Speaker letter a committee Hansard index Parliament 39 Session 1

Committee speaker index

Aggelonitis, Hon. S. (LIB, Hamilton Mountain)
- Budget
  - pre-budget consultations, F-98–F-99, F-145, F-238, F-287, F-345, F-556–F-557, F-634, F-650, F-682–F-683, F-728, F-735, F-765
- Committee business
  - subcommittee reports, F-819
- Doctor shortage
  - Timmins, F-99
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - education, F-238
- Ministry of Finance
  - estimates (2008-2009), E-509
- Public libraries
  - Thunder Bay Public Library, F-145
    - buildings, F-145
- Zoos
  - regulation, F-345
Albanese, L. (LIB, York South–Weston)
- Annual reports
  - Office of the Auditor General Annual Report (2007)
    - Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services
      - Centre of Forensic Sciences, P-52
      - Ontario Sex Offender Registry, P-68
    - Ministry of the Environment
      - hazardous waste management, P-164–P-165
    - Ministry of Government Services
      - Archives of Ontario and information storage and retrieval services, P-124
    - Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
      - long-term-care homes—medication management, P-143
      - outbreak preparedness and management, P-83
    - Ministry of Natural Resources
      - fish and wildlife program, P-106
  - Office of the Auditor General Annual Report (2008)
    - Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services
      - adult institutional services, P-274–P-276
    - Ministry of Education
      - school boards—acquisition of goods and services, P-367–P-368
      - special education, P-335–P-336
    - Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure/Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
      - Brampton Civic Hospital public-private partnership project, P-296–P-297
    - Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
      - community mental health, P-229–P-230
    - Ministry of Revenue
      - gasoline, diesel fuel and tobacco tax, P-255–P-256
    - Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
      - employment and training division, P-382–P-383
- Appointments to agencies/boards/commissions/etc.
  - Metrolinx, A-676, A-708
- Apprenticeship training programs
  - government funding, P-383
- Archives of Ontario
  - archival practices
    - art work, P-124
- Budget
  - pre-budget consultations
    - report, F-1513
- Capital works projects
  - alternative financing and procurement (AFP), A-294
- Casinos
  - senior citizens, A-252
- Construction industry
  - skilled trades shortage, A-294
- Earth Rangers Foundation
  - impact on environmental education agenda of Royal Ontario Museum, A-628
  - outreach programs, A-628
  - partnership with Royal Ontario Museum, A-628
  - shows at Royal Ontario Museum, A-628
- Employment Standards Amendment Act (Organ Donor Leave), 2009 (Bill 154), M-189
- Fish resources management, P-106
- Hazardous products
  - polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), P-164–P-165
- Hospital construction
  - private-public partnerships, P-297
- Inmates
  - mental health care, P-274–P-275
  - training programs, P-275–P-276
- Long-term-care facilities
  - expired medications, P-143
- Mental health care
  - coordination of services, P-229–P-230
- Motions
  - pre-budget consultations
    - report
      - responded to, F-1513
- Ombudsman of Ontario, M-14
- Ontario disability support program (ODSP) recipients
  - employment opportunities, F-1513
- Organ donors
  - lifestyle changes, M-189
- Regional transportation plan (The Big Move)
  - electrification of rail system, A-676
- Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)
  - closure of McLaughlin Planetarium, A-623
  - impact of special exhibitions on cultural tourism, A-639
  - programs, A-614
  - ticket affordability, A-615
- School boards
  - adherence to expenditure guidelines, P-367–P-368
- Sex offenders
  - registration
    - compliance rates, P-68
- Social Assistance Review Advisory Council, F-1513
- Special education
  - individual education plan (IEP), P-335
- Tobacco products
  - illegal sale
    - regulation/enforcement, P-255
- Tourism industry
  - decline, A-614
- Transit systems
  - air-rail link between Union Station and Pearson airport, A-708–A-709
- Workers' rights
  - right to refuse unsafe work, A-238
Arnott, T. (PC, Wellington–Halton Hills)
- Aboriginal peoples
  - education
    - band-operated funding formula, F-66–F-67
  - friendship centres, F-359
  - post-secondary education funding, F-67
- Beef industry, F-303
- Budget
  - pre-budget consultations, F-16, F-22, F-37–F-38, F-44, F-66, F-108, F-122–F-123, F-132–F-133, F-147, F-271–F-272, F-277, F-283, F-289, F-295–F-296, F-303, F-309, F-359, F-555, F-586–F-587, F-593, F-595–F-596, F-602, F-614–F-615, F-622–F-623, F-643, F-650, F-663–F-664, F-670, F-684–F-685, F-701, F-1197–F-1198, F-1440
    - report, F-366–F-368, F-370, F-372–F-375, F-378, F-384–F-387, F-390
- Budget Measures Act, 2009 (Bill 162), F-839–F-840, F-846
  - amendments, F-870–F-871
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (Bill 44)
  - amendments, F-403–F-404
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (No. 2) (Bill 114), F-482–F-483
- Capital tax
  - elimination, F-22
- Capital works projects
  - northern Ontario, F-122
- Child care
  - government funding, F-1440
- Children's health care
  - government funding, F-375–F-376
- Colleges of applied arts and technology (CAATs)
  - Fanshawe College
    - applied research and innovation, F-1197
    - enrolment, F-1198
    - government funding, F-1198
- Committee business
  - subcommittee reports, F-405
- Committee schedules/agendas, F-487
- Corporate tax reduction, F-403–F-404
- Dental care, F-283
- Drugs (medical)
  - taxation, F-16
- Education funding
  - government funding, F-295
- eHealth Ontario
  - awarding of contracts, P-398–P-400
  - value-for-money audit by Auditor General, P-424–P-426
- Employment training programs, F-1440
  - Thunder Bay, F-133
- Environmental assessment process
  - Niagara-GTA corridor, F-378
- Environmental protection, F-379
- Farmers
  - beef farmers
    - government funding, F-381
  - tobacco farmers
    - government funding for exit strategy, F-381
- Farming
  - fruit/vegetable farming
    - government funding, F-381
- Fire services
  - northern Ontario
    - government funding, F-108
- Gangs in schools, F-147
- Georgetown Memorial Arena, E-972–E-973
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - tax increases, F-455–F-456
- Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area Transit Implementation Act, 2009 (Bill 163), F-821, F-826
  - authority of Minister of Transportation, F-827
- Harmonized sales tax, F-839–F-840, F-846
- Health information
  - electronic, F-374–F-375
- Heritage conservation
  - historic buildings
    - Dickinson Square (Manotick), F-380–F-381
- Highways
  - environmental assessment process, F-379
- Housing
  - affordable
    - northern Ontario, F-133
    - Thunder Bay, F-133
- Hydro One
  - Bruce-to-Milton transmission reinforcement project
    - property owner compensation, E-687–E-688
- Ideas for the Future Act, 2008 (Bill 100), F-471
- Long-term-care funding
  - government funding, F-373–F-374
- Manufacturing industry
  - layoffs, F-37
- Members/ministers quoting letters
  - Hydro One Bruce-to-Milton transmission reinforcement project, re, E-688
- Members/ministers quoting reports
  - Ontario's Electronic Health Records Initiative: Special Report (Office of the Auditor General of Ontario), P-398
- Metrolinx
  - board of directors
    - accountability, F-821
  - closed meetings, F-821
- Minimum wage
  - increase, F-368, F-380
- Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
  - Agricorp, E-408–E-411
  - cafeteria to serve locally grown food, E-407–E-408
  - estimates (2008-2009), E-407–E-411
- Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure
  - estimates (2009-2010), E-687–E-688
- Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
  - compensation for senior executives in health sector
    - review by Auditor General, P-395–P-396
  - use of consultants
    - spot audits by Auditor General, P-394–P-395
- Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
  - second career strategy, F-1197
- Mobile home parks
  - tenant protection, F-386–F-387
  - water supply, F-379–F-380
- Motions
  - government funding for tobacco farmers
    - responded to, F-443
  - pre-budget consultations
    - report
      - presented, F-374–F-376, F-378–F-381, F-384–F-390
      - responded to, F-366–F-367, F-370, F-372–F-374, F-379, F-385
  - review of Ontario health premium report
    - responded to, F-451–F-452, F-455–F-456, F-458
- Municipal infrastructure, F-44
  - government funding, F-272, F-385–F-386
- National child benefit supplement (NCBS)
  - clawback, F-368
- Ontario disability support program (ODSP)
  - adjudication of claimants, F-132
  - assessment of recipients, F-132
- Ontario disability support program (ODSP) benefits
  - rate increase, F-368
- Ontario health premium, F-372
  - review, F-451–F-452, F-455–F-456, F-458
- Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS)
  - management, F-870
- Ontario Power Generation fossil-fuel generating stations
  - conversion to clean coal technology, F-388
- Ontario Works program benefits
  - increase, F-368
- Pension plans
  - government assistance, F-871
- Poverty, F-277
- Provincial-municipal relations
  - northern Ontario, F-108
- Public housing
  - government funding, F-385
- Recreation facilities
  - federal and provincial government funding, E-972–E-974
- Reports
  - Ontario's Electronic Health Records Initiative: Special Report (Office of the Auditor General of Ontario), P-424
- Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), A-618
  - balanced budget, A-619
  - budget deficit, A-619
  - economic impact, A-618
  - financial audit, A-626
  - free admission, A-634
  - government funding, A-619
  - memorandum of understanding with government, A-625–A-626
  - pension committee, A-618–A-619
  - pension plan, A-619
  - programs
    - evaluation, A-626
- School boards
  - Lakehead District School Board
    - grants, F-147
- School bus transportation
  - government funding, F-147, F-389
- School closures
  - rural Ontario, F-147
  - Thunder Bay, F-147
- Schools
  - rural Ontario, F-147
- Speaker
  - power to issue warrant requiring Sarah Kramer and Alan Hudson as witnesses before committee, P-467, P-470
- Tax rebates
  - fuel/gasoline tax, F-44
- Taxes
  - value-added tax, F-38
- Teacher-student ratios
  - cap, F-296
- Tourism industry
  - government funding, F-390
- Transfer payments
  - Ontario municipal partnership fund (OMPF), E-916
- Transit systems
  - gasoline tax funding, F-272
- Tuition fees, F-309
- Universities/colleges
  - transferability of credits, F-1197–F-1198
  - University of Guelph
    - Vineland Research Station, F-309
Arthurs, W. (LIB, Pickering–Scarborough East)
- An Act for granting Her Majesty certain sums of money for the federal public administration for the financial year ending March 31, 2008 (Bill C-48), F-413–F-414
- An Act to Amend the Tobacco Tax Act and Other Legislative Provisions Primarily to Counter Tobacco Smuggling, 2009 (Bill 59), F-1524
- Affordable Housing Flagship
  - government funding, F-1139–F-1140
- Agricultural biomass, F-1504
- Agricultural industry
  - production insurance program, F-1503
  - risk management program, F-1502
- Autism services
  - applied behaviour analysis (ABA)
    - government funding, F-1424
    - wait lists, F-1424
  - government funding, F-1424–F-1425
- Automobile industry
  - government contingency fund, E-764
- Automobile insurance
  - reform, E-780
- Bicycles/bicyclists, F-403
- Budget
  - balanced budget, F-366, F-1350, F-1516–F-1517
  - corporate tax relief package, F-950
  - pre-budget consultations, F-13, F-20, F-26–F-27, F-35, F-41–F-42, F-92, F-105–F-106, F-121, F-130, F-144–F-145, F-151–F-152, F-167, F-173–F-174, F-180–F-181, F-201–F-202, F-208–F-209, F-214–F-215, F-231, F-257, F-281, F-300–F-301, F-307, F-338, F-350–F-351, F-512–F-513, F-538, F-545, F-552, F-568–F-569, F-584, F-592, F-599–F-600, F-606, F-612–F-613, F-620–F-621, F-627, F-721–F-722, F-745, F-764, F-771–F-772, F-790–F-791, F-797–F-799, F-801–F-814, F-1139–F-1140, F-1147, F-1169, F-1176, F-1262, F-1268–F-1269, F-1312–F-1313, F-1319–F-1320, F-1334, F-1350, F-1397, F-1411, F-1418, F-1424–F-1425, F-1445, F-1460, F-1486, F-1494
    - report, F-361–F-371, F-373–F-376, F-379–F-381, F-384–F-390, F-1502–F-1525
- Budget deficit, F-1350
- Budget Measures Act, 2009 (Bill 162), F-843–F-844, F-850, F-855, F-860
  - amendments, F-865–F-867, F-870–F-873
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (Bill 44)
  - amendments, F-396–F-399, F-401–F-404
- Budget Measures and Interim Appropriation Act, 2008 (No. 2) (Bill 114), F-487–F-488, F-491–F-501
- Budget surplus
  - transfer of funds to municipalities for infrastructure projects, F-408–F-412
- Canada pension plan (CPP)
  - reform, F-843
- Capital tax
  - elimination, F-364–F-365
- Capital works projects
  - government funding, F-1350
- Child care
  - government funding, F-1460
  - loss of funding
    - parents leaving their jobs, F-1460
    - staff losses, F-1460
- Child poverty, F-26–F-27
- Children's mental health care
  - early intervention, F-1397
- Chiropractic services, F-1418
- Climate change plan
  - government funding, F-1523
- Co-operative corporations
  - board of directors, F-1036–F-1037
  - quorum of directors of multi-stakeholder co-operative, F-1038
- Committee business
  - subcommittee reports, F-3–F-4, F-393, F-395, F-405–F-406, F-417, F-433, F-469, F-481, F-837
- Committee procedure, F-999
  - pre-budget consultations, F-578
  - questions, F-965
  - reports tabled, F-948
  - voting, F-1031
  - witnesses, F-993
- Committee process
  - review of Ontario health premium, F-466–F-467
- Committee schedules/agendas, F-393
- Community small business investment fund, F-1034
- Condominium corporations
  - investments to include instruments by credit unions, F-1035
- Corporate tax reduction, F-361, F-398–F-399, F-404
- Cycling
  - government funding
    - infrastructure, safety and awareness, F-1494
- Dietitians, F-350–F-351
- Dollar
  - Canadian
    - exchange rates, F-13, F-130
- Early childhood education
  - full-day learning for four-and five-year old children, F-1460
- Employment creation, F-362–F-363
  - by stimulus funding, F-1515–F-1516
  - federal government assistance, F-363
- Energy
  - renewable energy, F-281, F-1511
- Environmental protection, F-379
- Family health teams, F-1418
- Farmers
  - compensation for public goods and services provided to society, F-1503
  - tobacco farmers
    - government funding for exit strategy, F-381
- Federal government
  - budget
    - support for Ontario, F-1512
- Forest industry
  - fibre basket, F-1262
  - government funding, F-371, F-1522
  - northern Ontario
    - government funding, F-1522
- Government debt
  - reduction, F-366
- Government expenditures, F-866, F-872
  - capping, F-1516
- Government record
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - municipal government funding, F-167
    - poverty reduction, F-201–F-202
- Government service transfer to municipal jurisdiction
  - return to provincial jurisdiction, F-384
- Grants, F-397
- Harmonized sales tax, F-850, F-999, F-1518
  - elimination of input tax credits, F-1147
  - exemptions
    - medically necessary devices and services, F-1514
    - new housing purchase, F-942–F-943
    - point-of-sale, E-795, F-1024–F-1025
  - housing rebate, E-796
  - impact on aboriginal communities, E-797
  - transition benefit
    - prisoners, F-1046
- Health care, F-257
- Health information
  - electronic, F-374–F-375
- Heritage conservation
  - historic buildings, F-380
- Home care, F-1269
  - government funding, F-1268, F-1508, F-1510
- Hospital beds
  - long-term-care beds
    - redevelopment, F-1510
- Hospital funding
  - government funding, F-1508
- Hospital redevelopment
  - Providence Care, F-1320
- Hospitals
  - arbitration, F-1320
  - Windsor Regional Hospital
    - warp speed emergency services project, F-446
- Housing, F-1334
  - affordable, F-35
- Ideas for the Future Act, 2008 (Bill 100), F-473–F-478
- Investing in Ontario Act, 2008 (Bill 35)
  - amendments, F-408–F-415
- Layoffs, F-1515
- Legislative procedure
  - interim supply motions, F-867
- Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO)
  - authority to borrow funds, F-400–F-401
- Lockouts, F-1515
- Long-term-care facilities
  - Extendicare
    - government funding, F-1312–F-1313
    - housekeeping, laundry and dietary services, F-1312
- Long-term-care funding
  - government funding, F-373
- Members'/ministers' remarks
  - Liberal (2003-2010)
    - Sorbara, Greg (Vaughan)
      - as Minister of Finance, F-457
- Mental health patients
  - deinstitutionalization, F-257
- Minimum wage, F-1334
  - increase, F-300–F-301, F-368
- Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
  - Open for Business, F-1517, F-1519
- Ministry of Finance
  - estimates (2009-2010), E-764–E-765, E-780, E-795
- Ministry of Natural Resources
  - forest sector prosperity fund, F-1262
  - loan guarantee program, F-1262
  - northern pulp and paper electricity transition program (NPPETP), F-1262
- Ministry of Research and Innovation
  - Emerging Technologies Fund, F-1520
  - Ontario commercialization investment fund, F-1034
  - Ontario venture capital fund, F-1520
- Motions
  - government funding for tobacco farmers
    - responded to, F-443
  - pre-budget consultations
    - report
      - presented, F-363, F-366, F-369–F-370, F-1512, F-1520, F-1522
      - responded to, F-361–F-363, F-366, F-371, F-373–F-376, F-379–F-381, F-384, F-386–F-387, F-389–F-390, F-1502–F-1511, F-1513–F-1525
    - report writing
      - responded to, F-364–F-365
  - review of Ontario health premium report
    - responded to, F-452, F-454–F-458, F-460–F-461, F-463–F-465
- Multiple sclerosis
  - age-appropriate housing for people with multiple sclerosis, F-1176
  - integrated services for people with multiple sclerosis, F-1176
- Municipal government, F-167
- Municipal infrastructure
  - government funding, F-369, F-386
  - multi-year funding, F-1505
- National child benefit supplement (NCBS)
  - clawback, F-368
- Nurse practitioner-led clinics, F-855
- Nurses
  - hiring, F-855
- Occupational training programs
  - government funding, F-1520
- Ontario disability support program (ODSP) benefits
  - rate increase, F-338, F-368, F-1486
- Ontario health insurance plan (OHIP)
  - three-month waiting period, F-1509
- Ontario health premium, F-371
  - funds directed to consolidated revenue fund, F-463–F-464
  - review, F-393, F-434, F-439–F-440, F-445–F-446, F-452, F-455–F-458, F-460–F-461, F-463–F-468
- Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. (OLG)
  - authority to borrow funds, F-402
- Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS), F-202
  - management, F-870
- Ontario Power Generation, F-878
- Ontario Tax Plan for More Jobs and Growth Act, 2009 (Bill 218), F-941–F-942, F-948, F-950, F-964–F-965, F-993, F-999, F-1024–F-1025
  - amendments, F-1029–F-1030, F-1034–F-1049
- Ontario Works program benefits
  - increase, F-368, F-1486
- Pension benefits guarantee fund, F-1521
- Pension plans
  - government assistance, F-871
  - portability, F-844
- Persons with developmental disabilities
  - government funding, F-231
- Poverty, F-20, F-151–F-152, F-208
- Poverty reduction strategy, F-1334
- Primary health care, F-1269
- Property tax assessment, F-396–F-397
  - four-year assessment, F-1506
- Property tax bills, F-398, F-401
- Property tax increases
  - 5% annual cap, F-1506–F-1507
- Providence Care
  - budget increase, F-1320
  - clients, F-1319
  - community care programs, F-1319
- Provincial-aboriginal relations, F-121
  - Grassy Narrows First Nation re forest management at Whiskey Jack Forest, F-1522
- Public libraries, F-144
  - government funding, F-145
  - Thunder Bay Public Library, F-144
- Public sector, F-878–F-879
  - expense officer, F-883
  - review of expenses, F-879
    - advice by Integrity Commissioner, F-879
    - annual reports, F-882
    - effective date, F-884
    - no interference with Integrity Commissioner's decisions, F-880–F-881
  - senior management, F-883
- Public Sector Expenses Review Act, 2009 (Bill 201)
  - amendments, F-878–F-880, F-882–F-884
- Public service, F-180–F-181
  - reduction, F-1516
- Public transportation
  - government funding, F-389
- Red Tape Commission, F-1519
- Rehabilitation services, F-1418
  - integration into family health teams, F-1418
- Reports
  - Ontario's Bold Move to Create Jobs and Growth (Jack Mintz), F-964
  - Ontario's Tax Plan for Jobs and Growth: Cutting Personal and Corporate Taxes and Harmonizing Sales Taxes (Dwight Duncan), F-941, F-950
- School boards
  - accounting, F-1041–F-1042
  - budget deficit, F-1047
  - expenses, F-1042–F-1043
  - financial recovery plan, F-1043–F-1045, F-1047
- School bus transportation
  - government funding, F-389
- Senior citizens
  - wellness and health promotion, F-1445
- Shipping industry
  - ports
    - northern Ontario, F-105–F-106
- Social Assistance Review Advisory Council, F-1513–F-1514
- Social housing, F-1507
  - Durham, F-173–F-174
- Tax credits
  - charitable donations, F-1523–F-1524
  - fitness, F-375
- Tax rebates
  - fuel/gasoline tax
    - northern Ontario, F-106
- Taxation
  - tax reform package, F-1517–F-1518
- Teaching chairs, F-1525
- Tobacco products
  - illegal sale
    - regulation/enforcement, F-1524
- Tourism industry
  - accountability, F-1411
  - government funding, F-390
- Transfer payments
  - Ontario municipal partnership fund (OMPF)
    - notice of reduction, F-1505
- Transit systems
  - gasoline tax funding, F-1523
  - government funding, F-1523
- Tuition fees
  - increase, F-41
- Universities/colleges
  - government funding, F-387
  - transferability of credits, F-1169
- Workers
  - injured
    - Thunder Bay and District Injured Workers Support Group, F-151
- Workers' compensation benefits, F-151
- Workers' compensation premiums, F-151
- Youth/students
  - mental health care, F-1397