Speaker letter s House Hansard index Parliament 43 Session 1

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Letter: S

Sabawy, S. (PC, Mississauga—Erin Mills)
- Appreciation
  - emergency service providers, 9108
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  - government strategy, 9301
- Automobile thefts
  - government funding, 6602
- Better for Consumers, Better for Businesses Act, 2023 (Bill 142)
  - second reading, 5834, 5860–5865
- Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 (Bill 39)
  - second reading, 1579–1581
- Broadband infrastructure development
  - government strategy, 4604
- Budget 2023/2024
  - contingency and reserve funds, 4305
  - employment services, 4302
  - health care, 3283
  - health care workers
    - international, 3283
  - long-term care, 3283
  - manufacturing, 4301
  - regional allocation
    - Mississauga, 4304
    - Mississauga–Erin Mills, 3283
  - senior citizens, 4301
  - supportive housing, 4302
  - transit, 4301–4302
- Budget speech 2023 (March 23, 2023)
  - responded to, 3282–3283, 3285
- Building a Strong Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 85)
  - second reading, 3110, 3119–3120
  - third reading, 4301–4302, 4304–4305
- Building Infrastructure Safely Act, 2023 (Bill 153)
  - public consultation, 6666, 6667
- Building Infrastructure Safely Act, 2024 (Bill 153)
  - second reading, 6647, 6665–6668
  - third reading, 7173–7175
- Business
  - corporate governance, virtual proceedings, 4604
  - employees, access to housing, 8404–8405
- Business - small- and medium-sized
  - general remarks, 5405
  - by region
    - Mississauga, 7915
- Carbon pricing programs, provincial
  - referendum, 8779
- Carbon tax
  - cost of living, impact on, 5818–5819, 5943
- Carbon tax - impact by industry
  - agri-food, 8987
  - emergency services, 6694
  - natural resources, 9740
  - tourism and hospitality, 9587–9588
- Community events - by region
  - Mississauga–Erin Mills, 2849
- Community safety
  - general remarks, 4799
- Construction industry
  - women in, 9012
- Consumer protection
  - notices of security interest (NOSIs)
    - HVAC equipment, 5834
- Convenient Care at Home Act, 2023 (Bill 135)
  - second reading, 5620
- Cost of living
  - government strategy, 5943
- Court administration - civil
  - small claims court
    - jurisdiction, claims, 3988
- Crime rates
  - general remarks, 4798
- Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act, 2024 (Bill 185)
  - second reading, 8401–8405, 8442
- Dairy industry
  - regulatory environment, 4604, 4606
- Egyptian community
  - events by region
    - Mississauga, 9305
  - general remarks, 1705
- Electric vehicles - manufacturing
  - Project Arrow, 4605
- Emergency management
  - Provincial Emergency Management Strategy and Action Plan
    - emergency exercises, exemptions, 4604
- Employment standards
  - government strategy, 2963–2964
- Enbridge Gas
  - connection cost recovery
    - consumer protection, 7262
    - revenue horizon for, 7274
- Energy transmission
  - line development
    - Indigenous consultation, 4605
- Enhancing Access to Justice Act, 2024 (Bill 157)
  - second reading, 6906
  - third reading, 7478
- Entrepreneurship
  - government strategy, 9431
- Fuel prices - taxation
  - rate reduction, 4301
- Get It Done Act, 2024 (Bill 162)
  - second reading, 7433, 7450–7454
  - third reading, 8777–8779, 8781–8782
- GO Transit - service expansion - by region
  - Milton, 8778
  - Mississauga
    - bidirectional, 8782
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - directives and policies, 4759–4760
- Hate and hate-related activities
  - protection from and prevention, 10313
- Hazel McCallion Act (Peel Dissolution), 2023 (Bill 112)
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 4585–4587
  - third reading, 4744–4748
- Health care
  - access to
    - government strategy, 8516
- Health care infrastructure
  - government funding, 3110
- Helping Homebuyers, Protecting Tenants Act, 2023 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 3632–3636
- Highway 407 ETR
  - tolls
    - transport trucks, 8781–8782
- Highway 413
  - economic impact, 5059–5060, 7451
  - impact on traffic congestion, 7453
- Highway tolls
  - removal of
    - Highway 407, provincially-owned portion, 7454
- Highways and roads
  - traffic congestion
    - government strategy, 8781
- Highways and roads - construction and expansion
  - general remarks, 5587
  - Highway 401, 5587
- Honouring Veterans Act, 2024 (Bill 218)
  - second reading, 10211–10212, 10259–10261
- Housing development
  - building targets, municipalities
    - progress by region
      - Mississauga, 7146–7147
  - density, 8782
  - government strategy, 8403, 8405
- Housing development - approvals and permits
  - timelines, 1579, 8402–8403
    - government strategy, 1662
- Housing development - construction
  - delays
    - factors affecting, 1580
  - government strategy, 1715, 4746
- Housing development - government funding
  - Building Faster Fund, 8404
- Housing development - major transit station areas
  - parking minimums, removal of
    - impact on building costs, 8403
- Housing development - municipal charges
  - development charges, exemptions and discounts
    - impact on affordability, 1662–1663
    - impact on municipalities, 3636
    - statements by stakeholders, 1662
- Housing market
  - interest rates, 8404
- Housing policy
  - government strategy, 1580, 2910, 3644
- Housing supply
  - factors affecting, 1581
  - government strategy, 1664
- Housing supply - population growth projections
  - immigration, 1579, 1662
- Immigrants - access to professions and trades
  - general remarks, 7715
- Immigration
  - impact on labour shortage, 1705
- Improving Real Estate Management Act, 2024 (Bill 151)
  - second reading, 6404–6408
- Independent health facilities - diagnostic and surgical procedures, expansion
  - surgical backlog remediation, 3119–3120, 3285
- Infrastructure development
  - government strategy, 6665–6666
- Infrastructure Ontario (IO)
  - real estate services
    - management of, 6408
- Justice system - reform
  - government strategy, 4798
- Keeping Energy Costs Down Act, 2024 (Bill 165)
  - second reading, 7262, 7274
- Land use planning
  - responsibilities, upper-tier municipalities
    - transferal to lower-tier municipalities, 8402
- Land use planning - environmental assessments
  - infrastructure projects
    - regulatory reform, 8775
- Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB)
  - adjudicators
    - hiring of, 3635
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Economy Act, 2023 (Bill 91)
  - third reading, 4603–4606
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 46)
  - second reading, 1755
- Licence plates
  - validation stickers
    - annual renewal fees
      - refund and elimination, 7452
    - auto-renewal, 8777
- Life sciences industry
  - government strategy, 5215
  - investments in, 5216
- Light Rail Transit (LRT) - Hazel McCallion/Hurontario Line
  - as priority, 8778
- Locates
  - and broadband, 6667
  - dedicated locator model, 7174
  - educating public, 6647
  - fees for, consumer, 6665, 7174
  - fees for, infrastructure owner, 6667–6668
  - timelines, 6666–6668
- Long-term care
  - and aging population, 7068
- Long-term care - standards of care
  - average hours of care
    - increase, 5350
- Members' statements
  - Community safety, 6602
  - Coptic and Egyptian Canadian communities, 1705
  - Events in Mississauga–Erin Mills, 5809, 9305–9306
  - First responders, 9108
  - Government's agenda, 283
  - Government's record, 4759–4760
  - Hate crimes, 10263–10264
  - Health care, 8516
  - Hospital funding, 5339
  - Immigrants' skills, 1705
  - McCallion, Hazel, 2595
  - Member for Mississauga–Erin Mills, 2849
  - Next Generation 9-1-1 Program, 7479
  - Police services, 1256–1257
  - Religious holidays, 3791
  - Riding of Mississauga–Erin Mills, 9984
  - Small business, 5339, 7915
  - Supportive housing, 3791
  - Ukrainian Remembrance Day ceremony, 10263–10264
- Military personnel
  - reservists
    - job protected leave, 2963
- Ministry of Public and Business Services
  - administrative authorities, 7174
- Mississauga
  - general remarks, 4586
- More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 (Bill 23)
  - third reading, 1662–1664
- Municipal restructuring - Peel Region
  - general remarks, 4585–4586, 4745, 4747
  - public consultation, 4747
- Municipal restructuring - Peel Region, reversal
  - transition board
    - role of, 8402
- Municipalities
  - manufacturing and businesses
    - municipal-based assistance, 8403
- 911 services
  - government funding
    - Next Generation 911 (NG-911), 7479
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP)
  - earning exemption, 1987
- Ontario Energy Board
  - pilot and demonstration projects, 4603
- Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT)
  - third party appeals, elimination of, 1663, 8403
- Ontario One Call
  - bylaw changes, 7174–7175
  - liability
    - protection for staff, 7175
  - ministerial authority, 7175
  - role, 6666, 6668
- Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP)
  - grants vs. loans, 7696
- Orthodox Christian community
  - general remarks, 7812
- Peel Regional Police
  - services
    - education and awareness, 1256–1257
- Petitions
  - Manufacturing sector, 10003
  - Police funding, 4579, 4776
- Planning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 150)
  - second reading, 6327
- Police officers - occupational health and safety
  - fatalities, 4798
- Police services
  - government funding, 4795, 4800
- Post-secondary education
  - affordability
    - government strategy, 7696
  - learning materials
    - cost transparency, 7696
  - online learning, 7695
  - policies and reporting, racism and hate, 7695
  - tuition
    - fee freeze, 7695
- Post-secondary education - funding
  - funding streams, 7696–7697
- Post-secondary education - mental health and addictions
  - general remarks, 8888
  - government funding, 8888
    - institutional outcomes, 7696
  - government strategy, 8887
- Post-secondary education - sexual violence and harassment
  - institutional policies, 1291
- Private members' public business
  - Honouring Our Veterans Act, 2023 (Bill 65)
    - second reading, 2845–2846
  - Orthodox Christian Week Act, 2024 (Bill 167)
    - second reading, 7812–7813
- Progress on the Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 36)
  - third reading, 1987
- Progressive Conservative (PC) Party
  - general remarks, 283
- Question period
  - Assisted housing
    - presented, 1322–1323
  - Employment standards
    - presented, 2963–2964
  - Hate crimes
    - responded to, 10313
  - Housing
    - presented, 1715–1716, 2910, 7146–7147
  - Life sciences sector
    - presented, 5215–5216
  - Long-term care
    - presented, 5349–5350, 7068
  - Skilled trades
    - presented, 493, 7000
  - Small business
    - presented, 5405
  - Taxation
    - presented, 5818–5819, 5943, 6694, 8986–8987, 9431, 9587–9588, 9740
  - Transportation infrastructure
    - presented, 5059–5060, 5587, 10334
- Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 (Bill 212)
  - second reading, 9787–9788
- Regional development
  - Mississauga, 4760
- Rental housing - development
  - purpose-built, 7146
- Roads and highways - infrastructure development
  - government strategy, 10334
- Safer Streets, Stronger Communities Act, 2024 (Bill 223)
  - second reading, 10461
- Skilled trades - employment
  - labour shortage
    - government strategy, 7000
  - recruitment and retention, 493
- Skilled trades - recruitment and retention
  - general remarks, 493
  - women, 7000
- Strengthening Accountability and Student Supports Act, 2024 (Bill 166)
  - second reading, 7695–7697
  - third reading, 8887–8888
- Strengthening Cyber Security and Building Trust in the Public Sector Act, 2024 (Bill 194)
  - second reading, 9301
- Strengthening Post-secondary Institutions and Students Act, 2022 (Bill 26)
  - second reading, 1278, 1291
- Strengthening Safety and Modernizing Justice Act, 2023 (Bill 102)
  - second reading, 3988
  - third reading, 4795, 4798–4800
- Supportive housing - development
  - development and construction, 1322–1323
- Time allocation motions
  - Hazel McCallion Act (Peel Dissolution), 2023 (Bill 112)
    - responded to, 4585–4587
- Tributes
  - McCallion, Hazel, 2595
- Ukrainian Heritage Month Act, 2024 (Bill 215)
  - first reading, 10000
- Unhoused persons
  - support programs and services
    - government funding, 3791
- Veterans - commemoration
  - Remembrance Day and Remembrance Week, 2846
    - education and awareness, 2846
- Victims of crime
  - civil action
    - without criminal prosecution, 6906
  - emotional distress, presumption of
    - eligible crimes, 7478
- Working for Workers Five Act, 2024 (Bill 190)
  - second reading, 9012
- Working for Workers Four Act, 2024 (Bill 149)
  - third reading, 7711–7712, 7714–7716
Sandhu, A. (PC, Brampton West)
- Affordable Homes and Good Jobs Act, 2023 (Bill 134)
  - second reading, 5288, 5298
- Affordable housing
  - near transit, 7869
- Agri-food industry
  - government strategy, 5154–5155
- Appreciation
  - Mukti Foundation, 4380–4381
  - Prasher, Lajpat Rai, 10036
- Automobile thefts
  - government response, 2606–2607, 7205
  - intergovernmental collaboration, 7206
- Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act, 2023 (Bill 98)
  - second reading, 3715–3716
- Blood and blood products - donation and collection
  - plasma, 2154
- Broadband infrastructure development
  - government strategy, 6628–6629
  - northern and rural Ontario, 6629
  - regulatory reform, 3474
- Broadband infrastructure development - funding
  - general remarks, 3479, 3837, 6378, 6816, 8496
- Budget 2022/2023
  - infrastructure, 202
- Budget 2023/2024
  - automotive
    - battery production, 4407
  - doctors, 4407
  - geopolitical environment, 4408
  - health care, 4407
  - infrastructure, 4407
  - senior citizens, 4407–4408
  - transit, 4407
- Building a Strong Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 85)
  - third reading, 4406–4408
- Building a Strong Ontario Together Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 146)
  - second reading, 6098, 6104
- Building Infrastructure Safely Act, 2024 (Bill 153)
  - second reading, 6628–6629
- Cancer
  - education and awareness
    - breast cancer, 1449–1450
- Carbon tax
  - cost of living, impact on, 8427
  - fuel prices, impact on, 7486
- Carbon tax - impact by industry
  - manufacturing, 9378
- Colleges and universities
  - college awards
    - recipients, 2162–2163
- Cost of living
  - government strategy, 1420
- Debates re answers to question period
  - Public transit
    - responded to, 7869–7870
- Diabetes
  - education and awareness
    - Diabetes Awareness Month, 1145
- Doctors - recruitment and retention
  - general remarks, 3432
- Drugs - illegal
  - trafficking
    - government response, 594
    - law enforcement
      - police funding, 594
- Education - secondary
  - graduation requirements
    - technical education, 3716
- Food banks - usage
  - donation drives
    - Brampton West Youth Council food drive, 2957
    - Khalso Aid, 3902
- Fuel prices - taxation
  - rate reduction, extension, 1606
- GO Transit - stations
  - construction, 5163
    - station contribution fees, 5223, 6497–6498
- Government orders
  - Attacks on Israel
    - amendment to the amendment
      - responded to, 5485–5486
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - infrastructure policy, 3838
- Heritage properties
  - places of worship
    - regulations, 5694
- Highway 413
  - economic impact, 3313–3314
  - general remarks, 6817, 9924
  - government strategy, 391–392
- Home ownership
  - foreign investors
    - federal regulations, 1005
- Hospitals - capital projects
  - government funding, 3837
- Hospitals - construction by region
  - Brampton, 9576
- Housing development - construction
  - government strategy, 8495
  - infrastructure development
    - government funding, 10047
      - housing costs, impact on, 10047
- Housing market
  - speculation taxes
    - Non-Resident Speculation Tax, increase, 1005
- Immigrants
  - housing, access, 5288
- Improving Real Estate Management Act, 2024 (Bill 151)
  - second reading, 6376–6379, 6390
  - third reading, 8493–8497
- Infrastructure development
  - capital projects, 6815–6816
    - government funding, 2514
  - delivery models, 3838
  - general remarks, 6814–6815
  - government strategy, 8494
- Infrastructure development - funding
  - general remarks, 3837, 6815
  - housing-enabling
    - municipal, 8495
- Infrastructure development - public-private partnerships (P3)
  - general remarks, 3839, 8496
- Infrastructure policy
  - government strategy, 3839
- Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program (ICIP)
  - general remarks, 3838
- Israel
  - attacks on (October 7, 2023), 5485
    - Canadian victims, 5486
- Keeping Students in Class Act, 2022 (Bill 28)
  - second reading, 1188
- Less Red Tape, More Common Sense Act, 2023 (Bill 139)
  - second reading, 5694, 5750
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Economy Act, 2023 (Bill 91)
  - second reading, 3474, 3479
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 46)
  - second reading, 1840–1841
- Locates
  - and broadband, 6629
- Long-term care facilities - construction
  - by region
    - Brampton, 414
- Members' statements
  - Bandi Chhor Divas, 6053
  - Brampton athletes, 10220
  - Brampton West Youth Council, 2483
  - Brampton West Youth Council food drive, 2957
  - Cancer Warrior Canada Foundation, 1449–1450
  - Diabetes Awareness Month, 1145
  - Diwali, 6053
  - Events in Brampton, 5696–5697
  - Events in Brampton West, 5267
  - Fiscal and economic policy, 1606
  - Government investments, 9576
  - Gurpurab, 6764
  - International Women's Day, 7827
  - Khalsa Aid, 3902, 8735
  - Mother's Day, 9163
  - Mukti Foundation, 4380–4381
  - Municipalities, 388
  - Plasma collection, 2154
  - Prasher, Lajpat Rai, 10036
  - Public transit, 7351
  - Sikh Heritage Month, 3424, 8241
- More Beds, Better Care Act, 2022 (Bill 7)
  - second reading, 414
- More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 (Bill 23)
  - second reading, 902
- Municipal-provincial relations
  - Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) conference, 388
- New Deal for Toronto Act, 2023 (Bill 154)
  - second reading, 6814–6818
- Ontario Community Infrastructure Fund (OCIF)
  - general remarks, 3837
- Ontario Place - redevelopment, 5317–5319
  - environmental impact
    - government strategy, 6817
  - general remarks, 6817–6818, 9053
  - government strategy, 6816–6818
  - ministerial authority, 6817
  - stakeholder consultations, 5317–5318, 6817, 9053
- Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 2)
  - second reading, 202
- Private members' public business
  - Trucking safety
    - presented, 10245–10247
    - responded to, 10251
- Progress on the Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 36)
  - second reading, 1420
- Public assets
  - centralization, entities
    - transferal to Ministry of Infrastructure, 3838, 3840
  - real estate management
    - centralization, 8494–8495
- Public assets - surplus
  - sale of, 6378–6379
- Question period
  - Agri-food industry
    - presented, 5154–5155
  - Community safety
    - presented, 594
  - Crime prevention
    - presented, 2606–2607
  - Government accountability
    - responded to, 8055–8056
  - Government advertising
    - responded to, 10046
  - Health care post-secondary education
    - presented, 3432–3433
  - Highway construction
    - presented, 3313–3314, 9924–9925
  - Housing
    - presented, 1005
  - Infrastructure funding
    - responded to, 10047
  - Ontario Place
    - responded to, 5317–5319, 9053–9054
  - Public safety
    - presented, 7205–7206
  - Student achievement
    - presented, 2162–2163
  - Taxation
    - presented, 7486, 8427, 9378
  - Transportation infrastructure
    - presented, 391–392
  - Transportation infrastructure and housing
    - responded to, 5223
- Reducing Inefficiencies Act (Infrastructure Statute Law Amendments), 2023 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 2513–2514, 2560, 2568
  - third reading, 3836–3840
- School facilities - maintenance and repair
  - government funding, 10046
- Sewage and wastewater infrastructure
  - and housing development
    - government funding, 8495
- Sikh community
  - education and awareness
    - Sikh Heritage Month, 8241
  - general remarks, 3424
- Strengthening Safety and Modernizing Justice Act, 2023 (Bill 102)
  - second reading, 3965
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022 (Bill 3)
  - second reading, 178
- Toronto Metropolitan University
  - Brampton medical school, 9576
- Transit
  - fare system, integration
    - One Fare program, 7351
  - government strategy, 7869–7870
  - regional integration, 5182–5183
- Transit infrastructure development
  - government funding, 6377
- Transit-oriented communities
  - development of
    - government strategy, 5178, 5223, 8495–8496
    - by region
      - Toronto, 6815
  - government strategy, 7869
- Transportation for the Future Act, 2023 (Bill 131)
  - second reading, 5163, 5168, 5178, 5182–5183
  - third reading, 6469, 6497–6498
- Transportation infrastructure development
  - government funding, 3837
- Waterfront Toronto development
  - general remarks, 6816
- Women
  - education and awareness
    - International Women's Day, 7827
- Working for Workers Act, 2023 (Bill 79)
  - second reading, 2995
- Your Health Act, 2023 (Bill 60)
  - second reading, 2271
Sarkaria, Hon. P.S. (PC, Brampton South)
- Airports
  - northern Ontario
    - operational funding, 8364
- Automobile thefts
  - penalties, 9322
  - rate of, 9322
- Bicycles
  - bike lanes
    - government strategy, 9783, 9789
  - e-bikes
    - classification, 9323
- Bradford Bypass
  - traffic congestion, impact on, 7505
- Brampton
  - infrastructure development, 3804
- Bridges
  - Little Current Swing Bridge replacement, 10230
  - maintenance and repair
    - Argyle Street Bridge (Caledonia), 6998, 9801
- Budget 2022/2023
  - health care
    - health human resources, 2870
- Carbon pricing programs, provincial
  - referendum, 8754
- Carbon tax
  - cost of living, impact on, 7414
  - fuel prices, impact on, 6875, 7486
  - impact on cost of living, 7371
  - northern and rural Ontario, impact on, 7886
- Carbon tax - impact by industry
  - trucking, 6613, 7300–7301, 7502, 7549, 7610–7611, 8249
- Cost of living
  - government strategy, 7098
- Cycling infrastructure - bike lanes
  - removal
    - and traffic congestion, 9994
- Doctors - education and training, medical schools
  - by region
    - Brampton, 2871
- Driver's licences
  - fees, 7501, 8754
  - test fees
    - freeze, 9786
- Driving - careless/distracted
  - penalties, 9322
- Driving - impaired
  - penalties, 9321–9322
  - statistics, 9321
- Electric vehicles
  - and emission reductions, 6438
- Emergency management
  - Provincial Emergency Management Strategy and Action Plan, 2545–2546
- Expenditure estimates
  - accountability and transparency, 2869
  - approval process, 2870
- Financial Accountability Office (FAO)
  - reports
    - Expenditure Monitor 2022-23: Q2, 1778
- Get It Done Act, 2024 (Bill 162)
  - first reading, 7105–7106
  - second reading, 7368–7372, 7377–7378
  - third reading, 8752–8755, 8760–8761
- Go Transit - service expansion
  - general remarks, 7370, 8476
- GO Transit - service expansion
  - government funding, 5277
  - government strategy, 5319
  - Kitchener, 5277, 6368
- GO Transit - service expansion - by region
  - Milton, 7507
- Government contracts
  - public procurement directives
    - Ontario businesses, 4769–4770
- Government expenditures
  - program spending
    - FAO report: Expenditure Monitor 2022-23: Q2, 1778
- Hazel McCallion Act (Peel Dissolution), 2023 (Bill 112)
  - third reading, 4815–4818
- Health care funding
  - general remarks, 3317–3318
- Health care system
  - capital projects, 226
  - government funding, 396, 441
  - government strategy, 2024–2025
  - health human resources
    - government strategy, 1867, 1958, 2620, 2870
- Health care system - capacity
  - services
    - government strategy, 34
- Health care workers - recruitment and retention
  - general remarks, 3549
  - government funding, 346, 446
  - government strategy, 31, 87, 222, 2379–2380
- Highway 11
  - 2+1 system
    - pilot program, 7506
  - widening of, 7506
- Highway 413
  - economic impact, 5059–5060, 5276, 8478
  - environmental assessment, 9782
  - general remarks, 5109, 7549
  - impact on commute times, 8521
  - traffic congestion, impact on, 7504–7505
- Highway construction and expansion
  - Highway 7, 7506
  - Highway 17, 7506
  - Highway 401 widening, 7505
- Highway tolls
  - prohibition of, 8753
  - removal of, 7371, 7377, 7501
- Highways and roads
  - rest areas, 9785
  - tow-zone pilot, 9783
  - traffic congestion
    - statistics, 8752
- Highways and roads - construction and expansion
  - general remarks, 5587–5588, 7369
  - government strategy, 9784–9785
  - Highway 69 widening, 10115–10116
  - Highway 401 widening, 5587
  - timelines
    - government strategy, 9739
- Highways and roads - infrastructure
  - traffic congestion, 7504
- Highways and roads - infrastructure development
  - timelines
    - government strategy, 9801
- Highways and roads - maintenance and repair
  - pothole prevention and repair program, 9784
- Highways and roads safety
  - government strategy, 6778, 7485–7486
  - Highway 11/17, 6688
  - passing, unsafe
    - enforcement, 6778
  - regulations
    - fines and penalties, 5001–5002
- Hospitals - capital projects
  - government funding, 1866, 2871
- Hospitals - capital projects by region
  - Windsor, 93
- Housing development - approvals and permits
  - process reform, 8753
- Licence plates
  - validation stickers
    - annual renewal fees
      - refund and elimination, 7501
    - auto-renewal, 7501
- Light Rail Transit (LRT) - Eglinton Crosstown
  - general remarks, 7507, 9481
- Light Rail Transit (LRT) - Hazel McCallion/Hurontario Line
  - general remarks, 7507
  - as priority, 8753
- Mines and mining industry
  - approvals and permits process, 8754
- Ministry of Transportation
  - enforcement officers
    - role and duties, 9323
- Municipal restructuring - Peel Region
  - public consultation, 4816–4817
  - services, impact on, 4816
- Nurses - recruitment and retention
  - government strategy, 34
- Ontario English Catholic Teachers Assoc. v His Majesty, 2022, ONSC 6658
  - judgment, Superior Court of Justice (ONSC)
    - government response, 1823, 1827, 1866
- Opposition day motions
  - Highway tolls
    - responded to, 7500–7508
- Photo ID cards
  - fees, 8754
- Police services
  - role and duties
    - impaired driving, 9322
- Presto fare payment system
  - payment options
    - expansion of, 5594
- Private members' public business
  - Trucking safety
    - responded to, 10249
- Question period
  - Court decision
    - responded to, 1823, 1827–1828, 1866–1867
  - Cycling infrastructure
    - responded to, 9994–9995
  - Driver examination centres
    - responded to, 7485–7486
  - Emergency preparedness
    - responded to, 2545–2546
  - Employment standards
    - responded to, 346, 446, 3317–3318
  - Executive compensation
    - responded to, 8190
  - GO Transit
    - responded to, 5277, 5319, 6368
  - Government accountability
    - responded to, 10266–10268, 10306–10307
  - Government appointments
    - responded to, 5463, 5939–5940, 6995–6996
  - Government contract
    - responded to, 5151
  - Government contracts
    - responded to, 4769–4770
  - Government investments
    - responded to, 1778
  - Government's record
    - responded to, 9738, 9847
  - Health care
    - responded to, 441, 1958, 2024–2025
  - Health care funding
    - responded to, 1317–1318
  - Health care workers
    - responded to, 34, 2379–2380, 3549
  - Highway safety
    - responded to, 6688, 6778, 7148–7149
  - Highway tolls
    - responded to, 7483, 7549, 7552–7553, 7606–7607, 8521, 10305–10306
  - Hospital services
    - responded to, 31, 87, 92–93
  - Infrastructure funding
    - responded to, 3804
  - Land use planning
    - responded to, 5109, 5276
  - Licence plates
    - responded to, 5996
  - Northern airports
    - responded to, 8364
  - Northern economy
    - responded to, 9548
  - Northern highway improvement
    - responded to, 10115–10116
  - Northern municipal infrastructure
    - responded to, 10119
  - Nurses
    - responded to, 222–223, 226, 396
  - Public transit
    - responded to, 5320–5322, 5410, 5523, 5593–5594, 6875–6876, 6913, 6916–6917, 7100–7101, 7358–7359, 7661, 7836–7837, 8190, 8476–8477, 8645–8646, 9481, 9677–9678, 10384
  - Region of Peel
    - responded to, 8921
  - Road safety
    - responded to, 5001–5002, 9682–9683, 9746
  - Taxation
    - responded to, 6438–6439, 6613, 6875, 7300–7301, 7486, 7610–7611, 7728–7729, 7886, 8249
  - Transportation infrastructure
    - responded to, 5059–5060, 5587–5588, 6998, 7098, 7360, 7413–7414, 8478, 9738–9739, 9801, 10229–10230
  - Trucking safety
    - responded to, 5998–5999, 8523
  - Women's employment
    - responded to, 2720
- Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 (Bill 212)
  - first reading, 9684
  - second reading, 9781–9783, 9789–9790
- Safer Roads and Communities Act, 2024 (Bill 197)
  - first reading, 9224
  - second reading, 9321–9323
  - third reading, 10363–10366
- Supply Act, 2023 (Bill 77)
  - first reading, 2807
  - second reading, 2869–2871
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) - expansion
  - general remarks, 7836–7837, 8190
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) expansion - Ontario Line
  - general remarks, 5410, 7506–7507
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) expansion - Scarborough subway extension
  - general remarks, 7507
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) expansion - Yonge North extension
  - general remarks, 7506–7507
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) - subway
  - expansion, 6995
- Transit
  - fare system, affordability
    - government strategy, 5594
  - fare system, integration
    - One Fare program, 7502–7503
- Transit development
  - government strategy, 7377
- Transit infrastructure development
  - and emission reductions, 6439
  - infrastructure expansion, 5151, 5463, 6875–6876, 6916–6917
- Transit infrastructure development - by region
  - Toronto, 5523
- Transit systems
  - fare payment system
    - use of credit cards, 7503
- Transportation
  - affordability
    - government strategy, 7360, 7552
- Transportation infrastructure
  - government strategy, 7370
- Transportation infrastructure development
  - government strategy, 7098, 7500–7508
- Trucking industry
  - driver training, 8523
  - road safety
    - government strategy, 5998–5999, 7148–7149, 9682–9683, 9746
  - road safety, enforcement
    - inspection stations - by region
      - Shuniah, 9323
- Veterans
  - service recognition
    - Veterans’ Licence Plate program, vehicle eligibility, 5996
Sarrazin, S. (PC, Glengarry—Prescott—Russell)
- Building Infrastructure Safely Act, 2024 (Bill 153)
  - second reading, 6625–6628
- Carbon tax
  - economic impact, 6880–6881
  - fuel prices, impact on
    - northern and rural Ontario, 8009
  - home heating, impact on cost of
    - natural gas and propane, 6696
- Carbon tax - impact by industry
  - tourism and hospitality, 8580
- Electricity rates
  - affordability support programs
    - Ontario Electricity Rebate, 7609
- Electricity supply
  - government strategy, 6625–6627
- French-language debates
  - Affaires d'intérêt public émanant des députées et députés
    - Loi de 2023 sur le soutien aux journaux communautaires, ruraux et agricoles de l’Ontario, projet de loi 73
      - deuxième lecture, 3171–3172, 3176
    - Taxation, 7705–7706
  - Déclarations des députées et députés
    - Ambulanciers paramédicaux, 9255–9256
    - Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie, 1146, 2483–2484
    - Décès de Marc Clermont et Raymond Fredette, 733
    - Élection municipale, 733
    - Élections municipales, 1146
    - Événements divers à Glengarry–Prescott–Russell, 4913, 9919
    - Expo Hawkesbury, 6053
    - Fusillade à Bourget, 4213
    - Gouvernement municipal, 1607
    - Jour des Franco-Ontariens et des Franco-Ontariennes, 5267–5268
    - Journée internationale de la Francophonie, 7826
    - Lalonde, Jean-Yves, 8791
    - Message d’appréciation pour les bénévoles et le personnel, 2115–2116
    - Mois de la Francophonie, 7479
    - Petites entreprises, 5697
    - Premiers intervenants, 4322
    - Semaine de la Francophonie, 2958
    - Semaine de l’action bénévole, 8352
    - Services pour l’autisme, 3902
  - Government orders
    - Appointment of House officers / Committee membership, 307–309
    - Attaques en Israël
      - amendment to the amendment, 5490–5492
  - Jour de l'opposition
    - Changement climatique, 6282–6284
  - Loi de 2022 pour des maires forts et pour la construction de logements, projet de loi 3
    - troisième lecture, 757–761
  - Loi de 2022 pour plus de lits et de meilleurs soins, projet de loi 7
    - deuxième lecture, 406–409
  - Loi de 2023 visant à bâtir un Ontario fort ensemble (mesures budgétaires), projet de loi 146
    - deuxième lecture, 6138
  - Loi de 2023 visant à bâtir un Ontario fort (mesures budgétaires), projet de loi 85
    - deuxième lecture, 3160
  - Loi de 2023 visant à oeuvrer pour les travailleurs, quatre, projet de loi 149
    - deuxième lecture, 6424–6425
  - Loi de 2023 visant l’aménagement de davantage de mines, projet de loi 71
    - deuxième lecture, 2709–2713, 2759–2760
  - Loi de 2024 sur le désengorgement du réseau routier et le gain de temps, projet de loi 212
    - deuxième lecture, 9960
  - Loi de 2024 visant à maintenir la facture énergétique à un niveau abordable, projet de loi 165
    - deuxième lecture, 7266–7267, 7329
  - Période de questions
    - Affaires francophones, 349, 2551–2552
    - Développement du nord de l’Ontario, 2122
    - Entrepreneuriat francophone, 1459–1460
    - Imposition, 8362
    - Services en français, 2860–2861
- Government orders
  - Appointment of House officers / Committee membership
    - responded to, 308–309
- Health care
  - men, education and awareness, 10328
- Health care funding
  - general remarks, 409
- Highways and roads - infrastructure development
  - northern Ontario, 2121
- Home heating
  - affordability programs
    - Clean Home Heating Initiative, 6695
  - heat pumps, 7267
- Keeping Energy Costs Down Act, 2024 (Bill 165)
  - second reading, 7264–7267, 7320, 7323, 7333, 7341–7342
  - third reading, 8950
- Legislative Assembly
  - virtual tours, 7915
- Locates
  - fees for, consumer, 6625–6626
- Long-term care - beds, development and redevelopment
  - by region
    - Glengarry–Prescott–Russell, 408
- Long-term care - staff
  - recruitment and retention
    - government funding, 407–408
- Long-term care - standards of care
  - average hours of care
    - government funding, 407–408
- Members' statements
  - Events in Glengarry–Prescott–Russell, 387
  - Legislative Assembly of Ontario virtual tours, 7915
  - Movember Foundation, 10328
  - Remembrance Day, 6053
  - Senior citizens' housing, 6764–6765
  - Small business, 5697
- Members'/ministers' constituencies
  - Glengarry–Prescott–Russell, 387
- Mining industry
  - recruitment and retention, 2712
- Mining industry - Indigenous communities
  - Indigenous consultation and consent, 2712–2713
- More Beds, Better Care Act, 2022 (Bill 7)
  - second reading, 407–408
- Natural gas
  - use of, 8950
    - as part of energy policy, 7265
- Newspapers
  - legal notices, publication of
    - circulation criteria, 3171–3172
  - "newspaper," definition of, 3172
    - statements by stakeholders, 3172
- Nuclear energy industry
  - and the environment, 5504–5505
- Nuclear generation facilities - small modular reactors (SMRs)
  - government strategy, 6626–6628
- Ontario Energy Board
  - regulatory reform, 7266
- Ontario One Call
  - role, 6625–6626
- Private members' public business
  - Nuclear energy
    - responded to, 5504–5505
  - Supporting Ontario's Community, Rural and Agricultural Newspapers Act, 2023 (Bill 73)
    - second reading, 3171–3172, 3176
  - Taxation
    - responded to, 7705
- Question period
  - Northern Ontario development
    - presented, 2121
  - Skilled trades
    - presented, 9998–9999
  - Taxation
    - presented, 8008–8009, 8641, 9217
    - responded to, 6695–6696, 6880–6881, 7609, 8580
- Senior citizens - housing
  - by region
    - Glengarry–Prescott–Russell, 6764–6765
- Skilled trades - recruitment and retention
  - women, 9999
  - youth, 9998–9999
- Steel industry
  - green steelmaking, 6625–6626
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022 (Bill 3)
  - third reading, 760
- Supporting Ontario's Community, Rural and Agricultural Newspapers Act, 2023 (Bill 73)
  - first reading, 2609
- Veterans - commemoration
  - Remembrance Day and Remembrance Week, 6053
Sattler, P. (NDP, London West)
- Affordable Energy Act, 2024 (Bill 214)
  - second reading, 10072, 10080, 10083
- Affordable Homes and Good Jobs Act, 2023 (Bill 134)
  - second reading, 5209, 5302–5303
  - third reading, 6845, 6852, 6855
- Affordable housing
  - housing type
    - reports and recommendations, stakeholders, 6852
  - non-market housing, amount of
    - vs. other jurisdictions, 7648
- Affordable housing - by region
  - London, 2328, 4839
- Affordable housing - non-market housing
  - government role in, 948
  - vs. market housing, 946–947
- Agricultural land - conservation
  - general remarks, 1918
- Agricultural land - development on
  - general remarks, 1818, 1841
- Agricultural land - zoning
  - agricultural impact assessments, 1917
- Alternate-level-of-care (ALC) patients
  - placement of, 366
- Alternate-level-of-care (ALC) patients - transfer to long-term care facilities
  - consent, 380, 382
    - sharing of personal health information, 380
  - impact on patient care, 596
  - patient consultation and consent, 596
  - patient refusal
    - billing structure, 380
- Alternate-level-of-care (ALC) patients - transfer to long-term care facilities, non-preferred home
  - appeals, 380
  - patient consultations, 380
  - regulations, distance, 380
  - regulations, use of physical restraints
    - not-authorized, 380, 382
  - statements from stakeholders, 380
- Ambulance services
  - "code zero," increase in, 990
  - regional shortages, 990
- Ambulance services - offload services, delays, 990, 1341
  - funding
    - by region, Niagara, 4318
- Animal welfare
  - humane societies and shelters
    - Humane Society of London and Middlesex
      - government funding, 8540
  - zoos and wild and exotic animals, 8551
- Apprenticeships
  - training programs, secondary students
    - student safety, 9018
- Bail program
  - firearms and intimate partner offences, recidivism, 3347
- Bail program - offenders
  - recidivism
    - firearms and intimate partner offences, 3347
- Better for Consumers, Better for Businesses Act, 2023 (Bill 142)
  - second reading, 5875–5876, 5949–5951, 5960
- Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 (Bill 39)
  - second reading, 1476, 1491, 1503
  - third reading, 2074, 2136
- Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act, 2023 (Bill 98)
  - amendments
    - consideration of, 4942
  - committee submissions, 4948
  - second reading, 3691–3695, 3698, 3709
  - stakeholder consultation, 3692, 3709, 4948
    - statements by stakeholder, 3695
  - statements by stakeholders, 4948
  - third reading, 4942, 4947–4951
- Bill C-233 An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Judges Act (violence against an intimate partner)
  - Kiera's Law, 3949
- Black community
  - Black History Month
    - activities by region
      - London, 7403
- Board of Internal Economy
  - administrative authority
    - legislature staff, 2017
  - administrative authority, expansion, 2019
    - legislative precinct, 2047
    - scope of, 2019, 2047
  - composition of, 2019, 2048
- Broadband infrastructure development
  - government strategy, 7166
- Budget 2022/2023
  - health care, 620
- Budget 2023/2024
  - accountability and transparency, 4433
  - correctional services
    - post-release supports, 3211
  - cost of living, 3286
  - doctors, 4354
  - employment, 4431
  - gender-based budgeting
    - statements by stakeholders, 4431
  - gender-based violence, 4433
  - health care, 4432
    - independent health clinics, 3209
  - independent health clinics, 3209
  - regional allocation
    - London, 3209
  - senior citizens, 3211
  - social assistance programs, 4433
  - supportive housing, 3185, 3209–3210, 4431–4432
- Budget speech 2023 (March 23, 2023)
  - responded to, 3271–3272, 3279, 3282, 3286
- Budget speech 2024 (March 26, 2024)
  - responded to, 8081–8084, 8340
- Building a Better Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 180)
  - second reading, 8168–8169
- Building a Strong Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 85)
  - second reading, 3185, 3209–3211
  - third reading, 4318, 4346, 4354, 4361, 4431–4433
- Building a Strong Ontario Together Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 146)
  - second reading, 6081, 6085, 6089, 6093, 6095, 6098, 6105, 6118, 6128
- Building Infrastructure Safely Act, 2024 (Bill 153)
  - third reading, 7166
- Building More Mines Act, 2023 (Bill 71)
  - second reading, 2765
  - third reading, 4121
- Building Ontario For You Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 216)
  - second reading, 10107
- Canada Christian College
  - accreditation
    - conflict of interest, 5777
  - international student study permits, 8642
- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms - s. 33: notwithstanding clause
  - use of, 1059
    - historically, 1059
- Canadian Mental Health Association
  - government funding, 2613
- Cannabis production
  - home cultivation, restrictions
    - child care facilities, 7043
- Carpentry
  - education and certifications
    - completion timeline, 2329
- Child care
  - availability of, 9315
    - by region
      - London, 4771
- Child care - spaces
  - access, 2328
- Child care - staff
  - Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day, 9842
  - shortage, 2328
  - shortages regional
    - impact on wait-list, 4771
- Children and youth
  - community events and initiatives
    - by region
      - London, 4254
- Children and youth in care
  - kin placements, 8711–8712
  - mental health care, 8692, 8711
  - preventative measures, 8711–8713
- Children's aid societies
  - Children's Aid Society of London & Middlesex
    - mental health and addiction services, 8592–8593
- City of Toronto Act, 2006, SO 2006, c 11, s A.
  - rental replacement bylaw, 946
- Climate change
  - cost projections, 2572
  - impact of, 2060
- Climate change - cost of
  - projections, 2572
- Colleges and universities
  - board of governors
    - term limits, 5760, 6245–6246, 6346
  - government funding, 6176–6177, 6268, 8005, 8679
  - hate-related incidents
    - reporting to government, 8679–8680
  - international students, 6246
  - public-private partner agreements, colleges, 7646
    - reports and recommendations, 7646–7647
  - recruitment and retention, 8679
- Committee procedure
  - membership
    - selection process, 275
- Committee procedure - standing committees of the Legislature
  - scheduling
    - member requests, 2017
  - voting, 2017
- Committee process - standing committees of the Legislature
  - amendments
    - consideration of, 2016
  - witness application deadlines, 2016
- Community housing
  - access
    - by region
      - London, 4845
- Community services
  - government funding, 4346
- Conservation authorities
  - and climate change, 947
  - role in development process
    - authority and jurisdiction, 947
- Construction industry
  - work sites
    - menstrual products availability, 9017
    - washroom facility access, 3028
- Consumer protection
  - advocate, creation of, 5950
  - credit reports, 5873–5874
  - door-to-door sales
    - regulation and enforcement, 5950
  - food prices
    - regulation and enforcement, 5949
  - regulation and enforcement, 5875–5876, 5950–5951, 5960
- Contraception
  - free access
    - impact on health care costs, 6827
- Convenient Care at Home Act, 2023 (Bill 135)
  - second reading, 5641, 5645
- Coroners
  - construction-related deaths
    - annual review, 7042
      - recommendations, implementation of, 7048
- Coroner's inquests
  - construction-related deaths, 7042
  - Culleton, Kuzyk & Warmerdam Inquest
    - jury recommendations, 1413, 1425, 1848, 3347–3348, 5697, 6987, 7042
  - recommendations
    - implementation of, 7044
- Correctional facilities
  - living conditions in, 3348
- Cost of living
  - government strategy, 1342
  - northern Ontario, 3210
  - students, 6247
- Court administration
  - legal representation
    - self-represented litigants, impact of, 7041–7042
- Court administration - backlogs, 1791
  - general remarks, 1791
  - impact of, 7041
- COVID-19 - essential service workers
  - manufacturing industry
    - fatalities, 1000, 1697
- Credit unions and caisses populaires, regulations
  - general remarks, 6248
- Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act, 2024 (Bill 185)
  - third reading, 9503
- Cybersecurity
  - public agencies
    - government funding, 9732
- Doctors
  - administrative responsibilities, 7749
  - recruitment and retention, 7749
  - shortage, 7749
    - by region
      - London, 9016
- Doctors - family doctors
  - access, by region
    - London, 7729
  - access to, 8168
  - administrative responsibilities, 8083
  - shortage, 6211
    - London, 6244–6245
- Doctors - primary care
  - shortage, 379, 6244–6245
  - shortage, by region
    - London, 6244–6245
- Early childhood educators (ECEs)
  - government funding, 4950
- Education
  - student support programs
    - access, 3694
      - statements by stakeholders, 3693
- Education funding
  - general remarks, 4949, 6093, 6095, 9068
  - Grants for Student Needs (GSN), 3692–3693
  - inflation, 3698
  - program allocation
    - statements by stakeholders, 866
- Education funding - special education
  - general remarks, 3695
- Education - mental health
  - students, 3692
  - students, access, 3692, 4950–4951, 5307
- Education policy
  - stakeholder consultation, 4950
- Education - special education services
  - access, 3695
- Education workers - collective bargaining
  - back-to-work legislation
    - impact on labour rights, 1060
- Education workers - compensation
  - cost of living, 1059, 1061
- Elections
  - general election (2022)
    - voter turnout, 275
- Electric vehicle infrastructure
  - general remarks, 2330
- Electricians
  - training and apprenticeships
    - Certificate of Qualification exam, delays, 5593
- Electricity rates
  - affordability, 2060
- Employment - COVID-19
  - sick days, paid, 1696–1697
    - as infection control measure, 1697
    - provincial program, 1701, 3010
    - provincial program, extension of, 1697
    - provincial program, termination of, 2954, 2991, 3035, 3220
  - sick days vs. self-isolation requirements
    - provincial program, 1697
- Employment standards
  - disclosure
    - salaries, public-posted positions, 6427–6428
  - enforcement
    - fines, 9019
  - gig workers, 9018, 9025
    - wage protections, 6352
  - harassment, definition, 9017
    - enforcement, 9019
  - lost wage claims
    - enforcement, 3028–3029, 3212
  - sick days, number of, 8913, 9016
  - sick notes, 9015–9017
- Employment Standards Act, 2000, SO, c 41
  - scope of, 3212
- Employment standards - sick days
  - access, 1697, 1701
  - amount of, 681, 2494
  - economic impact, 1697–1698
  - general remarks, 515–516, 620, 1716, 3035, 3271–3272, 4432
  - impact on school-based transmission, 2005
  - as infection control measure, 398, 3213
  - in other jurisdictions, 1716
  - sick days, paid, 1716, 3035, 3271–3272, 4432
    - access, 1697, 1701
    - amount of, 681, 2494
    - economic impact, 1697–1698
    - for infectious diseases, 398
    - in other jurisdictions, 1716
- Employment standards - wage theft
  - protections, 6222
- Enbridge gas - natural gas rate application denial
  - government response, 8857, 8951
- Enhancing Access to Justice Act, 2024 (Bill 157)
  - second reading, 6987–6988, 7029–7030, 7041–7044, 7048
  - third reading, 7544
- Enhancing Professional Care for Animals Act, 2024 (Bill 171)
  - second reading, 7849
  - third reading, 9205–9206, 9287
- Environmental policy
  - climate emergency
    - declaration of, 2569–2570
- Erin's Law (Child Sexual Abuse Prevention and Reporting), 2023 (Bill 123)
  - public consultation, 5307
- Family law
  - professionals, continuing education
    - family violence, 1848–1849
- Financial Accountability Office (FAO)
  - reports
    - Economic and Budget Outlook (Fall 2022), 1343
- Flemming College
  - government funding
    - and program reductions, 8806
- Flood management
  - conservation authorities, role in, 947
- Food banks
  - community supports
    - by region
      - London, 2114
- Food banks - usage
  - demographics, 1342
  - rates, 4171, 5949
- Food - local
  - Black Walnut Bakery Café, 3662
- Gender equity
  - general remarks, 5118–5119
- Gender-based violence
  - femicide
    - number of, 7042
  - prevalence of, 1344
  - support services
    - access, 7042–7043
    - operational funding, 7043
- Gender-based violence - prevention
  - general remarks, 3950
- Get It Done Act, 2024 (Bill 162)
  - second reading, 7393, 7439, 7456, 7459
  - third reading, 8760
- GO Transit - service expansion - by region
  - Kitchener-Waterloo, 6497
  - London, 6472, 6494–6495
- GO Transit - stations
  - construction
    - station contribution fees, 6479
- Government accountability and transparency
  - fundraising
    - conflict of interest, 7648
- Government appointments
  - conflict of interest
    - Species at Risk Program Advisory Committee, 5404
- Government finances
  - contingency funds
    - FAO report: Economic and Budget Outlook, Fall 2022, 1343, 1431
    - use of, 6081, 6088
- Government notices of motion
  - Bail reform
    - amendment to the amendment
      - responded to, 3346–3349
  - Committee membership and sittings
    - responded to, 38–39, 44–45
  - Member's conduct
    - amendment to the amendment
      - responded to, 5450–5451
- Government orders
  - Appointment of House officers / Committee membership
    - responded to, 274–276
- Government record - Liberal (2003-2018)
  - education policy, 3692, 4947
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - directives and policies, 2016
  - environmental policy, 2329, 2569
- Greenbelt - development on
  - general remarks, 2018
  - government strategy, 2048, 2136
  - housing, 3747–3748
  - statements by stakeholders, 3282
- Hate and hate-related activities
  - prevalence, 8679
- Hazel McCallion Act (Peel Dissolution), 2023 (Bill 112)
  - second reading, 4551
  - third reading, 4816, 4837–4840
- H.B. Arndt & Associates Ltd. Act, 2022 (Bill Pr5)
  - first reading, 824
  - second reading, 2139
  - third reading, 2139
- Health care
  - privatization, 515
  - structural stressors
    - impact on patient health, 620
- Health care - gender-affirming
  - access
    - impact on patient health and wellness, 7463–7464
- Health care - primary care
  - access, 513–514
- Health care services
  - access
    - uninsured patients, 3212–3213
  - wait-time
    - impact on patient health, 85
- Health care system
  - capacity
    - government strategy, 2018
  - capacity and overcrowding
    - government strategy, 2018
  - privatization, 86
- Health care workers - COVID-19
  - burnout and stress, 379
- Health care workers - recruitment and retention
  - general remarks, 1391
  - government strategy, 379, 515–516, 3279
  - violence against, 514
  - wage gap, 10327
  - working conditions, role of, 5645
- Health care workers - recruitment and retention - international
  - credential recognition, 3214
- Helping Homebuyers, Protecting Tenants Act, 2023 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 3565, 3762, 3771
- Highway 407 ETR
  - tolls, 8760
- Highway tolls
  - removal of, 7456
- Home and community care
  - respite services
    - expansion and reopening, 343
  - service availability, 9681
    - wait-list, 492
- Home and community care - staff
  - shortage, 3253–3254
- Home ownership
  - by region
    - London, 946
- Honouring Veterans Act, 2024 (Bill 218)
  - second reading, 10289–10291
- Hospital services
  - closures due to staffing
    - small and rural hospitals, 513
  - wait-time
    - impact on patient health, 2395–2396
- Hospital services - emergency
  - department closures, 379
    - in rural communities, 379
  - wait-time, 738
- Hospitals - capacity and overcrowding
  - EMS offload delays, 990
    - funding
      - by region, Niagara, 4318
- Housing - affordable by region
  - London, 8083
- Housing development - construction
  - government strategy
    - building target, 1341
- Housing development - government funding
  - Building Faster Fund
    - eligibility, 6855
  - provincial vs. federal, 948
- Housing development - municipal charges
  - development charges, exemptions and discounts
    - impact on municipalities, 948, 3799, 5303
    - transferal of costs, taxes, 970
- Housing supply
  - general remarks, 946–947
  - shortage
    - factors affecting, 926–927
- Immunization
  - flu shots, pediatric
    - access to, 1523
  - vaccines
    - access, 1523
- Independent health facilities
  - ministerial oversight, 2426
- Infrastructure development - Canada Infrastructure Bank
  - general remarks, 6098
- Infrastructure Ontario (IO)
  - real estate services
    - Auditor General annual report (2017), 2570
    - contracts, oversight, 2529, 2570
- Intimate partner violence
  - epidemic, declaration of, 7042, 8297
    - process, 3951
  - Sault Ste. Marie (24 October 2023), 5697
- Intimate Partner Violence Epidemic Act, 2024 (Bill 173)
  - legislative process, 9673
- Intimate partner violence - prevention
  - education and awareness
    - in justice system, 1848
  - general remarks, 1342
  - government funding, 4897
  - government strategy, 3950
  - policy development, 4787
- Intimate partner violence - victims
  - children and youth, 8297
  - fatalities, 1425
  - services
    - funding, 1849
    - housing supports, funding, 2727
- Islamophobia
  - general remarks, 9471
  - government response to, 3618, 9636
- Israel
  - attacks on (October 7, 2023), 5450
- Judicial appointments
  - backlog
    - per diem judges, use of, 1840
- Judicial education
  - sexual assault law, intimate partner violence and coercive control, 3949
    - education program, parameters, 3949
    - legislative process, 4844
- Keeping Energy Costs Down Act, 2024 (Bill 165)
  - third reading, 8857, 8951
- Keeping Students in Class Act, 2022 (Bill 28)
  - second reading, 1059–1061, 1187–1188, 1192
  - public response, 1060
- Labour relations
  - strikes/lockouts
    - replacement workers, use of
      - ban on, 3214
- Land use planning - environmental assessments, class environment assessments
  - 30-day review period, ministerial waiver, 2569
  - 30-day review period, purpose of, 2569
- Land use planning - ministerial zoning orders (MZOs)
  - use of, 7439
- Land use planning - municipal official plans
  - urban boundaries, 1917
- Legal aid services
  - eligibility requirements
    - income, 7043
  - government funding, 7041–7042
- Legislative Assembly Act, 2022 (Bill 51)
  - legislative process, motions
    - time allocation, 2015–2016
- Legislative Assembly Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 51)
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 2015–2019, 2047–2049
- Legislative Assembly - facility
  - geographic area, defined, 2047
- Legislative procedure - committees
  - committee process, 2016
  - committee process, consideration, 2016
  - legislative timelines, 2016
- Legislative procedure - motions
  - hours of House, extension, 1010–1011
  - time allocation
    - definition of, 2019
  - use of, 2017
- Legislative procedure - Standing Orders
  - committee procedure
    - committee membership, 38–39, 44–45
  - conduct of business, 44
  - presiding officers, selection of, 275
  - reform, 276, 2016
  - reform (2022)
    - report-stage debate, 2017
  - reforms, 2016
- Legislature - staff
  - Sergeant-at-Arms
    - employment process, 2047
- Less Red Tape, More Common Sense Act, 2023 (Bill 139)
  - second reading, 5760, 5764
  - third reading, 6211, 6244–6248, 6346
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 46)
  - second reading, 1731, 1800, 1818–1819, 1839–1841
  - Indigenous consultation, 1840
  - third reading, 2895
- London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC)
  - COVID-19 outbreaks, 3010
  - staff shortages, impact of, 379, 513
- London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC), Children's Hospital
  - capacity and overcrowding
    - surgical procedures, temporary cancellation, 1610
- London, Ontario
  - attack in (June 6, 2021), 4851–4852, 5211, 9636
  - climate emergency
    - declaration of, 2060–2061
  - doctor shortage - primary care, 8082
- Long-term care - public vs. private
  - wait-list, 381
- Manufacturing industry - facility development
  - site selection, 2334
- Members' statements
  - Anti-discrimination activities, 4851–4852, 6263–6264
  - Anti-racism activities, 9471
  - Autism treatment, 3244
  - Black History Month, 7403
  - Black Walnut Bakery Café, 3662
  - Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day, 9842
  - Children's health care, 1311–1312
  - Culturally responsive mental health services, 7914
  - Domestic violence, 5697
  - EarthFest London, 8351–8352
  - Education funding, 866
  - Food drives, 2114
  - Health care funding, 10327
  - Muslim community, 5210
  - Natural gas rates, 2593
  - Student assistance, 387
  - Tenant protection, 8735
  - Volunteers in London West, 6989
  - Youth services, 4254
- Members'/ministers' conduct
  - Jama, Sarah (Hamilton Centre), 5450–5451
- Members'/ministers' correction of record, 4942
- Members'/ministers' privileges
  - kaffiyeh, wearing of, 8932, 9224, 9471
  - wearing of paraphernalia
    - pins, 9473–9474
- Members/ministers quoting
  - news media
    - Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act, 2023 (Bill 98), 4948
    - employment, sick days, 1698
    - judicial education, intimate partner violence, 3949
  - Office of the Chief Coroner’s inquests’ verdicts and recommendations
    - Cullteron, Kuzyk & Warmerdam Inquest, 1848–1849
  - other members
    - alternative-level-of-care patient transfer to long-term care, 380
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - withdrawn, 1011
- Mental health and addictions
  - by region
    - London, 2613
- Mental health and addictions services
  - affordability, 9940
  - community support programs, peer support
    - by region
      - London, 4367
  - culturally-appropriate care, 7914
  - peer support workers
    - training and certification, 4367
- Mental health and addictions services - children and youth
  - availability of, 1341
  - treatment programs, wait-list, 2164
- Mental health and addictions services - funding
  - community organizations, 9940
  - by region, 2606
- Mental health and addictions services - staff
  - recruitment and retention, 2613
- Midwives
  - Ontario (Health) v. Association of Ontario Midwives, 2022 ONCA 458
    - government response, 3376
- Mining industry - Indigenous communities
  - Indigenous consultation and consent, 2765
- Ministerial statements
  - Anniversary of invasion of Ukraine
    - responded to, 7209–7210
  - Gender Equality Week
    - responded to, 5118–5119
  - Sexual Assault Prevention Month
    - responded to, 4070–4071
- More Beds, Better Care Act, 2022 (Bill 7)
  - second reading, 366, 378–382
- More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 (Bill 23)
  - second reading, 863, 919, 926–927, 945–948, 956, 970
  - environmental impact
    - statements by stakeholders, 3799
  - public response, 1694
  - third reading, 1694–1695
- Motions
  - House sittings (carried)
    - responded to, 1010–1011
- Municipal by-laws
  - passage
    - prescribed number of councillors, 2048
- Municipal elections
  - ranked-ballot system
    - restrictions on use, 135–136
- Municipal finances
  - budgets
    - inflation, 2060
- Municipal governance
  - reform
    - government strategy, 1503
- Municipal governance - regional chairs
  - appointment of, ministerial authority, 1476, 1491
- Municipal governance - strong mayor system
  - housing development, 2074
- Municipal restructuring - Peel Region
  - public consultation, 4816, 4837, 4839
  - services, impact on, 4838
- Natural gas
  - cost of, 2060
  - environmental impact, 2060
    - carbon dioxide emissions, 2060
- Natural gas distributors
  - connections, requests
    - municipal by-laws, 2059
  - connections, requests for, 2060
- Natural gas rates
  - affordability, 2593
- New Deal for Toronto Act, 2023 (Bill 154)
  - second reading, 6811, 6818, 6866
- New Democratic Party (NDP)
  - environment and climate change policy, 2060
  - Green New Democratic Deal
    - electric vehicle policy, 2330
  - housing policy, 956
- Nova Scotia
  - mass shooting (April 2020)
    - mass casualty commission, report and recommendations, 3950
- Nurses
  - recruitment and retention
    - government funding, 1340
- Nurses - temporary agencies
  - wage premiums, 379
    - statements by stakeholders, 514
- Ontario Autism Program (OAP)
  - wait-list, 3244
- Ontario Child Advocate
  - office, re-implementation, 9395
- Ontario Consumer Watchdog Act, 2023 (Bill 122)
  - general remarks, 5950
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates
  - and cost of living, 515
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates, increases, 1342
- Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP)
  - prescription contraception, 6826
- Ontario Place - lease of, redevelopment agreements
  - procurement process
    - accountability and transparency, 6811
- Ontario Place - redevelopment
  - liability protections, 6818, 6866
- Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP)
  - amount, access, 387
    - ODSP recipients, 387
  - eligibility, 6247
  - general remarks, 6247
- Opposition day motions
  - Affordable housing
    - responded to, 10200–10201
  - Education funding
    - responded to, 9068–9069
  - GO Transit
    - responded to, 6078
  - Health care
    - responded to, 2395–2396, 7749
  - Health care workers
    - responded to, 1390–1391
  - Mental health services
    - responded to, 2613, 9940–9941
  - Municipal funding
    - responded to, 10349
  - Tenant protection
    - responded to, 3821
- Outpatient services
  - ambulatory care centres, 2396
- Paramedics and paramedic services
  - working conditions, 990
- Pay equity
  - gender wage gap
    - government strategy, 3377
- Pay equity - gender wage gap
  - post-secondary graduates, 8428
- Pediatric hospitals
  - capacity and overcrowding, 1390–1391
- Pediatric hospitals - services
  - capacity and overcrowding
    - emergency departments
      - statements by stakeholders, 1311
    - impact on surgical procedure wait-time, 1341
- Personal support workers (PSWs)
  - employment models
    - full-time, 379
- Petitions
  - Access to health care, 5824–5825
  - Affordable housing, 2556
  - Animal protection, 4271, 5121, 10183
  - Assistive devices, 9273
  - Autism treatment, 8751
  - Education, 10003–10004
  - Employment standards, 687, 1466–1467, 1530, 1562, 1681, 1720, 7155, 7426, 7929, 9686, 9857, 10183
  - Health care, 749, 1468, 1564, 1683, 1722, 1788, 2736, 4073, 5009–5010, 5160
  - Health care funding, 9272, 10344
  - Hospital services, 4272, 5331, 8328, 9809
  - Labour dispute, 1162
  - Labour legislation, 6619–6620
  - Land use planning, 1467, 2132, 2172, 2555, 3752, 3806
  - Long-term care, 8750
  - Mental health services, 8124–8125, 9272
  - Missing persons, 3201–3202
  - Optometry services, 295, 1789
  - Post-secondary education, 8808, 8933, 8993–8994, 9057, 9178–9179, 9226–9227
  - Prostate cancer, 9226
  - School safety, 8531, 9179, 9685
  - Sexual violence and harassment, 4931, 5822–5823, 5947, 6280, 6619, 6924, 7617, 8066–8067, 8126–8127, 9225–9226, 10181
  - Social assistance, 500, 606, 1468, 2810, 2868, 3322, 3750–3751, 5823–5824, 7732–7733, 8068, 8126, 8531, 9856
  - Student safety, 8582
  - Tenant protection, 7212, 7494, 9272–9273, 10316
  - Tuition, 7240–7241, 7425
  - Water extraction, 2556
  - Wearing of kaffiyehs, 8932, 9224
- Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 2)
  - third reading, 620
- Police officers - education and training
  - gender-based violence
    - reports and recommendations, 4844
  - programs, types of, 3950, 3952
  - reports
    - Turning the Tide Together: Final Report of the Mass Casualty Commission (2023), 3950, 4844
- Police officers - employment
  - hiring process, criteria
    - assessment and evaluation, 3951
  - hiring process, educational requirements
    - secondary school diploma, 3950
  - shortage
    - due to long-term leave, 3950
- Police officers - occupational health and safety
  - burnout and stress, 3950, 3952
  - post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
    - supports, 4844–4845
- Police services
  - mental health calls
    - prevalence, 3951
- Police services - community relations
  - community partnerships
    - by region
      - London, 3951
  - crisis intervention partnerships
    - mental health and addictions, 4843–4844
      - operational funding, 4845–4846
- Police services oversight - disciplinary process
  - suspension with pay, 4844
- Population
  - out-migration rate, 3217
    - factors affecting, 2967
- Post-secondary education
  - blue-ribbon panel, recommendations
    - funding, 7596, 7649, 8824
  - communities, impact on, 7645
  - food security, students, 1342
  - funding, 6246, 6346
  - government funding, 7147, 10268
  - housing for students, 6845
  - housing for students, development of, 5209
  - independence and autonomy of, 8826, 8828
  - learning materials
    - cost transparency, 8827
  - policies and reporting, 9101
    - ministerial authority, 8572, 8822, 8826
    - ministerial directives, enforcement, 8825–8826
    - stakeholder consultation, 8822
      - statements by stakeholders, 8825
  - policies and reporting, development process
    - order in council, 8822, 8826
  - policies and reporting, racism and hate, 8826
    - implementation funding
      - statements by stakeholders, 8824
    - ministerial authority, 8823–8824
    - ministerial directives, stakeholder consultation, 7651
  - racism and hate
    - prevalence of, 7651, 8823
    - supports and services, availability, 8828
    - supports and services, funding, 8828–8829
  - tuition
    - fee freeze
      - reports and recommendations, Auditor General, 7647
    - fee freeze, impact of, 7646, 7653
  - work-integrated learning
    - student safety, 1901, 1912
- Post-secondary education - faculty/staff
  - compensation
    - employment models, 7649
  - counsellors
    - number of, 8825
  - sexual misconduct against students
    - use of non-disclosure agreements, 1914
  - sexual violence and harassment
    - use of non-disclosure agreements, 1279
  - support services employees
    - employment models, 9100
- Post-secondary education - funding
  - accountability and transparency
    - third-party reviews, 7650
  - funding model, 7646
    - statements by stakeholders, 7652
  - general remarks, 7649, 7834, 8115
  - maintenance and repairs, 7650
  - northern and rural institutions, 7650
  - one-time vs. ongoing, 7649
  - operating grants, 6914–6915
  - vs. other jurisdictions, 7646
  - policy development and implementation, 7597, 7652
  - research and innovation, 7650
  - STEM programs, 7650
  - supports and services, 7649
- Post-secondary education - international students
  - vs. domestic students, 8115
  - general remarks, 7648
  - as income source, 7646, 7648
  - Provincial Attestation Letters, allocation, 7607–7608, 7648
  - reports and recommendations, 7647–7648
  - study permits, cap on
    - impact of
      - program reductions, 8825
- Post-secondary education - mental health and addictions
  - factors affecting
    - financial, 7651–7652
  - government funding, 7650–7651
  - student mental health policies
    - implementation funding, 8824, 8828
      - reports and recommendations, stakeholders, 8823
  - supports and services
    - access, 8822
    - culturally appropriate, 8823–8824
- Post-secondary education - sexual violence and harassment
  - incidence rates, 1911
  - institutional reviews and recommendations
    - Western University, 1912
  - during orientation week, 1188
  - prevention, 1894
    - education, consent, 1296, 1911, 1913
  - victim-perpetrator relationship, 1911
- Poverty
  - cost of, 471
- Preventing Unethical Puppy Sales Act, 2024 (Bill 159)
  - second reading, 8472, 8540, 8544, 8551
- Private members' public business
  - Addiction services
    - responded to, 4367
  - Affordable Energy Act, 2024 (Bill 172)
    - second reading, 8348
  - Ambulance services
    - responded to, 990
  - Domestic violence
    - responded to, 1848–1849
  - Erin's Law (Child Sexual Abuse Prevention and Reporting), 2023 (Bill 123)
    - second reading, 5306–5307
  - Gender Affirming Health Care Advisory Committee Act, 2024 (Bill 42)
    - second reading, 7463–7464
  - Hate-related incidents
    - responded to, 8678–8680
  - Intimate Partner Violence Epidemic Act, 2024 (Bill 173)
    - second reading, 8297
  - Prescription contraceptives
    - responded to, 6826–6827
  - Protecting Agricultural Land Act, 2022 (Bill 27)
    - second reading, 1917–1918
  - Protecting Vulnerable Persons in Supportive Living Accommodation Act, 2023 (Bill 38)
    - second reading, 5755
  - Stay Home If You Are Sick Act, 2022 (Bill 4)
    - second reading, 1696–1698, 1701
  - Think Twice Before You Choose Natural Gas Act (Ontario Energy Board Amendment), 2022 (Bill 29)
    - second reading, 2059–2061
- Progress on the Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 36)
  - second reading, 1340–1344, 1413, 1425, 1431
  - third reading, 2005
- Public sector compensation - increase cap
  - general remarks, 1343
  - impact on women, 1343
  - inflation, 514
- Public sector compensation - increase cap, health care workers
  - impact on worker retention, 379, 382, 3213
    - statements by stakeholders, 514
- Puppy mills
  - enforcement and inspections, 8472, 8544
- Putting Students First Act, 2012, SO 2012, c 11
  - impact on labour rights, 1060
- Question of privilege
  - passage of legislation, presumption of
    - responded to, 1069
- Question period
  - Affordable housing
    - presented, 2967
  - Child care
    - presented, 4771, 9315
  - Children's mental health services
    - presented, 2164
  - Employment standards
    - presented, 398, 681, 1000, 1716, 2494, 3035
  - Gender-based violence
    - presented, 2727
  - Government accountability
    - presented, 5777, 8642
  - Government appointments
    - presented, 5404
  - Health care
    - presented, 85–86, 738, 2671–2672, 6696, 7729
  - Home care
    - presented, 492, 3253–3254, 9681
  - Hospital services
    - presented, 1610
  - Immunization
    - presented, 1523
  - Islamophobia
    - presented, 3618, 9636
  - Land use planning
    - presented, 3747–3748, 3799
  - Long-term care
    - presented, 596
  - Mental health and addiction services
    - presented, 2606
  - Pay equity
    - presented, 3376–3377, 8428
  - Post-secondary education
    - presented, 7147, 8115, 8572–8573
  - Post-secondary education funding
    - presented, 6268
  - Respite care
    - presented, 343
  - School nutrition programs
    - presented, 10120
  - Skilled trades
    - presented, 5593
  - Social assistance
    - presented, 4171
  - Student assistance
    - presented, 5526
  - Tenant protection
    - presented, 1559–1560
  - University and college funding
    - presented, 6176–6177, 7607–7608, 7834, 8005, 8806, 10268, 10381–10382
  - University funding
    - presented, 6914–6915
  - Violence in schools
    - presented, 4390–4391
- Racism and anti-racism
  - by region
    - London, 6263
- Reducing Inefficiencies Act (Infrastructure Statute Law Amendments), 2023 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 2529, 2568–2572
- Rent control
  - exemptions, 1559–1560, 3762, 4432
    - impact on tenants, 926, 946
  - general remarks, 3821
- Rental housing
  - cost of
    - by region
      - London, 863, 946, 3821
    - statements by stakeholders, 137
- Rental housing - affordable
  - development of, 948
- Rental housing - development
  - units, below average market rent, 136
- Rental housing - purpose-built
  - redevelopment of
    - tenant displacement, 946
- Rental housing - tenant protections
  - general remarks, 947, 4361, 9503
  - replacement by laws
    - by region
      - London, 8735
  - replacement bylaws, 946
- Safe Night Out Act, 2023 (Bill 114)
  - first reading, 4577
- School board trustees
  - role of, 4948
- School boards
  - and population growth projections, 4949
- School buses - routes
  - delays and cancellations
    - impact on students
      - statements by stakeholders, 3693–3694
- School facilities - capital projects
  - new school construction
    - funding allocation models, 3694, 4949
- School facilities - maintenance and repair
  - backlog, 3693
- Schools
  - by region
    - London, 6245
  - student nutrition programs
    - government funding, 10120
- Schools - violence in
  - government response, 4390
  - prevalence, 3693, 4949
  - statements by stakeholders, 4949
- Schools - violence in, prevention
  - funding, 4391
- Senior citizens
  - health and well-being, 381
  - rental housing
    - affordability, 3821
- Sexual violence and harassment
  - incidence rates, 1911
  - language and terminology
    - sexual assault vs. sexual violence
      - use of, 4070–4071
  - prevalence of, 4071
    - reports and recommendations, stakeholders, 4071
  - prevention
    - education, consent, 1889–1890, 1898
    - government strategy, 4071
  - use of non-disclosure agreements, 1912–1913
- Sexual violence and harassment - children and youth
  - prevention
    - education and awareness, 5307
    - school boards, duties of, 5306–5307
- Skilled Trades Ontario
  - data sharing regulations, 6247
- Social assistance programs - benefit rates
  - statements by stakeholders, 4171
- Speaker's rulings quoted
  - Speaker Arnott (Ontario), 274
- St. Thomas - Central Elgin Boundary Adjustment Act, 2023 (Bill 63)
  - second reading, 2327–2330, 2334
  - scheduling and agendas, 2327
- Stay Home If You Are Sick Act, 2022 (Bill 4)
  - first reading, 36
- Strengthening Accountability and Student Supports Act, 2024 (Bill 166)
  - committee process
    - amendments, consideration of, 8827
    - witness presentations, 8821–8822
  - second reading, 7596–7597, 7645–7653
  - language and terminology, 8827
  - stakeholder consultation, 8825
  - third reading, 8821–8829, 9100–9101
- Strengthening Cyber Security and Building Trust in the Public Sector Act, 2024 (Bill 194)
  - second reading, 9732, 9811–9812
- Strengthening Post-secondary Institutions and Students Act, 2022 (Bill 26)
  - amendments, consideration of, 1914
  - committee presentations, 1911–1912
  - second reading, 1279, 1286, 1296
  - language and terminology, 1912
  - third reading, 1889–1890, 1894, 1898, 1901, 1911–1914
- Strengthening Safety and Modernizing Justice Act, 2023 (Bill 102)
  - second reading, 3949–3952
  - third reading, 4787, 4843–4846
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022 (Bill 3)
  - second reading, 122, 135–137
  - third reading, 704
- Student debt
  - reduction, 6085
- Students - post secondary
  - debt
    - impact on home ownership, 5526
- Supporting Children's Futures Act, 2024 (Bill 188)
  - committee process
    - amendments, consideration of, 9399
  - second reading, 8692–8693, 8711–8713
  - third reading, 9395, 9399
- Supportive housing
  - availability of, 1342
  - regulation of, 5755
- Temporary foreign workers
  - passports and work permits, retention of
    - fines and penalties, 3028
  - workplace violations
    - enforcement, 3028
- Thames Valley District School Board
  - expenditures, 4948–4949
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 471, 478, 513–516
- Time allocation motions
  - Legislative Assembly Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 51)
    - responded to, 2015–2019, 2047–2049
- Transit
  - accessibility, 6469
- Transit - by region
  - London Transit Commission, 6245
- Transit workers
  - collective bargaining rights, 6493
- Transit-oriented communities
  - development of
    - accountability and transparency, 5167, 5178, 6486
- Transportation for the Future Act, 2023 (Bill 131)
  - second reading, 5139, 5167, 5178
  - third reading, 6469, 6472, 6493–6497
- Tributes
  - Boyd, Marion (London Centre), 4241–4242
  - Davis, William Grenville (former member for Brampton), 844–845
  - Huget, Robert "Bob" (former member for Sarnia), 2212
- Ukraine - invasion of (February 2022)
  - anniversary, 7209
  - public response to, 7210
- Unhoused persons
  - community advocacy
    - by region
      - London, 136
  - community response
    - by region
      - London, 3951
  - encampments
    - London, 926
  - fatalities, 122
  - by region
    - London, 2328, 4431–4432
- Unhoused persons - support programs and services
  - Homelessness Prevention Program
    - regional allocation, 4846
- Veterinary clinics
  - not-for-profit, 1818
- Veterinary services
  - access to
    - low-income, 9205
    - low-income populations, 7849
  - non-profit run, 9206, 9287
- Victim Quick Response Program
  - supports and services, 7044
- Victim services
  - general remarks, 7029–7030
- Volunteers
  - appreciation for, 6989
- Western University
  - sexual violence and harassment, 1188
    - institutional response, 1192, 1286
    - reports and recommendations, 1912
  - sexual violence and harassment, prevention
    - institutional programs, 1912
- Women
  - in the workforce
    - care economy, 9017–9018
- Working for Workers Act, 2023 (Bill 79)
  - second reading, 2954, 2991, 3010, 3028–3029, 3212–3214, 3217, 3220
  - scope of, 3028
- Working for Workers Five Act, 2024 (Bill 190)
  - second reading, 8913, 9015–9019, 9024–9025
  - third reading, 9882–9883, 9885–9888, 9895, 9899
- Working for Workers Four Act, 2024 (Bill 149)
  - second reading, 6351–6354, 6427–6428
  - third reading, 7716–7717
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
  - operational requirements
    - strategic planning, 2895
  - presumptive coverage, fire rangers
    - cancers, heart injuries & PTSD, 9018
  - presumptive coverage, firefighters
    - cancers, 3213–3214
    - esophageal cancer
      - employment duration, 6351–6353
- Your Health Act, 2023 (Bill 60)
  - second reading, 2426, 2433
Saunderson, B. (PC, Simcoe—Grey)
- Agri-food industry
  - Grow Ontario Strategy, 2892
- Alcohol retail - expansion
  - early implementation agreement
    - economic impact, 9559
- Architectural technologists
  - regulatory oversight, 7523
- Athletes
  - appreciation
    - by region
      - Simcoe–Grey, 3305
- Auditor General of Ontario
  - oversight, repeal of
    - Office of the Children’s Lawyer, 3479
- Automobile thefts
  - government strategy, 9708
  - prevention, 9329
    - VIN registration, 9705
- Automotive industry - investments
  - international investments in, 815
    - by region, 815
- Automotive thefts
  - prevalence of, 6905
- Bail program reform
  - government strategy, 6905
- Better for Consumers, Better for Businesses Act, 2023 (Bill 142)
  - second reading, 5848
  - third reading, 6957, 6975
- Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act, 2023 (Bill 98)
  - committee submissions, 4935
  - third reading, 4934–4937
- Bicycles
  - e-bikes
    - classification, 9708–9710
- Broadband infrastructure development
  - government strategy, 4468
  - regulatory reform, 3477
- Broadband infrastructure development - funding
  - general remarks, 3479
- Budget 2023/2024
  - child welfare, 3272
  - mental health and addictions, 3278
- Budget speech 2023 (March 23, 2023)
  - responded to, 3267, 3272, 3278
- Building a Better Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 180)
  - second reading, 8135, 8145
- Building a Strong Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 85)
  - third reading, 4293, 4304
- Building More Mines Act, 2023 (Bill 71)
  - second reading, 2762, 2770
- Business - local
  - by region
    - Simcoe-Grey, 3791–3792
- Business - small- and medium-sized
  - regulatory environment, 3478
- Cadets
  - Junior Canadian Rangers, 7954–7955
- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
  - rights under
    - subject to reasonable limits, 6040
- Cannabis production
  - home cultivation, restrictions
    - child care facilities, 6904
- Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS)
  - carbon storage, 3477
- Carbon tax
  - cost of
    - to Canadians, 7178
    - to federal government, 7178
    - per household, 7177–7178
  - definition, 7177
  - economic impact
    - small businesses, 7182, 9642–9643
  - emission reductions, impact on, 7078
  - fuel prices, impact on, 7177
  - housing, impact on, 7178
  - inflation, impact on, 7178
  - jobs, impact on, 7178
  - rebate, 7177
    - rural Ontario, 7890
- Carbon tax - impact by industry
  - agri-food, 8526
    - government response, 8527
  - natural resources, 9993–9994
- Child protection system
  - government funding, 9443
  - reform, 8630–8632, 9438–9440
- Child protection system - Indigenous families
  - children and youth in care, 8634
- Child welfare
  - abuse and neglect
    - duty to report, 9443
- Children and youth in care
  - education outcomes, 9442
  - foster and group homes
    - inspections, 8635
    - oversight, 8632, 9439–9440
    - vetting, 8634
  - preventative measures, 8633–8634
  - protection of privacy, 8632
  - regulations, 8633
  - rights, 8633
- Children and youth in care - former
  - protection of privacy, 9440
- Children's aid societies (CASs) - Indigenous
  - agency autonomy, 9437, 9440
- Christopher's Law (Sex Offender Registry), 2000, SO 2000, Labour Relations Act, S.O. 1995, c.1, 6040
- Construction industry
  - injuries and fatalities
    - government strategy, 6905
- Consumer protection
  - contracts
    - standardization, 5848
- Convenient Care at Home Act, 2023 (Bill 135)
  - second reading, 5366, 5634–5637
- Cost of living
  - government strategy, 2003, 10172
- Court administration
  - provincial offence proceedings, judicial reviews
    - filing of, court staff, 3924
  - provincial offences proceedings
    - reform, 3924, 4783
  - virtual proceedings, access
    - fly-in communities, 4782
- Court administration - backlogs, 6116, 6122
  - regulatory reform, 2892
- Court administration - civil
  - small claims court
    - jurisdiction, claims, 3926
  - vexatious proceedings
    - judicial authority, 7030
- Court facilities
  - capital projects, 7523
- Crime - government response
  - guns, gangs and violence reduction strategy, 3925
- Croatian community
  - contributions by, 7877–7878
  - notable members, 7879
- Croatian Heritage Day Act, 2024 (Bill 81)
  - third reading, 7877–7879
- Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act, 2024 (Bill 185)
  - second reading, 8443, 8446
  - third reading, 9559
- Cystic fibrosis
  - general remarks, 2595
- Dairy industry
  - regulatory reform, 3477
- Debates re answers to question period
  - Access to justice
    - responded to, 6115–6116
  - Government appointments
    - responded to, 7643–7644
- Driving - careless/distracted
  - stunt driving
    - penalties, 9708
- Driving - impaired
  - penalties, 9707
    - enforcability, 9709
  - prevention
    - zero tolerance, 9710–9711
  - statistics, 9707
- Education
  - reports and recommendations, 4935
  - skilled trades
    - programs and equipment
      - funding, 5197
- Education funding
  - student outcomes, 4936
- Education - mental health
  - students, access
    - during summer, 4937
- Education policy
  - ministerial authority, 4935–4936
- Education - secondary
  - skilled trades
    - by site
      - Stayner Collegiate, 4761
- Education - student outcomes
  - government strategy, 4937
- Education system
  - government strategy, 4934–4935
- Electric vehicles - manufacturing
  - international investment, 815
  - investment agreements
    - business environment, impact of, 8803
  - investments
    - Honda Canada (Alliston), 8799, 8802–8803, 8863, 8866–8867
      - economic impact, 8799
- Employment
  - labour shortage
    - government strategy, 2002
- Employment standards
  - sexual harassment and misconduct
    - use of non-disclosure agreements, 7715
- Enhancing Access to Justice Act, 2024 (Bill 157)
  - second reading, 6904–6905, 7030, 7040
  - third reading, 7521–7523, 7527–7528
- Environmental policy
  - government strategy, 5339–5340
- Family law
  - support orders
    - collection of payments, jurisdictional expansion, 3477
- 414087 Ontario Limited Act, 2023 (Bill Pr20)
  - first reading, 3201
  - second reading, 4458
  - third reading, 4458
- Fuel prices - taxation
  - rate reduction, extension, 2002
- Gender-based violence
  - community services
    - funding, 1705
  - education and awareness, 1705
- Geranium (Hillsdale) Limited Act, 2023 (Bill Pr31)
  - first reading, 5117
  - second reading, 7054
  - third reading, 7054
- Government advertising
  - partisan, 7936–7937
  - regulations, 7936–7937
- Government orders
  - Appointment of House officers / Committee membership
    - responded to, 280, 296–298
  - Bail reform
    - amendment to the amendment
      - responded to, 3391–3393
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - advertising, 7936
  - economic policy, 4293
  - regulatory reform, 2891
- Greenhouse gas emissions - reduction
  - The State of the Environment in Ontario (Auditor General, 2023), 6251
- Group of Seven
  - artists associated with, 7642
- Hate and hate-related activities
  - prevention, 6904
- Hazel McCallion Act (Peel Dissolution), 2023 (Bill 112)
  - second reading, 4496, 4505, 4510, 4516, 4519, 4545–4546
  - third reading, 4827, 4834–4837
- Heart disease
  - education and awareness, 3537
- Helping Homebuyers, Protecting Tenants Act, 2023 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 3565
- Hillsdale Land Corp. Act, 2023 (Bill Pr29)
  - first reading, 5117
  - second reading, 7054
  - third reading, 7054
- Home and community care
  - general remarks, 5635–5636
- Home and community care - reform
  - government funding, 5636
- Home heating
  - transition from natural gas to electric, 9139
- Hospitals - capital projects
  - government funding, 1253
- Hospitals - capital projects by region
  - Simcoe-Grey, 2004
  - Simcoe–Grey, 5637
- Hospitals - funding by site
  - Collingwood General and Marine Hospital, 1253–1254
  - Stevenson Memorial Hospital, 1253
- Housing development - municipal charges
  - development charges, exemptions and discounts
    - impact on municipalities, 4837
- Human trafficking
  - prevalence of, 6905
- Human trafficking - survivor services
  - legal services, 3925
- Indigenous Peoples
  - voting rights in Canada, 7954
- Indigenous relations - reconciliation
  - government response, 7954
- Indigenous soldiers
  - service during world wars, 7954–7955
- Infrastructure development
  - general remarks, 1954
  - regional projects, 3839
- Integrity Commissioner of Ontario
  - report, 6893–6894
  - role of, 6893–6894
- Intimate partner violence - prevention
  - policy development, 4787
- J2M Collingwood Holdings Inc. Act, 2023 (Bill Pr17)
  - first reading, 3200–3201
  - second reading, 4457
  - third reading, 4457
- Judicial appointments
  - candidate recommendation process, 7643–7644
  - number of, 2647
- Judicial appointments - Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee
  - membership appointments
    - process, 7643–7644
- Justice centres
  - facilities, development of, 3925, 4783
- Justice system
  - digital services, reform, 4782–4783
  - and population growth, 7522
- Justice system - criminal
  - digital services
    - data collection and sharing, 3925, 4783
    - evidence management, 3925
- Keeping Energy Costs Down Act, 2024 (Bill 165)
  - second reading, 7267, 7270–7271, 7279, 7312–7317
  - third reading, 8857, 9139
- Lake Simcoe
  - Lake Simcoe Phosphorous Reduction Strategy, 3317
- Land use planning - environmental assessments, class environment assessments
  - 30-day review period, ministerial waiver, 3844
- Legions
  - general remarks, 7955
  - Remembrance Day tributes, 1257
- Less Red Tape, More Common Sense Act, 2023 (Bill 139)
  - third reading, 6251
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Economy Act, 2023 (Bill 91)
  - second reading, 3476–3479, 3489
  - third reading, 4468
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 46)
  - second reading, 1741
  - Indigenous communities, impact on, 2894
  - third reading, 2647, 2891–2892, 2894–2895
- Medical isotopes
  - production and supply
    - Isowater, 5439
- Members' statements
  - Amateur hockey, 4253–4254
  - Banting, Frederick, 5699
  - Bark, Chad, 8636–8637
  - Education, 4760–4761
  - Environmental protection, 5339–5340
  - Gender-based violence, 1705
  - Hockey, 9109
  - Impossible Metals, 7964
  - Rare diseases, 2595
  - Remembrance Day, 10329
  - Riding of Simcoe–Grey, 283, 9919
  - Royal Canadian Legion, 1257
  - Simcoe–Grey athletes, 3305
  - Simcoe–Grey businesses, 3791–3792
  - Special Olympics, 7480
  - Volunteers, 6869, 9538–9539
- Members'/ministers' conduct
  - conflict of interest
    - consideration of reasonableness, 4201–4202
  - gifts, standards for accepting
    - consideration of reasonableness, 4201–4202
- Members'/ministers' constituencies
  - Simcoe–Grey, 280, 283
- Members'/ministers' inaugural speeches, 296–298
- Members/ministers quoting
  - Members' Integrity Act, 1994, SO 1994, c 38, 4201
  - reports
    - For the Love of Learning (Report of The Royal Commission on Learning), 4935
- Members'/ministers' salaries
  - compensation freeze, 2003
- Mental health and addictions
  - prevention, 9710–9711
- Military personnel
  - reservists
    - job protected leave, 5028
- Municipal restructuring - Peel Region
  - general remarks, 4834–4835
  - services, impact on, 4737
  - transition board, role of, 4835–4836
- Municipal restructuring - Simcoe County
  - general remarks, 4836
- Murray Whetung Community Service Award Act, 2024 (Bill 31)
  - third reading, 7954–7955
- Natural gas
  - heating vs. energy generation, 8857
- New home construction industry
  - consumer protection, 3376
    - government strategy, 1157
- Occupational health and safety
  - injuries and fatalities
    - employer prosecution, 7040
- 1105954 Ontario Limited Act, 2023 (Bill Pr21)
  - first reading, 3805–3806
  - second reading, 5715
  - third reading, 5715
- 1000151830 Ontario Inc. Act, 2024 (Bill Pr40)
  - first reading, 7670
  - second reading, 9140
  - third reading, 9140
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates, increases, 2004
- Ontario Health Teams
  - governance, 5637
  - home and community care
    - funding, 5366, 5635
    - service integration, 5635
  - by region
    - Simcoe–Grey, 5635
- Opposition day motions
  - Government advertising
    - responded to, 7936–7937
- Pension plans
  - target benefit plans
    - framework development, 2003
- Petitions
  - Seniors, 4270
  - Taxation, 4715
  - Tenant protection, 5353
  - Volunteer service awards, 3148
- Police officers - employment
  - recruitment and retention
    - barriers to, 4799, 4804
    - demographics, 4808
- Police services
  - innovation and technology, 1830
  - investigative tools and technology
    - use of DNA technology, 1831
- Population
  - growth projections by region
    - Greater Golden Horseshoe, 1254
- Post-secondary education
  - racism and hate
    - prevention, 8891
- Preventing Unethical Puppy Sales Act, 2024 (Bill 159)
  - second reading, 8540
- Private members' public business
  - Change of Name Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 138)
    - second reading, 6039–6040
  - Cleaning Up Corruption Act, 2023 (Bill 148)
    - second reading, 6893–6894
  - Education issues
    - responded to, 8457–8458
  - Fewer Backlogs and Less Partisan Tribunals Act, 2024 (Bill 179)
    - second reading, 8561–8563
  - Group of Seven Day Act, 2024 (Bill 158)
    - second reading, 7642
  - Health care
    - responded to, 1253–1254
  - Medical isotopes
    - responded to, 5439
  - Skilled Trades Week Act, 2023 (Bill 117)
    - second reading, 5197–5198
  - Strengthening Members' Integrity Act, 2023 (Bill 100)
    - second reading, 4201–4202
  - Taxation
    - presented, 7177–7178
    - responded to, 7182
- Progress on the Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 36)
  - third reading, 1954, 2001–2005
- Public assets
  - centralization, entities
    - transferal to Ministry of Infrastructure, 3790
- Puppy mills
  - fines for running, 8540
- Question period
  - Automotive industry
    - presented, 8799, 8802–8803, 8863, 8866–8867
  - Consumer protection
    - presented, 1157, 3376
  - Environmental protection
    - presented, 3317
  - International trade
    - presented, 815
  - Police services
    - presented, 1830–1831
  - Seniors
    - presented, 5061–5062
  - Taxation
    - presented, 7890–7891, 8526–8527, 9642–9643, 9993–9994, 10172
- Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 (Bill 212)
  - second reading, 9964, 9968
- Reducing Inefficiencies Act (Infrastructure Statute Law Amendments), 2023 (Bill 69)
  - third reading, 3790, 3839, 3844
- Regional development
  - Simcoe–Grey
    - government funding, 9919
- Regulations - business
  - document disclosure, 2002–2003
  - supply chain management
    - government strategy, 2891–2892
- Regulatory environment
  - reform, 2891–2892
    - government strategy, 2894–2895
- Renewable energy
  - clean energy credit registry, 2002
- Safer Roads and Communities Act, 2024 (Bill 197)
  - second reading, 9329, 9705, 9707–9711
- Safer Streets, Stronger Communities Act, 2024 (Bill 223)
  - second reading, 10422, 10428
- School boards - information sharing practices
  - to parents, 4935
- Senior citizens
  - community engagement, 5061–5062
  - community fundraising events, 5061
  - income support programs
    - Guaranteed Annual Income System, increase, 2002
- Sexual violence and harassment
  - offenders
    - recidivism rate, 6040
- Skilled trades - education and training
  - Skills Development Fund, 2004
- Skilled trades - employment
  - education and awareness
    - Skilled Trades Week, 5198
  - training programs
    - benefits of, 5034
- South Simcoe Developments Inc. Act, 2023 (Bill Pr28)
  - first reading, 5116
  - second reading, 7053
  - third reading, 7053–7054
- Sporting events
  - Canada Special Olympics National Winter Games, 7480
- Sports and recreation
  - hockey
    - by region
      - Simcoe–Grey, 9109
- Sports and recreation - amateur
  - by region
    - Simcoe–Grey, 4253–4254
- Strengthening Accountability and Student Supports Act, 2024 (Bill 166)
  - third reading, 8891
- Strengthening Post-secondary Institutions and Students Act, 2022 (Bill 26)
  - second reading, 1286, 1289
- Strengthening Safety and Modernizing Justice Act, 2023 (Bill 102)
  - second reading, 3924–3926
  - third reading, 4782–4783, 4787, 4799, 4804, 4808
- Supporting Children's Futures Act, 2024 (Bill 188)
  - second reading, 8630–8635
  - third reading, 9437–9440, 9442–9443
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 508
- Tribunals
  - adjudicators
    - appointment process, 8562
  - backlogs, 8562
  - hearings, virtual
    - and access to justice, 8562–8563
- Tributes
  - Bark, Chad, 8636–8637
  - Owen, Bruce (former member for Simcoe Centre), 4233–4234
  - Whetung, Murray, 7954–7955
- Unhoused persons
  - government strategy, 2003
- Unhoused persons - COVID-19
  - government response, 2003
- Veterans - commemoration
  - legions, 10329
- Victims of crime
  - emotional distress, presumption of
    - eligible crimes, 6904–6905, 7521–7523, 7527
    - impact on court proceedings, 7527–7528
- Volunteers
  - appreciation for, 9538–9539
    - by region
      - Simcoe–Grey, 6869
- Working for Workers Act, 2023 (Bill 79)
  - second reading, 3216
  - third reading, 5028, 5034
- Working for Workers Four Act, 2024 (Bill 149)
  - third reading, 7715, 7757, 7766
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
  - presumptive coverage, firefighters
    - esophageal cancer
      - employment duration, 7766
  - reform, 2894–2895
- Your Health Act, 2023 (Bill 60)
  - second reading, 2402, 2407, 2412–2415
Schreiner, M. (GRN, Guelph)
- Affordable Electric Vehicles and Accessible Charging Act, 2024 (Bill 206)
  - first reading, 9554
- Affordable Energy Act, 2024 (Bill 214)
  - second reading, 10077–10080
- Affordable housing
  - "affordable," definition, 926
  - co-operative housing, 3670, 5682
  - federal government funding, 3760
  - fourplexes, 7585
  - general remarks, 2884, 6265
  - inclusionary zoning, 1659–1660
  - intergovernmental collaboration, 3816
  - policy development, 1558
  - in relation to income, 3816
- Affordable housing - development of
  - non-market housing
    - government role in, 9523–9524
- Affordable housing - government engagement
  - historically, 5682
- Affordable housing - non-market housing
  - government role in, 5912
- Agricultural land
  - cost of
    - role of speculation, 2092
  - loss of
    - annual rate, 1543
    - daily rate, 5912–5913, 8284
  - purchases
    - zoning, 2093
- Agricultural land - conservation
  - general remarks, 912, 5268
  - impact on food security, 2778, 5912
- Agricultural land - residential lots
  - statements by stakeholders, 4723
- Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario Amendment Act, 2024 (Bill 155)
  - consultations
    - of farmers, 8284
  - third reading, 8281, 8283–8284
- Agriculture industry - food processing
  - policy development, 912
- Agri-food industry
  - Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario
    - funding, 8284
  - food waste, 8281
- Alternate-level-of-care (ALC) patients - transfer to long-term care facilities
  - consent
    - transfer to a non-preferred home, 382–383
- Alternate-level-of-care (ALC) patients - transfer to long-term care facilities, non-preferred home
  - regulations, distance, 382
- Architectural technologists
  - regulatory oversight, 7044, 7544
- Bail program reform
  - general remarks, 3355
- Better for Consumers, Better for Businesses Act, 2023 (Bill 142)
  - third reading, 6967–6968
- Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 (Bill 39)
  - second reading, 1542–1543
  - third reading, 2092–2093
- Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act, 2023 (Bill 98)
  - stakeholder consultation, 4942
  - third reading, 4941–4943, 4946–4947
- Broadband infrastructure development - funding
  - general remarks, 4612
- Budget 2022/2023
  - climate change, 619
  - health care, 618–619
  - program spending, 237–238
  - social assistance, 619
- Budget 2023/2024
  - cost of living, 3151
  - infrastructure, 4347
    - maintenance and repair, 4352
  - mental health and addictions, 4347
  - program spending, 3150–3151
  - veterinary services, 3151
- Budget 2024/2025
  - housing development, 9188–9189
  - post-secondary education, 9189
- Budget speech 2024 (March 26, 2024)
  - responded to, 8084–8087, 8091
- Building a Better Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 180)
  - second reading, 8169–8171
  - third reading, 9188–9190
- Building a Strong Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 85)
  - second reading, 3150–3151
  - third reading, 4347–4348, 4352
- Building a Strong Ontario Together Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 146)
  - second reading, 6093–6095
- Building More Homes by Ending Exclusionary Zoning Act, 2022 (Bill 44)
  - first reading, 1561
- Building More Homes on Major Streets and Transit Corridors Act, 2022 (Bill 45)
  - first reading, 1561–1562
- Building More Mines Act, 2023 (Bill 71)
  - second reading, 2746–2747
  - third reading, 4140–4141
- Building Ontario For You Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 216)
  - second reading, 10155–10158
- Canadian Mental Health Association
  - government funding, 2615
  - staffing shortage, 2615
- Cancer
  - causes, 9629
- Cancer - lung
  - screening
    - access to, 9628–9629
    - criteria expansion, 9628–9629
- Cap-and-trade program
  - and the federal carbon tax, 8886
- Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS)
  - combined with carbon reduction, 2925
  - general remarks, 4611
  - reports and recommendations, 2924
- Carbon pricing programs, provincial
  - referendum, 8885
- Carbon tax
  - rebate, 7181
- Child protection system
  - government funding, 9439
- Child welfare
  - education and awareness
    - Dress Purple Day, 5785
- Children and youth
  - supports for, 5785
- Climate change
  - cost projections, 2535–2536, 3231
    - infrastructure, 3151
  - food prices, impact on, 5730–5731
  - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
    - AR6 Synthesis Report Climate Change 2023, 2898
  - as public health issue, 6164
- Climate change - cost of
  - general remarks, 619
  - per household, 7181
  - projections, 2535–2536, 3231, 6164
    - infrastructure, 3151
- Climate change mitigation
  - and affordability initiatives, 6162–6164, 9189
  - economic impact, 2006
  - energy infrastructure, 2061
  - general remarks, 9209
  - government strategy, 517
  - impact on insurance rates, 7181
  - skilled trades, role in, 5197
- Colleges and universities
  - funding, research, 8284
- Community housing
  - government funding, 554
  - operational costs
    - funding for, 388
- Community Safety and Policing Act, 2019, SO 2019, c 1, s1
  - regulations
    - public consultation and public notice, 7544
      - statements by stakeholders, 7544
- Conservation authorities
  - creation, history of
    - effect of Hurricane Hazel and flooding, 925, 3231
- Consumer protection - home owners
  - notice of security interests (NOSIs), 6967–6968
    - stakeholder consultation, 6968
- Cost of living
  - general remarks, 1273
- Court facilities
  - accessibility, 7045
- Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act, 2024 (Bill 185)
  - second reading, 8399–8401
  - statements by stakeholders, 8399
  - third reading, 9521–9524, 9562
- Debates re answers to question period
  - Affordable housing
    - presented, 7584–7585
  - Land use planning
    - presented, 4427–4428
  - Municipal funding
    - presented, 5685–5686
- Democracy
  - principles
    - majority rule, 1542, 2039
- Doctors - family doctors
  - access to, 8170
- Dogs
  - hunting skills, training and trialing facilities
    - licensing
      - statements by stakeholders, 4611
- Driving - careless/distracted
  - causing injury or death
    - fines and penalties, 1591
- Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve
  - development on, 1542–1543
  - serviced land, 5914
- Education funding
  - general remarks, 6095
  - planned vs. actual, 4347
  - skilled trades, 4946
- Education - mental health
  - students, access, 4249–4250
- Education - parents
  - general remarks, 4942–4943
- Education policy
  - ministerial authority, 4942
- Education - special education services
  - students, access, 3088
- Education workers
  - shortage
    - impact on schools, 1243
  - workplace violence, 1062
- Education workers - collective bargaining
  - back-to-work legislation
    - impact on labour rights, 1242
    - notwithstanding clause, 1062
- Education workers - compensation
  - cost of living, 1062, 1076
- Education workers - labour disputes, union contracts and negotiations
  - bargaining process, 1062–1063
- Education workers - role in schools
  - effect on students, 1243
- Election Finances Amendment Act (Quarterly Allowances), 2024 (Bill 220)
  - second reading, 10297
- Elections
  - funding
    - history of, 10297
    - large donors, 10297
    - public, 10297
- Electricity rates - reduction
  - government subsidies
    - eligibility, 9190
- Employment standards
  - gig workers
    - working conditions, 7764
- Employment standards - sick days
  - access, 2005
- Enbridge gas - natural gas rate application denial
  - government response, 9133–9134
- Energy policy
  - infrastructure
    - public land use fee for, 10177–10178
- Enhanced oil recovery
  - environmental impact, 2924
- Enhancing Access to Justice Act, 2023 (Bill 157)
  - stakeholder consultation, 7044–7045
- Enhancing Access to Justice Act, 2024 (Bill 157)
  - second reading, 7044–7045
  - third reading, 7544–7545
- Enhancing Professional Care for Animals Act, 2024 (Bill 171)
  - second reading, 7898–7900
  - third reading, 9290–9292
- Food prices
  - climate change, impact of, 6163–6164
  - cost of, increase
    - mitigation strategies, 1360
  - price gouging, 5731, 6968
- French-language debates
  - Déclarations ministérielles et réponses
    - Journée internationale de la Francophonie, 2866
- Fuel prices
  - increase in, 7187
- Gender equity
  - general remarks, 2733
- Get It Done Act, 2024 (Bill 162)
  - second reading, 7577–7579
  - third reading, 8884–8886
- Government debt and deficit
  - interest on debt, 9190
    - FAO report: Economic and Budget Outlook, Spring 2024, 9188
- Government finances
  - fall economic statement (2024), 10054
  - government strategy, 1359
- Government notices of motion
  - Bail reform
    - amendment to the amendment
      - responded to, 3355–3356
  - Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second
    - responded to, 807
- Government orders
  - Taxation
    - amendment
      - responded to, 6162–6164
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - climate policy, 8886
  - environmental policy, 2535
  - greenbelt, 1543
- Green Party of Ontario
  - environmental policy
    - greenbelt, 5912
  - housing policy, 5154, 5912
    - affordable housing, 925
  - land use planning policy, 4427
- Green Party of Ontario, housing policy, 7584–7585
- Greenbelt
  - boundary adjustments, 5911
  - conservation of, 1366
    - community outreach, 1865
    - economic impact, 4427
  - creation of, 5911
  - economic impact, 2370, 2667, 5911–5912
- Greenbelt - boundary adjustments, process
  - accountability and transparency, 5913
  - public inquiry, 5154
- Greenbelt - development on
  - environmental impact, 1273
  - housing, 1963
  - land availability, 1558, 4388, 4427
  - public response, 1962
- Greenbelt Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 136)
  - second reading, 5911–5914
- Greenbelt Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 136)
  - committee process
    - public consultation, 7079–7080
- Greenhouse gas emissions
  - Ontario emissions, 9133
- Greenhouse gas emissions - reduction
  - policy development, timelines, 9265–9266
- Gun violence
  - as public health concern, 774
- Hands Off the Greenbelt Act, 2023 (Bill 109)
  - first reading, 4394
- Health care
  - structural stressors
    - government response, 516
- Health care funding
  - general remarks, 1359
- Health care workers
  - compensation
    - vs. other jurisdictions, 2884
  - shortage, 9189
- Health care workers - recruitment and retention
  - women, representation in, 2733
- Health care workers - recruitment and retention - international
  - credential recognition, 383
- Helping Homebuyers, Protecting Tenants Act, 2023 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 3758–3760
  - statements by stakeholders, 4723
  - third reading, 4723–4725
- Highway 407 ETR
  - tolls
    - transport trucks, 8885–8886
- Highway 413
  - agricultural impact, 238, 717–718
  - vs. highway 407 toll removal, 5913
- Highways and roads safety
  - Vision Zero strategy, 1591–1592
- Highways and roads safety - vulnerable users
  - injuries and fatalities, 1591
- Home and community care
  - government funding, 10038
- Home and community care - reform
  - government strategy, 572
- Home heating
  - affordability and climate mitigation initiatives
    - building retrofits
      - economic impact, 6163
  - cost of, 6163
  - transition from natural gas to electric, 9133–9134
- Homes You Can Afford in the Communities You Love Act, 2023 (Bill 156)
  - first reading, 6618
- Honouring Our Veterans Act, 2023 (Bill 65)
  - third reading, 5668–5669
- Honouring Veterans Act, 2024 (Bill 218)
  - second reading, 10289
- Hospitals - capacity and overcrowding
  - government funding, 2005
- Housing
  - affordability
    - policy development, 6094
  - cost of
    - vs. income, 8399, 9522
- Housing Affordability Task Force
  - recommendations, 726–727, 1659, 2040, 7585
  - report (2022)
    - greenbelt, 1542, 1558
    - land availability, 1660, 2093
- Housing - by region
  - Gogama
    - public housing, surplus, 9190
- Housing development
  - building targets, municipalities
    - progress, 5685
  - mass timber construction, 8399
- Housing development - by region
  - Guelph, 5685
- Housing development - construction
  - construction starts, 9522
  - energy-efficient design, 6164
  - inclusionary zoning, 926, 2093
  - land availability, 2668
  - mid-density format, 4725
- Housing development - densification
  - high density vs. low density
    - cost of, 4347
  - high vs. low density
    - cost of, 4724
  - high-density vs. low-density, 3758–3759, 6363
    - cost of, 3141–3142, 3816, 4347, 4427–4428, 4724, 5912
  - impact of, 9562
  - by region
    - Guelph, 4724
- Housing development - infrastructure
  - government funding, 9190
  - servicing costs
    - high-density vs. low-density developments, 8400
  - sewage and wastewater
    - mid-density, 7923–7924
- Housing development - municipal charges
  - development charges, exemptions and discounts, 3759
    - impact on municipalities, 5654, 5685–5686
    - transferal of costs, taxes, 2006
- Housing market
  - speculation, 5912
- Housing policy
  - development, 925
  - government strategy, 8399–8400, 9522–9523
  - inclusionary zoning, 7102, 7487
  - upzoning, 7923–7924, 8399, 9524, 9680
    - fourplexes, 8401, 9523
    - major transit corridors, 8400
    - mid-density, 8361
    - statements by stakeholders, 9522
- Housing supply
  - government strategy, 726
  - inclusionary zoning, 925, 1664
- Human trafficking - sex trafficking
  - statistics, 6763
- Human trafficking - survivor services
  - Project Recover, 6763
- Human trafficking - victims
  - coerced debts, 6763
    - impact of, 2356
      - statements by stakeholders, 2356
- Indigenous communities
  - on-reserve
    - veterinary care, access to, 7899–7900
- Indigenous relations - Truth and Reconciliation
  - National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, 5147
- Judges
  - independence of, 7544
- Judicial appointments - Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee
  - independence of, 7544
- Keeping Energy Costs Down Act, 2024 (Bill 165)
  - second reading, 7283–7285, 7288–7289, 7340
  - third reading, 9132–9134
- Keeping Students in Class Act, 2022 (Bill 28)
  - second reading, 1062–1063
  - third reading, 1242–1243
- Land use planning
  - environmental regulations, 2535
  - responsibilities, upper-tier municipalities
    - transferal to lower-tier municipalities, 8401
- Land use planning - environmental assessments
  - regulatory reform, 8885
- Land use planning - environmental assessments, class environment assessments
  - 30-day review period, purpose of, 2535
- Land use planning - municipal official plans
  - by region
    - Waterloo, 8884
- Land use planning - provincial policy statement
  - settlement area boundaries, expansion, 8400
    - low-density developments, 9523
- Legislative procedure
  - parliamentary calendar
    - summer adjournment, changes, 9649–9650
- Legislative procedure - debate
  - order and decorum, 1243
- Legislative procedure - motions
  - hours of House, 7080
  - hours of House, extension, 1013
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Economy Act, 2023 (Bill 91)
  - third reading, 4610–4612
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 46)
  - third reading, 2924–2925
- Long-term care - residents
  - role of essential caregivers, 382, 572
- Members' Integrity Act, 1994, SO 1994, c. 38
  - reform, 4203
- Members' statements
  - Affordable housing, 6265
  - Autism treatment, 4563
  - Climate change, 2898, 9209
  - Coldest Night of the Year, 7547
  - Community Living Guelph Wellington, 10038
  - Greenbelt, 1366
  - Homelessness, 8313
  - Land use planning, 1865, 2370
  - Ontario farmers, 5268
  - Social assistance, 929
  - Supportive housing, 388
  - Wyndham House, 4055
- Members'/ministers' conduct
  - conflict of interest
    - appearance of, 4203
- Members/ministers quoting
  - Alliance for a Liveable Ontario
    - agricultural land, residential lots, 4723
  - reports
    - Discussion Paper Geological Storage in Ontario, 2924
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - withdrawn, 5154
- Mental health and addictions services
  - access, 2884
  - economic impact, 2615
  - wait-list, 2615
- Mining industry
  - regulatory environment, 2747
- Mining industry - Indigenous communities
  - Indigenous consultation and consent, 2746
- Mining sites - development
  - financial assurance, phased, 2746
- Ministerial statements
  - Dress Purple Day
    - responded to, 5785
  - Economic outlook and fiscal review
    - responded to, 1273, 10054
  - International Day of la Francophonie
    - responded to, 2866
  - International Women's Day
    - responded to, 2733
- More Beds, Better Care Act, 2022 (Bill 7)
  - second reading, 382–383
  - third reading, 571–572
- More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 (Bill 23)
  - second reading, 924–926
  - public response, 1660
  - third reading, 1659–1660, 1663–1664
- Motions
  - House and committee sittings
    - responded to, 9649–9650
  - House sittings (carried)
    - responded to, 1013–1014, 7079–7080
- Municipal councillors
  - harassment and abuse
    - removal process
      - legislative reform, 4600
- Natural gas
  - environmental impact, 517
- Natural gas distributors
  - connections, requests
    - municipal by-laws, 2061
- Natural gas expansion
  - environmental impact, 4864, 8803–8804
- New Deal for Toronto Act, 2023 (Bill 154)
  - legislative process
    - motions
      - time allocation, 7080
- No More Highways in the Greenbelt Act, 2023 (Bill 110)
  - first reading, 4394
- No More Pits or Quarries in the Greenbelt Act, 2023 (Bill 111)
  - first reading, 4394
- Nurses
  - recruitment and retention
    - internationally trained
      - recruitment initiatives, 238
- Ontario Autism Program (OAP)
  - government funding, 4363
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP)
  - assessment process
    - regulations, 3018
  - housing allowance, board and lodge, 3018
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates
  - and cost of living, 88–89, 4348
- Opposition day motions
  - Education funding
    - responded to, 3088
  - Mental health services
    - responded to, 2615–2616
  - Social assistance
    - responded to, 1095–1096
  - Tenant protection
    - responded to, 3816
- Petitions
  - Addiction services, 9595
  - Development in Tiny township, 9747
  - Health care funding, 9554
  - Hospital services, 5330–5331
  - Land use planning, 1466, 1562, 1879, 1970, 4396, 7107, 7367, 10123
  - Nuclear waste, 4578–4579
  - Renewable energy, 5067
  - Social assistance, 883, 1879–1880, 3080, 4137–4138, 4871, 9178, 9932
- Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 2)
  - second reading, 237–238
  - third reading, 618–619
- Poverty
  - cost of, 1095
- Preventing Unethical Puppy Sales Act, 2024 (Bill 159)
  - third reading, 9575
- Private members' motions
  - Cancer screening
    - responded to, 9628–9629
- Private members' public business
  - Advocate for Older Adults Act, 2023 (Bill 101)
    - second reading, 4426
  - Affordable housing
    - responded to, 5682
  - Agri-food industry
    - responded to, 912
  - Building Better Business Outcomes Act, 2023 (Bill 50)
    - second reading, 2471–2472
  - Fairness for Road Users Act (Contraventions Causing Death or Serious Bodily Harm), 2022 (Bill 15)
    - second reading, 1591–1592
  - Farmland and Arable Land Strategy Act, 2023 (Bill 62)
    - second reading, 2778
  - Fewer Floods, Safer Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 56)
    - second reading, 3231
  - Harvest Season Road Safety Week Act, 2023 (Bill 143)
    - second reading, 7086–7087
  - Highway construction
    - responded to, 717–718
  - Keeping People Housed Act, 2024 (Bill 170)
    - second reading, 8227–8228
  - Protection from Coerced Debts Incurred in relation to Human Trafficking Act, 2023 (Bill 41)
    - second reading, 2356
  - Safe and Healthy Communities Act (Addressing Gun Violence), 2022 (Bill 9)
    - second reading, 774
  - Skilled Trades Week Act, 2023 (Bill 117)
    - second reading, 5196–5197
  - Social assistance
    - responded to, 3018
  - Stopping Harassment and Abuse by Local Leaders Act, 2023 (Bill 5)
    - second reading, 4600
  - Strengthening Members' Integrity Act, 2023 (Bill 100)
    - second reading, 4203
  - Student mental health
    - responded to, 4250–4251
  - Taxation
    - responded to, 5730–5732, 7181
  - 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, 1359–1360
  - third reading, 2005–2006
- Protection from Coerced Debts Incurred in relation to Human Trafficking Act, 2023 (Bill 41)
  - third reading, 6763–6764
- Public infrastructure
  - maintenance and repair
    - adaptability, climate change, 2884
- Public sector compensation - increase cap, health care workers
  - general remarks, 238, 383, 572
  - impact on worker retention, 382
- Puppy mills
  - enforcement and inspections, 9291
  - licensing, 9575
- Question of privilege
  - passage of legislation, presumption of
    - responded to, 1070
- Question period
  - Affordable housing
    - presented, 3670–3671, 7102, 7487, 7923–7924, 9680
  - Climate change
    - presented, 8803–8804, 9265–9266
  - Energy policies
    - presented, 10177–10178
  - Government accountability
    - presented, 5154
  - Green power generation
    - presented, 4864
  - Housing
    - presented, 8361
  - Labour dispute
    - presented, 1076
  - Land use planning
    - presented, 1558, 1962–1963, 2667–2668, 3141–3142, 4388, 6363
  - Mental health and addiction services
    - presented, 554
  - Municipal funding
    - presented, 5654
  - Social assistance
    - presented, 88–89
- Reducing Inefficiencies Act (Infrastructure Statute Law Amendments), 2023 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 2535–2536
- Renewable energy
  - cost of, 517, 2924, 8804
  - from Quebec, 2924
- Renewable energy industry
  - economic impact, 5732
- Rental housing
  - affordability
    - social assistance recipients, 1095
  - cost of, 3816
- Rental housing - affordable
  - development of
    - government strategy, 8227–8228
- Rental housing - development
  - purpose-built
    - funding, 1543
- Rental housing - tenant protections
  - impact on tenants, 8228
- Reports by committees
  - Standing Committee on Heritage, Infrastructure and Cultural Policy
    - Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 (Bill 39), 2039–2040
- School board trustees
  - role of, 4943
- School boards
  - expenditures
    - due to COVID-19, 3088
- Senior citizens
  - advocate for older adults
    - creation of office, 4426
  - demographics
    - impact on policy development, 4426
- Skilled trades
  - diversity and inclusion, 5197
- Skilled trades - employment
  - recruitment and retention
    - women, 5073
- Social assistance programs
  - application process, 1096
  - benefit rates, 2005
    - and cost of living, 1359, 5072–5073
  - federal-provincial collaboration, 4348
- Social assistance programs - benefit rates
  - funding, 929
  - historically, 1095
- Social assistance programs - recipients
  - employment
    - barriers to, 1095
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022 (Bill 3)
  - third reading, 726–727
- Supply Act, 2023 (Bill 77)
  - second reading, 2884
- Supporting Children's Futures Act, 2024 (Bill 188)
  - third reading, 9439
- Supportive housing
  - by region
    - Guelph, 8313
- Supportive housing - funding
  - general remarks, 3816
- Surgical procedures
  - operations, capacity
    - staff shortage, impact, 2398
    - staff shortages, impact of, 2398
- Taxation
  - for public services, 6162
- Teachers
  - shortage, 9189
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 516–518
- Transit
  - regional development, 4348
- Transit-oriented communities
  - affordable housing, development of, 8400
- Tributes
  - Davis, William Grenville (former member for Brampton), 845
  - Elizabeth II (queen), 807
  - Kramp, Daryl (former member for Hastings—Lennox and Addington), 7968
  - McCallion, Hazel, 2241
  - McMurtry, Roland "Roy" (former member for Eglinton), 8183–8184
  - Mulroney, Brian (former Prime Minister of Canada), 7603
  - Munro, Julia (former member for York—Simcoe), 543
  - Onley, Hon. David C. (former Lieutenant Governor), 2181
- Unhoused persons
  - community organizations
    - by region
      - Guelph, 7547
- Unhoused persons - youth
  - supportive housing programs
    - Wyndham House (Guelph), 4055
- Veterans
  - Remembrance Day, 1208, 5989
- Veterans - commemoration
  - Remembrance Day and Remembrance Week, 5989, 10303
- Veterinarians and veterinary technicians
  - education and training
    - government funding, 9291–9292
    - increasing spaces, 8283–8284
  - shortage, 8284
- Veterinary technicians
  - registered
    - scope of practice, 7899
- Victims of crime
  - emotional distress, presumption of
    - eligible crimes, 7545
- Wilmot township
  - agricultural land expropriation, 8401
- Women
  - education and awareness
    - International Women's Day, 2733
- Working for Workers Act, 2023 (Bill 79)
  - third reading, 5072–5074
- Working for Workers Four Act, 2024 (Bill 149)
  - third reading, 7764
- World War II
  - D-Day anniversary, 9580
- Your Health Act, 2023 (Bill 60)
  - second reading, 2398–2399
Scott, L. (PC, Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock)
- Affordable Energy Act, 2024 (Bill 214)
  - second reading, 9983
- Agricultural events
  - Kinmount Fair, 339
  - Spotlight on Agriculture Awards, 3370
- Agricultural industry
  - government strategy, 9926–9927
- Agriculture industry
  - community organizations
    - for children and youth, 1145
- Agriculture industry - food processing
  - promotion of, 1321
    - international trade, 1322
- Agri-food industry
  - maple syrup, 2898
- Appreciation
  - Boyd Heritage Museum, 4643
  - Fenelon Falls and District Lions Club, 10370
  - Hodgson, Chris (former member of Haliburton—Victoria—Brock), 9735
  - Lindsay Lions Club, 4643
- Building More Mines Act, 2023 (Bill 71)
  - second reading, 2686–2688
- Carbon tax
  - northern and rural Ontario, impact on, 7922
- Carbon tax - impact by industry
  - agri-food, 8989
- Change of Name Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 138)
  - first reading, 5466
- Children and youth in care - Ready, Set, Go Program
  - age eligibility, 9402
- Construction industry
  - occupational health and safety, 3311–3312
- Critical Minerals Strategy
  - supply chain, 2687
- Curriculum - health and physical education (2019)
  - general remarks, 1296
- Debates re answers to question period
  - Sexual assault
    - responded to, 1132–1133
- Economic development
  - by region
    - Haliburton–Kawartha Lakes–Brock, 2159
- Enhancing Access to Justice Act, 2024 (Bill 157)
  - second reading, 7027–7028, 7030
- Enhancing Professional Care for Animals Act, 2024 (Bill 171)
  - second reading, 7853
- Gender-based violence
  - sexual assault assessment
    - kit availability
      - hospital staffing shortages, impact of, 1132
    - staff training, 1132
- Get It Done Act, 2024 (Bill 162)
  - third reading, 8886
- Haliburton County
  - economic development
    - community organizations, 6354–6355
- Health care funding - by region
  - Haliburton–Kawartha Lakes–Brock, 2437
- Housing supply
  - economic impact
    - employment retention, 1546
- Human trafficking - labour trafficking
  - government response, 3253
- Human trafficking - prevention
  - awareness and education, 1297, 4051
- Human trafficking - sex trafficking
  - statistics, 6759
- Human trafficking - survivor services
  - Project Recover, 6760
- Human trafficking - victims
  - children and youth in care, 9403
    - prevention, 9401–9402
  - coerced debts, 6759–6760
    - collection of, prohibition, 2357
    - impact of, 2357
  - demographics, 2357
- Judicial education
  - continuing education
    - intimate partner violence, 4051
- Lakeside Village Property Owners’ Association Fenelon Township Inc. Act, 2024 (Bill Pr58)
  - first reading, 9746
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 46)
  - Indigenous consultation, 2929
  - third reading, 2919, 2929
- Making Sexual Assault Evidence Kits Available Act, 2022 (Bill 59)
  - first reading, 2172
- Manufacturing industry
  - by region
    - Haliburton–Kawartha Lakes–Brock, 2159
- Members' statements
  - Battle of Vimy Ridge, 8180–8181
  - Boyd Heritage Museum, 4642–4643
  - Chambers of commerce awards of excellence, 1549
  - Events in Haliburton–Kawartha Lakes–Brock, 6989–6990
  - Fenelon Falls and District Lions Club, 10370
  - Haliburton County Development Corp., 6354–6355
  - Haliburton Highlands Sports Hall of Fame, 9539–9540
  - Health care funding, 2437
  - Highlands Cinemas, 5648
  - Hodgson, Chris, 9735
  - Kawartha Lakes Dairy Producers annual banquet, 8637
  - Kinmount Fair, 339
  - Lindsay Lions Club, 4642–4643
  - Maple syrup, 2898
  - Mariposa Dairy, 3370
  - Ontario Staycation Tax Credit, 2022
  - Ontario Trillium Foundation, 5268
  - Remembrance Day, 1067
  - Show Your 4-H Colours Day, 1145
  - Sunderland ringette, 9109
  - Winterdance Dogsled Tours, 7351–7352
  - World Wheelchair Curling Championship, 7776
- Members'/Ministers' privileges
  - wearing of paraphernalia
    - pins, 10261
- Mining industry
  - economic impact, 2686
- Mining industry - Critical Minerals Strategy
  - supply chain, 2687
- Ministry of Correctional Services Amendment Act (Parole), 2023 (Bill 96)
  - first reading, 3383
  - second reading, 4050–4051
- Municipalities
  - chambers of commerce
    - awards, 1549
- Name changes
  - publications, 6038
- Nuclear energy industry
  - reactor refurbishment, 8479
- Nurses - recruitment and retention
  - government strategy, 819
  - by region, 819
- Petitions
  - Volunteer service awards, 3149
- Pickering
  - urban boundaries
    - mayoral requests, 2066
- Post-secondary education - faculty/staff
  - sexual misconduct against students
    - and collective bargaining agreements, 1297
    - government strategy, 1295
    - use of non-disclosure agreements, 1297
- Post-secondary education - sexual violence and harassment
  - prevention
    - education, consent, 1296–1297
- Private members' public business
  - Change of Name Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 138)
    - second reading, 6037–6038, 6041
  - Erin's Law (Child Sexual Abuse Prevention and Reporting), 2023 (Bill 123)
    - second reading, 5309
  - Ministry of Correctional Services Amendment Act (Parole), 2023 (Bill 96)
    - second reading, 4050–4051
  - Protection from Coerced Debts Incurred in relation to Human Trafficking Act, 2023 (Bill 41)
    - second reading, 2357
- Protection from Coerced Debts Incurred in relation to Human Trafficking Act, 2023 (Bill 41)
  - third reading, 6759–6760
- Question period
  - Agri-food industry
    - presented, 1321–1322
  - Assistance to farmers
    - presented, 9926–9927
  - Energy policies
    - presented, 8479
  - Health care post-secondary education
    - presented, 819
  - Manufacturing jobs
    - presented, 2159
  - Northern transportation
    - presented, 2307
  - Protection for workers
    - presented, 3253
  - Taxation
    - presented, 7922, 8119, 8989, 10379
  - Veterans
    - presented, 10272–10273
- Qui Vive Island Club Inc. Act, 2024 (Bill Pr41)
  - first reading, 7927
  - second reading, 9140
  - third reading, 9140
- Rail service
  - Ontario Northland passenger rail service
    - passenger service
      - to Northern Ontario, 2307
- Schools
  - student health and safety, 555
- Sex offenders
  - legal name change
    - in other jurisdictions, 6038
    - provincial jurisdiction, 6038
- Sexual assault
  - victim services
    - funding, 1132
- Sexual violence and harassment
  - distribution of a voyeuristic recording or an intimate image, 7027
  - impact of, 7027
  - incidence rates, 1295
  - offenders
    - recidivism rate, 6038
- Sexual violence and harassment - children and youth
  - prevention
    - education and awareness, 5309
- Strengthening Post-secondary Institutions and Students Act, 2022 (Bill 26)
  - second reading, 1294–1297
  - stakeholder consultations, 1296
  - stakeholder response, 1295–1296
- Supporting Children's Futures Act, 2024 (Bill 188)
  - second reading, 8593
  - third reading, 9401–9403
- Toronto Metropolitan University
  - law school
    - renaming of, 1295
- Tourism industry
  - domestic tourism
    - tax credits, 2022
- Veterans
  - Remembrance Day, 1067
- Veterans - commemoration
  - Remembrance Day and Remembrance Week, 10272–10273
- Victims of crime
  - emotional distress, presumption of
    - eligible crimes, 7027–7028, 7030
- World War I
  - Battle of Vimy Ridge, 8180–8181
Shamji, A. (LIB, Don Valley East)
- Affordable housing
  - "affordable," definition of, 9510
  - inclusionary zoning, 8729
- Agricultural land - residential lots
  - public consultation, 4694
- Alternate-level-of-care (ALC) patients
  - government strategy, 573
- Alternate-level-of-care (ALC) patients - transfer to long-term care facilities
  - consent
    - informed consent, 573
  - patient consultation and consent, 552
- Ambulance services
  - service availability, 989
- Apprenticeships
  - academic criteria
    - alternatives, 9230
- Bail program reform
  - general remarks, 3344
- Budget 2023/2024
  - education, 3275
  - health care, 3272–3273
  - health care workers, 3275
  - Indigenous consultation, 3273
- Budget speech 2023 (March 23, 2023)
  - responded to, 3272–3275
- Budget speech 2024 (March 26, 2024)
  - responded to, 8335, 8340–8342
- Building a Better Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 180)
  - second reading, 8159
- Building a Strong Ontario Together Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 146)
  - second reading, 6086, 6088–6089
  - third reading, 6729
- Building construction
  - inspectors, appointment of, 4695
- Building Universal and Inclusive Land Development in Ontario Act, 2024 (Bill 175)
  - first reading, 7788
- Cancer
  - causes, 9627
- Cancer - lung
  - screening
    - access to, 9627
      - northern and rural Ontario, 9627
    - criteria expansion, 9626–9627
    - education and awareness, 9626
- Cancer - prostate cancer
  - diagnostic testing
    - physical exam vs. prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, 2590
  - risk factors, 2590
- Carbon pricing programs, provincial
  - general remarks, 9510
- Career colleges
  - oversight and regulations, 7685
- Community events - by region
  - Don Valley East, 630
- Construction industry
  - work sites
    - menstrual products availability, 9231
- Convenient Care at Home Act, 2023 (Bill 135)
  - committee process
    - amendments, consideration of, 6532
    - stakeholder consultation, 6530
  - patient confidentiality, 6507, 6532
- Convenient Care at Home Act, 2023 (Bill 135)
  - second reading, 5617–5621
  - third reading, 6507–6508, 6530–6534, 6537
- Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act, 2024 (Bill 185)
  - second reading, 8385–8389
  - third reading, 9507–9511
- Doctors - education and training
  - internationally trained
    - practice-ready assessment programs
      - implementation timelines, 5620
- Doctors - family doctors
  - access to, 9678
- Doctors - primary care
  - shortage, 10175
- Dogs
  - breeding, 8545
  - and Indigenous communities, 8545
- Education workers - collective bargaining
  - back-to-work legislation
    - impact on labour rights, 1104
- Employment standards
  - sick notes, 9231
- Food banks - usage
  - rates, 3505
- Government accountability and transparency
  - general remarks, 5516–5517, 5776
- Government expenditures
  - planned vs. actual, 3272
- Government finances
  - fall economic statement (2023), 6083, 6086
- Government notices of motion
  - Attacks on Israel
    - amendment to the amendment
      - responded to, 5427–5428
  - Bail reform
    - amendment
      - responded to, 3344
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - directives and policies, 1104, 2248
  - health care, 6086
  - health care policy, 31
  - post-secondary education policy, 7684
- Greenbelt
  - conservation of
    - government strategy, 5984
- Greenbelt Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 136)
  - second reading, 5984
- Gun violence
  - as public health concern, 772
  - and trauma, 772
- Health care
  - Patient's Bill of Rights
    - patient consent, elements of, 552, 574
- Health care funding
  - government strategy, 2408
- Health care - northern Ontario
  - access, 7220
- Health care policy
  - federal, 1652
- Health care services
  - clinics, service fees, 5278, 7783–7784, 8359–8360
- Health care services - delivery
  - general remarks, 1652
- Health care services - hospital and physician services
  - reimbursement program, termination of
    - uninsured patients, 3143
- Health care system
  - capacity and overcrowding, 1711
  - government strategy
    - public consultation, external, 4471
  - health human resources
    - government strategy, 4043
  - privatization, 339, 2021
- Health care system - capacity
  - services
    - government strategy, 1712
    - shortages, 874
- Health care workers
  - shortage
    - data and reporting, public access to, 8802
- Health care workers - recruitment and retention
  - government strategy, 9230
- Health Professionals' Week Act, 2023 (Bill 72)
  - first reading, 2554
- Helping Homebuyers, Protecting Tenants Act, 2023 (Bill 97)
  - third reading, 4694–4696
- Heritage properties
  - designation and registrations
    - timelines, 9611
- Highways and roads - maintenance and repair
  - northern Ontario, 8729–8730
- Home and community care
  - access, 5618
  - administration
    - complaint process, 6532
- Home and community care - funding
  - planned vs. actual, 5618, 6532
- Home and community care - reform
  - administrative centralization, 5619
  - integration into health care system, 6534
  - ministerial accountability and oversight, 5621
  - transition to Ontario Health Teams
    - timelines, 6533
- Home and community care - staff
  - compensation, 5620
  - turnover, 6531
  - working conditions, for-profit providers
    - impact on patient care, 6531
- Home ownership
  - affordability, 9778
- Homeowner Protection Act, 2024 (Bill 200)
  - second reading, 9611–9613
- Hospital services
  - capacity and overcrowding
    - impact on patient health, 1126
  - factors affecting
    - staff shortage, 4478
- Hospital services - emergency
  - department closures
    - impact on patients, 6442
- Hospitals
  - operational models, 1652
- Hospitals - capacity and overcrowding
  - general remarks, 31
- Housing development
  - consultation, timelines, 9509
  - conversion, commerical to residential, 9778
  - mass timber construction, 8386
- Housing development - construction
  - construction starts, 9507–9508
  - starts, 9778
- Housing development - densification
  - high vs. low density, 4694
  - high-density vs. low-density, 4694
- Housing development - major transit station areas
  - density limits
    - consultation, timelines, 8386
- Housing development - provincial building targets
  - government strategy, 9508
  - progress, 8385–8386
- Housing policy
  - general remarks, 9508
  - reversal
    - impact of, 9509
  - stakeholder consultation, 8387
- Immigrants - access to professions and trades
  - foreign credentials, recognition of, 6573
- Independent health facilities - diagnostic and surgical procedures, expansion
  - general remarks, 4041
  - oversight, 4062
- Indigenous relations - Truth and Reconciliation
  - National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, 5147
- Israel
  - attacks on (October 7, 2023), 5427–5428
- Judicial appointments - Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee
  - membership appointments
    - conflict of interest, 7489
- Keeping Primary Care Fair Act (Restricting Private Payments for Nurse Practitioner Services), 2024 (Bill 203)
  - first reading, 9380–9381
- Keeping Students in Class Act, 2022 (Bill 28)
  - second reading, 1104–1105
- Land use planning
  - public consultation, 2021
- Land use planning - municipal official plans
  - employment zones
    - and housing development, 4694–4695
  - urban boundary expansion, review, 4695
- Light Rail Transit (LRT) - Eglinton Crosstown
  - construction delays, 8420–8421
- Members' statements
  - Children's health care, 1312
  - Climate change, 4471
  - Events in Don Valley East, 630
  - Government accountability, 5516–5517, 10109
  - Health care, 339, 2021, 4471
  - Health care funding, 9163–9164
  - Holiday messages, 2021
  - Labour Day, 630
  - Michael Garron Hospital, 6356–6357
  - Public safety, 3425
  - Public transit, 8420–8421
  - Riding of Don Valley East, 3737
  - Temporary nursing agencies, 2298
  - Tenant protection, 7599
- Members'/ministers' correction of record, 6444
- Members'/ministers' inaugural speeches, 472–475
- Mental health and addictions services
  - by region
    - northern Ontario, 6088
- Michael Garron Hospital
  - capacity and overcrowding, 6356
- More Beds, Better Care Act, 2022 (Bill 7)
  - third reading, 573–574
- Municipalities
  - regional differences, 4695
- New home construction industry
  - consumer protection
    - purchases, cooling off period, 9612
- Notice of security interests (NOSIs)
  - consumer protection, 9612
- Nurses
  - definition of, regulation, 2408
- Nurses - temporary agencies
  - accountability and oversight, 2298, 5969–5971
  - hiring of, 1126
  - hiring practices, 2248, 4478–4479, 5970
  - wage premiums
    - impact of, 5969
- 1376122 Ontario Ltd. Act, 2023 (Bill Pr27)
  - first reading, 4929
- Ontario Autism Program (OAP)
  - service capacity
    - treatment wait-list, 1312
  - wait-list, 2669–2670
- Ontario Building Code
  - single-exit stairs
    - stakeholder consultation, 8386
- Ontario Health atHome
  - board of directors
    - accountability and transparency, 6532
  - and French-language communities, 6537
  - regional organizations, consolidation into
    - and community variability, 6533
    - impact of, 5617
    - impact on hospitals, 6508, 6532
- Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP)
  - service eligibility
    - prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, 2590, 4040, 4042
- Ontario Health Teams
  - general remarks, 6534
- Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT)
  - third party appeals, elimination of, 8387, 9509
- Ontario Science Centre
  - relocation
    - public consultation, 4922–4923
- Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP)
  - loan and grant amounts, 7686
- Paramedics and paramedic services
  - compensation, 990
  - recruitment and retention
    - shortages, 989
- Pediatric hospitals - services
  - capacity and overcrowding
    - government response, 1312
- Personal support workers (PSWs)
  - compensation
    - federal funding, 6531–6532
  - recruitment and retention
    - compensation, role of, 5619
- Petitions
  - Addiction services, 9381
  - Automobile insurance, 9555
  - Health care, 2044–2045
  - Hospital services, 4455–4456, 9178, 9808
  - Ontario Science Centre, 4932
  - Protection for workers, 5066
  - Sexual assault, 1225
- Pharmacists
  - role of, expansion, 4043
- Pharmacists and pharmacies
  - role of, expansion, 4043
- Post-secondary education
  - blue-ribbon panel, recommendations
    - funding, 7684–7685
  - free speech, 7686
  - housing for students, development of
    - Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P.13, exemption from, 8387–8388
  - policies and reporting
    - ministerial authority, 7684–7685
  - tuition
    - fee freeze, 7686
- Post-secondary education - funding
  - campus safety, 7685
  - one-time vs. ongoing, 7685
- Post-secondary education - international students
  - as income source, 7687
  - mental health and addictions, 7684
- Post-secondary education - mental health and addictions
  - supports and services
    - government funding, 7685
- Preventing Unethical Puppy Sales Act, 2024 (Bill 159)
  - second reading, 8545–8547
- Private members' motions
  - Cancer screening
    - responded to, 9626–9627
- Private members' public business
  - Ambulance services
    - responded to, 989–990
  - Cancer screening
    - responded to, 2590
  - Commercial to Residential Conversion Act, 2024 (Bill 201)
    - second reading, 9778
  - First responders
    - responded to, 9828–9829
  - Health Care is Not for Sale Act (Addressing Unfair Fees Charged to Patients), 2022 (Bill 24)
    - second reading, 1652
  - Keeping Primary Care Fair Act (Restricting Private Payments for Nurse Practitioner Services), 2024 (Bill 203)
    - second reading, 9900–9902, 9905–9906
  - Northern Health Travel Grant Advisory Committee Act, 2024 (Bill 13)
    - second reading, 7220–7221
  - Nurses
    - responded to, 1126
  - Safe and Healthy Communities Act (Addressing Gun Violence), 2022 (Bill 9)
    - second reading, 772
  - Supporting Mobility, Affordability and Reliable Transportation in Ontario Act, 2024 (Bill 184)
    - second reading, 8729–8730
  - Temporary Nursing Agency Licensing and Regulation Act, 2023 (Bill 67)
    - second reading, 5969–5971, 5975
  - Trucking safety
    - responded to, 10250–10251
  - WSIB Coverage for Workers in Residential Care Facilities and Group Homes Act, 2023 (Bill 54)
    - second reading, 5089
- Provincial lands
  - affordable housing, development on, 8389
- Public sector compensation - increase cap, health care workers
  - impact on retention, 1126
- Publication of Mandate Letters Act, 2022 (Bill 10)
  - first reading, 294
- Puppy mills
  - definition, 8545
  - enforcement and inspections, 8546–8547
- Question period
  - Autism treatment
    - presented, 2669–2670
  - Cost of living
    - presented, 3504–3505
  - Government accountability
    - presented, 5776
  - Government appointments
    - presented, 7489
  - Government's record
    - presented, 9263–9264
  - Health care
    - presented, 2248, 3143–3144, 4062, 5278, 6442, 7145–7146, 7783–7784, 8359–8360, 8801–8802, 9678, 10175
  - Health care funding
    - presented, 874, 1711–1712
  - Hospital services
    - presented, 31
  - Long-term care
    - presented, 552–553
  - Ontario Science Centre
    - presented, 4922–4923
  - Temporary nursing agencies
    - presented, 4478–4479
- Rent control
  - exemptions, 4696
- Rental housing - tenant protections
  - during building demolition
    - rent-gap payments, 7599
  - replacement bylaws, 4695
- Social services
  - impact on public safety, 3425
- South Bruce Grey Health Centre - Durham site
  - in-patient beds
    - transition to other facilities, 9163–9164
  - service reduction
    - impact of, 9263–9264
- Strengthening Accountability and Student Supports Act, 2024 (Bill 166)
  - second reading, 7684–7687
  - scope of
    - career colleges, 7685
- Temporary Nursing Agency Licensing and Regulation Act, 2023 (Bill 67)
  - first reading, 2311
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 472–476, 508
- Transit-oriented communities
  - development of
    - Planning Act, exemptions, 9611–9612
  - by transit line
    - Ontario Line
      - community consultation, 8421
- Tributes
  - Caplan, David (former member for Don Valley East), 2214–2215
  - Hansen, Ronald (former member for Lincoln), 623
  - Huget, Robert "Bob" (former member for Sarnia), 2210–2211
  - Reed, Julian Alexander Arnott (former member for Halton–Burlington), 843–844
- Women
  - in the workforce, 9232
- Working for Workers Five Act, 2024 (Bill 190)
  - second reading, 9230–9232
- Working for Workers Four Act, 2024 (Bill 149)
  - second reading, 6573–6574
  - third reading, 7192
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) - coverage
  - residential care workers, 5089
- Your Health Act, 2023 (Bill 60)
  - amendments
    - consideration of, 4062
  - second reading, 2407–2410
  - third reading, 4040–4043
Shaw, S. (NDP, Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas)
- Aamjiwnaang First Nation
  - air quality
    - benzene pollution, 9641
- Affordable Energy Act, 2024 (Bill 214)
  - second reading, 10061–10065
- Affordable housing
  - factors affecting, 3853
  - supply, 4345
- Affordable housing - access
  - general remarks, 3583
- Affordable housing - by region
  - Hamilton, 3591–3592
- Aggregate industry
  - oversight
    - inspections, 8062
- Aggregate industry - by site
  - Reid Road reservoir quarry (Milton), 8062
- Agricultural land
  - conservation, 7450
- Agricultural land - conservation
  - general remarks, 4610
- Agricultural land - development on
  - general remarks, 2933–2934, 3593, 4735
- Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario Amendment Act, 2024 (Bill 155)
  - third reading, 8266
- Air quality
  - wildfire smoke, ultra-fine particles
    - tracking and reporting, 9641
- Alcohol retail - expansion
  - early implementation agreement
    - cost of, 9364
- Alternate-level-of-care (ALC) patients - transfer to long-term care facilities
  - consent, 406
    - transfer to a non-preferred home, 413
- Ambulance services
  - "code zero" definition of, 985
  - dispatch services
    - and PTSD, 986
    - working conditions, 986
  - service availability
    - regional shortages, 985, 2495
      - Hamilton, 986
  - shortage, 241
    - impact on patience health, 3515
- Ambulance services - offload services, delays, 985
  - impact on patient health and safety, 986
  - statements by stakeholders, 985–986
- Animal welfare
  - government strategy, 4609
- Appointments to agencies, boards, and commissions
  - conflict of interest, 9527
- Auditor General of Ontario - reports
  - 2021 Annual Report
    - Outpatient Surgeries, 341
  - 2021 Annual Reports
    - Outpatient Surgeries, 341
  - Special Report on Changes to the Greenbelt, 5897
  - The State of the Environment in Ontario, 5900
- Auto insurance - rates
  - cost of, 8884
- Belleville
  - urban boundary expansion
    - internal communications, 5272
- Better for Consumers, Better for Businesses Act, 2023 (Bill 142)
  - second reading, 5845, 5848, 5855, 5865
  - third reading, 6968, 6976
- Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act, 2023 (Bill 98)
  - second reading, 3682, 3691, 3728–3729
  - third reading, 4905, 4909
- Blood and blood products - donation and collection
  - prohibition on payment, 7609
- Bradford bypass
  - rerouting
    - communications, 10307
- Budget 2023/2024
  - contingency and reserve funds, 4305
  - cost of living, 4343–4344
  - debt-to-GDP, 6729
  - health care, 4294
  - municipalities, 3163
  - senior citizens, 3119
  - supportive housing, 3156, 4347
  - unhoused persons
    - statements by stakeholders, 4379
- Budget 2024/2025
  - health care, 9161
  - sexual violence and harassment, 9161
- Building a Better Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 180)
  - second reading, 8234
  - third reading, 9081, 9090–9091, 9159–9161
- Building a Strong Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 85)
  - second reading, 3119, 3156, 3163
  - third reading, 4294, 4298, 4304–4305, 4343–4347, 4354, 4357, 4372, 4379
- Building a Strong Ontario Together Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 146)
  - second reading, 6035, 6081
  - third reading, 6719, 6726, 6729–6730, 6741
- Building Infrastructure Safely Act, 2024 (Bill 153)
  - second reading, 6660, 6664, 6670–6671
  - third reading, 7136
- Building More Mines Act, 2023 (Bill 71)
  - second reading, 2683–2684, 2705–2709, 2740, 2744–2745
  - third reading, 4098–4103, 4107
- Building Ontario For You Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 216)
  - second reading, 10131–10132, 10141, 10146, 10154, 10161–10162, 10207
- Cadets
  - Junior Canadian Rangers, 7951–7952
- Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement (CWELCC)
  - child care operators
    - application period, 160–161
  - implementation process, 3379
- Canadian Mental Health Association
  - government funding, 2989
- Cap-and-trade program - cancellation
  - federal carbon tax, 7384
- Carbon pricing programs, provincial
  - Emissions Performance Standards program
    - revenue, use of, 5907, 8884
  - referendum, 8883
- Child care - staff
  - compensation
    - pay equity, 3378
  - shortage, 9348
- Children and youth in care
  - support programs
    - education, 4345–4346
- Chinese community
  - in Canada, 9144
  - notable members, 9144
- Climate change
  - climate impact assessments, 7909
  - flooding, 7908–7909
  - government strategy, 5211
- Climate change - cost of
  - general remarks, 7342
- Community services
  - government funding, 4346
- Condominiums
  - consumer protection, 3452
- Conservation authorities
  - mandate and oversight, 3231
  - role in development process, 3850
- Construction industry
  - water-taking regulations
    - public consultation, 5774, 5900–5901
  - work sites
    - menstrual products availability, 9229
- Consumer protection
  - advocate, creation of, 6968
- Convenient Care at Home Act, 2023 (Bill 135)
  - third reading, 6545, 6549
- Coroners
  - 2019 Auditor General's Annual Report
    - Office of the Chief Coroner and Ontario Forensic Pathology Service, 7044
- Coroner's inquests
  - Culleton, Kuzyk & Warmerdam Inquest
    - jury recommendations, 4810, 4813
- Cost of living
  - general remarks, 4357
  - government strategy, 6081
  - students, 6247
- Court administration - backlogs
  - impact of
    - stay of proceedings, 7573
  - sexual assault and harassment cases
    - impact of, 9159
- Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act, 2024 (Bill 185)
  - second reading, 8384, 8392, 8397, 8400–8401, 8404–8405
  - statements by stakeholders, 8405, 9526
  - third reading, 9506, 9515–9516, 9524–9528, 9562
- Doctors
  - administrative responsibilities, 7750
  - shortage
    - impact of, 7749–7750
- Doctors - family doctors
  - access, by region
    - Hamilton, 7666
  - administrative responsibilities
    - impact on workload, 7730
  - recruitment and retention, 9090–9091
- Doctors - primary care
  - access, 9528
  - shortage, 6220
- Dogs
  - hunting skills, training and trialing facilities
    - licensing
      - statements by stakeholders, 4608
    - licensing, history of, 4608
- Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve
  - conservation of
    - protections, reinstatement, 7011
  - development on
    - species at risk, protection, 4655
- Early Childhood Educators (ECE)
  - compensation, increase
    - timelines, 9238
- Educational assistants (EAs)
  - shortage
    - statements by stakeholders, 3691
- Electricity rates
  - affordability, 3461
- Emergency service providers
  - education and training
    - barriers to, tuition, 3988
- Employment
  - barriers to
    - education, cost of, 3986
- Employment - COVID-19
  - sick days, paid, 2991
- Employment standards
  - disclosure
    - AI, use during recruitment process, 6587
  - gig workers
    - working conditions, 7762
- Employment standards - wage theft
  - and women, 9237
- Enbridge Gas
  - connection cost recovery
    - consumer protection, 7271, 7275
- Enbridge gas - natural gas rate application denial
  - government response, 9129–9130
  - OEB decision
    - stakeholder engagement, 9127–9128
- Enbridge Gas - natural gas rate application denial
  - government response, 7280
- Energy conservation
  - retrofit programs, 8348
- Energy generation
  - decarbonization, 9132
- Enhancing Access to Justice Act, 2024 (Bill 157)
  - second reading, 7034, 7043–7045
  - third reading, 7521, 7532, 7565, 7570, 7573
- Enhancing Professional Care for Animals Act, 2024 (Bill 171)
  - second reading, 7900, 7903
  - third reading, 9290–9291
- Environmental Bill of Rights
  - Auditor General's annual report of environment audits (2022), 2533
  - compliance with, 2532
  - consultation requirements
    - with public, 3850
- Flood management
  - conservation authorities, role in, 3231, 7909–7910
  - flood hazard maps, 3230
  - flood plains, building on, 7909
  - and infrastructure, 7909
- Flooding
  - cost of, 7909
  - education and awareness, 3230
- Food banks - usage
  - rates, 6726
  - by region
    - Hamilton, 6989
- Food prices
  - infant formula, 4344
  - price gouging, 9121–9122
- Food security
  - food donation drives
    - by region
      - Hamilton West–Ancaster–Dundas, 2594
- Forensic pathology units
  - access, by region
    - Thunder Bay, 3926
- French-language debates
  - Débat sur le discours du trône
    - participation, 56
  - Loi de 2022 pour des maires forts et pour la construction de logements, projet de loi 3
    - troisième lecture, 761
  - Loi de 2023 modifiant des lois en ce qui concerne la ceinture de verdure, projet de loi 136
    - deuxième lecture, 5924
  - Loi de 2023 sur la construction sécuritaire des infrastructures, projet de loi 153
    - deuxième lecture, 6664
  - Loi de 2023 sur l’amélioration des écoles et du rendement des élèves, projet de loi 98
    - troisième lecture, 4886
  - Loi de 2023 visant à améliorer l’accès à la justice, projet de loi 157
    - deuxième lecture, 7050
  - Loi de 2023 visant à bâtir un Ontario fort (mesures budgétaires), projet de loi 85
    - deuxième lecture, 3159
  - Loi de 2023 visant à oeuvrer pour les travailleurs, quatre, projet de loi 149
    - deuxième lecture, 6425
  - Loi de 2023 visant l’aménagement de davantage de mines, projet de loi 71
    - deuxième lecture, 2713
    - troisième lecture, 4144–4145
  - Loi de 2024 pour passer à l’action, projet de loi 162
    - deuxième lecture, 7581
  - Loi de 2024 sur le désengorgement du réseau routier et le gain de temps, projet de loi 212
    - deuxième lecture, 9960
  - Pétitions
    - Éducation en français, 2673–2674, 3677, 6371
    - Soins de santé, 399
- Front-line workers
  - education and training
    - tuition, 3968
- Gender-based violence
  - general remarks, 7914
  - shelters
    - operational funding, 4810
- Gender-based violence - prevention
  - community services, 3974
- Get It Done Act, 2024 (Bill 162)
  - second reading, 7378–7387, 7428, 7437, 7442–7443, 7450, 7459, 7583–7584
  - third reading, 8876, 8880–8884, 8886
- Government advertising
  - cost of, 7913
  - oversight by Auditor General, 7379
- Government debt and deficit
  - general remarks, 9081, 9160
- Government expenditures
  - debt-to-GDP, 8883
  - planned vs. actual, 4343
- Government finances
  - contingency funds
    - use of, 6729
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - accountability and transparency, 6895
  - climate change policy, 2531
  - climate policy, 8886
  - directives and policies, 3514–3515
  - Enviornmental Bill of Rights, 9407
  - environmental policy, 2530–2531, 3849, 4100, 9407
  - greenbelt, 5895
  - public consultation, 2131
  - women, 3961, 9235–9326
- Greenbelt
  - boundary adjustments
    - Indigenous response, 5893
    - public response, 5893–5894, 6364, 7008
    - statements by stakeholders, 5893–5894
    - subsequent changes, process for, 7011
  - boundary adjustments, reversal
    - liability protections, 5899
  - economic impact, 5899–5900
  - Greenbelt Plan, review of, 5901
- Greenbelt - boundary adjustments, process
  - accountability and transparency, 5894
  - communications, 5897, 8858–8859
  - FOI requests, 5653–5654
  - general remarks, 5895
  - land ownership, conflict of interest
    - reports and recommendations, 7009
  - ministerial accountability, 5897
  - RCMP investigation
    - special prosecutor, role of, 5898–5899, 7009
- Greenbelt - development on
  - infrastructure, 5900
  - land availability, 4767, 5896
    - statements by stakeholders, 5896
  - land ownership, conflict of interest, 4204
  - land swap
    - information sharing, transparency, 2532
  - species at risk, protection
    - government communications (federal), 4655
  - speculation, 5901–5902
- Greenbelt Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 136)
  - second reading, 5893–5903, 5907, 5913, 5927
  - third reading, 7008–7012
- Greenbelt Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 136)
  - committee process
    - public consultation, 6269–6270, 6365, 7011
- Hamilton
  - amalgamation, history of, 4592
  - capital project funding
    - Impact on taxes, 897
  - official plan
    - public consultation, 6308
  - urban boundary expansion
    - conflict of interest, 4994–4995, 5110, 5702, 5898
    - and housing development, 5321, 9526
- Hate and hate-related activities
  - prevalence, 3975
    - by region, Hamilton
      - statements by stakeholders, 4811
  - prevention, 4812
- Hazel McCallion Act (Peel Dissolution), 2023 (Bill 112)
  - amendment of
    - by regulation, 4593
  - legislative process, motions
    - time allocation, 4591
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 4591–4593
  - third reading, 4735, 4749–4752
- Health care funding
  - FAO report: 2022-23 Interprovincial Budget Comparison, 8321
  - general remarks, 10328
  - government strategy, 2410
- Health care services - delivery
  - private vs. public, 4030
- Health care services - diagnostic services
  - magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
    - service timelines, 4607
- Health care system
  - health human resources
    - government funding, 986
- Helping Homebuyers, Protecting Tenants Act, 2023 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 3575, 3583, 3591–3594
  - third reading, 4719
- Highway 407 ETR
  - tolls
    - transport trucks, 8882
  - tolls, removal of, 5902–5903
- Highway 413
  - cost of, 2531–2532
  - environmental impact, 7380–7382
  - vs. highway 407 toll removal, 5913
- Highway tolls
  - removal of, 7384–7386, 7389–7390
- Home and community care
  - privatization, 6549
  - service availability
    - wait-list, 791
- Home heating
  - transition from natural gas to electric, 9131, 9134
- Hospital services - emergency
  - capacity and overcrowding
    - impact on patient health, 2802
- Hospitals - by site
  - McMaster Children's Hospital
    - public donations, 10037
- Hospitals - capacity and overcrowding
  - EMS offload delays, 985
    - impact on patient health and safety, 986
    - statements by stakeholders, 985–986
  - impact on patient health, 3133
  - by region
    - Hamilton, 33
- Housing
  - access, 4609
- Housing Affordability Task Force
  - recommendations
    - statements by stakeholders, 9506
- Housing development - construction
  - construction starts
    - vs. other jurisdictions, 9525–9526
  - land availability, 4719
  - municipal-provincial relationship, 6307
- Housing development - densification
  - community response, 3853
- Housing development - municipal charges
  - development charges, exemptions and discounts
    - as development incentive, 4346
    - impact on development, 8384
    - transferal of costs, taxes, 897
- Housing policy
  - government strategy, 5896
- Immigrants
  - supports and services, 2990
- Improving Real Estate Management Act, 2024 (Bill 151)
  - second reading, 6407, 6412–6418
- Independent health facilities - diagnostic and surgical procedures, expansion
  - oversight, 4023
- Indigenous communities
  - environmental stewardship, 852
- Indigenous communities - infrastructure
  - broadband internet, 6671
- Indigenous communities - living conditions
  - government strategy, 7950–7951
- Indigenous Peoples
  - voting rights in Canada, 7951
- Indigenous relations - reconciliation
  - government response, 7952–7953
- Indigenous soldiers
  - National Indigenous Veterans Day, 7951
  - service during world wars, 7951
- Infrastructure development
  - government strategy, 6719
- Infrastructure development - funding
  - long-term, 9131
- Integrity Commissioner of Ontario
  - reports
    - Re: The Honourable Steve Clark, 5897, 5901
- Intimate partner violence
  - epidemic, declaration of, 6779
  - government strategy
    - standing committee on justice, study on, 9237
  - Sault Ste. Marie (24 October 2023), 5697–5698
  - shelters and supportive housing
    - operational funding, 4810, 6779
- Intimate partner violence - victims
  - barriers to leaving, 4810
    - housing, 4810
  - fatalities
    - rate of, 4810
  - services
    - community services
      - operational funding, 6578
- Judicial appointments - Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee
  - independence of, 7570
- Judicial education
  - sexual assault law, intimate partner violence and coercive control, 4809–4810
    - legislative process, 4877
- Justice system - criminal
  - judgments, factors affecting
    - sexual assault
      - credibility assessment, myths and stereotypes, 4810
- Keeping Energy Costs Down Act, 2024 (Bill 165)
  - consultations, 9130
  - second reading, 7262–7263, 7271–7272, 7275, 7280–7282, 7342
  - third reading, 9127–9132, 9134, 9136, 9139
- Lake Simcoe
  - Lake Simcoe Protection Plan (2008)
    - government funding, 7884
- Land use planning
  - conflict of interest, 5894, 5897–5898
  - environmental regulations, 2534
  - municipal responsibilities, 8881
  - municipal-provincial relationship, 6311
  - policy reversal
    - impact of, 9526
  - responsibilities, upper-tier municipalities
    - transferal to lower-tier municipalities, 8400–8401
- Land use planning - environmental assessments
  - federal Impact Assessment Act
    - government response, 5900, 5913, 5927
  - public consultation, 3851
  - regulatory reform, 8881–8882
  - section 16 orders
    - approvals and conditions, 2575
- Land use planning - environmental assessments, class environment assessments
  - 30-day review period, ministerial waiver
    - transparency, 2534
  - 30-day review period, purpose of, 3849
- Land use planning - ministerial zoning orders (MZOs)
  - use of, 6326, 6330, 6338
- Land use planning - municipal official plans
  - by region
    - Burlington, 8882
    - Caledon, 8882–8883
  - urban boundary expansion, 8882
  - urban boundary expansion, reversal, 6302–6303, 6305–6306, 7382–7383, 7385–7386
    - indemnification provisions, 6327
- Land use planning - provincial policy statement
  - settlement area boundaries, expansion
    - appeals process, 8397
- Landfills
  - GFL Stoney Creek Regional Facility
    - odour, 6000
- Legal aid services
  - government funding, 7034
- Legislation
  - amendments by regulation
    - "Henry VIII clauses," 4593
- Legislative procedure
  - parliamentary calendar
    - summer adjournment, changes, 9657
- Less Red Tape, More Common Sense Act, 2023 (Bill 139)
  - third reading, 6220, 6247, 6250
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Economy Act, 2023 (Bill 91)
  - second reading, 3447, 3452, 3461, 3469, 3489, 3514–3517, 3519
  - third reading, 4606–4610, 4624
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 46)
  - third reading, 2637–2638, 2933–2934
- Licence plates
  - redesign and replacement, cancellation, 7388–7389
- Locates
  - in Indigenous and northern communities, 7136
- Long-term care - accountability and oversight
  - inspections
    - accountability and enforcement, 3077
- Long-term care - COVID-19
  - fatalities
    - autopsies, 6545
  - liability protections, 5899
- Long-term care - staff
  - collective bargaining, 8352
- Lydia's Law (Accountability and Transparency in the Handling of Sexual Assault Cases), 2024 (Bill 189)
  - legislative process, 9128, 9159, 9161, 9233, 9243, 9245
- McMaster Children's Hospital
  - surgical procedures
    - backlog, 3550
- Members' statements
  - Allan Cup, 3736
  - Ancaster Community Food Drive, 2594
  - Baboth family charitable donation, 10036–10037
  - Climate change, 5211
  - D-Day anniversary, 9540–9541
  - Domestic violence, 5697–5698
  - Environmental protection, 216–217
  - Food banks, 6989
  - Government accountability, 8858–8859
  - Government spending, 9364
  - Government's record, 7914
  - Grey Cup, 6265
  - Hamilton Alliance for Tiny Shelters, 4852
  - Health care funding, 866–867
  - Historic architecture in Hamilton West–Ancaster–Dundas, 4212–4213
  - Hospital funding, 10328
  - Injured workers, 3860
  - Long-term care, 8352
  - MedsCheck Program, 7403–7404
  - Moote, Melinda, 3133
  - Royal Hamilton Yacht Club, 4852
- Members'/ministers' conduct
  - gifts, standards for accepting
    - consideration of reasonableness, 4204
- Members/ministers quoting
  - letters
    - unhoused persons, 3515
  - news media
    - municipal restructuring, Peel Region, 4592
  - other members
    - conflict of interest, 4204
  - reports
    - Hospital Offload Delays in Canadian Hospital Emergency Departments (Paramedic Chiefs of Canada), 985
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - withdrawn, 4305, 5901, 5902, 7008
- Members'/ministers' staff
  - communications
    - retention and deletion, 5897
- Mental health and addictions services
  - access, 2614, 2989
  - community programs, closures
    - by region
      - Hamilton, 4811
- Mental health and addictions services - funding
  - Canadian Mental Health Association
    - operational funding, 2802
  - community support programs, 4372
- Mental health and addictions services - providers
  - Catholic Family Services of Hamilton
    - closure of, 2614
  - Hamilton Mental Health Outreach
    - closure of, 2614
- Mercury poisoning (Grassy Narrows and Wabaseemoong)
  - government response, 9478
- Methane gas
  - leaks, reporting, 9130, 9136
- Minden Hospital - Haliburton Highlands Health Services
  - emergency department, closure, 4624
- Mining industry
  - regulatory environment, 2683–2684, 2705–2706
- Mining industry - Indigenous communities
  - Indigenous consultation and consent, 2707–2708, 2740, 4100–4101, 4107
- Mining sites - closure plans, 4610
  - ministerial authority, 2744–2745
  - technical review by qualified professions, 2708
- Mining sites - development
  - financial assurance, phased, 2706
    - risk management, 4099–4100
  - general remarks, 2706
  - timelines, 2708–2709
- Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
  - conservation offices
    - compensation, 4609
- More Beds, Better Care Act, 2022 (Bill 7)
  - second reading, 406, 413, 421
- More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 (Bill 23)
  - second reading, 897, 951–952, 963
  - impact on municipalities, 4345
- Motions
  - House and committee sittings
    - responded to, 9657–9658
- Municipal finances
  - external audit, provincial, 3489
  - infrastructure deficits
    - government strategy, 3432
- Municipal governance
  - government strategy, 4591
- Municipal governance - strong mayor system
  - public consultation, 112
- Municipal infrastructure
  - infrastructure deficit
    - government strategy, 104
    - by region, 142
      - Hamilton, 897
- Municipal restructuring - Peel Region
  - cost, 4592
  - facilities, service agreements, 4592
  - police services, impact on, 4749–4750
  - public consultation, 4751
  - transition board, creation of, 4593
  - transition board, transparency of, 4750
- Municipalities
  - state of emergency
    - regional declarations of, 3447, 3515
- Murray Whetung Community Service Award Act, 2024 (Bill 31)
  - third reading, 7950–7953
- New Deal for Toronto Act, 2023 (Bill 154)
  - committee process
    - public consultation, 7010–7011
  - legislative process
    - motions
      - time allocation, 7044–7045
- New Democratic Party (NDP)
  - members'/ministers' integrity policy, 7009–7010
  - seniors and long-term care policy, 4424–4425
- Nurses
  - patient-to-nurse ratio, 9565–9566
- Occupational health and safety
  - education and awareness, safety
    - National Day of Mourning, 2987–2988, 2990–2991
  - injuries and fatalities
    - employer penalties, 5077–5078
    - government strategy, 2987
- Oil and gas wells
  - abandoned
    - environmental impact, 2706–2707
    - government strategy, 6660
  - dormant wells
    - government strategy, 4607
    - reports
      - Value-for-Money Audit: Management of Hazards and Emergencies in the Environment (Auditor General, 2022), 4607
  - gas leaks
    - by region
      - Chatham-Kent–Leamington, 287
  - general remarks, 2637–2638
- Oil and natural gas wells
  - dormant wells
    - government strategy, 4607
    - reports
      - Value-for-Money Audit: Management of Hazards and Emergencies in the Environment (Auditor General, 2022), 4607
  - gas leaks
    - by region
      - Chatham-Kent–Leamington, 287
- Ojibway National Urban Park
  - creation of, 852
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates
  - and cost of living, 4346
- Ontario Energy Board
  - regulatory independence, 9127, 9139
  - role of, 7262
- Ontario Forensic Pathology Service
  - 2019 Auditor General's Annual Report
    - Office of the Chief Coroner and Ontario Forensic Pathology Service, 7044
- Ontario Health atHome
  - medical supplies, procurement contracts
    - shortages, 10117–10118
- Ontario Infrastructure Bank
  - general remarks, 6035
- Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT)
  - third party appeals, elimination of
    - statements by stakeholders, 9527
- Ontario Place - lease of, redevelopment agreements
  - general remarks, 5901
- Ontario Place - redevelopment
  - liability protections, 7010
  - ministerial zoning orders
    - Minister of Infrastructure, authority, 7010
- Ontario Provincial Police (OPP)
  - Governance Advisory Council
    - repeal of, 4812, 4873
- Opposition day motions
  - Government accountability
    - responded to, 5243–5244
  - Health care
    - responded to, 7749–7750
  - Mental health services
    - responded to, 2614
- Paramedics and paramedic services
  - treatment of patients, number of, 986
- Parks
  - Royal Botanical Gardens
    - Cootes Paradise, 217
- Pay equity
  - gender wage gap
    - government strategy, 7753, 7770
- Pay equity - gender wage gap
  - factors affecting
    - FAO report: Women in Ontario's Labour Market (2023), 4344
    - parenthood, 4344
- Pediatric hospitals - services
  - wait-time
    - impact on patient health, 866
- Pension plans
  - administration
    - oversight, 3517, 3519
- Pensions
  - administration
    - oversight, 3517, 3519
- Personal support workers (PSWs)
  - working conditions, 2989
- Petitions
  - Access to health care, 3385, 4871
  - Amyloidosis, 4577–4578, 5067, 7495–7496
  - Arts and cultural funding, 3511
  - Child care, 9318–9319
  - Climate change, 2736–2737
  - Doctor shortage, 9320
  - Education funding, 3384–3385, 9596
  - Environmental protection, 7493, 7734, 7791, 9320, 10447
  - Health care, 604, 6069–6070, 6280, 7561–7562, 10122–10123, 10345
  - Health care workers, 4138, 4336
  - Hospital services, 4018–4020, 5331, 6450
  - Laboratory services, 9319–9320
  - Labour legislation, 6371–6372, 7790
  - Land use planning, 2971, 10123–10124
  - Landfill, 10004
  - Missing persons, 3439, 9126
  - Nurses, 6014
  - Road safety, 6192
  - Sexual violence and harassment, 9125, 9224–9226, 9932, 10344
  - Social assistance, 944–945, 4715, 9555
- Pharmacists and pharmacies
  - MedsCheck program
    - billing, 7403–7404, 7730
- Pikangikum First Nation
  - house fire (February 2022), 2990
- Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 2)
  - second reading, 241, 249
- Planning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 150)
  - second reading, 6302–6311, 6326–6327, 6330, 6334, 6338–6339
  - third reading, 7019–7023
- Police services
  - crisis intervention, alternatives, 3979
- Police services - community relations
  - crime prevention, 4811–4812
- Policy development
  - Indigenous communities
    - free, prior, and informed consent, 4354
- Preventing Unethical Puppy Sales Act, 2024 (Bill 159)
  - second reading, 8471–8472
- Private members' public business
  - Advocate for Older Adults Act, 2023 (Bill 101)
    - second reading, 4424–4425
  - Affordable Energy Act, 2024 (Bill 172)
    - second reading, 8347–8348
  - Ambulance services
    - presented, 985–986
    - responded to, 990–991
  - Childcare and Early Years Workforce Strategy Advisory Committee Act, 2024 (Bill 191)
    - second reading, 9347–9348
  - Chinese Heritage Month Act, 2024 (Bill 183)
    - second reading, 9144–9145
  - Cleaning Up Corruption Act, 2023 (Bill 148)
    - second reading, 6895
  - Fewer Floods, Safer Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 56)
    - second reading, 3230–3231
  - Ojibway National Urban Park
    - responded to, 851–852
  - Patient-to-Nurse Ratios for Hospitals Act, 2024 (Bill 192)
    - second reading, 9565–9566
  - Provincial Parks and Conservation Reserves Amendment Act, 2024 (Bill 193)
    - second reading, 9407–9408
  - Stormwater Flood Prevention Act, 2024 (Bill 168)
    - second reading, 7908–7910
  - Strengthening Members' Integrity Act, 2023 (Bill 100)
    - second reading, 4203–4204
  - Taxation Amendment Act (Promoting Leisure Activities for Youth), 2024 (Bill 178)
    - second reading, 9251–9252
- Provincial parks
  - urban, creation of, 9408
    - Indigenous consultations, 9408
- Public assets
  - centralization, entities
    - transferal to Ministry of Infrastructure, 6407, 6412, 6415
  - development and redevelopment agreements
    - oversight mechanisms, 3852
- Public safety
  - policy development
    - reports and recommendations, stakeholders, 4812–4813
- Puppy mills
  - enforcement and inspections, 8471–8472, 9291
- Queen's Park Restoration Act, 2023 (Bill 75)
  - second reading, 2827, 2831, 2839, 2841
- Question period
  - Aggregate extraction
    - presented, 8062
  - Air quality
    - presented, 9641
  - Ambulance services
    - presented, 2495
  - Blood and plasma donation
    - presented, 7609
  - Child care
    - presented, 160–161, 3378–3379
  - Children's health services
    - presented, 3550–3551
  - Consumer protection
    - presented, 9121–9122
  - Environmental protection
    - presented, 2964, 4655, 5774
  - Explosions in Chatham-Kent–Leamington
    - presented, 287
  - Gender-based violence
    - presented, 6779
  - Government accountability
    - presented, 4325, 5653–5654, 5702, 5883, 10307
  - Health care
    - presented, 341, 7730
  - Health care funding
    - presented, 7666, 8321, 10445
  - Home care
    - presented, 791, 10117–10118
  - Hospital services
    - presented, 33
  - Housing
    - presented, 4767
  - Land use planning
    - presented, 4994–4995, 6269–6270, 6364–6365
  - Landfill
    - presented, 6000
  - Long-term care
    - presented, 389, 3077
  - Mental health and addiction services
    - presented, 2802
  - Mercury poisoning
    - presented, 9478
  - Municipal finances
    - presented, 3432
  - Municipal planning
    - presented, 5110, 5272, 5321
  - Nurses
    - presented, 441–442
  - Tenant protection
    - presented, 8522
  - Water quality
    - presented, 7884
- Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 (Bill 212)
  - second reading, 9960, 9963, 10006, 10016–10020
- Reducing Inefficiencies Act (Infrastructure Statute Law Amendments), 2023 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 2530–2535, 2574–2575, 2579–2580
  - schedule one
    - committee presentations, 3851–3852
    - committee submissions, 3851–3852
  - third reading, 3849–3853
- Rental housing - tenant protections
  - general remarks, 9515–9516, 9524–9525
  - rent-increases, above-guideline, 8522
- Retirement homes
  - accountability and oversight, 4425
- Safer Streets, Stronger Communities Act, 2024 (Bill 223)
  - second reading, 10449, 10451, 10454, 10457, 10462
- School facilities
  - drinking water, lead levels, 9657–9658
- Schools
  - student nutrition programs
    - government funding, 9161
- Schools - violence in
  - statements by stakeholders, 4905
- Select Committee on Financial Transparency
  - investigation by (2018-2019), 5243
- Senior citizens
  - advocate for older adults
    - creation of office, 4424–4425
- Sewage and wastewater infrastructure
  - Lake Ontario sewage solutions project, 963
  - sewage spills
    - Chedoke Creek, 217
- Sexual assault crisis centres
  - government funding
    - staff compensation, 9236, 9243
- Skilled trades
  - women in, 9238
- Sporting events
  - Grey Cup, 6265
- Sports and recreation - children and youth
  - barriers to access, 9251
  - programs
    - Skate the Dream, 9251–9252
- Strengthening Safety and Modernizing Justice Act, 2023 (Bill 102)
  - second reading, 3926–3927, 3961–3962, 3967–3968, 3974–3975, 3979, 3983, 3986, 3988
  - legislative timeline, 3967
  - stakeholder consultation, 4813
  - third reading, 4803, 4809–4813, 4873, 4877
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022 (Bill 3)
  - second reading, 103–104, 112, 141–142
- Supportive housing
  - access, 3469
- Surgical procedures
  - Auditor General's annual report (2021), 341
  - operating room assistants
    - qualifications, 442
  - operations, capacity, 2398
  - private vs. public delivery, 341, 3899–3900
  - public vs. private delivery, 3899–3900
  - wait-list, 4039–4040
- Taxation
  - revenue source, 4343–4344
- Temporary foreign workers
  - exploitation, 8914
- Time allocation motions
  - Hazel McCallion Act (Peel Dissolution), 2023 (Bill 112)
    - responded to, 4591–4593
- Tributes
  - McKeough, William Darcy (former member of Chatham-Kent), 7113–7114
  - Moote, Melinda, 3133
  - Whetung, Murray, 7950
- Unhoused persons
  - vs. housed
    - funding, cost of, 9525
  - prevalence of, 3515
- Veterinary services
  - non-profit run, 9290
- Victim services
  - Victim Crisis Assistance Ontario, 4813
- Victims of crime
  - access to justice
    - women, 7565
- Water protection
  - government strategy, 2964
- Wellington county
  - urban boundary expansion
    - internal communications, 5272
- Wilmot township
  - agricultural land expropriation, 8401
  - agricultural land, expropriation, 8266
- Women
  - in the workforce, 4344–4345, 9229, 9232
    - compensation, 9236
- Working for Workers Act, 2023 (Bill 79)
  - second reading, 2987–2991
  - third reading, 5034, 5047, 5072, 5077–5078, 5081–5082
- Working for Workers Five Act, 2024 (Bill 190)
  - second reading, 8914, 9229, 9232–9233, 9235–9238, 9243, 9245
- Working for Workers Four Act, 2024 (Bill 149)
  - second reading, 6256–6257, 6567, 6571, 6578, 6586–6587, 6590
  - third reading, 7753, 7762, 7764, 7766–7767, 7770
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
  - deeming policy, 2988–2989
  - presumptive coverage, fire rangers
    - inclusion, 6267, 7767
  - presumptive coverage, firefighters
    - cancers, 2989–2990, 3297
- World War II
  - D-Day anniversary, 9540
- York Region
  - urban boundary expansion
    - Gormley lands
      - Premier's role in, 5882
    - Nobleton lands, 5883
- Your Health Act, 2023 (Bill 60)
  - second reading, 2398, 2410, 2462–2465
  - third reading, 3531, 4023, 4030, 4038–4039
Skelly, D. (PC, Flamborough—Glanbrook)
- Affordable housing
  - factors affecting, 3852
- Appreciation
  - Brenn-B Farms, 1668
  - Clapperton, Mitchell, 7777
  - Durdin, Paul, 3189
  - Scala, Jayne, 2438
- Apprenticeships
  - training programs, secondary students, 5075
- Automobile thefts
  - government funding
    - Hamilton Police Service, 6990
- Bail program
  - government funding, 4685
- Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 (Bill 39)
  - second reading, 1585
- Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act, 2023 (Bill 98)
  - third reading, 4943–4944, 4946–4947
- Budget 2023/2024
  - manufacturing, 3129
  - supportive housing, 4360
- Budget speech 2023 (March 23, 2023)
  - responded to, 3360, 3364
- Building a Strong Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 85)
  - second reading, 3129
  - third reading, 4346, 4352, 4360
- Building More Mines Act, 2023 (Bill 71)
  - second reading, 2684, 2688
- Carbon tax
  - cost of living, impact on, 5906
  - fuel prices, impact on, 7833
- Carbon tax - impact by industry
  - tourism and hospitality, 8580
- Climate change
  - government strategy, 5071
- Community events - by region
  - Flamborough–Glanbrook, 340
- Community services
  - awards
    - Hamilton 40 Under Forty Business Achievement Awards, 1067
- Construction industry
  - personal protective equipment (PPE) standards
    - size variety, 5075–5077
- Crime - government response
  - guns, gangs and violence reduction strategy, 4685
- Croatia
  - Canadian relations with, 3646
- Croatian community
  - appreciation of, 3645–3646
  - contributions by, 3645–3648, 7871
  - immigration
    - history of, 3644–3645
  - notable members, 3645
  - by region
    - Hamilton, 7872
- Croatian Heritage Day Act, 2023
  - second reading, 3644–3646
  - statements by stakeholders, 3645, 7872
- Croatian Heritage Day Act, 2024 (Bill 81)
  - first reading, 2863
  - third reading, 7871–7872
- Driving - impaired
  - penalties, 9329, 9339
- Education
  - government strategy, 2163
  - reports and recommendations, 4943–4944
- Education - secondary
  - graduation requirements
    - technical education, 5075
- Education - student outcomes
  - general remarks, 7234
- Enhancing Access to Justice Act, 2024 (Bill 157)
  - third reading, 7570
- Food banks - usage
  - donations
    - Chicken Farmers of Ontario, program, 2021
- GO Transit - stations
  - Hamilton
    - Confederation, 816
- Government orders
  - Appointment of House officers / Committee membership
    - responded to, 298–301
  - Bail reform
    - amendment to the amendment
      - responded to, 3403–3404
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - labour policy, 5076
  - sexual violence, harassment, and trafficking prevention policy, 4897
- Greenbelt
  - boundary adjustments, reversal
    - land owner compensation, 5905
    - liability protections, 5905
  - conservation of
    - government strategy, 5904–5905
  - Greenbelt Plan, review of
    - process reform, 5904
- Greenbelt Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 136)
  - second reading, 5904–5907
- Health care system
  - innovation in, 220
- Heart disease
  - and early detection, 3537
  - education and awareness, 3536–3537
- Home ownership
  - affordability
    - government strategy, 1585
- Hospitals - by site
  - St. Josephs' Healthcare Hamilton
    - special care nursery, 10370–10371
- Housing Affordability Task Force
  - recommendations
    - implementation of, 5905
- Housing development - construction
  - government strategy, 5905
- Housing development - government funding
  - Building Faster Fund, 5905, 8180
- Housing development - municipal charges
  - development charges, exemptions and discounts, 4352
    - affordability requirements, 5905
    - as development incentive, 4346
- Intimate partner violence
  - partner history, disclosure of, 4898
- Land use planning - environmental assessments, class environment assessments
  - 30-day review period
    - regional projects, 3856
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 46)
  - third reading, 2890
- Manufacturing industry
  - by region
    - Hamilton, 2488–2489
- Manufacturing industry - funding
  - Ontario Made Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit, 3360
- McMaster Children's Hospital
  - community fundraising, 2438
- Members' statements
  - Agri-food industry, 6355
  - Brenn-B Farms, 1668
  - Chicken Farmers of Ontario, 2021
  - Choices Association Inc., 9985
  - Clapperton, Mitchell, 7777
  - Durdin, Paul, 3189
  - Dutch Heritage Month, 4437
  - Events in Flamborough–Glambrook, 5104
  - Events in Flamborough–Glanbrook, 339–340
  - Flamborough Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Business Achievement Awards, 3737–3738
  - Government investments, 8637–8638, 9540
  - Hamilton 40 Under Forty Business Achievement Awards, 1067
  - Housing, 8180
  - Jerseyville Baptist Church, 9110
  - Police, 3608
  - Public safety, 6990
  - Robertson, Margaret, 5582
  - Scala, Jayne, 2438
  - Special care nursery, 10370–10371
  - St. Catherine of Siena Roman Catholic church, 5878–5879
  - UBC Millwright Union Local 1916, 7295
  - Volunteers, 4122–4123
  - Waterdown Farmers' Market, 4563
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 299–301
- Members/ministers quoting
  - news media
    - Plastiment fire (Hamilton, 1997), 5074
  - reports
    - For the Love of Learning (Report of The Royal Commission on Learning), 4943–4944
  - school board trustees, 4943
- Military personnel
  - reservists
    - job protected leave, 5075, 5077
- New Democratic Party (NDP)
  - police services policy, 4685
- Occupational health and safety
  - injuries and fatalities
    - employer penalties, 5078
- Palliative care facilities
  - construction and expansion
    - Keaton's House-Paul Paletta Children's Hospice
      - government funding, 9540
- Persons with developmental disabilities
  - supports and services
    - community organizations, 9985
- Persons with disabilities - children
  - services for, 2909
- Police officers - employment
  - recruitment and retention
    - barriers to, 4848, 4877–4878
- Police services
  - general remarks, 3364
- Private members' public business
  - Croatian Heritage Day Act, 2024 (Bill 81)
    - second reading, 3644–3646, 3649
  - Domestic violence
    - responded to, 4897–4898
  - Police funding
    - responded to, 4684–4685
- Progress on the Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 36)
  - second reading, 1309, 1339
- Question period
  - Education
    - presented, 2163, 7234
  - Health care
    - presented, 220–221
  - Manufacturing jobs
    - presented, 2488–2489
  - Public safety
    - presented, 10384–10385
  - Public transit
    - presented, 816
  - Skills training
    - presented, 2798–2799
  - Special-needs children
    - presented, 2908–2909
  - Taxation
    - presented, 7833, 8429, 8580, 9116–9117
  - Water quality
    - presented, 1677
  - Women's employment
    - presented, 9801–9802
- Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 (Bill 212)
  - second reading, 10007, 10019
- Reducing Inefficiencies Act (Infrastructure Statute Law Amendments), 2023 (Bill 69)
  - third reading, 3852, 3856
- Regulations - business
  - reductions
    - as economic policy, 2890
- Reports by committees
  - Standing Committee on Public Accounts, 5003
- Safer Roads and Communities Act, 2024 (Bill 197)
  - second reading, 9329, 9339
- Safer Streets, Stronger Communities Act, 2024 (Bill 223)
  - second reading, 10408
- School board trustees
  - training and code of conduct, 4944, 4947
- School boards
  - accountability and transparency, 4943
- School boards - information sharing practices
  - to parents, 4944, 4946
- School facilities - capital projects
  - by school board
    - Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board, 8637–8638
- Sewage and wastewater infrastructure
  - sewage spills
    - by region
      - Hamilton, 1677
- Skilled trades
  - labour shortage
    - government strategy, 5075
  - recruitment initiatives
    - youth, 5075
- Skilled trades - education and training
  - women, 9801–9802
- Skilled trades - education and training, facilities
  - government funding
    - Skills Development Fund recipients
      - UBC Millwright Local 1916, 7295
- Skilled trades - employment
  - recruitment and retention
    - promotion
      - school-based, 2798–2799
    - women, 5073, 5076
- Skilled trades - recruitment and retention
  - general remarks, 9116–9117
  - promotion
    - school-based, 2798–2799
  - women, 4943
- Strengthening Safety and Modernizing Justice Act, 2023 (Bill 102)
  - third reading, 4848, 4877–4878
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022 (Bill 3)
  - third reading, 700
- Surgical procedures
  - capacity, 221
- Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership
  - government funding
    - statements by stakeholders, 6355
- Tributes
  - Munro, Lily Oddie (former member for Hamilton Centre), 836
- Victims of crime
  - emotional distress, presumption of
    - eligible crimes, 7570
- Working for Workers Act, 2023 (Bill 79)
  - third reading, 5071, 5073–5078
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
  - presumptive coverage, firefighters
    - cancers, 5074, 5076
Smith, Dave (PC, Peterborough—Kawartha)
- Accessibility
  - education and awareness, 4482
- Affordable Homes and Good Jobs Act, 2023 (Bill 134)
  - third reading, 6840, 6852
- Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario Amendment Act, 2024 (Bill 155)
  - third reading, 8275–8279, 8291
- Agriculture industry
  - government strategy
    - regulatory reform, 1810
- Agri-food industry
  - Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario
    - research centres
      - SPUD Unit (New Liskeard), 8276
  - ethanol industry, 8277
  - food waste, 8277
  - government funding, 5279
  - government strategy, 4447, 8276
  - innovation and technology, 6918, 8277
  - maple syrup, 4381–4382
  - statistics, 8276, 8278
- Appreciation
  - Clancy, Sandra, 3903
  - Cooper, Alfred Charles, 4914
  - Dickey, Pam, 6990
  - Groarke, Leo, 7351
  - Lyons, John, 8516–8517
  - Whetung, Murray, 2523–2524
- Beef industry
  - economic impact, 5278
- Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 (Bill 39)
  - second reading, 1480–1481, 1486, 1492
- Broadband infrastructure development
  - government strategy, 2380
- Budget 2022/2023
  - children's health care integration, 614–615
  - general remarks, 613
- Budget 2023/2024
  - electricity rates, 3126
  - manufacturing, 3129
  - social assistance programs, 3126
- Building a Strong Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 85)
  - second reading, 3125–3126, 3129–3130
- Building a Strong Ontario Together Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 146)
  - second reading, 6121
- Building More Mines Act, 2023 (Bill 71)
  - third reading, 4103–4107
- Building Ontario For You Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 216)
  - second reading, 10102–10107, 10131, 10157–10158
- Cadets
  - Murray Whetung Community Service Award, 2523–2524, 2528, 7947–7949
    - statements by stakeholders, 2524
- Carbon tax
  - cost of, 8036
    - per household, 6615
  - cost of living, impact on, 6067, 6151, 7181–7182, 7786
  - economic impact
    - small businesses, northern Ontario, 6777–6778
  - fuel prices, impact on, 6875
  - general remarks, 7304–7305
  - home heating, exemptions
    - eligible heating methods, 5814, 6149
  - home heating, impact on cost of, 6150
    - natural gas and propane, 5814
    - northern and rural Ontario, 6150
  - impact of, 6150
  - northern and Indigenous communities, impact on, 7924, 8121–8122, 8705, 9173–9174, 9590–9591
  - northern and rural Ontario, impact on, 9483–9484
- Carbon tax - impact by industry
  - emergency services, 8527–8528
  - natural resources, 6614, 7729–7730
    - mining, 9316
- Child protection system
  - reform, 9396
- Child welfare
  - abuse and neglect
    - duty to report, 8721–8722
- Children and youth in care
  - experience in, permitted to disclose, 9392–9393
  - foster and group homes
    - inspections, 9395
- Children and youth in care - former
  - protection of privacy, 9392
- Children and youth in care - Ready, Set, Go Program
  - age eligibility, 9392
- Community safety
  - by region
    - Peterborough–Kawartha, 551
- Construction industry
  - work sites
    - washroom facility access, 3002
- Cost of living
  - government strategy, 10045
- Critical Minerals Strategy
  - for electric vehicle production, 6121
- Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act, 2024 (Bill 185)
  - second reading, 8401
- Debates re answers to question period
  - Government advertising
    - responded to, 10417–10418
- Education - secondary
  - dual credit programs, 1419–1420
- Electric vehicles - manufacturing
  - general remarks, 6840
- Electricity rates
  - affordability support programs
    - and emission reductions, 6000
- Electricity supply
  - and electric vehicle manufacturing
    - government strategy, 5346
  - government strategy, 4449
- Employment services
  - training and retraining
    - age demographics, 1418
- Enbridge gas - natural gas rate application denial
  - OEB decision, 8955
    - housing costs, impact on, 8948
- Energy conservation programs
  - Peak Perks, 4866
- Energy policy
  - Clean Home Heating Initiative, 4130
- Energy rates
  - conservation programs
    - time-of-use, 4477
- Enhancing Professional Care for Animals Act, 2024 (Bill 171)
  - third reading, 9291
- Entrepreneurship
  - government strategy
    - equity-seeking groups, women, 2672
- Environmental protection
  - government strategy, 7204
  - Greenlands Conservation Partnership, 7205
- Fire Safety
  - smoke detectors
    - Test Your Smoke Alarm Day, 8512–8513
- Food prices
  - and research, agricultural, 8278
- Forest industry
  - government strategy, 4569–4570, 7065
- Fuel prices - taxation
  - rate reduction, extension, 1420
- Galleries and museums
  - education and awareness
    - May is Museum Month, 8793
- GO Transit
  - electrification
    - buses, 4260–4261
- GO Transit - service expansion
  - general remarks, 4921
- Government orders
  - Attacks on Israel
    - amendment to the amendment
      - responded to, 5469–5471
  - Member's conduct
    - amendment to the amendment
      - responded to, 5510–5512
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - taxation policy, 3126
- Grow Ontario Strategy
  - goals, 8276, 8278
- Gun violence
  - prevalence of
    - government response to, 551
- Health care - children
  - integration of services, 613–615
- Home heating
  - affordability
    - government strategy, 6367
- Housing development
  - community relations, 140
  - completion timelines, 753
- Housing development - approvals and permits
  - rate of issuance by region, 1481
  - timelines, 730
    - impact on costs, 141–142
- Housing development - by region
  - Peterborough–Kawartha, 140
- Housing development - construction
  - land availability, 1632
- Housing development - municipal charges
  - development charges, exemptions and discounts, 3129
- Housing development - provincial building targets
  - general remarks, 167, 1486
- Housing market
  - interest rates, increase, 6150
  - prices
    - rate of increase, 139
- Housing policy
  - upzoning
    - fourplexes, 8401
- Housing supply
  - government strategy, 142
  - impact on housing costs, 139, 1420
- Housing supply - population growth projections
  - general remarks, 6852
- Human trafficking - victims
  - children and youth
    - child protection services intervention, 9392
- Hunting and angling
  - Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters
    - collaboration with, 5220
  - wildlife conservation
    - government strategy, 5220
- Indigenous communities
  - veterans, 1205
- Indigenous communities - economic development
  - government strategy, 3908, 5217
- Indigenous communities - infrastructure
  - energy transmission, 1869–1870
- Indigenous Peoples
  - individuals, recognition of, 7947–7949
  - voting rights in Canada, 7948
- Indigenous soldiers
  - service during world wars, 2523–2524, 2528, 7948
- Israel
  - attacks on (October 7, 2023), 5469–5470
- Judicial education
  - sexual assault law, intimate partner violence and coercive control, 3962
    - impact on decisions, 3960–3961
- Keeping Energy Costs Down Act, 2024 (Bill 165)
  - third reading, 8954–8956
- Land use planning - environmental assessments
  - general remarks, 2515
  - reform, 2518
- Legislative Assembly
  - history of, 4194
- Legislative Assembly - facility rehabilitation
  - health and safety, 4196
  - restoration records
    - FIPPA compliance, exemptions, 4196
  - technology, 4196–4197
- Legislative Assembly - facility rehabilitation, project planning process
  - consultation, Indigenous communities, 4197
  - general remarks, 4187
  - heritage conservation, 4195
- Legislative procedure
  - private members
    - role of, 613–615
- Legislative procedure - federal government
  - private members
    - role of, 613
- Legislature - staff
  - Legislative Protective Service
    - peace officers, 4195
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 46)
  - second reading, 1809–1812, 1814
- Long-term care - beds, development and redevelopment
  - by region
    - Peterborough, 4998
- Long-term care - beds, development/redevelopmnet
  - government funding
    - construction funding subsidy, 4998
- Members' statements
  - Clancy, Sandra, 3903
  - Dickey, Pam, 6990–6991
  - Gidigaa Migizi (Doug Williams), 387–388
  - Groarke, Leo, 7351
  - Guide dogs, 733
  - Havelock Lions Club, 4914
  - Hearts 4 Joy, 2484
  - Holiday messages, 2116
  - Hutchinson, Tatum, 2958
  - Indigenous rights, 1203–1204
  - Kinsmen Super TV Bingo, 10108–10109
  - Knott, Missy, 5398–5399
  - Lyons, John, 8516–8517
  - Maker, Norman, 9470
  - May is Museum Month, 8793
  - McCallum, Taylar, 2958
  - One Million Meals Peterborough, 8241–8242
  - Peterborough Lakers lacrosse team, 1607
  - Peterborough Regional Science Fair, 3735–3736
  - Peterborough–Kawartha maple syrup, 4381–4382
  - Police service dogs, 5268
  - Right to Heal RedPath Programs, 9842
  - Special Olympics, 8353
  - Volt hockey, 7599–7600
  - Volunteer Peterborough, 6054
- Members'/ministers' privileges
  - wearing of paraphernalia
    - jerseys, 496, 3541, 4472
    - jerseys and shoes, 9422
    - shoes, 7721
- Members/ministers quoting
  - news media
    - judicial education, intimate partner violence, 3960–3961
  - songs
    - The Gunner's Dream (Pink Floyd), 5470–5471
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - withdrawn, 140
- Mental health and addictions services
  - access
    - northern Ontario, 5002
  - peer support workers
    - training and certification, 4365
  - by region
    - Peterborough–Kawartha, 3125–3126
  - treatment models, 2670
- Mental health and addictions services - Roadmap to Wellness
  - general remarks, 5002
- Mining industry
  - employment
    - skilled trades workers, 3005
- Mining industry - Critical Minerals Strategy
  - Critical Minerals Innovation Fund
    - recipients, 9681
  - supply chain, 9681
- Mining industry - Indigenous communities
  - Indigenous consultation and consent, 4106
- Mining industry - occupational health and safety
  - general remarks, 3549
- Mining sites - closure plans
  - technical review by qualified professions, 4104
- Mining sites - development
  - timelines, 4103–4104
- Missing persons - investigative tools
  - general remarks, 3959
- More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 (Bill 23)
  - third reading, 1632, 1636
- Municipal governance - strong mayor system
  - council administration and authority, 141
- Murray Whetung Community Service Award Act, 2024 (Bill 31)
  - first reading, 1223
  - third reading, 7947–7949, 7958
- Natural gas
  - use of
    - northern and rural Ontario, 8955–8956
- Natural gas expansion
  - policy development, 1158
- Nuclear energy industry
  - government strategy, 10308
- Nuclear generation facilities - small modular reactors (SMRs)
  - safety and viability, 5505
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates
  - inflation, 3063
- Opposition day motions
  - Municipal funding
    - responded to, 10349–10352
- Paramedics and paramedic services
  - community paramedicine, by region
    - Peterborough, 1420–1421
- Pediatric hospitals - services
  - complex care
    - funding programs, 4065
- Personal support workers (PSWs)
  - education and training
    - Skills Development Fund, 1418
- Persons with disabilities
  - employment
    - Hearts 4 Joy, 2484
- Persons with disabilities-employment
  - hiring of
    - education and awareness, 1220
- Petitions
  - Affordable housing, 10234
  - Agri-food industry, 7841–7842, 8012–8015, 8066
  - Alzheimer's disease, 8067
  - Economic development, 1837
  - Government's record, 353, 603–604, 748, 1162
  - Health care funding, 604, 2133, 2913–2914
  - Health care workers, 231, 352, 2254–2255, 2316–2317, 2914–2915
  - Home care, 232, 5714, 6784–6785
  - Housing, 5713
  - Manufacturing sector, 7366
  - Ontario economy, 162, 233
  - Police funding, 5120
  - Post-secondary education, 7615–7616
  - Public safety, 10122
  - School boards, 3677, 3915–3916, 4337
  - Sexual abuse, 8067–8068
  - Taxation, 7893–7895, 7927–7929, 8066, 10316
  - Transportation infrastructure, 6783–6785, 10233
  - Volunteer service awards, 1224–1225, 1622, 1839, 2317, 2913–2914, 3147–3148
- Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 2)
  - third reading, 613–615
- Private members' motions
  - Taxation
    - amendment
      - responded to, 6149–6152
- Private members' public business
  - Addiction services
    - responded to, 4364–4365
  - Cutting Taxes on Small Businesses Act, 2024 (Bill 195)
    - second reading, 10322
  - Harvest Season Road Safety Week Act, 2023 (Bill 143)
    - second reading, 7087–7088
  - Joshua's Law (Lifejackets for Life), 2023 (Bill 93)
    - second reading, 3891
  - Missing persons
    - responded to, 3959
  - Murray Whetung Community Service Award Act, 2024 (Bill 31)
    - second reading, 2523–2524, 2527–2528
  - Nuclear energy
    - responded to, 5505
  - Taxation
    - responded to, 7181–7182, 8036
  - Test Your Smoke Alarm Day Act, 2024 (Bill 177)
    - second reading, 8512–8513
- Progress on the Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 36)
  - second reading, 1418–1421
- Provincial parks
  - government funding, 4220–4221
- Puppy mills
  - record-keeping at, 8471
- Queen's Park Restoration Act, 2023 (Bill 75)
  - third reading, 4187, 4194–4197
- Question period
  - Agri-food industry
    - presented, 4447, 6918–6919
  - Beef farmers
    - presented, 5278–5279
  - Broadband infrastructure
    - presented, 2380
  - Community safety
    - presented, 551
  - Disaster relief
    - presented, 3144
  - Electricity supply
    - presented, 1869–1870, 5346
  - Energy conservation
    - presented, 4866
  - Energy policies
    - presented, 6367, 10308
  - Energy rates
    - presented, 4129–4130, 4477
  - Environmental protection
    - presented, 7204–7205
  - Forest firefighting
    - presented, 5113
  - Forest industry
    - presented, 4569–4570, 7065
  - Hunting and fishing
    - presented, 5220
  - Indigenous economic development
    - presented, 3908, 5217
  - Long-term care
    - presented, 4998
  - Mental health and addiction services
    - presented, 2670, 5002
  - Mining industry
    - presented, 9680–9681
  - National Disability Employment Awareness Month
    - presented, 1220–1221
  - Provincial parks
    - presented, 4220–4221
  - Taxation
    - presented, 5814, 6000, 6067, 6614–6615, 6777–6778, 6875, 7304–7305, 7729–7730, 7786, 7924, 8121–8122, 8527–8528, 8705, 9173–9174, 9316, 9483–9484, 9590–9591
  - Water and sewage infrastructure
    - presented, 10381
  - Women's entrepreneurship
    - presented, 2672
  - Workplace safety
    - presented, 3549
- Rapati Design and Construction Ltd. Act, 2023 (Bill Pr30)
  - first reading, 5466
  - second reading, 7054
  - third reading, 7054
- Reducing Inefficiencies Act (Infrastructure Statute Law Amendments), 2023 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 2515, 2518
- Regulatory environment
  - reform, 1809–1810
- Regulatory policy
  - reform
    - impact on small businesses, 1811
- Regulatory reform
  - impact on small businesses, 1811
- Rental housing - development
  - purpose-built, 143
- Service animals
  - education and awareness
    - Guide Dog Awareness Month, 733
- Skilled trades
  - labour shortage
    - government strategy, 1419
- Skilled trades - education and training
  - Skills Development Fund, 1418–1419
    - student outcomes, graduation and employment rates, 1419
- Skilled trades - employment
  - job creation
    - promotion of, 1419
- Sporting events
  - Ontario youth bowling championship, 2958
- Sports and recreation
  - amateur funding
    - Special Hockey International Day, 613
  - persons with disabilities, 8353
    - volt hockey, 7599–7600
- Sports teams
  - regional
    - Peterborough–Kawartha, 1607
- Strengthening Cyber Security and Building Trust in the Public Sector Act, 2024 (Bill 194)
  - second reading, 9732, 9811
  - regulations, use of, 9732
- Strengthening Post-secondary Institutions and Students Act, 2022 (Bill 26)
  - second reading, 1202
- Strengthening Safety and Modernizing Justice Act, 2023 (Bill 102)
  - second reading, 3960–3962
- Strikes
  - Writers Guild of America
    - impact on film and television industry, 4390
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022 (Bill 3)
  - second reading, 139–143, 167
  - third reading, 730, 753
- Supporting Children's Futures Act, 2024 (Bill 188)
  - committee process
    - amendments, consideration of, 9394–9395
  - third reading, 9392–9396
- Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership
  - Agri-Tech Innovation Initiative, 6919
- Taxation
  - reduction
    - as economic policy, 6151–6152
- Tributes
  - Brown, Jim (former member for Scarborough West), 780
  - Maker, Norman, 9470
  - Migizi, Gidigaa (Doug Williams), 387–388
  - Whetung, Murray, 7948
- Veterans - commemoration
  - Remembrance Day and Remembrance Week, 10264
- Volunteers
  - recruitment organizations
    - Volunteer Peterborough, 6054
- Wataynikaneyap Power Transmission Project
  - general remarks, 1870
- Water - recreational
  - fatalities due to drowning
    - statistics, 3891
- Weather events
  - government response, 3144
- Western University
  - sexual violence and harassment, 1202
- Wildfire management
  - domestic and international partnerships, 5113
  - government strategy, 5113
- Working for Workers Act, 2023 (Bill 79)
  - second reading, 3002, 3005
- Your Health Act, 2023 (Bill 60)
  - second reading, 2234, 2465–2466
Smith, David (PC, Scarborough Centre)
- Affordable Energy Act, 2024 (Bill 214)
  - second reading, 10075
- Appreciation
  - Papaconstantinou, Marissa, 2020
  - Woodgreen Community Services, 1147
- Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act, 2023 (Bill 98)
  - second reading, 3732
- Black community
  - Black History Month, 2370, 7403
- Budget 2024/2025
  - infrastructure, 9188
- Budget speech 2024 (March 26, 2024)
  - responded to, 8072, 8098
- Building a Better Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 180)
  - third reading, 9188
- Building a Strong Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 85)
  - second reading, 3063
- Cancer
  - education and awareness
    - Lung Cancer Awareness Month, 6168
- Carbon tax
  - economic impact
    - small businesses, 9266
- Child protection system
  - staff
    - regulatory oversight, 9395
- Children and youth in care
  - experience in, permitted to disclose, 8717
- Community services - providers
  - Woodgreen Community Services, 1147
- Construction industry
  - personal protective equipment (PPE) standards
    - size variety, 5017
  - work sites
    - washroom facility access, 5017
- Employment - COVID-19
  - sick days, paid
    - provincial program, 1698
      - statements by stakeholders, 1698
    - provincial program, promotion of, 1699
- Employment standards
  - employer transparency, 5016
  - layoffs and terminations
    - remote employees, 2953
- GO Transit - stations
  - Union redevelopment, 3139
- Government notices of motion
  - New members of provincial Parliament
    - responded to, 649–651
- Government orders
  - Member's conduct
    - amendment to the amendment
      - responded to, 5564–5565
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - labour policy, 6559–6560
- Keeping Energy Costs Down Act, 2024 (Bill 165)
  - third reading, 8948
- Labour relations
  - and government, 6559–6560
- Less Red Tape, More Common Sense Act, 2023 (Bill 139)
  - third reading, 6247
- Long-term care facilities - construction
  - general remarks, 4573
- Members' statements
  - Anti-racism activities, 2370
  - Birchmount Green, 8977
  - Black History Month, 7403
  - Education, 628–629
  - Jule, 5315
  - Lung Cancer Awareness Month, 6168
  - Papaconstantinou, Marissa, 2020
  - Ramadan, 3497
  - Remembrance Day, 10264
  - Riding of Scarborough Centre, 9163
  - Salvation Army, 4002
  - Scarborough Health Network, 5768–5769
  - Scarborough Somaliland Community Association, 2791
  - Scarborough subway extension, 7881
  - Scarborough Walk of Fame, 8313
  - Skilled trades, 9576–9577
  - Smith, Melania, 4437–4438
  - Well Grounded Real Estate, 6870
  - WoodGreen Community Services, 1147
- Members'/ministers' constituencies
  - Scarborough Centre, 649–650
- Members'/ministers' inaugural speeches, 649–651
- Military personnel
  - reservists
    - job protected leave, 2953–2954
- Natural gas expansion
  - policy development, 1158
- Occupational health and safety
  - workplace violations
    - fines, increase, 2953
- Post-secondary education
  - racism and hate, 7679
  - tuition
    - fee freeze, 7653
- Pre-apprenticeship programs
  - Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP), 5016–5017
- Preventing Unethical Puppy Sales Act, 2024 (Bill 159)
  - second reading, 8471
- Private members' public business
  - Anti-Scab Labour Act, 2023 (Bill 90)
    - second reading, 6559–6561
  - Skilled Trades Week Act, 2023 (Bill 117)
    - second reading, 5193–5194, 5198
  - Stay Home If You Are Sick Act, 2022 (Bill 4)
    - second reading, 1698–1699
- Queen's Park Restoration Act, 2023 (Bill 75)
  - second reading, 2834
- Question period
  - Accessibility for seniors and persons with disabilities
    - presented, 4482
  - Energy policies
    - presented, 1158
  - GO Transit
    - presented, 4260–4261
  - Housing
    - presented, 445–446
  - Long-term care
    - presented, 4573
  - Mental health services
    - presented, 3872
  - Ontario film and television industry
    - presented, 4390
  - Public transit
    - presented, 1559, 3139
  - Special-needs children
    - presented, 4065
  - Taxation
    - presented, 9266, 10045, 10439
  - Transportation infrastructure
    - presented, 4921
- Reducing Inefficiencies Act (Infrastructure Statute Law Amendments), 2023 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 2578
- Regional development
  - Scarborough, 650
- Safer Streets, Stronger Communities Act, 2024 (Bill 223)
  - second reading, 10462
- Skilled trades - employment
  - education and awareness
    - Skilled Trades Week, 5193
  - labour shortage
    - economic impact, 5193
  - recruitment and retention
    - secondary students, 5017
- Skilled trades - recruitment and retention
  - target populations, 5194
  - youth, 9576–9577
- Somali community
  - community organizations
    - Scarborough Somaliland Community Association, 2791
- Sports and recreation
  - community organizations
    - educational outreach programs, 628
- Strengthening Accountability and Student Supports Act, 2024 (Bill 166)
  - second reading, 7653, 7679, 7683
- Supporting Children's Futures Act, 2024 (Bill 188)
  - second reading, 8717, 8721–8722
  - third reading, 9395
- Supportive housing
  - by region
    - Scarborough Centre, 8977
- Temporary foreign workers
  - passports and work permits, retention of
    - fines and penalties, 2953
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) expansion - Ontario Line
  - economic impact, 1559
  - government funding, 1559
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) expansion - Scarborough subway extension, 7881
- Working for Workers Act, 2023 (Bill 79)
  - second reading, 2953–2954
  - third reading, 5016–5018
- Working for Workers Four Act, 2024 (Bill 149)
  - second reading, 6227, 6581
  - third reading, 7189–7191
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
  - presumptive coverage, firefighters
    - cancers, 2954, 5017–5018
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) - benefits
  - indexing factors, 7190
Smith, Hon. G. (PC, Parry Sound—Muskoka)
- Alberta
  - wildfires (2023), inter-provincial aid
    - firefighters and fire services, 4262
- Budget 2023/2024
  - children and youth, 3296
- Budget 2024/2025
  - wildfire management, 8009, 8059
- Budget speech 2023 (March 23, 2023)
  - responded to, 3296
- Budget speech 2024 (March 26, 2024)
  - responded to, 8079
- Building Ontario For You Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 216)
  - second reading, 10142
- Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS)
  - carbon storage, 3485
  - and emission reduction, 6366
  - environmental impact, 3485
  - general remarks, 1741
  - government strategy, 1742–1745
  - regulatory framework, 3486
    - consultation process, 3485–3486
    - statements by stakeholders, 3486
- Carbon tax
  - cost of
    - per household, 8322
  - cost of living, impact on, 6067
  - economic impact, 5996
  - fuel prices, impact on, 8251
    - northern and rural Ontario, 8009
  - northern and rural Ontario, impact on, 8251
- Carbon tax - impact by industry
  - emergency services, 9740
  - natural resources, 5941, 5996, 7491, 9993
    - statements by stakeholders, 5941
- Conservation authorities
  - conservation officers
    - number of, 938
  - mandate and oversight, 1614
- Dogs
  - hunting skills, training and trialing facilities
    - licensing, 3486, 3488
      - statements by stakeholders, 3486
- Fire rangers
  - fire season as one year, 10271
  - recruitment and retention, 7614
    - bonus, 8010
    - government strategy, 7416, 8997, 9004
- Fire safety
  - general remarks, 34
- Firefighters and fire services
  - government funding, 7303–7304
  - working conditions
    - consultation, 5464
- Flood management
  - government funding, 2375
  - government strategy, 1824
- Forest industry
  - economic impact, 1876
  - government funding, 7729
  - government strategy, 1875–1876, 4569–4570, 5409, 7978
    - forest biomass, 1876, 7065
- Government notices of motion
  - New members of provincial Parliament
    - presented, 644–645
- Government orders
  - Member's conduct
    - amendment to the amendment
      - responded to, 5565–5566
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - regulatory policy, 3485
- Greenhouse gas emissions - reduction
  - government strategy, 6062
- Housing supply
  - government strategy, 2162
- Hunting and angling
  - Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters
    - collaboration with, 5220–5221
  - safety measures, 820
  - wildlife conservation
    - government strategy, 5220
- Hunting and angling - licensing
  - exemptions, 2803
  - non-resident
    - revenue generation, program reallocation, 2803
  - revenue generation from, 821
  - service fees, waiver, 821
- Invasive species
  - government strategy, 1374, 4222–4223
  - prevention and management partnerships
    - phragmites, 1375
  - wild pigs
    - regulation of, 1374
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Economy Act, 2023 (Bill 91)
  - second reading, 3485–3486, 3488
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 46)
  - second reading, 1741–1746
- Members'/ministers' constituencies
  - Parry Sound–Muskoka, 537, 644
- Members'/ministers' inaugural speeches, 536–539, 644–645
- Mills
  - AV Terrace Bay pulp mill
    - closure, government response, 7145, 7550–7551, 8121
  - Domtar mill, Espanola
    - closure, government response, 5408
- Municipal governance - strong mayor system, administrative authority
  - general remarks, 124
- Niagara Escarpment Commission
  - autonomy and independence
    - in relation to government, 1824
- Oil and gas wells
  - dormant wells
    - government strategy, 2587–2588
      - funding program, 4768–4769
  - dormant wells, risk management
    - government funding, 7148
- Oil and natural gas wells
  - dormant wells
    - government strategy, 2587–2588
      - funding program, 4768–4769
- Preventing Unethical Puppy Sales Act, 2024 (Bill 159)
  - second reading, 8550
- Question period
  - Conservation authorities
    - responded to, 938
  - Disaster relief
    - responded to, 3144
  - Employment standards
    - responded to, 4332
  - Environmental protection
    - responded to, 2964
  - Firefighters
    - responded to, 5464, 8009–8010
  - Flooding
    - responded to, 2374–2375
  - Forest firefighting
    - responded to, 33–34, 4262–4263, 4857, 5113–5114, 5408–5409, 7303–7304, 7416, 7614, 8059, 8706, 8922, 9117–9118, 10271
  - Forest industry
    - responded to, 1875–1876, 4569–4570, 5408–5409, 7065, 7145, 7550–7551, 7977–7978, 8121
  - Government policies
    - responded to, 2121
  - Hunting and fishing
    - responded to, 820–821, 2803, 5220–5221
  - Invasive species
    - responded to, 1374–1375, 4222–4223
  - Land use planning
    - responded to, 1614, 1824, 2162
  - Natural gas wells
    - responded to, 2857–2858
  - Oil and gas wells
    - responded to, 4768–4769, 7148
  - Taxation
    - responded to, 5941, 5996, 6061–6062, 6067, 6366, 6368, 7491, 7729–7730, 8009, 8057–8058, 8251, 8322, 9740, 9993–9994, 10379–10380
- Reducing Inefficiencies Act (Infrastructure Statute Law Amendments), 2023 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 2571
- Rouge National Urban Park
  - government obligations, Parks Canada, 2121
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022 (Bill 3)
  - second reading, 124
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 536–539
- Watersheds and wetlands
  - government strategy, 1824
- Weather events
  - remediation funding, 3144
- Wildfire management
  - domestic and international partnerships, 5113–5114
  - government funding, 5113, 5408–5409, 7416, 8706
  - government strategy, 4262–4263, 8059, 8706, 8922, 9117
  - inter-provincial aid, 9117
- Wildfires
  - Ontario and Quebec (June 2023)
    - government response, 4857
- Wildfires (Ontario and Quebec, June 2023)
  - government response, 4857
- Working for Workers Five Act, 2024 (Bill 190)
  - second reading, 8997, 9004
Smith, L. (PC, Thornhill)
- Affordable Energy Act, 2024 (Bill 214)
  - second reading, 10064, 10071–10072, 10075
- Affordable Homes and Good Jobs Act, 2023 (Bill 134)
  - second reading, 5208
- Affordable housing
  - construction methods
    - modular building, 6917
  - general remarks, 5208
- Agriculture industry - support programs
  - risk management programs, 4610
- Alzheimer Society of Canada
  - First Link program, 5255
- Antisemitism
  - in education system
    - government response, 3687–3688
- Appreciation
  - Hendrickson, Vernon, 2438
  - Schneerson, Menachem Mendel (Lubavitcher Rebbe), 3133
  - Yosef Mokir Shabbos, 544
- Asian community
  - connection with Jewish community, 9164
- Automotive industry - investments
  - Hanon Systems, 9992
- Better for Consumers, Better for Businesses Act, 2023 (Bill 142)
  - second reading, 5873–5874, 5954, 5965–5967
- Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 (Bill 39)
  - second reading, 1546, 1572, 1578
  - third reading, 2066
- Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act, 2023 (Bill 98)
  - second reading, 3604, 3660, 3687–3691
  - third reading, 4887
- Black community
  - community organizations
    - Thornhill African Caribbean Canadian Association, 2438
- Budget 2023/2024
  - business, 4375
  - business - small- and medium-sized, 4374
  - child care, 4375
  - child protection system, 4376–4377
  - child welfare, 3295, 4345
  - doctors
    - education and training, 4375
  - education, 4375–4376
  - employment services
    - immigrants, 4374
  - immigration, 4376
  - manufacturing, 4375–4376
  - mines and mining industry
    - Ring of Fire, 4354
  - mining industry
    - Ring of Fire, 4354
  - school facilities, 4374–4375
  - senior citizens, 3367
  - supportive housing, 4374
  - tax credits, 4357
- Budget speech 2023 (March 23, 2023)
  - responded to, 3282, 3294–3295, 3298–3299, 3367
- Building a Better Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 180)
  - second reading, 8170–8171, 8174, 8211–8212, 8221–8222
  - third reading, 9155–9156, 9187, 9194
- Building a Strong Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 85)
  - second reading, 3124–3125, 3162, 3167
  - third reading, 4313–4314, 4345, 4354, 4357, 4374–4377
- Building a Strong Ontario Together Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 146)
  - second reading, 6025
  - third reading, 6741, 6746
- Building Infrastructure Safely Act, 2024 (Bill 153)
  - second reading, 6651, 6656, 6659
- Building More Mines Act, 2023 (Bill 71)
  - second reading, 2712, 2741, 2749, 2756, 2759, 2762, 2765
  - third reading, 4121–4122
- Business - small- and medium-sized
  - government supports, 9682
- Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement (CWELCC)
  - child care operators
    - application period, 347
    - application process, 347
- Cancer - breast cancer
  - screening, age eligibility, 5877, 9734
- Cannabis production
  - home cultivation, restrictions
    - child care facilities, 7036
- Carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS)
  - government strategy, 1801
- Carbon tax
  - cost of living, impact on, 6176, 6613, 9432–9433, 9477
  - economic impact, 5881–5882, 6025, 6362, 6515, 6878–6879
    - international trade, 8253
    - small businesses, 5999, 6275, 6689
  - home heating, exemptions
    - eligible heating methods, 5817
  - home heating, impact on cost of, 8360
  - rebate
    - small businesses, 8431
- Carbon tax - impact by industry
  - emergency services, 8747
  - trucking, 7300–7301
- Child protection system
  - government funding, 9360
  - government strategy, 2376–2377
  - reform, 8590, 8688, 9360
    - statements by stakeholders, 8591–8592, 9361
- Child protection system - Indigenous families
  - government funding, 8590
- Children and youth in care
  - foster and group homes
    - oversight, 9361
  - Ombudsman of Ontario, role of, 8721
  - transition out of care
    - programs and services, 3282
    - support program, 2377
- Christopher's Law (Sex Offender Registry), 2000, SO 2000, Labour Relations Act, S.O. 1995, c.1, 6038
- Colleges and universities
  - hate-related incidents
    - government strategy, 8676–8678
- Community organizations
  - children's support organizations
    - Kayla's Children Centre, 867
- Consumer protection
  - general remarks, 5966
  - government strategy, 7837
- Convenient Care at Home Act, 2023 (Bill 135)
  - third reading, 6534, 6541–6542, 6557
- Coroners
  - construction-related deaths
    - annual review, 6998–6999, 7040
- Coroner's inquests
  - construction-related deaths
    - right to request, 6999
- Cost of living
  - government strategy, 6515, 7098
- Court administration - backlogs
  - regulatory reform, 2916
- Court administration - reform
  - digital services, 7574
  - general remarks, 7045
- Curriculum - elementary
  - Holocaust history, 1317
- Dairy industry
  - regulatory environment, 4606
- Dementia and other neurocognitive conditions
  - Alzheimer's Disease, 5249
  - provincial framework for, 5250
- Doctors - education and training
  - government funding, 3299
- Dogs
  - hunting skills, training and trialing facilities
    - licensing, 3488
- Doreen Scolnick Investments Limited Act, 2024 (Bill Pr37)
  - first reading, 7307
  - second reading, 8734
  - third reading, 8734
- Economic conditions
  - government strategy, 5153
- Education
  - EQAO testing and results, 5348
  - math skills
    - government strategy, 5348
  - reports and recommendations, 3687
- Education funding
  - general remarks, 3690
- Education - secondary
  - courses
    - dual credit programs, 1672
  - skilled trades, 9053
- Education system
  - standardization, 4887
- Education workers - labour disputes
  - strikes, 1113
- Education workers - labour disputes, union contracts and negotiations
  - bargaining process, strike, 1050
  - terms of, compensation, 1104, 1120
- Electric vehicles - manufacturing
  - and the environment, 5156–5157
  - government strategy, 6362
- Employment standards - wage theft
  - protections, 6222
- Energy transmission
  - line development
    - leave to construct, exemptions, 2928
- Enhancing Access to Justice Act, 2024 (Bill 157)
  - second reading, 6988, 7030, 7036, 7040, 7043, 7045
  - third reading, 7565, 7569, 7574
- Family law
  - support orders
    - collection of payments, jurisdictional expansion, 3448, 4629
- Get It Done Act, 2024 (Bill 162)
  - second reading, 7577
- Government notices of motion
  - Attacks on Israel
    - amendment to the amendment
      - responded to, 5421–5423
- Government orders
  - Member's conduct
    - amendment to the amendment
      - responded to, 5543–5546
- Government record - Liberal (2003-2018)
  - education policy, 1052
  - housing policy, 6917
- Government record - Liberals (2003-2018)
  - education policy, 1052
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - education policy, 3688
- Greenbelt Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 136)
  - second reading, 5903
- Greenhouse gas emissions - reduction
  - government strategy, 6438–6439
- Group of Seven
  - artists associated with, 3483–3484
  - education and awareness
    - Group of Seven Day, 3483
  - exhibited works, 3483
  - history of, 3483–3484
- Hate and hate-related activities
  - prevalence, 7569, 8676–8677
  - protection from and prevention, 10313
- Helping Homebuyers, Protecting Tenants Act, 2023 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 3629, 3633, 3636, 3641
  - third reading, 4642
- Highways and roads - snow clearance
  - plow operators
    - prohibition against passing, 4632
- Honouring Veterans Act, 2024 (Bill 218)
  - second reading, 10283–10285
- Housing development - infrastructure
  - sewage and wastewater
    - government funding, 9155–9156
- Housing supply
  - impact on housing costs, 700
- Immigration
  - Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP)
    - funding, 3125
- Improving Dementia Care in Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 121)
  - first reading, 4774
- Improving Real Estate Management Act, 2024 (Bill 151)
  - second reading, 6379–6381, 6400, 6411
  - third reading, 8497
- Independent health facilities
  - Shouldice Hernia Hospital, 2426
- Infrastructure development
  - factors affecting
    - seasonal changes, 3853
- Infrastructure development - funding
  - and public asset management, 8497
- International trade
  - trade and investment offices
    - Singapore, 5459
- Israel
  - attacks on (October 7, 2023), 5421
    - Canadian victims, 5422
- Israel-Hamas war, 5423
- Jewish community
  - connection with Asian community, 9164
- Judicial appointments
  - backlog
    - per diem judges, use of, 2919
- Jurors and juries
  - questionnaires
    - electronic, 2916, 2918, 2923
  - selection process, 1764
- Keeping Energy Costs Down Act, 2024 (Bill 165)
  - second reading, 7292, 7321, 7329–7330
- Keeping Students in Class Act, 2022 (Bill 28)
  - second reading, 1040, 1050, 1052, 1104, 1113, 1120
- Legislative Assembly - facility rehabilitation
  - accessibility standards, 2819
- Less Red Tape, More Common Sense Act, 2023 (Bill 139)
  - third reading, 6251
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Economy Act, 2023 (Bill 91)
  - second reading, 3448, 3488, 3516, 3519
  - third reading, 4606, 4609–4610, 4616, 4618, 4621, 4624, 4629, 4632
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 46)
  - second reading, 1764, 1801
  - third reading, 2889, 2915–2919, 2923, 2928
- Locates
  - construction costs, impact on, 6651
- Manufacturing industry - facility development
  - global investments
    - Canada-United State competition, 2461
- Manufacturing industry - funding
  - Ontario Made Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit, 4313–4314
- Manufacturing industry - investments
  - job creation, 5108
- Members' statements
  - Breast cancer, 5877, 9734
  - Cohen, Atara, 5397
  - Cohon, George, 6765
  - Covant, Benji, 10429
  - Diwali, 6355–6356
  - Health care post-secondary education, 8180
  - Heintzman House, 1770–1771
  - Hendrickson, Vernon, 2438
  - Holiday messages, 2021–2022
  - Homelessness, 4698
  - International Women's Day, 7654
  - Jewish and Asian communities, 9164
  - Kayla's Children Centre, 867
  - Public transit, 4123, 7405
  - Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, 3133
  - School facilities, 8695
  - Thornhill Presbyterian Church, 9577
  - Twinning of Vaughan and Baguio, 2021–2022
  - Vaughan International Film Festival, 4852
  - Yom ha-Shoah, 3606
  - Yosef Mokir Shabbos, 544
- Members'/ministers' constituencies
  - Thornhill, 519–521
- Members'/ministers' correction of record, 4379
- Members'/ministers' inaugural speeches, 518–520
- Members/ministers quoting
  - reports
    - For the Love of Learning (Report of The Royal Commission on Learning), 3687
- Mining industry - Indigenous communities
  - Indigenous consultation and consent, 2712
- Mining sites - development
  - timelines, 2759, 2765
- More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 (Bill 23)
  - third reading, 1658
- Municipal governance - strong mayor system
  - accountability and oversight, 712
- New Democratic Party (NDP)
  - housing policy
    - cost of, 5903
- Newspapers
  - community publications
    - appreciation, 3176
  - "newspaper," definition of
    - circulation criteria, 3176
- The Noble House Corporation Act, 2023 (Bill Pr19)
  - first reading, 4336
  - second reading, 7053
  - third reading, 7053
- Notice of security interests (NOSIs)
  - consumer protection, 7837
- 1000067464 Ontario Inc. Act, 2023 (Bill Pr33)
  - first reading, 5064
  - second reading, 7053
  - third reading, 7053
- Ontario Health atHome
  - regional organizations, consolidation into
    - impact of, 6557
- Ontario Health Teams
  - home and community care
    - models of care, 6534
- Personal support workers (PSWs)
  - education and training
    - dementia and other neurocognitive conditions, 5250
  - recruitment and retention
    - funding incentives, 6541–6542
- Persons with developmental disabilities
  - social inclusion strategy, 4618
- Petitions
  - Alzheimer's disease, 5225, 6370, 7307–7308
  - Change of name, 5467
  - Police funding, 4873
  - School boards, 4579
  - Transportation infrastructure, 2674
  - Volunteer service awards, 3149
- Post-secondary education
  - policies and reporting, racism and hate, 7687–7689
  - policies, free speech, 7688
  - racism and hate
    - prevalence of, 7687–7688
- Post-secondary education - funding
  - government strategy, 7688–7689
- Post-secondary education - international students
  - Provincial Attestation Letters, allocation, 7689
- Private members' public business
  - Change of Name Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 138)
    - second reading, 6038–6039
  - Community safety
    - responded to, 10471–10472
  - Condominium legislation
    - responded to, 10414–10415
  - Erin's Law (Child Sexual Abuse Prevention and Reporting), 2023 (Bill 123)
    - second reading, 5308–5309
  - Group of Seven Day Act, 2023 (Bill 78)
    - second reading, 3483–3484
  - Hate-related incidents
    - presented, 8676–8678
    - responded to, 8681–8682
  - Improving Dementia Care in Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 121)
    - second reading, 5249–5250, 5255
  - Supporting Ontario's Community, Rural and Agricultural Newspapers Act, 2023 (Bill 73)
    - second reading, 3176
- Progress on the Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 36)
  - second reading, 1336
- Public assets
  - centralization, entities, 3880
- Queen's Park Restoration Act, 2023 (Bill 75)
  - second reading, 2819
- Question period
  - Automotive industry
    - presented, 6362, 9992
  - Child care
    - presented, 347–348
  - Consumer protection
    - presented, 7837–7838
  - Curriculum
    - presented, 5348
  - Education
    - presented, 555, 8522–8523
  - Education on intolerance
    - presented, 1316–1317
  - Electric vehicles
    - presented, 5156–5157
  - Fiscal and economic policy
    - presented, 5153
  - Hate crimes
    - presented, 10313
  - Housing
    - presented, 6917
  - International trade
    - presented, 5459
  - Manufacturing sector
    - presented, 5108
  - Occupational health and safety
    - presented, 6998–6999
  - Public transit
    - presented, 5410
  - Recycling
    - presented, 2727–2728
  - Services for children and youth
    - presented, 2376–2377
  - Skilled trades
    - presented, 3311–3312, 5591, 9052–9053
  - Skills training
    - presented, 1671–1672
  - Small business
    - presented, 5709–5710, 9682
  - Taxation
    - presented, 5817–5818, 5881–5882, 5999, 6176, 6274–6275, 6362, 6438–6439, 6515, 6613, 6689, 6878–6879, 7300–7301, 7835, 8253, 8360, 8431, 8576, 8747, 9432–9433, 9477
  - Transportation infrastructure
    - presented, 7098
  - Transportation infrastructure and housing
    - presented, 5222–5223
- Rail service
  - Ontario Northland passenger rail service
    - passenger service
      - to Northern Ontario, 4624
- Reducing Inefficiencies Act (Infrastructure Statute Law Amendments), 2023 (Bill 69)
  - third reading, 3853, 3880
- Regulations - business
  - reduction
    - as economic policy, 3516
- Regulatory environment
  - reform, 2916
- Safer Streets, Stronger Communities Act, 2024 (Bill 223)
  - second reading, 10451, 10453, 10458, 10465
- School boards
  - accountability and transparency
    - government strategy, 3688
- School boards - information sharing practices
  - to parents
    - requirements, 3604, 3691
- School facilities - capital projects
  - new school construction, 8522–8523
    - by region
      - Thornhill, 8695
- Senior citizens
  - income support programs
    - Guaranteed Annual Income System, increase, 9187
- Sex offenders
  - legal name change
    - provincial jurisdiction, 6039
- Sexual violence and harassment
  - offenders
    - recidivism rate, 6039
- Sexual violence and harassment - children and youth
  - prevention
    - education and awareness, 5308–5309
  - statistics, 5308
- Skilled trades
  - labour shortage
    - government strategy, 9052
  - recruitment initiatives
    - youth, 8914
- Skilled trades - education and training
  - government strategy, 5591
- Skilled trades - employment
  - government strategy, 1672
- Skilled Trades Ontario
  - data sharing regulations, 6251
- Skilled trades - recruitment and retention
  - women, 5591
- St. Thomas - Central Elgin Boundary Adjustment Act, 2023 (Bill 63)
  - third reading, 2461
- Strengthening Accountability and Student Supports Act, 2024 (Bill 166)
  - second reading, 7687–7689
- Strengthening Cyber Security and Building Trust in the Public Sector Act, 2024 (Bill 194)
  - second reading, 9813
- Strengthening Safety and Modernizing Justice Act, 2023 (Bill 102)
  - third reading, 4846
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022 (Bill 3)
  - third reading, 700, 706–707, 712
- Students
  - rights of, 3660
- Supporting Children's Futures Act, 2024 (Bill 188)
  - second reading, 8589–8592, 8688, 8719, 8721–8722, 8724
  - third reading, 9360–9361, 9403
- Thornhill
  - arts and culture
    - Heintzman House, 1770
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 464, 479, 518–522
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) expansion - Ontario Line
  - general remarks, 5410
- Transfer Payment Ontario
  - administrative consolidation, 2916, 2919
- Transit
  - fare system, integration
    - One Fare program, 7405
- Transit infrastructure development - by region
  - Toronto, 5410
- Transit-oriented communities
  - development of
    - government strategy, 5222–5223
- Transportation infrastructure development
  - government strategy, 7098
- Tributes
  - Cohon, George, 6765
  - Roternberg, David (former member for Wilson Heights), 2150–2151
- Unhoused persons
  - community support initiatives
    - by region
      - York, 4698
- Unhoused persons - support programs and services
  - Homelessness Prevention Program
    - regional allocation, 4846
- Vaughan
  - city twinning
    - with Baguio (Philippines), 2021–2022
- Victims of crime
  - emotional distress, presumption of, 7565
    - eligible crimes, 6988, 7030, 7043
  - government supports, 8174
- Waste diversion - recycling programs
  - battery recycling, 2728
- Women
  - education and awareness
    - International Women's Day, 7654
- Working for Workers Act, 2023 (Bill 79)
  - second reading, 2998
  - third reading, 5073, 5077
- Working for Workers Five Act, 2024 (Bill 190)
  - second reading, 8914
- Working for Workers Four Act, 2024 (Bill 149)
  - second reading, 6353
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
  - operational requirements
    - strategic planning, 2918–2919
  - presumptive coverage, firefighters
    - cancers, 2998
- York University
  - School of Medicine, 8180, 9194
- Your Health Act, 2023 (Bill 60)
  - second reading, 2426, 2434
Smith, T. (PC, Bay of Quinte)
- Agriculture industry
  - regulatory reform, 3459
- Autism services - government funding
  - general remarks, 1432
- Automotive industry
  - general remarks, 3458
- Broadband infrastructure development
  - government strategy, 3460
  - regulatory reform, 3459
- Cap-and-trade program - cancellation
  - general remarks, 8115–8116
- Carbon tax
  - cost of
    - per household, 7919
  - cost of living, impact on, 5819, 5937–5938, 5995, 9426, 9477
  - emission reductions, impact on, 9264–9265
  - fuel prices, impact on, 8482–8483, 8521, 8865
  - general remarks, 7485, 7781
  - government response to, 5889, 6440
  - home heating, exemptions
    - eligible heating methods, 5814, 5817, 5998, 6360–6361, 6437, 7488
  - home heating, impact on cost of, 7557, 7724
    - natural gas and propane, 5814, 5816, 8357
  - impact of, 6060–6061, 6066, 7103, 7553
  - inflation, impact on, 5888
  - rebate
    - small businesses, 8525
- Carbon tax - impact by industry
  - agri-food, 5818–5819, 6178, 7922, 8248, 8700, 9584
  - emergency services, 9371
- Cost of living
  - government strategy, 5943, 6060, 6440–6441, 8865, 8868, 9051
- Electric vehicles - charging stations
  - locations, 683
- Electric vehicles - manufacturing
  - energy requirements
    - government strategy, 1431–1432
  - investments
    - Honda Canada (Alliston), 8741, 8744
- Electricity generation
  - government funding, 1000
  - impact on business environment, 8805
- Electricity rates
  - affordability support programs
    - and emission reductions, 6000
    - Ontario Electricity Rebate, increase, 5818
  - government strategy, 3548
  - impact on business environment, 6440
  - support programs, 3461
  - time-of-use (TOU) pricing, 3546
    - economic impact, 3546
- Electricity supply
  - and demand, 4861–4862
  - and electric vehicle manufacturing
    - government strategy, 5346–5347
  - and electric vehicles, 8320
  - general remarks, 447
  - government strategy, 4262, 4707
  - storage capacity, 4263–4264
- Electricity system
  - surplus, battery storage
    - Oneida Energy Storage Project, 2185
    - procurement, 9168–9169
- Enbridge Gas
  - connection cost recovery
    - revenue horizon for, 7246, 7253
- Enbridge gas - natural gas rate application denial
  - government response, 8857
  - OEB decision, 8856
    - housing costs, impact on, 8847
    - stakeholder engagement, 8847–8848, 9132
- Enbridge Gas - natural gas rate application denial
  - government response, 7232, 7245–7246, 7252–7253, 8519
- Energy conservation
  - efficiency programs, 5279
- Energy conservation programs
  - general remarks, 8006
  - Peak Perks, 4866
- Energy generation
  - biomass, 8856
  - general remarks, 9480
  - government strategy, 684, 8056, 8704, 8869, 8922–8923, 8926, 9048–9049, 9051–9052, 9119, 9264–9266
    - economic impact, 1557
  - hydrogen strategy
    - funding, 2250
  - supply and demand, 9134
- Energy policy
  - Clean Energy Credit (CEC) Registry, 3195–3196
  - Clean Home Heating Initiative, 4129–4130
  - general remarks, 7304
  - government strategy, 7250, 8850–8851
- Energy policy (federal)
  - impact of, 6174
- Energy rates
  - commercial and industrial consumers
    - economic impact, 1557
  - conservation programs
    - time-of-use, 4477
  - Energy Affordability Program
    - eligibility criteria, income, 3434
  - mitigation programs, 3434
- Energy transmission
  - line to development
    - leave to construct, reform, 8849–8850
- French-language debates
  - Période de questions
    - Imposition, 9118
    - Tarifs du gaz naturel, 3548
- Government record - Liberal (2003-2018)
  - energy policy, 3456
- Government record - Liberals (2003-2018)
  - energy policy, 3456
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - energy policy, 4477, 8856
  - regulatory policy, 3457–3458
  - regulatory reform, 3457–3458
- Greenhouse gas emissions - reduction
  - government strategy, 8801
- Home heating
  - affordability programs, 6367
    - Clean Home Heating Initiative, 5819–5820, 7247
    - HST exemption, 6364
  - hybrid heat pumps, 5820
  - transition from natural gas to electric, 9134
- Housing development - construction
  - government strategy, 3460
- Hydroelectricity generating facilities
  - Sir Adam Beck, Niagara Falls
    - refurbishment, 8642
- Hydroelectricity industry
  - government strategy, 9048
- Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO)
  - procurement processes
    - government strategy, 3459
- Indigenous communities
  - consultation
    - energy transmission projects, 8850
  - power grid, connection to, 8645
- Keeping Energy Costs Down Act, 2024 (Bill 165)
  - first reading, 7208
  - second reading, 7244–7254
  - third reading, 8847–8852, 8856–8857, 9131–9132, 9134, 9138–9139
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Economy Act, 2023 (Bill 91)
  - second reading, 3455–3461
- Manufacturing industry - investments
  - importance of renewable energy, 1429–1431
- Medical isotopes
  - general remarks, 8856
- Members'/ministers' correction of record, 8708
- Minimum wage increase
  - general remarks, 1431
- More Beds, Better Care Act, 2022 (Bill 7)
  - second reading, 418
- Natural gas
  - heating vs. energy generation, 8857
  - use of
    - as part of energy policy, 1001, 9139
- Natural gas distributors
  - connections, requests for
    - statements by stakeholders, 7249
- Natural gas expansion
  - cost of
    - to customers, 8849
  - economic impact, 1870, 4864
  - government strategy, 1158–1159
  - by region
    - Thorold, 5279
- Natural gas rates
  - affordability, 2547, 7246
- Nuclear energy
  - inter-provincial agreements, extension
    - Cameco and Bruce Power, 3435
  - small modular reactors
    - Ontario-Saskatchewan partnership, 6441
- Nuclear energy industry
  - employment, 8479
  - expansion and refurbishment, 8573, 8577, 8641
  - general remarks, 8804, 9546
  - government strategy, 8645, 8800
  - reactor refurbishment, 8479, 8804
- Nuclear generation facilities
  - Bruce Power
    - refurbishment projects, 5773
  - Pickering
    - continued operation, 1265–1266
    - decommissioning date, extension, 447
- Nuclear generation facilities - small modular reactors (SMRs)
  - development
    - Darlington New Nuclear Project, 2028
    - economic impact, 2028
    - international partnerships, 1373
    - interprovincial memorandum of understanding, 1372
  - general remarks, 5071–5072
  - government strategy, 7250–7251
  - partnership agreements, 292
- Ontario Energy Board
  - pilot and demonstration projects, 3458–3460
  - regulatory reform, 7247–7248
  - restructuring, 8848–8849
- Ontario Power Generation (OPG)
  - inter-provincial negotiations
    - transparency
      - New Brunswick Power, 3434
- Police officers - education and training
  - Basic Constable Training program
    - tuition fees, freeze, 3967
- Private members' public business
  - Garrett's Legacy Act (Requirements for Movable Soccer Goals), 2024 (Bill 99)
    - second reading, 4151–4152
- Progress on the Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 36)
  - second reading, 1429–1432
- Question period
  - Climate change
    - responded to, 8801, 8804, 9265–9266
  - Consumer protection
    - responded to, 8006
  - Electric vehicles
    - responded to, 683–684, 8320, 8356
  - Electricity restructuring
    - responded to, 446–447
  - Electricity supply
    - responded to, 794–795, 1265–1266, 1870, 2185, 2250, 3195–3196, 4262–4264, 4707–4708, 4861–4862, 5279, 5346–5347
  - Energy conservation
    - responded to, 4866
  - Energy contracts
    - responded to, 1870–1871, 3434–3435, 4449
  - Energy policies
    - responded to, 1158–1159, 5819–5820, 6367, 7304, 8479, 8518–8519, 8577
  - Energy rates
    - responded to, 3434, 3546, 4129–4130, 4477–4478
  - Forest firefighting
    - responded to, 4858
  - Green power generation
    - responded to, 1000–1001, 4864
  - Hydro rates
    - responded to, 1557, 6440
  - Natural gas rates
    - responded to, 2547, 3548, 7232
  - Nuclear energy
    - responded to, 292, 1372–1373, 2028, 5773–5774
  - Taxation
    - responded to, 5814, 5816–5819, 5888–5889, 5937–5938, 5943, 5994–5995, 5998, 6000–6001, 6060–6061, 6065–6066, 6174, 6178, 6360–6361, 6364, 6437–6438, 6440–6441, 6520, 6522, 7103, 7485, 7488, 7553, 7557, 7660, 7724, 7727, 7781–7782, 7784–7785, 7833–7834, 7885, 7919, 7922, 7974–7975, 7978–7979, 8004–8005, 8056, 8115–8116, 8119, 8248, 8317–8318, 8357, 8360, 8482–8483, 8521–8522, 8524–8525, 8573, 8576–8577, 8641–8642, 8644–8645, 8700–8701, 8703–8704, 8740–8741, 8744, 8800–8801, 8804–8805, 8865, 8868–8869, 8922–8923, 8926, 9048–9049, 9051–9052, 9118–9119, 9168–9169, 9171, 9214, 9217–9218, 9261, 9264–9265, 9311, 9371, 9426, 9477, 9480, 9546, 9549–9550, 9584–9585
- Regulations - business
  - reduction
    - as economic policy, 3461
- Regulatory policy
  - regulations, reduction
    - economic impact, 3458
- Renewable energy
  - capacity of, 8804
  - clean energy credit registry, 1429–1430
    - statements by stakeholders, 1430
  - government strategy, 8573
- Renewable energy contracts
  - procurement process, 64
- Renewable energy projects
  - development
    - public consultation, 795
- Soccer goalposts - unanchored
  - risk of injury/death, 4152
- Strengthening Safety and Modernizing Justice Act, 2023 (Bill 102)
  - second reading, 3968
- Supply Act, 2024 (Bill 174)
  - second reading, 7806–7807
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 64
- Transportation
  - affordability
    - government strategy, 7660
- Tributes
  - Fox, Gary (former member for Prince Edward—Lennox-South—Hastings), 2219–2220
  - Kramp, Daryl (former member for Hastings—Lennox and Addington), 7968–7970
  - MacDonald, Keith (Prince Edward–Lennox), 4242–4243
  - Taylor, James A. (former member for Prince Edward, Lennox), 784–786
- Utilities
  - non-compliance fines
    - transfer to ratepayers, ban on, 3459
- Wataynikaneyap Power Transmission Project
  - general remarks, 9311
- Working for Workers Act, 2023 (Bill 79)
  - third reading, 5071–5072
Stevens, J. (NDP, St. Catharines)
- Abortion
  - anti-abortion groups
    - graphic images, delivery of
      - regulations, 3039
- Affordable Home Heating Act, 2024 (Bill 213)
  - first reading, 9747
- Affordable Homes and Good Jobs Act, 2023 (Bill 134)
  - third reading, 6839, 6847, 6854
- Affordable housing
  - brownfield remediation, 1585
  - government strategy, 1584
- Affordable housing - by region
  - Niagara, 6109, 6116, 8668
  - St. Catharines, 4254
- Alternate-level-of-care (ALC) patients - transfer to long-term care facilities
  - non-senior patients, 536
- Animal welfare
  - humane societies and shelters, 9575
- Appreciation
  - Whetung, Murray, 2525–2526
- Automobile thefts
  - increase in, 6118
- Automotive industry - investments
  - by region
    - St. Catherines, 2367
- Better for Consumers, Better for Businesses Act, 2023 (Bill 142)
  - second reading, 5950–5951, 5961–5963
- Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 (Bill 39)
  - second reading, 1546, 1583–1585
- Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act, 2023 (Bill 98)
  - second reading, 3695, 3697, 3705
  - third reading, 4940, 4947, 4950
- Bicycles
  - e-bikes
    - classification, 9702
- Bridges
  - construction and expansion
    - Garden City Skyway twinning, 533, 535
- Budget speech 2024 (March 26, 2024)
  - responded to, 8069
- Building a Better Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 180)
  - second reading, 8136
  - third reading, 9182–9183
- Building a Strong Ontario Together Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 146)
  - second reading, 6084, 6088, 6107–6109, 6116–6119, 6124, 6131, 6135
- Building Infrastructure Safely Act, 2023 (Bill 153)
  - public consultation, 7169
- Building Infrastructure Safely Act, 2024 (Bill 153)
  - third reading, 7168
- Building More Mines Act, 2023 (Bill 71)
  - second reading, 2764, 2770
- Business - small- and medium-sized
  - veteran-owned, 928
- Cadets
  - general remarks, 2526
- Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement (CWELCC)
  - implementation timelines, 6355
- Child care - providers
  - facilities
    - rent increase, 7888–7889
- Child care - spaces
  - development, by region
    - Niagara, 8069
- Child care - staff
  - compensation
    - impact on retention, 4771
- Child protection system
  - government funding, 9443
- Children and youth in care
  - foster and group homes
    - for-profit vs. not-for-profit, 9446
    - inspections, 9395
- Consumer protection
  - door-to-door sales
    - regulation and enforcement, 5962
  - notices of security interest (NOSIs)
    - HVAC equipment, 5961–5963
  - regulation and enforcement, 5951, 5963
- Contraception
  - free access
    - impact on health care costs, 6823, 6828
  - prescribed
    - access to, government programs
      - eligibility, 6774, 6874
  - universal access, 7488–7489
    - impact of, 6610–6611, 6774
- Convenient Care at Home Act, 2023 (Bill 135)
  - second reading, 5378, 5388, 5624, 5630–5634
  - third reading, 6538, 6541
- Coroner's inquests
  - Culleton, Kuzyk & Warmerdam Inquest
    - jury recommendations, 1283, 1516, 3947, 8249–8250
- Cost of living
  - general remarks, 9183
  - government strategy, 1730, 6084
  - low income earners
    - government strategy, 10276
- Debates re answers to question period
  - Sexual assault
    - presented, 1131–1132
- Dental care - senior citizens
  - eligibility
    - income calculation, 222, 535
- Doctors
  - administrative responsibilities, 7744
- Doctors - family doctors
  - access, by region
    - Niagara, 7666
- Doctors - recruitment and retention
  - government strategy, 4258
- Dogs
  - micro-chipping, 9574
- Driving - impaired
  - penalties
    - plea deals, 9691
- Early childhood educators (ECEs)
  - government funding, 4950
- Education funding
  - government strategy, 9070
- Education - in-school learning
  - student supports, 534
- Education - mental health
  - students, access, 3695, 4940
- Education workers - collective bargaining
  - back-to-work legislation
    - impact on labour rights, 1056
    - statements by stakeholders, 1045
- Education workers - compensation
  - cost of living, 1218
  - general remarks, 1101
- Education workers - labour disputes, union contracts and negotiations
  - bargaining process, 1219
  - compensation, calculation of, 1031
- Electric vehicles - manufacturing
  - by region
    - St. Catherines, 2321
- Electricity rates
  - affordability support programs
    - Ontario Electricity Support Program (OESP)
      - eligible heating methods, 7479
- Employment standards
  - enforcement
    - fines, 8974
  - sick notes, 9001
- Food banks - usage
  - donation drives
    - Community Care of St. Catharines and Thorold, 10370
  - rates, 6602–6603
  - by region
    - St. Catharines, 2030
- Food prices
  - price gouging, 1990
- Garrett's Legacy Act (Requirements for Movable Soccer Goals), 2024 (Bill 99)
  - third reading, 9414–9416
- Gender equity
  - and access to contraception, 6823–6824, 6828
- Gender-based violence
  - education and awareness, 1516
  - sexual assault assessment
    - kit availability, funding, 1131–1132
    - in other jurisdictions, 1132
    - staff training, 1132
- Gender-based violence - prevention
  - general remarks, 9917
- Get It Done Act, 2024 (Bill 162)
  - second reading, 7398, 7401
- GO Transit - service expansion - by region
  - Niagara, 5164
- Government advertising
  - housing development
    - cost of, 5218
  - oversight by Auditor General, 7941
  - partisan, 7941–7942
- Government record - Liberal (2003-2018)
  - energy policy, 8954
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - health care policy, 1962
- Greenbelt - boundary adjustments, process
  - land ownership, conflict of interest, 5062
- Greenbelt - development on
  - environmental impact, 1584
- Health care
  - illness while abroad
    - return to Ontario, 9431–9432
- Health care funding
  - FAO report: Expenditure Monitor 2022-23: Q2, 1996
  - gender specific, 3424
  - general remarks, 1583, 4320
- Health care services - delivery
  - private vs. public, 345
- Health care system
  - structural stressors
    - government response, 1583
- Health care workers - recruitment and retention
  - government funding, 1382
  - shortage
    - impact, 1382
- Home and community care
  - care environment, 5631
  - culturally and linguistically appropriate care, 5632–5633
  - privatization, 5378, 5632
  - service fees, regulations, 5388
- Honouring Our Veterans Act, 2023 (Bill 65)
  - third reading, 5664–5666
- Honouring Veterans Act, 2024 (Bill 218)
  - second reading, 10216–10218, 10253–10261
- Hospital services - emergency
  - department closures
    - government funding, 7065
- Housing
  - access
    - veterans, 10261
- Housing development - approvals and permits
  - timelines
    - applicants, 1585
- Housing development - construction
  - government strategy, 3460
- Housing development - municipal charges
  - development charges, exemptions and discounts, 5210
    - municipal response
      - Niagara, 1263
    - transferal of costs, taxes, 6854
- Housing policy
  - government strategy, 1585, 8668–8669
- Human trafficking - sex trafficking
  - contraception, victims' access, 6824
- Indigenous communities - health care
  - paramedic services, 6135
- Indigenous soldiers
  - service during world wars, 2526
- Intimate partner violence
  - COVID-19, 4896
  - epidemic, declaration of, 5768
  - general remarks, 4896
  - government strategy
    - standing committee on justice, study on, 8312
  - partner history, disclosure of, 1294, 4896–4897
- Intimate partner violence - prevention
  - education and awareness, 4897
    - in the justice system, 3937
- Keeping Energy Costs Down Act, 2024 (Bill 165)
  - consultations, 8947
  - third reading, 8947, 8953–8954
- Keeping Students in Class Act, 2022 (Bill 28)
  - second reading, 1031, 1045, 1055–1056, 1101
- Land use planning - environmental assessments, class environment assessments
  - 30-day review period, 2514
  - 30-day review period, ministerial waiver, 3790
- Legions
  - support services and groups, 5665
- Legislation
  - introduction of, timelines
    - impact on municipalities, 1546
- Legislative Assembly - facility rehabilitation, project planning process
  - heritage conservation, 4182, 4190–4191
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Economy Act, 2023 (Bill 91)
  - second reading, 3456, 3460, 3474, 3516
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 46)
  - second reading, 1745–1746, 1749–1750, 1755, 1764
- LGBTQ2S+ community
  - discrimination against, 4912
- Long-term care - accountability and oversight
  - inspections, 335–336
- Long-term care - COVID-19
  - fatalities, 5632
- Long-term care - reform
  - general remarks, 5633
- Long-term care - staff
  - recruitment and retention, 5633
- Long-term care - standards of care
  - for-profit vs. not-for-profit, 5632
- Members' statements
  - Affordable housing, 4254
  - Anti-discrimination activities, 4912
  - Arrowhead Coffee Company, 927–928
  - Canada Summer Games, 435
  - Child care, 6355
  - Community Care of St. Catherines and Thorold Great Holiday Food Drive, 10370
  - Domestic violence, 8312
  - Food banks, 6602–6603
  - Gender-based violence, 1516, 5768
  - Housing, 5210
  - Mack Alumni Association, 9364
  - March of Dimes, 3663
  - Natural gas rates, 7479
  - Niagara Folk Arts Festival, 8916
  - Saxton, Gerry, 2115
  - Women's health and safety, 2594
  - Women's health services, 3424
  - YWCA Week Without Violence, 9917
- Members'/ministers' appreciation
  - McCrimmon, Karen
    - military service, 10302
- Members/ministers quoting
  - bills
    - Intimate Partner Violence Disclosure Act, 2021 (Bill 274), 4897
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - withdrawn, 5630
- Mental health and addictions
  - by region
    - Niagara, 2614
- Mental health and addictions - children and youth
  - prevalence, 9942
- Mental health and addictions services
  - universal coverage, 9942
- Mental health and addictions services - children and youth
  - providers
    - wait-time, 2601
- Mental health and addictions services - funding
  - general remarks, 2614
- Military personnel
  - appreciation
    - by region
      - St. Catherine's, 2844, 5664–5665
- Minimum wage increase
  - general remarks, 533
- Ministerial statements
  - Vimy Ridge Day
    - responded to, 8198–8199
- More Beds, Better Care Act, 2022 (Bill 7)
  - second reading, 335–336
- Municipal by-laws
  - passage
    - prescribed number of councillors, 1584
- Municipal councillors
  - role of, 185
- Municipal elections
  - general election (2022)
    - voter turn out, 1583
- Municipal governance
  - government strategy, 1583
- Municipal governance - regional chairs
  - appointment of, ministerial authority
    - applicable regions, 1585
- Municipal governance - strong mayor system
  - provincial priorities, 669
- Municipal governance - strong mayor system, administrative authority
  - general remarks, 185
  - veto power, provincial priorities, 190
- Municipal governance - strong mayor system - effect on housing development
  - general remarks, 186
- Natural gas rates
  - affordability, 2547
- Niagara Health
  - health human resources
    - vacancy rate, 1962
  - mental health unit
    - closure, 534
  - nurse shortage, 533
  - sexual violence and harassment services
    - government funding, 1293
- Nurses
  - recruitment and retention
    - government strategy, 2268
  - shortage
    - impact on education sector, 595
- Nurses - employment
  - contract renewals
    - working conditions, 2306–2307
- Occupational health and safety
  - injuries and fatalities
    - investigative policies for, 4009
- Ontario Consumer Watchdog Act, 2023 (Bill 122)
  - general remarks, 5950
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP)
  - earning exemption, 534
  - housing allowance, 796
  - veterans
    - benefit reductions, 10254, 10260
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates
  - and cost of living, 199, 533–534
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) recipients
  - rental housing
    - access, barriers, 534
- Ontario English Catholic Teachers Assoc. v His Majesty, 2022, ONSC 6658
  - judgment, Superior Court of Justice (ONSC)
    - government response, 1962
- Ontario Health atHome
  - regional organizations, consolidation into
    - impact on patient care, 5624
  - service providers
    - employment models, 5631–5632
- Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP)
  - coverage expansion
    - prescription contraception, 2621
  - prescription contraception, 2621, 6822–6824, 6828
- Opposition day motions
  - Affordable housing
    - responded to, 8668–8669
  - Education funding
    - responded to, 9069–9070
  - Government advertising
    - responded to, 7941–7942
  - Health care
    - responded to, 7743–7744
  - Health care workers
    - responded to, 1382
  - Mental health services
    - responded to, 2614, 9942
  - Municipal funding
    - responded to, 10359–10360
  - Tenant protection
    - responded to, 3823
- Paramedics and paramedic services
  - occupational health and safety
    - violence in the workplace, 5659
- Personal support workers (PSWs)
  - compensation, 5633–5634
  - recruitment and retention, 6538
    - employment models, impact of, 5631
- Persons with disabilities - children
  - financial support, 393
- Petitions
  - Health care, 6280–6281, 7494
  - Hospital services, 7842–7843
  - Labour dispute, 1083
  - Labour legislation, 10343
  - Land use planning, 2173
  - Mental health services, 8125
  - Social assistance, 1719, 2254, 2317, 2500, 2555, 2610–2611, 7676–7677, 8993, 9057
  - Tuition, 7242
- Pharmaceutical industry
  - manufacturing contract procurement
    - domestic vs. international companies, 9798
- Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 2)
  - second reading, 199
- Police officers - occupational health and safety
  - mental health supports, 3933
- Post-secondary education
  - blue-ribbon panel, recommendations
    - funding, 7679
  - tuition
    - fee freeze, 7686
- Prescription drugs
  - national pharmacare program, 7489
- Preventing Unethical Puppy Sales Act, 2024 (Bill 159)
  - consultation, 9574
  - third reading, 9571–9575
- Private members' public business
  - Community safety
    - responded to, 10470–10471
  - Domestic violence
    - responded to, 4896–4897
  - First responders
    - responded to, 9826–9828
  - Garrett's Legacy Act (Requirements for Movable Soccer Goals), 2024 (Bill 99)
    - second reading, 4150–4151
  - Honouring Our Veterans Act, 2023 (Bill 65)
    - second reading, 2843–2845
  - Murray Whetung Community Service Award Act, 2024 (Bill 31)
    - second reading, 2525–2526
  - Prescription contraceptives
    - presented, 6822–6824
    - responded to, 6828
- Progress on the Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 36)
  - third reading, 1990, 1996, 2011
- Public sector compensation - increase cap, health care workers
  - impact of, 1293
- Puppy mills
  - definition, 9573–9574
  - enforcement and inspections, 9571–9574
  - isolation of sick dogs in, 9573
  - licensing, 9573–9574
  - northern and Indigenous communities, 9574
  - record-keeping at, 9573
  - statistics, 9572
  - unethical breeding, 9573
- Queen's Park Restoration Act, 2023 (Bill 75)
  - third reading, 4182, 4190–4191
- Question period
  - Abortion images
    - presented, 3039
  - Access to health care
    - presented, 9431–9432
  - Access to prescription contraceptives
    - presented, 2721
  - Affordable housing
    - presented, 2861, 9219
  - Amateur hockey
    - presented, 3864, 4476–4477, 5114
  - Automobile insurance
    - presented, 4329
  - Child care
    - presented, 4771, 7888–7889
  - Children's mental health services
    - presented, 2601
  - Cost of living
    - presented, 2031
  - Dental care
    - presented, 222
  - Doctor shortage
    - presented, 4258
  - Domestic violence
    - presented, 8249–8250
  - Government accountability
    - presented, 5062
  - Government advertising
    - presented, 5218
  - Health care
    - presented, 344–345, 4919–4920, 6610–6611, 6774
  - Health care funding
    - presented, 7666
  - Health care workers
    - presented, 594–595, 1962, 2306–2307
  - Hospital funding
    - presented, 7065
  - Injured workers
    - presented, 4009
  - Labour dispute
    - presented, 1218–1219
  - Licence plates
    - presented, 5996
  - Municipal development
    - presented, 1263
  - Natural gas rates
    - presented, 2547
  - Paramedic services
    - presented, 5659
  - Pharmaceutical industry
    - presented, 9798
  - Prescription contraceptives
    - presented, 6874, 7488–7489
  - School nutrition programs
    - presented, 3667
  - Sexual assault
    - presented, 1005–1006
  - Social assistance
    - presented, 795–796, 10276
  - Special-needs children
    - presented, 393–394
  - Water quality
    - presented, 8579
- Reducing Inefficiencies Act (Infrastructure Statute Law Amendments), 2023 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 2511, 2514, 2567, 2571
  - third reading, 3790
- Rent control
  - exceptions
    - impact on tenants, 6847
  - general remarks, 2861, 3823, 6839
  - reinstatement of, 6107
  - as tenant protection, 6131
- Rental housing
  - vacancy decontrol, 3823
- Rental housing - evictions
  - due to renovations, 3823
- Safer Roads and Communities Act, 2024 (Bill 197)
  - second reading, 9691, 9702
- School boards
  - flags and symbols
    - LGBTQ2S+ community, 4947
- School boards - funding
  - student nutrition programs
    - by region
      - Niagara, 3667
- Schools
  - public health nurses
    - availability, 534, 594
  - student nutrition programs
    - government funding, 3697, 3705
- Sexual assault assessment
  - evidence kits
    - availability of, 1278, 1292–1294
  - kit availability
    - hospital staffing shortages, impact of, 1005–1006
- Sexual assault crisis centres
  - government funding, 1293
- Sexual violence and harassment
  - government strategy
    - in other jurisdictions, 1293
  - impact of, 1293
  - services and supports
    - government funding, 1293
    - in hospitals, availability of, 1292–1293
- Soccer goalposts - unanchored
  - regulation of, 4150, 9415
    - enforcement, 4151, 9415
  - risk of injury/death, 9414–9415
- Soldier's Aid Commission
  - general remarks, 10255–10257
- Sporting events
  - Canada Summer Games (2022), 435
- Sports - amateur
  - Greater Toronto Hockey League
    - financial oversights, investigation, 4476–4477
- Sports and recreation - amateur
  - Greater Toronto Hockey League
    - financial oversights, investigation, 4476–4477, 5114
- Sports and recreation - children and youth
  - general remarks, 4151, 9416
- St. Thomas - Central Elgin Boundary Adjustment Act, 2023 (Bill 63)
  - second reading, 2321
  - third reading, 2367
- Strengthening Accountability and Student Supports Act, 2024 (Bill 166)
  - second reading, 7679, 7686
- Strengthening Post-secondary Institutions and Students Act, 2022 (Bill 26)
  - second reading, 1278, 1283, 1292–1294
- Strengthening Safety and Modernizing Justice Act, 2023 (Bill 102)
  - second reading, 3933, 3937, 3947
  - scope of, 3937
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022
  - language and terminology, 186
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022 (Bill 3)
  - second reading, 185–187, 189–190
  - language and terminology, 186
  - third reading, 669
- Student debt
  - reduction, 6117
- Supporting Children's Futures Act, 2024 (Bill 188)
  - third reading, 9395, 9443, 9446
- Supportive housing - development
  - by region
    - St. Catherines
      - government funding, 9219
- Surgical procedures
  - cancellations
    - due to bed shortages, 345
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 521, 533–536
- Transit workers
  - collective bargaining rights, 5171
- Transportation for the Future Act, 2023 (Bill 131)
  - second reading, 5164, 5171, 5178
  - third reading, 6493
- Tributes
  - Hansen, Ronald (former member for Lincoln), 625
  - Saxton, Gerry, 2115
- Unhoused persons
  - by region
    - St. Catherines, 4254
  - veterans, 10257–10258
- Veterans
  - appreciation for, 5666
  - career support, 10253
  - Remembrance Day, 1207–1208, 5989–5991
  - service recognition
    - Veterans’ Licence Plate program, vehicle eligibility, 5996
- Veterans - commemoration
  - Indigenous, 5990, 10255
  - legions, 10254–10255
  - moments of silence, 2844
  - Remembrance Day and Remembrance Week, 5990–5991, 10302
    - education and awareness, 5664
    - events, 5665–5666
  - as statutory holiday, 10255, 10258–10259
- Volunteers
  - community events
    - March of Dimes, 3663
- Water quality - drinking water
  - well water testing
    - via public health labs, 8579
- Watersheds and wetlands
  - development on, 1584
- Women
  - gender-based budgeting, 2594
- Working for Workers Act, 2023 (Bill 79)
  - third reading, 5034
- Working for Workers Five Act, 2024 (Bill 190)
  - second reading, 8974, 9002
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
  - deeming policy, 1745
- World War I
  - Battle of Vimy Ridge, 8198–8199
- World War II
  - D-Day anniversary, 9579–9580
- Your Health Act, 2023 (Bill 60)
  - second reading, 2268
  - public response, 4919–4920
Stiles, M. (NDP, Davenport)
- Affordable housing
  - co-operative housing, 3796
  - general remarks, 763, 3247–3248, 5228
  - on public lands, 764
- Affordable housing - access
  - general remarks, 983, 2853, 7097
- Affordable housing - development of
  - building targets, federal
    - progress, 8003
  - federal government funding
    - access to, 8002–8003, 8796
  - government funding, 8796–8797
  - non-market housing
    - government role in, 9990
- Affordable housing - non-market housing
  - government role in, 5650–5651, 6435
- Alcohol retail - expansion
  - early implementation agreement
    - cost of, 9260, 9474, 9581–9582
- Alternate-level-of-care (ALC) patients - transfer to long-term care facilities
  - patient refusal
    - billing structure, 418
- Alternate-level-of-care (ALC) patients - transfer to long-term care facilities, non-preferred home
  - general remarks, 410, 427
  - public consultation, 411, 426
  - regulations, 410
  - statements from stakeholders, 410
- An Act to reverse changes to the Greenbelt
  - first reading, 5004–5005
  - general remarks, 4993, 5226
- Antisemitism
  - in Canada, 5418
- Appointments to agencies, boards, and commissions
  - conflict of interest, 2901
- Auditor General of Ontario - reports
  - 2023 Annual Report, 7059
    - government advertising, 7931
- Automotive industry - investments
  - investment agreements
    - unions, role of, 427
- Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 (Bill 39)
  - second reading, 1446, 1492, 1496, 1499, 1504
- Bradford bypass
  - rerouting
    - communications, 10306
- Bradford Bypass
  - development and construction
    - rerouting, 10266–10267
- Brampton Civic Hospital
  - emergency department
    - capacity and overcrowding, 8921
- Brantford General Hospital
  - emergency department, staffing levels
    - independent assessment committee, 7780
- Brighton
  - lobbyists, hiring of, 8980–8981
- Budget 2023/2024
  - allocation of funds, 3190–3191
  - cost of living, 3247
- Budget 2024/2025
  - cost of living, 8001–8002
- Canada Christian College
  - accreditation
    - conflict of interest, 5700–5701
- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms - s. 33: notwithstanding clause
  - use of
    - in labour disputes, 1258–1259
- Canadian Mental Health Association
  - government funding, 2612, 2627
- Cancer - breast cancer
  - screening, access to, 7972
- Career colleges
  - international student programs
    - as income source, 7229–7230
- Children and youth in care - Indigenous
  - child welfare agencies, accountability, 3610–3611
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO)
  - doctor shortage, 9166
- Climate change mitigation
  - heat pump subsidies, 6281–6282
- Community Health Centres (CHCs)
  - capital projects, by region
    - Peterborough, 2440
  - government funding, 8186
  - service delivery, funding
    - uninsured patients, 3309
- Community housing
  - government funding, 9989
  - wait-list, 2488
- Community housing - maintenance and repair
  - government funding, 129
- Congratulatory remarks
  - Kinew, Wab (premier-designate, Manitoba), 5269
- Coroner's inquests
  - Culleton, Kuzyk & Warmerdam Inquest
    - jury recommendations, 8246
- Correctional services
  - mental health and addictions, 2627
- Cost of living
  - affordability, 6291
  - general remarks, 68
  - government strategy, 3666
- Court administration - backlogs
  - impact of
    - stay of proceedings, 8245
  - sexual assault and harassment cases
    - impact of, 9165, 9210–9211
- Development industry
  - government relationship with, 2181
- Doctors
  - administrative responsibilities, 7736, 7750
  - shortage, 9166–9167
    - northern Ontario, 9212
- Doctors - family doctors
  - access, 7659, 7723
  - access to, 7971, 9114
  - recruitment and retention, 9045–9046, 9113
    - government strategy, 8920
  - shortage, 7140, 8002
    - impact of, 8920
- Doctors - primary care
  - administrative responsibilities
    - impact on workload, 7659, 7723
  - funding
    - administrative support, 2440
  - recruitment and retention, 7735
  - shortage, 7735–7737
  - shortage, by region
    - Sault Ste. Marie, 7140–7141, 7409, 9212
- Doctors - recruitment and retention
  - by region
    - Sault Ste. Marie, 7141
- Education
  - delivery model
    - public vs. private, 440, 1415–1416
  - government strategy, 736
- Education - COVID-19
  - government funding
    - tutoring support program, 425–426
      - allocation of funds, 286, 633
  - school closures, impact of, 1030
- Education funding
  - allocation, 3082
    - FAO report: Economic and Budget Outlook, Fall 2022, 1416
    - FAO report: Ministry of Education: Spending Plan Review, 3083
  - contingency funds
    - access to, 8798
  - funding formula, 9113
  - general remarks, 676, 1416, 3610–3611, 3738–3739, 8797
  - and inflation, 9046, 9112
  - learning supports
    - access, 9059
  - program reductions, 9046–9047, 9113
  - students, impact on, 9058–9059
- Education - in-school learning
  - COVID-19, infection control
    - public health measures, 675
    - vaccination, 675
- Education - student outcomes
  - at home supports
    - barriers to access, 426–427
- Education system
  - privatization, 3083
- Education workers
  - hiring of, 633
  - recruitment and retention
    - factors affecting, 3083
- Education workers - compensation
  - average, 594
- Education workers - labour disputes, union contracts and negotiations
  - general remarks, 593, 790, 1071
  - right to bargain, 1071
- Educational Assistants (EA)
  - shortage, 9582
- Educational assistants (EAs)
  - compensation
    - and cost of living, 1416
  - shortage, 1416
- Elections
  - Manitoba (2023), 5269
- Electric vehicles
  - government strategy, 8356
- Electric vehicles - charging stations
  - in new build homes, 8355–8356
- Employment standards - sick days
  - amount of, 2544
  - sick days, paid
    - amount of, 2544
- Enbridge Gas - natural gas rate application denial
  - government response
    - conflict of interest, 8518–8519
- Expenditure estimates
  - committee process, 1408
- Fire rangers
  - shortage, 9544
- Food banks - usage
  - in Ottawa, 6291
  - rates, 3666, 6770
  - by region
    - Toronto, 6291
- Ford Motor Company
  - Oakville Assembly Plant
    - electric vehicle manufacturing, timelines, 8355–8356
- Francophone community
  - Franco-Ontarian Day, 5006
- French-language debates
  - Déclarations ministérielles et réponses
    - Jour des Franco-Ontariens et des Franco-Ontariennes, 5006
  - Jour de l'opposition
    - Protection des locataires, 3809
  - Loi de 2022 pour plus de lits et de meilleurs soins, projet de loi 7
    - deuxième lecture, 409
  - Période de questions
    - Conseillers gouvernementaux, 3500
    - Équité salariale, 8424
    - Soins de santé, 2301–2302
  - Pétitions
    - Conflit de travail, 1225–1226
- GO Transit - service expansion - by region
  - Kitchener-Waterloo
    - timelines, 6070–6071
- Government accountability and transparency
  - communication methods
    - personal phone use, ministers, 9543
    - personal phone use, Premier, 5106, 5214, 5518–5520, 6170, 10171
    - phone use, ministers, 6057–6058
  - fundraising
    - conflict of interest, 7196–7197, 7230
  - general remarks, 2183, 4199–4200, 4992, 5342, 5811, 7059
  - members'/ministers' travel
    - referral to Integrity Commissioner, 5602
  - personal fundraising, Premier
    - attendees, 2182, 2244, 3542, 4199
      - referral to Integrity Commissioner, 2300–2301, 2852, 2901, 4200
    - conflict of interest, 5991–5992
    - OPP presence of, 7781
  - personal phone use, Premier, 5601–5602, 5608
- Government advertising
  - oversight by Auditor General, 7929–7930
  - partisan, 7917–7918, 7929–7931, 7946–7947
- Government appointments
  - conflict of interest, 5344, 5520–5521
- Government contracts
  - Atlas Strategic Advisors Inc.
    - conflict of interest, 5213–5214, 6267, 6358–6359
- Government expenditures
  - allocation of, 1414
  - budget allocation
    - municipal transfers, 2543
  - general remarks, 1417, 9582
  - program spending, 2440
- Government finances
  - accountability and transparency, 6267–6268
  - contingency funds
    - accountability and transparency, 3427–3428
  - fall economic statement (2024)
    - government strategy, 10040–10041
  - program spending
    - fraud prevention, 3427–3428
- Government notices of motion
  - Attacks on Israel
    - amendment to the amendment
      - responded to, 5418–5419
- Government record - Liberal (2003-2018)
  - advertising, 7930
  - education policy, 1052
- Government record - Liberals (2003-2018)
  - education policy, 1052
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - directives and policies, 1552
  - education policy, 791
  - environmental policy, 4971
  - general remarks, 4972
  - housing policy, 129
  - rental policy, 3809
- Government services
  - consulting contracts
    - accountability and transparency, 3500
  - consulting services, use of, 3499
- Greenbelt
  - boundary adjustments
    - timelines, 5227–5228, 5401–5402
  - boundary adjustments, reversal, 5602
    - cost of, 4994
    - timelines, 5149
  - economic impact, 4526
- Greenbelt - boundary adjustments, process
  - accountability and transparency, 4993, 5149, 5344, 5519
  - communications, 5149
    - language and terminology, 7604–7605, 7658
  - land ownership, conflict of interest, 4994, 5054, 5105–5107, 5226–5227, 5343, 5881
  - ministerial accountability, 5772
  - ministers' role in, 6606
  - premier's role in, 9259
  - Premier's role in, 5880, 5935, 6170–6171, 6512, 6606, 7606
  - RCMP investigation, 4993, 5342–5343, 5401, 5811, 6058–6059, 6513, 7097, 9673
  - record retrieval and dissemination, 5228–5229
  - select committee investigation, 5227–5229, 5247
- Greenbelt Council
  - information directives, 2853
- Greenbelt - development on
  - conflict of interest
    - information sharing, transparency, 4701
  - environmental impact, 2959–2960
  - impact of, 2372
  - land availability, 2486, 5226
  - land ownership, conflict of interest, 1708, 2181, 2300–2301, 4200, 4440–4441
  - land swap
    - information sharing, transparency, 2372–2373, 3500–3501, 4216–4217, 4257
  - land swap, process, 3665–3666
- Hamilton
  - urban boundary expansion
    - conflict of interest, 5701
- Health care
  - privatization, 1415, 9423
  - structural stressors, 69
    - government response, 412
- Health care funding
  - FAO report: Expenditure Monitor 2022-23: Q3, 2719–2720
  - government strategy, 10331–10332
  - inflation, 1417
  - public vs. private, 1417
- Health care industry - operators
  - private
    - political donations, 4918
- Health care - northern Ontario
  - access
    - government strategy, 4127
- Health care - primary care
  - access to, 9045
  - government funding
    - by site
      - Tay River Health Centre (Perth), 7409
  - team-based, 7723
- Health care services
  - clinics, service fees, 7722, 8113, 8519–8520, 8920
    - government response, 8187, 8477–8478
    - subscriptions and memberships, 7972
  - Patient Ombudsman Annual Report 2021/22, 2664
  - public vs. private
    - service fees, 2371
  - service fees, 9423–9424
- Health care services - delivery
  - fees
    - regulations, 1652–1653
  - private vs. public, 1653
- Health care services - hospital and physician services
  - reimbursement program, termination of
    - uninsured patients, 3068–3069, 3137, 3141, 3308
- Health care system
  - government strategy
    - public consultation, 4473
  - privatization, 2902
    - government communications, 1415
    - relation to staff compensation, 3372
- Health care workers
  - compensation
    - pay equity, legal challenges, 8424
- Health care workers - recruitment and retention
  - compensation, role of, 7721
  - government funding, 1414–1415
  - shortage, 1415
  - working conditions, 1384
- Highway 407 ETR
  - Indigenous consultations, 7497
  - purchasing, 10305
  - tolls
    - transport trucks, 7496–7499
  - tolls, removal of
    - transport trucks, 7482–7483, 7549, 8921, 9847, 10305
  - traffic volume targets
    - failure-to-meet penalties, 7483
- Highway 413
  - cost of, 8478
  - environmental impact, 5604
  - vs. highway 407 toll removal, 8478
- Highways and roads - construction and expansion
  - Highway 401 tunnelling, 9846–9847
- Home and community care
  - vs. health care institutions
    - standards of care, 412
- Home heating
  - affordability programs
    - heat pump subsidies, 6290–6291
    - heat pumps, 6281–6282
- Hospital services
  - closures due to staffing, 928
  - emergency care
    - department closures, 7779
- Hospital services - emergency
  - department closures, 4474, 9475–9476
    - due to staff shortages, 3309, 4762–4763
    - reports and recommendations, stakeholders, 6991
  - wait-time, 27
- Hospitals
  - parking fees, 9990–9991
  - staff shortages, 412, 414
- Hospitals - capacity and overcrowding
  - general remarks, 1384, 9736–9737
  - government funding, 1414
  - staff shortages, impact of, 27
- Hospitals - capacity and overcrowding by site
  - SickKids, 425
- Hospitals - staff
  - government funding, 6992
  - staffing levels, impact of, 4647
- Housing Affordability Task Force
  - recommendations, 764
    - exclusionary zoning, 6435
- Housing developers
  - approvals and permits, timelines
    - expiry of, 6688
- Housing development
  - building targets
    - progress, 10112
  - government strategy, 10332
- Housing development - approvals and permits
  - timelines, 131
- Housing development - construction
  - construction starts
    - in other jurisdictions, 8355
  - format diversity, 763
  - government strategy, 3069
  - inclusionary zoning, 763
  - land availability, 3070
  - municipal-provincial relationship, 128
- Housing development - densification
  - high-density vs. low-density
    - cost of, 3795
- Housing development - infrastructure
  - federal government funding
    - access to, 8114, 8185
- Housing development - municipal charges
  - community benefit charges, 763
  - development charges, exemptions and discounts
    - impact on municipalities, 1504, 2543
    - transferal of costs, taxes, 1663, 2543
- Housing development - provincial building targets
  - eligibility
    - student housing, 8186
  - progress, 9370
- Housing policy
  - accountability and transparency, 5880–5881
  - government strategy, 3426
  - upzoning
    - fourplexes, 7916–7917, 8114, 8354–8355, 9370–9371
- Independent health facilities
  - government funding, 7970–7971
  - health and safety standards, 2386
  - operational costs, 2386
  - in other jurisdictions, 8738
  - oversight mechanisms, 2243
  - service fees
    - coverage under OHIP, 2371
    - regulations, 1653
    - uninsured charges, 3248
  - staffing models, regulations
    - impact on hospital staffing, 2243, 2385
- Independent health facilities - diagnostic and surgical procedures, expansion
  - cataracts
    - service fees, 8738
  - general remarks, 4057, 8737
  - operators, information sharing, 4919
  - in other jurisdictions
    - Quebec, 4058
  - oversight, 3248
- Indigenous communities
  - government funding, 1418
- Indigenous communities - health care
  - government funding, 2441
- Integrity Commissioner of Ontario - investigations
  - greenbelt land removal, 5150
    - staff testimonies, 7229, 7299, 9258, 9310, 9368, 9543
  - Las Vegas trip, 5403, 5456
- Intimate partner violence
  - epidemic, declaration of, 5771, 8244
  - government strategy
    - standing committee on justice, study on, 8246
  - Sault Ste. Marie (24 October 2023), 5770–5771
- Intimate partner violence - victims
  - community support services
    - operational funding, 8245
- Islamophobia
  - vandalism, acts of, 5418
- Israel
  - attacks on (October 7, 2023), 5418
- Israel-Hamas war
  - family reunification
    - federal government, role in, 7058
  - impact on Palestinian territories
    - humanitarian aid for, 5418–5419
- Judicial appointments - Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee
  - membership appointments
    - conflict of interest, 7297–7298, 7354
    - lobbyist, 7407–7408
- Keeping Students in Class Act, 2022 (Bill 28)
  - second reading, 1030, 1052
- Labour relations
  - strikes/lockouts
    - replacement workers, use of
      - ban on, 6514
- Land use planning
  - conflict of interest, 5649–5650
- Land use planning - ministerial zoning orders
  - accountability and transparency, 5603
- Land use planning - ministerial zoning orders (MZOs)
  - accountability and transparency, 3617
  - conflict of interest, 5811–5812
  - review of, 5701
  - use of, 4217–4218
- Land use planning - municipal official plans
  - review timeline, 762
  - urban boundary expansion
    - internal communications, 5270
    - Ottawa
      - review of, 5602
  - urban boundary expansion, process
    - Premier's role in, 5879
  - urban boundary expansion, reversal, 5701
- Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) - enforcement
  - illegal evictions
    - fines and penalties, number of, 6435
- Legislative Assembly - facility
  - kaffiyeh, wearing of, 8518, 8638–8639, 8738–8739
- Legislative procedure
  - members' role in, 761–762
- Legislative procedure - motions
  - hours of House, extension, 1014–1016
- LGBTQ2S+ community
  - Pride flags, flying of, 4647
  - protections for, 3373
    - drag community, 3373
- Light Rail Transit (LRT)
  - construction timelines, 9795
- Light Rail Transit (LRT) - Eglinton Crosstown
  - delays, 4566–4567
    - information sharing, 4764
    - local businesses, impact on, 4763
    - ministerial accountability, 4858–4859
  - legal proceedings, 4383
    - cost of, 4383
  - public-private partnerships (P3s)
    - use of, 4474
- Lobbyists
  - Elliott, Christine
    - Clearpoint Health Network Inc., 6171
  - health care sector
    - government relationship, 4919
- Lobbyists Registration Act, 1998, S.O. 1998, c. 27, Sched.
  - review of, 10224
- Long-term care - beds, development and redevelopment
  - for-profit homes, 411
- Long-term care corporations
  - lobbyists, use of, 411
- Long-term care - COVID-19
  - military report, 411
- Long-term care facilities - construction
  - funding sources, 412
- Long-term care - public vs. private
  - wait-list, 412
- Lydia's Law (Accountability and Transparency in the Handling of Sexual Assault Cases), 2024 (Bill 189)
  - legislative process, 9165, 9210–9211
- Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) - staff
  - communications
    - freedom of information requests, 9369
    - personal devices, use of, 9258–9259, 9310, 9368, 9542–9543, 10170–10171
    - retention and deletion, 9258
- Members' statements
  - Health care funding, 928
  - Long-term care, 436
  - Municipal development and infrastructure, 1548
  - Post-secondary education, 589–590
- Members'/ministers' conduct
  - gifts, conflict of interest, 3542–3543
  - gifts, standards for accepting
    - consideration of reasonableness, 4200
  - investigations
    - cooperation during, 5456–5457
    - cooperation during, Premier, 5880
  - travel, conflict of interest, 5054–5055, 5457–5458
    - Integrity Commissioner investigation, 5053–5054, 5227–5228
- Members'/ministers' correction of record, 9056
- Members'/ministers' privileges
  - kaffiyeh, wearing of, 8518, 8638–8639, 8738–8739
- Members/ministers quoting
  - committee presentations
    - municipal governance, strong mayor system, 762
  - news media
    - Ontario Place redevelopment, 5357
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - withdrawn, 1663, 4200, 5456–5457, 5701, 6606, 7299, 7917, 9368, 9544, 9582, 10306
- Members'/ministers' staff
  - communications
    - personal devices, use of, 7605, 7658
    - retention and deletion, 5149–5150, 7605–7606, 7658
- Mental health and addictions - children and youth
  - prevalence, 2611
- Mental health and addictions services
  - access, 7197–7198
  - access to, 9943
    - and equality, 9934
    - impact of, 9933
  - operational funding
    - increase, 2599
  - universal coverage, 9920–9921, 9933–9934
- Mental health and addictions services - children and youth
  - wait-list, 9920–9921
- Mental health and addictions services - funding
  - community organizations, 9934
- Mental health and addictions services - staff
  - recruitment and retention, 2611–2612
- Mercury poisoning (Grassy Narrows and Wabaseemoong)
  - government response, 9259, 9309, 9545
- Metrolinx
  - executive compensation, 8476–8477, 9795
- Mills
  - AV Terrace Bay pulp mill
    - closure, government response, 7550
- Minden Hospital - Haliburton Highlands Health Services
  - emergency department, closure, 4474, 4565–4566, 4646
- Ministerial statements
  - Franco-Ontarian Day
    - responded to, 5006
- Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services
  - government funding
    - FAO report: Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services: Spending Plan Review, 9635–9636
  - mandate, 3137
- Ministry of Education
  - former employees
    - fraudulent schemes, arrest for
      - government response, 3427, 3499
- Ministry of Transportation
  - public service communications
    - accountability and transparency, 2663
- More Beds, Better Care Act, 2022 (Bill 7)
  - second reading, 410–414, 418
  - legislative process, motions
    - time allocation, 436
- More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 (Bill 23)
  - second reading, 967–968, 970, 977, 983
  - third reading, 1640, 1659–1660, 1663, 1695
- Motions
  - House sittings (carried)
    - responded to, 1014–1016
- Municipal by-laws
  - passage
    - legislative process, 1499
    - prescribed number of councillors, 1551
- Municipal councillors
  - role of, 1446
- Municipal elections
  - candidates
    - provincial parties support for, 764
- Municipal governance
  - reform
    - government strategy, 1496
- Municipal governance - regional chairs
  - appointment of, ministerial authority
    - applicable regions, 1552
- Municipal governance - strong mayor system
  - council administration and authority, 129
  - public consultation, 761–762
- Municipal governance - strong mayor system, administrative authority
  - veto power, provincial priorities
    - use of, 131
- Municipal restructuring - Peel Region
  - Brampton, impact on
    - taxation, 6993
  - cost, 7060
  - municipal taxes, impact on, 7060
  - public consultation, 4439–4440, 4701–4702
  - services, impact on, 7060
- Municipal restructuring - Peel Region, reversal
  - government strategy, 8921
- National Housing Strategy (federal)
  - building and renovation targets
    - progress, 8796
- New Deal for Toronto Act, 2023 (Bill 154)
  - committee process
    - public consultation, 6911
  - legislative timelines, 6911
- New Democratic Party (NDP)
  - housing policy, 8650, 10169–10170, 10222–10223
- Nurse practitioners
  - compensation
    - wage parity, 10225
- Nurses
  - nurse-patient ratio
    - in other jurisdictions, 7780
  - recruitment and retention, 7780
- Nurses - employment
  - contract renewals
    - working conditions, 2301
  - lay offs, 2902
- Nurses - recruitment and retention
  - government initiatives, 2301
- Ontario Autism Program (OAP)
  - service capacity
    - treatment wait-list, 2598
  - wait-list, 9636
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates
  - and Canada Disability Benefit, 6607
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates, increase
  - and cost of living, 472
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates, increases
  - and cost of living, 472
- Ontario English Catholic Teachers Assoc. v His Majesty, 2022, ONSC 6658
  - judgment, Superior Court of Justice (ONSC)
    - government appeal, 2620
- Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association v. Ontario (Attorney General), 2024 ONCA 101
  - judgment, Ontario Court of Appeal, 7095
- Ontario Health atHome
  - medical supplies, procurement contracts
    - shortages, 9737–9738, 9921–9922, 10042
- Ontario Place
  - lease of, redevelopment agreements, 3543, 3794
    - transparency and accountability, 3795, 4058–4059
  - visitor numbers, 5317, 5356
- Ontario Place Corporation
  - annual reports
    - access, 5356
  - financial statements
    - access, 5317
- Ontario Place - lease of, redevelopment agreements
  - accountability and transparency, 5355–5357, 5520, 6360
  - conflict of interest, 5357, 7883
  - general remarks, 9846
  - parking garage, construction of, 5356
  - procurement process, 9674
    - accountability and transparency, 5357, 6771
    - fairness monitor, use of, 5318
    - selection criteria, 5318
    - timelines, 5318, 7883
- Ontario Place - redevelopment
  - accountability and transparency, 6687, 6770, 6992, 7830–7831
  - cost of, 5317, 5356, 9674
  - environmental assessment, 6359
  - lake infill, 7830–7831, 7882
  - liability protections, 6770, 6872, 6911, 7831
  - ministerial zoning orders
    - Minister of Infrastructure, authority, 6687, 6771, 6873
- Ontario Science Centre
  - relocation, 3543
    - cost of, 3740
  - relocation, Ontario Place
    - community impact, 6872
    - cost of, 6871
    - facility size, 6872
  - relocation process
    - timelines, 7882–7883
  - relocation, process
    - timelines, 6992
- Opposition day motions
  - Affordable housing
    - presented, 8649–8650, 10184–10185
    - responded to, 10201
  - Climate change
    - presented, 6281–6282
    - responded to, 6290–6291
  - Education funding
    - presented, 3082–3083, 9058–9060
    - responded to, 3100, 9072
  - GO Transit
    - presented, 6070–6071
    - responded to, 6078–6079
  - Government accountability
    - presented, 5225–5229, 5600–5605
    - responded to, 5247
  - Government advertising
    - presented, 7929–7931
    - responded to, 7946–7947
  - Health care
    - presented, 2385–2386, 7735–7737
    - responded to, 2396–2397, 7750
  - Health care workers
    - responded to, 1384
  - Highway tolls
    - presented, 7495–7499
    - responded to, 7512
  - Mental health services
    - presented, 2611–2612, 9933–9934
    - responded to, 2627, 9943
  - Municipal funding
    - presented, 10345–10347
  - Ontario Place
    - presented, 5355–5357
  - Tenant protection
    - presented, 3808–3809
    - responded to, 3826
- Opposition parties
  - support for government policy, 765
- Optometry and optometrists
  - OHIP-covered services
    - eye-exams
      - eligible medical conditions, 3136–3137
  - OHIP-covered services, seniors
    - eye-exams, 3136
- Palliative care facilities
  - food program
    - funding models, 3666
- Pay equity
  - gender wage gap, 2621
    - FAO report: Women in Ontario’s Labour Market (2023), 4384–4385
    - government response, 4384
    - government strategy, 3372
  - government strategy, 3372
- Pay equity - gender wage gap
  - care sector, 8423
  - factors affecting, 8423
  - general remarks, 8423
- Pediatric health care
  - government funding, 1415
- Pediatric hospitals
  - capacity and overcrowding, 1415
- Petitions
  - Education funding, 4659
  - Employment standards, 1681–1682
  - Health care workers, 4230
  - Hospital services, 4578
  - Nurses, 1532
  - Social assistance, 1085
- Pharmacists and pharmacies
  - MedsCheck program
    - billing, 7409
- Political fundraising
  - donations
    - conflict of interest, 2961
- Population
  - out-migration rate, 1403–1404
- Post-secondary education
  - COVID-19, impact of, 589
- Post-secondary education - international students
  - as income source, 7297
- Prescription drugs
  - national pharmacare program, 7408
- Private members' public business
  - Health Care is Not for Sale Act (Addressing Unfair Fees Charged to Patients), 2022 (Bill 24)
    - second reading, 1652–1653
  - Strengthening Members' Integrity Act, 2023 (Bill 100)
    - second reading, 4199–4200, 4205
- Progress on the Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 36)
  - second reading, 1403–1404, 1408, 1414–1418
- Public Order Emergency Commission
  - appearance before
    - Premier and Solicitor General, 869
  - Report of the Public Inquiry into the 2022 Public Order Emergency
    - provincial involvement, 2182–2183
- Public sector compensation - increase cap
  - legal challenges
    - cost of, 7095
  - retroactive compensation
    - cost of, 7721
- Public sector compensation - increase cap, health care workers
  - impact on retention, 7096
  - impact on worker retention, 412
  - mental health care workers, 2611
- Question period
  - Affordable housing
    - presented, 2853–2854, 7097, 7916–7917, 8002–8003, 8114, 8185–8186, 8796–8797, 8981–8982, 9989–9990, 10169–10170, 10222–10223
  - Amateur hockey
    - presented, 3863–3864
  - Anti-discrimination activities
    - presented, 4647
  - Autism treatment
    - presented, 2598
  - Child and family services
    - presented, 3610–3611
  - Climate change
    - presented, 4917–4918
  - Cost of living
    - presented, 3247–3248, 3666–3667
  - Domestic violence
    - presented, 8244–8246
  - Education
    - presented, 675–676, 736, 790–791
  - Education funding
    - presented, 286, 593–594, 632–633, 3609–3610, 3738–3739, 8797–8798, 9046–9047, 9112–9113
  - Electric vehicles
    - presented, 8355–8356
  - Employment standards
    - presented, 2543–2544
  - Energy policies
    - presented, 8518–8519
  - Forest firefighting
    - presented, 4857–4858, 4917–4918, 9543–9544
  - Forest industry
    - presented, 7550
  - Fundraising
    - presented, 10376–10377
  - Gender-based violence
    - presented, 5770–5771
  - Government accountability
    - presented, 2181–2182, 2243–2244, 2300–2301, 2439–2440, 2663, 2852–2853, 2901–2902, 2960–2961, 3427–3428, 3542–3543, 3740, 3863, 4216–4218, 4256–4257, 4440–4441, 4474–4475, 4701, 4992–4994, 5053–5055, 5105–5107, 5149–5150, 5213–5214, 5271–5272, 5342–5344, 5401–5403, 5456–5458, 5518–5520, 5649–5650, 5700–5701, 5771–5772, 5810–5812, 5879–5881, 5935–5937, 5991–5993, 6057–6059, 6170–6171, 6267, 6358–6359, 6512–6513, 6606, 6687, 6770–6771, 6872–6873, 6911–6912, 6992, 7059–7060, 7097, 7196–7198, 7229, 7298–7299, 7604–7606, 7658, 7781, 8980–8981, 9258–9259, 9310, 9368–9369, 9542–9543, 9634–9635, 9673–9674, 9793–9794, 9846, 10110–10111, 10170–10171, 10224, 10266–10268, 10306–10307, 10436–10438
  - Government advertising
    - presented, 7917–7918
  - Government consultants
    - presented, 3499–3500
  - Government contract
    - presented, 3794–3795, 4058–4059, 9260, 9474–9475
  - Government contracts
    - presented, 4383–4384, 7483–7484
  - Government fiscal policies
    - presented, 6267–6268
  - Government policies
    - presented, 3069–3070
  - Government spending
    - presented, 9581–9582
  - Government's record
    - presented, 4971–4972, 6769–6770, 9846–9847, 10040–10041, 10111–10112
  - Health care
    - presented, 2243, 2301, 2371–2372, 2440–2441, 2664, 2719–2720, 2902, 3068–3069, 3137, 3248, 3308–3309, 4057–4058, 4127, 4473–4474, 4918–4919, 6171–6172, 7096–7097, 7140–7142, 7658–7659, 7721–7723, 7779–7780, 7970–7972, 8113, 8477–8478, 8519–8520, 8737–8738, 8920, 9045–9046, 9113–9114, 9166–9167, 9211–9212, 9423–9424, 9475–9476, 9736–9737, 10225
  - Health care funding
    - presented, 7409–7410, 8186–8187
  - Highway tolls
    - presented, 7482–7483, 7549, 10304–10305
  - Home care
    - presented, 9674–9675, 9737–9738, 9921–9922, 10041–10042
  - Hospice care
    - presented, 3666
  - Hospital funding
    - presented, 10331–10332, 10375–10376
  - Hospital parking fees
    - presented, 9990–9991
  - Hospital services
    - presented, 27, 4565–4566, 4646–4647, 4762–4763, 6991–6992, 9167–9168
  - Housing
    - presented, 2487–2488, 3426–3427, 3795–3796, 5650–5651, 6434–6435, 8354–8355, 9370–9371, 10332–10333
  - Justice system
    - presented, 7297–7298, 7354–7356, 7407–7408
  - Labour dispute
    - presented, 1071
  - Labour legislation
    - presented, 1258–1259
  - Labour policy
    - presented, 6513, 7095–7096
  - Land use planning
    - presented, 1707–1708, 2372–2373, 2486–2487, 2959–2960, 3500–3501, 3664–3665, 5270, 8571–8572, 8639–8640
  - Mental health and addiction services
    - presented, 2599
  - Mental health services
    - presented, 9920–9921
  - Mercury poisoning
    - presented, 9259, 9309, 9545
  - Ministry spending
    - presented, 9635–9636
  - Municipal development
    - presented, 6687–6688
  - Municipal finances
    - presented, 2543
  - Municipal government
    - presented, 1551–1552
  - Municipal restructuring
    - presented, 4439–4440, 4701–4702, 6993
  - Nurses
    - presented, 4126
  - Ontario budget
    - presented, 3190–3191, 8001–8002
  - Ontario Place
    - presented, 3543, 5317–5318, 5520–5521, 6359–6360, 7830–7831, 7882–7883
  - Ontario Science Centre
    - presented, 6871–6872
  - Optometry services
    - presented, 3136–3137
  - Pay equity
    - presented, 3372, 4384–4385, 8423–8424
  - Pharmacare
    - presented, 7408–7409
  - Police oversight
    - presented, 8570
  - Privatization of public services
    - presented, 440
  - Public Order Emergency Commission
    - presented, 869
  - Public Order Emergency Commission report
    - presented, 2182–2183
  - Public safety
    - presented, 3373
  - Public transit
    - presented, 4566–4567, 4763–4764, 4858–4859, 8476–8477, 9794–9795
  - Region of Peel
    - presented, 8921
  - School facilities
    - presented, 9424–9425
  - Sexual violence and harassment
    - presented, 9165, 9210–9211
  - Social assistance
    - presented, 6607
  - Social services
    - presented, 3137–3138
  - Special education
    - presented, 9582–9583
  - Tenant protection
    - presented, 6435–6436
  - Transportation infrastructure
    - presented, 8478
  - University and college funding
    - presented, 7229–7230, 7297
  - Victim services
    - presented, 9991–9992
  - Wearing of kaffiyehs
    - presented, 8639, 8738–8739
  - Women's employment
    - presented, 2720–2721
- Rent control
  - exceptions
    - impact of, 6435
  - exemptions
    - impact on rental prices, 8981
  - general remarks, 3070, 3426, 3796, 3809
- Rental housing
  - affordability, 3809
  - cost of, 3427
  - rent increases
    - above-guideline, 129
    - between tenant, by region, 2487
- Rental housing - tenant protections
  - general remarks, 967
  - redevelopment and tenant right to return, 970
  - rent-increases, above-guideline, 8982
  - vacancy control, 8982
- Rouge National Urban Park
  - environmental study (federal), 2959
- School boards
  - budget deficits, 9424–9425
- School boards - funding
  - by board, 3083
- School facilities
  - conditions in, 9424
- School facilities - maintenance and repair
  - backlog, 9424
- Schools - violence in
  - education funding, impact on, 9058–9059
- Senior citizens
  - income support programs
    - Guaranteed Annual Income System, increase
      - impact on additional benefits, 1418
- ServiceOntario - retail partnerships
  - Staples Canada, 7097
- Shelters and transitional housing
  - capacity and overcrowding, 69
- Social assistance programs - benefit rates
  - general remarks, 3138, 3667, 6607
- Social services
  - government funding
    - planned vs. actual, 3137
- South Bruce Grey Health Centre - Durham site
  - service reduction, 9167–9168
- Strengthening Members' Integrity Act, 2023 (Bill 100)
  - first reading, 3553
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022
  - scope of, 129–130
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022 (Bill 3)
  - second reading, 127–131, 135
  - scope of, 129–130
  - third reading, 761–765
- Students - special needs
  - injuries and fatalities
    - Ferris, Landyn, 9583
- Surgical procedures
  - backlog, remediation
    - patient health, impact, 2385
  - capacity, expansion funding, 2385
  - cataracts
    - service fees, 7142
  - delivery of
    - private, service fees, 8113
    - public vs. private
      - operational costs, 2386
      - operational funding, 6171, 6268
  - operating rooms, service capacity
    - funding, 2664
  - private delivery fees
    - Auditor General's report (2021), 2386
  - private vs. public delivery
    - cost of, 4763
  - wait-time, 928
- Teachers
  - shortage, 9058
- Thessalon site - North Shore Health Network (NSHN)
  - emergency care, department closure
    - temporary, 4474
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 56, 67–69, 425–428, 467, 472
- Thunder Bay Police Service
  - Indigenous persons, death investigations
    - accountability, 8570
- Toronto City Council
  - council administration and authority, 134
  - downsizing (2018), 128
- Transit infrastructure development
  - public-private partnerships (P3s)
    - use of, in other jurisdictions, 4475
- Transit infrastructure development - public-private partnerships (P3)
  - cost of, 4384
- Tribunals
  - digital tribunal system, development of, 7483
    - contract procurement, 7355–7356
    - contract procurement, cost of, 7355–7356, 7484
- Tributes
  - McCallion, Hazel, 2241
  - Mulroney, Brian (former Prime Minister of Canada), 7601–7602
  - Onley, Hon. David C. (former Lieutenant Governor), 2180
- Unhoused persons
  - government response, 2854
- Unhoused persons - support programs and services
  - supportive housing
    - barriers to, 2487
    - jurisdiction over, 129
- Union Pearson Express
  - service adjustment, reversal, 8476–8477
- Victim services
  - financial compensation
    - access to, 9991–9992
    - government funding, 8244–8245
- Waterloo, Region of
  - urban boundary expansion
    - conflict of interest, 5270
- Wildfire management
  - government funding, 9543–9544
- Wildfires
  - climate change, role in, 4917–4918
  - impact of
    - health and safety, 4918
  - Ontario and Quebec (June 2023)
    - and climate change, 4857
- Wildfires (Ontario and Quebec, June 2023)
  - and climate change, 4857
- Wilmot township
  - agricultural land expropriation, 8571–8572, 8639
    - environmental impact, 8640
- York Catholic District School Board
  - Pride flag
    - flying of, 4647
- York Region
  - urban boundary expansion
    - conflict of interest, 5271
    - Gormley lands
      - Premier's role in, 5936
    - land ownership, conflict of interest, 5937
    - Nobleton lands
      - land ownership, conflict of interest, 5992–5993
      - Premier's role in, 5993
    - Premier's role in, 5937
    - reversal of, 5271
Surma, Hon. K. (PC, Etobicoke Centre)
- Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act, 2023 (Bill 98)
  - second reading, 3703–3706
- Broadband infrastructure development
  - government strategy, 32, 3381
    - information sharing, 4064
  - northern and rural Ontario
    - government strategy, 7665–7666
- Broadband infrastructure development - funding
  - federal-provincial partnership, 1077
  - general remarks, 31, 1833, 2380, 3140–3141, 3783, 4765
- Broadband infrastructure development programs
  - Improving Connectivity for Ontario (ICON), 4064
- Budget 2024/2025
  - infrastructure, 8428–8429
- Carbon tax
  - cost of living, impact on, 6140–6141
- Cost of living
  - government strategy, 3783
- Curriculum
  - government strategy, 3703
- Education
  - reports and recommendations, 3704
- GO Transit - service expansion - by region
  - London, 5102
- GO Transit - stations
  - construction, 5094
    - station contribution fees, 5094, 5143, 6451–6452
  - Mimico redevelopment
    - Vandyk Properties, contract cancellation, 7553
  - redevelopment, 5096
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - housing policy, 8490
- Highways and roads - maintenance and repair
  - jurisdiction
    - Gardiner Expressway and Don Valley Parkway, 6794
- Hospitals - capital projects
  - allocation, 3314–3315
  - general remarks, 2167
- Hospitals - capital projects by region
  - Niagara, 2166
- Hospitals - capital projects by site
  - The Peter Gilgan Mississauga, 2903–2904
  - Queensway Health Centre, 2904
- Housing - construction
  - population growth projections, 8490
- Housing development - construction
  - transit-oriented communities, 5093
    - affordable housing units, 5101
    - in other jurisdictions, 5094–5095, 5101–5102
- Housing development - government funding
  - general remarks, 9674
- Improving Real Estate Management Act, 2024 (Bill 151)
  - first reading, 6191
  - second reading, 6372–6376, 6379–6381
  - third reading, 8490–8493, 8497–8498, 8506
- Infrastructure development
  - environment assessment process, 2443
  - general remarks, 5347–5348
  - government strategy, 6141, 6373–6374, 6453–6454, 6687, 8491
- Infrastructure development - funding
  - general remarks, 1712, 3783
  - government strategy, 1868
- Infrastructure development - Ontario Infrastructure Bank
  - Building Ontario Fund, 8490–8491
- Infrastructure development - public-private partnerships (P3)
  - development model
    - government strategy, 2625
  - general remarks, 1868–1869
- Infrastructure Ontario (IO)
  - broadband infrastructure
    - procurement processes
      - reverse auctions, 1833
  - real estate services
    - government strategy, 6366–6367
    - management of, 3790
- Integrity Commissioner of Ontario - investigations
  - Ontario Place redevelopment agreements, 9674
- Land use planning
  - "social purposes," 10274
- Land use planning - environmental assessments, class environment assessments
  - 30-day review period, ministerial waiver, 3782
- Long-term care - beds, development and redevelopment
  - general remarks, 3315
- Long-term care facilities - construction
  - general remarks, 4573–4574
- Members/ministers quoting
  - news media
    - Ontario Place redevelopment, 5406
  - reports
    - For the Love of Learning (Report of The Royal Commission on Learning), 3704
- Metrolinx
  - performance of, 6458
- New Deal for Toronto Act, 2023 (Bill 154)
  - second reading, 6786–6789, 6794–6795
- Ontario Infrastructure Bank
  - mandate, 6373
- Ontario Place
  - environmental assessment, 3741
  - lease of, redevelopment agreements, 3145, 3543, 3669, 3794, 4058
    - transparency and accountability, 4569, 4973
  - maintenance and repairs
    - history of, 6786
- Ontario Place - lease of, redevelopment agreements
  - general remarks, 5461
  - lease terms, 6872
  - parking garage, construction of, 5346, 5589, 6360
  - procurement process, 5406, 5521, 6771
    - Infrastructure Ontario, role of, 5346
    - timelines, 7883
  - Therme
    - financing sources, 8322
- Ontario Place - redevelopment, 5358, 5520, 6359, 6687
  - accountability and transparency, 7883
  - environmental assessment, 6359, 6911, 7064
  - environmental impact, 6360
    - government strategy, 6788
  - general remarks, 7830, 7883–7884, 8869
  - government authority, 6794
  - government strategy, 6786–6789, 6794
  - history of, 5357–5358
  - lake infill, 7882
  - legislation and policies
    - exemptions from, 6787
  - stakeholder consultations, 6787–6788, 6794
  - timelines, 7830–7831
  - transportation options, 6788
- Ontario Science Centre
  - maintenance
    - funding, 6380
  - maintenance and repair, 8498
  - relocation, 3543, 3740, 4922–4923
    - business plan, 8506
    - site land use, 3740
  - relocation, Ontario Place, 3669, 5776, 8869–8870
    - cost of, 6871, 6916
    - facility size, 6872
  - relocation process
    - timelines, 7883
  - satellite locations
    - Harbourfront Centre and Sherway Gardens, 9846
- Opposition day motions
  - Ontario Place
    - responded to, 5357–5358
- Private members' motions
  - Taxation
    - amendment
      - responded to, 6140–6141
- Public assets
  - centralization, entities
    - management model, 3782–3783
    - transferal to Ministry of Infrastructure, 2475–2476, 2501, 3781, 3790, 6374–6376
      - stakeholder consultation, 6375–6376
  - centralized management
    - ministerial responsibility
      - impact of, 2477
    - reports and recommendations, 2476–2477, 2501
  - management of, 2443
  - public institutions
    - realty authority, 8492, 8497–8498
  - real estate management
    - centralization, 8491–8493, 8497
- Public assets - surplus
  - management of, 1779, 8491–8492
- Question period
  - Affordable housing
    - responded to, 1779, 3800, 7839
  - Broadband infrastructure
    - responded to, 31–32, 1077, 1833, 2380, 3140–3141, 3381, 4064, 7665–7666
  - Child care
    - responded to, 7888–7889
  - Fiscal and economic policy
    - responded to, 2443
  - Government accountability
    - responded to, 3740–3741, 3863–3865, 3870, 5347–5348, 5406, 5776, 6687, 6771, 6872, 6911–6912, 6916, 7063–7064, 9674, 9796, 9846, 10269–10270
  - Government contract
    - responded to, 3794–3795, 4058, 4973
  - Government contracts
    - responded to, 6366–6367
  - Government's record
    - responded to, 6770
  - Health care funding
    - responded to, 3314–3315
  - Infrastructure funding
    - responded to, 1712, 1868–1869, 2166–2167, 2725, 2903–2904, 8648–8649
  - Land use planning
    - responded to, 10273–10274
  - Library services
    - responded to, 2448
  - Long-term care
    - responded to, 3315, 4573–4574
  - Municipal development
    - responded to, 6687–6688
  - Ontario Place
    - responded to, 3144–3145, 3543–3544, 3669, 4569, 5346, 5461, 5520–5521, 5589, 6359–6360, 7830–7832, 7882–7884, 8322–8323, 8869
  - Ontario Science Centre
    - responded to, 4922–4923, 6871–6872, 8869–8870
  - Public transit
    - responded to, 1868, 7553–7554
  - Telecommunications
    - responded to, 4765
  - Transit-oriented communities
    - responded to, 5706
  - Water and sewage infrastructure
    - responded to, 7202–7203, 10381
  - Water quality
    - responded to, 8428–8429
- Reducing Inefficiencies Act (Infrastructure Statute Law Amendments), 2023 (Bill 69)
  - first reading, 2381
  - second reading, 2474–2477, 2501–2502
  - third reading, 3781–3784, 3790
- School boards
  - accountability and transparency, 3705
- School facilities
  - excess properties, sell of
    - to coterminous boards, 3704
  - inventory, ministerial oversight, 3704
- School facilities - capital projects
  - general remarks, 3705
  - government strategy, 3704
  - new school construction
    - by region
      - Etobicoke, 3703
    - standardized designs, 3706
- Schools
  - joint-use schools, 3706
- Sewage and wastewater infrastructure
  - government funding, 8648–8649
  - and housing development
    - federal funding, 7203
    - government funding, 7202–7203
- Skilled trades
  - labour shortage
    - government strategy, 3703
- Skilled trades - employment
  - awareness of, in schools, 3705
- Toronto
  - regional development, 6770, 6911–6912
    - municipal-provincial partnership, 6687, 6771, 7832
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) expansion - Ontario Line
  - government strategy, 5095–5096
  - and housing development, 7839
- Transit funding
  - regional allocation, 6795
- Transit workers
  - collective bargaining rights, 5101
- Transit-oriented communities
  - development of
    - government strategy, 3800
    - by region
      - Toronto, 7839
  - development of, by region
    - Toronto, 5706
- Transportation for the Future Act, 2023 (Bill 131)
  - first reading, 5004
  - second reading, 5093–5096, 5101–5102, 5142
  - third reading, 6450–6455, 6458–6459
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
  - headquarters in London, Ontario, 8492

Last updated Thursday, November 21, 2024

House speaker index

Letter: S

Sabawy, S. (PC, Mississauga—Erin Mills)

Sandhu, A. (PC, Brampton West)

Sarkaria, Hon. P.S. (PC, Brampton South)

Sarrazin, S. (PC, Glengarry—Prescott—Russell)

Sattler, P. (NDP, London West)

Saunderson, B. (PC, Simcoe—Grey)

Schreiner, M. (GRN, Guelph)

Scott, L. (PC, Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock)

Shamji, A. (LIB, Don Valley East)

Shaw, S. (NDP, Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas)

Skelly, D. (PC, Flamborough—Glanbrook)

Smith, Dave (PC, Peterborough—Kawartha)

Smith, David (PC, Scarborough Centre)

Smith, Hon. G. (PC, Parry Sound—Muskoka)

Smith, L. (PC, Thornhill)

Smith, T. (PC, Bay of Quinte)

Stevens, J. (NDP, St. Catharines)

Stiles, M. (NDP, Davenport)

Surma, Hon. K. (PC, Etobicoke Centre)