Letter: A
Anand, D. (PC, Mississauga—Malton)
- Anti-racism activities
- government strategy, 957
- Appreciation
- Doobay, Dr. Budhendranauth, 1015
- Assistive Devices Program (ADP)
- diabetes
- flash glucose monitors, 1250
- diabetes
- Blood donation
- general remarks, 1308
- Broadband infrastructure development
- Broadband infrastructure development - government funding
- provincial, 2443
- Broadband services
- Broadband services - access to
- minimum level of service, 2318
- Build Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2021 (Bill 43)
- second reading, 861–865
- Business
- Business - COVID-19, government response
- Business investment
- Charities and non-profit organizations
- Community services
- support programs, 1308
- Construction industry
- labour shortage, 1181
- Court administration
- reform, 490
- COVID-19
- public response to, 1308
- COVID-19 - economic recovery
- government strategy, 601
- COVID-19 - government response
- COVID-19 - provincial reopening
- public health measures, 2108
- COVID-19 - vaccination
- vaccination rates
- general remarks, 2107
- vaccination rates
- Dementia and other neurocognitive conditions
- Alzheimer's Disease, 1308
- Diabetes
- Economic development
- general remarks, 1182
- Electric vehicle infrastructure
- charging stations
- general remarks, 1412
- charging stations
- Electric vehicles
- Employment
- Employment - COVID-19
- Employment - COVID-19, sick days
- Employment services
- Employment standards
- Employment standards - annual leave days
- sick days
- in other jurisdictions, 1116
- sick days
- Employment standards - minimum wage
- Fewer Fees, Better Services Act, 2022 (Bill 84)
- Fire safety
- Food security
- Getting Ontario Connected Act, 2022 (Bill 93)
- Government debt
- general remarks, 2441
- Government finances
- gross domestic product (GDP), 2565
- Health care workers
- recruitment and retention
- government funding, 604
- recruitment and retention
- Hindu community
- public education
- Hindu Heritage Month, 1528
- public education
- Hospitals - capacity
- Housing
- government strategy
- general remarks, 1310
- government strategy
- Immigrants
- employment rates, 2565
- Immigrants - access to professions and trades, 602
- Immigration
- economic impact, 2564
- Immigration policy
- Infrastructure Ontario (IO)
- Long-term care - funding
- general remarks, 1309
- Manufacturing industry
- Members' statements
- Members'/ministers' personal narrative, 602, 1307, 2317
- Military
- reservists
- job-protected leave, 2326
- reservists
- Non-profit organizations
- appreciation of, 1558
- Non-Profit Sector Appreciation Week Act, 2021 (Bill 9)
- third reading, 1558
- Occupational health and safety
- Occupational health and safety - COVID-19
- safety plans
- development supports, 1116
- safety plans
- Personal support workers (PSWs)
- Petitions
- Economic recovery, 2025–2026
- Poverty reduction
- government strategy
- general remarks, 1310
- government strategy
- Pre-apprenticeship programs
- Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP)
- government funding, 2565
- Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP)
- Private members' public business
- Fairness for Ontario's Internationally Trained Workers Act, 2022 (Bill 98)
- second reading, 2564–2565
- Jobs and Jabs Act, 2022 (Bill 6)
- second reading, 2107–2108
- Preventing Worker Misclassification Act, 2021 (Bill 28)
- second reading, 990–992
- Stay Home If You Are Sick Act, 2021 (Bill 8)
- second reading, 1115–1116
- Fairness for Ontario's Internationally Trained Workers Act, 2022 (Bill 98)
- Provincial parks
- general remarks, 1024
- Question period
- Regulations - business
- Skilled trades
- Skilled Trades Ontario
- training standardization, 2068
- Skills training
- Skills Development Fund, 2565
- Supporting People and Businesses Act, 2021 (Bill 13)
- second reading, 490
- Temporary employment agencies
- licensing
- general remarks, 992
- licensing
- Temporary workers
- protection of, 992
- Throne speech debate
- participation, 1307–1311
- Tourism industry - COVID-19
- Tributes
- Apostolopoulos, Andreas, 2331
- Working for Workers Act, 2021 (Bill 27)
- stakeholder consultation, 1229
- Working for Workers Act, 2021 (Bill 27)
- Working for Workers Act, 2022 (Bill 88)
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
- Workplace eligibility
- regulations, 1182
- Workplace eligibility
- Anti-racism activities
Andrew, J. (NDP, Toronto—St. Paul's)
- Accessibility standards
- Arts and culture industry
- in the Black community
- Toronto, 1742
- in the Black community
- Black community
- Broadband infrastructure development - government funding
- Build Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2021 (Bill 43)
- third reading, 1663
- Business
- commercial deliveries
- washroom facility access
- exemptions, 1215
- washroom facility access
- commercial deliveries
- Business - COVID-19
- impact on, 1878
- Business - COVID-19, financial assistance
- administration of, 2122
- Business - COVID-19, government response
- small- and medium-sized business
- general remarks, 3332–3333
- small- and medium-sized business
- Charities and non-profit organizations
- Non-Profit Sector Appreciation Week, 1554
- Child care
- Child care - federal-provincial cost agreement
- College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners and Acupuncturists of Ontario (CTCMPAO)
- COVID-19 - essential service workers, compensation
- pandemic pay
- eligibility, 3226
- pandemic pay
- COVID-19 - public health protests
- Curriculum
- Holocaust, 1837
- Developmental services - adult
- Eating disorders
- École Polytechnique
- shooting (December 6, 1989), 1529–1530
- Education - COVID-19, in-school learning
- Emancipation Month Act, 2021 (Bill 75)
- second reading, 1672–1674
- Employment
- Employment - COVID-19
- Employment standards
- Employment standards - annual leave days
- Employment standards - minimum wage
- and cost of living, 1217
- Endometriosis
- Endometriosis Awareness Month Act, 2021 (Bill 58)
- third reading, 1685
- Expenditure estimates
- review of
- time allotment, 2199
- review of
- Fewer Fees, Better Services Act, 2022 (Bill 84)
- second reading, 1878
- Gender Affirming Health Care Advisory Commitee
- creation of, 276
- Gender-based violence
- Getting Ontario Connected Act, 2022 (Bill 93)
- second reading, 2305–2306
- Government expenditures
- planned vs. actual
- FAO report: Expenditure Monitor 2021-22: Q3, 2139
- planned vs. actual
- Government orders
- Legislative reform
- amendment to the amendment
- responded to, 2197–2199
- amendment to the amendment
- Legislative reform
- Government record
- Health care - gender-affirming
- access to, 276
- Health care workers
- Home and community care
- public vs. private delivery models
- general remarks, 2139
- public vs. private delivery models
- Home and community care - government funding
- school-based supports, 193
- Home ownership
- affordability, 2802
- Homelessness
- Housing
- Housing - affordable
- access to, 590
- Housing - co-operative
- general remarks, 2829
- Housing developers
- approvals and permits, timelines
- general remarks, 2829
- approvals and permits, timelines
- Housing development
- Housing market
- impact of speculation, 2827
- Housing policy
- Housing supply
- format diversity, 2827
- Human trafficking
- awareness and prevention, 1742
- Human trafficking - government strategy
- intersectional, 1742
- Human trafficking - survivor services
- legal services
- access to, 1742
- legal services
- Identity documents
- renewal process
- online requirements
- accepted identification, 1540
- online requirements
- renewal process
- Immigration policy
- foreign credentials
- recognition of
- medical professionals, 1218
- recognition of
- foreign credentials
- Intimate partner violence
- Justice system
- systemic racism and, 1673
- Land use planning
- municipal approvals
- application fees, refund of, 2828
- municipal approvals
- Legislative procedure - Standing Orders
- general remarks, 2198
- Legislative process
- legislative agenda, 2197–2198
- Light Rail Transit (LRT) - Eglinton Crosstown
- Long-term care
- residents, advocacy for
- by region
- Toronto, 2815
- by region
- residents, advocacy for
- Long-term care - accountability and oversight
- violations
- penalties
- enforcement, 1550
- penalties
- violations
- Long-term care - administration
- licensing
- renewal contracts
- for-profit providers, 1550
- renewal contracts
- licensing
- Long-term care - COVID-19
- Long-term care - public vs. private
- Long-term care - staff
- recruitment and retention
- government funding, 219–220
- recruitment and retention
- Long-term care - standards of care
- hours of care
- implementation timeline, 1551
- hours of care
- Making Psychotherapy Services Tax-Free Act, 2022 (Bill 120)
- first reading, 3374
- Members' statements
- Members'/ministers' personal narrative, 1672
- Members/ministers quoting
- poetry
- Hello Black Girl (Andrew), 1673
- poetry
- Ministerial statements
- More Homes for Everyone Act, 2022 (Bill 109)
- Motions
- House sittings
- responded to, 3332–3333
- House sittings
- New Democratic Party (NDP)
- housing policy, 2828
- New Democratic Party (NDP) caucus
- notable members, 1742
- Non-profit organizations
- Non-Profit Sector Appreciation Week Act, 2021 (Bill 9)
- third reading, 1554–1555
- Nurses
- recruitment and retention
- general remarks, 193
- recruitment and retention
- Ontario Drug Benefit Program
- take-home cancer drugs
- general remarks, 2637–2638
- take-home cancer drugs
- Opposition day motions
- Optometry and optometrists
- Our London Family Act (Working Together to Combat Islamophobia and Hatred), 2022 (Bill 86)
- Pandemic and Emergency Preparedness Act, 2022 (Bill 106)
- Pay equity
- Personal protective equipment (PPE)
- production
- in Ontario, 3226
- production
- Personal support workers (PSWs)
- working conditions, 805
- Petitions
- Affordable housing, 2281, 3379
- Anti-racism activities, 2227
- Arts and cultural funding, 2179, 2227–2228
- COVID-19 immunization, 782
- Health care, 3195
- Injured workers, 2126–2127
- Land use planning, 1744
- Long-term care, 3195
- Nurses, 1202
- Optometry services, 210, 696, 1153–1154, 3196
- Skills training, 2279–2280
- Social assistance, 3193–3194
- Special-needs students, 1545–1546
- Treaties recognition, 781, 1152
- Police services
- and racism, 1673
- Policy development
- Private members' public business
- Providing More Care, Protecting Seniors, and Building More Beds Act, 2021 (Bill 37)
- Public sector compensation - increase cap
- Public sector compensation increase - cap on
- general remarks, 1219
- Question period
- Anti-Semitism
- presented, 1837
- Cancer treatment
- presented, 2637–2638
- Child care
- presented, 1089–1090
- COVID-19 response
- presented, 1692–1693
- Eating disorders
- presented, 3245
- Government services
- presented, 1540
- Optometry services
- presented, 771–772
- Pay equity
- presented, 3184
- Public transit
- presented, 1196–1197
- Services for persons with disabilities
- presented, 199
- Small business
- presented, 2122–2123
- Tenant protection
- presented, 3365–3366
- Travel industry
- presented, 581–582
- Workplace health and safety
- presented, 2167
- Anti-Semitism
- Racism
- Rent control
- Rental housing
- Rental housing - evictions
- due to renovations
- general remarks, 2828
- due to renovations
- Senior citizens
- housing, affordable, 2827
- Small Business Relief Grant
- Small Business Support Grant
- Speaking Out About Workplace Violence and Workplace Harassment Act, 2021 (Bill 68)
- general remarks, 2198
- Students - special needs
- nursing and rehabilitation services
- nursing shortage, 193
- nursing and rehabilitation services
- Supportive housing
- government strategy, 2827
- Temporary workers
- protection of, 1217
- Tourism and Travel Small Business Support Grant
- Women
- Women in politics
- diversity and representation, 2177
- Working for Workers Act, 2021 (Bill 27)
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
Armstrong, T.J. (NDP, London—Fanshawe)
- Appreciation
- Grannum, Tonia, 1326
- Autism Awareness Day Act, 2021 (Bill 11)
- first reading, 159–160
- Autism services
- Autism services - government funding
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- discrimination against, 2945–2946
- Broadband infrastructure development
- Broadband infrastructure development - government funding
- provincial, 2488
- Child welfare
- education and awareness
- Dress Purple Day, 472–473
- education and awareness
- Children and youth in care
- Community events
- by region
- London–Fanshawe, 458
- by region
- Community housing
- Community housing by region
- London, 1329
- Construction industry
- COVID-19 Memorial Day Act, 2021 (Bill 66)
- first reading, 1477
- COVID-19 - vaccination
- Education - COVID-19
- mental health supports by region
- Thames Valley District Schoolboard, 2381–2382
- mental health supports by region
- Employment standards
- Employment standards - minimum wage
- app-based gig workers
- application during engaged time, 2877
- app-based gig workers
- Financial Accountability Officer (FAO)
- reports
- Ministry of Health: Spending Plan Review (2021), 1910
- reports
- Fuel prices - taxation
- Getting Ontario Connected Act, 2022 (Bill 93)
- Health care services
- wait times
- statements by stakeholders
- news media, 1910
- statements by stakeholders
- wait times
- Health care system
- Health care system - reform
- FAO reports (2021)
- recommendations, 1910
- FAO reports (2021)
- Home and community care
- Hospitals - COVID-19, medical procedures
- backlog, funding for, 1909
- Housing - affordable
- Housing market
- prices
- rate of increase, 1432
- prices
- Keeping Ontario Open for Business Act, 2022 (Bill 100)
- second reading, 2532
- Legislative process
- legislative agenda, 432
- Long-term care
- Long-term care - accountability and oversight
- Long-term care - administration
- emergency preparedness
- infection control, 1496
- emergency preparedness
- Long-term care - COVID-19
- standards of care, 1122
- Long-term care - COVID-19 review commission
- Long-Term Care Homes Public Inquiry (Wettlaufer Inquiry)
- government response to, 1495
- Long-term care - reform
- Long-term care - sector capacity
- priority access
- placement while on wait-list, 1499
- priority access
- Long-term care - staff
- Long-term care - standards of care
- Members' privileges
- special items
- wearing of, 2840
- special items
- Members' statements
- Members/Ministers of Provincial Parliament (MPP)
- Members/ministers quoting
- Mental health and addictions services - children and youth
- service capacity
- wait-lists, 2331
- service capacity
- Mental health and addictions services - funding
- by region
- London, 2382
- by region
- Ministerial statements
- Dress Purple Day
- responded to, 472–473
- Dress Purple Day
- New Democratic Party (NDP)
- Nurses
- Nurses - COVID-19
- burnout and stress, 376–377
- Occupational health and safety
- injury incidents
- app-based gig workers, 2380
- injury incidents
- Ontario Autism Program (2021)
- enrolment rate, 1351
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP)
- benefit rates
- general remarks, 412
- benefit rates
- Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP)
- health cards
- renewal requirements
- identification document eligibility, 1382
- renewal requirements
- health cards
- Opposition day motions
- Optometry and optometrists
- OHIP-covered services
- reimbursement rate
- negotiations, 15–16
- reimbursement rate
- OHIP-covered services
- Pet adoption
- assessment process
- discrimination in, 2945–2946
- assessment process
- Petitions
- Private members' public business
- Protest convoys - Ambassador Bridge
- government response to
- timeline, 2532
- government response to
- Providing More Care, Protecting Seniors, and Building More Beds Act, 2021 (Bill 37)
- Public education campaigns - community
- Non-Profit Sector Appreciation Week, 440–441
- Public sector compensation - increase cap
- health care workers, 1497–1499
- Question period
- Rental housing
- Retirement homes
- long-term-care patients, 1499
- Senior citizens
- Small Business Support Grant
- eligibility, 3044
- Social assistance programs
- Supporting People and Businesses Act, 2021 (Bill 13)
- Tax Relief at the Pumps Act, 2022 (Bill 111)
- Temporary workers
- protection of, 2398
- Throne speech debate
- Time to Care Act (Long-Term Care Homes Amendment, Minimum Standard of Daily Care), 2021 (Bill 14)
- first reading, 160–161
- Tributes
- Ukraine
- invasion of (February 2022)
- government response
- education supports, 1985
- government response
- invasion of (February 2022)
- Working for Workers Act, 2022 (Bill 88)
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
- surplus funds
- general remarks, 2381
- surplus funds
- Appreciation
Arthur, I. (NDP, Kingston and the Islands)
- Arts and culture - COVID-19
- non-profit organizations, 1556
- Business - COVID-19
- essential businesses
- market advantage, 1059
- essential businesses
- Charities and non-profit organizations
- Non-Profit Sector Appreciation Week, 1555
- Child care
- economic impact, 1059–1060
- Community housing
- wait-lists
- general remarks, 1138
- wait-lists
- COVID-19 - government response
- general remarks, 1058
- COVID-19 - vaccination
- Driving - careless/distracted
- Education - COVID-19
- government response
- general remarks, 1060
- government response
- Education - COVID-19, in-school learning
- vaccination policies
- staff
- mandatory vaccination, 323
- staff
- vaccination policies
- Employment - COVID-19
- vaccination policies
- mandatory vaccination, 1058
- vaccination policies
- Employment standards
- Fiera Foods Company
- and temporary workers, 743
- Government notices of motion
- Extension of emergency orders
- responded to, 1057–1060
- Extension of emergency orders
- Government record
- PC (2018-present)
- general remarks, 744
- PC (2018-present)
- Health care workers
- vaccination policies
- mandatory COVID-19 vaccination, 323
- vaccination policies
- Homelessness
- and hospitalization, 1138
- Housing
- as a human right, 589
- Immigration policy
- Intimate partner violence
- Long-term care - accountability and oversight
- violations
- penalties, 797
- violations
- Long-term care - administration
- licensing
- renewal contracts
- for-profit providers, 798
- renewal contracts
- licensing
- Long-term care - COVID-19
- Long-term care - public vs. private
- and COVID-19
- fatalities, 221
- and COVID-19
- Long-term care - reform
- general remarks, 795
- Long-term-care facilities - by site
- Orchard Villa (Peterborough), 796
- Members' statements
- Members'/ministers' personal narrative, 743, 1757
- Minimum wage
- general remarks, 604
- Non-profit organizations
- Non-Profit Sector Appreciation Week Act, 2021 (Bill 9)
- third reading, 1555–1556
- Opposition day motions
- Optometry and optometrists
- Petitions
- Polish community
- Private members' public business
- Lifejackets for Life Act, 2022 (Bill 76)
- second reading, 1757–1758
- Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccinations in the Education and Healthcare Sectors Act, 2021 (Bill 12)
- second reading, 323
- Polish Heritage Month Act, 2021 (Bill 18)
- second reading, 810–811
- Protecting Vulnerable Road Users Act, 2021 (Bill 54)
- second reading, 1173
- Lifejackets for Life Act, 2022 (Bill 76)
- Providing More Care, Protecting Seniors, and Building More Beds Act, 2021 (Bill 37)
- Question period
- Small business
- presented, 294–295
- Small business
- Rental housing - COVID-19
- vaccination policies
- in other jurisdictions, 1059
- vaccination policies
- Reopening Ontario (A Flexible Response to COVID-19) Act, 2020, SO 2020, c 17
- government authority under
- termination date, extension, 1057
- government authority under
- Restaurants
- patio service
- general remarks, 1059
- patio service
- Restaurants - COVID-19
- Small Business Support Grant
- Social assistance programs
- benefit rates
- general remarks, 1138
- benefit rates
- Throne speech debate
- Water - recreational
- Working for Workers Act, 2021 (Bill 27)
- stakeholder consultation, 745
- Working for Workers Act, 2021 (Bill 27)
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
- Arts and culture - COVID-19