Intervenant, lettre v, Index du Journal des débats de la Chambre, législature 43, session 1

Index des intervenants à la Chambre

Letter: V

Vanthof, J. (NDP, Timiskaming—Cochrane)
- Affordable Energy Act, 2024 (Bill 214)
  - second reading, 10059
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 10238–10245
- Affordable housing
  - fourplexes, 8675
- Affordable housing - non-market housing
  - government role in, 5910
- Agricultural industry
  - northern Ontario, 3243
- Agricultural land
  - conversion to non-agricultural uses, 1830, 2335, 2457
    - public response, 1830
  - loss of, 7124
    - annual rate, 1915, 2776–2777
    - daily rate, 4719
  - minimum distance separation, 4720, 4723
  - northern Ontario
    - systematic tile drainage, 3842
    - systemic tile drainage, 7124
  - ownership models, 2777
  - productivity per acre, 1915
- Agricultural land - conservation
  - committee presentations, 1684
  - effect on food security, 1260
  - general remarks, 912, 1916, 2336
  - government strategy, 1376
  - impact on food security, 1513, 1686
  - statements by stakeholders, 1830
- Agricultural land - development on
  - general remarks, 1664–1665, 1686, 1731
  - land availability, 1684, 5115
- Agricultural land - residential lots
  - general remarks, 4478, 4689
  - public consultation, 4720
- Agricultural land - zoning
  - agricultural impact assessments, 1914
    - statements by stakeholders, 1915
  - residential lots, 3748
- Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario Amendment Act, 2024 (Bill 155)
  - consultations
    - stakeholder statements, 8272
  - second reading, 7118–7126
  - third reading, 8267–8275, 8288
- Agriculture industry
  - climate change, impact of, 2337
  - fertilizers, emissions from
    - GHG national target, 912
  - financial protection programs
    - legislative consolidation, 3445
  - human waste management, 5820
  - northern Ontario
    - crop suitability, 2337, 2777
- Agriculture industry - food processing
  - government funding
    - support programs
      - Risk Management Program (RMP), 4630
  - legislation governing, 3445
- Agriculture industry - support programs
  - risk management programs, cap on, 3446
- Agriculture industry - temporary foreign workers
  - employers of
    - treatment of workers, 5569
    - worker dependence on, 5569
  - general remarks, 5569
  - and permanent residency, 5569–5570
- Agri-food facilities
  - biosecurity, 2648
- Agri-food industry
  - Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario, 8268
    - and the public, 8272, 8275
    - research centres, 7118–7125
      - SPUD Unit (New Liskeard), 8269–8271
  - Feeder Cattle Loan Guarantee Program
    - exemptions, 2648–2649
  - government strategy, 7125
  - seed stock
    - importing and exporting, 8288
- Alcohol retail
  - taxation
    - federal, increase, 7706
- Alternate-level-of-care (ALC) patients - transfer to long-term care facilities
  - consent, 579–580
- Animal welfare
  - fines and penalties
    - cost recovery, veterinary services, 3934
  - legislative reform, 4876
- Animal welfare inspectors
  - education and training, 3934
- Animal welfare - livestock
  - farmers, role of, 7850
  - general remarks, 3931–3932
  - inspectors, authority of, 3930
- Animal welfare offences
  - appeal process, 3930
- Appreciation
  - farmers, 8977
  - Modeste, Kevin, 2153
- Automotive industry - manufacturing
  - decline and recovery, 2335–2336
- Bail program reform
  - general remarks, 3341–3342
- Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 (Bill 39)
  - second reading, 1570
  - third reading, 2065
- Board of Internal Economy
  - administrative authority, 1930, 1933
  - authority of, 1930, 1933
  - composition of, 1934
- Budget speech 2023 (March 23, 2023)
  - responded to, 3241–3243, 3266, 3281
- Building a Strong Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 85)
  - third reading, 4320
- Building a Strong Ontario Together Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 146)
  - second reading, 6036–6037, 6079–6082
  - third reading, 6735
- Building Infrastructure Safely Act, 2024 (Bill 153)
  - second reading, 6647, 6660
- Building More Mines Act, 2023 (Bill 71)
  - second reading, 2659, 2688–2692
  - third reading, 4141
- Building Ontario For You Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 216)
  - second reading, 10136–10137
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 10238–10245
- Cap-and-trade program
  - general remarks, 6185, 8273
- Cap-and-trade program - cancellation
  - and the federal carbon tax, 6185–6186, 8033–8034, 8765
- Carbon pricing programs, provincial
  - Emissions Performance Standards program, 8033, 8273–8274, 8769
    - revenue, use of, 8034
  - referendum, 8765–8766
  - revenue, use of, 8765
- Carbon tax
  - economic impact - food prices, 5724–5725
  - emission reductions, impact on, 6187
  - on food-related industries, 5725
  - general remarks, 8273, 8766
  - home heating, impact on cost of, 8768
- Climate change
  - agricultural industry, impact on, 8275
  - and winter, 7122
- Climate change - cost of
  - general remarks, 7342
- Committee procedure
  - membership
    - selection process, 264–265
- Committee procedure - standing committees of the Legislature
  - members
    - selection of, 7423–7424
- Committee process
  - and public consultation, 4584
- Convenient Care at Home Act, 2023 (Bill 135)
  - second reading, 5636–5637
- Correctional facilities
  - tours of, by members, 4754
- Correctional facilities - inmates
  - demographics of
    - pretrial detention, 3932, 4755
- Correctional services
  - religious and spiritual supports, access, 4754–4755
- Cost of living
  - affordability
    - and the climate crisis, 6289–6290
  - government strategy, 6081
  - northern Ontario, 6187
- COVID-19
  - societal impact, 3444
- Crime
  - socio-economic factors
    - and policing of, 3929, 3934
- Dairy industry
  - regulatory environment, 3444
  - temperature regulations
    - milk, 3444
  - Thornloe Cheese
    - closure of, 5907, 9281
- Dogs
  - hunting skills, training and trialing facilities
    - licensing, 4630–4631
- Douglas, Tommy
  - general remarks, 2456, 2458
- Driver education
  - winter conditions, 5223
- Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve Act, 2005, SO 2005, c 30
  - repeal of
    - statements by stakeholders, 2121
- Education funding
  - government strategy, 9069
- Election Finances Amendment Act (Quarterly Allowances), 2024 (Bill 220)
  - second reading, 10295–10296
- Elections
  - funding
    - large donors, 10295
    - public, 10295–10296
  - voter demographics
    - impact on policy, 10296
- Employment standards
  - disclosure
    - AI, use during recruitment process, 6586
- Enbridge Gas
  - connection cost recovery
    - revenue horizon for, 7341
- Enbridge gas - natural gas rate application denial
  - OEB decision, 9137–9138
- End the Public Funding of Partisan Government Advertising Act, 2024 (Bill 176)
  - first reading, 7840
- Enhancing Professional Care for Animals Act, 2024 (Bill 171)
  - second reading, 7823–7824, 7843–7850, 7903
  - third reading, 9277–9284
- Fire safety
  - smoke detectors, 5064–5065
- Fire Safety
  - smoke detectors
    - Test Your Smoke Alarm Day, 8510
- Flooding
  - Elliot Lake, 4698
  - and home insurance industry, 1685
  - by region
    - Timiskaming–Cochrane, 8473
- Food banks - usage
  - general remarks, 7077
- Food prices
  - price gouging, 5725–5726, 9172
- French-language debates
  - Loi de 2024 sur l’amélioration des soins professionnels prodigués aux animaux, projet de loi 171
    - deuxième lecture, 7843
  - Pétitions
    - Détachement de la PPO, 2316, 3621
- Fuel prices - taxation
  - rate reduction, 8766
- Get It Done Act, 2024 (Bill 162)
  - second reading, 7450, 7575–7577
  - third reading, 8761–8769
- Government accountability and transparency
  - personal phone use, Premier, 5580, 5583
- Government advertising
  - health care, 7920–7921
  - partisan, 7921, 7946
- Government finances
  - contingency funds
    - use of, 6081
- Government notices of motion
  - Appointment of House officers / Committee membership
    - responded to, 256–257, 264–265
  - Attacks on Israel
    - amendment to the amendment
      - responded to, 5394–5395
  - Bail reform
    - amendment
      - responded to, 3340–3342
  - Legislative reform
    - responded to, 8017–8020
- Government orders
  - Taxation
    - responded to, 6185–6187
- Government record - Liberal (2003-2018)
  - government contracts, 8763
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - greenbelt, 1687
- Greenbelt
  - boundary adjustments, reversal, 5908
- Greenbelt - boundary adjustments, process
  - accountability and transparency, 5909
  - general remarks, 5908
- Greenbelt - development on
  - general remarks, 1260–1261
  - land swap, 1686
- Greenbelt Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 136)
  - second reading, 5907–5911
  - time allocation motion
    - amendment
      - responded to, 6926–6928
    - amendment to the amendment
      - presented, 6928
- Greenbelt Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 136)
  - legislative process, motions
    - time allocation, 6927
- Hazel McCallion Act (Peel Dissolution), 2023 (Bill 112)
  - legislative process, motions
    - time allocation, 4583, 4585
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 4583–4585
- Health care
  - access, 3535–3536
- Health care - Northern Health Travel Grant
  - reimbursement rates, 7490
- Health care - primary care
  - access
    - northern Ontario
      - statements by stakeholders, 3242
  - service coordination, team-based
    - delivery of
      - northern Ontario, 2660
- Health care services
  - availability of
    - northern Ontario, 3242
- Heart disease
  - education and awareness, 3535–3536
- Helping Homebuyers, Protecting Tenants Act, 2023 (Bill 97)
  - third reading, 4689, 4719–4723
- Highway 11
  - closures, 3424
  - truck traffic, 8768
- Highway 407 ETR
  - tolls, 8766
- Highway 413
  - agricultural impact, 718
- Highways
  - classification of, 1399
- Highways and roads
  - municipal
    - uploading to province, 8763–8764
- Highways and roads - infrastructure
  - Highway 11/17
    - closures
      - effect on agri-business, 8275
- Highways and roads - maintenance and repair
  - jurisdiction, 6873, 10118–10119
    - northern Ontario, 6689
- Highways and roads safety
  - and commercial trucks, 4158
  - government strategy, 7126
  - Highway 11, 7121–7122
  - Highway 11/17, 3791, 6688
  - impact on animal transport, 7125
  - northern Ontario, 3241–3243
    - driver fatalities, 2145
  - Trans-Canada Highway
    - northern Ontario, 6430
- Highways and roads - snow clearance
  - plow operators
    - prohibition against passing, 3443, 4630
  - snow clearance, standard, 2145
    - Highway 11/17, 1399–1400
- Home and community care
  - patients
    - hygiene and personal care, 443
- Home heating
  - affordability and climate mitigation initiatives, 6186
  - affordability programs
    - heat pump subsidies, 6289–6290
    - HST exemption, 6185–6186
  - transition from natural gas to electric, 9137–9140
- Honouring Our Veterans Act, 2023 (Bill 65)
  - third reading, 5676
- Housing Affordability Task Force
  - recommendations
    - land availability, 5911
- Housing development - approvals and permits
  - timelines, 148
- Housing development - construction
  - government strategy, 7077
  - land availability, 1684–1685, 2336
- Housing development - municipal charges
  - development charges, exemptions and discounts
    - transferal of costs, taxes, 1665, 1685
- Human trafficking - labour trafficking
  - government response, 3146
- Improving Real Estate Management Act, 2024 (Bill 151)
  - second reading, 6380
- Infrastructure Ontario (IO)
  - real estate services
    - management of, 2586
- Judicial education
  - sexual assault law, intimate partner violence and coercive control, 3930
    - legislative process, 4877
- Justice system
  - pretrial detention
    - inmate acquittal supports, 4755
- Keeping Energy Costs Down Act, 2024 (Bill 165)
  - second reading, 7340–7342
  - third reading, 9136–9140
- Keeping Students in Class Act, 2022 (Bill 28)
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 1164–1165
- Land use planning
  - zoning, 1915, 1919
- Land use planning - environmental assessments
  - consultation process, 2584–2585
- Land use planning - environmental assessments, class environment assessments
  - 30-day review period, ministerial waiver
    - parameters, 3790–3791, 3844
  - 30-day review period, purpose of, 3843
    - public consultation, 2585
- Land use planning - municipal official plans
  - urban boundary expansion, 8766–8767
    - and housing development, 5115
- Legislative Assembly
  - role in legislative process, 2821
  - social significance, 2820, 2824
  - visitors experience, 2823
- Legislative Assembly Amendment Act, 2022 (Bill 51)
  - second reading, 1930–1935
- Legislative Assembly - facility
  - social significance, 4157
- Legislative Assembly - facility rehabilitation
  - accessibility standards, 2824
  - architectural design, 2823
  - relocation process, 2821
  - restoration records
    - FIPPA compliance, exemptions, 4157
- Legislative Assembly - facility rehabilitation, project planning process
  - general remarks, 4157
  - oversight and coordination of
    - governance structure, 2822
    - non-partisanship, 4156
- Legislative precinct
  - members' office space, availability of, 1935
- Legislative procedure
  - agenda/schedule, 3441
  - petitions
    - member to summarize contents, 7789, 8199–8200
- Legislative procedure - bills
  - omnibus bills, 3443
- Legislative procedure - committees
  - legislative timelines, 2459
- Legislative procedure - motions
  - hours of House, 7076–7078
  - time allocation, 4584, 6926–6927
- Legislative procedure - order and decorum
  - allegations against member, 2804–2805
- Legislative procedure - Standing Orders
  - presiding officers, selection of, 256–257
    - historically, 256
    - "on the advice of," interpretation of, 256
    - from recognized opposition parties, 256
  - reforms, 8020
- Legislature - staff
  - Legislative Protective Service
    - peace officers, 4157
  - Precinct Properties Branch, director
    - Bajcetic, Jelena, 2821
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Economy Act, 2023 (Bill 91)
  - second reading, 3441–3448, 3470, 3492, 3513
  - third reading, 4629–4632
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 46)
  - second reading, 1731
  - third reading, 2648–2649
- Locates
  - construction costs, impact on, 6647
  - timelines, 6660
- Manufacturing industry - facility development
  - approvals and permits
    - process, 2335, 2457
- Members' statements
  - Agri-food industry, 8977
  - Connell, Craig, 7546
  - Flooding, 4698, 8473
  - Government accountability, 5583
  - Highway improvement, 3424
  - Highway safety, 3791, 4158, 4321–4322, 6430–6431
  - Hospital funding, 7999
  - Lei, Victor, 3134
  - Member's wedding anniversary, 9420–9421
  - Modeste, Kevin, 2153
  - Northern health services, 2660
  - Ontario Agriculture Week, 5314
  - Township of Armstrong sewage lagoon, 282, 1366, 1704
  - Trucking industry, 10429
  - Visit to West Flanders, 9985–9986
- Members'/ministers' conduct
  - conflict of interest
    - appearance of, 4204–4205
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 4874–4875
- Members/ministers quoting
  - committee presentations
    - More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 (Bill 23), 1684
  - letters
    - presiding officers, selection of, 257
  - other members
    - agricultural impact assessments, 1915
    - agricultural land, residential lots, 4720
    - government advertising, partisan, 7946
  - songs
    - Too Bad (Doug and the Slugs), 5909
- Mental health and addictions services
  - access to, 9942–9943
  - universal coverage, 9942
- Mining industry
  - Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd., 2690
  - by region
    - Timiskaming—Cochrane, 2457
  - regulatory environment, 6036
- Mining industry - Indigenous consultation and consent, 8764
- Mining infrastructure
  - environmental assessment
    - Adams Mine Landfill, 3841–3842
- Mining sites - closure plans
  - ministerial authority, 2690
  - technical review by qualified professions, 2691–2692
- Mining sites - development
  - timelines, 2688, 2691
- Ministerial statements
  - Police Week
    - responded to, 4269
  - Region of Peel
    - responded to, 4454–4455
  - Test Your Smoke Alarm Day
    - responded to, 5064–5065
- More Beds, Better Care Act, 2022 (Bill 7)
  - third reading, 579–580
- More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 (Bill 23)
  - third reading, 1664–1665, 1684–1687
- Motions
  - Committee membership (carried)
    - responded to, 7423–7424
  - Committee sittings (carried)
    - responded to, 4985
  - House and committee sittings
    - responded to, 9658
  - House sittings (carried)
    - responded to, 4985, 7076–7078
- Municipal by-laws
  - passage
    - prescribed number of councillors, 1570, 2065
- Municipal finances
  - taxes
    - Ontario Provincial Police
      - Cobalt, 10273
- Municipal finances - reserve fund
  - development charges, 1665
  - purpose of, 1685
- Municipal governance
  - reform, 1686
- Municipal governance - structure
  - type
    - roles and responsibilities, 4585
- Municipal restructuring - Peel Region
  - public consultation, 4583–4584
- Natural gas
  - use of
    - northern and rural Ontario, 9136, 9140
    - in other jurisdictions, 7341
- New Deal for Toronto Act, 2023 (Bill 154)
  - time allocation motion
    - amendment
      - responded to, 6926–6928
    - amendment to the amendment
      - presented, 6928
- New Deal for Toronto Act, 2023 (Bill 154)
  - legislative process, motions
    - time allocation, 6927–6928
- 911 services
  - availability of, 8510
- Nurses - temporary agencies
  - salaries, 6080
  - wage premiums, 7999
- 1204755 Ontario Limited Act, 2022 (Bill Pr3)
  - first reading, 823–824
  - second reading, 2139
  - third reading, 2139
- 1753461 Ontario Ltd. Act, 2023 (Bill Pr14)
  - first reading, 2194
  - second reading, 3388
  - third reading, 3388
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP)
  - access, barriers, 3470
- Ontario Energy Board
  - role, 9136–9137
- Ontario English Catholic Teachers Assoc. v His Majesty, 2022, ONSC 6658
  - judgment, Superior Court of Justice (ONSC)
    - government appeal, 3266
- Ontario Health atHome
  - regional organizations, consolidation into
    - and regional diversity, 5636–5637
- Ontario Infrastructure Bank
  - general remarks, 6079–6080
- Ontario Place - redevelopment
  - liability protections, 6927–6928
- Opposition day motions
  - Affordable housing
    - responded to, 8675
  - Climate change
    - responded to, 6289–6290
  - Education funding
    - responded to, 9069
  - Government advertising
    - responded to, 7945–7946
  - Health care
    - responded to, 2396
  - Mental health services
    - responded to, 9942–9943
- Parliamentary privilege
  - waiving of, 872
- Petitions
  - Government advertising, 7893
  - Highway maintenance, 10055
  - Land use planning, 3553, 4715
  - Probation and parole services, 2498, 2610
- Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 2)
  - second reading, 245
- Planning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 150)
  - second reading, 6342
  - time allocation motion
    - amendment
      - responded to, 6926–6928
    - amendment to the amendment
      - presented, 6928
- Planning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 150)
  - legislative process, motions
    - time allocation, 6927
- Police officers
  - appreciation for, 4269
  - roles and responsibilities
    - scope of, 4878
  - supports for, 4684
- Police officers - employment
  - hiring process, educational requirements, 4876
    - secondary school diploma, 3929
  - recruitment and retention
    - barriers to, 4877
- Police officers - fatalities
  - Mueller, Eric (Ontario Provincial Police), 4269
- Police officers - occupational health and safety
  - mental health supports, 3933
  - post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
    - impact on, 3929
- Police services
  - crisis intervention partnerships
    - mental health and addictions, 3930
  - detachments, access
    - northern and rural Ontario, 3929
  - government funding, 4684
  - northern Ontario, 4683
  - recruitment and retention
    - facts affecting, 3929
- Police services - community relations
  - crisis intervention, alternatives, 4684
- Policy development
  - stakeholder responses, 4877
- Post-secondary education
  - policies and reporting
    - ministerial authority, 8895–8896
- Private members' motions
  - Taxation
    - responded to, 6185–6187
- Private members' public business
  - Agricultural labour policy
    - responded to, 5568–5570
  - Agri-food industry
    - responded to, 912–913
  - Change of Name Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 138)
    - second reading, 6039
  - Farmland and Arable Land Strategy Act, 2023 (Bill 62)
    - second reading, 2776–2778
  - general remarks, 8019
  - Growing Agritourism Act, 2024 (Bill 186)
    - second reading, 8898–8899
  - Harvest Season Road Safety Week Act, 2023 (Bill 143)
    - second reading, 7087
  - Highway construction
    - responded to, 718–719
  - Making Northern Ontario Highways Safer Act, 2022 (Bill 43)
    - second reading, 2145
  - No Time to Waste Act (Plan for Climate Action and Jobs), 2022 (Bill 14)
    - second reading, 1513
  - Orthodox Christian Week Act, 2024 (Bill 167)
    - second reading, 7813
  - Police funding
    - responded to, 4683–4684
  - Protecting Agricultural Land Act, 2022 (Bill 27)
    - second reading, 1914–1916, 1919
  - Religious and spiritual services in correctional facilities
    - responded to, 4754–4755
  - Strengthening Members' Integrity Act, 2023 (Bill 100)
    - second reading, 4204–4205
  - Taxation
    - responded to, 5724–5726, 7706, 8032–8034
  - Test Your Smoke Alarm Day Act, 2024 (Bill 177)
    - second reading, 8510–8511
  - Winter highway maintenance
    - responded to, 1399–1400
- Protecting Agricultural Land Act, 2022 (Bill 27)
  - first reading, 942
  - stakeholder response, 1915
- Public assets
  - centralization, entities, 3843
- Public libraries
  - government funding, 2448
- Public Order Emergency Commission
  - appearance before
    - Premier and Solicitor General, 872
- Public sector compensation - increase cap, health care workers
  - impact on retention, 3242–3243
- Queen's Park Restoration Act, 2023 (Bill 75)
  - second reading, 2819–2824
  - third reading, 4156–4158
- Question period
  - Consumer protection
    - presented, 9172
  - Government policies
    - presented, 2121
  - Health care
    - presented, 7920–7921
  - Health care funding
    - presented, 10445
  - Highway safety
    - presented, 5223, 6688–6689, 7148–7149
  - Home care
    - presented, 443
  - Land use planning
    - presented, 1260–1261, 1376, 1830, 3748, 8699
  - Library services
    - presented, 2447–2448
  - Municipal finances
    - presented, 4328
  - Municipal funding
    - presented, 10273
  - Municipal planning
    - presented, 5115
  - Northern Health Travel Grant
    - presented, 7490
  - Northern municipal infrastructure
    - presented, 10118–10119
  - Nutrient management
    - presented, 5820
  - Ontario farmers
    - presented, 4478
  - Protection for workers
    - presented, 3146
  - Public Order Emergency Commission
    - presented, 872
  - Township of Armstrong sewage lagoon
    - presented, 641
  - Winter highway maintenance
    - presented, 6873
- Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 (Bill 212)
  - second reading, 10024–10025
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 10238–10245
- Reducing Inefficiencies Act (Infrastructure Statute Law Amendments), 2023 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 2583–2586
  - third reading, 3790–3791, 3841–3844
- Regulatory policy
  - general remarks, 3442
- Ring of Fire development
  - Indigenous consultation and consent, 2459
  - road infrastructure, 3241, 7078, 8765, 8768
- Road safety
  - northern Ontario, 3241–3243
    - driver fatalities, 2145
- Rouge National Urban Park
  - government obligations, Parks Canada, 2121
- Safer Roads and Communities Act, 2024 (Bill 197)
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 9946–9951
- Schools - violence in
  - prevalence, 9069
- Sergeant-at-Arms
  - appointment, removal and suspension, 1932
- Sewage and wastewater management
  - sewage lagoons
    - consultation process, 3842–3843
    - by region
      - Temiskaming-Cochrane, 9281–9282
      - Timiskaming-Cochrane
        
        approval process, 641, 2584
      - Timiskaming–Cochrane, 282, 1366, 1704
- Speaker
  - election of, 1929–1930
- St. Thomas - Central Elgin Boundary Adjustment Act, 2023 (Bill 63)
  - second reading, 2334–2337
  - legislative process, 2335
  - scheduling and agendas, 2334–2337
  - third reading, 2456–2459
- Standing Orders
  - definition, 8017
  - reforms (2019)
    - questions during debate, 8017
    - responses to questions, 8018
    - schedule, 8018
  - reforms (2024)
    - 24(a) Rising to speak in English, French, or an Indigenous language, 8018
    - 40(e) Ministerial statements - Official Opposition and independent Member(s) comments, 8019
    - 42(b) Petitions - Member to summarize contents, 8018–8020
    - 109.1(a) Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, 8019–8020
- Strengthening Accountability and Student Supports Act, 2024 (Bill 166)
  - third reading, 8894–8896
- Strengthening Cyber Security and Building Trust in the Public Sector Act, 2024 (Bill 194)
  - time allocation motion
    - responded to, 9946–9951
- Strengthening Safety and Modernizing Justice Act, 2023 (Bill 102)
  - second reading, 3927–3934
  - scope of, 4877
  - third reading, 4874–4878
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022
  - scope of, 148–149
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022 (Bill 3)
  - second reading, 147–149
  - scope of, 148–149
- Surgical procedures
  - operating rooms, service capacity
    - funding, 2396
- Tax credits
  - Ontario Focused Flow-Through Share Tax Credit, 6036
- Time allocation motions
  - Affordable Energy Act, 2024 (Bill 214)
    - responded to, 10238–10245
  - Building Ontario For You Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 216)
    - responded to, 10238–10245
  - Greenbelt Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 136)
    - amendment
      - responded to, 6926–6928
    - amendment to the amendment
      - presented, 6928
  - Hazel McCallion Act (Peel Dissolution), 2023 (Bill 112)
    - responded to, 4583–4585
  - Keeping Students in Class Act, 2022 (Bill 28)
    - responded to, 1164–1165
  - New Deal for Toronto Act, 2023 (Bill 154)
    - amendment
      - responded to, 6926–6928
    - amendment to the amendment
      - presented, 6928
  - Planning Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 150)
    - amendment
      - responded to, 6926–6928
    - amendment to the amendment
      - presented, 6928
  - Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024 (Bill 212)
    - responded to, 10238–10245
  - Safer Roads and Communities Act, 2024 (Bill 197)
    - responded to, 9946–9951
  - Strengthening Cyber Security and Building Trust in the Public Sector Act, 2024 (Bill 194)
    - responded to, 9946–9951
- Tourism industry
  - agri-tourism
    - liability protections, 8898
- Tributes
  - Allison, Shane, 2145
  - Connell, Craig, 7546
  - Fox, Gary (former member for Prince Edward—Lennox-South—Hastings), 2218
  - Lei, Victor, 3134
  - Makarchuk, Mitro (former member for Brantford), 585–586
  - McClelland, Carman (former member for Brampton North), 587
  - Miller, Gordon Irvin (former member for Norfolk), 832–833
  - Murdoch, Bill (Bruce–Grey–Owen Sound), 4236
  - Pollock, James (former member for Hastings-Peterborough), 626
  - Pope, Alan William (former member for Cochrane South), 1567–1568
  - Riddell, John Keith (former member of Huron), 7117
  - Wiseman, Douglas Jack (former member for Lanark–Renfrew), 834
- Trucking industry
  - road safety
    - government strategy, 7148–7149
- Trucks - commercial
  - safety inspections
    - results of, 7148
- Unhoused persons
  - prevalence of
    - by region
      - Timiskaming–Cochrane, 3932–3933
  - by region
    - Cochrane, 2458
- University of Guelph
  - debt and deficit, 8895
- Unorganized land
  - infrastructure development
    - Indigenous consultation, 4722
    - inspectors, 4721–4723
  - regulatory environment, 3442
- Veterans
  - notable people, 5676
- Veterinarians
  - large animal
    - working conditions, 7843–7844, 7846
  - shortage, 7846
- Veterinarians and veterinary technicians
  - education and training
    - government funding, 9279
    - Guelph-Lakehead University partnership, 9282–9283
  - non-veterinary practitioners, 9278–9280
  - shortage
    - northern and rural Ontario, 9279
  - veterinary technicians
    - recognition, formal, 9278
- Veterinary services
  - access to
    - low-income populations, 7848–7849
  - chiropractic, 7848
  - medication costs, 9284
  - non-profit run, 9281
  - zoos and wild and exotic animals, 9283
- Veterinary technicians
  - registered, 7846–7847
    - scope of practice, 7849
- Wilmot township
  - agricultural land expropriation, 8699
  - agricultural land, expropriation, 8767–8768
- Working for Workers Four Act, 2024 (Bill 149)
  - second reading, 6586
Vaugeois, L. (NDP, Thunder Bay—Superior North)
- Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005, SO 2005, c 11
  - compliance with
    - independent reviews and recommendations, 2961
- Accessibility standards
  - legislated targets
    - Independent 4th Review of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), Final Report (2023), 7103
- Advocate for Older Adults Act, 2023 (Bill 101)
  - first reading, 3676
- Affordable Energy Act, 2024 (Bill 214)
  - second reading, 10071
- Affordable Homes and Good Jobs Act, 2023 (Bill 134)
  - third reading, 6683, 6840–6844, 6854–6855
- Affordable housing
  - co-operative housing, 5681–5682
  - northern Ontario, 2861
  - small and rural communities
    - government strategy, 5906
- Affordable housing - access
  - general remarks, 174
- Affordable housing - by region
  - Sudbury, 3625
  - Thunder Bay, 4676
    - government funding, 6683
    - for seniors, 8652
- Affordable housing - development of
  - co-operative housing, 8652
  - federal government funding
    - by region
      - Thunder Bay, 8415
  - modular housing, 8652
- Agricultural land - conservation
  - impact on food security, 1659, 1664
- Agricultural land - development on
  - general remarks, 1659
- Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario Amendment Act, 2024 (Bill 155)
  - third reading, 8275, 8282, 8292–8294
- Agri-food industry
  - Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario
    - name change, 8292
    - research centres
      - Lakehead University Agricultural Research Station, 8292
  - food waste, 8282
- Alternate-level-of-care (ALC) patients
  - impact on hospital resources, 404
- Alternate-level-of-care (ALC) patients - transfer to long-term care facilities
  - admission process, 404, 570
  - consent
    - assessments, 402
    - transfer to a non-preferred home, 402
- Alternate-level-of-care (ALC) patients - transfer to long-term care facilities, non-preferred home
  - public consultation, 404
  - statements from stakeholders, 403
- Animal welfare
  - OSPCA vs. PAWS, 8542–8543
  - transparency in services, 8543–8544
- Appreciation
  - Suomi Koti of Thunder Bay, 629
- Arts and culture industry - government funding
  - general remarks, 7639–7640
- Autism services
  - service capacity
    - regional availability
      - northern Ontario, 3196
- Automated external defibrillators (AEDs)
  - in long-term care homes, 4422
- Better for Consumers, Better for Businesses Act, 2023 (Bill 142)
  - second reading, 5957, 5963–5965
- Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 (Bill 39)
  - second reading, 1542
- Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act, 2023 (Bill 98)
  - second reading, 3695, 3698–3702
  - third reading, 4887, 4936, 4941, 4950, 4952–4954
- Bridges
  - maintenance and repair
    - Ginoogaming First Nation, 10336
- Broadband infrastructure development - funding
  - general remarks, 3474
- Budget 2022/2023
  - climate change, 619
  - Indigenous affairs, 237
- Budget 2023/2024
  - correctional services
    - post-release supports, 3211
  - doctors, 4354
  - education, 4403
  - housing, 3162
- Budget 2024/2025
  - arts and culture, 8000
- Budget speech 2024 (March 26, 2024)
  - responded to, 8070, 8073, 8084
- Building a Better Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2024 (Bill 180)
  - third reading, 9190–9194
- Building a Strong Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2023 (Bill 85)
  - second reading, 3162, 3210–3211
  - third reading, 4346, 4352–4355, 4361, 4403
- Building Infrastructure Safely Act, 2024 (Bill 153)
  - second reading, 6659
  - third reading, 7169, 7215
- Building More Mines Act, 2023 (Bill 71)
  - second reading, 2688, 2694–2695, 2712, 2756, 2763–2765
  - Indigenous communities response, 3472–3473, 4353
  - Indigenous communities' response, 3472–3473, 4353
- Cabinet ministers
  - mandate letters, release of, 3698
- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
  - rights under
    - freedom of association
      - collective bargaining, 1105
- Career colleges
  - private career colleges
    - "private," removal, 3472
- Child welfare
  - abuse and neglect
    - duty to report, 9446
- Children and youth in care
  - fatalities, 9437
  - foster and group homes
    - for-profit vs. not-for-profit, 9446–9447
  - Ombudsman of Ontario, role of
    - vs. Ontario Child Advocate, 9451
- Children and youth in care - Indigenous
  - general remarks, 9447
- Climate change
  - government strategy, 5071
- Colleges and universities
  - government funding
    - requirements for, 6842
- Congregate care facilities
  - evictions, 9444–9446
  - facility access restrictions
    - caregivers, 9444–9446
      - government response, 9445
- Conservation authorities
  - mandate and oversight, 1658–1659
    - flood mitigation, 1555–1556
  - role in development process
    - authority and jurisdiction, 924
- Conservation officers
  - employment status
    - reclassification, 4710, 6276
- Consumer protection
  - contracts
    - standardization, 5963
  - gift cards, 5964
  - notices of security interest (NOSIs)
    - HVAC equipment, 5957
  - time shares
    - exit option, 5964
- Consumption and treatment services
  - clinics, for-profit vs. not-for-profit, 2152
  - methadone clinics
    - for-profit vs. not-for-profit, 1874
  - mobile crisis intervention units, 1874
- Consumption and treatment services - sites
  - closure, 9984–9985
- Contraception
  - free access
    - impact on health care costs, 6827
- Convenient Care at Home Act, 2023 (Bill 135)
  - second reading, 5644
  - third reading, 6600
- Co-operative housing
  - mixed-income residents, 8415
- Coroners
  - postmortem examinations
    - availability by region
      - Thunder Bay, 6906
- Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act, 2024 (Bill 185)
  - second reading, 8413–8417
- Cybersecurity
  - privacy commissioner
    - recommendations, 9822
- Developmental services - adult
  - supportive housing
    - access, 3139–3140
    - wait-time, 3140
- Doctors
  - administrative responsibilities, 7748
  - shortage
    - Northern Ontario, 7748
- Dogs
  - and Indigenous communities, 8544
- Driver examination centers
  - standards and oversight, 7485–7486
- Early childhood educators (ECEs)
  - compensation, increase
    - timelines, 8426
  - shortage
    - by region
      - Thunder Bay, 8426
- Education - class sizes
  - general remarks, 4936
  - impact on students, 3699, 3701
- Education funding
  - allocation, 3700
  - general remarks, 3699, 4941, 4950
  - government strategy, 9071
- Education funding - special education
  - accessibility
    - by region
      - Thunder Bay, 4954
  - funding models, 3700
  - general remarks, 3701
- Education - student outcomes
  - government strategy, 3700
  - performance metrics
    - factors affecting, 3702
- Education system
  - standardization, 3700–3701
- Education workers
  - mental health, 1062
  - shortage
    - impact on schools, 9191
- Education workers - collective bargaining
  - back-to-work legislation
    - impact on labour rights, 1099
- Education workers - role in schools
  - general remarks, 1099
- Elder abuse
  - prevention, 4422
    - community organizations, funding, 2670–2671
- Employment
  - gig workers
    - classification, 6844
- Employment standards
  - general remarks, 994
  - lost wage claims
    - enforcement, 5072
- Enhancing Access to Justice Act, 2024 (Bill 157)
  - second reading, 6906
- Enhancing Professional Care for Animals Act, 2024 (Bill 171)
  - second reading, 7854
- Financial Accountability Office (FAO)
  - reports
    - 2020-2021 Inter-provincial Comparison, 403
    - Expenditure Monitor 2021-2022: Q1, 403
    - Expenditure Monitor 2021-2022: Q4, 403
- Fire rangers
  - fire season as one year, 10271
  - job reclassification, 5464, 7303
  - occupational health and safety, 7235
  - recruitment and retention
    - bonus, 8010
    - government strategy, 9004
- Firefighters and fire services
  - recruitment and retention
    - statement by stakeholders, 5070–5071
- Food banks - usage
  - rates, 5280
- Food prices
  - price gouging, 5964–5965
- French-language debates
  - Déclarations des députées et députés
    - Affaires francophones, 3244–3245
    - La francophonie à Thunder Bay, 8977
  - Loi de 2022 pour favoriser le développement (mesures budgétaires), projet de loi 2
    - deuxième lecture, 233
  - Pétitions
    - Aide sociale, 7211
- Fuel prices
  - affordability
    - northern Ontario, 1675–1676
- Gender equity
  - and access to contraception, 6827
- Gender-based violence
  - support services, 2715
    - access
      - northern Ontario, 7653
- GO Transit
  - accessibility, 3411
- GO Transit - stations
  - construction
    - government funding, 5164
- Government advertising
  - partisan, 7945
- Government contracts
  - domestic vs. international corporations, 9548
- Government expenditures
  - healthcare, 403
- Government finances
  - legal challenges
    - cost of, 4352–4353
- Government record - Liberal (2003-2018)
  - advertising, 7945
- Government record - PC (1995-2003)
  - post-secondary education, 4953
- Government record - PC (2018-present)
  - directives and policies, 1655
    - stakeholder consultations, 4953–4954
  - education policy, 4953
  - environmental policy, 619
  - health care policy, 235
  - municipal affairs policy, 4827
  - senior citizens, 2936–2937, 4714
  - social assistance policy, 235
  - women's issues, 9192
- Government services
  - access
    - northern Ontario, 237
  - privatization, 1099
- Greenbelt - development on
  - general remarks, 4677
- Greenbelt Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 (Bill 136)
  - second reading, 5805, 5906
- Group of Seven
  - artistic works
    - and colonialism, 7638–7639
  - Indigenous Group of Seven, 7638–7639
- Hazel McCallion Act (Peel Dissolution), 2023 (Bill 112)
  - third reading, 4827, 4830, 4836
- Health care
  - privatization, 402
- Health care - Northern Health Travel Grant
  - reimbursment rates, 7218
- Health care - northern Ontario
  - access
    - government strategy, 550
- Health care - primary care
  - access
    - northern Ontario, 4164
- Health care services
  - access
    - northern Ontario, 3471, 6613
    - uninsured patients, 3216
- Health care workers
  - compensation
    - impact on retention, 639
    - wage parity, 9194
- Health care workers - recruitment and retention
  - northern and rural Ontario, 2266
  - sterilization technicians
    - compensation, 2379
  - working conditions, 403–404
- Helping Homebuyers, Protecting Tenants Act, 2023 (Bill 97)
  - second reading, 3625, 3630, 3632
  - third reading, 4675–4679
- Highway 11
  - inspection station, 8293–8294
- Highway 413
  - agricultural impact, 716
  - environmental impact, 619
- Highway safety
  - northern Ontario, 2144
- Highways and roads - infrastructure
  - Highway 11/17
    - closures
      - effect on agri-business, 8275, 8293
- Highways and roads - maintenance and repair
  - northern Ontario, 716
- Highways and roads safety
  - northern Ontario, 236, 2144, 6842
- Highways and roads - snow clearance
  - winter road closures
    - impact, 2143
- Home and community care
  - vs. health care institutions
    - standards of care, 404
- Home and community care - delivery models
  - for-profit
    - return on investment, 5644
- Home and community care - funding
  - for-profit agencies, 5644
- Home heating
  - affordability programs
    - heat pump subsidies, 6288–6289
  - heat pumps
    - subsidizing
      - regional eligibility, 10049–10050
  - transition from natural gas to electric, 9106
- Honouring Our Veterans Act, 2023 (Bill 65)
  - third reading, 5675–5676
- Hospitals
  - mergers
    - Northwestern Health Unit and Thunder Bay District Health Unit, 6289
- Housing - by region
  - Gogama
    - public housing, surplus, 9190
- Housing developers
  - approvals and permits, timelines
    - expiry of, 8416
- Housing development
  - community relations
    - and environmental protection, 167
- Housing development - by region
  - Thunder Bay, 1664, 2295
- Housing development - construction
  - cost of
    - by region
      - Thunderbay, 8416
  - land availability, 1658
  - regulatory environment, 3464
- Housing development - government funding
  - Building Faster Fund, 8417
    - implementation timelines, 5681, 5805
  - municipal, 5681
- Housing development - municipal charges
  - development charges, exemptions and discounts
    - impact on municipalities, 1655
- Housing policy
  - upzoning
    - municipal authority, 8413
- Housing supply
  - impact on housing costs, 4676
- Immigrants - access to professions and trades
  - truck driving, 9002
- Indigenous communities
  - government relations, 4355
- Indigenous communities - housing
  - affordable housing, development of
    - projects by site
      - Giiwa on Court, Thunder Bay, 6841
- Infrastructure Ontario (IO)
  - real estate services
    - contracts, oversight, 2515
- Intimate partner violence
  - epidemic, declaration of, 7653
- Intimate partner violence - victims
  - services
    - housing supports, funding, 2726
- Keeping Energy Costs Down Act, 2024 (Bill 165)
  - second reading, 7287, 7342
  - third reading, 8948, 9106
- Keeping Students in Class Act, 2022 (Bill 28)
  - second reading, 1062, 1099, 1105
- Kidney disease
  - treatment services, access
    - northern Ontario, 3430
    - Northern Ontario Health Grant, 3431
- Land use planning
  - provincial land and development facilitator
    - creation of, 4676
- Land use planning - environmental assessments, class environment assessments
  - 30-day review period, ministerial waiver, 3887
- Land use planning - ministerial zoning orders (MZOs)
  - conflict of interest, 5407
- Land use planning - provincial policy statement
  - minimum density requirements, 8413–8414
  - settlement area boundaries, expansion
    - appeals process, 8413
- Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB)
  - adjudicators, 4678
  - general remarks, 4675
  - role of, 3640
- Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) - hearings
  - hearings, virtual, 4678
- Legislative Assembly - facility rehabilitation
  - accessibility standards, 4187
- Legislative Assembly - facility rehabilitation, project planning process
  - consultation, inclusionary practices, 4182
- Less Red Tape, More Common Sense Act, 2023 (Bill 139)
  - second reading, 5791
  - third reading, 6350
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Economy Act, 2023 (Bill 91)
  - second reading, 3464, 3471–3475
- Less Red Tape, Stronger Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 46)
  - second reading, 1765–1769
  - third reading, 2918, 2928
- Locates
  - fees for, infrastructure owner, 6659
  - in Indigenous and northern communities, 7215
- Long-term care
  - care environment, 405
- Long-term care - accountability and oversight
  - inspections, 403, 405
- Long-term care - administration
  - licensing
    - renewal contracts
      - for-profit, 395, 403
- Long-term care - by region
  - Thunder Bay, 4714–4715
- Long-term care - COVID-19
  - fatalities
    - for-profit vs. not-for-profit, 402
- Long-term care - operators
  - for-profit vs. not-for-profit, 395
- Long-term care - public vs. private
  - general remarks, 235, 2394
  - government funding, 403
- Long-term care - residents
  - role of essential caregivers, 403
- Long-term care - staff
  - shortage, 402–403, 570
- Long-term care - standards of care
  - general remarks, 4714
- Lydia's Law (Accountability and Transparency in the Handling of Sexual Assault Cases), 2024 (Bill 189)
  - legislative process, 9191–9192
- Manufacturing industry - employment
  - Alstom (Thunder Bay)
    - procurement contracts
      - funding, 1966–1967
- Manufacturing industry - facility development
  - site selection, 2455
- Members' statements
  - Addiction services, 9984–9985
  - Arts and cultural funding, 8000
  - Employment standards, 994
  - Gender-based violence, 7653
  - Indigenous affairs, 4380
  - Injured workers, 1666, 3792, 9470
  - Mental health and addiction services, 2152–2153
  - Non-profit organizations, 5986
  - School transportation, 10429–10430
  - Seniors, 5314
  - Services for persons with disabilities, 5314
  - Suomi Koti, 629
  - University and college funding, 8051
  - Women's services, 2715
  - Workers' compensation, 4697–4698
- Members'/ministers' constituencies
  - Thunder Bay—Superior North, 234
- Members'/ministers' inaugural speeches, 233–236
- Members/ministers quoting
  - constituent letters
    - More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 (Bill 23), 1656
  - Matawa Chiefs Council
    - Building More Mines Act, 2023 (Bill 71), 3472–3473
  - The Meredith Principles, 3219–3220
  - news media
    - housing development, 1657
    - regulatory policy, 3471
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - withdrawn, 1657
- Mental health and addictions
  - social determinants of, 2626
- Mental health and addictions services
  - community-based supports
    - funding, 1873
- Mental health and addictions services - funding
  - allocation
    - delivery models, public, 2152
  - northern Ontario, 9936
- Methane gas
  - leaks, reporting, 8948
- Mills
  - AV Terrace Bay pulp mill
    - closure, government response, 7145, 7550–7551, 8121
      - statements by stakeholders, 9547
    - pollution remediation, responsibility for, 7145
- Mining industry
  - policy development
    - Indigenous consultation, 4353–5354
  - recruitment and retention, 2712
  - regulatory environment, 3473
- Mining industry - Indigenous communities
  - government relations, 4380
  - Indigenous consultation and consent, 2688, 2694–2695, 2756, 2763–2764
- Mining industry - Indigenous consultation and consent
  - general remarks, 9193–9194
- Mining industry - occupational health and safety
  - exposure limits, diesel, 4172
- Mining sites - development
  - timelines, 2765
- Ministerial statements
  - Seniors' Month
    - responded to, 4714–4715
- Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services
  - mail sorting service
    - private contracting of, 157
- More Beds, Better Care Act, 2022 (Bill 7)
  - second reading, 402–406, 424
  - third reading, 570
- More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022 (Bill 23)
  - committee submissions, 8413
  - second reading, 924
  - stakeholder consultation, 1658
  - statements by stakeholders, 1656–1657
  - third reading, 1655–1659, 1664
- New Deal for Toronto Act, 2023 (Bill 154)
  - second reading, 6803, 6810, 6814
- Non-profit organizations
  - government funding, 5986
- Nuclear energy industry
  - government strategy, 5501–5503
- Nuclear generation facilities - small modular reactors (SMRs)
  - costs, 5501–5503
  - safety and viability, 5501
  - waste, 5503
- Nurse practitioner led clinics
  - government funding, 9194
  - recruitment and retention, 7748
- Nurse practitioner-led clinics
  - general remarks, 6350
  - as substitute for primary care clinics, 6350
- Nurse practitioners
  - compensation, 9191
  - scope of practice, expansion
    - and compensation, 8867
- Nurses
  - shortage, impact of, 2803
- Nurses - employment
  - compensation
    - public vs. private, 88
    - retention bonus, 640
- Nurses - recruitment and retention
  - government strategy, 8867
- Nurses - temporary agencies
  - hiring of, 2394
- Occupational health and safety
  - education and awareness
    - injured workers day, 9456
  - enforcement, 3219
  - heat stress, 10310
  - injured workers, 1768
  - injuries and fatalities, 240
    - employer registry for, 1768
  - young workers, 3218–3219
- Ontario Child Advocate
  - general remarks, 9447
  - office, closure, 8637
  - office, re-implementation, 9391, 9403
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP)
  - access, barriers, 2928, 3471–3472
  - assessment process
    - regulations, 3017
  - housing allowance, board and lodge
    - reform, 3018
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) - benefit rates
  - and cost of living, 156, 4346
  - vs. cost of living, 3017
  - previous increases and decreases, 235
  - relationship status, recipients, 3017
- Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP)
  - prescription contraception, 6827
  - service eligibility
    - vaccines, 6877–6878
- Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT)
  - third party appeals, elimination of
    - statements by stakeholders, 1657
- Ontario One Call
  - timeline enforcement
    - through administrative monetary penalties (AMPs), 7169
  - timelines, enforcement, 6659
- Ontario Place - redevelopment
  - liability protections, 6803, 6810
- Ontario Works (OW)
  - benefit rates, 235
- Opioid addiction
  - fatalities by region
    - Thunder Bay, 1873
- Opposition day motions
  - Affordable housing
    - responded to, 8652, 10189
  - Climate change
    - responded to, 6288–6289
  - Education funding
    - responded to, 9071
  - Government advertising
    - responded to, 7945
  - Health care
    - responded to, 2394–2395, 7748
  - Mental health services
    - responded to, 2626, 9936
  - Municipal funding
    - responded to, 10360
  - Social assistance
    - responded to, 1094
- Optometry and optometrists
  - OHIP-covered services, seniors
    - eye-exams, 3071
- Personal support workers (PSWs)
  - education and training
    - dementia and other neurocognitive conditions, 5253–5254
  - working conditions
    - for-profit providers, 6600
- Persons with developmental disabilities
  - social assistance system
    - legal proceedings, 4392
- Persons with disabilities
  - employment, 1094
  - group homes
    - gender appropriate care, 9444–9445
- Petitions
  - Access to health care, 7154
  - Addiction services, 9857, 9931
  - Child care, 9381
  - Chronic pain treatment, 2914
  - Dental care, 5660
  - Employment standards, 7082–7083
  - French-language post-secondary education, 7155–7156
  - Health care, 5786, 10316
  - Hospital services, 9808–9809
  - Injured workers, 6009–6010, 7082
  - Missing persons, 3202
  - Northern Health Travel Grant, 5600, 9178
  - Nuclear waste, 4579
  - Road safety, 5283, 9271
  - School safety, 7677
  - Social assistance, 1085, 2045, 2134, 2383–2384, 3383, 4337–4338, 4715–4716, 5712–5713, 5947, 7675–7676, 9857
  - Tenant protection, 10278–10279
  - Trespass notices, 3679
  - Youth system justice funding, 4871–4872
- Plan to Build Act (Budget Measures), 2022 (Bill 2)
  - second reading, 80, 233–237, 240, 250, 252
  - third reading, 619
- Post-secondary education
  - housing for students, 6843
    - affordable, access to, 6844
  - housing for students, development of
    - affordable housing, 6855
  - policies and reporting
    - ministerial authority, 9101
  - tuition, 1767
- Post-secondary education - faculty/staff
  - compensation, 6842–6843
    - employment models, 7679
  - sexual misconduct against students
    - workplace, nature of, 1202, 1227
- Post-secondary education - funding
  - impact of, 8051
- Post-secondary education - international students
  - as income source, 7687
- Post-secondary education - mental health and addictions
  - factors affecting, 7652
- Post-secondary education - sexual violence and harassment
  - general remarks, 1229
- Preventing Unethical Puppy Sales Act, 2024 (Bill 159)
  - second reading, 8541–8545
- Private members' public business
  - Advocate for Older Adults Act, 2023 (Bill 101)
    - second reading, 4421–4422, 4426–4427
  - Affordable housing
    - responded to, 5681–5682
  - Enhancing Public Transit Accessibility Act, 2023 (Bill 82)
    - second reading, 3410–3411
  - First responders
    - responded to, 9829
  - Group of Seven Day Act, 2024 (Bill 158)
    - second reading, 7638–7640
  - Harvest Season Road Safety Week Act, 2023 (Bill 143)
    - second reading, 7085
  - Highway construction
    - responded to, 716–717
  - Improving Dementia Care in Ontario Act, 2023 (Bill 121)
    - second reading, 5253–5254
  - Injured Workers Day Act, 2024 (Bill 118)
    - second reading, 9456
  - Making Northern Ontario Highways Safer Act, 2022 (Bill 43)
    - second reading, 2143–2144
  - Northern Health Travel Grant Advisory Committee Act, 2024 (Bill 13)
    - second reading, 7218
  - Nuclear energy
    - responded to, 5501–5503
  - Planning for Your Silver Years Awareness Week Act, 2023 (Bill 137)
    - second reading, 5916–5918
  - Prescription contraceptives
    - responded to, 6827
  - Protecting Vulnerable Persons in Supportive Living Accommodation Act, 2023 (Bill 38)
    - second reading, 5755
  - Seniors Month Act, 2023 (Bill 70)
    - second reading, 2936–2937
  - Social assistance
    - responded to, 3017–3018
  - Trucking safety
    - responded to, 10248
  - WSIB Coverage for Workers in Residential Care Facilities and Group Homes Act, 2023 (Bill 54)
    - second reading, 5088–5089
- Public health units
  - northern Ontario
    - amalgamation of units, 549, 6842
- Public sector compensation - increase cap
  - impact of, 3217–3218
  - legal challenges
    - cost of, 4353
- Public sector compensation - increase cap, health care workers
  - general remarks, 235–236
  - impact on retention, 88
    - nurses, 2394
  - nurses
    - impact on retention, 2394
- Puppy mills
  - enforcement and inspections, 8544
    - stakeholder statements, 8541–8543
  - licensing, 8543
- Queen's Park Restoration Act, 2023 (Bill 75)
  - third reading, 4182, 4187, 4191, 4194
- Question period
  - Accessibility for persons with disabilities
    - presented, 2961–2962, 7103–7104
  - Affordable housing
    - presented, 2861
  - Assisted housing
    - presented, 3139–3140, 4392
  - Autism treatment
    - presented, 3196
  - Child care
    - presented, 8426–8427
  - Conservation officers
    - presented, 6276
  - Doctor shortage
    - presented, 4164
  - Driver examination centres
    - presented, 7485–7486
  - Elder abuse
    - presented, 2670–2671
  - Employment standards
    - presented, 4710
  - Energy policies
    - presented, 10049–10050
  - Firefighters
    - presented, 5464, 8010
  - Food banks
    - presented, 5280
  - Forest firefighting
    - presented, 7235, 7303, 10270–10271
  - Forest industry
    - presented, 7145, 7550–7551, 8121
  - Gasoline prices
    - presented, 1675–1676
  - Gender-based violence
    - presented, 2726
  - Government accountability
    - presented, 5407
  - Government contract
    - presented, 1966–1967
  - Health care
    - presented, 6877–6878
  - Health care workers
    - presented, 639–640, 2379–2380, 8867
  - Home and community care
    - presented, 5588
  - Injured workers
    - presented, 4653–4654
  - Land use planning
    - presented, 1555–1556
  - Long-term care
    - presented, 395, 487, 3673
  - Making Ground River Bridge
    - presented, 10336
  - Mental health and addiction services
    - presented, 1873–1874
  - Northern economy
    - presented, 9547–9548
  - Northern health services
    - presented, 549–550, 3430–3431, 6613
  - Nurses
    - presented, 88, 2803–2804
  - Optometry services
    - presented, 3071
  - Road safety
    - presented, 9682
  - Senior citizens' housing
    - presented, 9378
  - Social assistance
    - presented, 156–157, 793, 2119
  - Social services
    - presented, 878–879
  - Tenant protection
    - presented, 8195
  - Trucking safety
    - presented, 5998, 8523
  - Winter highway safety
    - presented, 2905
  - Workplace safety
    - presented, 4172, 10310
- Racial Equity in the Education System Act, 2022 (Bill 16)
  - first reading, 560
- Reducing Inefficiencies Act (Infrastructure Statute Law Amendments), 2023 (Bill 69)
  - second reading, 2515, 2533
  - third reading, 3887
- Rent control
  - exemptions, 4675–4676, 8414
- Rental housing
  - air conditioning
    - temperature guidelines, 4675
- Rental housing - evictions
  - illegal evictions
    - fines and penalties, enforcement, 4675
- Rental housing - short-term
  - impact on housing affordability, 8414
  - taxation, 8414–8415
- Rental housing - tenant protections
  - general remarks, 4422
- Retirement homes
  - for-profit vs. not-for.profit, 4421–4422
  - tenant protections, 8195
  - visitors
    - trespass orders, 3673, 4422, 5916–5917
- Retirement homes - by site
  - Chartwell Heritage Glen Retirement, closure
    - resident eviction and transition, 8195, 8414, 9378
- Ring of Fire development
  - Indigenous consultation and consent, 8073
- School boards
  - expenditures
    - due to COVID-19, 3699, 4952–4953
- School boards - information sharing practices
  - to parents
    - requirements, 3699
- School buses
  - government funding, 9071
- Schools - violence in
  - general remarks, 9191
- Senior citizens
  - advocacy, 5314, 5964
  - advocate for older adults
    - creation of office, 4421–4422
      - statements by stakeholders, 4427
  - education and awareness
    - Seniors' Month, 4714–4715
    - Silver Years Planning Awareness Week, 5916–5918
  - funding, 5917
  - health and well-being, 2937
  - housing
    - accessibility, 4421–4422
- Senior citizens - housing
  - affordable housing
    - government funding, by project
      - Suomi Koti, Thunder Bay, 8415
  - affordable housing, development of
    - projects by site
      - Suomi Koti, Thunder Bay, 6841
- Sexual assault crisis centres
  - government funding, 1229, 6906
- Sexual violence and harassment
  - against Indigenous Peoples
    - court cases, 1202, 1228
  - power dynamics involved in, 1202–1203, 1227–1229
  - prevention
    - education, consent, 1230
- Social assistance programs
  - benefit rates
    - and cost of living, 3218
  - and cost of living, 1094
- Social assistance programs - benefit rates
  - and food security, 793
  - impact on health and wellness, 2119
- St. Thomas - Central Elgin Boundary Adjustment Act, 2023 (Bill 63)
  - second reading, 2295
  - third reading, 2454–2455
- Strengthening Accountability and Student Supports Act, 2024 (Bill 166)
  - second reading, 7652, 7679, 7687
  - third reading, 9101
- Strengthening Cyber Security and Building Trust in the Public Sector Act, 2024 (Bill 194)
  - consultations, transparency of, 9731
  - second reading, 9731, 9811, 9822
- Strengthening Post-secondary Institutions and Students Act, 2022 (Bill 26)
  - second reading, 1202–1203, 1227–1230
  - third reading, 1862
- Strengthening Safety and Modernizing Justice Act, 2023 (Bill 102)
  - third reading, 4874
- Strong Mayors, Building Homes Act, 2022 (Bill 3)
  - second reading, 167, 174
- Students - special needs
  - accessibility, 4887
- Supporting Children's Futures Act, 2024 (Bill 188)
  - second reading, 8627, 8630
  - third reading, 9391, 9403, 9437, 9444–9447, 9451
- Supportive housing
  - personal support workers (PSWs), 5755
  - wait-time, 4392
- Supportive housing - funding
  - general remarks, 8416
- Teachers
  - education and training, 3701
  - special education, 7104
- Temporary foreign workers
  - workplace violations
    - barriers to reporting, 5069
- Throne speech debate
  - participation, 431
- Toronto Metropolitan University
  - name change from Ryerson University, 1229
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)
  - accessibility, 3410–3411
- Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) expansion - Ontario Line
  - transit vehicles
    - content requirements, percentage, 1966
- Transit
  - accessibility, 5166
  - northern and rural Ontario, 5171
- Transportation for the Future Act, 2023 (Bill 131)
  - second reading, 5164, 5166, 5171
- Tributes
  - McMurtry, Roland "Roy" (former member for Eglinton), 8183
- Trucking industry
  - certification training
    - and road safety, 2905, 7085
  - driver training, 7085
    - and road safety, 8523
  - occupational health and safety
    - enforcement, 8523
  - road safety, 9682
  - road safety, enforcement
    - inspection stations, 5998
- Unhoused persons
  - government funding
    - by region
      - Thunder Bay, 878–879
  - northern Ontario, 4678
- Veterans
  - appreciation for, 5675
- Veterans - commemoration
  - Remembrance Day and Remembrance Week
    - events, 5676
- Wildfire management
  - government strategy
    - statements by stakeholders, 5070
- Wildfires
  - climate change, role in, 5069
- Working for Workers Act, 2023 (Bill 79)
  - second reading, 2993, 3004, 3216–3220, 3223
  - third reading, 5068–5072
- Working for Workers Five Act, 2024 (Bill 190)
  - second reading, 9002, 9004, 9011
  - third reading, 9872–9876, 9878
- Working for Workers Four Act, 2024 (Bill 149)
  - second reading, 6353
  - third reading, 7712
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)
  - claims assessment process, 235
  - compensation, 9470
  - compensation claims, 2918, 3218
  - cost-of-living allowance, 1666
  - decisions, appeal process
    - timeline, 4653–4654
  - deeming policy, 1765–1766, 3004, 3220
  - employer premiums, 1666
  - history of, 235
  - mandate, 4697–4698
  - occupational diseases
    - compensation claims, 3792, 6841
      - Dryden mill, 2993
  - premiums
    - impact on workers, 9011
  - presumptive coverage, firefighters
    - cancers
      - statements by stakeholders, 5070
    - esophageal cancer
      - employment duration, 6353
  - surplus funds
    - employer return, 3472
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) - claims
  - appeals process, 5071, 5088
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) - coverage
  - residential care workers, 5088–5089
- Your Health Act, 2023 (Bill 60)
  - second reading, 2266–2267, 2464

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Index des intervenants à la Chambre

Letter: V

Vanthof, J. (NDP, Timiskaming—Cochrane)

Vaugeois, L. (NDP, Thunder Bay—Superior North)