Intervenant, lettre f, Index du Journal des débats de la Chambre, législature 39, session 1

Index des intervenants à la Chambre

Letter: F

Flynn, K.D. (LIB, Oakville)
- Access to Adoption Records Act (Vital Statistics Statute Law Amendment), 2008 (Bill 12)
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 1749–1751
- Adoption disclosure, 1749–1751
- Agreement on Internal Trade, 7369–7371
- Apotex Inc.
  - donations of medicine, 6647
  - shipment of AIDS drugs to Rwanda, 3379–3380
- Apprentices, 8125
- Apprenticeship training programs, 8125
- Arts and culture
  - government funding, 4578
- Automobile industry, 4268–4269
  - auto sector investment fund, 1120–1121
  - Ford Motor Company of Canada
    - Essex engine plant, 683, 1157
    - Oakville assembly plant, 1157
- Awards
  - Crime Stoppers awards, 5040
- Books
  - Labours of Love: Canadians Talk About Adoption (Deborah Brennan), 4390
- Budget
  - pre-budget consultations, 4268–4269
- Budget deficit, 4268
- Budget surplus
  - transfer of funds to municipalities for infrastructure projects, 1699, 1708
- Bullying
  - lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgendered, intersexed, queer (LGBTTIQ) teens, 5556
    - mandatory reporting of incidents, 5554
- C. difficile outbreaks
  - public inquiries, 2125, 2466
- Cancer
  - skin cancer, 2546
- Cancer drugs
  - Revlimid, 9082
- Certified Management Accountants of Ontario, 1931
- Children's aid societies (CASs)
  - government funding, 8526
- Climatic changes
  - government response, 2684
- Colleges of applied arts and technology (CAATs)
  - Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
    - digital media and communications, 4388
    - Sheridan IC3D video game, 9700
- Committee process
  - Bill 175, 7375–7376
- Committees
  - Select Committee on Municipal Governance, 5300
- Consumer protection, 2361
  - energy contracts, 9488
  - used vehicles identified as lemons, 6246, 6253
- Consumer reporting agencies
  - duty to inform about missing or stolen information, 2361
- Cosmetic Pesticides Ban Act, 2008 (Bill 64)
  - second reading, 1836–1840, 1847, 1959–1960, 2010–2011, 2018
  - third reading, 2630–2632
- Countering Distracted Driving and Promoting Green Transportation Act, 2009 (Bill 118)
  - general discussion, 3835–3836
- Criminal statistics, 3665
- Debates re answers to oral questions
  - Driver examination centres
    - participation, 9149–9150
- Demand-side management (electric utilities), 3339
- Developmental services institutions (DSI), 5733
- Digital media, 4388
- Driver distractions, 2669
- Driver licences
  - graduated licences, 2669
- Drivers
  - impaired drivers, 547
  - new drivers, 2669
- Driving
  - ban on use of cellular telephones and electronic entertainment devices while driving, 3835–3836, 7690–7691, 8146
- Economic conditions, 6057
- Economic decline
  - government response, 5921–5922
- Economic growth, 409
  - five-point economic plan, 683, 4269
- Education Amendment Act (Keeping Our Kids Safe at School), 2009 (Bill 157)
  - second reading, 5548, 5553–5556
- Education funding, 200
- Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO)
  - Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT), 2578–2579
- Electricity supply, 3339
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Temporary Help Agencies), 2009 (Bill 139)
  - second reading, 4884–4888
- Energy
  - renewable energy, 5343–5344
- Energy Consumer Protection Act, 2010 (Bill 235)
  - second reading, 9488
- Environmental Defence
  - blue flag program, 728
- Environmental protection, 2704
- Federal government
  - transfer payments
    - equalization program, 4269
- Firearms, 3664–3665
- Firefighter memorials
  - Queen's Park
    - donation by Oakville Professional Fire Fighters Association to firefighter memorial restoration, 3644
- Full Day Early Learning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 242)
  - second reading, 9437–9443, 9532, 9606
- Fundraising
  - Mully Children's Family Charitable Foundation, 495
- Government orders
  - Committee sittings
    - time allocation motion
      - responded to, 4268–4269
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010), 9585
    - education funding, 1120
    - environmental protection, 7162
    - health and safety inspectors, 1944
  - NDP (1990-1995), 4683
    - environmental protection, 932
    - smoking, 547
  - PC (1995-2003)
    - environmental protection, 932, 3352
    - long-term care, 1724
- Government service transfer to municipal jurisdiction, 4469
- Government services
  - reduction, 5576
- Green economy, 5364
- Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 (Bill 150)
  - second reading, 5343–5344, 5364
- Green Party, 728
- Greenbelt plan, 7338
  - expansion, 338
    - Oakville, 338
- Halton Food for Thought program, 1503
- Handgun manufacturers and importers
  - liability for harm caused by unlawful use of handguns, 2136, 2533–2535
- Handgun Manufacturers' and Importers' Liability Act, 2008 (Bill 82)
  - first reading, 2136
- Handguns, 2534, 2540
  - ban, 2533
- Health care, 3954
- Health promotion, 2546
- Highway Traffic Amendment Act (Use of Portable Equipment by Novice Drivers), 2006 (Bill 135), 2669
- H1N1 influenza A (swine flu)
  - cases, 6333
  - emergency preparedness, 6333
- Home energy rating report, 3338–3339
- Hospitals
  - infection rates, 2125
- Housing
  - affordable
    - Oakville, 4469
- Immunization
  - H1N1 influenza A (swine flu), 8504
- Infectious diseases
  - prevention/control of infectious diseases, 2125
- Investing in Ontario Act, 2008 (Bill 35)
  - third reading, 1698–1699, 1708
- Kindergarten
  - full-day, 9437–9443, 9532, 9606
- Labour mobility, 8247, 8297
  - skilled trades, 7369–7371, 7373, 8250–8251
    - regulation, 7371, 7374–7375
- Lake Simcoe
  - protection, 2683–2686
    - government funding, 2754
    - water quality trading and offsetting program, 2683–2684
- Lake Simcoe Protection Act, 2008 (Bill 99)
  - second reading, 2683–2686, 2704, 2754
  - third reading, 4340–4343, 4354
- Legislative procedure
  - private members' public business, 2546, 3954
- Long-term-care facilities, 1724
- Members'/ministers' appreciation
  - Jones, Sylvia (Dufferin–Caledon), 4682–4683
- Members'/ministers' constituencies/constituency events
  - Oakville
    - beaches, 728
    - riding of Oakville, 639
- Members'/ministers' constituents
  - obituaries, 5624–5625
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 728, 3897, 5300
- Members'/ministers' privileges
  - wearing of pins/ribbons/buttons, 1241
- Members/ministers quoting committee submissions
  - Canadian Cancer Society, 7173
  - Environmental Defence, 7163
  - Ontario BioAuto Council, 7163
  - Pollution Probe, 7163
- Members/ministers quoting newspaper articles
  - Oakville Beaver, 8504
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Adair, Bill (executive director, Canadian Paraplegic Association), 2535
  - Anastas, Paul (director, Yale University Centre for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering), 7164
  - Canadian Cancer Society, 2546
  - Canadian Council on Learning, 9439
  - Canadian Environmental Law Association, 6308
  - Chalmers, Doug (director, Aluma Systems), 3897–3898
  - Cunningham, Ian (president, Council of Ontario Construction Associations), 3898
  - Haugh, Liz (president-elect, Ontario Public Health Association), 6308
  - Insurance Bureau of Canada, 6247
  - Kidder, Annie (executive director, People for Education), 9439
  - Miller, Katrina (campaign director, Toronto Environmental Alliance), 6308
  - Russo, Louise (shooting victim), 2534
  - Schabas, Richard (medical officer of health, Hastings and Prince Edward counties), 2466
  - Scheer, Hermann (general chairman, World Council for Renewable Energy), 5344
  - Serafini, Ersilia (executive director, Clean Air Foundation), 5364
  - Smith, Derek (executive director, London and District Construction Association), 3898
  - Smith, Rick (executive director, Environmental Defence), 5344, 6308
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - Duncan, Dwight (Windsor–Tecumseh)
      - as Minister of Finance/Chair of Management Board of Cabinet, 4268
- Members' statements
  - Adoption, 4390
  - Apotex Inc., 3379–3380
  - Arnold, Jim, 9411
  - Burkholder, Jack, 5624–5625
  - Certified Management Accountants of Ontario, 1931
  - Charities, 6647
  - Crime Stoppers awards, 5040
  - Digital media, 9700
  - Firefighters' memorial, 3644
  - Flu immunization, 8504
  - Fundraising, 495
  - Generating station, 7835
  - Hockey franchise, 3968
  - Job creation, 9585
  - Law Week, 1048
  - Leader of the Opposition, 2039
  - Local Democracy Week, 9370
  - Long-term care, 1724
  - Manufacturing jobs, 1157
  - Oakville Provincial Economic Council, 5515–5516
  - Ontario economy, 409, 683
  - Power plant, 7582
  - Riding of Oakville, 639
  - Road safety, 3835–3836
  - School nutrition program, 1503
  - Smith, Merv, 9082
  - Student literacy, 2578–2579
  - Swain, Diana, 9127
  - Tim Hortons, 7391–7392
  - Transit funding, 759
  - Workplace safety, 3326
- Mental health care
  - access to services, 4496
  - reform, 4496
- Ministry of Culture
  - entertainment and creative cluster partnerships fund, 4578
- Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
  - Health Care Connect, 4755
- Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
  - Ontario youth apprenticeship program (OYAP), 8125
  - second career strategy, 683
- Motor vehicle dealers
  - requirement to disclose whether a vehicle has been determined a lemon, 5788
- Motor Vehicle Dealers Amendment Act (Disclosure of Lemons), 2009 (Bill 164)
  - first reading, 5788
- Municipal infrastructure
  - government funding, 4268
- Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), 3326
- National Hockey League (NHL)
  - NHL franchise for Hamilton, 3968
- National Pollutant Release Inventory, 7163
- Oakville Provincial Economic Council, 5515–5516, 5575–5576
- Ontario budget speech (26 March 2009)
  - responded to, 5921–5922
- Ontario child benefit (OCB), 4268
- Ontario College of Trades, 7852, 8124, 8201
  - board of governors
    - composition of board
      - ban on donors of Working Families Coalition, 8125
- Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 (Bill 183)
  - general discussion, 8124
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 7852–7853
  - third reading, 8200–8201
- Ontario Labour Mobility Act, 2009 (Bill 175)
  - second reading, 7369–7373, 7375–7376, 8247, 8250–8251, 8297–8298
- Ontario Power Authority (OPA)
  - construction of gas-fired generating stations in Oakville and King Township, 7582, 7835
- Opposition day motions, responded to
  - Infectious disease control, 2466
  - Ontario economy, 1119–1121
  - Violent crime, 3664–3665
  - Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, 1943–1944
- Oral questions, presented
  - Affordable housing, 4469
  - Arts and cultural funding, 4578
  - Cultural funding, 6042
  - Digital media, 4388
  - Education funding, 200
  - Greenbelt, 338, 7338
  - Health care, 4755
  - Infectious disease control, 2125, 6333
  - Municipal government, 3437
  - Ontario economy, 5575–5576
  - Public transit, 4822
  - Road safety, 1573, 2293, 7690–7691, 8146
  - Services for the developmentally disabled, 5733
  - Small business, 3273
  - Workplace safety, 1817–1818
  - Young drivers, 2668–2669
- Persons with disabilities
  - community-based services, 5733
- Pesticides/herbicides
  - ban on use and sale of cosmetic pesticides, 1836–1838, 1847, 1959–1960, 2010–2011, 2018, 2630
    - exemptions, 1839–1840, 2631
      - forest industry, 1837
  - health risks, 2631
- Petitions
  - Air quality, 7490, 7528–7529, 7584, 7839–7840
  - Cemeteries, 9376
  - Federal electoral representation, 203
  - Hospital funding, 1428
  - Motorcycle safety, 5288
  - Multiple myeloma, 7237
  - Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 2397–2398, 2528
  - Power plant, 9586
  - Professional hockey franchise, 4070, 5132, 5288–5289, 5329–5330, 5519, 5669–5670, 6237–6238, 6607–6608, 6651–6652, 6699
- Post-secondary education
  - Reaching Higher: The McGuinty Government Plan for Postsecondary Education, 4268
- Poverty reduction strategy
  - student nutrition program, 1503
- Private members' public business
  - Children's aid societies
    - responded to, 8526–8527
  - Consumer Reporting Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 75)
    - second reading, 2361
  - Corporate reporting requirements
    - responded to, 6056–6057
  - Handgun Manufacturers' and Importers' Liability Act, 2008 (Bill 82)
    - second reading, 2533–2535, 2540
  - Home Energy Rating Act, 2008 (Bill 101)
    - second reading, 3338–3339
  - Mental health and addiction services
    - responded to, 4496–4497
  - Motor Vehicle Dealers Amendment Act (Disclosure of Lemons), 2009 (Bill 164)
    - second reading, 6246–6248, 6253
  - Municipalities
    - responded to, 5300
  - Ontario College of Trades
    - responded to, 8124–8125
  - Skin Cancer Prevention Act, 2008 (Bill 83)
    - second reading, 2546
  - Smoke-Free Ontario Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 42)
    - second reading, 547–548
  - Social Assistance Statute Law Amendment Act (Registered Disability Savings Plans), 2008 (Bill 94)
    - second reading, 4682–4683
  - Taxation Amendment Act (Equipment Purchased for Persons with Disabilities), 2008 (Bill 109)
    - second reading, 3954
  - Tire disposal
    - responded to, 932
  - Transparency in Public Matters Act, 2009 (Bill 159)
    - second reading, 6259–6260
  - Waste Reporting Act, 2008 (Bill 105)
    - second reading, 3352–3353
  - Water quality
    - responded to, 727–728
- Public bodies
  - open meetings, 6259–6260
- Public education campaigns
  - Law Week, 1048
  - Local Democracy Week, 9370
  - Roadcheck 2008, 2293
- Reports
  - Compulsory Certification Project (T.E. Armstrong), 8200–8201
  - With Our Best Future in Mind: Report to the Premier by the Special Advisor on Early Learning (Charles Pascal), 9439
- Road safety, 3835
  - regulation and enforcement, 1573
- Royal Botanical Gardens
  - government funding, 6042
- Securities industry
  - single securities regulator, 6057
- Small business
  - regulation, 3273
- Smoking, 547
  - second-hand smoke, 547
- Smoking cessation, 547
- Speeches
  - Levitt, Arthur (former chair, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission), 6057
- Strikes
  - DriveTest driving examiners, 9149–9150
- Tax reduction, 409
- Temporary help agency employees
  - protection, 4884, 4886–4888
  - removing barriers to permanent employment, 4888
- Tim Hortons
  - relocation of head office to Oakville, 7391–7392
- Time allocation motions
  - Access to Adoption Records Act (Vital Statistics Statute Law Amendment), 2008 (Bill 12)
    - responded to, 1749–1751
  - Committee sittings
    - responded to, 4268–4269
  - Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 (Bill 183)
    - responded to, 7852–7853
  - Workplace Safety and Insurance Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 119)
    - responded to, 3897–3898
- Tire tax, 932
- Tires
  - environmental stewardship, 932
- Tourism industry
  - government funding, 2039
- Toxic substances
  - reduction plan, 6305–6308, 7163–7164
    - reduction targets, 6327
    - regulation and enforcement, 6310
- Toxics Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 167)
  - second reading, 6305–6310, 6326–6327
  - third reading, 7162–7165, 7173, 7180
    - amendments, 7165
- Toxics Reduction Scientific Expert Panel, 6307, 7163
- Transit systems
  - government funding, 759, 4822
- Tributes
  - Arnold, Jim (recipient, Canada's Favourite Crossing Guard award), 9411
  - Smith, Merv (constituent, Oakville), 9082
  - Swain, Diana (journalist and recipient, Gemini Award for best news anchor), 9127
- United States
  - Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, 6247
- Victims of gun violence, 2534
- Voters/voting
  - voter turnout, 3437
- Waste management/programs
  - recycling, 547, 3352
  - tire recycling program, 932
- Websites
  - www.preventionpractices.com, 3326
- Workers
  - skilled worker shortage, 8124–8125
- Workers' compensation benefits
  - coverage for construction workers, 3897
- Workplace injuries
  - reduction, 1818
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 119)
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 3897–3898
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
  - experience rating system, 1818
    - review, 1943–1944
- York University Labour Disputes Resolution Act, 2009 (Bill 145)
  - second reading, 4729, 4764
Fonseca, Hon. P. (LIB, Mississauga East–Cooksville)
- Agricultural labourers
  - occupational health and safety, 5507–5508, 5828
- Association of Canadian Search, Employment and Staffing Services (ACSESS), 6215
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, R.S.C. 1985, c.B-3, 5572, 5663–5664, 5880, 6231
- Budget, 5881
- Capital works projects
  - ReNew Ontario, 4058
- Caregiver employment agencies
  - ban on placement fees, 8150–8151
- Citizens Panel on Increasing Organ Donations, 5130, 5217
- Collective agreements, 3234–3235, 4106–4107
- Colleges Collective Bargaining Act, 2008 (Bill 90)
  - general discussion, 4945
- Colleges of applied arts and technology (CAATs)
  - collective bargaining, 4945
- Construction industry
  - underground economy, 3696, 3698, 3700
- Construction workers
  - occupational health and safety, 3696–3698, 3830, 3870–3871, 4052–4053, 4056, 4058, 4085–4087, 4089, 4105
- Coroner inquests
  - Dupont, Lori (murder victim)
    - jury recommendations, 3876, 3964
- Court cases/actions
  - agricultural labourers' right to bargain collectively, 5827–5828
- Debates re answers to oral questions
  - Small business
    - participation, 4089
- Economic growth
  - five-point economic plan, 2730, 3090, 3235
- Employment agencies
  - regulation, 4106
- Employment insurance benefits
  - Ontario workers, 3233–3235
- Employment Protection for Foreign Nationals Act (Live-In Caregivers and Others), 2009 (Bill 210)
  - first reading, 8073–8074
  - ministerial statement, 8074
  - second reading, 8157–8159
  - third reading, 9193–9194
- Employment-related benefits
  - organ donor leave, 5130, 5217–5218, 7002–7004
  - severance/termination payments
    - Catalina Precision Products, 8649–8650
    - Progressive Moulded Products, 8214
  - wage earner protection program (WEPP), 4947, 5514, 5572, 5614, 5663, 5880
- Employment standards, 6481, 6597–6601, 6685
  - allegations of abuse
    - Dhalla, Ruby case, 6592–6593, 6596, 6636–6642, 6644, 6747–6748, 6801
  - parental leave, 6268, 6595, 6684
  - pregnancy leave, 6268, 6595, 6684
  - reform, 6217
- Employment Standards Act, S.O. 2000, c.41, 6268–6269
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Hours of Work and Other Matters), S.O. 2004, c.21, 6551
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Organ Donor Leave), 2009 (Bill 154)
  - first reading, 5130
  - ministerial statement, 5130
  - second reading, 5217–5218
  - third reading, 7002–7004
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Temporary Help Agencies), 2009 (Bill 139)
  - general discussion, 5573, 5660
  - first reading, 4584
  - ministerial statement, 4585
  - second reading, 4880–4882
  - third reading, 6213–6218, 6220, 6481
    - public consultation, 6213
- Famines
  - Ukraine (1932-1933), 5308
- Farmers
  - occupational health and safety, 5318
- Federal members'/ministers' remarks
  - Conservative (2006-2009)
    - Kenney, Jason (Calgary Southeast)
      - as Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, 6637
- Festivals, 1610
- Firefighters, 6941
  - occupational health and safety, 5386
  - presumptive legislation, 6941, 7386, 8498
  - volunteer firefighters
    - inclusive in presumptive legislation, 8148
  - workers' compensation claims, 5386
    - Morand, Gene case, 4524–4525
- Foreign caregivers
  - abuse, 5827
  - protection, 6636–6638, 6640, 8157–8159
  - rights, 6640–6641
- Foreign workers
  - protection, 5510–5511, 5826
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010), 3399–3401
    - employment standards prosecutions, 6685
- Health care workers
  - occupational health and safety, 3923, 7148
- Hours of work
  - elimination of 60-hour workweek, 6551
- Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, S.C. 2001, c.27
  - section 124, 6637
- Immunization
  - H1N1 influenza A (swine flu)
    - employees permitted to take time off work for immunization, 8347–8348
- Impact Cleaning Services Ltd.
  - violation of employment standards, 6438
- Labour relations, 3090, 3234, 4026, 4106, 4212, 4215–4216, 4945, 5947–5948
- Layoffs, 5614
- Live-In Caregiver Program (federal program), 5510–5511, 5573, 5660, 6270–6271, 6592, 6596, 6598, 6600–6601, 6636, 6638, 6641–6644, 6747
- Medical transplants
  - organ and tissue donation, 5130, 5217–5218, 7004
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 5218, 5308, 6213
- Members'/ministers' privileges
  - wearing of pins/ribbons/buttons, 6342
- Members/ministers quoting letters
  - Interior Systems Contractors Association of Ontario, 4052–4053
  - Johnson, Ron (deputy director, Interior Systems Contractors Association of Ontario), 4086–4087
  - O'Brien, Jim (executive director, Kidney Foundation of Canada), 7003
- Members/ministers quoting newspaper articles
  - Ottawa Citizen, 687
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Andrew, Judith (Ontario vice-president, Canadian Federation of Independent Business), 3373
  - Canadian Federation of Independent Business, 3400
  - Chalmers, Doug (director, Aluma Systems), 3571, 3648, 3870, 4053
  - Council of Ontario Construction Associations, 4104
  - Cunningham, Ian (president, Council of Ontario Construction Associations), 3870
  - Doug Chalmers Construction Ltd., 3830
  - Johnson, Ron (deputy director, Interior Systems Contractors Association of Ontario), 3920
  - Ladd, Deena (Workers' Action Centre), 6481
  - Market, Frank (CFO, Trillium Gift of Life Network), 7003
  - Merton, Thomas (writer), 7004
  - Nicholls, Bill (president, Provincial Building and Construction Trades Council of Ontario), 3648
  - Thurston, Clive (president, Ontario General Contractors Association), 6687
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - PC (1995-2003)
    - Bailey, Robert (Sarnia–Lambton), 6641
    - Runciman, Robert W. (Leeds–Grenville)
      - as Solicitor General and Minister of Correctional Services, 6639, 6641
- Minimum wage
  - increase, 4904
- Ministerial statements, presented
  - Musculoskeletal disorders, 5088–5089
  - Organ donation, 5130
  - Protection for workers, 8074–8075
  - Take Our Kids to Work Day, 3838–3839
  - Temporary employment agencies, 4585
  - Tourism Week, 2303–2304
  - Workers' compensation, 3648
  - Workplace safety, 6086
- Ministry of Labour
  - conduct of inspectors, 4211, 4217
  - health care unit, 3923
  - Safe at Work Ontario, 3439, 3831, 3923, 5089, 7089
- Ministry of Tourism
  - Celebrate Ontario, 1610
  - fun pass, 2304, 2564
- Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), 5089, 5577–5578
- National/independence/memorial days
  - Holodomor Memorial Day, 5308
- National Steel Car
  - collective bargaining, 5947
- Occupational health and safety, 2730, 3090, 3373, 3439, 3571, 3831, 3838, 3920, 4211, 4217, 4246, 5123, 6342, 6687–6689, 7089, 7644, 9320
  - regulation and enforcement, 9446–9447, 9452, 9498
- Occupational Health and Safety Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.O.1, 6342, 7728
  - section 50, 3183
- Occupational Health and Safety Amendment Act (Violence and Harassment in the Workplace), 2009 (Bill 168)
  - general discussion, 6140
  - first reading, 6086
  - ministerial statement, 6086
  - second reading, 7800–7802
  - third reading, 9185–9186
- Occupational health and safety inspection, 3831
- Occupational health and safety inspectors, 2730, 3183
- Ontario disability support program (ODSP) benefits
  - early release of cheques for holiday season, 9039–9040
- Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB)
  - complaints, 3183
- Opposition day motions, responded to
  - Workplace insurance, 4085–4087
- Oral questions, responded to
  - Agency spending, 7722–7723, 7764–7765, 7767, 9034
  - Agricultural labour policy, 5827–5828
  - Collective agreements, 3234–3235
  - Collective bargaining, 5507–5508
  - Community colleges collective bargaining, 4945
  - Driver examination centres, 8261, 8410, 8412, 8919, 8996, 9221
  - Education labour dispute, 4026
  - Employment practices, 4106
  - Employment standards, 6268–6269, 6592–6593, 6595––6597, 6597–6601, 6685, 8824
  - Federal-provincial fiscal policies, 3233–3234
  - Firefighters, 4524–4525, 5386, 6883, 6941, 8148
  - Flu immunization, 8347–8348
  - Government services, 4416
  - Hours of work, 6551
  - Injured workers, 7146, 9039–9040
  - Labour dispute, 9266–9267, 9368, 9582
  - Manufacturing jobs, 4947
  - Minimum wage, 4904
  - Occupational health and safety, 3183, 5318, 5577–5578, 7728, 9578
  - Ontario budget, 5880–5881
  - Pay equity, 4246
  - Protection for miners, 5123
  - Protection for workers, 2737, 4525, 5510–5511, 5573, 5660, 5663–5664, 5826–5827, 6231–6232, 6270–6271, 6438, 6636–6645, 6684, 6747–6748, 6801–6802
  - Royal Ontario Museum, 613
  - Severance payments, 5514, 5572, 5614
  - Small business, 2730, 3090, 3531, 3571, 3830, 3870–3871, 3920, 4052–4053, 4056, 4058, 4061, 5313
  - Snowmobiling, 1209
  - Steel industry, 5947–5948
  - Taxation, 7725–7726
  - Temporary employment agencies, 5466–5467
  - Termination and severance payments, 8214, 8649–8650
  - Tourism, 197–198, 421–422, 1610, 1973, 2032–2033, 2489–2490, 2520, 2522–2523, 2564, 2638–2639
  - Tourism study, 686–687
  - Union certification, 4106–4107
  - University labour disputes, 4212, 4215–4216
  - Volunteer firefighters, 7386, 8498
  - Workers' compensation, 3373, 5467
  - Workplace insurance, 4104–4105, 4147–4148, 4247
  - Workplace safety, 2835, 3439, 3831, 3876, 3923, 3964, 4211, 4217, 6140, 6687–6689, 7148, 7433, 7644, 8258, 9320, 9446–9447, 9452, 9498
  - Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, 4059–4060, 7723–7724, 9723
- Private members' public business
  - Holodomor Memorial Day Act, 2009 (Bill 147)
    - second reading, 5308
  - Workplace Safety and Insurance Board
    - responded to, 4502–4503
- Public education campaigns
  - Injured Workers' Day, 7089, 7146
  - International Repetitive Strain Injury Awareness Day, 5088
  - National Day of Mourning, 6342
  - National Tourism Week, 2303–2304
  - Take Our Kids to Work Day, 3838
- Repetitive strain injuries, 5088, 9578
- Reports
  - Mapping Ontario's Tourism Future, 2303
- Retail sales tax
  - elimination of retail sales tax from accommodations and attractions, 2032–2033, 2489
- Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)
  - Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, 613
- Safety-engineered needles, 7148
- Snowmobiling, 1209
  - government funding, 1209
- Speaker
  - election (28 November 2007)
    - congratulatory remarks, 197
- Strikes
  - DriveTest driving examiners, 8261, 8410–8411, 8918–8919, 8996, 9221
  - Vale Inco employees, 9266–9267
  - Woodbine Racetrack, 9582
- Temporary help agencies
  - fees charged to employees, 4881
  - providing information to employees, 4585, 4882
- Temporary help agency employees, 5660
  - entitlement to public holiday pay, 4585
  - entitlement to termination and severance payments, 4585, 6216
  - protection, 4525, 4585, 4880–4882, 5313, 6213–6214
  - removing barriers to permanent employment, 4585, 4881, 6215
  - rights
    - work refusal, 6216
- Tourism industry, 197–198, 421–422, 686–687, 1973, 2303–2304, 2489–2490, 2564, 2638–2639
  - decline in American travellers, 2564
  - government funding, 2489–2490, 2520, 2522, 2564
  - marketing campaign
    - There's No Place Like This, 1973, 2304, 2489, 2520, 2522–2523, 2564, 2638
  - Ontario tourism competitiveness study and action plan, 421–422, 686–687, 2303
- Trillium Gift of Life Network
  - program for reimbursing expenses of living organ donors (PRELOD), 5130, 5217–5218
- Universities/colleges
  - collective bargaining, 4215–4216
  - York University
    - collective bargaining, 4026, 4212
    - strike, 4215, 4705
- U.S. Steel Canada
  - employment standards claims
    - Lake Erie Works, 8824
  - layoffs, 9368
- Wasaga Beach, 1973
- Workers
  - contract workers
    - protection, 2737
  - injured workers, 3696–3698, 7089, 7146
  - protection, 6688–6689
  - temporary workers, 4880–4882
- Workers' compensation benefits
  - coverage for construction workers, 3531, 3571, 3648, 3696–3698, 3700, 3870–3871, 4056, 4058, 4061, 4086, 4104–4105, 4147, 4416
  - coverage for executive officers of construction companies, 4148, 4247
  - coverage for independent construction operators, 4089
  - injured workers, 7089, 7146
- Workers' rights
  - foreign workers, 6270
- Workplace accidents/fatalities, 6342
  - cost to business, 3831
- Workplace harassment/violence, 3964, 6086, 6140, 7433, 9185–9186
  - public consultation, 3964, 7801–7802
- Workplace injuries, 2730, 4211, 7089
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 119)
  - general discussion, 3830, 3870–3871, 4058, 4147–4148
    - impact cost analysis, 4104
    - public consultation, 4056, 4089
  - first reading, 3647
  - ministerial statement, 3648
  - second reading, 3696–3698, 3700
  - third reading, 4233–4235
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Amendment Act (Presumptions for Firefighters), S.O. 2007, c.3, 6883
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), 3696–3698, 4060, 4085–4087, 9723
  - expenditures, 7723–7724
    - accountability, 9034
    - Hutcheon, Jill (president and CEO), 4416
    - Mahoney, Steve (chair), 7722–7723, 7764–7765, 7767–7768
  - experience rating system, 2835, 6687, 8258
  - financial accountability, 4503
  - marketing campaign (You Can Never Be Too Safe), 3439
  - named insured system, 4147
  - unfunded liability, 4059–4060, 7725–7726
- York University Labour Disputes Resolution Act, 2009 (Bill 145)
  - first reading, 4687
  - second reading, 4704–4705
    - public consultation, 4704–4705
- Youth/student workers
  - occupational health and safety, 3838–3839