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

Index des intervenants à la Chambre

Letter: G

Gélinas, F. (NDP, Nickel Belt)
- Aboriginal communities
  - health care, 1309
- Aboriginal health access centres (AHACs), 365, 379–380, 1307–1308, 3938, 4000
  - government funding, 1308
- Aboriginal land claims, 7088
- Aboriginal peoples, 251
  - ceremonial uses of tobacco, 1904
  - health, 1487
  - health promotion, 1488
  - smoking, 1200
  - traditions, 1487
- Aboriginal youth
  - smoking, 1487
- Advertising
  - ban on junk food advertising, 2373
- Alcoholic beverages
  - drinking, 5320
- Algoma University Act, 2008 (Bill 80)
  - second reading, 2115–2118
- Anniversaries
  - John Rodriguez's 1st anniversary as mayor of the city of Greater Sudbury, 183
- Appointments
  - King, Arlene (chief medical officer of health of Ontario), 6235–6236
- Appreciation
  - Martel, Shelley (former member, Nickel Belt), Elie Martel (former member, Sudbury East), 251
  - nurses, 1930
  - Sullivan, Barbara (chair, Health Professions Regulatory Advisory Council), 6696, 6907
- Apprenticeship training, 7137
- Apprenticeship training programs, 7137
  - tuition fees, 7137
  - wage requirements for apprentices, 7137
- Autism, 5837
- Autism services, 5837
  - intensive behavioural intervention (IBI)
    - Ceretti, Delanie case, 5837
    - government funding, 7383
- Automobile industry
  - General Motors of Canada Ltd.
    - layoffs, 2394
- Automobile insurance benefits
  - reduction of maximum benefit for non-catastrophic injuries to $25,000, 6843–6844
- Blister packs, 2305
- Bone marrow
  - transplantation, 279
- Books
  - The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Devra Davis), 5651
- Breastfeeding, 2958, 3048, 3056, 4418–4419
- Budget Measures Act, 2009 (Bill 162)
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 6153–6156
  - third reading, 6962–6963
- Budget surplus
  - transfer of funds to municipalities for infrastructure projects, 816
- C. difficile
  - infection control in hospitals, 2028
- C. difficile outbreaks, 2237, 2454–2456, 2568
  - Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital, 8425–8426
  - public inquiries, 2454, 2456
  - Quebec, 2455
- Canadian Cancer Society
  - Driven to Quit challenge, 1200
- Cancer
  - skin cancer, 3141
- Cancer screening programs
  - breast cancer screening program
    - inclusion of women aged 40 to 49, 7444–7445
- Cancer treatment
  - wait times, 6388
- Caregiver employment agencies
  - ban on placement fees, 6062
- Celiac disease
  - screening tests, 6946
- Centre Roberts/Smart Centre
  - government funding, 6752–6753
- Chemotherapy
  - wait times, 6388
- Child and Family Centre (Sudbury)
  - government funding, 6962
- Child care
  - government funding, 6963
- Child Pornography Reporting Act, 2008 (Bill 37)
  - third reading, 4506
- Child poverty, 254
- Child protection, 4506
- Child sexual abuse, 4506
- Children in care
  - death
    - aboriginal communities, 4999
    - northern Ontario, 4999
- Children's mental health care
  - government funding, 6962
- Chronic disease management, 3937
- College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO), 3997–3998, 4848–4849, 5900
- College of Trades Appointment Council, 7138
- Colleges Collective Bargaining Act, 2008 (Bill 90)
  - third reading, 2934–2938
- Colleges of applied arts and technology (CAATs)
  - Algoma University College, 2115
    - programs for aboriginal students, 2117
  - Cambrian College, 2934
  - collective bargaining
    - inclusion of part-time and sessional employees, 2935–2938
  - Collège Boréal, 2117
    - trade programs, 7139
  - government funding, 2934–2935
- Committees
  - Standing Committee on Public Accounts
    - authority to invite former government employees to appear when considering Auditor General's report, 8675
- Community health centres (CHCs), 253, 365, 379–380, 878, 2583, 2719–2720, 3938, 4864
  - Corner Clinic, 253
  - Haliburton–Kawartha Lakes–Brock, 4864
  - increase, 3999
- Construction workers
  - occupational health and safety, 3897
- Consumer reporting agencies
  - duty to inform about missing or stolen information, 2362
- Consumer Reporting Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 75)
  - second reading
    - public consultation, 2362
- Contaminated soil, 237–238, 3879
- Coroner inquests
  - Goodwin, James and Ricardo Wesley (died in jail fire), 5384–5385
- Corporate tax exemptions
  - Ontario tax exemption for commercialization (OTEC)
    - eligibility for refund, 3106, 3116
- Corporations
  - executive compensation caps for corporations receiving grant or loan from Ontario, 7051
- Correctional centres
  - Sudbury jail, 5004
- Cosmetic Pesticides Ban Act, 2008 (Bill 64)
  - second reading, 1858
- Cosmetic surgery, 4630
  - increase, 5901
  - regulation, 4847–4849, 5901
- Credit freeze, 2362
- Credit unions, 3326–3327, 8034
- Dairy products industry
  - safety, 4581
- Day Nurseries Amendment Act (Sun Protection), 2009 (Bill 229)
  - first reading, 9004
- Debates re answers to oral questions
  - Social assistance
    - requested, 2467–2468
    - participation, 2467–2468
- Demonstrations
  - Niagara-region groups protesting health-care service cuts (29 April 2009), 6403
- Dental care, 252–253, 361, 4024, 5424
- Diabetes, 3937–3938
  - type 2 diabetes, 246
- Dialysis
  - nocturnal dialysis, 1970
- Dietitians
  - expansion of scope of practice
    - ordering diagnostics and treatment procedures, 6909
- Doctor fees/salaries, 2522
- Doctor shortage, 2582, 2718, 3998–4001
- Doctors
  - international medical graduates (IMGs)
    - assessment/training, 879
    - removing barriers, 2652, 2715–2716, 4002
  - practise in underserviced areas, 3998–3999
  - workload, 2725
- Domestic Violence Protection Act, S.O. 2000, c.33
  - repealed by Bill 133, 6635
- Driver education/training
  - fraudulent driver education certificates sold, 6127
- Driver examinations
  - northern Ontario, 6128–6129
- Driver licences
  - graduated licences
    - daytime passenger restrictions for young drivers, 6129
    - extending length of G1 and G2 periods, 6127
    - zero blood alcohol concentration level for drivers 21 years of age or younger, 6129–6130
- Drug dispensing machines, 6696, 6911
- Economic conditions, 3312–3313
- Economic decline
  - northern Ontario, 6153–6156
- Economic growth
  - five-point economic plan, 3313–3314
- eHealth Ontario
  - consultants, 7870–7871
  - contracts, 7029, 7190, 7706, 8407
  - expenditures, 7144, 7223
  - Hudson, Alan (former Chairman)
    - appearance before Standing Committee on Public Accounts, 8618, 8645–8646
  - Kramer, Sarah (former CEO)
    - appearance before Standing Committee on Public Accounts, 8618, 8645–8646
    - salary/bonus, 7029
  - referral to Standing Committee on Public Accounts, 7704
  - review by PricewaterhouseCoopers, 7144, 7706
- Electricity rates
  - industrial rates, 3314
- Electronic health records, 7029, 7916–7917
  - protection of privacy, 2226
- Emergency management
  - quarantine of VIA Rail train (Foleyet, 9 May 2008), 1820–1821, 1887
- Employment-related benefits
  - employee wage security program, 108, 3314
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Temporary Help Agencies), 2009 (Bill 139)
  - second reading, 5024
  - third reading, 6219
- Energy
  - renewable energy, 5015
- Escherichia coli outbreak
  - Harvey's restaurant, 3533–3534
- Expert Panel on Infertility and Adoption, 6696
- Family health teams, 365, 2582, 4004, 6905
- Family Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 133)
  - second reading, 5019–5020
  - third reading, 6635
- Farms/farmland
  - use of sewage sludge, 3733–3734, 3737, 3774–3775
    - impact on health, 3774–3775
- Fatalities
  - Stryland, Krista (real estate agent), 4630, 5900
- Fire alarms
  - interconnected fire alarms, 272
- Fire escapes
  - non-combustible fire escapes, 272
- Fire sprinklers
  - mandatory fire sprinkler systems in new residential construction, 7450–7452
- Food safety, 4581
- Food service premises
  - disclosure of nutritional information for foods and drinks served on premises, 5389, 6065–6066, 6070
- Foreign caregivers
  - protection, 6062
- Forest industry
  - layoffs, 252, 3313–3314
- French-language debates
  - Affaires d'intérêt public émanant des députés
    - Jour du lac Supérieur, 4311
    - Loi de 2009 favorisant des choix sains pour une alimentation saine, projet de loi 156
      - première lecture, 5389
    - Loi de 2009 modifiant des lois en ce qui a trait à la protection contre l'incendie, projet de loi 14
      - deuxième lecture, 272–273
    - Loi de 2009 modifiant la Loi sur la location à usage d'habitation (assurance des loyers), projet de loi 209
      - deuxième lecture, 8321
    - Loi de 2007 modifiant la Loi sur les normes d'emploi (augmentation du salaire minimum), projet de loi 7
      - deuxième lecture, 119–120
    - Loi de 2007 modifiant la Loi sur les normes d'emploi (sécurité salariale), projet de loi 6
      - deuxième lecture, 108
    - Loi de 2009 sur le dépistage du cancer du sein, projet de loi 200
      - deuxième lecture, 7445
    - Loi de 2009 sur le Jour de la sensibilisation à la cardiopathie congénitale, projet de loi 178
      - deuxième lecture, 8880–8881
    - Loi Katelyn Bedard de 2007 sur le Mois de la sensibilisation au don de moelle osseuse, projet de loi 5
      - deuxième lecture, 279
    - Pauvreté, 718–719
    - Qualité de l'eau, 725
    - Semaine de bonté, 7458
  - Déclarations des députés
    - Drapeau franco-ontarien, 2905
    - Journée internationale de la francophonie, 5323
    - Maire de Sudbury, 183
  - Déclarations ministérielles et réponses
    - Cessation de fumer, 1200
    - Journée de l'affaire «personne», 7969
    - Journée de sensibilisation à la prévention des mauvais traitements à l'égard des personnes âgées, 3330
    - Journée internationale de la francophonie, 471
    - Journée internationale des personnes handicapées, 4431
    - Mois de l'histoire des femmes, 7969
    - Mois des personnes âgées, 2305
    - Mois du coeur, 9375
    - TFO, 828
  - Jour de l'opposition
    - Garde d'enfants, 3855
  - Journée internationale des personnes handicapées, 17
  - Loi de 2010 modifiant des lois en ce qui concerne l'apprentissage des jeunes enfants à temps plein, projet de loi 242
    - deuxième lecture, 9638
  - Loi de 2009 modifiant des lois en ce qui concerne le droit de la famille, projet de loi 133
    - deuxième lecture, 5019–5020
  - Loi de 2008 modifiant la Loi favorisant un Ontario sans fumée, projet de loi 69
    - deuxième lecture, 1904–1906
  - Loi de 2008 modifiant la Loi sur la sécurité professionnelle et l'assurance contre les accidents du travail, projet de loi 119
    - attribution de temps, 3896–3897
  - Loi de 2009 modifiant la Loi sur les professions de la santé réglementées, projet de loi 141
    - deuxième lecture, 4850
  - Loi de 2008 portant sur une alimentation saine pour des écoles saines, projet de loi 8
    - deuxième lecture, 209, 251–252
  - Loi de 2008 sur la négociation collective dans les collèges, projet de loi 90
    - troisième lecture, 2934
  - Loi de 2009 sur le règlement des conflits de travail à l'Université York, projet de loi 145
    - deuxième lecture, 4767
  - Loi de 2009 sur les mesures budgétaires, projet de loi 162
    - troisième lecture, 6962
  - Loi de 2008 sur les services et soutiens favorisant l'inclusion sociale des personnes ayant une déficience intellectuelle, projet de loi 77
    - deuxième lecture, 2045, 2053
    - troisième lecture, 2771
  - Loi de 2008 sur l'Office des télécommunications éducatives de langue française de l'Ontario, projet de loi 55
    - deuxième lecture, 1632, 1635–1640
  - Loi de 2009 sur l'Ordre des métiers de l'Ontario et l'apprentissage, projet de loi 183
    - deuxième lecture, 7139
  - Loi de 2008 sur l'Université Algoma, projet de loi 80
    - deuxième lecture, 2115–2116, 2118
  - Loi de 2008 visant à accroître l'accès des Ontariennes et des Ontariens aux professionnels de la santé qualifiés, projet de loi 97
    - deuxième lecture, 2715, 2717, 2719, 2721–2722
  - Loi do 2007 modifiant la Loi sur les normes d'emploi (sécurité salariale), projet de loi 6
    - deuxième lecture, 108
  - Ordre du jour
    - Attribution de temps, 3896
    - Budget de l'Ontario de 2009, 5917–5918
  - Pétitions
    - Impôts fonciers, 9415
    - Soins de longue durée, 1890
  - Questions orales
    - Accès aux soins de santé, 3683
    - Affaires francophones, 7832
    - C. difficile, 2735
    - Contrôle des maladies infectieuses, 1768
    - Économie du nord, 5278
    - Financement des hôpitaux, 75
    - Office des affaires francophones, 5831
    - Régimes de retraite, 6228
    - Services en français, 5035–5036, 6749, 8210–8211
    - Soins de longue durée, 198, 421, 3436
    - Soins de santé, 7869
- French-language education, 1638
- French River
  - environmental protection, 358
- Government debt, 5922
- Government notice of motions
  - Personal health information protection
    - responded to, 2225–2227
- Government orders
  - Ontario economy
    - responded to, 3312–3314
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - health care, 8023–8024, 8104
- Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area Transit Implementation Act, 2009 (Bill 163)
  - second reading, 5898
- Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 (Bill 150)
  - second reading, 5015
- Harmonized sales tax, 5926, 6154–6156, 9074
  - impact on health care, 8921
  - impact on housing industry, 6962
  - impact on northern Ontario, 8852
- Health care, 252–253, 2582–2583, 6079
  - human resources management, 2660
  - rural and northern Ontario, 7574, 9448
    - closure of Burk's Falls and District Health Centre, 8104
  - wait times, 882
- Health care funding
  - accountability and oversight, 8618–8619
    - investigation by Ombudsman, 8425–8426
  - government funding, 6920, 7869, 9722
- Health care reform, 2720–2722, 6907
- Health insurance
  - Smile Ontario, 252–253
- Health professionals
  - accessibility, 3997–4001
  - collaboration in patient care, 6905
  - expansion of scope of practice, 6913, 8940
- Health Professions Regulatory Advisory Council, 2722
- Health promotion, 261, 1507, 8872
- Health regulatory colleges
  - power to directly observe regulated health professionals, 4630
- Healthy Decisions for Healthy Eating Act, 2009 (Bill 156)
  - first reading, 5389
- Healthy Food for Healthy Schools Act, 2008 (Bill 8)
  - second reading, 208–209, 215–216, 245–246, 251–255, 261
- Hearing-impaired persons, 3491
  - services, 3488
- Heart disease, 5091, 9374–9375
- Hepatitis C
  - financial assistance to hepatitis C victims, 822
- Highway accidents/fatalities
  - Highway 69, 6130
- Highway construction
  - Highway 69 to Highway 17 southway bypass, 6556
- Highway improvement
  - Highway 404 extension, 725
- Highway service centres
  - adult-sized personal care areas, 1210
- Highways
  - Highway 17 bridge
    - renaming of bridge to Constable Albert Nault, 3192
- HIV (virus)
  - tests, 46
- H1N1 influenza A (swine flu)
  - emergency preparedness, 6384, 6406, 8454–8455
    - availability of Tamiflu, 8461
  - health plan for influenza pandemic, 6435–6436
- Holiday messages, 253
- Home care, 880, 3963, 4751, 5233, 6405
  - competitive bidding, 361–362, 566–567, 772–773, 3963, 4294–4295, 4751, 5662, 7203–7204
  - government funding, 5733, 5902
  - Mettinen, Mina case, 4751
  - public consultation, 772–773, 836
- Home care workers, 5993
  - salaries, 5733
  - shortage, 2227, 4005
  - strike, 5233, 5733
  - transportation compensation, 5662, 5903, 5993, 7135
- Hospices (terminal care), 881
  - Maison la Paix (Sudbury), 881
- Hospital boards
  - elected boards, 3685–3686
- Hospital budget deficits, 5903
  - Sudbury Regional Hospital, 6394
- Hospital closure
  - small, rural and northern hospitals, 6385
- Hospital construction
  - government funding
    - St. Joseph's Health Centre, 4650
  - private-public partnerships, 76
  - Sudbury Regional Hospital, 7274
- Hospital funding
  - government funding, 4286
- Hospital housekeeping, 2455, 3442
- Hospital infections, 2455–2456
- Hospital sanitation, 2455
- Hospital services
  - emergency
    - Port Colborne and Fort Erie, 7574, 8104
  - physiotherapy services
    - St. Joseph's Healthcare, 5886–5887
  - reduction
    - Durham region, 2394–2395
    - St. Mary's General Hospital, 4286
  - small, rural and northern hospitals, 6385, 6394
  - Strathroy Middlesex General Hospital, 6847
- Hospitals
  - northern Ontario, 6403–6404
  - oversight by Ombudsman, 2237, 2356, 2456, 2637
  - Queensway Carleton Hospital, 9575–9576
  - reporting on C. difficile rates, 1768, 2162, 2735, 2896
    - infection control practices, 2896
  - reporting on patient safety indicators, 2454–2455
  - Rouge Valley Health System, 2567
  - rural Ontario, 6403–6404
  - St. Michael's Hospital
    - assault by hospital security guards, 5003
  - support workers, 2455
- Human Resources and Skills Development Canada
  - red seal program, 7138
- Ideas for the Future Act, 2008 (Bill 100)
  - second reading, 3106, 3116–3118
- Identity theft, 2362
- Immunization
  - H1N1 influenza A (swine flu)
    - health care workers, 8495
    - lineups at clinics, 8621
- Income disparity, 7051
- Increasing Access to Qualified Health Professionals for Ontarians Act, 2008 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 2652, 2660, 2715–2726
  - third reading, 3995–4002, 4004–4005
- Industry shutdowns, 3314
- Infection, 2567–2568
- Infectious diseases, 4387
- Infertility, 6696
- Investing in Ontario Act, 2008 (Bill 35)
  - second reading, 810–811, 814–816
- Job protection commissioner, 3314
- Laboratory services
  - community-based
    - Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare, 3043, 3182, 3375
- Labour Relations Amendment Act (Replacement Workers), 2009 (Bill 206)
  - first reading, 7836
- Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation, 725
- Lakes
  - protection
    - Nickel Belt, 726
- Legislative procedure
  - private members' public business, 272
  - tabling of documents, 8827–8828
- Legislature schedule/agenda
  - prorogation, 9699
- Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO)
  - advertising, 5320
- Listeriosis, 6079
- Local health integration networks (LHINs), 2122–2123, 6405–6406
- Long-term care, 6405
  - standard of care, 363, 2227
- Long-term-care facilities
  - government funding, 5902
  - layoffs, 8543–8544
  - medication management, 199
  - oversight by Ombudsman, 2356, 2456, 2637, 3330
  - personal care, 3330, 3436, 5381, 7204
  - standard of care, 337–338, 421, 477, 526, 879–880, 1713, 2639, 5684, 5737
- Long-Term Care Homes Act, S.O. 2007, c.8, 5684
- Long-term-care workers, 5381
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), 2366, 5184–5185
  - wait times, 5184–5185
- Manitoba
  - driver education/training, 6128
- Manufacturing industry
  - layoffs, 3312–3314
- Meat industry
  - safety, 4581
- Medical officers of health, 2162, 2447, 3533, 4147, 6079
- Medical schools
  - Northern Ontario School of Medicine, 2716–2717, 3995–3996, 3998
- Members'/ministers' constituencies/constituency events
  - Nickel Belt, 251–252
- Members'/ministers' inaugural speeches, 251–253
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 252, 272, 4765–4766, 7137–7138
- Members/ministers quoting committee submissions
  - Office of the Fairness Commissioner, 3998
- Members/ministers quoting documents
  - A Health Vision for the Future (Chiefs of Ontario), 1488
- Members/ministers quoting letters
  - Geneva Centre for Autism, 7383
  - harmonized sales tax, re, 9073–9074
  - Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, 3182
  - Open Letter to the Premier re the Mining Act (social justice organizations, faith groups and environmental groups, 17 March 2008), 6929
- Members/ministers quoting newspaper articles
  - Chatham Daily News, 6403
  - Hamilton Spectator, 2456
  - New York Times, 2455
  - Toronto Star, 5684
- Members/ministers quoting reports
  - The Anatomy of the Canadian Job Market (TD Economics), 3313
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Arnold, Ken (president, Ontario Medical Association), 6071
  - Callard, Cynthia (executive director, Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada), 4302
  - College of Dietitians of Ontario, 6909
  - Doyle, Winnie (vice-president of clinical programs, St. Joseph's Healthcare), 5886
  - Fucile, Wendy (president, Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario), 6071
  - Grinspun, Doris (executive director, Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario), 895
  - Haugh, Liz (president-elect, Ontario Public Health Association), 6071
  - Imperial Tobacco of Canada, 4302
  - Jeffery, Bill (Centre for Science in the Public Interest), 6071
  - Kessler, Gladys (United States district court judge), 5652
  - Marin, André (Ombudsman of Ontario), 2637
  - Miller, Mark (head of infection control, Montreal's Jewish General Hospital), 2455
  - Ontario Health Coalition, 5904
  - Organization of Part-Time and Sessional Employees of College of Applied Arts and Technology (OPSECAAT), 2935–2936
  - Rachlis, Michael (health policy consultant), 2582, 2716
  - Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 6908
  - Rubin, Donna (chief executive officer, Ontario Association of Non-Profit Homes and Services for Seniors), 526, 5902
  - Schizophrenia Society of Ontario, 4061
  - Thomas, Warren (president, Ontario Public Service Employees Union), 2394, 8619–8620
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - Best, Margarett (Scarborough–Guildwood)
      - as Minister of Health Promotion, 8782
    - Caplan, David (Don Valley East)
      - as Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, 7706
    - Carroll, Aileen (Barrie)
      - as Minister Responsible for Seniors, 9365–9366
    - Duncan, Dwight (Windsor–Tecumseh)
      - as Minister of Finance/Chair of Management Board of Cabinet, 3116–3117
    - Matthews, Deborah (London North Centre)
      - as Minister of Children and Youth Services, 2467, 7383
    - McGuinty, Dalton (Ottawa South)
      - as Ontario Premier, 7706
    - Smitherman, George (Toronto Centre)
      - as Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, 2447, 5662
  - NDP (2003-2010)
    - Horwath, Andrea (Hamilton Centre), 6227
- Members' statements
  - Accessibility for the disabled, 3491
  - CIBC labour dispute, 1300–1301
  - Community health centres, 365
  - Credit unions and caisses populaires, 8034
  - Diagnostic services, 7697
  - Health care, 4294–4295
  - Health promotion, 8872
  - Hepatitis C, 822
  - Hospital funding, 6394
  - International Credit Union Day, 3326–3327
  - Mayor of Sudbury, 183
  - Nault, Albert, 3192
  - Northern home repair program, 5889
  - Nurses, 1930, 5834
  - Nursing Week, 6807
  - Prorogation, 9699
  - Public health, 2447
  - Sewage sludge, 3737
  - Sudbury jail, 5004
  - Veterans, 8549
  - Waste disposal, 5129
  - Workplace fatalities, 6892
- Mental health care, 4061
  - Durham region, 4251
  - government funding, 4061
  - laid-off workers, 5780
  - wait times, 5780
- Midwives
  - expansion of scope of practice
    - prescribing drugs, 6911
- Miners
  - Hemlo Mines
    - workers' compensation claims, 5123
- Minimum wage
  - increase, 119, 360–361
  - $10 an hour, 119
- Mining Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.M.14
  - reform consultation, 6787
- Mining Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 173)
  - second reading, 6787, 6795, 6927–6931, 6934
- Mining industry, 4473–4474
  - consultation with First Nations
    - mining legislation and regulations, 6929, 6934
  - economic importance, 6930–6931
  - environmental assessment for mining activities, 6928
  - history, 6927
  - layoffs, 5278
  - revenue sharing, 6795
- Ministerial statements, responded to
  - Accessibility for the disabled, 6863–6894
  - Canadian Infertility Awareness Week, 6696
  - Customer Service Week, 3100
  - Diabetes, 8553
  - Foreign-trained doctors, 2582–2583
  - Health professions, 6696
  - Heart Month, 5091, 9374–9375
  - International Day of Persons with Disabilities, 4431
  - Ipperwash Provincial Park, 7088–7089
  - Nutrition Month, 372
  - Ontario Elder Abuse Awareness Day, 3330
  - Patient safety, 4630
  - Persons Day, 7969
  - Seniors' Month, 2305–2306, 7203–7204
  - Smoke-free Ontario and strategy, 1507–1508
  - Smoking cessation, 1200–1201
  - Women's History Month, 3056, 7969
  - World AIDS Day, 46
  - World Autism Awareness Day, 5837
- Ministry of Education
  - pupil accommodation review guidelines, 2237
- Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
  - aging-at-home strategy, 6894
  - Children in Need of Treatment (CINOT) dental program, 5424
  - Ontario Cancer PET Registry Study, 2365
  - Ontario Cardiac PET Registry Study, 2365
  - Ontario PET access program, 2365
  - Sapsford, Ron (Deputy Minister of Health and Long-Term Care)
    - resignation, 8620
- Ministry of Health Promotion, 362, 3136
  - Smoke-Free Ontario strategy, 7961
- Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing
  - northern home repair program, 5889
- Municipal infrastructure
  - government funding, 815
- National child benefit supplement (NCBS)
  - clawback, 119, 361, 718
- NDP
  - communities at play program, 1056, 1103, 1201
  - economic policy, 360
- Non-profit organizations
  - Independent Living Resource Centre, 17
- Northern and Rural Health Care Advisory Panel, 6385
- Northern Ontario
  - grants
    - northern health travel grant (NHTG) program, 879
- Northern Ontario growth plan
  - G-North round table, 2242
- Nurse practitioners, 3999, 6696
  - expansion of scope of practice
    - admitting and discharging privileges, 6909
    - prescribing drugs, 6908
  - Sudbury, 2723
- Nurses, 5834, 6807
  - hiring, 4108, 6268
  - layoffs, 895, 5280
  - shortage, 3999
- Nutrition, 372
- Obesity
  - children, 261, 4000
  - health effects, 6064–6065
- Ombudsman Amendment Act (Hospitals and Long-Term Care Facilities), 2008 (Bill 89)
  - first reading, 2355–2356
- Ombudsman of Ontario
  - power to investigate children's aid societies, school boards or hospitals, 4849, 5902
- Ontario budget speech (26 March 2009)
  - responded to, 5902–5906, 5909, 5922, 5926
- Ontario College of Trades, 7135, 7137–7138
  - board of governors, 7138
  - divisional boards, 7138
  - trade boards, 7138
- Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 (Bill 183)
  - second reading, 7131, 7135, 7137–7139
- Ontario disability support program (ODSP), 17, 252
- Ontario disability support program (ODSP) benefits, 4431, 6894
- Ontario French-language Educational Communications Authority Act, 2008 (Bill 55)
  - second reading, 1636–1640
- Ontario health insurance plan (OHIP)
  - chiropractic/physiotherapy services, 5904
    - delisting, 8921
  - coverage for eligible military families, 14
  - delisting insured health services, 5615
  - inclusion of PET scans as insured service, 7697
  - inclusion of prostate-specific antigen test as insured service, 9080–9081
  - provision of insulin pumps and supplies as insured service, 3937
  - three-month waiting period, 253
    - elimination, 498
- Ontario health premium, 877–882
- Ontario March of Dimes
  - home and vehicle modification program (HVMP), 6894
- Ontario Northland Transportation Commission
  - bus service reduction, 2997
- Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), 2935
  - strike, 4765
- Ontario Tax Plan for More Jobs and Growth Act, 2009 (Bill 218)
  - second reading, 8852
- Ontario Works program benefits
  - back-to-school allowance, 2440
  - winter clothing allowance, 2440
- Opposition day motions, responded to
  - Child care, 3855
  - Electronic health information, 7705–7707, 8617–8621
  - Health care oversight, 8425–8426
  - Hospital services, 6403–6407
  - Infectious disease control, 2454–2456
  - Pension plans, 6715
  - Tobacco control, 1487–1489
  - Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, 1948
- Oral questions, presented
  - Aboriginal health care, 1307–1308
  - Aboriginal health promotion, 1309
  - Access to health care, 3085–3086
  - Accessibility for the disabled, 1210, 3488–3489
  - Anti-smoking legislation, 7644
  - Anti-smoking programs, 7149, 8782
  - Autism services, 7383
  - Automobile industry, 6843–6844
  - Breastfeeding, 2958, 3048, 4418–4419
  - Bus transportation, 2997
  - C. difficile, 2028, 2735, 2896
  - Cancer treatment, 6388
  - Child protection, 4999–5000
  - Children's mental health services, 6752–6753
  - Community health centres, 379–380
  - Composting, 8866
  - Contaminated soil, 237–238, 3879
  - Coroner's inquest, 5384–5385
  - Dental care, 4024, 5424
  - Diagnostic services, 5184–5185, 9078–9080
  - Dialysis, 1970
  - Electronic health information, 7029, 7144, 7190, 7223, 7871, 7916–7917, 8407, 8645–8646, 8685
  - Flu immunization, 8495
  - Flu pandemic preparedness, 8454–8455, 8461
  - Food safety, 4581
  - Health care, 4864, 5615, 7869, 8023–8024, 8104
  - Health care funding, 2394–2395, 2522, 9722
  - Health care oversight, 2637
  - Health insurance for immigrants, 498–499
  - Health promotion, 3135–3136
  - Healthy eating, 9726–9727
  - Highway interchange, 6556
  - Home care, 566–567, 772–773, 836, 3963, 4751, 5233, 5661–5662, 5732–5733, 5993
  - Hospital funding, 76, 4286, 4650, 6385, 7274
  - Hospital governance, 3685–3686
  - Hospital security, 5003
  - Hospital services, 3375, 3442, 6847, 8346, 9575–9576
  - Infectious disease control, 1768, 2237, 2567–2568, 4387–4388, 4522–4523, 6384, 6435–6436
  - Laboratory services, 3043, 3182
  - Labour dispute, 9266–9267
  - Labour relations, 7434
  - Liquor Control Board of Ontario, 5320
  - Local health integration networks, 2122–2123
  - Long-term care, 199, 337–338, 421, 477, 526, 1713, 2639, 3436, 5381, 5684, 5737, 8543
  - Mental health services, 4061, 4251, 5779–5780
  - Mining industry, 4473–4474
  - Newborn screening, 6946
  - Northern and rural health services, 9448
  - Northern economy, 5278
  - Northern Ontario development, 2242
  - Nuclear waste, 6883
  - Nurses, 895, 4108, 5280, 6489
  - Pension plans, 6228
  - Physiotherapy services, 5886–5887
  - Poverty, 2088
  - Protection for miners, 5123
  - Public health, 1820–1821, 1887, 2162, 3533–3534, 4147, 5082, 6079
  - Retirement homes, 3926, 7081, 9363–9364
  - Rural health services, 7574
  - Sewage sludge, 3733–3734, 3774–3775
  - Smoking cessation, 7961
  - Social assistance, 2440
  - Special care homes, 4807, 4860–4861
  - Sports and recreation funding, 1056, 1103
  - Tanning salons, 3141
  - Taxation, 8921, 9073–9074
  - Tobacco control, 3324
  - Trillium drug program, 5665
  - Waste management, 3641
- Oral questions, responded to
  - Health care oversight, 2637
- Patient safety, 4630, 4847–4850, 5900–5901
- Pension Benefits Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 236)
  - second reading, 9355
- Pension benefits guarantee fund, 6228
- Personal Health Information Protection Act, S.O. 2004, c.3, Sched. A
  - review by Standing Committee on Social Policy, 2225–2226
- Persons with disabilities, 4431
  - attendant services, 4431
  - barrier-free access, 6893–6894
    - accessibility standards, 6893
  - developmental disabilities
    - services, 2045
  - employment, 17–18
  - residential services, 4431
  - services, 3100, 6893–6894
- Pesticides/herbicides
  - health risks, 1858
- Petitions
  - Breastfeeding, 201–202, 241
  - Child care, 3778
  - Community colleges collective bargaining, 1476
  - Dental care, 7840
  - Diagnostic services, 7284, 7396, 7440, 7488, 7585, 7654, 7700, 7782, 7839, 7880, 7928, 7970, 8037, 8222, 8358, 8420, 8468, 8554, 8614, 8656, 8694, 8739, 8791–8792, 8833, 8874, 8954, 9005, 9047, 9085, 9330, 9375, 9415, 9701
  - Health care, 6894
  - Highway 144, 774
  - Home care, 341, 383, 424, 528, 570–571, 617, 619, 655–656, 695, 775, 838, 899, 958, 999, 1064, 1107, 1211–1212, 1257, 1476–1477, 1575–1576, 1667, 1720–1721, 1926, 1975–1976, 2094, 2297–2298, 2350, 2610
  - Hospital funding, 2672
  - Hospital services, 2525
  - Long-term care, 58, 1770–1771, 1891–1892, 2093, 2243, 2296, 2298, 2351–2352, 2395, 2673–2674, 2739, 2742, 2785, 2962–2963, 4954–4955
  - Lyme disease, 7439
  - Ontario Northland Transportation Commission labour dispute, 57
  - Property taxation, 5133, 5329, 5518, 5628–5629, 5890, 6149, 7044
  - Protection for miners, 2034, 2092–2093, 2132, 2297, 2351, 2442, 2492–2493, 2574, 2674, 2741, 2785–2786, 3499, 3540, 3778, 3846, 4069, 4256, 4869, 5519, 7929
  - Public health, 7043
  - Security licence fees, 4071
  - Taxation, 8038, 8554, 8615, 9416, 9701
  - Tuition, 3383–3384, 3450, 3541–3542, 3779, 4257, 5327–5328
  - University labour dispute, 4759
- Pharmacists
  - expansion of scope of practice, 6916
  - remote dispensing of drugs, 8941
- Physiotherapists
  - expansion of scope of practice, 6909–6910, 6916
    - wound treatment, 6910
- Physiotherapy services, 5886–5887
- Positron emission tomography (PET), 2365–2366
  - availability in northeastern Ontario, 9078–9079
- Poverty, 718–719
- Poverty reduction strategy, 719, 3938, 5091
  - public consultation, 2088
  - student nutrition program, 718–719
- Power of investigation, 5900
- Primary health care, 2582, 2719, 4002
  - access, 4864
- Private health clinics
  - violations of the Canada Health Act, 3085–3086
- Private members' public business
  - Breast Cancer Screening Act, 2009 (Bill 200)
    - second reading, 7444
  - Capping Executive Compensation Act, 2009 (Bill 180)
    - second reading, 7051
  - Caregiver and Foreign Worker Recruitment and Protection Act, 2009 (Bill 160)
    - second reading, 6062–6063
  - Congenital Heart Disease Awareness Day Act, 2009 (Bill 178)
    - second reading, 8879–8881
  - Consumer Reporting Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 75)
    - second reading, 2362
  - Diabetes Awareness Month Act, 2008 (Bill 113)
    - second reading, 3937–3938
  - Diagnostic services
    - responded to, 2365–2366
  - Employment Standards Amendment Act (Raising the Minimum Wage), 2007 (Bill 7)
    - second reading, 119–120
  - Employment Standards Amendment Act (Wage Security), 2007 (Bill 6)
    - second reading, 108
  - Fire Protection Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 14)
    - second reading, 272–273
  - Fire safety
    - responded to, 7450–7452
  - Healthy Decisions for Healthy Eating Act, 2009 (Bill 156)
    - second reading, 6064–6066, 6070–6071
  - Healthy schools
    - responded to, 2372–2373
  - Katelyn Bedard Bone Marrow Awareness Month Act, 2007 (Bill 5)
    - second reading, 279
  - Kindness Week
    - responded to, 7457–7458
  - Labour Relations Amendment Act (Replacement Workers), 2009 (Bill 86)
    - second reading, 7930–7931
  - Poverty
    - responded to, 718–719
  - Smoke-Free Ontario Amendment Act (Cigarillos), 2008 (Bill 124)
    - second reading, 4300–4302, 4306–4307
  - Water quality
    - responded to, 725–726
- Property tax assessment
  - freeze-until-sale assessment, 2305
- Provincial advisory committees, 7138
- Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth, 5000
  - access to information, 4999
- Provincial parks
  - Ipperwash Provincial Park
    - return to Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation, 7088–7089
- Public education campaigns
  - ban on smoking in cars with children present, 2561
  - Canadian Infertility Awareness Week, 6696
  - Congenital Heart Disease Awareness Day, 8879–8881
  - Customer Service Week, 3100
  - Diabetes Awareness Month, 3937–3938, 8553
  - "Eat Local: Live Fresh," 2372–2373
  - Heart Month, 5091, 9374–9375
  - International Credit Union Day, 3326
  - International Day of Disabled Persons, 17
  - International Day of Persons with Disabilities, 4431
  - Kindness Week, 7457–7458
  - National Access Awareness Week, 6893–6894
  - Now You're Working for Free Day, 3056
  - Nursing Week, 1930, 6807
  - Nutrition Month, 372
  - Persons Day, 7969
  - Seniors' Month, 2305–2306, 7203
  - Women's History Month, 3056, 7969
  - World AIDS Day, 46
  - World Autism Awareness Day, 5837
- Public health units, 2447, 5082
  - Grey Bruce Health Unit
    - appointment of assessor to investigate status of mandatory services, 5082
- Public transportation
  - government funding, 5898
- Regulated Health Professions Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 141)
  - second reading, 4847–4850
  - third reading, 5899–5902
- Regulated Health Professions Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 179)
  - second reading, 6905–6913, 6916, 6920
  - third reading, 8940–8941
- Reports
  - Better Access to Outpatient Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Ontario - But For Whom? (John You, Vikram Venkatesh, Andreas Laupacis), 5184
  - Cancer System Quality Index 2009 (Cancer Quality Council of Ontario), 6388
  - Chief Medical Officer of Health Annual Report 2007 (Working Together to Build a Stronger Public Health System), 4147
  - Chief Medical Officer of Health's Report on the Management of the 2008 Listeriosis Outbreak in Ontario (David Wiliams), 6079
  - The Core Service Role of Small Hospitals in Ontario—Phase One: An Exploration of the Current Services (Ontario Joint Policy and Planning Committee), 6403
  - The Core Service Role of Small Hospitals in Ontario—Phase Two: Recommended Core Services (Ontario Joint Policy and Planning Committee), 6404
  - Eroding Public Medicare: Lessons and Consequences of For-Profit Health Care Across Canada (Natalie Mehra), 3085
  - Home Care: Change We Need (Carol Kushner, Patricia Baranek, Marion Dewar), 3963
  - People Caring for People: Impacting the Quality of Life and Care of Residents of Long-Term Care Homes (Shirley Sharkey), 2639, 5684, 5737
  - Report of the Ipperwash Inquiry (Sidney Linden), 7088
  - Report on Removing Barriers for International Medical Doctors (Laurel C. Broten), 2652
  - Tooth Decay in Ontario's Children: An Ounce of Prevention - A Pound of Cure (Ontario Dental Association), 4024
- Retirement homes
  - regulation, 2305, 7081
  - standards of care, 3926, 9363–9364
    - public consultation, 3926
- Road Safety Act, 2009 (Bill 126)
  - third reading, 6127–6130, 6134
- School board trustees
  - autonomy, 7864–7865
- School cafeterias
  - ban on trans fat in food and beverages, 208, 215, 245–246, 261
  - to serve healthy, local Ontario foods, 2372–2373
- School vending machines
  - ban on unhealthy food and beverages, 246
- Securities industry
  - conflict of interest, 3313
  - reform, 3312–3313
  - regulation, 3312–3313
- Senior citizens, 2305–2306
  - abuse, 3330
  - government funding, 5906
  - health care, 361
  - services, 7203
  - single women, 6715
- Services and Supports to Promote the Social Inclusion of Persons with Developmental Disabilities Act, 2008 (Bill 77)
  - general discussion, 6894
  - second reading, 2045, 2053
  - third reading, 2771
- Sign language interpreters, 3489, 3491–3492
- Silicosis, 5123
- Skilled trades, 7137
  - certification, 7137
- Smoke alarms, 272
- Smoke-Free Ontario Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 1867–1868, 1877–1878, 1903–1908, 1910–1911, 1913–1914
  - third reading, 2560–2561
- Smoke-Free Ontario Amendment Act (Cigarillos), 2008 (Bill 124)
  - general discussion, 5651, 5653–5654
  - first reading, 3883
  - third reading, 4507
    - public consultation, 4507
- Smoking, 3324, 4307, 5650–5651, 5653, 7149
  - ban on smoking in cars with children present, 1507–1508, 1867–1868, 1903, 2560–2561
    - enforcement, 1906, 1910
    - public education, 1904
  - health risks, 1908
  - hospitals, 1877–1878
  - second-hand smoke, 1913
- Smoking cessation, 1200
- Smoking cessation programs
  - government funding, 8782
- Social assistance benefits, 718, 2467–2468
- Special care homes
  - Goodfellow Home for Special Care
    - inspection, 4807, 4860–4861
    - sexual abuse, 4807
  - inspection, 4807, 4861
- Sports and recreation
  - government funding, 1056, 1103
- Sports and recreation facilities, 1056
- Stock exchanges, 3312
- Streptococcus A infection, 4387–4388
  - MacMaster, Daniel case, 4522–4523
- Strikes
  - CIBC employees (Sudbury), 1300–1301
  - public health unit nurses (Sudbury), 4765
  - Vale Inco employees, 9266–9267, 9355
- Student Achievement and School Board Governance Act, 2009 (Bill 177)
  - second reading, 7864
- Tanning services/ultra-violet light treatment services
  - sale or supply to persons under 19 prohibited, 3141
- Tax credits
  - manufacturing investment tax credit, 3314
- Temporary help agency employees
  - protection, 6219
- TFO, 1637
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 345, 350, 358, 360–363
- Time allocation motions
  - Budget Measures Act, 2009 (Bill 162)
    - responded to, 6153–6156
  - Workplace Safety and Insurance Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 119)
    - responded to, 3897
- Tobacco Control Statute Law Amendment Act, S.O. 2005, c.18, 2560–2561
- Tobacco Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act, 2009 (Bill 155)
  - second reading, 5650–5654
    - impact on tobacco farmers, 5652–5653
- Tobacco Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act, SBC 2000, c.30, 5652
- Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, 5652
- Tobacco products
  - ban on sale of cigarillos/flavouring agents, 3883, 4300–4302, 4507, 5653, 7644, 8782
    - health warnings, 4302
    - regulating package size, 4302
  - illegal sale, 1488–1489, 5653
  - physiological effect, 5654
- Tobacco products manufacturers
  - recovery of tobacco-related health care costs from manufacturers, 5652–5654
- Tourist attractions
  - Dynamic Earth, 6931
- Transit systems
  - purchase of mass transit vehicles
    - made in Ontario, 3314
- Trillium drug program
  - deductible, 5665
- Unemployment
  - northern Ontario, 5909
- Unemployment rate, 5779
- Universities/colleges
  - government funding, 2118
  - Laurentian University
    - partnership with Collège Boréal, 2116
    - strike, 4766
  - York University
    - collective bargaining, 4766
    - strike, 4729, 4739, 4765, 4768
- Vale Inco
  - closure, 4473
  - labour demonstration at Sudbury operations (19 September 2009), 7434
- Veterans
  - post-traumatic stress disorder, 8549
- Violence against women
  - Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, 9045–9046
  - Take Back the Night, 7700–7701
- Waste
  - nuclear/radioactive waste
    - Sudbury, 6883
- Waste disposal
  - Estaire, 5129
- Waste management/programs
  - composting
    - addition of sewage sludge, 8866
  - Estaire, 3641
- Workers
  - replacement workers
    - ban on use during strike or lockout, 7930–7931
  - skilled worker shortage, 7137
  - skilled workers, 7131
  - temporary workers, 5024
- Workers' compensation benefits
  - excluded workers, 3806
- The Worker Recruitment and Protection Act, S.M. 2008, c.23, 6062
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Amendment Act, 2008 (Bill 119)
  - second reading, 3802–3803, 3806
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 3897
  - third reading, 4240–4241
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), 3802–3803
- York University Labour Disputes Resolution Act, 2009 (Bill 145)
  - second reading, 4729, 4739, 4765–4766, 4768
- Youth Action Alliance, 7149
Gerretsen, Hon. J. (LIB, Kingston and the Islands)
- Air quality, 1311, 1475
  - Sault Ste. Marie, 1974
- Air quality management
  - Hamilton, 503
- Air quality standards, 1311, 1974, 7032
  - Hamilton, 503
- Annual reports
  - Environmental Commissioner of Ontario Annual Report, 2006-2007 (Reconciling Our Priorities), 50
  - Environmental Commissioner of Ontario Annual Report, 2007-2008 (Getting to K(no)w), 3487
- Bisphenol A
  - ban, 81
- Climate Change Secretariat, 4629
  - MacLeod, Hugh (associate deputy minister), 2129
- Climatic changes, 1198, 3487, 4628–4629, 6079, 6997–6998
  - government response, 6288
- Contaminated soil, 3879
- Cosmetic Pesticides Ban Act, 2008 (Bill 64)
  - general discussion, 2523, 2643, 5281, 6488
    - consultation with Ontario Pesticides Advisory Committee, 2523
  - first reading, 1241
  - ministerial statement, 1242–1243
  - second reading, 1832–1836
  - third reading, 2621–2624
    - public consultation, 2622–2623
- Debates re answers to oral questions
  - Toxics reduction
    - participation, 8440
- Earth Hour, 566
- Energy
  - renewable energy, 6184
- Energy efficiency
  - Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System, 8960
- Environment industry, 6396
- Environmental assessment process, 3487
- Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, 9497
- Environmental industry, 1050
  - government funding, 2623–2624
- Environmental programs
  - International Carbon Action Partnership, 7290–7291
- Environmental protection, 482, 6396
  - emissions and pollutants from energy-from-waste project in Durham region, 9697
- Environmental Protection Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.E.19
  - Air Pollution - Local Air Quality, O. Reg. 419/05, 1974
- Environmental Protection Act (Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading), 2009 (Bill 185)
  - general discussion, 7031
  - first reading, 6997
  - ministerial statement, 6997–6998
  - second reading, 7287–7294
  - time allocation motion
    - presented, 8955–8961
  - third reading, 9023–9024
- Essar Steel Algoma Inc.
  - pollution control equipment, 1974
- Fires
  - Biedermann Packaging Inc., 24, 1254
    - public inquiries, 2031
- FoodShare
  - Putting Our Best Food Forward, 1198
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - environmental protection, 50, 6287–6288, 8955–8956
    - greenhouse gas emissions reduction, 7288–7289
- Grants, 4152
- Green economy, 5992
- Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 (Bill 150)
  - general discussion, 6184, 8956–8957
- Greenhouse gas emissions
  - reduction, 4628–4629, 6079, 9077–9078
    - cap and trade system (emissions trading), 7031–7032, 7288–7292, 8956–8959
- Hazardous products
  - reduction, 1254
- Lake Simcoe
  - history, 2680
  - protection, 136–137, 2680–2683, 4424, 6287
    - consultation with aboriginal communities, 2682
  - reduction of phosphorous discharge, 2681
- Lake Simcoe Protection Act, 2008 (Bill 99)
  - general discussion, 4424
  - first reading, 2617
  - ministerial statement, 2617–2618
  - second reading, 2680–2683
    - public consultation, 2681
  - third reading, 4337–4340
- Lake Simcoe protection plan, 2618, 2681
- Lake Simcoe science advisory committee, 2618
- Lake Simcoe stakeholder advisory committee, 2618, 2682
- Lake Simcoe watershed
  - environmental protection, 557, 2617–2618
- Landfill sites
  - site 41 (Tiny township)
    - certificate of approval, 7768–7769, 9579
- Members/ministers quoting electronic mail messages
  - Kasperski, Jan (Ontario College of Family Physicians), 2622
  - Suzuki, David (scientist, activist, broadcaster), 1836
- Members/ministers quoting magazine articles
  - Canadian Geographical Journal, 2617
- Members/ministers quoting news media
  - Canadian Press (CP), 7287–7288
- Members/ministers quoting reports
  - Environmental Commissioner of Ontario Annual Report, 2007-2008 (Getting to K(no)w), 3487
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Anderson, Roger (regional chair, regional municipality of Durham), 2683
  - Cement Association of Canada, 8959
  - Dawson, Gavin (chair, Lawncare Commodity Group, Landscape Ontario), 1836
  - Eisenberg, Robert (founding chair, Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition), 2683
  - Forman, Gideon (executive director, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment), 1835
  - Fucile, Wendy (president, Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario), 6288–6290
  - Goodhand, Peter (chief executive officer, Canadian Cancer Society, Ontario division), 1835, 6488
  - Granek, Fred (Ontario Centre for Environmental Technology Advancement), 6289
  - Grinspun, Doris (executive director, Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario), 1835
  - Kasperski, Jan (chief executive officer, Ontario College of Family Physicians), 1835
  - King, Andy (national health, safety and environment coordinator), 6288
  - MacKenzie, Mark (president, Organic Landscape Alliance), 1836
  - McKeown, David (medical officer of health, Toronto), 1835
  - Merson, Sari (Pesticide Free Ontario), 1835
  - Miller, David (mayor, Toronto), 1835
  - Miller, Gord (Environmental Commissioner of Ontario), 50, 4629, 7293–7294
  - Mitchell, Anne (executive director, Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy), 1836
  - Ontario College of Family Physicians, 1833
  - Pearson, Don (general manager, Conservation Ontario), 2683
  - Reycraft, Doug (president, Association of Municipalities of Ontario), 1836
  - Robinson, Peter (chief executive officer, David Suzuki Foundation), 1835
  - Slaight, Annabel (co-founder, Ladies of the Lake), 2682
  - Smith, Rick (executive director, Environmental Defence), 2682–2683, 6288
  - Suzuki, David (scientist, activist, broadcaster), 5281, 6488, 7294
  - Toxics Reduction Scientific Expert Panel, 6288
  - Uetrecht, Connie (executive director, Ontario Public Health Association), 1835
- Ministerial statements, presented
  - Climate change, 4628–4629
  - Earth Day, 6196
  - Earth Week, 1197–1198
  - Environment industry, 1050, 6396
  - Environmental protection, 2617–2618
  - Greenhouse gas emissions, 6997–6998
  - Lake Simcoe watershed, 557
  - Pesticides, 1242–1243
  - Toxics reduction, 5955–5956
  - Waste Reduction Week, 3447
  - World Water Day, 469–470
- Ministers redirecting oral questions, 3875, 3879
- Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
  - Next Generation of Jobs Fund, 1050, 1198
- Ministry of the Environment, 4152
  - community go green fund, 6079–6080
  - project green, 1198
- National Pollutant Release Inventory, 6290
- Nuclear safety
  - Chalk River Laboratories, 4803
- Opposition day motions, responded to
  - Hospital services, 6407–6408
- Oral questions, responded to
  - Air quality, 503, 1311, 1475, 1974, 7772
  - Air-rail link, 7830
  - Climate change, 566, 2129
  - Composting, 5127
  - Contaminated soil, 3879
  - Drive Clean, 7032–7033
  - Electricity supply, 7577–7578
  - Environmental assessment, 2609–2610, 3186, 3487
  - Environmental protection, 50, 482, 1470–1471, 3922–3923, 4152, 5992, 6184, 6488, 9497, 9697
  - Fire in Hamilton, 24, 1254, 2031
  - Food safety, 81
  - Greenhouse gas emissions, 6079–6080, 7031–7032, 9077–9078
  - Hazardous waste, 4804
  - Lake Simcoe, 136–137, 4424
  - Nuclear safety, 4803
  - Pesticides, 1310, 2165, 2523, 2606, 2643–2644, 4250–4251, 5281–5282
  - Propane explosion, 2831–2832, 4245–4246
  - Public transit, 7922
  - Rail line construction, 8499
  - Sewage sludge, 6493
  - Sewage spill, 2238–2239, 2667
  - Sewage treatment, 8070
  - Tire disposal, 606–607, 8109
  - Toxics reduction, 8349, 8497
  - Transit services, 3875
  - Waste disposal, 7768–7769, 8259–8260, 9579
  - Waste diversion, 5780–5781
  - Waste management, 5081, 5665–5666
  - Water quality, 837–838, 995–996, 2087–2088, 6230–6231, 6807
  - Water supply, 3924
- Pension Benefits Amendment Act, 2010 (Bill 236)
  - second reading, 9712
- Pension plans
  - reform, 9713
- Pesticides/herbicides
  - ban on use and sale of cosmetic pesticides, 1242–1243, 1832–1836, 2606, 2643–2644, 5281, 6184, 6196, 6488
    - exemptions, 1243, 1310, 2622–2623
    - regulations, 4250–4251
- Poverty Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 152)
  - second reading, 5259
- Private members' public business
  - Tire disposal
    - responded to, 926–927
- Propane explosions
  - Sunrise Propane
    - air/water quality tests, 4245–4246
    - site cleanup, 2831–2832
- Public education campaigns
  - Earth Day, 6196
  - Earth Week, 1197–1198
  - Waste Reduction Week, 3447
  - World Water Day, 469–470
- Quarries
  - St. Marys Cement's proposal to develop quarry in Flamborough, 3922–3923
- Reports
  - Moving Forward: A Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade System for Ontario (Ministry of the Environment), 7291
  - Progress in a Climate of Change, A Review of Ontario's Climate Change Action Plan (Office of the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario), 4628–4629
  - Toward a Zero Waste Future: Review of Ontario's Waste Diversion Act (Ministry of the Environment), 4804
- School boards
  - governance
    - reform, 7415
- Sewage spills
  - Ottawa River, 2087, 2238, 2667
    - investigations, 2239
  - Sibbald Provincial Park sewage lagoon, 8070
- Social housing
  - retrofit, 7289
- Stewardship Ontario
  - municipal hazardous or special waste program
    - Do What You Can program, 4804
- Student Achievement and School Board Governance Act, 2009 (Bill 177)
  - second reading, 7415
- Time allocation motions
  - Environmental Protection Act (Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading), 2009 (Bill 185)
    - presented, 8955–8961
- Tire tax, 926–927
- Toxic substances
  - reduction plan, 5955–5956, 5992, 6288–6290, 6292, 6380–6381
    - impact on food industry, 8349, 8440
    - regulation and enforcement, 8497
- Toxics Reduction Act, 2009 (Bill 167)
  - general discussion, 8497
  - first reading, 5955
  - ministerial statement, 5955–5956
  - second reading, 6287–6290, 6292, 6376–6377, 6380–6381
- Transit systems
  - air-rail link between Union Station and Pearson airport, 7830, 7922
    - environmental assessment, 3186, 3875
    - public consultation, 3875
  - environmental assessment process, 2609–2610, 3487
  - GO Transit
    - Georgetown south service expansion, 7772, 8499
- United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (Copenhagen), 9078
- United States
  - American Clean Energy and Security Act, 2009, 8958
  - cap and trade system (greenhouse gas emissions trading), 6997
  - Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, 8958
  - Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Act, 6376–6377
- Vehicle emission tests
  - Drive Clean program, 7032–7033
- Waste Diversion Act, S.O. 2002, c.6, 3447
- Waste Diversion Ontario (WDO)
  - electronic waste program, 606–607
  - tire program, 607
- Waste management/programs, 3447, 5081
  - cleanup of Pottersburg Creek PCB storage site, 1470–1471
  - composting, 5127
  - electronic/electrical waste, 926, 5665, 6287
  - hazardous products, 926, 4804, 5665
  - recycling
    - blue box program, 3447
  - tire recycling program, 926–927, 6287–6288, 8109
    - fees, 8259–8260
  - waste diversion, 3447, 6196, 6287
- Water quality
  - acceptable levels of radioactive tritium in drinking water, 6807
- Water quality tests, 837–838
- Water resources management, 3487
- Water supply
  - protection, 470, 1833
    - Colgan, 3924
  - safety, 469
  - source protection, 995
    - impact on farmers, 6230–6231
    - rural Ontario, 995–996
- Websites
  - www.dowhatyoucan.ca, 5780
- Western Climate Initiative, 7291
- Woodstock and District Development Services
  - Forests for Life, 1198
Gravelle, Hon. M. (LIB, Thunder Bay–Superior North)
- Aboriginal-mining company relations, 1252
- Appointments
  - Elman, Irwin (Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth), 2498
- Bankruptcies
  - Buchanan Group of Companies, 8732–8733
  - Grant Forest Products, 9640, 9692
- Colleges of applied arts and technology (CAATs)
  - Confederation College, 3088
- Conferences/seminars/symposiums
  - Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada Conference, 5425
- Court cases/actions
  - Platinex Inc. v. Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation, 7643
- Crossworks Manufacturing Ltd., 5994
- De Beers Canada
  - diamond mine (Victor project), 412, 3184–3185
  - impact benefit agreement, 412
- Diamond industry, 3185
  - diamond-creating centre, 5994
- Economic development
  - northern Ontario, 7771, 8650, 9269
- Employment-related benefits
  - severance/termination payments
    - Buchanan Group of Companies, 8351, 8500–8501, 8732
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Organ Donor Leave), 2009 (Bill 154)
  - second reading, 5368–5369
- Forest industry, 9174
  - government funding, 9639–9640, 9692
  - layoffs, 8149
  - northern Ontario, 8997
  - sawmill closures
    - Tembec sawmill (Smooth Rock Falls), 7828–7829
- Harmonized sales tax
  - impact on northern Ontario, 8997
- Industry shutdowns
  - Sysco Corp. closure of Sturgeon Falls warehouse, 8996–8997
- Investing in Ontario Act, 2008 (Bill 35)
  - second reading, 1034
- Lac Seul First Nation
  - all-season road, 3440–3441
- Legislative procedure
  - division of time, 2193
- Lofthouse Brass Manufacturing Ltd., 1606
- Medical schools
  - Northern Ontario School of Medicine, 3088
- Medical transplants
  - organ and tissue donation, 5369
- Members/ministers quoting statements
  - Beaucage, John (Grand Council Chief), 6490
  - Clark, Garry (executive director, Ontario Prospectors Association), 5425, 6490
  - Phillips, Randall (grand chief, Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians), 4026
  - Toulouse, Angus (regional chief, Chiefs of Ontario), 4026
- Mining Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.M.14, 2085, 2208, 5037–5038, 5626, 6445–6446
  - public consultation, 5626
  - reform consultation, 2783, 4026, 4059
- Mining Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 173)
  - general discussion, 6490
    - public consultation, 6490
  - first reading, 6444
  - ministerial statement, 6445–6446
    - public consultation, 6445
  - second reading, 6523–6528, 6536, 6787, 6795, 6929–6930, 6933–6934
  - third reading, 8051–8054
    - public consultation, 8051
- Mining industry, 412, 505, 1253, 4473–4474, 5278, 5626, 6445, 6524
  - consultation with First Nations, 1253, 1422, 1574–1575, 2085, 2208
    - mining legislation and regulations, 6445–6446, 6525–6526, 6536, 6929, 6934
  - map staking, 6446, 8053
  - mine rehabilitation, 505, 3879
  - mineral exploration and development, 6445–6446
  - mining exploration permit given to Platinex Inc., 1252, 1422
  - provincial-aboriginal relations, 412
  - regulations, 8052
  - surface rights vs. mineral rights, 8054
  - uranium exploration and mining, 5037
- Ministerial statements, presented
  - Mining industry, 412, 5625–5626, 6445–6446
- Ministers redirecting oral questions, 614, 4059, 4648, 6490, 6750
- Ministry of Northern Development and Mines
  - northern Ontario heritage fund, 1715, 2519, 3440–3441, 6751
- Municipal infrastructure
  - government funding, 1034
- Neskantaga First Nation
  - multi-use complex, 3441
- Northern Ontario
  - occupational training, 3088
- Northern Ontario growth plan, 5278
  - public consultation, 2091–2092, 5002
- Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC), 80
  - emerging technology program, 1715–1716
  - northern Ontario entrepreneur program, 6946
  - young entrepreneur program, 7641
- Ontario Northland Transportation Commission, 3735, 6392
  - bus service reduction, 2997
- Oral questions, responded to
  - Aboriginal affairs, 4026
  - Aboriginal rights, 614, 1252, 1421–1422, 1574–1575, 2085, 2207–2208, 7643–7644
  - Bus transportation, 2997
  - Contaminated soil, 3879
  - Diamond industry, 5994
  - Diamond mining, 3184–3185
  - Forest industry, 8500–9501, 9640, 9692
  - Labour dispute, 3376–3377, 3643, 3735
  - Manufacturing and forestry sector jobs, 4858, 7828–7829, 8996–8997
  - Mineral exploration and production, 5037–5038
  - Mining industry, 505, 1252–1253, 1606, 4059, 4473–4474, 5425, 6490, 6945–6946, 9124, 9268, 9548–9549
  - Natural resource industries, 9543
  - Northern economy, 79–80, 654, 5278, 8149, 8650, 9269
  - Northern Ontario, 3088
  - Northern Ontario development, 2091–2092, 5002, 6751, 7771
  - Northern Ontario heritage fund, 1715–1716, 2519, 3440–3441, 7641
  - Ontario Northland Transportation Commission, 6392
  - Public consultation, 2783
  - Termination and severance payments, 8351
- Provincial-aboriginal relations, 1421–1422, 5425
- Public education campaigns
  - organ and tissue donation, 5368
- Reports
  - Northwestern Ontario: Preparing for Change (Robert Rosehart), 654, 6945–6946
- Summit meetings
  - Think North Summit, 5002, 5278
- Vale Inco
  - closure, 4473–4474
- Websites
  - www.placestogrow.ca, 2091
- Xstrata PLC
  - layoffs, 4858
  - shutdown of copper and zinc operations at Kidd Met site, 9124, 9268, 9548–9549
  - strikes, 3376
    - use of Ontario Northland trains, 3643, 3735