (Bill 3)
  - second reading, 187–191
  - language and terminology, 189
- Temporary foreign workers
  - passports and work permits, retention of
    - fines and penalties, 2974, 2982
      - statements by stakeholders, 2975
    - impact on workers, 2974–2975
  - social assistance programs
    - access, 2980
  - working conditions, 2975
  - workplace inspections, unannounced, 2976
  - workplace violations
    - barriers to reporting, 2975–2977, 2983
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 51–53, 468, 479, 507
- Toronto
  - public transportation
    - history of, 6480–6481
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)
  - accessibility, 3407–3408
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) - subway
  - passenger fatalities
    - Magalhae, Gabriel, 3377
- Transit
  - accessibility, 3408–3409, 3412
  - government strategy, 5185
  - regional integration, 5188
- Transit infrastructure development - by region
  - Scarborough, 3255
- Transit infrastructure development by region
  - Scarborough, 3255
- Transit infrastructure development - by region
  - Scarborough, 4218–4219, 5187
- Transit workers
  - collective bargaining rights, 5185
  - working conditions, 6482
- Transportation for the Future Act, 2023 (Bill 131)
  - second reading, 5183–5189
  - third reading, 6480–6484, 6489
- Tributes
  - Brown, Jim (former member for Scarborough West), 779–780
  - Hasan, Iqbal, 3540
- Unhoused persons
  - weather conditions, impact of, 2980
- Working for Workers Act, 2023 (Bill 79)
  - second reading, 2973–2983
  - scheduling and agendas, 2974
- Working for Workers Five Act, 2024 (Bill 190)
  - third reading, 9888, 9891
- Working for Workers Four Act, 2024 (Bill 149)
  - second reading, 6567–6572
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
  - deeming policy, 1795–1796, 4027
  - presumptive coverage, firefighters
    - cancers, 2978
- Your Health Act, 2023 (Bill 60)
  - third reading, 3532, 4027, 4042
Bell, J. (NDP, University—Rosedale)
- Affordable Energy Act, 2024 (Bill 214)
  - second reading, 10075, 10082
- Affordable Homes and Good Jobs Act, 2023 (Bill 134)
  - committee process
    - amendments, consideration of, 6833–6835
  - witness submissions, 6831–6832
- Affordable Homes and Good Jobs Act, 2023 (Bill 134)
  - third reading, 6682, 6829–6838
- Affordable housing
  - access to, 8982
  - "affordable," definition, 890, 1339, 1627, 4665, 6832–6835, 6837
    - implementation timeline, 7357
    - ministerial authority, 6835
      - statements by stakeholders, 6832
    - statements by stakeholders, 6831–6832
  - "attainable," definition
    - implementation timelines, 7357
  - availability
    - impact on business environment, 9497
    - by income, 8374
  - federal government funding, 8651
  - government strategy, 885–886, 892, 1534
  - inclusionary zoning, 888, 7869
  - near transit, 7868–7869
  - on public lands, 121, 1540
  - tenant/owner selection
    - municipal oversight, 6833–6834
- Affordable housing - access
  - general remarks, 127, 1539, 4859, 6614
- Affordable housing - by region
  - Toronto, 1627
    - inclusionary zoning, 5941–5942
- Affordable housing - development of
  - federal government funding
    - access to, 7923, 7972–7973, 8057
  - non-market housing
    - in other jurisdictions, 9496
- Affordable housing - in other jurisdictions
  - British Columbia, 8652
- Affordable housing - non-market housing
  - government role in, 1534
- Agricultural land
  - cost of
    - role of speculation, 4767
- Agricultural land - conservation
  - committee presentations, 1539
  - general remarks, 4667, 9493
- Agricultural land - development on
  - general remarks, 8316
  - land availability, 5060
- Agriculture industry - food processing
  - Grow Ontario Strategy
    - Riddell
      - government funding
        
        allocation formula, by region, 3913
    - funding allocation formula, by region, 3913
- Alternate-level-of-care (ALC) patients
  - impact on hospital resources, 571
- Animal welfare
  - zoos and wild and exotic animals, 8541, 8550
- Anti-Money Laundering in Housing Act, 2022 (Bill 8)
  - first reading, 230
- Apprenticeships
  - training programs, secondary students, 9021, 9024
- Autism services
  - support program
    - funding, 2847–2848
- Automobile thefts
  - rate of, 8103
- Automotive industry, sales of automobiles, 6349
- Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 (Bill 39)
  - committee process, 2037
  - second reading, 1537–1542, 1573
  - public response, 1965, 2108
  - third reading, 2105, 2107–2110
- Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act, 2023 (Bill 98)
  - stakeholder consultation, 4911–4912
  - third reading, 4910–4912
- Budget 2022/2023
  - climate change, 618
  - education, 618
  - general remarks, 618
  - health care, 618
  - municipal affairs and housing, 120
- Budget 2023/2024
  - education, 3179, 4376
  - environment, 3367
  - health care, 3177–3178
  - housing, 3178, 3180, 4371
  - mental health and addictions, 3178
  - program spending
    - vs. inflation, 3177
  - rental housing, 3290
  - supportive housing, 3129
  - transportation, 3178
- Budget speech 2023 (March 23, 2023)
  - responded to, 3285, 3290, 3295, 3364, 3367
- Budget speech 2024 (March 26, 2024)
  - responded to, 8090–8091, 8099–8104
- Building a Better Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 180)
  - second reading, 8170
- Building a Strong Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 85)
  - second reading, 3129, 3177–3180, 3182
  - third reading, 4371, 4376
- Building More Mines Act, 2023 (Bill 71)
  - second reading, 2708
- Building Ontario For You Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 216)
  - second reading, 10105–10106, 10124–10127, 10131–10132
- Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit program
  - federal-provincial cooperation, 8411
- Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement (CWELCC)
  - child care operators
    - financial impact, 7137
- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
  - rights under, 1113
- Charities and non-profit organizations
  - donations
    - regulations, 6347
- Child care
  - access to, 8101
- Child care - staff
  - compensation
    - impact on retention, 6578–6579
- Children and youth in care
  - preventative measures, 8633
- City of Toronto Act, 2006, SO 2006, c 11, s A.
  - rental replacement bylaw, 887
- Climate change
  - extreme weather due to, 1512–1513, 2283
  - government strategy, 8781
  - as public health issue, 1513
- Colleges and universities
  - board of governors
    - term limits, 6346–6348
- Community housing
  - government funding, 8740
- Condominium Authority Ontario (CAO)
  - tenant protection, 2669
- Condominium Authority Tribunal
  - reform
    - jurisdiction, expansion, 2700
- Condominium corporations
  - roles and responsibilities
    - emergency power generators, 2283
- Condominiums
  - accountability and oversight, 2699–2700
    - report and recommendations, 2375
  - consumer protection, 2699–2700, 2704, 3421
- Conservation authorities
  - authority owned land
    - development on, 888
  - mandate and oversight, 888
- Credit unions and caisses populaires, regulations
  - general remarks, 6347
- Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act, 2024 (Bill 185)
  - committee process
    - amendments, consideration of, 9490–9493
  - second reading, 8367–8377, 8379, 8411–8412
  - stakeholder response, 8374, 9495
  - third reading, 9468–9469, 9489–9498
- Cycling infrastructure - bike lanes
  - removal, 9994
  - safety, impact on
    - statements by stakeholders, 10108
- Debates re answers to question period
  - Public transit
    - presented, 7868–7869
- Democracy
  - general remarks, 2110
- Doctors
  - administrative responsibilities, 6349, 7747
    - stakeholder statements, 6349
  - recruitment and retention, 7747
- Doctors - family doctors
  - access, by region
    - Toronto, 7226, 7662
  - access to, 8170
  - shortage, 6348–6349
- Doctors - primary care
  - shortage, 6350
- Dogs
  - hunting skills, training and trialing facilities, 8541
- Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve
  - development on
    - land ownership, conflict of interest, 2036
- Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve Act, 2005, SO 2005, c 30
  - repeal of, 1538
- Education funding
  - general remarks, 1112–1113
  - staffing levels, impact on, 8704
- Education - special education services
  - students, access, 3096
- Education support workers
  - government funding, 618
- Education workers - collective bargaining
  - back-to-work legislation
    - statements by stakeholders, 1112
- Education workers - compensation
  - annual rate, historically, 1114
  - cost of living, 1112
    - statements by stakeholders, 1112
- Education workers - labour disputes, union contracts and negotiations
  - general remarks, 1144–1145
- Education workers - role in schools
  - effect on students, 1112
  - general remarks, 1114
- Elections
  - general election (2022)
    - voter turnout, 119
- Electric vehicles - charging stations
  - in new build homes, 8370
- Employment standards
  - Canadian work experience
    - employer prohibition to request, 6579
  - enforcement
    - fines, 9024
  - gig workers, 9025
    - wage protections, 7717
    - working conditions, 6581, 6585
  - sick days, number of
    - low income workers, impact on, 9022–9023
  - sick notes, 9022
- Employment standards - wage theft
  - prevention, 9022
  - protections, 6579
- Engineering
  - Professional Engineers Ontario
    - regulations, 6348
- Enhancing Access to Justice Act, 2024 (Bill 157)
  - third reading, 7538, 7543
- Environmental Protection Amendment Act (Microfibre Filters for Washing Machines), 2023 (Bill 83)
  - first reading, 2912
- Financial services sector
  - commodity futures
    - regulations, 6347
  - regulations, 6347–6348
- Fire rangers
  - recruitment and retention, 9023
- Food banks - usage
  - rates, 1096
- Get It Done Act, 2024 (Bill 162)
  - second reading, 7446–7447, 7453–7457
  - third reading, 8771, 8776, 8781, 8784, 8787–8788
- GO Transit - stations
  - Mimico redevelopment
    - cancellation, 7538
    - Vandyk Properties, contract cancellation, 7553
- Government advertising
  - partisan, 7943
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - education policy, 1111–1112
  - energy policy, 8346
  - environmental policy, 1513
  - greenbelt, 2105
  - legislative agenda, 4541
  - public consultation, 4821
  - rental policy, 3811
- Greenbelt
  - conservation of
    - and food security, 1955
- Greenbelt - development on
  - impact of
    - statements by stakeholders, 2108
  - land availability, 1537
  - land ownership, conflict of interest, 1519, 1540, 1573, 1602
  - land swap
    - information sharing, transparency, 1775
  - public response, 1540
- Greenhouse gas emissions - reduction
  - government strategy
    - reduction targets, 7546
- Hazel McCallion Act (Peel Dissolution), 2023 (Bill 112)
  - second reading, 4529–4533, 4537, 4541, 4546, 4550
  - third reading, 4744, 4747, 4818–4822, 4829, 4833, 4836
- Health care
  - culturally and linguistically appropriate care
    - access to, 7662
  - home care, 6350
  - privatization, 6350
  - structural stressors
    - government response, 571
- Health care - gender-affirming
  - access
    - impact on patient health and wellness, 7464
- Health care - primary care
  - service fees, 7099–7100
- Health care services
  - clinics, service fees, 7747
  - public vs. private
    - in other jurisdictions, 2349
- Health care services - delivery
  - virtual
    - fees, 1832
- Helping Homebuyers, Protecting Tenants Act, 2023 (Bill 97)
  - amendments, consideration of, 4387, 4662–4669
  - second reading, 3566–3575
  - third reading, 4641–4642, 4661–4671
- Heritage properties
  - places of worship
    - regulations, 6347–6348
- Highway 413
  - impact on traffic congestion, 7457
  - land ownership, conflict of interest, 7454
- Highway tolls
  - removal of, 7456
- Home and community care
  - access to, 8101
- Home Construction Regulatory Authority (HCRA)
  - pre-construction sale agreements
    - price adjustment penalties, 4641
- Home ownership
  - access, 4662
  - affordability, 9777–9778
  - first-time homebuyers, 8368
  - taxes
    - in other jurisdictions (British Columbia), 683
- The Hospital for Sick Children (Sickkids)
  - capacity and overcrowding
    - emergency departments
      - impact on surgical procedure wait-time, 1315
      - wait-time, 1315
  - capacity, occupancy rate, 1315
  - government funding, 32
  - surgical procedures
    - backlog, 32, 814–815, 2247
- Hospitals
  - staff shortages
    - Toronto, 618
- Housing
  - access, 6829
- Housing Affordability Task Force
  - recommendations, 121, 1540
  - report (2022)
    - greenbelt, 2036
- Housing - affordable
  - government strategy, 7866–7867
- Housing developers
  - approvals and permits, timelines, 4664
    - expiry of, 8370–8371, 9494
- Housing development
  - commerical real estate
    - vacancy, 9776
  - conversion, commerical to residential, 9776–9778
  - density, 8784
  - low-density
    - transportation methods, impact on, 9493
  - mass timber construction, 8370
  - provincial fees, freeze, 7453
- Housing development - approvals and permits
  - standardized pre-approved designs, 8372
  - timelines
    - application fees, refund of, 4663–4664, 8371
- Housing development - construction
  - cost of
    - relocation due to, 1533, 3812
  - format diversity, 120
  - inclusionary zoning, 893, 4666–4667
    - ministerial approvals, 683
    - municipal planning, 3428
    - use of, 120
  - municipal policy
    - green standards, 1625
  - regulatory environment, 4532
- Housing development - densification
  - additional residential units, 8372, 9494
  - density requirements, municipalities, 4666
  - general remarks, 1632
  - government strategy, 5060
  - high-density vs. low-density
    - cost of, 3544, 8376
  - low-density, 3544
  - mid-density
    - affordability, 889
      - statements by stakeholders, 889
  - policy development, 1540
  - secondary units, 888
- Housing development - government funding
  - Building Faster Fund
    - eligibility, 6771–6772
- Housing development - in other jurisdictions
  - British Columbia, 7446–7447
- Housing development - infrastructure
  - federal government funding
    - access to, 8481, 8862
  - government funding, 8376
  - servicing costs
    - high-density vs. low-density developments, 9493
  - sewage and wastewater, allocation withdrawal
    - development timelines, 8370–8371
- Housing development - major transit station areas
  - parking minimums, removal of
    - accessibility requirements, 8370, 9494
- Housing development - municipal charges
  - development charges, 889
  - development charges, exemptions and discounts, 889, 4546
    - affordability requirements, 890, 1534, 6830–6831, 6835
    - impact of
      - statements by stakeholders, 8371
    - impact on affordability, 1630, 6833
    - impact on development, 8371
    - impact on housing services, 9490
    - impact on municipalities, 874, 890, 892, 1539, 1541, 1672, 2854, 3178–3179, 3317, 6834
    - not-for-profit housing, 8376–8377
    - reversal, 9494
    - statements by stakeholders, 890, 1627, 1632
    - transferal of costs, taxes, 1519–1520, 2489, 4665
- Housing development - provincial building targets
  - municipal allocations, 2109
- Housing market
  - interest rates
    - impact on affordability, 885–886
  - speculation taxes
    - non-resident speculation tax, increase, 887
    - in other jurisdictions, 887
    - vacant homes tax
      - benefits of, 887
      - in other jurisdictions, 887
- Housing policy
  - federal, 8652
  - general remarks, 4670, 8315
  - government funding, 1542
  - government strategy, 1538, 2108, 4669
  - inclusionary zoning
    - fourplexes, 7455
    - implementation timelines, 6682
  - in other jurisdictions
    - British Columbia, 8368–8369, 9498
  - stakeholder consultation, 1539, 8375–8376
  - Toronto, city of, 8652
  - upzoning, 9491–9492
    - fourplexes, 7922, 9468, 9742
    - major transit corridors, 9743
- Housing supply
  - impact on housing costs, 6830
  - land speculation, 8227
- Immigrants - access to professions and trades
  - foreign credentials, recognition of, 9025
    - lost, 9023
- Independent health facilities
  - for profit vs. not-for-profit, 2349–2351
- Infrastructure Ontario (IO)
  - real estate services
    - management of, 2576, 2578
- Intimate partner violence
  - shelters and supportive housing
    - operational funding, 6436
- Islamophobia
  - prevalence of, 9576
- Keeping Energy Costs Down Act, 2024 (Bill 165)
  - second reading, 7289–7293
- Keeping Students in Class Act, 2022 (Bill 28)
  - second reading, 1040, 1111–1114
- Land use planning
  - environmental protections, 4667
  - intensification, 7456
  - provincial land and development facilitator
    - creation of, 4664
  - responsibilities, upper-tier municipalities
    - transferal to lower-tier municipalities, 8372, 9494–9495
- Land use planning - environmental assessments, class environment assessments
  - 30-day review period, ministerial waiver, 2576
  - 30-day review period, purpose of, 2577
- Land use planning - ministerial zoning orders (MZOs)
  - long-term care construction, 6061
  - regulations, 8371
- Land use planning - municipal official plans
  - approvals, 121
  - employment zones
    - and housing development, 4665–4666
  - urban boundary expansion, 8771
  - zoning decisions, 1542
- Land use planning - provincial policy statement
  - minimum density requirements, 8373–8374, 9492
  - settlement area boundaries, expansion
    - appeals process, 8373, 9493
    - low-density developments, 9468–9469
    - process, 8373, 8376, 9492–9493
    - statements by stakeholders, 8374
- Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB)
  - general remarks, 6349–6350
  - governance and transparency, 8561
  - Ombudsman investigation and recommendations
    - Administrative Justice Delayed, Fairness Denied (2023), 4662
  - statements by stakeholders, 4261
- Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) - hearings
  - backlogs, 887, 8561
  - delivery of, 4127
  - hearings, delivery of, 4127
  - wait-time
    - landlords vs. tenants, 3502
- Landlords
  - roles and responsibilities
    - emergency power generators, 2283
- Legal aid services
  - access to, 7543
- Legislative Assembly - facility rehabilitation
  - energy-efficient technologies, 2833
- Legislative procedure
  - parliamentary calendar
    - summer adjournment, changes, 9647–9648
- Less Red Tape, More Common Sense Act, 2023 (Bill 139)
  - third reading, 6346–6350
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Economy Act, 2023 (Bill 91)
  - second reading, 3421
- Long-term care - accountability and oversight
  - general remarks, 8100
- Long-term care - beds
  - wait-list
    - and facility conditions, 571
- Lower Fares, Better Service on the Union Pearson Express Act, 2024 (Bill 202)
  - first reading, 9380
- Members' statements
  - Anti-racism activities, 9576
  - Autism treatment, 2847–2848
  - Barrick Gold Corp., 4469
  - Child care, 7137
  - Climate change, 7546
  - Coldest Night of the Year, 2236
  - Cycling infrastructure, 10108
  - Doctor shortage, 7226
  - Education funding, 8567
  - Government accountability, 1515–1516
  - Labour dispute, 1144–1145
  - Mental health and addiction services, 628
  - Municipal planning, 1954–1955
  - Ontario Place, 3902
  - Public transit, 3368
  - Street Haven, 149–150
  - Tenant protection, 8474, 9109
- Members/ministers quoting
  - committee submissions
    - More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 (Bill 23), 1625–1626
  - news media
    - conservation authorities, history, 1628
  - teachers unions
    - violence in schools, 4911
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - withdrawn, 3812
- Mental health and addictions
  - education and awareness
    - International Overdose Awareness Day, 628
- Mining industry - Indigenous communities
  - Indigenous consultation and consent, 2708
- Mining sites
  - Canadian companies' international sites
    - accountabilities, 4469
- More Beds, Better Care Act, 2022 (Bill 7)
  - third reading, 571
- More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 (Bill 23)
  - committee presentations, 1604–1605, 1626–1628
  - committee process
    - amendments, consideration of, 1628–1630
  - committee submissions, 1625–1628
  - second reading, 863–865, 885–893
  - impact on municipalities
    - Toronto, 1520
  - third reading, 1602, 1604–1605, 1624–1633
- Motions
  - House and committee sittings
    - responded to, 9647–9649
- Mount Pleasant Public Cemeteries Act, 2023 (Bill 113)
  - first reading, 4484
- Municipal by-laws
  - appeal
    - timelines, 1631
  - passage
    - prescribed number of councillors, 1955, 2036
- Municipal finances - reserve fund
  - development charges
    - by region
      - Toronto, 1631
- Municipal governance
  - council administration and authority, 119, 1515–1516
  - legislative reform, 2119
  - reform, 120
- Municipal governance - regional chairs
  - appointment of, ministerial authority, 1539, 2036
- Municipal governance - strong mayor system
  - applicable regions, 134
    - expansion, 4829
  - council administration and authority, 122
  - government strategy, 1538
  - municipal response, 2108
  - provincial priorities, 1539
  - regional application, 2036
  - statements by stakeholders, 119
- Municipal governance - strong mayor system, administrative authority
  - budgets, city council override, 119
  - employment powers, 119, 699
  - veto power, provincial priorities, 119
- Municipal governance - strong mayor system - effect on housing development
  - general remarks, 127
- Municipal governance - structure
  - two-tier
    - provincial assessment, facilitators, 2108
- Municipal restructuring
  - in other jurisdictions, 4747
- Municipal restructuring - Peel Region
  - Brampton, impact on, 4530–4531
  - Caledon, impact on, 4530–4531
  - public consultation, 4529–4530, 4549, 4818, 4833
  - services, impact on, 4537, 4820
  - statements by stakeholders, 4819–4820
- Municipal restructuring - Peel Region, reversal
  - economic impact
    - accountability and transparency, 9490–9491
- National Housing Strategy (federal)
  - building and renovation targets
    - and access to funding, 8862
- New Democratic Party (NDP)
  - housing policy, 4671, 8651–8652
- New home construction industry
  - builder accountability
    - fines and penalties, 891
  - consumer protection, 221, 2909
    - enforcement, 891
- Nextblock Inc. Act, 2022 (Bill Pr6)
  - first reading, 881
  - second reading, 2140
  - third reading, 2140
- Niagara Escarpment
  - planning and development
    - permits, 6347
- Nurse practitioner-led clinics
  - general remarks, 6350
  - as substitute for primary care clinics, 6350
- Nurses
  - working conditions, 2351
- Occupational health and safety
  - government funding, 6580
- Ontario Building Code
  - enforcement, 8370, 8379
  - reform, 8370
  - single-exit stairs
    - stakeholder consultation, 8373
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates
  - statements by stakeholders, 1096
- Ontario Human Rights Commission
  - air conditioning, statement on, 599
- Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT)
  - adjudicators, powers of, 891
  - hearings
    - unsuccessful party fines, 891, 1631
  - third party appeals, elimination of, 8369–8370, 9493
    - exemptions, 9469, 9491, 9498
- Ontario Place
  - lease of, international investment, 3902
- Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP)
  - access to
    - low-income students, 7696
  - grant to loan conversion, 7701
- Opioid addictions
  - overdoses and fatalities, by region
    - Toronto, 9550
- Opposition day motions
  - Affordable housing
    - responded to, 8650–8652, 10185–10186
  - Education funding
    - responded to, 3095–3096
  - Government advertising
    - responded to, 7943
  - Health care
    - responded to, 7747
  - Housing
    - presented, 1533–1534
  - Social assistance
    - responded to, 1096
  - Tenant protection
    - responded to, 3811–3812
- Ottawa
  - urban boundary expansion
    - ministerial amendments
      - land ownership, conflict of interest, 1776
- Parks
  - Parks of the St. Lawrence
    - easements, 6348
- Pediatric hospitals - services
  - capacity and overcrowding, occupancy rate
    - government response, 1315
- Petitions
  - Accessibility for persons with disabilities, 3262, 7155
  - Addiction services, 9807–9808
  - Affordable housing, 603
  - Alzheimer's disease, 1327
  - Child care, 9488
  - Climate change, 2045
  - Education funding, 3079, 4485–4486, 4661, 7367, 8994
  - Environmental protection, 882
  - Health care, 7790–7791, 10121
  - Homelessness, 10279
  - Labour dispute, 686
  - Land use planning, 2383
  - Ontario Science Centre, 9809
  - Post-secondary education, 8992–8993
  - Social assistance, 230, 2133–2134, 9381, 9856
  - Tenant protection, 8993, 9058, 10182
- Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 2)
  - third reading, 618
- Post-secondary education
  - cost of, 6347
  - housing for students, 893
    - affordability, 8372
    - tenant protections, 8372
  - housing for students, development of
    - Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.13, exemption from, 8372
- Post-secondary education - mental health and addictions
  - supports and services
    - post graduation, 7692
- Preventing Unethical Puppy Sales Act, 2024 (Bill 159)
  - second reading, 8535, 8541, 8550
- Private members' public business
  - Affordable Energy Act, 2024 (Bill 172)
    - second reading, 8346–8347
  - Commercial to Residential Conversion Act, 2024 (Bill 201)
    - second reading, 9776–9778
  - Condominium legislation
    - responded to, 10412–10414
  - Consumer protection
    - presented, 2699–2700
    - responded to, 2704, 10092–10093
  - Enhancing Public Transit Accessibility Act, 2023 (Bill 82)
    - second reading, 3410
  - Fewer Backlogs and Less Partisan Tribunals Act, 2024 (Bill 179)
    - second reading, 8561
  - Gender Affirming Health Care Advisory Committee Act, 2024 (Bill 42)
    - second reading, 7464
  - Keeping People Housed Act, 2024 (Bill 170)
    - second reading, 8226–8227
  - Keeping Primary Care Fair Act (Restricting Private Payments for Nurse Practitioner Services), 2024 (Bill 203)
    - second reading, 9903–9904
  - No Time to Waste Act (Plan for Climate Action and Jobs), 2022 (Bill 14)
    - second reading, 1512–1513
  - Protecting Human Rights in an Emergency Act (Emergency Power Generators), 2023 (Bill 47)
    - second reading, 2283
  - Relief for Renters Act, 2024 (Bill 163)
    - second reading, 7865–7867
- Progress on the Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 36)
  - second reading, 1339
- Protecting Renters from Illegal Evictions Act, 2022 (Bill 58)
  - first reading, 2171–2172
- Public assets
  - conversion to affordable housing, 6836
- Public assets - surplus
  - conversion to housing
    - affordable, 2576
  - sale of, agreements
    - transparency, 2576
  - sale of, conditions, 1540
- Queen's Park Restoration Act, 2023 (Bill 75)
  - second reading, 2833
- Question period
  - Affordable housing
    - presented, 2854, 4859, 5941–5942, 6614, 7357, 7839, 7922–7923, 7972–7973, 8057, 8740, 8862, 8982–8983
  - Condominium legislation
    - presented, 2668–2669
  - Consumer protection
    - presented, 221, 2375, 2909
  - Cycling infrastructure
    - presented, 9994
  - Education funding
    - presented, 8704
  - Government accountability
    - presented, 1776, 5882, 6061
  - Government policies
    - presented, 2119
  - Health care
    - presented, 1832, 2247, 7099–7100, 7662
  - Health care funding
    - presented, 814–815
  - Homelessness
    - presented, 3913, 10226
  - Hospital funding
    - presented, 32
  - Hospital services
    - presented, 1315
  - Housing
    - presented, 682–683, 1004, 1519–1520, 4767, 6999, 8315–8316, 8481, 9742–9743
  - Land use planning
    - presented, 5060
  - Landlord and tenant board
    - presented, 4127
  - Landlord and Tenant Board
    - presented, 4261
  - Mental health and addiction services
    - presented, 9550
  - Municipal development
    - presented, 1672, 3316–3317
  - Municipal finances
    - presented, 2489
  - Municipal funding
    - presented, 6771–6772
  - Municipal government
    - presented, 1965
  - Municipal planning
    - presented, 3428, 3544
  - Public transit
    - presented, 7553, 8928
  - Shelter services
    - presented, 4574, 6436
  - Social assistance
    - presented, 794
  - Tenant protection
    - presented, 599, 873–874, 3501–3502, 3796–3797, 4167, 4331, 4387, 6999, 7611, 8189, 8522, 9174
- Reducing Inefficiencies Act (Infrastructure Statute Law Amendments), 2023 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 2575–2578, 2580, 2582
- Rent control
  - exemptions
    - impact on tenants, 886, 1632
  - general remarks, 3812, 4668, 6838
  - and housing supply, 3812, 7867
- Rental housing
  - access
    - shelter residents, 4574
  - affordability, 7866
  - air conditioning
    - billing policy, 4668
    - temperature guidelines, 4668
  - cost of, 3796–3797, 3811, 4662, 4667
    - by region
      - Toronto, 885, 6830, 8651
    - regionally, 8226
  - purpose-built
    - preservation of, 9490
  - short term rentals, 891
  - tenant protection, 4670
  - vacancy decontrol, 1632
- Rental housing - affordable
  - development of
    - government strategy, 8226–8227
- Rental housing - development
  - purpose-built
    - family sized, 886
- Rental housing - evictions
  - due to
    - conversion to short-term rental, 6999, 9174
  - due to demolition, 6836, 9495
  - due to renovations, 4387, 4665
    - enforcement, 889
  - general remarks, 8983
  - illegal evictions
    - fines and penalties, 4641–4642
    - fines and penalties, enforcement, 4668–4669, 7611, 9174
- Rental housing - purpose-built
  - affordable units, 4666
  - benefits to tenants, 864
  - redevelopment of
    - effect on affordability, 888, 893, 1534
    - tenant displacement, 3501
    - tenant return, 873, 4642
- Rental housing - short-term
  - impact on housing affordability, 6999
- Rental housing - tenant protections
  - and affordability, 6836
  - enforcement, 8367–8368
  - general remarks, 886, 1540, 8316, 8375, 9495, 9498
  - non-resident landlords
    - taxes, responsibility for, 9109
  - redevelopment and tenant right to return, 864–865, 887–888, 892, 9494
    - statements by stakeholders, 865
  - Rental Housing Enforcement Unit, 9496
  - rent-increases, above-guideline, 8189, 8474
  - replacement bylaws, 1626–1627, 4167, 4663
  - unit conditions, 6838
- Reports by committees
  - Standing Committee on Heritage, Infrastructure and Cultural Policy
    - Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 (Bill 39), 2036–2037
- Retirement homes
  - resident eviction and transition, 9649
- Retirement homes - by site
  - Chartwell Heritage Glen Retirement, closure
    - resident eviction and transition, 8412
- Ring of Fire development
  - Indigenous consultation and consent, 3182
- Safer Streets, Stronger Communities Act, 2024 (Bill 223)
  - second reading, 10462–10466
- School boards - funding
  - by board
    - Toronto District School Board
      - impact of, 8567
  - layoffs, impact of, 4910
  - student supports, impact on, 3096
- School facilities
  - capacity
    - and population growth projections, 4911
  - excess properties, sell of
    - process, 4910–4911
- Schools - funding by site
  - Central Tech high school
    - trade school program, impact of, 9021–9022, 9024
- Schools - violence in
  - statements by stakeholders, 4911
- Shelters and transitional housing
  - access, 6829
- Skilled trades
  - women in, 9024
- Social assistance programs
  - housing allowances, 794
- Social assistance programs - benefit rates
  - and cost of living, 1096
- Social companies
  - regulations, 6347
- St. Thomas - Central Elgin Boundary Adjustment Act, 2023 (Bill 63)
  - second reading, 2336
- Strengthening Accountability and Student Supports Act, 2024 (Bill 166)
  - second reading, 7692, 7696, 7701
- Strengthening Cyber Security and Building Trust in the Public Sector Act, 2024 (Bill 194)
  - second reading, 9818
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022 (Bill 3)
  - second reading, 118–122, 127, 134
  - third reading, 699, 706
- Supporting Children's Futures Act, 2024 (Bill 188)
  - second reading, 8626, 8633
- Supportive housing
  - development of, by region
    - Toronto, 6836
  - development of, by site
    - Willowdale, Toronto, 5942
  - government strategy, 4670
  - wait-list, 1004
- Supportive housing - development
  - general remarks, 1540
  - by site
    - Willowdale, Toronto, 8369
- Surgical procedures
  - backlog, remediation
    - patient health, impact, 3285
  - operating rooms, service capacity
    - staff shortages, impact of, 2247
  - operations, capacity
    - staff shortage, impact, 2397
    - staff shortages, impact of, 2397
- Toronto
  - capital project funding (budget 2022)
    - economic conditions, impact of, 890
  - housing policy
    - inclusionary zoning, 6835–6836, 9492
  - manufacturing and businesses
    - municipal-based assistance, 8369
- Toronto District School Board
  - strategy and planning, 4910
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)
  - accessibility, 3410
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) expansion - Ontario Line
  - and housing development
    - affordable, 7839
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) - services
  - reductions, 3368
- Transit
  - fare system, integration
    - GO Transit and TTC, 3295
- 2103890 Ontario Limited Act, 2023 (Bill Pr11)
  - first reading, 1324
  - second reading, 2473
  - third reading, 2474
- Unhoused persons
  - affordable homes, access to
    - Toronto, 8651
  - Coldest Night of the Year, 2236
  - Covid-19
    - hotels, use of, 885
  - emergency rooms as shelter, 6829
  - encampments, 885
  - government funding, 122
  - government strategy, 8103, 8367, 8862, 9496, 9777
  - and lack of affordable housing, 10226
  - by region
    - Toronto, 885
  - Scott Mission
    - affordable home project, 8651
  - shelters
    - conditions in, 885
- Union Pearson Express
  - One Fare program
    - eligibility, 8928
- Waterloo, Region of
  - land use planning, 9495
- Winchester Design Build Inc. Act, 2024 (Bill Pr35)
  - first reading, 6013
  - second reading, 8733
  - third reading, 8733
- Working for Workers Five Act, 2024 (Bill 190)
  - second reading, 9021–9025
  - third reading, 9881, 9887, 9891, 9896
- Working for Workers Four Act, 2024 (Bill 149)
  - second reading, 6354, 6567, 6574, 6578–6583, 6585, 6591
  - third reading, 7717
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
  - part-time workers, women, 6582
  - presumptive coverage, fire rangers
    - cancers, heart injuries & PTSD, 9023
    - inclusion, 7717
  - presumptive coverage, miners
    - cancers, 9023
- Your Health Act, 2023 (Bill 60)
  - second reading, 2349–2352, 2397–2398
Bethlenfalvy, Hon. P. (PC, Pickering—Uxbridge)
- Affordable housing - development of
  - federal government funding
    - access to, 8002–8003
- Alcohol retail - expansion
  - early implementation agreement
    - cost of, 9581–9582
    - economic impact, 9587, 9589
  - general remarks, 7787
- Auto insurance - rates
  - government strategy, 1007, 1867–1868
  - reform, 1867
- Automobile thefts
  - government response, 8011
- Automotive industry - employment
  - employment creation, 71–72
- Automotive industry - investments
  - economic impact, 72
- Bradford Bypass
  - commute times, impact on, 608
  - economic impact, 608
- Budget 2022/2023
  - cost of living, 607
  - education, 79, 1320
  - health care, 608, 1315
  - home and community care, 608
  - infrastructure, 73–74
  - northern and rural Ontario, 608
  - skilled trades, 607–608
  - social assistance, 73
  - transportation, 608
- Budget 2023/2024
  - allocation of funds, 3190–3191
  - automotive, 4312
  - business, 4312
  - businesses, 4312
  - debt and deficit, 4311
  - education, 4313
  - health care, 3071, 4314
    - pediatric, 4312–4313
  - infrastructure development, 4312, 4314–4315
  - manufacturing, 4312
  - mines and mining industry
    - Ring of Fire, 4311
  - mining industry
    - Ring of Fire, 4311
  - skilled trades, 4312
  - unhoused persons, 4313
- Budget 2024/2025
  - cost of living, 8925
  - general remarks, 9073, 9638
  - health care, 8002–8003, 9582
  - housing development, 8003
  - program allocation, 9074
- Budget speech 2023 (March 23, 2023)
  - presented, 3047–3053
- Budget speech 2024 (March 26, 2024)
  - presented, 7981–7987
- Budgets
  - federal (2023/2024)
    - intergovernmental collaboration, 3502
- Building a Better Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 180)
  - first reading, 7987
  - second reading, 8127–8130
  - third reading, 9073–9075
- Building a Strong Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 85)
  - first reading, 3053
  - second reading, 3055–3057
  - third reading, 4311–4315
- Building a Strong Ontario Together Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 146)
  - first reading, 6004
  - second reading, 6017–6020
  - third reading, 6702–6705
- Building Ontario For You Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 216)
  - first reading, 10050
  - ministerial statement, 10051–10053
- Business investment
  - Regional Opportunity Investment Tax Credit, 72, 607
- Business - small- and medium-sized
  - corporate tax rate
    - phase-out range, 3056
- Business - taxation
  - small and medium-sized
    - reduction, 9548
- Carbon tax
  - cost of living, impact on, 6270, 8427
  - economic impact, 5882, 6515
  - general remarks, 3504, 7305, 7607
  - government response to, 6270
  - impact of, 6690–6691
- Clean energy industry
  - investment in
    - electric vehicles, 80
- Colleges and universities
  - government funding, 8005
- Conservation authorities
  - mandate and oversight
    - flood mitigation, 919
- Cost of living
  - government strategy, 73, 89, 293, 1271, 1302–1303, 1457, 1946, 2031–2032, 3614, 4442, 6515–6516, 6695, 8002, 9050
  - inflation
    - government response, 817
  - support programs, 3056, 4765–4766
- Economic conditions
  - general remarks, 3056–3057
  - government strategy, 3504, 5153
    - support programs, 1521
  - inflation, 1947
    - government response, 1261
    - government strategy, 224
- Economic conditions - downturn
  - inflation, 1270
- Economic development
  - government strategy, 71–72, 1215
- Education - secondary
  - dual credit programs, 1271
- Electric vehicles
  - government strategy, 6006
- Employment
  - creation/loss, 9073
  - government strategy, 1270
    - Community Jobs Initiative, 72
- Employment services
  - training and retraining
    - Skills Development Fund, 1271, 3056
- Film and television industry
  - tax credits, 1946
- French-language debates
  - Budget de l'Ontario de 2024 (26 mars 2024), 7981, 7987
  - Déclarations ministérielles et réponses
    - Perspectives économiques et revue financière, 1269–1271, 6005–6007
  - Loi de 2022 pour favoriser le développement (mesures budgétaires), projet de loi 2
    - deuxième lecture, 71–72, 74
    - troisième lecture, 606–609
  - Loi de 2022 sur la progression du plan pour bâtir (mesures budgétaires), projet de loi 36
    - deuxième lecture, 1301–1303
    - troisième lecture, 1945–1947
  - Loi de 2022 visant à accélérer la construction de plus de logements, projet de loi 23
    - deuxième lecture, 917–918
  - Loi de 2023 visant à bâtir un Ontario fort ensemble
    - (mesures budgétaires), projet de loi 146
      - troisième lecture, 6702–6703
  - Loi de 2023 visant à bâtir un Ontario fort ensemble (mesures budgétaires), projet de loi 146
    - deuxième lecture, 6017–6020
  - Loi de 2023 visant à bâtir un Ontario fort (mesures budgétaires), projet de loi 85
    - deuxième lecture, 3055–3057
    - troisième lecture, 4311–4313
  - Loi de 2024 visant à bâtir un Ontario meilleur (mesures budgétaires), projet de loi 180
    - deuxième lecture, 8127, 8129
    - troisième lecture, 9073, 9075
  - Période de questions
    - Conseillers gouvernementaux, 3500
- Fuel prices
  - rate reduction
    - rates, 607
  - supply chain, 1676
- Fuel prices - taxation
  - rate reduction, 294, 1521, 2030–2031
  - rate reduction, extension, 5882, 6007, 7786, 8427, 8574, 9050, 9121
- Geopolitical policy
  - budgetary considerations, 4312
- Government debt and deficit
  - annual deficit
    - amount, 3055
  - debt-to-GDP ratio, 4314
    - projection, 3055
  - government strategy, 1271, 10051
- Government expenditures
  - general remarks, 2440
  - rebate, 10052, 10111
- Government finances
  - fall economic statement (2022), 1457
  - fall economic statement (2023), 6005–6008
  - fall economic statement (2024), 10051–10054
    - government strategy, 10043
  - government strategy, 2373–2374, 6005–6008
  - predictions, budget surpluses, 3055
  - provincial credit rating, 9638
  - provincial-federal transfers, 1947
  - review of
    - Auditor General, 1321
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - budgets, 3070
- Greenhouse gas emissions - reduction
  - government strategy, 6691–6692
- Health care
  - government strategy, 6007
- Health care funding
  - Canada Health Transfer (federal), 3057
  - federal government transfer, 2441
  - general remarks, 3057, 9074
- Health care workers - recruitment and retention
  - government funding, 608
- Highway 413
  - economic impact, 608
- Highways and roads - construction and expansion
  - general remarks, 9074
  - government funding, 74
- Home and community care - funding
  - general remarks, 608
- Home ownership
  - foreign investors
    - federal regulations, 1005
- Horse racing industry
  - Woodbine Entertainment group
    - anti-competitive activities, 4447–4448
- Housing development - construction
  - government strategy, 918
  - intergovernmental cooperation, 918
  - municipal-provincial partnerships, 918
  - starts, 920
- Housing development - government funding
  - Building Faster Fund, 8003
- Housing development - infrastructure
  - government funding
    - funding streams, 9075
- Housing market
  - speculation taxes
    - non-resident speculation tax, increase, 918
    - Non-Resident Speculation Tax, increase, 1005
    - vacant homes tax, 683, 918
- Housing supply
  - government strategy, 607, 917–919
- Infrastructure development
  - government strategy, 6006
- Infrastructure development - Ontario Infrastructure Bank
  - government strategy, 6006
- Invest Ontario
  - government funding, 9073
- Licence plates
  - validation stickers
    - annual renewal fees
      - refund and elimination, 607
- Long-term care - residents
  - government strategy, 80
- Low-income Individuals and Families (LIFT) Tax Credit
  - eligibility, 73
  - expansion, 607
- Manufacturing industry
  - government strategy, 1270
- Manufacturing industry - funding
  - Ontario Made Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit, 3056, 3072
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - withdrawn, 2543
- Mining industry
  - government strategy, 6006
- Mining industry - Critical Minerals Strategy
  - general remarks, 71
- Ministerial statements
  - Economic outlook and fiscal review
    - presented, 1269–1272, 6005–6007, 10051–10053
- More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 (Bill 23)
  - second reading, 917–920
- Municipal finances
  - Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund, 10119
- New Deal for Toronto Act, 2023 (Bill 154)
  - first reading, 6617–6618
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP)
  - earning exemption, 1271, 1946
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates
  - inflation, 1458
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates, increase
  - general remarks, 89
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates, increases
  - general remarks, 89
- Ontario Infrastructure Bank
  - general remarks, 6018
- Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG)
  - annual revenue
    - investments, 4922
  - economic impact, 1869
  - money laundering
    - prevention strategy, 1869
- Pension plans
  - government strategy, 6007
- Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 2)
  - first reading, 8
  - second reading, 71–74, 79–80
  - third reading, 606–609
- Progress on the Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 36)
  - first reading, 1269
  - ministerial statement, 1269–1272
  - second reading, 1301–1303
  - scope of, 1301–1302
  - third reading, 1945–1947
- Public sector compensation - increase cap
  - retroactive compensation, 7721
- Question period
  - Affordable housing
    - responded to, 8002–8003
  - Automobile insurance
    - responded to, 1007, 1867–1868, 4329, 8011
  - Beverage alcohol sales
    - responded to, 7787
  - Consumer protection
    - responded to, 817–818, 9050, 9121–9122, 9172
  - Cost of living
    - responded to, 89–90, 1521, 2030–2032, 3504, 4442, 6695
  - Economic development
    - responded to, 3071
  - Education funding
    - responded to, 1320
  - Federal budget
    - responded to, 3502
  - Fiscal and economic policy
    - responded to, 156, 293–294, 1261, 2373–2374, 4765–4766, 5153, 5521
  - Food banks
    - responded to, 1457–1458
  - Gasoline prices
    - responded to, 1676
  - Government accountability
    - responded to, 2440, 6518, 8925–8926, 9217, 10111, 10113
  - Government advertising
    - responded to, 10336
  - Government consultants
    - responded to, 3500
  - Government fiscal policies
    - responded to, 224, 1321
  - Government investments
    - responded to, 939–940
  - Government policies
    - responded to, 1215
  - Government spending
    - responded to, 7302, 9581–9582, 9587, 9589, 9638, 10043
  - Government's record
    - responded to, 10380–10381
  - Health care
    - responded to, 7721–7722
  - Health care funding
    - responded to, 2441–2442
  - Horse racing industry
    - responded to, 4447–4448
  - Hospital services
    - responded to, 1315
  - Housing
    - responded to, 683, 1005
  - Municipal finances
    - responded to, 2543
  - Municipal funding
    - responded to, 10377
  - Northern municipal infrastructure
    - responded to, 10119
  - Nurses
    - responded to, 223
  - Office of the Premier
    - responded to, 8644
  - Ontario budget
    - responded to, 3070–3071, 3190–3191, 8002–8004, 8007
  - Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp.
    - responded to, 1869, 4922
  - Small business
    - responded to, 9548
  - Social assistance
    - responded to, 89, 3614
  - Taxation
    - responded to, 5882, 6270–6271, 6515–6516, 6690–6691, 7305, 7417, 7607, 7786–7787, 7832–7833, 8117, 8427, 8574–8575, 10113–10114, 10172–10173
  - University and college funding
    - responded to, 8005
- Regional development
  - northern Ontario, 10113
- Regulations - business
  - government strategy, 1303
- Renewable energy
  - clean energy credit registry, 1270, 1947
- Rental housing - development
  - new projects
    - federal and provincial HST, 6007
- Ring of Fire development
  - economic impact, 606
  - electric battery production
    - role in, 71
  - government strategy, 3056
  - infrastructure development, 71, 606
- Senior citizens
  - government supports, 79–80
  - income support programs
    - Guaranteed Annual Income System, 2032
  - Ontario Seniors Care at Home Tax Credit, 74, 608
- Skilled trades
  - government funding, 9073
  - government strategy, 607–608
- Skilled trades - education and training
  - government strategy, 1302, 1946
- Strong mayor system
  - effect on housing development, 607
- Transportation infrastructure
  - government funding, 608
  - government strategy, 1270
Blais, S. (LIB, Orléans)
- Affordable Homes and Good Jobs Act, 2023 (Bill 134)
  - second reading, 5292–5296
- Affordable housing
  - government strategy, 3583–3584
- Agricultural land
  - availability of
    - and food prices, 1556
- Agriculture industry - temporary foreign workers
  - protections for, 3000
- Alcohol retail - expansion
  - early implementation agreement
    - cost of, 9539, 9587
- Ambulance services
  - offload services
    - wait-time, 865
  - by region
    - Ottawa, 1319
  - shortage, 612
  - wait-time
    - impact on patient health, 612
- Ambulance services - offload services
  - wait-time, 865
- Ambulance services - offload services, delays, 612
  - government strategy, 612–613
- Appreciation
  - Dapo Agoro Foundation, 437
- Automobile thefts
  - penalties, 9696
- Automotive industry - manufacturing
  - decline and recovery, 5295
- Bail hearings
  - judicial officers, presiding
    - pilot project, 3379
- Bail program
  - reports and recommendations
    - committee, 3379
- Bail program - offenders
  - recidivism
    - firearms and intimate partner offences, 3349
- Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 (Bill 39)
  - second reading, 1481, 1486–1488
- Bridges
  - inter-provincial bridges, Ontario/Quebec
    - Kettle Island corridor , 2237
- Budget 2023/2024
  - cost of living, 3162–3163
  - regional allocation
    - Ottawa, 3161
  - supportive housing, 4411
- Building a Better Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 180)
  - second reading, 8204–8207
- Building a Strong Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 85)
  - second reading, 3161–3164
  - third reading, 4406, 4411–4413
- Building Infrastructure Safely Act, 2024 (Bill 153)
  - second reading, 6656
- Building Ontario For You Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 216)
  - second reading, 10205–10207
- Business
  - credit card payments
    - transaction fees, 818
- Carbon tax
  - economic impact - food prices, 5727
  - home heating, exemptions, 6050
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO)
  - capacity and overcrowding
    - wait-time, 1319
- Climate change
  - extreme weather due to
    - by region
      - Ottawa, 6049
- Condominium corporations
  - roles and responsibilities
    - emergency power generators, 2281
- Construction industry
  - work sites
    - washroom facility access, 3002
- Convenient Care at Home Act, 2023 (Bill 135)
  - second reading, 5617–5620
- Cost of living
  - affordability, 3586
  - general remarks, 6049, 6181
  - government strategy, 3037, 5726, 6394–6395
- Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act, 2024 (Bill 185)
  - second reading, 8412
- Debates re answers to question period
  - Cost of living
    - presented, 6394–6395
  - Government appointments
    - presented, 7643
- Democracy
  - principles, 1488
    - majority rule, 1486
- Doctors - family doctors
  - access, 2188
    - by region
      - Ottawa, 2188
  - shortage, 4412
- Doctors - primary care
  - shortage, 10310
- Driving - careless/distracted
  - stunt driving
    - prevention
      - photo radar, 9696–9697
- Driving - impaired
  - penalties
    - plea deals, 9690–9691, 9694
- Employment standards - sick days
  - general remarks, 3000
- Extreme weather events
  - relief funding
    - by region
      - Ottawa, 4412–4413
- Flood management
  - government strategy, 4131
- Food prices
  - price gouging, 5726–5727
- Food retail and distribution
  - supply chain management
    - food prices, increase, 817
- French-language debates
  - Affaires d'intérêt public émanant des députées et députés
    - Loi de 2023 visant à mettre fin au harcèlement et aux abus commis par les dirigeants locaux, projet de loi 5
      - deuxième lecture, 4596–4597
    - Loi de 2024 modifiant la Loi sur les impôts (promotion des activités de loisir pour les jeunes), projet de loi 178
      - deuxième lecture, 9247
  - Avis de motions émanant du gouvernement
    - Réforme legislative, 7963
  - Déclarations des députées et députés
    - Le Mouvement d’implication francophone d’Orléans, 10220
  - Loi de 2022 pour favoriser le développement (mesures budgétaires), projet de loi 2
    - troisième lecture, 612
  - Loi de 2023 modifiant des lois en ce qui concerne l’aménagement du territoire,
    - projet de loi 150
      - deuxième lecture, 6313
  - Loi de 2023 visant à bâtir un Ontario fort (mesures budgétaires), projet de loi 85
    - deuxième lecture, 3161–3162
    - troisième lecture, 4412
  - Motions
    - Séances de la Chambre et des comités, 9653–9654
  - Période de questions
    - Coût de la vie, 6175
    - Services en français, 3037
- Government expenditures
  - allocation of, 6244
- Government notices of motion
  - Attacks on Israel
    - amendment to the amendment
      - responded to, 5420
  - Bail reform
    - amendment to the amendment
      - responded to, 3349–3350
  - Legislative reform
    - responded to, 7963
- Government orders
  - Taxation
    - presented, 6181–6182
- Government record - Liberal (2003-2018)
  - general remarks, 4413
- Government record - Liberals (2003-2018)
  - general remarks, 4413
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - crime policies
    - conviction rate, 9697
  - directives and policies, 1486
- Health care
  - structural stressors
    - government response, 612
- Helping Homebuyers, Protecting Tenants Act, 2023 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 3583–3584, 3586–3587
- Highways and roads - maintenance and repair
  - Highway 174/17
    - government strategy, 8482
  - jurisdiction
    - Gardiner Expressway and Don Valley Parkway, 6867–6868
    - Highway 174, 7066, 8481–8582
    - Highway 174/17, 6867–6868
- Highways and roads safety
  - fines and penalties
    - eligible vehicle types, 6234
  - municipal-provincial partnership, 6656
  - Vision Zero strategy, 6233
- Home and community care
  - care environment, 5617
  - service availability
    - impact on quality of life, 5617–5618
- Home and community care - delivery models
  - not-for-profit vs. for-profit, 5620
- Home and community care - reform
  - administrative centralization, 5619
- Home heating
  - affordability programs
    - HST exemption, 6050–6051, 6175, 6182
- Honouring Our Veterans Act, 2023 (Bill 65)
  - third reading, 5666–5667
- Hospital services
  - capacity and overcrowding
    - wait-time, 1319
- Hospitals - funding
  - emergency rooms, 4445
- Housing development - approvals and permits
  - rate of issuance by region, 1487
- Housing development - construction
  - format diversity
    - by region
      - Ottawa, 122–123
  - general remarks, 5293
  - government strategy
    - progress reporting, 5295
  - suburban areas, 3587
- Housing development - municipal charges
  - development charges
    - use of, 4413
  - development charges, exemptions and discounts
    - impact on municipalities, 1481, 1487
    - transferal of costs, taxes, 1486
- Housing market
  - prices, 5292, 5294
- Human trafficking - victims
  - coerced debts
    - impact of, 2356
- Immigrants - access to professions and trades
  - foreign credentials, recognition of, 3002
- Independent health facilities
  - ministerial oversight, 2273
- Israel
  - attacks on (October 7, 2023), 5420
- Judicial appointments - Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee
  - membership appointments
    - lobbyist, 7609–7610, 7643
- Land use planning - by region
  - Ottawa, 6321–6322
- Land use planning - municipal official plans
  - approvals, 123
  - by region
    - Ottawa, 706, 1487
  - urban boundary expansion
    - Ottawa, 4989–4990
  - urban boundary expansion, reversal
    - accountability and transparency, 5656
- Landlords
  - roles and responsibilities
    - emergency power generators, 2281
- Legislative procedure
  - parliamentary calendar
    - summer adjournment, changes, 9654
- Less Red Tape, More Common Sense Act, 2023 (Bill 139)
  - third reading, 6244, 6251
- Members' statements
  - Cost of living, 7719–7720
  - Dapo Agoro Foundation for Peace, 437
  - Explosion in Orléans, 2793
  - Global Community Alliance gala, 7093
  - Government spending, 9539
  - Le Mouvement d’implication francophone d’Orléans, 10220
  - Municipal planning, 4989–4990
  - Organ and tissue donation, 3369–3370
  - Orléans football clubs, 1548
  - Paramedic services, 865
  - Road safety, 3607–3608
  - Sports and recreation funding, 8474–8475
  - Transportation infrastructure, 2237–2238
  - Tweddle, Thomas Allen (Al), 4437
  - Violence in schools, 5932
- Members'/ministers' conduct
  - reporting of, 5295
- Military history
  - by region
    - Orleans, 5667
- Military personnel
  - reservists
    - job protected leave, 2999, 3001
    - Ottawa flood (2019), 2999
- More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 (Bill 23)
  - impact on municipalities, 4412
- Motions
  - House and committee sittings
    - responded to, 9654
- Municipal councillors
  - harassment and abuse
    - penalties, 4596–4597
    - removal process, 123–124
      - legislative reform, 3000, 4597, 4601
  - legislative tools, 1488
- Municipal elections
  - candidates
    - provincial parties support for, 764
- Municipal finances
  - municipal-provincial partnerships, 6866–6867
- Municipal governance
  - council administration and authority
    - by region
      - Ottawa, 705
- Municipal governance - strong mayor system
  - municipal response, 1487
  - public consultation, 124, 707
- Municipal governance - strong mayor system, administrative authority
  - general remarks, 105, 124
  - veto power, provincial priorities, 121
- Municipal infrastructure
  - infrastructure deficit
    - by region, 1481
- New Deal for Toronto Act, 2023 (Bill 154)
  - second reading, 6861–6862, 6865–6868
- Ontario Place
  - lease of, redevelopment agreements, 4406
- Organ and tissue donation
  - education and awareness, 3369–3370
- Ottawa
  - derecho 2022, 2281
  - municipal finances
    - provincial contribution, 2491, 5294
  - Orléans explosion, 2793
  - provincial regional office
    - appointees, conflict of interest, 8985–8986
  - regional development, 6861–6862, 6867, 7066
  - urban boundary expansion
    - conflict of interest, 5218, 5293–5294
    - ministerial amendments, 1556
- Paramedics and paramedic services
  - regional shortages, 865, 4976–4977
- Petitions
  - Homelessness, 4177
  - Road safety, 1466
- Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 2)
  - third reading, 612–613
- Planning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 150)
  - second reading, 6300–6301, 6310, 6314–6315, 6318–6322, 6342
- Private members' motions
  - Taxation
    - amendment
      - presented, 6050–6051
    - presented, 6181–6182
    - responded to, 6049–6050
- Private members' public business
  - Cutting Taxes on Small Businesses Act, 2024 (Bill 195)
    - second reading, 10322–10323
  - Moving Ontarians Safely Act, 2023 (Bill 40)
    - second reading, 6233–6234
  - Protecting Human Rights in an Emergency Act (Emergency Power Generators), 2023 (Bill 47)
    - second reading, 2281
  - Protection from Coerced Debts Incurred in relation to Human Trafficking Act, 2023 (Bill 41)
    - second reading, 2356
  - Stopping Harassment and Abuse by Local Leaders Act, 2023 (Bill 5)
    - second reading, 4596–4597, 4601
  - Taxation
    - responded to, 5726–5727
  - Taxation Amendment Act (Promoting Leisure Activities for Youth), 2024 (Bill 178)
    - second reading, 9246–9248, 9252
- Question period
  - Ambulance services
    - presented, 4976–4977
  - Bail reform
    - presented, 3379–3380
  - City of Ottawa
    - presented, 8985–8986
  - Consumer protection
    - presented, 817–818
  - Cost of living
    - presented, 6175
  - Disaster relief
    - presented, 288–289, 4131
  - Fiscal and economic policy
    - presented, 3037
  - Government accountability
    - presented, 5656, 9216–9217
  - Government appointments
    - presented, 7609–7610
  - Government spending
    - presented, 9587
  - Health care
    - presented, 1319, 2188–2189, 4445, 10310
  - Land use planning
    - presented, 1556
  - Municipal finances
    - presented, 2491
  - Municipal planning
    - presented, 5218–5219, 7066
  - Seniors' housing
    - presented, 7726–7727
  - Transportation infrastructure
    - presented, 8481–8482
- Retirement homes
  - fee increase, by site
    - Promenade Seniors’ Suites & Retirement Residence (Orléans), 7726–7727
- Safer Roads and Communities Act, 2024 (Bill 197)
  - second reading, 9690–9691, 9694, 9696–9698
- Schools - violence in
  - government response, 5932
- Skilled trades - recruitment and retention
  - women, 3000
- Sports and recreation - children and youth
  - access to, low-income individuals, 9247
  - general remarks, 9246–9247
  - tax credits, 9247–9248
- Sports and recreation facilities
  - government funding, 8474
- Sports teams
  - regional
    - Orléans, 1548
- Standing Orders
  - reforms (2024)
    - 24(a) Rising to speak in English, French, or an Indigenous language, 7963
- Stopping Harassment and Abuse by Local Leaders Act, 2023 (Bill 5)
  - first reading, 36
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022
  - amendments
    - consideration of
      - scope, 706–707
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022 (Bill 3)
  - amendments
    - consideration of
      - scope, 706–707
  - second reading, 104–105, 121–125
  - third reading, 705–707, 764
- Supportive housing - funding
  - regional allocation, 4411
- Taxation Amendment Act (Promoting Leisure Activities for Youth), 2024 (Bill 178)
  - first reading, 7840
- Temporary foreign workers
  - passports and work permits, retention of
    - fines and penalties, 2999–3000
- Transit - by region
  - Ottawa
    - service reduction, 6868
- Transit funding
  - by region
    - Ottawa, 6050
- Tributes
  - Fox, Gary (former member for Prince Edward—Lennox-South—Hastings), 2218–2219
  - Makarchuk, Mitro (former member for Brantford), 583–584
  - McClelland, Carman (former member for Brampton North), 587–588
  - Murdoch, Bill (Bruce–Grey–Owen Sound), 4237
  - Roberts, Marietta L.D. (former member for Elgin), 2217
- Uploading Highways 174 and 17 Act, 2023 (Bill 68)
  - first reading, 2311–2312
- Veterans - commemoration
  - Remembrance Day and Remembrance Week
    - events, 5667
- Weather events
  - derecho (Ottawa 2022), 289
    - relief funding, 6049, 6867
  - government response
    - relief funding, 289
- Working for Workers Act, 2023 (Bill 79)
  - second reading, 2999–3002
  - third reading, 5040
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
  - presumptive coverage, firefighters
    - cancers, 3001
- Your Health Act, 2023 (Bill 60)
  - second reading, 2272–2274
Bouma, W. (PC, Brantford—Brant)
- Affordable Energy Act, 2024 (Bill 214)
  - second reading, 9982–9983
- Affordable Homes and Good Jobs Act, 2023 (Bill 134)
  - third reading, 6682
- Agricultural land
  - loss of
    - daily rate, 5912–5913
- Agricultural land - conservation
  - general remarks, 6326
- Agriculture industry
  - fertilizers, emissions from
    - GHG national target, 908
- Agriculture industry - food processing
  - government funding
    - Fertilizer Accelerating Solutions and Technology Challenge, 908
    - support programs, 908
      - Risk Management Program (RMP), 908
  - government strategy, 1778, 1865
  - policy development, 907
    - federal-provincial coordination, 907
    - and food security, 907
    - statements by stakeholders, 907–908
  - supply chain disruptions
    - ginseng farmers, 2252
- Agri-food industry
  - government strategy, 4224
  - Grow Ontario Strategy
    - progress, 7144–7145
  - support programs, 5774–5775
- Antisemitism
  - in Canada, 5430
- Appreciation
  - Duchene, Krista, 3134
  - Staats, Logan, 3539–3540
- Apprenticeships
  - training programs, secondary students, 2984, 2987
- Automotive industry - investments
  - international investment agreements
    - Volkswagen, 2985
- Better for Consumers, Better for Businesses Act, 2023 (Bill 142)
  - second reading, 5874
- Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 (Bill 39)
  - second reading, 1537–1538, 1541–1543, 1577–1579
- Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act, 2023 (Bill 98)
  - second reading, 3604
- Budget 2023/2024
  - general remarks, 3211–3212
  - social assistance, 3155
  - social assistance programs, 3205
  - veterinarians, 4320
- Budget speech 2023 (March 23, 2023)
  - responded to, 3367
- Budgets
  - federal (2023/2024)
    - intergovernmental collaboration, 3502
- Building a Strong Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 85)
  - second reading, 3155, 3205, 3207, 3211–3212
  - third reading, 4317–4320, 4341–4342
- Building a Strong Ontario Together Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 146)
  - third reading, 6710, 6722, 6725–6726, 6728–6729, 6732, 6735, 6738–6742
- Building More Mines Act, 2023 (Bill 71)
  - second reading, 2659, 2694, 2708, 2744, 2746–2747, 2750, 2754, 2758–2759, 2769
  - third reading, 4114, 4140–4141, 4146
- Business
  - northern Ontario
    - government strategy, 10275
- Business investment
  - government strategy, 4649
- Cadets
  - appreciation for, 1311
  - general remarks, 4158
  - by region
    - Brantford–Brant, 8918
- Carbon tax
  - cost of, 5813
    - per household, 6361
  - cost of living, impact on, 5937–5938, 6060
  - economic impact, 5996, 6173, 6880–6881, 8358
    - small businesses, 8528
  - home heating, exemptions
    - eligible heating methods, 6360, 6437
  - impact of, 7103, 9478
  - inflation, impact on, 6001
  - northern and Indigenous communities, impact on, 6516–6517, 6610, 6874, 7410, 8007–8008
    - legal challenge, Chiefs of Ontario, 6913–6915
  - northern and rural Ontario, impact on, 5882–5883, 6775, 7062–7063
  - pan-provincial response, 6060
- Carbon tax - impact by industry
  - agri-food, 5775, 6442–6443
  - emergency services, 6773–6774, 8062–8063
  - natural resources, 5941, 5996, 6692
    - mining, 6276
- Colleges and universities
  - employment readiness, 5460–5461
  - hate-related incidents
    - police and, 8680
- Construction industry
  - work sites
    - washroom facility access, 2984–2985
- Convenient Care at Home Act, 2023 (Bill 135)
  - second reading, 5644–5645
- Correctional services
  - community reintegration tables, membership
    - religious and spiritual leaders, 4755–4756
  - religious and spiritual supports, access
    - impact of, 4755–4756
      - statements by stakeholders, 4755
- Cost of living
  - government strategy, 4442
  - interest rates, impact of, 5652
- Court administration
  - general remarks, 3422
- Dementia and other neurocognitive conditions
  - general remarks, 5254
- Dogs
  - hunting skills, training and trialing facilities
    - licensing, 4606
- Economic conditions - recession
  - government strategy, 1346
- Economic development
  - housing availability, role of, 5465
  - by region
    - Brantford–Brant, 1613
- Economic development - northern Ontario
  - government strategy, 4996
  - by region
    - Greenstone, 5345
- Education workers - labour disputes, union contracts and negotiations
  - compensation, 1060
  - terms of, compensation, 1102
- Electric vehicles - manufacturing
  - investments in, 7061–7062
- Electricity supply
  - government strategy, 2185
- Electricity system
  - surplus, battery storage
    - Oneida Energy Storage Project, 2185
- Employment
  - creation/loss, 2985
  - labour shortage, 2983
- Employment standards
  - layoffs and terminations
    - remote employees, 2986
- Energy generation
  - general remarks, 8983
- Enhancing Access to Justice Act, 2024 (Bill 157)
  - second reading, 7047–7048
  - third reading, 7538–7539, 7543
- Entrepreneurship - funding
  - by region
    - Brantford–Brant, 1613
- Firefighters and fire services
  - occupational health and safety, 2604, 2985
    - statements by stakeholders, 2984
- First Nations police services
  - government funding, 1772
- Get It Done Act, 2024 (Bill 162)
  - third reading, 8876–8880
- Government accountability and transparency
  - communication methods
    - personal phone use, Premier, 10171
- Government notices of motion
  - Attacks on Israel
    - amendment to the amendment
      - responded to, 5429–5430
- Government procurement - supply chain management
  - municipal-provincial cooperation, 5465
- Government record - NDP (1990-1995)
  - education policy, 1114
- Greenbelt
  - conservation of
    - government strategy, 5903–5904
  - Greenbelt Plan, review of
    - process reform, 5904
- Greenbelt - development on
  - land availability
    - and land value, 5901
- Greenbelt Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 136)
  - second reading, 5901, 5903–5904, 5906–5907, 5909–5910, 5912–5913, 5924, 5930
- Hate and hate-related activities
  - government response
    - prevention, grant programs, 4654
  - prevalence, 8680
- Helping Homebuyers, Protecting Tenants Act, 2023 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 3641
- Highways and roads
  - traffic congestion, 8878–8879
- Home heating
  - affordability programs
    - Clean Home Heating Initiative, 5819
  - hybrid heat pumps, 5820, 6522
- Hospitals - maintenance and repairs
  - government funding
    - by site
      - Brantford General Hospital, 9986
- Housing development
  - annual rate, 1579
- Housing development - construction
  - general remarks, 5903
  - government strategy, 4926, 5221, 5778
  - public vs. private
    - cost of, 5906
  - starts, 695
- Housing development - government funding
  - Building Faster Fund, by region
    - Brantford, 7546
- Housing development - municipal charges
  - development charges, exemptions and discounts
    - as development incentive, 4317, 4319
- Housing supply - population growth projections
  - general remarks, 1537–1538
- Improving Real Estate Management Act, 2024 (Bill 151)
  - second reading, 6414, 6418
- Indigenous communities
  - arts and culture
    - Grand River Champion of champions powwow, 4913
  - veterans
    - Six Nations Remembrance Day, 810
- Indigenous communities - economic development
  - general remarks, 4010–4011
  - government funding
    - funding streams, 9742
  - government strategy, 4996
  - resource revenue-sharing agreements, 10276
- Indigenous communities - health care
  - mental health and addictions services, by site
    - Native Horizons Treatment Centre (Hagersville), reopening, 8419
- Indigenous communities - infrastructure
  - community development agreements
    - Marten Falls First Nation and Webequie First Nation, 7888
- Indigenous communities - mental health and addictions
  - services, 5352
- International trade
  - missions
    - Asia, 4995
- Intimate partner violence - victims
  - services
    - community services
      - Nova Vita Domestic Violence Prevention Services (Brantford), 6602
- Israel
  - attacks on (October 7, 2023)
    - Canadian victims, 5429
- Israel-Hamas war
  - impact on Palestinian territories, 5430
- Keeping Energy Costs Down Act, 2024 (Bill 165)
  - second reading, 7288
- Keeping Students in Class Act, 2022 (Bill 28)
  - second reading, 1060, 1062, 1102, 1114, 1116
- Lake Erie
  - phosphorus level mitigation
    - Lake Erie Agriculture Demonstrating Sustainability (LEADS), 908
- Land use planning - by region
  - Ottawa, 6321–6322
- Land use planning - environmental assessments
  - consultation process, 2585
- Land use planning - indigenous interests
  - recognition of, 6324–6325
- Land use planning - ministerial zoning orders (MZOs)
  - use of, 6326
- Land use planning - municipal official plans
  - and land use protection, 6324
  - urban boundary expansion, reversal, 6323
    - indemnification provisions, 6325, 6327
  - zoning decisions, 1541, 1543
- Legislative Assembly
  - history of, 4180
- Legislative Assembly - facility
  - renovations, history of, 4179
  - social significance, 4179–4180
- Legislative Assembly - facility rehabilitation
  - ministry, creation of
    - Queen's Park Restoration Secretariat, 4181
  - relocation process, 4181
  - restoration records
    - FIPPA compliance, exemptions, 4181
- Legislative Assembly - facility rehabilitation, project planning process
  - advisory committees, 4181
  - consultation, 4181
  - consultation, inclusionary practices, 4182
  - general remarks, 4180
  - heritage conservation, 4182–4183
- Legislative procedure
  - legislative agenda, 4973–4974
- Less Red Tape, More Common Sense Act, 2023 (Bill 139)
  - third reading, 6345, 6350
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Economy Act, 2023 (Bill 91)
  - second reading, 3421–3422
  - third reading, 4560, 4606, 4625
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 46)
  - second reading, 1767
  - third reading, 2894, 2923
- Light Rail Transit (LRT) - Hazel McCallion/Hurontario Line
  - as priority, 8878
- Lobbyists Registration Act, 1998, S.O. 1998, c. 27, Sched.
  - review of, 10224
- Manufacturing industry - employment
  - job creation, 5273
- Manufacturing industry - investments
  - job creation, 7062
- Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) - staff
  - communications
    - personal devices, use of, 10170–10171
- Members' statements
  - Agri-food industry, 1865
  - Anti-racism activities, 6909
  - Bite of Brant, 7964
  - Brantford Bulldogs, 2175, 5398
  - Cadets, 1311, 4158, 8918
  - Chatzis, Harry, 6356
  - Coldest Night of the Year, 2660–2661
  - DuChene, Krista, 3134
  - First Nations police services, 1772
  - Government investments, 7546
  - Grand River Champion of Champions Powwow, 4913
  - Health care funding, 7091–7092, 9986
  - Hunt, Doug, 5583
  - Huxley, Erin, 10371–10372
  - Landsdowne Children's Centre, 10371–10372
  - Native Horizons Treatment Centre, 8419
  - Nova Vita Domestic Violence Prevention Services, 6602
  - Optometry services, 5315
  - Organ and tissue donation, 9732–9733
  - Reconnect Ontario program, 216
  - Six Nations Chiefs lacrosse team, 5049
  - Six Nations remembrance ceremony, 810
  - Sports and recreation funding, 545–546
  - Staats, Logan, 3539–3540
  - Vision Health Month, 9110–9111
  - Why Not City Missions, 5878
  - Woodman Park Community Centre and Pool, 9541
- Members/ministers quoting
  - speeches
    - So God made a farmer (Paul Harvey), 913
- Mining industry
  - economic development
    - northern Ontario, 4225
  - economic impact, 3380
  - education and awareness, 1320
  - government strategy, 5704
  - regulatory environment, 2747
- Mining industry - Critical Minerals Strategy
  - for electric vehicle production, 1319
- Mining industry - Indigenous communities
  - economic development, 2659
  - Indigenous consultation and consent, 4114
- Mining sites - closure plans
  - ministerial authority, 2744, 2751
- More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 (Bill 23)
  - second reading, 863
- Municipal planning
  - boundary adjustments
    - St. Thomas-Central Elgin, 2451
- New Deal for Toronto Act, 2023 (Bill 154)
  - second reading, 6818
- Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corp.
  - funding allocations, 10050
- Nuclear energy industry
  - government strategy, 6845
- Nuclear generation facilities - small modular reactors (SMRs)
  - McMaster Nuclear Reactor, 4568
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP)
  - earning exemption, 1423
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates
  - increase, 6725
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates, increase
  - general remarks, 4341–4342
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates, increases
  - general remarks, 4341–4342
- Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP)
  - health cards
    - registration process, pilot project, 4927
- Ontario Infrastructure Bank
  - general remarks, 6710
- Organ and tissue donation
  - living donors, 9732–9733
- Petitions
  - Agri-food industry, 749–750
  - Police funding, 4872
  - School boards, 4870–4871
- Planning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 150)
  - second reading, 6321–6327
- Police services - community relations
  - crisis intervention partnerships
    - mental health and addictions, 5350–5351
      - Mobile Crisis Response Teams, funding, 5351
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  - in emergency service providers, 2986
- Private members' public business
  - Agri-food industry
    - presented, 907–909
    - responded to, 913
  - First responders
    - responded to, 9829–9830
  - Garrett's Legacy Act (Requirements for Movable Soccer Goals), 2024 (Bill 99)
    - second reading, 4152–4153
  - Hate-related incidents
    - responded to, 8680–8681
  - Improving Dementia Care in Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 121)
    - second reading, 5254
  - Religious and spiritual services in correctional facilities
    - responded to, 4755–4756
- Progress on the Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 36)
  - second reading, 1346, 1422–1423, 1425–1427
- Queen's Park Restoration Act, 2023 (Bill 75)
  - third reading, 4179–4183
- Question period
  - Agri-food industry
    - presented, 1778, 2252, 4224, 5774–5775, 7144–7145
  - Amateur sport
    - presented, 4979
  - Anti-racism and anti-discrimination activities
    - presented, 4654
  - Automotive industry
    - presented, 7061–7062
  - Colleges
    - presented, 5460–5461
  - Cost of living
    - presented, 4442, 5652
  - Economic development
    - presented, 1613, 4649, 4995, 5465, 6993–6994
  - Electricity supply
    - presented, 2185
  - Energy policies
    - presented, 5819–5820, 10378
  - Federal budget
    - presented, 3502
  - Firefighters
    - presented, 2604, 4327
  - Fiscal and economic policy
    - presented, 5521
  - Government accountability
    - responded to, 9673–9674, 9794, 10170–10171, 10224
  - Government services
    - presented, 4927
  - Government's agenda
    - presented, 4973–4974
  - Homelessness
    - presented, 5279–5280
  - Housing
    - presented, 3800, 4926, 5221–5222, 5465, 5778
  - Indigenous economic development
    - presented, 4010–4011, 4330–4331
    - responded to, 9742
  - Indigenous mental health and addiction services
    - presented, 5352
  - Labour dispute
    - presented, 5588
  - Manufacturing sector
    - presented, 5273
  - Mental health and addiction services
    - presented, 4014, 5350–5351
  - Mining industry
    - presented, 1319–1320, 3380, 4225, 5704, 7888
  - Northern economy
    - responded to, 10275–10276
  - Northern Ontario development
    - presented, 4996, 5345
    - responded to, 10050
  - Research and innovation
    - presented, 4568
  - Ring of Fire
    - presented, 556
  - Seniors' services
    - presented, 4334
  - Skilled trades
    - presented, 4135–4136
  - Taxation
    - presented, 5813, 5882–5883, 5937–5938, 5941, 5996, 6001, 6060, 6173, 6269, 6276, 6360–6361, 6437, 6442–6443, 6516–6517, 6522, 6610, 6692, 6773–6775, 6874, 6880–6881, 6913–6914, 7062–7063, 7103, 7410, 7555, 7832, 8007–8008, 8062–8063, 8115–8116, 8358, 8528, 8644–8645, 8703–8704, 8983, 9371, 9478
  - Underground locates
    - presented, 4012
- Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 (Bill 212)
  - second reading, 10019–10025
- Reducing Inefficiencies Act (Infrastructure Statute Law Amendments), 2023 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 2585
- Regional development
  - northern Ontario, 7063
- Regulations - business
  - reduction
    - economic impact, 7555
    - as economic policy, 6269, 6993–6994
- Regulatory environment
  - reform
    - government strategy, 2894
- Rental housing - development
  - government strategy, 5222
  - purpose-built, 1543
- Ring of Fire development
  - government funding
    - federal-provincial coordination, 556
  - Indigenous consultation and consent, 556
- Six Nations Police Service
  - government funding, 1772
- Six Nations Polytechnic
  - programs and courses, 7596
- Skilled trades
  - average age, entry, 2987
- Skilled trades - education and training
  - northern Ontario, 5345
- Skilled trades - employment
  - career pathways
    - promotion of, 4135–4136
- Skilled trades - recruitment and retention
  - youth, 2984
- Social assistance programs - benefit rates
  - general remarks, 4560
- Sports - amateur
  - soccer
    - referee shortage, 4979
- Sports and recreation
  - funding
    - Ontario Trillium Foundation
      - Brant Curling Club, 545–546
- Sports and recreation - amateur
  - soccer
    - referee shortage, 4979
- Sports teams
  - regional
    - Brantford Bulldogs, 2175
- St. Thomas - Central Elgin Boundary Adjustment Act, 2023 (Bill 63)
  - third reading, 2451
- Strengthening Accountability and Student Supports Act, 2024 (Bill 166)
  - second reading, 7596
- Strengthening Cyber Security and Building Trust in the Public Sector Act, 2024 (Bill 194)
  - second reading, 9731, 9763, 9769, 9771
  - regulations, use of, 9763
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022 (Bill 3)
  - third reading, 695–696
- Supportive housing - development
  - collaboration with non-profit sector and municipalities, 5280
  - government strategy, 5279–5280
- Surgical procedures
  - operations, capacity, 2427
- Teachers
  - collective bargaining, 5588
- Toronto
  - housing policy
    - cost of, 5910
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) expansion - Ontario Line
  - general remarks, 8878
- Tourism industry - funding
  - Reconnect Ontario
    - allocation by region, 216
- Tributes
  - Chatzis, Harry, 6356
  - Makarchuk, Mitro (former member for Brantford), 584–585
- Unhoused persons
  - Coldest Night of the Year, 2660–2661
  - government funding
    - by region
      - Brantford–Brant, 3800
- Vision care
  - education and awareness
    - Vision Health Month, 9110–9111
- Working for Workers Act, 2023 (Bill 79)
  - second reading, 2983–2987
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
  - presumptive coverage, firefighters
    - cancers, 2983–2986
- Your Health Act, 2023 (Bill 60)
  - second reading, 2427, 2430, 2433, 2462, 2464
Bourgouin, G. (NDP, Mushkegowuk—James Bay)
- Affordable Homes and Good Jobs Act, 2023 (Bill 134)
  - second reading, 5265
- Affordable housing
  - access to, 9523
  - general remarks, 8398
  - northern Ontario, 5265
- Affordable housing - access
  - general remarks, 927
- Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario Amendment Act, 2024 (Bill 155)
  - second reading, 7125
- Alternate-level-of-care (ALC) patients - transfer to long-term care facilities
  - consent
    - transfer to a non-preferred home, 385
- Alternate-level-of-care (ALC) patients - transfer to long-term care facilities, non-preferred home
  - regulations, distance, 385
- Appreciation
  - Whetung, Murray, 2526
- Apprenticeships
  - training programs, secondary students
    - safety, 8974
- Attawapiskat First Nation
  - expansion of, 2887–2890, 2956
  - housing development, 3315
  - state of emergency, 1812
  - water quality, 2888–2889
- Better for Consumers, Better for Businesses Act, 2023 (Bill 142)
  - third reading, 6965
- Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 (Bill 39)
  - third reading, 2077, 2109
- Bicycles
  - e-bikes
    - classification, 9710
- Broadband infrastructure development
  - northern and rural Ontario, 6664
- Budget 2023/2024
  - Indigenous communities, 4342
- Building a Better Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 180)
  - second reading, 8219
  - third reading, 9096
- Building a Strong Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 85)
  - second reading, 3166–3167
  - third reading, 4342, 4355
- Building a Strong Ontario Together Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 146)
  - second reading, 6125, 6136, 6139
  - third reading, 6722
- Building Infrastructure Safely Act, 2024 (Bill 153)
  - second reading, 6655, 6663–6665
- Building Ontario For You Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 216)
  - second reading, 10204
- Cadets
  - general remarks, 2527
  - Murray Whetung Community Service Award, 2526
- Chad’s Law (Enforcing Safer Passing), 2023 (Bill 152)
  - first reading, 6369
- Community events - by region
  - Mushkegowuk-Baie James, 81
  - Mushkegowuk–James Bay, 1819
  - Mushkegowuk—James Bay, 2296–2297
- Conservation officers
  - employment status
    - reclassification, 6275
- Convenient Care at Home Act, 2023 (Bill 135)
  - second reading, 5613–5617, 5633
- Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act, 2024 (Bill 185)
  - second reading, 8398
  - third reading, 9523
- Cybersecurity
  - public agencies
    - government funding, 9769
- Democracy
  - general remarks, 2109
- Doctors - family doctors
  - access
    - northern Ontario, 6612
- Doctors - recruitment and retention
  - funding, northern Ontario, 1459
- Education workers - labour disputes, union contracts and negotiations
  - bargaining process, 1041
- Energy generation
  - biomass, 8856
- Fire rangers
  - fire season as one year, 10271
  - job reclassification, 5464, 7235
  - shortage, 8921–8922, 9117
- French-language debates
  - Affaires d'intérêt public émanant des députées et députés
    - Entretien hivernal des routes, 1396–1397
    - Indigenous health care, 5795
    - Loi de 2022 visant à accroître la sécurité des voies publiques dans le nord de l’Ontario, projet de loi 43
      - deuxième lecture, 2141–2142, 2145
    - Loi de 2023 sur les prix Murray Whetung pour services à la collectivité, projet de loi 31
      - deuxième lecture, 2526–2527
    - Loi de 2024 pour une mobilité accrue, des prix plus abordables et des transports plus fiables en Ontario, projet de loi 184
      - deuxième lecture, 8728–8729
    - Loi de 2024 sur les ratios patients-personnel infirmier dans les hôpitaux, projet de loi 192
      - deuxième lecture, 9566
    - Sécurité du transport routier, 10247–10248
  - Avis de motions émanant du gouvernement
    - Attaques en Israël
      - amendment to the amendment, 5430–5432
  - Déclarations des députées et députés
    - Circonscription de Mushkegowuk–Baie James, 81
    - Côté, Ethel, 9668
    - Entretien hivernal des routes, 5931–5932
    - Événements à Mushkegowuk–Baie James, 1819
    - Événements divers à Mushkegowuk–Baie James, 2297
    - Petites entreprises, 9540
    - Sécurité estivale, 4470
    - Services de santé dans le Nord, 629
    - Services en français, 4989
    - Services en français dans le Nord, 8568
    - Soins de longue durée, 5397, 9109–9110
    - Subventions aux résidents du Nord pour frais de transport à des fins médicales, 7598
    - Tarifs du gaz naturel, 3369
  - Déclarations ministérielles et réponses
    - Jour des Franco-Ontariens et des Franco-Ontariennes, 5006–5007
    - Journée internationale de la Francophonie, 2865–2866
    - Services en français, 2042–2043
  - Jour de l'opposition
    - Health care, 7742
    - Mental health services, 9941
    - Travailleurs de la santé, 1384–1385
  - Jour de l’opposition
    - Subventions destinées à l’éducation, 9071
  - Loi de 2022 pour des maires forts et pour la construction de logements, projet de loi 3
    - troisième lecture, 760
  - Loi de 2022 pour plus de lits et de meilleurs soins, projet de loi 7
    - deuxième lecture, 408–410
  - Loi de 2022 sur la progression du plan pour bâtir (mesures budgétaires), projet de loi 36
    - deuxième lecture, 1358
  - Loi de 2022 visant à accélérer la construction de plus de logements, projet de loi 23
    - deuxième lecture, 905
  - Loi de 2022 visant à améliorer la gouvernance municipale, projet de loi 39
    - troisième lecture, 2098–2099
  - Loi de 2022 visant à réduire les formalités administratives pour un Ontario plus fort, projet de loi 46
    - deuxième lecture, 1814–1815
  - Loi de 2023 modifiant des lois en ce qui concerne la ceinture de verdure, projet de loi 136
    - deuxième lecture, 5914, 5921–5924
  - Loi de 2023 modifiant des lois en ce qui concerne l’aménagement du territoire, projet de loi 150
    - deuxième lecture, 6333, 6337
  - Loi de 2023 pour mieux servir les consommateurs et les entreprises, projet de loi 142
    - troisième lecture, 6962–6967
  - Loi de 2023 pour plus de bon sens et moins de formalités administratives, projet de loi 139
    - deuxième lecture, 5695
  - Loi de 2023 sur la construction sécuritaire des infrastructures, projet de loi 153
    - deuxième lecture, 6660–6664
  - Loi de 2023 sur la prestation commode de soins à domicile, projet de loi 135
    - deuxième lecture, 5613–5617
  - Loi de 2023 sur l’amélioration des écoles et du rendement des élèves, projet de loi 98
    - deuxième lecture, 3660, 3682, 3686
  - Loi de 2023 visant à bâtir un Ontario fort ensemble (mesures budgétaires), projet de loi 146
    - deuxième lecture, 6128, 6136–6139
  - Loi de 2023 visant à bâtir un Ontario fort (mesures budgétaires), projet de loi 85
    - deuxième lecture, 3156–3160, 3167
  - Loi de 2023 visant à oeuvrer pour les travailleurs, projet de loi 79
    - deuxième lecture, 2955
    - troisième lecture, 5077
  - Loi de 2023 visant à oeuvrer pour les travailleurs, quatre, projet de loi 149
    - deuxième lecture, 6421–6425
  - Loi de 2023 visant à réduire les formalités administratives pour un Ontario plus fort, projet de loi 46
    - troisième lecture, 2887–2890
  - Loi de 2023 visant à réduire les formalités administratives pour une économie plus forte, projet de loi 91
    - deuxième lecture, 3422, 3488
  - Loi de 2023 visant l’aménagement de davantage de mines, projet de loi 71
    - troisième lecture, 4141–4146
  - Loi de 2024 pour prévoir des routes et des collectivités plus sûres, projet de loi 197
    - deuxième lecture, 9715
  - Loi de 2024 pour réduire les formalités administratives afin de construire plus de logements, projet de loi 185
    - troisième lecture, 9560
  - Loi de 2024 sur la prévention de la vente de chiots contraire à l’éthique, projet de loi 159
    - troisième lecture, 9537–9538
  - Loi de 2024 sur le désengorgement du réseau routier et le gain de temps, projet de loi 212
    - deuxième lecture, 9957–9961
  - Loi de 2024 sur les prix Murray Whetung pour services à la
    - collectivité, projet de loi 31
      - troisième lecture, 7955–7956
  - Loi de 2024 visant à bâtir un Ontario meilleur (mesures budgétaires), projet de loi 180
    - deuxième lecture, 8216, 8239
    - troisième lecture, 9151–9156, 9158
  - Loi de 2024 visant à maintenir la facture énergétique à un niveau abordable, projet de loi 165
    - deuxième lecture, 7266, 7327–7329
  - Loi de 2024 visant à oeuvrer pour les travailleurs, quatre, projet de loi 149
    - troisième lecture, 7771–7774
  - Motions
    - Séances de la Chambre et des comités, 9650–9651
  - Période de questions
    - Affaires francophones, 8362–8363
    - Conflit de travail, 1154–1155
    - Éducation en français, 4134–4135, 4999, 7067, 7101–7102
    - Entretien hivernal des routes, 6873
    - Infrastructure à large bande, 3380
    - Logement abordable, 5703–5704, 6441
    - Lutte contre les incendies de forêt, 8706, 9117
    - Normes d’emploi, 4710
    - Pompiers, 8009
    - Responsabilité gouvernementale, 5058, 5351
    - Sécurité routière, 9746
    - Sécurité routière en conditions hivernales, 2905
    - Services de santé dans le Nord, 933–934, 2308
    - Services d'incendie, 4575
    - Services en français, 798–799, 2858–2859, 3508–3509
    - Smart Serve Ontario, 2552
    - Soins de longue durée, 489, 7836, 9551–9552
    - Tarifs du gaz naturel, 3548
  - Pétitions
    - Aménagement du territoire, 3438–3439
    - Éducation en français, 3678
    - Éducation postsecondaire de langue française, 5008, 5354, 5598
    - Entretien hivernal des routes, 5712, 6370
    - Gestion des appâts, 400–401, 4229–4230
    - Prix de l’essence, 1837
    - Sécurité routière, 7107
    - Soins de santé, 1530–1531, 2971, 3916–3917
- Government finances
  - contingency funds
    - use of, 6125
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - public consultation, 2131
- Greenbelt Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 136)
  - second reading, 5922
- Hazel McCallion Act (Peel Dissolution), 2023 (Bill 112)
  - second reading, 4537, 4546
- Health
  - social determinants of
    - Indigeneity and colonialism, 5795
- Health care
  - access
    - remote and fly-in communities, 2308
- Health care - Northern Health Travel Grant
  - amount
    - in relation to cost of living, 288
  - reimbursement model, 5615
- Health care - primary care
  - nursing stations
    - staff shortage
      - Kashechewan, 629
- Health care workers - recruitment and retention
  - temporary agencies, wage premiums, 5613
- Helping Homebuyers, Protecting Tenants Act, 2023 (Bill 97)
  - third reading, 4722
- Highway 11
  - passing lanes, 9096
- Highway safety
  - northern Ontario, 2140
- Highways and roads safety
  - impact on animal transport, 7125
  - northern Ontario, 2140, 6663
  - passing, double solid yellow lines
    - fines and penalties, increase, 6602, 6778
- Highways and roads - snow clearance
  - snow clearance, standard, 2140–2141
  - winter road closures
    - notification, 1876
- Home and community care
  - access
    - northern Ontario, 5613–5615, 5617
  - culturally and linguistically appropriate care, 5633
  - service availability, northern Ontario
    - due to staff shortages, 5614
- Home and community care providers
  - Billy Bayou (Moose Factory)
    - closure, 5613
- Home and community care - staff
  - shortage
    - impact on patient care, 5615
- Home heating
  - cost of by method
    - natural gas
      - northern Ontario, 3368
- Hospitals - staff
  - nurse practitioners
    - funding for, 391
- Improving Real Estate Management Act, 2024 (Bill 151)
  - second reading, 6394
- Indigenous communities
  - consultation with, 2890–2891
  - government relations, 4355
- Indigenous communities - Far North
  - government relations with
    - consultation process, 3906
- Indigenous communities - fire services
  - infrastructure development and equipment, 2190, 4575
- Indigenous communities - health care
  - medical professionals, shortage
    - nurses, 549
- Indigenous communities - housing
  - availability of, 1604
- Indigenous communities - living conditions
  - general remarks, 1953
- Indigenous communities - water and sewage infrastructure
  - boil-water advisories, 2888
- Kashechewan First Nation
  - health care system
    - nurses, shortage, 549
  - relocation of, 1812, 2888–2889, 4170
- Keeping Energy Costs Down Act, 2024 (Bill 165)
  - second reading, 7316, 7332–7333
  - third reading, 8856, 9131
- Keeping Students in Class Act, 2022 (Bill 28)
  - second reading, 1041
- La Ferme Cantin Inc. Act, 2024 (Bill Pr59)
  - first reading, 10121
- Land use planning - environmental assessments, class environment assessments
  - 30-day review period
    - Indigenous consultation, 3857
  - 30-day review period, ministerial waiver, 3879
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Economy Act, 2023 (Bill 91)
  - second reading, 3488
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 46)
  - second reading, 1812–1815
  - Indigenous consultation, 2890
  - third reading, 2887–2891
- Locates
  - and broadband, 6655
  - in Indigneous and northern communities, 6655
  - timelines, 6643–6644
- Long-term care - beds, development and redevelopment
  - by region
    - Mushkegowuk–James Bay
      - development timelines, 5617
- Making Northern Ontario Highways Safer Act, 2022 (Bill 43)
  - first reading, 1561
- Members' statements
  - Attawapiskat First Nation, 2956
  - Events in Mushkegowuk–James Bay, 1819, 2296–2297
  - First services in Weenusk First Nation, 7138
  - Housing, 927
  - Injured workers, 4002
  - Long-term care, 5397
  - Natural gas rates, 3368–3369
  - Northern health services, 629
  - Riding of Mushkegowuk–James Bay, 81
  - Road safety, 6602
  - Summer safety, 4470
- More Beds, Better Care Act, 2022 (Bill 7)
  - second reading, 385, 421
- More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 (Bill 23)
  - third reading, 1604, 1641
- Municipal restructuring - Peel Region
  - public consultation, 4537, 4546
- Notre-Dame Hospital
  - doctors, shortage, 1459
- Occupational health and safety
  - general remarks, 4002
- Opposition day motions
  - Health care workers
    - responded to, 1385
- Ornge ambulance services
  - government oversight, 5590–5591
- Personal support workers (PSWs)
  - geographic coverage, northern Ontario
    - impact on patient care, 5614
  - temporary agencies, wage premiums, 5616
- Petitions
  - Bait management, 295, 4716
  - French-language post-secondary education, 6279–6280
  - Health care, 1621–1622, 7789–7790
  - Hospital services, 4018–4019, 5331
  - Road safety, 7107
  - Social assistance, 1085, 4487
  - Tuition, 7309
  - Winter highway maintenance, 7003
- Pétitions
  - Entretien hivernal des routes, 3874–3875
- Planning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 150)
  - second reading, 6301, 6318
- Post-secondary education
  - blue-ribbon panel, recommendations
    - funding, 8832, 8837
- Post-secondary education - funding
  - general remarks, 8842
- Private members' public business
  - Indigenous health care
    - responded to, 5795
  - Making Northern Ontario Highways Safer Act, 2022 (Bill 43)
    - second reading, 2140–2142
  - Murray Whetung Community Service Award Act, 2024 (Bill 31)
    - second reading, 2526–2527
  - Supporting Mobility, Affordability and Reliable Transportation in Ontario Act, 2024 (Bill 184)
    - second reading, 8728
  - Trucking safety
    - responded to, 10247
- Progress on the Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 36)
  - second reading, 1417–1418
  - third reading, 1953
- Question period
  - Conservation officers
    - presented, 6275
  - Fire services
    - presented, 2190, 4575
  - Firefighters
    - presented, 5464
  - First Nations consultations
    - presented, 3906
  - Forest firefighting
    - presented, 7235, 7303, 7614, 8706, 8921–8922, 9117, 10271
  - Highway safety
    - presented, 1528, 6778
  - Hospital services
    - presented, 391, 1459, 5590–5591
  - Indigenous housing
    - presented, 3315
  - Kashechewan First Nation
    - presented, 4170
  - Northern health services
    - presented, 2308, 6612, 9996
  - Northern Health Travel Grant
    - presented, 288
  - Nurses
    - presented, 549
  - Winter highway maintenance
    - presented, 1876
- Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 (Bill 212)
  - second reading, 9960–9961, 10007
- Reducing Inefficiencies Act (Infrastructure Statute Law Amendments), 2023 (Bill 69)
  - third reading, 3857, 3879
- Ring of Fire development
  - Indigenous consultation and consent, 3166–3167
- Safer Roads and Communities Act, 2024 (Bill 197)
  - second reading, 9710
- Senior citizens
  - income support programs
    - Guaranteed Annual Income System, increase
      - impact on additional benefits, 1417–1418
- Sensenbrenner Hospital, Kapuskasing
  - labour and delivery department
    - government funding, 9996
- St. Thomas - Central Elgin Boundary Adjustment Act, 2023 (Bill 63)
  - third reading, 2456
- Strengthening Accountability and Student Supports Act, 2024 (Bill 166)
  - third reading, 8832, 8837, 8842
- Strengthening Cyber Security and Building Trust in the Public Sector Act, 2024 (Bill 194)
  - second reading, 9769
- Supportive housing
  - availability of, 1641
- Treaty 9 First Nations
  - legal challenges, 3906
- Tributes - moments of silence
  - Côté, Ethel, 9668
- Trucking industry
  - driver training
    - winter conditions, northern Ontario, 1528
- Unorganized land
  - infrastructure development
    - regulatory framework, 4722
- Wildfire management
  - aerial resources, availability of, 8922
  - fire ranger crews, number of, 7614
  - government strategy, 8706
- Working for Workers Five Act, 2024 (Bill 190)
  - second reading, 8974
  - third reading, 9868–9869, 9876
- Working for Workers Four Act, 2024 (Bill 149)
  - second reading, 6424
  - third reading, 7766
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
  - presumptive coverage, fire rangers
    - inclusions, 7303
  - reform, 1813
Bowman, S. (LIB, Don Valley West)
- Agricultural industry
  - climate change, impact of, 911
- Agricultural land - conservation
  - general remarks, 911
- Agricultural land - development on
  - general remarks, 1918, 3547
- Agricultural land - zoning
  - agricultural impact assessments, 1918
- Alternate-level-of-care (ALC) patients - transfer to long-term care facilities, non-preferred home, 491
  - general remarks, 491
- Auditor General of Ontario
  - appointment process, 6250
- Auditor General of Ontario - reports
  - Review of the Pre-Election 2022 Multi-Year Fiscal Plan, 617
- Bail program reform
  - general remarks, 3350
- Budget 2022/2023
  - consultation, 617
  - education, 617
  - transportation, 617
- Budget 2023/2024
  - carbon emissions, 3274
  - contingency and reserve funds, 3123–3124, 4404–4405, 6727
  - education, 3121
  - education, post-secondary, 3273
  - employment, 3121
  - general remarks, 4404
  - health care, 4404
  - healthcare, 4404
  - highways, 4404
  - housing, 3120–3121, 3273, 4404
  - infrastructure development, 4405
  - police services, 4406
  - social services, 4406
  - transportation, 3121, 3125
  - unhoused persons, 4404
- Budget speech 2023 (March 23, 2023)
  - responded to, 3273–3275
- Budget speech 2024 (March 26, 2024)
  - responded to, 8074–8077
- Building a Better Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 180)
  - second reading, 8155–8159
- Building a Strong Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 85)
  - second reading, 3120–3121, 3123–3125
  - third reading, 4403–4406, 4408
- Building a Strong Ontario Together Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 146)
  - second reading, 6086–6089
  - third reading, 6726–6730
- Building Better Business Outcomes Act, 2023 (Bill 50)
  - first reading, 1785
- Building Better Business Outcomes Act (Bill 50)
  - general remarks, 2177
- Building Ontario For You Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 216)
  - second reading, 10139–10142, 10151
- Business - small- and medium-sized
  - education and awareness
    - small business week, 9806
- Business - taxation
  - small and medium-sized
    - reduction, 9548–9549, 9807
- Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement (CWELCC)
  - child care operators
    - application period, 83
- Canadian Mental Health Association
  - government funding, 2622
  - staffing shortage, 2621
- Cancer - breast cancer
  - screening, age eligibility
    - government funding, 6727–6729
- Child care
  - access, 6248–6251
- Colleges and universities
  - board of governors
    - term limits, 4249
- Community services
  - awards
    - Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Award, 2661
- Coroner's inquests
  - Culleton, Kuzyk & Warmerdam Inquest
    - jury recommendations, 2044
- Cost of living
  - government strategy, 1272–1273, 6087
- Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act, 2024 (Bill 185)
  - third reading, 9498
- Cutting Taxes on Small Businesses Act, 2024 (Bill 195)
  - first reading, 9123
- Doctors
  - administrative responsibilities, 6251–6252
- Doctors - family doctors
  - access to, 9995
  - number of
    - expansion recommendations, 2376
- École Polytechnique
  - shooting (December 6, 1989), 2043
- Economic conditions
  - general remarks, 616
  - productivity
    - Canada, 3123
- Education
  - extracurricular activities
    - access, 1103
- Education funding
  - general remarks, 3092
- Education policy
  - legislative process, 1105
- Education workers - role in schools
  - effect on students, 1103
- Electricity supply
  - government strategy, 617
- Enhancing Professional Care for Animals Act, 2024 (Bill 171)
  - third reading, 9283–9284
- Expenditure estimates
  - review of
    - selection process, Ministry of Finance, 1321
- Fatalities
  - Magalhaes, Gabriel (stabbing victim, TTC), 3350
- Financial Accountability Office (FAO)
  - reports
    - Expenditure Monitor 2021-2022: Q4, 616–617
- Financial services sector
  - Capital Market Modernization Taskforce
    - recommendations, 1345
  - provincial exchanges
    - passport system, 6248, 6251
- French-language debates
  - Débat sur le discours du trône
    - participation, 465
  - Déclarations des députées et députés
    - Garde d'enfants, 82–83
- Gender-based violence
  - impact on equity-seeking groups, 2043
  - Indigenous women
    - missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls
      - investigations (Winnipeg), 2044
- Gender-based violence - prevention
  - inter-sectional, 2043
- Government accountability and transparency
  - general remarks, 5051, 9118
- Government advertising
  - cost of, 7302
- Government debt and deficit
  - debt reduction strategy
    - legislated requirements, 7921
- Government expenditures
  - planned vs. actual, 616–617, 2883
- Government finances
  - accountability and transparency, 1345
  - contingency funds
    - allocation, 1273
    - use of, 6088, 6727
  - fall economic statement (2024), 10054
  - tax revenue generation, 1346, 6728
- Government notices of motion
  - Attacks on Israel
    - amendment to the amendment
      - responded to, 5420–5421
  - Bail reform
    - amendment to the amendment
      - responded to, 3350
- Government record
  - PC (2018-present)
    - fiscal policy, 8075, 8077
- Government record - Liberal (2003-2018)
  - general remarks, 4403
  - transportation policy, 2883
- Government record - Liberals (2003-2018)
  - general remarks, 4403
  - transportation policy, 2883
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - education policy
    - funding, 1103
  - labour policy, 1067
  - taxation policy, 9250
  - transit policy, 2883
  - transportation and transit policy, 2883
- Greenbelt
  - boundary adjustments, reversal
    - land owner compensation, 5110
- Greenbelt - boundary adjustments, process
  - RCMP investigation, 5347
- Health care funding
  - FAO report: Expenditure Monitor 2022-23: Q3, 2799–2800
  - general remarks, 1345
- Health care system
  - capacity and overcrowding, 1780
- Health care workers
  - shortage
    - data and reporting, public access to, 9118
- Helping Homebuyers, Protecting Tenants Act, 2023 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 3584–3586
- Highway 413
  - agricultural impact, 617
  - commute times, impact on, 617
  - traffic congestion, impact on, 2883
- Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
  - surgical procedures
    - backlog
      - funding, 1320
- Housing development - by region
  - Mississauga, 6996
- Housing development - construction
  - mid-density, 3586
  - municipal-provincial collaboration, 6996–6997
- Infrastructure Ontario (IO)
  - real estate services
    - management of, 2568
- Israel
  - attacks on (October 7, 2023), 5421
- Israel-Hamas war
  - impact on Palestinian territories, 5421
- Keeping Students in Class Act, 2022 (Bill 28)
  - second reading, 1103, 1105
- Land use planning - ministerial zoning orders (MZOs)
  - Auditor General investigation, 5348
- Land use planning - municipal official plans
  - urban boundary expansion, reversal, 6340
- Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) - hearings
  - backlogs, 8517
- League Technique Inc. Act, 2023 (Bill Pr22)
  - first reading, 4394
  - second reading, 5715
  - third reading, 5715
- Less Red Tape, More Common Sense Act, 2023 (Bill 139)
  - third reading, 6248–6252
- Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) - staff
  - Premier's office
    - compensation, 8190–8191, 8644
- Members' statements
  - Board of directors nomination policy, 2177
  - Child care, 83
  - Employment standards, 1067
  - Government accountability, 5051, 7138
  - Hospital services, 4381
  - Housing, 6054–6055
  - Landlord and Tenant Board, 8517
  - Municipal planning, 1517, 3307
  - Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee Medal, 2661–2662
  - Ramadan, 7655
  - Riding of Don Valley West, 10263
  - Robinson, Jaye, 9365
  - Youth employment, 3860–3861
- Members'/ministers' inaugural speeches, 465–467
- Members/ministers quoting
  - news media
    - Highway 413, 617
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - withdrawn, 6996
- Mental health and addictions services
  - pre-budget consultations, 2621
- Minden Hospital - Haliburton Highlands Health Services
  - emergency department, closure, 4381, 4570–4571
- Ministerial statements
  - Economic outlook and fiscal review
    - responded to, 1272–1273, 10054
  - International Women's Day
    - responded to, 7675
  - National Day of Remembrance and Action on
    - Violence Against Women
      - responded to, 2043–2044
  - Small business
    - responded to, 9806–9807
- More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 (Bill 23)
  - public response, 1517
  - statements by stakeholders, 2029
- Municipal planning by region
  - Don Valley West, 3307
- Nurse practitioner-led clinics
  - general remarks, 1779
- Nurses
  - recruitment and retention
    - government funding, 1346
- Nurses - temporary agencies
  - wage premiums, 223
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates
  - and cost of living, 1346
- Ontario Infrastructure Bank
  - investment, rate of return, 6087
- Ontario Place
  - lease of, redevelopment agreements, 4405
- Ontario Place - redevelopment
  - accountability and transparency, 5111
- Opposition day motions
  - Education funding
    - responded to, 3092–3093
  - Mental health services
    - responded to, 2621–2622
- Petitions
  - Health care, 8992
  - Heritage conservation, 9271
  - Municipal planning, 4659–4660, 5946
  - Ontario Science Centre, 8582, 9487
- Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 2)
  - third reading, 616–618
- Planning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 150)
  - second reading, 6322, 6339–6342
- Private members' public business
  - Agri-food industry
    - responded to, 911
  - Building Better Business Outcomes Act, 2023 (Bill 50)
    - second reading, 2467–2469, 2472
  - Cutting Taxes on Small Businesses Act, 2024 (Bill 195)
    - second reading, 10318–10320, 10324–10325
  - Protecting Agricultural Land Act, 2022 (Bill 27)
    - second reading, 1918
  - Taxation Amendment Act (Promoting Leisure Activities for Youth), 2024 (Bill 178)
    - second reading, 9250
  - Think Twice Before You Choose Natural Gas Act (Ontario Energy Board Amendment), 2022 (Bill 29)
    - second reading, 2061
- Progress on the Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 36)
  - second reading, 1345–1346
- Public assets
  - centralization, entities
    - transferal to Ministry of Infrastructure, 2567
- Public sector compensation - increase cap
  - impact on worker retention, 2376
  - legal challenges
    - cost of, 3124
- Public sector compensation - increase cap, health care workers
  - nurses, 222
- Question period
  - Government accountability
    - presented, 3869–3870, 5110–5111, 5347–5348, 6518, 7921, 9118
  - Government fiscal policies
    - presented, 1320–1321
  - Government spending
    - presented, 7302
  - Government's record
    - presented, 10380–10381
  - Health care
    - presented, 1779–1780, 2376, 9995
  - Health care funding
    - presented, 2799–2800
  - Hospital services
    - presented, 4570–4571
  - Housing
    - presented, 6996–6997
  - Land use planning
    - presented, 2029, 3547
  - Long-term care
    - presented, 491
  - Municipal development
    - presented, 5940
  - Nurses
    - presented, 222–223
  - Office of the Premier
    - presented, 8644
  - Public sector compensation
    - presented, 8190–8191
  - Small business
    - presented, 9548–9549
- Reducing Inefficiencies Act (Infrastructure Statute Law Amendments), 2023 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 2564–2568
  - stakeholder consultation, 2565
- Regulations - business
  - board members
    - nomination process, disclosure of, 2177
- Renewable energy
  - availability of
    - economic impact, 1273
- Rent control
  - exceptions
    - impact of, 6054–6055
- Rental housing
  - tenant protections, 3585
- School boards - funding
  - student supports, impact on, 3093
- Senior citizens
  - income support programs
    - Guaranteed Annual Income System
      - program timeline, 4408
- Skilled trades
  - general remarks, 6251
- Sports and recreation - children and youth
  - barriers to access, 9250
- Strengthening Cyber Security and Building Trust in the Public Sector Act, 2024 (Bill 194)
  - second reading, 9812–9815
- Supply Act, 2023 (Bill 77)
  - second reading, 2883–2884
- Taxation
  - reduction
    - lower- and middle-income households, 6518
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 465–468
- Toronto
  - official plan
    - Midtown in Focus, provincial amendments, 5940
- Transit-oriented communities - by site
  - Thorncliffe Park
    - community consultation, 7138
- Tributes
  - Boyd, Marion (London Centre), 4239–4240
  - Henderson, Jim (former member for Etobicoke–Humber), 828
  - Robinson, Jaye, 9365
  - White, Drummond (former member for Durham Centre), 2205–2206
- Veterinary services
  - medication costs, 9283–9284
- Women
  - education and awareness
    - International Women's Day, 7675
- Working for Workers Five Act, 2024 (Bill 190)
  - third reading, 9879
Brady, B.A. (Independent, Haldimand—Norfolk)
- Agricultural land
  - severances, 4572–4573
- Agricultural land - conservation
  - general remarks, 157
  - government strategy, 2778–2779
  - impact on food security, 2774
    - statements by stakeholders, 2773–2774
- Agricultural land - development on
  - general remarks, 2773
- Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario Amendment Act, 2024 (Bill 155)
  - consultations
    - of farmers, 8267
  - third reading, 8267
- Agriculture industry - support programs
  - Risk Management Program (RMP)
    - government funding, 6065
- Appreciation
  - Boon, Rick, 7194–7195
- Auditor General of Ontario - reports
  - 2021 Annual Report
    - Value-for-Money Audit: Land-Use Planning in the Greater Golden Horseshoe (2021)
      - ministerial zoning orders, 2773
- Bridges
  - maintenance and repair
    - Argyle Street Bridge (Caledonia)
      - construction delay, 596–597, 2123, 2146, 4167, 6998, 9801
      - load restrictions, penalties, 4167
- Budget 2023/2024
  - agriculture, 4320
  - cost of living, 4320
  - rural Ontario, 4320
- Building a Better Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 180)
  - second reading, 8233–8234
- Building a Strong Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 85)
  - third reading, 4319–4321
- Cancer - prostate cancer
  - diagnostic testing
    - early detection, importance of, 5104
- Carbon pricing programs, provincial
  - Emissions Performance Standards program
    - revenue, use of, 8484
- Carbon tax
  - government response, 8483–8484
- Colleges and universities - COVID-19
  - vaccination mandates, 590
- Community events - by region
  - Haldimand–Norfolk, 1821
- Cost of living
  - government strategy, 5156
- Court administration - civil
  - jury trials
    - legislation governing, timelines, 8927
- Debates re answers to question period
  - Transportation infrastructure
    - presented, 2146
- Developmental services
  - community living organizations
    - government funding, 7834–7835
- Doctors - family doctors
  - access to, 9376
- Education workers - collective bargaining
  - back-to-work legislation, 1146
- Farmland and Arable Land Strategy Act, 2023 (Bill 62)
  - first reading, 2194
- Flooding
  - cost of, 3231
  - education and awareness, 3231
- Government notices of motion
  - Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second
    - responded to, 807–808
  - New members of provincial Parliament
    - responded to, 651–653
- Gun control
  - gun buyback program (federal), 1781
- Health care system
  - health human resources
    - government strategy, 1078
- Highways and roads - infrastructure development
  - traffic lights, by region
    - Caledonia
      - construction timelines, 9801
- Hospital services - emergency
  - temporary service reduction
    - due to staff shortages, 1078
- Housing development
  - accountability and oversight, 4319
- Immigration
  - impact of, 5156
- Indigenous relations - land claims
  - Haldimand tract
    - process of consultation, 2446
- Keeping Students in Class Act, 2022 (Bill 28)
  - second reading, 1109
- Land use planning - by region
  - Haldimand-Norfolk, 10274–10275
- Land use planning - ministerial zoning orders (MZOs)
  - agricultural land, 2773
- Long-term care - beds, development and redevelopment
  - by region
    - Haldimand—Norfolk
      - timelines, 5705–5706
  - by site
    - Dover Cliffs (Port Dover)
      - timelines, 5705
- Members' statements
  - Black Watch (RHR) of Canada Pipes and Drums band, 4322–4323
  - Boon, Rick, 7194–7195
  - Community services, 3245–3246
  - COVID-19 response, 590
  - Gopher Dunes, 9421
  - Hagersville Lions Chase the Ace raffle, 3793
  - Hospice care, 2717
  - Labour dispute, 1146
  - Langton Six Pack Tournament, 8569
  - Migrant workers, 151
  - Prostate cancer, 5104
  - Simcoe Christmas Panorama River of Lights, 1821
  - South Coast Special Needs Kids Inc. sledge hockey match, 7777
  - Trainer, Marie, 10299–10300
  - Veterans, 5698–5699
- Members'/ministers' constituencies
  - Haldimand–Norfolk, 652
- Members'/ministers' inaugural speeches, 651–653
- Nanticoke industrial park
  - employment zone
    - and housing development, 4767–4768
- Norfolk Haldimand Community Hospice
  - operational funding, 2717
- Oil and gas wells
  - dormant wells
    - government strategy, 2587–2588
- Oil and natural gas wells
  - dormant wells
    - government strategy, 2587–2588
- Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT)
  - membership appointments, 7611–7612
- Parrington’s Food Market Limited Act, 2023 (Bill Pr24)
  - first reading, 4174
  - second reading, 5715
  - third reading, 5715
- Petitions
  - Education, 7676
  - Firearms control, 2200, 4776, 5599
  - Land use planning, 4176, 5713, 7242–7243
  - Medical assistance in dying, 3384
  - Optometry services, 2173
  - Social assistance, 4336–4337, 9272
  - Taxation, 7241, 8257–8258, 9272
- Poulak and Rachar Limited Act, 2024 (Bill Pr48)
  - first reading, 9647
- Private members' public business
  - Farmland and Arable Land Strategy Act, 2023 (Bill 62)
    - second reading, 2772–2774, 2778–2779
  - Fewer Floods, Safer Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 56)
    - second reading, 3231
- Question period
  - Firearms control
    - presented, 1781
  - Government appointments
    - presented, 7611–7612
  - Health care
    - presented, 9376
  - Health care workers
    - presented, 1078
  - Housing
    - presented, 5156
  - Indigenous land dispute
    - presented, 2446–2447
  - Justice system
    - presented, 8927
  - Land use planning
    - presented, 157, 4767–4768, 10273–10274
  - Long-term care
    - presented, 5705–5706
  - Natural gas wells
    - presented, 2857–2858
  - Ontario farmers
    - presented, 4572–4573, 6065
  - Services for persons with disabilities
    - presented, 7834–7835
  - Taxation
    - presented, 8483–8484
  - Tobacco control
    - presented, 3377
  - Transportation infrastructure
    - presented, 596–597, 2123, 4167, 6998, 9801
- Standard of living
  - general remarks, 4319
- Tobacco industry
  - illicit sales
    - government response, 3377, 4319
    - legislative terminology re, 3377, 4320
- Tributes
  - Elizabeth II (queen), 807–808
  - Miller, Gordon Irvin (former member for Norfolk), 833
  - Trainer, Marie, 10299–10300
- Veterans
  - appreciation for, 5698
- Veterans - commemoration
  - Remembrance Day and Remembrance Week, 5989–5990, 10303
- Volunteers
  - community events
    - Chase the Ace raffle, Hagersville Lions Club, 3793
- Women
  - community support programs
    - by region
      - Norfolk county, 3245–3246
Bresee, R. (PC, Hastings—Lennox and Addington)
- Affordable housing
  - federal government funding, 3771
- Agricultural industry
  - international trade missions
    - European Union, 9799–9800
- Agricultural land - residential lots
  - general remarks, 4723
- Appreciation
  - Townsend, Clarissa, 10220
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
  - education and awareness
    - World Autism Awareness Day, 3246
- Automobile thefts
  - penalties, 9327, 9329
  - prevention
    - VIN registration, 9328, 9338
  - rate of - by region
    - Kingston, 9327
    - Toronto, 9327
- Automotive industry
  - government strategy, 32
- Automotive industry - investments
  - investment agreements
    - economic impact, 33
- Better for Consumers, Better for Businesses Act, 2023 (Bill 142)
  - third reading, 6975–6976
- Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act, 2023 (Bill 98)
  - second reading, 3734–3735
- Bicycles
  - e-bikes
    - classification, 9327, 9329
- Broadband infrastructure development
  - government strategy
    - information sharing, 4064
  - regulatory reform, 4612
- Broadband infrastructure development - funding
  - general remarks, 1077
- Budget 2023/2024
  - automotive, 4356
  - cost of living, 4357–4358
  - employment, 4356
  - tax credits, 4357
- Budget speech 2024 (March 26, 2024)
  - responded to, 8080, 8084, 8095
- Building a Strong Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 85)
  - third reading, 4355–4358
- Building Infrastructure Safely Act, 2024 (Bill 153)
  - second reading, 6660, 6667–6668, 6671
  - third reading, 7215–7216
- Building More Mines Act, 2023 (Bill 71)
  - second reading, 2756, 2760–2762
- Building Ontario For You Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 216)
  - second reading, 10204
- Carbon tax
  - cost of
    - per household, 6615
  - cost of living, impact on, 6157, 7417
    - northern and Indigenous communities, 6272
  - economic impact, 6159
  - fuel prices, impact on, 6157–6158
  - home heating, exemptions
    - eligible heating methods, 6066, 6159
  - home heating, impact on cost of, 6159
  - northern and rural Ontario, impact on, 6065, 8251
  - in other jurisdictions, 6157
- Carbon tax - impact by industry
  - agri-food, 6158, 7925
    - statements by stakeholders, 6158
  - health care system, 6159
  - natural resources
    - statements by stakeholders, 6692–6693
- Child protection system
  - reform, 8603
- Children and youth in care
  - experience in, permitted to disclose, 8603
  - protection of privacy, 8601
  - rights, 8604
- Conservation authorities
  - creation, history of
    - effect of Hurricane Hazel and flooding, 3228–3229
- Conservation officers
  - employment status
    - classification review, 6276
  - number of, 6275
- Cost of living
  - government strategy, 6159, 10045
- Critical Minerals Strategy
  - for electric vehicle production, 2761
- Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act, 2024 (Bill 185)
  - second reading, 8416–8417, 8441, 8451
- Diagnostic imaging
  - CT scans
    - Hastings–Lennox and Addington, 5144–5145
- Driving - impaired
  - penalties, 9328
  - prevention
    - zero tolerance, 9710, 9718
  - society, impact on, 9690
- Economic development - northern Ontario
  - government strategy, 4133, 4652
- Education system
  - standardization, 3734–3735
- Electric vehicles - batteries, manufacturing
  - investments in
    - Umicore, 5404
- Electricity supply
  - government strategy, 4449
- Employment standards - wage theft
  - protections, 6572
- Enhancing Professional Care for Animals Act, 2024 (Bill 171)
  - third reading, 9291
- Environmental protection
  - Napanee plain, 5050–5051
- 592605 Ontario Limited Act, 2023 (Bill Pr26)
  - first reading, 5466
  - second reading, 7053
  - third reading, 7053
- Flood management
  - conservation authorities, role in, 3229
  - government strategy, 3230
- Flooding
  - education and awareness
    - ministerial responsibility, 3230
- Forest industry
  - Christmas trees
    - economic impact, 2153
- Fuel prices - taxation
  - general remarks, 8788
- Galleries and museums
  - by site
    - Canadian Peace Museum, 10329
- Garrett's Legacy Act (Requirements for Movable Soccer Goals), 2024 (Bill 99)
  - first reading, 3552–3553
  - third reading, 9413–9414
- Get It Done Act, 2024 (Bill 162)
  - second reading, 7402, 7442
  - third reading, 8755–8756, 8788, 8883
- Government finances
  - provincial credit rating, 4357
- Government orders
  - Appointment of House officers / Committee membership
    - responded to, 277–280
  - Member's conduct
    - amendment to the amendment
      - responded to, 5548–5549
  - Taxation
    - amendment
      - responded to, 6157–6159
- Government services
  - delivery models, 2448
  - digital delivery, 9302
    - accessibility of, 4709
- Helping Homebuyers, Protecting Tenants Act, 2023 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 3764, 3771
  - third reading, 4723
- Highway safety
  - northern Ontario
    - government strategy, 8727
- Highway tolls
  - removal of, 8727–8728
- Highways and roads
  - traffic congestion
    - government strategy, 10270
- Highways and roads - construction and expansion
  - general remarks, 9924–9925
  - timelines
    - government strategy, 9848
- Highways and roads - maintenance and repair
  - Gardiner Expressway
    - timelines, 9925
- Housing developers
  - general remarks, 1549
- Housing development
  - mass timber construction, 8451
- Housing development - by region
  - Hastings–Lennox and Addington, 1549
- Housing development - government funding
  - Building Faster Fund, 8417
- Indigenous communities - mental health and addictions
  - services, 4226, 4483
    - support services, 4483
- Land use planning - environmental assessments, class environment assessments
  - 30-day review period, ministerial waiver, 2571
- Legislative Assembly - facility rehabilitation
  - accessibility standards
    - universal design, 2841–2842
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Economy Act, 2023 (Bill 91)
  - third reading, 4612
- Light Rail Transit (LRT) - Eglinton Crosstown
  - station design, 8756
- Light Rail Transit (LRT) - Hazel McCallion/Hurontario Line
  - as priority, 8755
- Line fences
  - general remarks, 8441
- Locates
  - fees for, infrastructure owner, 6668
- Manufacturing industry - investments
  - economic impact, 2326
- Members' statements
  - Bancroft Fitness, 8051
  - Bullying Awareness Week, 6508
  - Canadian Peace Museum, 10329
  - Chestmates Dragon Boat Team, 5516
  - Christmas tree industry, 2153
  - Diabetes Awareness Month, 5986
  - Diagnostic services, 5144–5145
  - Environmental protection, 5050–5051
  - Events in Hastings–Lennox and Addington, 630, 4698–4699
  - Fairfield-Gutzeit House, 6169
  - Government's agenda, 9667–9668
  - Greater Napanee, 9844
  - Greater Napanee Pride committee, 2793
  - Izumi Aquaculture, 4212
  - Kramp, Daryl, 7195
  - Local business, 7057
  - Municipal elections, 928
  - Napanee Beaver, 8178–8179
  - Remembrance Day, 10038
  - Riding of Hastings–Lennox and Addington, 82
  - Seniors' housing, 1548–1549
  - Student achievement, 9919–9920
  - Townsend, Clarissa, 10220
  - Volunteers, 5646
  - Wellington Dukes, 2298
  - Winter road safety, 5931
  - World Autism Awareness Day, 3246
- Members'/ministers' constituencies
  - Hastings–Lennox and Addington, 82
- Members'/ministers' inaugural speeches, 277–280
- Mining industry
  - economic impact, 2760
  - general remarks, 4355
- Mining industry - Critical Minerals Strategy
  - for electric vehicle production, 2761
- Ministry of Transportation
  - enforcement officers
    - role and duties, 9327–9328
- Municipal elections
  - general election (2022), 928
- Municipal governance - strong mayor system
  - council administration and authority, 122
  - general remarks, 113
- Newspapers
  - community publications, 8178–8179
- Occupational health and safety
  - naloxone kits
    - mandatory businesses, 4767
- 1376122 Ontario Ltd. Act, 2023 (Bill Pr27)
  - second reading, 7053
  - third reading, 7053
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates, increase
  - government strategy, 4356–4357
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates, increases
  - government strategy, 4356–4357
- Ontario One Call
  - and municipalities, 6660
- Ontario Trillium Foundation
  - general remarks, 1829
  - grant recipients
    - Bancroft Fitness, 8051
    - Fairfield-Gutzeit House (Loyalist Township), 6169
- Petitions
  - Government's record, 401
  - Hospital services, 8327
  - Infrastructure funding, 95
  - Police services, 4228
  - School boards, 4457
  - Transportation infrastructure, 10388
- Post-secondary education
  - free speech, 8894
- Post-secondary education - funding
  - research programs
    - health care, 876
- Post-secondary education - mental health and addictions
  - general remarks, 8892
- Preventing Unethical Puppy Sales Act, 2024 (Bill 159)
  - consultation, 8550
  - second reading, 8546, 8550, 8554
- Private members' public business
  - Fewer Floods, Safer Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 56)
    - second reading, 3228–3230
  - Garrett's Legacy Act (Requirements for Movable Soccer Goals), 2024 (Bill 99)
    - second reading, 4148–4150, 4153
  - Seniors Month Act, 2023 (Bill 70)
    - second reading, 2939–2940
  - Supporting Mobility, Affordability and Reliable Transportation in Ontario Act, 2024 (Bill 184)
    - second reading, 8726–8728
  - Supporting Ontario's Community, Rural and Agricultural Newspapers Act, 2023 (Bill 73)
    - second reading, 3175–3176
- Puppy mills
  - fines for running, 8546
- Queen's Park Restoration Act, 2023 (Bill 75)
  - second reading, 2841–2842
- Question period
  - Addiction services
    - presented, 4766–4767
  - Agri-food industry
    - presented, 9799–9800
  - Automotive industry
    - presented, 32–33
  - Broadband infrastructure
    - presented, 1076–1077, 4064
  - Conservation officers
    - responded to, 6275–6276
  - Economic development
    - presented, 4387
  - Electric vehicles
    - presented, 5404
  - Electronic service delivery
    - presented, 2448–2449, 4709
  - Energy contracts
    - presented, 4449
  - Highway construction
    - responded to, 9924–9925
  - Indigenous affairs
    - presented, 4865
  - Indigenous mental health and addiction services
    - presented, 4483
  - Mental health and addiction services
    - presented, 4226
  - Mining industry
    - presented, 3866–3867
  - Northern Ontario development
    - presented, 4133, 4652
  - Ontario Trillium Foundation
    - presented, 1829
  - Public transit
    - responded to, 10314
  - Research and innovation
    - presented, 876
  - Taxation
    - presented, 6065–6066, 6272, 7417, 7925, 8251
    - responded to, 6614–6615, 6692–6693, 6778–6779, 10045
  - Tourism
    - presented, 4708
  - Transportation infrastructure
    - presented, 3870–3871
    - responded to, 9848–9849, 10227, 10270, 10334
- Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 (Bill 212)
  - second reading, 9783–9789, 9961, 9963, 9967
- Reducing Inefficiencies Act (Infrastructure Statute Law Amendments), 2023 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 2571
- Regional development
  - Greater Napanee, 9844
  - rural Ontario, 6778–6779
- Roads and highways - infrastructure development
  - government strategy, 10334
- Safer Roads and Communities Act, 2024 (Bill 197)
  - second reading, 9326–9329, 9338, 9690, 9710, 9718
- Safer Streets, Stronger Communities Act, 2024 (Bill 223)
  - second reading, 10396–10397
- Schools
  - bullying and cyberbullying
    - Bullying Awareness and Week, 6508
- Senior citizens
  - contributions of, 2939
- Soccer goalposts - unanchored
  - regulation of, 4149, 9414
    - statements by stakeholders, 9414
  - risk of injury/death, 4149, 9413
- Sports and recreation
  - hockey as cultural tradition, 2298
- St. Thomas - Central Elgin Boundary Adjustment Act, 2023 (Bill 63)
  - second reading, 2326, 2334
- Strengthening Accountability and Student Supports Act, 2024 (Bill 166)
  - third reading, 8892, 8894
- Strengthening Cyber Security and Building Trust in the Public Sector Act, 2024 (Bill 194)
  - second reading, 9302
- Strengthening Post-secondary Institutions and Students Act, 2022 (Bill 26)
  - third reading, 1902
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022 (Bill 3)
  - second reading, 113, 122
- Supporting Children's Futures Act, 2024 (Bill 188)
  - second reading, 8602–8606
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) expansion - Ontario Line
  - as priority, 8755
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) expansion - Scarborough subway extension
  - as priority, 8756
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) expansion - Yonge North extension
  - as priority, 8755
- Tourism industry
  - government strategy, 4708
- Transit
  - fare system, integration
    - One Fare program, 8756
  - government strategy, 8726–8727
- Transportation for the Future Act, 2023 (Bill 131)
  - second reading, 5167, 5175
- Transportation infrastructure development
  - general remarks, 10226–10227
- Tributes
  - Kramp, Daryl, 7195
  - Pollock, James (former member for Hastings-Peterborough), 627
  - South, Laurence George (former member for Frontenac–Addington), 4231
- Trucking industry
  - road safety, enforcement
    - inspection stations - by region
      - Shuniah, 9327
- Ukraine - invasion of (February 2022)
  - public response to, 630
- Veterinarians and veterinary technicians
  - non-veterinary practitioners, 9291
- Wetlands
  - environmental impact, 3229
- Working for Workers Act, 2023 (Bill 79)
  - second reading, 3026–3027
- Working for Workers Four Act, 2024 (Bill 149)
  - second reading, 6257, 6567, 6572, 6574
- Your Health Act, 2023 (Bill 60)
  - second reading, 2348
  - third reading, 4040
Burch, J. (NDP, Niagara Centre)
- Affordable Homes and Good Jobs Act, 2023 (Bill 134)
  - stakeholder response, 5263–5264
- Affordable Homes and Good Jobs Act, 2023 (Bill 134)
  - second reading, 5257–5266
- Affordable housing
  - "affordable," definition, 899, 5258
  - "attainable," definition, 5258
  - brownfield remediation, 901
  - funding, 689
  - recommendations
    - inclusionary zoning, 900
  - in relation to income, 1474
- Affordable housing - access
  - general remarks, 695, 5260–5261
- Affordable housing - by region
  - Brampton North, 4506
  - London, 6400
  - Peel, 4501
- Affordable housing - non-market housing
  - government role in, 903, 5257
- Agricultural land
  - loss of, 4988
- Agricultural land - conservation
  - impact on food security, 1686
- Agricultural land - residential lots
  - public consultation, 4738–4739
- Alcohol retail
  - taxation
    - federal, increase, 7703
- Ambulance services
  - service availability, by region
    - Niagara, 7783
- Ambulance services - offload services, delays
  - funding
    - by region, Niagara, 4258, 4315, 4318
- Animal welfare
  - transparency in services, 8543
- Appreciation
  - Edith Cavell Public School, 4159
- Autism services
  - wait-time, 8636
- Automotive industry - employment
  - job creation, 2450–2541
- Automotive industry - investments
  - international investment agreements
    - Volkswagen, 5265
- Better for Consumers, Better for Businesses Act, 2023 (Bill 142)
  - second reading, 5954, 5962
- Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 (Bill 39)
  - second reading, 1446–1447, 1469–1477
  - third reading, 2105–2107, 2109–2110
- Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act, 2023 (Bill 98)
  - third reading, 4908, 4937, 4952
- Bridges
  - construction and expansion
    - Garden City Skyway twinning, 4316
- Broadband services
  - delivery model
    - public vs. private, 3489
- Budget 2023/2024
  - community safety, 4371
  - environment, 3367
  - health care, 4373, 4400
  - municipalities, 3130, 4315
- Budget speech 2023 (March 23, 2023)
  - responded to, 3367
- Building a Better Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 180)
  - second reading, 8174
- Building a Strong Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 85)
  - second reading, 3063, 3130, 3179
  - third reading, 4315–4319, 4371, 4373, 4400, 4405, 4413
- Building More Mines Act, 2023 (Bill 71)
  - second reading, 2740
  - third reading, 4118
- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms - s. 33: notwithstanding clause
  - use of, 1203
- Cancer
  - diagnosis
    - delays, impact of, 7999
- Captain Craig Bowman Act, 2023 (Bill 127)
  - first reading, 4929
- Child protection system
  - staff
    - administrative responsibilities, 9439
- Colleges and universities
  - private universities, 3456
- Committee procedure
  - consideration of bills
    - restrictions on, 1446
- Community housing
  - wait-list, 900
- Conservation authorities
  - authority owned land
    - development on, 901
  - environmental impact, 901
  - role in development process
    - authority and jurisdiction, 901, 1691–1692
      - statements by stakeholders, 1693
- Convenient Care at Home Act, 2023 (Bill 135)
  - second reading, 5639–5642
- Croatian community
  - cultural centres, 3646–3647
  - in Niagara, 3646–3647
- Croatian Heritage Day Act, 2023
  - second reading, 3646–3647
  - statements by stakeholders, 3646
- Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act, 2024 (Bill 185)
  - second reading, 8416–8419
- Cytology tests
  - papanicolaou (pap) test
    - results, wait-time, 2622
- Democracy
  - principles
    - majority rule, 1476
- Doctors
  - administrative responsibilities, 7748
- Doctors - primary care
  - regional shortages, 495
- Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve
  - development on
    - land ownership, conflict of interest, 1474
- Education - mental health
  - school and community supports
    - service coordination, 4908, 4937
- Education workers - collective bargaining
  - back-to-work legislation
    - notwithstanding clause, 1153
- Education workers - compensation
  - cost of living, 1153
    - statements by stakeholders, 1051
- Education workers - labour disputes, union contracts and negotiations
  - bargaining process, 1106
- Emergency service providers
  - working conditions, 8174
- Enhancing Access to Justice Act, 2024 (Bill 157)
  - third reading, 7538
- Environmental policy
  - biodiversity offsetting
    - effect of, 1477
- Food banks - usage
  - donation drives, 3369
  - general remarks, 5260
  - by region
    - Niagara, 9470–9471
    - Niagara Centre, 1703
    - Welland, 10165
- Government advertising
  - housing development
    - cost of, 5217
- Government record - PC (1995-2003)
  - housing policy, 8417
  - municipal affairs policy
    - municipal amalgamation, 1471
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - directives and policies, 1469, 2107
  - environmental policy, 2529
  - greenbelt, 2106
  - municipal affairs policy, 1469, 2107, 4504–4505, 4742
- Greenbelt
  - boundary adjustments
    - timelines, 5259
  - conservation of
    - and food security, 1695
  - land purchases, timeline, 1826
- Greenbelt - boundary adjustments, process
  - communications
    - language and terminology, 8698
- Greenbelt - development on
  - conflict of interest
    - information sharing, transparency, 2025
  - environmental impact, 1315
  - general remarks, 1694
  - housing, 1693
  - land ownership, conflict of interest, 1825–1826, 2107, 2157
  - land swap, 1475, 1692–1693
    - information sharing, transparency, 1826, 1872
- Hamilton
  - urban boundary expansion
    - conflict of interest, 5586–5587
- Hazel McCallion Act (Peel Dissolution), 2023 (Bill 112)
  - second reading, 4497–4506
  - third reading, 4734–4744
- Health care
  - access, 5640
- Health care - primary care
  - referrals to specialist
    - wait-time, 494
- Health care services
  - access, 7783
  - public vs. private
    - in other jurisdictions, 2427
- Health care workers
  - compensation, 7226
- Health care workers - recruitment and retention
  - working conditions, role of, 5641–5642
- Helping Homebuyers, Protecting Tenants Act, 2023 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 3630, 3636
- Home and community care
  - privatization, 5639
- Home and community care - funding, 5642
- Home and community care - staff
  - recruitment and retention
    - compensation, role of, 5639
      - statements by stakeholders, 5640
- Hospital services - emergency
  - department closures
    - government strategy, 4769
  - department closures, by region
    - Niagara, 5640–5641
- Hospitals - capacity and overcrowding
  - EMS offload delays
    - funding
      - by region, Niagara, 4258, 4315, 4318
  - by region
    - Niagara, 35
- Housing Affordability Task Force
  - recommendations
    - greenbelt, 1475–1476
    - municipal consultation, 5321
    - municipal consultation, timelines
      - statements by stakeholders, 5262
    - statements by stakeholders, 1473
  - report (2022)
    - land availability, 1691
- Housing developers
  - accountability, 1474
    - land speculation, 901–902, 1473
  - approvals and permits, timelines, 3798
    - expiry of, 5262–5263, 5265, 8418
      - statements by stakeholders, 5263
  - land ownership and speculation, 8418
    - conflict of interest, 1316, 1959
      - information sharing, transparency, 1959
- Housing development - approvals and permits
  - timelines
    - applicants, 1474
    - application fees, refund of, 901
- Housing development - by region
  - St. Catherines, 1695
- Housing development - construction
  - cost of vs. income
    - by region
      - Niagara, 4317
  - government strategy, 4741, 4744
    - progress reporting, 696
    - statements by stakeholders, 111–112
  - inclusionary zoning, 109
  - municipal role in
    - regional plans, Niagara, 4316
  - starts
    - projected, 1473
- Housing development - densification
  - community response, 3853
  - secondary units, 900
- Housing development - government funding
  - Building Faster Fund
    - eligibility, 6172, 8418
      - statements by stakeholders, 7301
- Housing development - municipal charges
  - development charges, exemptions and discounts
    - affordability requirements, 899, 5258
    - impact on municipalities, 1694, 3316, 3431, 4315, 4319, 5258
    - municipal response, 5261–5262
    - transferal of costs, taxes, 5261–5262, 7301
- Housing development - provincial building targets
  - general remarks
    - planned vs. actual, 4316
  - planned vs. actual, 4316
- Housing market
  - prices
    - rate of increase, 110
    - by region
      - Niagara, 900, 5261
- Housing policy
  - general remarks, 5258
  - government strategy, 4317, 4501
- Housing supply
  - impact on housing costs, 899, 903
- Improving Real Estate Management Act, 2024 (Bill 151)
  - second reading, 6400, 6403, 6408–6412, 6418
- Independent health facilities - diagnostic and surgical procedures, expansion
  - cataracts
    - service fees, 8485
- Infectious diseases - testing
  - provincial wastewater surveillance program
    - cancellation
      - statements by stakeholders, 9643
- Infrastructure Ontario (IO)
  - real estate services
    - Auditor General annual report (2017), 3790, 6408
- Integrity Commissioner of Ontario - investigations
  - greenbelt land removal
    - staff testimonies, 8697–8698
- Judicial appointments - Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee
  - independence of, 7538
- Keeping Energy Costs Down Act, 2024 (Bill 165)
  - second reading, 7288
- Keeping Students in Class Act, 2022 (Bill 28)
  - second reading, 1051, 1106
- Labour disputes
  - replacement workers, use of, 9012
- Land use planning
  - conflict of interest, 4994
- Land use planning - ministerial zoning orders (MZOs)
  - Auditor General investigation, 5349
  - conflict of interest, 5349
    - Auditor General's annual report (2021), 2158
    - Stouffville, 2025
  - regulations, 8418
  - review of, 5652–5653
  - by site
    - affordable housing (Willowdale), 5812
    - medical innovation park (Oro-Medonte)
      - Land, sale of, 5812
  - use of, 4502, 4740–4741
- Less Red Tape, More Common Sense Act, 2023 (Bill 139)
  - third reading, 6349
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Economy Act, 2023 (Bill 91)
  - second reading, 3422, 3456, 3465, 3489
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 46)
  - third reading, 2894
- Lobbyists
  - former reporting public officers
    - conflict of interest, 1959
    - cooling-off period, 1872
- Long-term care - residents
  - living conditions
    - air conditioning, 81–82
- Manufacturing industry - employment
  - decline
    - job loss, 2451, 5264
  - job creation
    - unions, role of, 2451, 5264
- Manufacturing industry - facility development
  - approvals and permits, 2450
- Markham
  - urban boundary expansion
    - ministerial amendments
      - land ownership, conflict of interest, 2026
- Members' statements
  - Autism treatment, 8636
  - Beyond the Streets, 8178
  - City of Port Colborne, 9162
  - Edith Cavell Public School Fresh West Market, 4159
  - Events in Niagara Centre, 3369
  - Farmers, 4988
  - Food banks, 9470–9471
  - Health care, 7999
  - Health care workers, 7226
  - Holy Trinity Anglican Church breakfast program, 1703
  - Hospital services, 2297
  - Housing, 483
  - Labour dispute, 1203, 3606
  - Long-term care, 81–82
  - Social services in Niagara region, 2848
  - Welland Food Drive, 5932, 10165
  - Workplace safety, 5338–5339
- Members/ministers quoting
  - city council motions
    - municipal governance, 110–111
  - committee presentations
    - municipal governance, strong mayor system, 691–694
  - conservation authorities
    - Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve, repeal of, 1475
  - letters
    - Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 (Bill 39), 2106–2107
  - municipal councillors (Toronto)
    - governance, 1470
  - news media
    - greenbelt, land ownership, 1475
    - home and community care, 5639
    - home care staff compensation, 5640
    - municipality structures, review
      - Waterloo, 1471
    - real estate market, 1474
    - rental housing, 110
    - strong mayor system, 106, 690, 693–694, 1470
    - student nutrition programs, 5260
  - other members
    - greenbelt, 1475
  - reports
    - Municipal Amalgamation in Ontario (Fraser Institute), 1472
    - Ontario Ombudsman
      - Inside Job (2019), 108–109
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - withdrawn, 1520, 3130, 5265, 7301
- Mental health and addictions services
  - wait-list
    - by region
      - Niagara, 2606
- Mental health and addictions services - funding
  - general remarks, 2615
- Mining sites - development
  - timelines, 2740
- More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 (Bill 23)
  - committee presentations, 1691
  - committee process, 1446
    - public consultation, 1447, 1469, 1472
    - witnesses, selection of, 1691
  - committee submissions, 1692
  - committee witnesses, 1472
  - second reading, 893, 899–903
  - impact on municipalities
    - statements by stakeholders, 5262
  - municipal response, 2109
    - motions (Markham), 2125
  - stakeholder consultation, 1695
  - statements by stakeholders, 901, 1453, 1472–1473, 1692–1693
  - third reading, 1686, 1691–1695
- Municipal Accountability and Integrity Act, 2024 (Bill 207)
  - first reading, 9593
- Municipal Act, 2001, S.O. 2001, c. 25
  - municipal organization and administration
    - council, 107
- Municipal by-laws
  - passage
    - prescribed number of councillors, 1711
- Municipal councillors
  - harassment and abuse
    - removal process
      - legislative reform, 4599
  - head of council
    - administrative authority
      - formal vs. informal, 107, 690
- Municipal elections
  - reform, 691
- Municipal finances
  - external audit, provincial
    - cancellation, 8984
    - results, access to, 8984
- Municipal governance
  - charter cities
    - by region
      - Chicago, 690, 1470
  - council administration and authority, 696
  - mayoral authority
    - strong vs. weak mayor system, 107
  - relationship with province, 113
  - staff
    - chief administration officers, 108–109
- Municipal governance - policy development
  - accountability and transparency
    - consultation, 2105–2106
- Municipal governance - regional chairs
  - appointment of, ministerial authority, 1447, 1452–1453, 1521
    - statements by stakeholders, 1710–1711
  - reform (2018), 1470
  - selection process, 1476
- Municipal governance - strong mayor system
  - general remarks, 1469–1470
  - in other jurisdictions
    - United States, 107
  - public consultation, 112, 689, 707
  - statements by stakeholders, 111–112
- Municipal governance - strong mayor system, administrative authority
  - budgets, 108, 692
  - employment powers, 109, 692
    - chief administration officers, 693
    - registered professional planners, 712
  - general remarks, 690
  - scope of, 1470
  - use of, 671
  - veto power, provincial priorities, 109, 113
- Municipal governance - strong mayor system - effect on housing development
  - general remarks, 109
- Municipal governance - structure
  - review
    - public consultation, 1471
- Municipal planning
  - boundary adjustments
    - St. Thomas-Central Elgin, 2366, 2450–2451
- Municipal restructuring
  - general remarks, 8417
- Municipal restructuring - Peel Region
  - Brampton, impact on, 4739
  - Caledon, impact on, 4503, 4739
  - impact on employee retention, 8418–8419
  - municipal infrastructure, impact on, 4499–4500
  - public consultation, 4498, 4567–4568, 4735–4736, 4738–4739, 4741–4743
  - services, impact on, 4498–4499, 4506, 4734, 4736–4738
  - transition board, role of, 4737
- Municipal restructuring - Peel Region, reversal
  - transition board
    - cost of, 8640–8641
- Municipalities
  - amalgamation, 1471
- Niagara Escarpment Commission
  - administration of
    - Auditor General annual report (2022), 6404, 6408
  - oversight of
    - Auditor General annual report (2022), 6409–6412
- Niagara Health
  - urgent care centres
    - service reductions, 9430
  - Welland site
    - community fundraising, 2297
    - emergency services, reduction, 2297, 2304–2305, 3038, 4315–4316, 9430
    - government funding, 9922
- Niagara region
  - doctor shortage, 7748
- Niagara Region
  - regional government
    - Ontario Ombudsman report
      - Inside Job (2019), 69
    - transparency and accountability, 692
  - state of emergency for homelessness, mental health and addictions, declaration of, 2614–2615
- Oil and gas wells
  - gas leaks
    - by region
      - Chatham-Kent–Leamington, 287
- Oil and natural gas wells
  - gas leaks
    - by region
      - Chatham-Kent–Leamington, 287
- Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association v. Ontario (Attorney General), 2024 ONCA 101
  - judgment, Ontario Court of Appeal, 7226
- Ontario Health atHome
  - medical supplies, procurement contracts
    - shortages, 9740
  - service providers
    - employment models, 5640
- Ontario Home Builder's Association
  - government relationship with, 1959
- Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT)
  - services, 113
- Opposition day motions
  - Health care
    - responded to, 7748
  - Mental health services
    - responded to, 2614–2615
  - Municipal funding
    - responded to, 10347–10348
- Optometry and optometrists
  - OHIP-covered services, seniors
    - eye-exams, 3063
- Petitions
  - Hospital services, 294, 882, 2734, 3044, 3080–3081, 3620, 6008–6009, 6448–6449, 9434
  - Land use planning, 3046
  - Municipal restructuring, 4659
  - Nurses, 1465–1466
  - Social assistance, 4396
  - Tuition, 7495
- Police officers - education and training
  - crisis intervention strategies, 4847
- Police officers - employment
  - recruitment and retention, 3946
- Police services
  - regional differences, 3934
- Post-secondary education - funding
  - general remarks, 7688, 7700
- Preventing Unethical Puppy Sales Act, 2024 (Bill 159)
  - consultation
    - with Indigenous communities, 8536
  - second reading, 8536, 8543
- Private members' public business
  - Croatian Heritage Day Act, 2024 (Bill 81)
    - second reading, 3646–3647
  - Protecting Vulnerable Persons in Supportive Living Accommodation Act, 2023 (Bill 38)
    - second reading, 5751–5753, 5756
  - Stopping Harassment and Abuse by Local Leaders Act, 2023 (Bill 5)
    - second reading, 4598–4599
  - Taxation
    - responded to, 7703
- Protecting Vulnerable Persons in Supportive Living Accommodation Act, 2023 (Bill 38)
  - first reading, 1324
- Question period
  - Affordable housing
    - presented, 2967–2968
  - Emergency services
    - presented, 4257
  - Explosions in Chatham-Kent–Leamington
    - presented, 287
  - Government accountability
    - presented, 1520, 1825–1826, 1872, 1959, 2025–2026, 2157–2158, 5349, 5586–5587, 5652–5653, 5812, 5883, 8697–8698, 8862–8863
  - Government advertising
    - presented, 5217
  - Government policies
    - presented, 2125
  - Health care
    - presented, 2722, 7783, 8485
  - Health care funding
    - presented, 342, 9922
  - Health care workers
    - presented, 494–495
  - Home care
    - presented, 9740
  - Hospital services
    - presented, 35, 2304–2305, 3038, 4769, 9430
  - Housing
    - presented, 3798, 6172
  - Labour dispute
    - presented, 1153
  - Land use planning
    - presented, 1315–1316, 4994
  - Mental health and addiction services
    - presented, 2606
  - Municipal development
    - presented, 1710–1711, 3316
  - Municipal finances
    - presented, 3431, 7301, 8984
  - Municipal funding
    - presented, 4220
  - Municipal government
    - presented, 1452–1453
  - Municipal planning
    - presented, 5321
  - Municipal restructuring
    - presented, 4567–4568, 8640–8641
  - Small business
    - presented, 7098–7099
  - Supportive housing
    - presented, 820, 5704–5705
  - Waste water monitoring
    - presented, 9643
- Real estate market
  - financialization of housing, 1474
  - investors
    - rate of, 1474
- Reducing Inefficiencies Act (Infrastructure Statute Law Amendments), 2023 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 2529
  - third reading, 3790, 3853
- Rent control
  - exceptions, 5266
  - exemptions, 112
- Rental housing
  - cost of, 483, 900, 1474
    - impact on economy
      - statements by stakeholders, 900
    - by region
      - Niagara, 899
- Rental housing - evictions
  - due to renovations
    - impact on social assistance recipients, 900
- Rental housing - tenant protections
  - regulations, 6349
- Safer Streets, Stronger Communities Act, 2024 (Bill 223)
  - second reading, 10454
- Schools
  - community initiatives
    - gardening programs, 4159
- ServiceOntario - retail partnerships
  - small business delivery models
    - impact on, 7098–7099
- Social services - by region
  - Niagara Centre, 2848
- St. Thomas - Central Elgin Boundary Adjustment Act, 2023 (Bill 63)
  - third reading, 2366, 2450–2452
- Strengthening Accountability and Student Supports Act, 2024 (Bill 166)
  - second reading, 7688, 7700
- Strengthening Safety and Modernizing Justice Act, 2023 (Bill 102)
  - second reading, 3934, 3941, 3946
  - third reading, 4847
- Strikes
  - Community Living Port Colborne-Wainfleet, 3606
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022
  - committee presentations, 670
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022 (Bill 3)
  - committee presentations, 670
  - second reading, 105–113
  - third reading, 670–671, 688–696, 707, 712
- Supporting Children's Futures Act, 2024 (Bill 188)
  - second reading, 8626
  - third reading, 9439
- Supportive housing
  - accountability and oversight
    - licensing, 5704–5705, 5752
  - living conditions, 820, 5751–5752
  - stakeholder response, 5752–5753
- Surgical procedures
  - backlog, remediation
    - funding, 342
  - wait-time, 8485
- Toronto
  - amalgamation (1998), 4505
- Toronto City Council
  - downsizing (2018), 106
- Transit infrastructure development - by region
  - Brampton, 4506
- Unhoused persons
  - community organizations, by site
    - Beyond the Streets (Welland), 8178
  - government response, 2968
  - statements by stakeholders, 3369
- Working for Workers Five Act, 2024 (Bill 190)
  - second reading, 9003, 9012
- Working for Workers Four Act, 2024 (Bill 149)
  - second reading, 6354
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
  - presumptive coverage, fire rangers
    - cancers, heart injuries & PTSD, 9003
  - presumptive coverage, firefighters
    - cancers, 2894, 5388
- York Region
  - urban boundary expansion
    - Nobleton lands
      - land ownership, conflict of interest, 5883, 8697, 8862–8863
- Your Health Act, 2023 (Bill 60)
  - second reading, 2427, 2434
Byers, R. (PC, Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound)
- Affordable housing
  - government strategy, 76
- Appreciation
  - Thomson, Tom, 8567
- Auto insurance reform
  - government strategy, 76
- Automotive industry - investments
  - international investment agreements
    - Volkswagen, 3058, 4274
  - international investments in, 4274
- Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 (Bill 39)
  - second reading, 1488
- Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act, 2023 (Bill 98)
  - second reading, 3753
- Board of Internal Economy
  - administrative authority, 1934
  - authority of, 1934
- Budget 2022/2023
  - infrastructure, 1310
- Budget 2023/2024
  - allocation of funds, 3275
  - child welfare, 4275
  - consumer protection, 3059, 4276
  - debt and deficit
    - annual projections, 4273
  - general remarks, 3299
  - health care, 3118, 4275, 4379
    - health care workers, 4275
  - health care workers, 4275
    - recruitment and retention, 3058
  - home and community care, 3058, 4275
  - infrastructure development
    - annual allocation, 4273
  - mental health and addictions, 4275
    - statements by stakeholders, 4275
  - mines and mining industry, 4273
  - mining industry, 4273
  - program spending, 3110
  - public safety, 3278
  - regional allocation
    - Bruce–Grey–Owen Sound, 3064
    - Ottawa, 3063
  - residential schools
    - burial sites, investigation, 3132
  - social assistance programs
    - ODSP, 4280
- Budget speech 2023 (March 23, 2023)
  - responded to, 3275, 3278, 3299
- Budget speech 2024 (March 26, 2024)
  - responded to, 8048–8050, 8068–8071, 8077, 8086, 8339, 8342
- Building a Better Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 180)
  - third reading, 9091–9092
- Building a Strong Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 85)
  - second reading, 3057–3059, 3063–3064, 3109–3110, 3118, 3123–3124, 3132
  - third reading, 4272–4276, 4280–4281, 4379, 4402
- Building a Strong Ontario Together Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 146)
  - second reading, 6022–6026, 6034
  - third reading, 6707–6711, 6719, 6746, 6750
- Building More Mines Act, 2023 (Bill 71)
  - second reading, 2689, 2692
- Business investment
  - Regional Opportunity Investment Tax Credit, 76
- Carbon tax
  - forestry industry, 10339
  - northern and Indigenous communities, impact on, 8324
- Carbon tax - impact by industry
  - emergency services, 8579
  - trucking, 7660
- Child care - spaces
  - development
    - government strategy, 8069
- Children and youth in care
  - transition out of care
    - support program, 3058
      - statements by stakeholders, 4276
- Community events - by region
  - Bruce–Grey–Owen Sound, 786, 1666
- Constituency offices
  - location change
    - Bruce–Grey–Owen Sound, 4381
- Construction industry
  - work sites
    - menstrual products availability, 8975
- Convenient Care at Home Act, 2023 (Bill 135)
  - third reading, 6538
- Cost of living
  - government strategy, 75–76, 1948–1949, 3252
- Critical Minerals Strategy
  - general remarks, 6204
- Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act, 2024 (Bill 185)
  - second reading, 8311, 8397–8398, 8400
  - third reading, 9469, 9497, 9502, 9520
- Early childhood educators (ECEs)
  - compensation
    - salary scale, 6026
- Economic conditions
  - COVID-19, impact of, 1948
  - government strategy, 2962
  - productivity
    - government strategy, 3124
- Economic conditions - downturn
  - general remarks, 1948
- Economic development
  - job creation/loss, 3523
  - by region
    - rural and northern Ontario, 154–155
  - rural and northern Ontario, 154–155
- Education centres
  - children and youth
    - Saugeen Valley Children's Safety Village, 3497
- Education funding
  - projections, 3059
- Electric vehicles - manufacturing
  - job creation, 2322
- Employment services - target populations
  - criminal record, 2123–2124
- Energy generation
  - government strategy, 9264
- Energy policy
  - Clean Energy Credit (CEC) Registry, 4275
- Energy rates
  - affordability, 9923
- Enhancing Professional Care for Animals Act, 2024 (Bill 171)
  - second reading, 7904
- Film and television industry
  - tax credits, 1305, 1948–1949
- Financial professionals
  - credentials, title holders, 4276
- Financial services - provincially regulated
  - segregated funds
    - deferred sales charges, ban on, 4276
- French-language debates
  - Déclarations des députées et députés
    - École catholique Saint-Dominique-Savio, 5517
- Fuel prices - taxation
  - rate reduction, extension, 1305
- Galleries and museums
  - by site
    - Billy Bishop Museum, 928
- Georgian College
  - nursing program, 4275, 4281
- Get It Done Act, 2024 (Bill 162)
  - second reading, 7401, 7429–7430, 7437, 7446, 7455–7456, 7458–7459
- Government expenditures
  - allocation of, 2001
  - general remarks, 3063
  - spending authority, 1304–1305
- Government finances
  - contingency funds
    - use of, 6025
  - government strategy, 1359
- Government orders
  - Member's conduct
    - amendment to the amendment
      - responded to, 5546–5548
- Government record
  - PC (2018-present)
    - fiscal policy, 8077
- Greenbelt Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 136)
  - second reading, 5985
- Hazel McCallion Act (Peel Dissolution), 2023 (Bill 112)
  - third reading, 4747–4748
- Health care funding
  - fall economic statement, 1358
  - general remarks, 1978, 9091–9092
- Health care - primary care
  - community health centres, 431–432
- Health care workers - recruitment and retention
  - Learn and Stay Grant, 2378
- Helping Homebuyers, Protecting Tenants Act, 2023 (Bill 97)
  - third reading, 4692–4693, 4696, 4721–4722
- Highways and roads - maintenance and repair
  - jurisdiction
    - Gardiner Expressway and Don Valley Parkway, 6792
- Home and community care
  - rural Ontario, 6538
- Housing development - by region
  - Toronto
    - government strategy, 6792–6793
- Housing development - construction
  - municipal-provincial relationship, 1488
  - starts, 114
- Housing development - infrastructure
  - government funding, 8311, 8397–8398
- Housing supply
  - rural Ontario, 963
- Hunting and angling
  - safety measures, 820
- Hunting and angling - licensing
  - revenue generation from, 821
- Infrastructure development
  - government strategy, 1954, 1983
- Infrastructure development - funding
  - general remarks, 1414
  - long-term, 9131
- Invasive species
  - government strategy, 1374
  - wild pigs, 1374
- Keeping Energy Costs Down Act, 2024 (Bill 165)
  - third reading, 9131
- Laboratory services
  - via private sector, 4031
- Legislative Assembly Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 51)
  - second reading, 1934
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Economy Act, 2023 (Bill 91)
  - second reading, 3492, 3519–3520, 3523
- Light Rail Transit (LRT)
  - by region
    - Toronto
      - operational funding, 6792
- Manufacturing industry
  - decline and recovery, 3058
- Manufacturing industry - funding
  - Ontario Made Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit, 4274
- Medical isotopes
  - industry partnerships, 5436
  - Ontario's Life Sciences Strategy
    - formal recognition in, 5435–5436
  - production and supply, 5435–5436, 8052
- Members' statements
  - Anniversary of MS Chi-Cheemaun, 10218
  - Billy Bishop Museum ceremony, 928–929
  - Bruce Power, 2662, 7655
  - Bruce–Grey–Owen Sound constituency office, 4381
  - École catholique Saint-Dominique-Savio, 5517
  - Events in Bruce–Grey–Owen Sound, 786–787, 1666, 4699
  - Government investments, 9471
  - Groundhog Day in Wiarton, 7194
  - Macphail, Agnes, 2153
  - Markdale hospital, 5145
  - Medical isotopes, 8052
  - Owen Sound Sports Hall of Fame, 9042
  - Rahman, Sharif, 6509–6510
  - Riding of Bruce–Grey–Owen Sound, 82, 2298–2299
  - Royal Canadian Legion Branch 586, 10372
  - Saugeen Valley Children's Safety Village, 3497
  - Shouldice Stone, 9733
  - Tom Thomson Art Gallery, 8567–8568
  - Veterans, 5987
  - Wiarton cenotaph, 9471
- Members'/ministers' constituencies
  - Bruce–Grey–Owen Sound, 82, 429
- Members'/ministers' inaugural speeches, 428–430
- Members'/ministers' salaries
  - compensation freeze, 1304
- Metrolinx
  - performance of, 5189
- Mining industry
  - financing programs, exploration
    - Ontario Junior Exploration Program, 3057, 4273–4274
- Mining industry - Critical Minerals Strategy
  - general remarks, 3057–3058
- More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 (Bill 23)
  - second reading, 948, 955, 963
- Municipal infrastructure
  - government funding, 1948
- National Housing Strategy (federal) - funding
  - provincial allocation, 948
- New Deal for Toronto Act, 2023 (Bill 154)
  - second reading, 6791–6793, 6802–6803, 6810, 6813, 6821, 6888
- Newspapers
  - community publications
    - appreciation, 3175–3176
- Nuclear generation facilities
  - Bruce Power, 7655
    - economic impact, 2662, 4274
  - innovation and technology, 3058
- Nurses
  - programs, rural Ontario, 4275
- 1082472 Ontario Limited Act, 2024 (Bill Pr39)
  - first reading, 7418
  - second reading, 8734
  - third reading, 8734
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP)
  - additional benefits, 471, 535
  - combination, with other programs, 4280
  - earning exemption, 1953
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates, increases
  - inflation, 1952
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) recipients
  - additional benefits, access, 1434
- Ontario Infrastructure Bank
  - general remarks, 6710, 6719
  - by region
    - Toronto, 6793
- Ontario Place - redevelopment
  - economic impact, 6810
  - timelines, 6813
- Ontario Securities Commission (OSC)
  - OSC Whistleblower Program, 6024
  - reform, 6022–6023, 6708
- Opioid addiction
  - cost-recovery litigation
    - government participation, 6024
- Pension plans
  - target benefit plans
    - framework development, 1304, 1949
- Pharmacists
  - role of, expansion, 3058, 4032, 4275
- Pharmacists and pharmacies
  - role of, expansion, 3058, 4032, 4275
- Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 2)
  - second reading, 74–77
- Post-secondary education
  - free speech, 8843
  - tuition
    - fee freeze, 7685–7686
- Post-secondary education - faculty/staff
  - sexual misconduct against students
    - government strategy, 1913
- Post-secondary education - mental health and addictions
  - general remarks, 7679
- Private members' public business
  - Medical isotopes
    - presented, 5435–5436
    - responded to, 5439–5440
- Progress on the Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 36)
  - second reading, 1303–1305, 1309–1310, 1358–1359, 1414, 1431, 1434
  - third reading, 1947–1949, 1952–1954, 1978, 1983, 2001, 2011
- Public assets
  - centralization, entities
    - transferal to Ministry of Infrastructure, 2567
- Question period
  - Cost of living
    - responded to, 3252
  - Economic development
    - presented, 154–155
  - Energy policies
    - presented, 9923
  - Fiscal and economic policy
    - responded to, 2962
  - Forest industry
    - presented, 10339
  - Government accountability
    - responded to, 7922
  - Health care
    - presented, 2377–2378
  - Hunting and fishing
    - presented, 820–821
  - Invasive species
    - presented, 1374
  - Red tape reduction
    - presented, 3431
  - Skills training
    - presented, 2123–2124
  - Taxation
    - presented, 7660, 8324, 8579, 9264, 10339
- Reducing Inefficiencies Act (Infrastructure Statute Law Amendments), 2023 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 2565, 2567
- Regulations - business
  - document disclosure, 1304, 1949
  - reduction
    - government strategy, 3431
  - reductions, 1948
- Renewable energy
  - clean energy credit registry, 1304, 1431
- Reports by committees
  - Standing Committee on Public Accounts, 10121
- Ring of Fire development
  - infrastructure development, 1949
- School facilities - capital projects
  - general remarks, 3753
  - new school construction
    - by region
      - Dundalk, 9471
      - Markdale, 2298
- Schools
  - cybersecurity, 9757
- Securities industry
  - regulations
    - reform, 6708–6709
- Senior citizens
  - income support programs
    - Guaranteed Annual Income System, increase, 1304, 1953
  - Ontario Seniors Care at Home Tax Credit, 75
  - Ontario Seniors' Home Safety Tax Credit, 75
- St. Thomas - Central Elgin Boundary Adjustment Act, 2023 (Bill 63)
  - second reading, 2322, 2333
- Strengthening Accountability and Student Supports Act, 2024 (Bill 166)
  - second reading, 7679, 7682, 7685–7686
  - third reading, 8838, 8843
- Strengthening Cyber Security and Building Trust in the Public Sector Act, 2024 (Bill 194)
  - second reading, 9757, 9760
- Strengthening Post-secondary Institutions and Students Act, 2022 (Bill 26)
  - second reading, 1197
  - third reading, 1862–1863, 1905, 1908, 1913
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022 (Bill 3)
  - second reading, 113–114, 131
- Supporting Children's Futures Act, 2024 (Bill 188)
  - second reading, 8609, 8619
- Tax credits
  - Ontario Focused Flow-Through Share Tax Credit, 6024
- Taxation
  - tax credits, 75–76
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 428–432, 471–472, 535
- Toronto
  - economic impact, 6791
  - municipal finances
    - government strategy, 6793
    - intergovernmental partnerships, 6792
  - regional development
    - government funding, 6802–6803
    - municipal-provincial partnership
      - working group, 6791
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)
  - general remarks, 6888
  - safety
    - government funding, 6792
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) - subway
  - government funding, 6791–6792
- Transit
  - accessibility, 5167
- Transit infrastructure development
  - impact of, 8400
- Transit infrastructure development - by region
  - Scarborough, 5184
- Transportation
  - affordability
    - government strategy, 7660
- Transportation for the Future Act, 2023 (Bill 131)
  - second reading, 5167, 5184, 5189, 5192
- Transportation - funding
  - projections, 3059
- Tributes
  - Macphail, Agnes, 2153
  - Rahman, Sharif, 6509
- Unhoused persons
  - government strategy, 430–431
  - homelessness prevention
    - government funding, 6792
- Veterans
  - Remembrance Day, 5987
- Veterans - commemoration
  - events by region
    - Royal Canadian Legion Branch 586, 10372
- Women in politics
  - Macphail, Agnes, 2153
- Working for Workers Five Act, 2024 (Bill 190)
  - second reading, 8975
- Working for Workers Four Act, 2024 (Bill 149)
  - second reading, 6578, 6582–6583, 6589
- Your Health Act, 2023 (Bill 60)
  - third reading, 3998, 4031–4032, 4034–4035

Last updated Thursday, November 21, 2024

House speaker index

Letter: B

Babikian, A. (PC, Scarborough—Agincourt)

Bailey, R. (PC, Sarnia—Lambton)

Barnes, P. (PC, Ajax)

Begum, D. (NDP, Scarborough Southwest)

Bell, J. (NDP, University—Rosedale)

Bethlenfalvy, Hon. P. (PC, Pickering—Uxbridge)

Blais, S. (LIB, Orléans)

Bouma, W. (PC, Brantford—Brant)

Bourgouin, G. (NDP, Mushkegowuk—James Bay)

Bowman, S. (LIB, Don Valley West)

Brady, B.A. (Independent, Haldimand—Norfolk)

Bresee, R. (PC, Hastings—Lennox and Addington)

Burch, J. (NDP, Niagara Centre)

Byers, R. (PC, Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound)