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Letter: V
Vanthof, J. (NDP, Timiskaming–Cochrane)
- Aggregate Resources and Mining Modernization Act, 2017 (Bill 39)
- Agricultural education
- Agricultural events
- International Plowing Match, 248
- Agriculture industry
- All Families Are Equal Act (Parentage and Related Registrations Statute Law Amendment), 2016 (Bill 28)
- Anti-Human Trafficking Act, 2017 (Bill 96)
- Anti-Racism Act, 2017 (Bill 114)
- second reading, 3538
- time allocation motion
- Appreciation
- Scott, Laurie (Haliburton–Kawartha Lakes–Brock)
- Anti-Human Trafficking Act, 2017 (Bill 96), re, 4516
- Broadband networks, access to
- Broader public sector organizations
- Budget 2017
- Budget Measures Act (Housing Price Stability and Ontario Seniors' Public Transit Tax Credit), 2017 (Bill 134)
- second reading, 4705–4707
- time allocation motion
- Budget speech 2017 (April 27, 2017)
- Building Better Communities and Conserving Watersheds Act, 2017 (Bill 139)
- Building inspectors
- Building Ontario Up for Everyone Act (Budget Measures), 2016 (Bill 70)
- second reading, 1862
- time allocation motion
- Burden Reduction Act, 2017 (Bill 27)
- Cannabis, Smoke-Free Ontario and Road Safety Statute Law Amendment Act, 2017 (Bill 174)
- Cap and trade
- auction
- effect on northern Ontario, 7183, 7514
- emissions reduction, 7514
- Cap and trade, economic impact
- Certified crop advisers
- restrictions on professional activities, 269–270
- Child and youth mental health care
- Child care
- Committee procedure
- traveling consultation, 7665
- witnesses, access to, 7510
- Committee process
- Committees
- Community projects, crowdfunding of
- Conservation authorities
- meetings, public notice of, 4863
- Construction Lien Amendment Act, 2017 (Bill 142)
- Construction liens
- Consumer protection
- Cutting Unnecessary Red Tape Act, 2017 (Bill 154)
- Dairy industry
- international trade with United States, 7345
- Debates re answers to oral questions
- Election Finances Statute Law Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 2)
- Election Statute Law Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 45)
- Electoral boundaries in northern Ontario
- changes for Wahnapitae First Nation, 1218–1220, 2206–2207
- study by Far North Electoral Boundaries Commission
- limited to two ridings [KRR and TJB], 1218, 1222
- Electricity billing
- customers facing disconnection, 327
- Electricity generating facilities
- Electricity subsidies
- delivery charge subsidy for rural Ontario
- eligibility [low-density rural areas only], 458
- Employment, precarious
- Energy affordability
- Energy rate increases
- due to delivery charges, 388
- effect on business and labour market competition, 1499
- Energy reliability, 7295
- Fair Hydro Act, 2017 (Bill 132)
- Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017 (Bill 148)
- Fairness in Procurement Act, 2018 (Bill 194)
- Farm assistance programs
- Risk Management Program (RMP)
- Farm safety
- injuries due to distraction or fatigue, 3172
- Federal government
- Floods, rainwater
- Food processors
- negotiations with vegetable growers
- Foreign investments, land
- impact on food security, 7335
- impact on provincial-international relations
- French-language debates
- Déclarations ministérielles et réponses
- Perspectives économiques et revue financière, 6224
- Loi de 2018 sur l'équité en matière de marchés publics, projet de loi 194
- Pétitions
- Government orders
- Climate change
- Concurrence in supply
- Government record
- Liberal (2003-present)
- privatization of government services, 7348
- Government services
- in northern and rural Ontario, 6522–6523
- privatization, 6523
- public-private partnerships, 6527
- Government tenders
- information technology (IT), vendor of record (VOR) list, 7347
- Harmonized sales tax (HST)
- exemptions
- for electricity bills, 327
- Health care
- Health care in northern Ontario
- Highway closures
- Highway maintenance in winter
- Highway safety
- Home inspectors, licensing and regulation
- Hospital beds
- shortage
- in northern Ontario, 6159
- Hospital construction
- Hospital funding
- Housing prices
- Hydro One Inc.
- prepayment meters, 6856
- purchase of Avista Corporation, 7295
- repurchase by government, 7182
- Hydro One Inc. privatization
- Hydro One Inc. privatization, economic impact
- Hydro One Inc. privatization, revenue
- for infrastructure development, 4290
- Hydro One Inc. shares
- 40% government ownership, 6524
- percentage private ownership, 328, 7182
- International trade agreements
- Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement of Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)
- North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
- Legislative procedure
- Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO)
- Local health integration networks (LHINs)
- as replacement for CCACs, 966
- Local services boards (LSBs)
- Long-term care
- Long-term care beds
- Long-term care facilities
- Medical Assistance in Dying Statute Law Amendment Act, 2017 (Bill 84)
- Members' statements
- Dairy industry, 3828–3829
- Dairy industry and forest industry, 3775
- Earlton Lions Club, 3263
- Highway accident, 1796
- Highway safety, 6218
- International Plowing Match, 248
- Labour dispute, 5882
- Leis Wood Products, 2796
- Moose management, 1187
- New Liskeard Fall Fair, 590–591
- Northern transportation, 1415, 6867
- Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers, 4252–4253
- Season's greetings, 2192
- Small business, 849–850
- Taxation, 5289–5290
- Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 3172
- Mental health care
- Mercury poisoning in Grassy Narrows First Nation
- Minimum wage increase
- general remarks, 6523
- government assistance, 5407
- Mining claims
- electronic mining lands administration system, 1453–1454
- Ministerial statements
- Agri-food industry
- Canadian Agricultural Safety Week
- Canadian Agriculture Literacy Month
- Economic outlook and fiscal review
- International Plowing Match
- International trade
- Ontario Agriculture Week
- Modernizing Ontario's Municipal Legislation Act, 2017 (Bill 68)
- second reading, 2002–2003
- public consultation, northern Ontario, 4597–4598
- time allocation motion
- Nanjing Massacre
- Natural gas billing
- NDP Party election platform
- Neonicotinoids
- New home warranties
- North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
- Northlander rail service
- Office of the Auditor General of Ontario
- power to audit public contractors, 1817
- OHIP+: Children and Youth Pharmacare Program
- Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers (OPVG)
- Ontario Rebate for Electricity Consumers Act, 2016 (Bill 13)
- second reading, 326–330
- time allocation motion
- Ontario Seniors' Public Transit Tax Credit, 4744–4745
- Ontario's Fair Hydro Plan
- cost, 7181–7182
- financing of, 7294
- government advertising, expenditures on, 5281
- impact on long-term energy costs, 4405, 7181
- Opposition day motions
- Energy contracts
- Energy policies
- Provincial debt
- Oral questions
- Agri-food industry
- Assistance to farmers
- Beverage alcohol sales
- By-election in Sudbury
- Energy policies
- Executive compensation
- Government advertising
- Highway safety
- Hospital funding
- Hospital services
- Housing policy
- Hydro rates
- Pharmacare
- Privatization of public assets
- Organic agri-food industry
- Patients First Act, 2016 (Bill 41)
- Payday loans and lenders
- PC Party election platform
- Pension Benefits Guarantee Fund (PBGF)
- Pension plans, funding
- Petitions
- LCBO outlet, 4625, 4627–4628, 4737–4738
- Mental health and addiction services, 4134, 4452, 4507
- Municipal restructuring, 2683, 3624–3625
- Northern Health Travel Grant, 6568
- Seniors' housing, 956–957
- Speed limits, 304
- Political fundraising
- cabint ministers' quotas, 285
- conflict of interest, 552–553
- Political fundraising events
- attendance by members and political candidates, ban
- exemption for community events, 555
- Political fundraising reform
- debate on a bill that is incomplete, 281
- Polling stations
- at reasonable distances in northern Ontario, 1219–1220
- Prescription drugs
- universal access to, 4013
- Private members' public business
- Affordable Electricity Act, 2018 (Bill 197)
- Albanian Heritage Month Act, 2016 (Bill 36)
- Auditor General Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 67)
- Flood Avoidance, Insurance and Recovery Statute Law Amendment Act, 2017 (Bill 179)
- Hospital funding
- Kickstarting Public Participation Act, 2017 (Bill 77)
- Life Leases Act, 2017 (Bill 155)
- Long-term care
- Mental health services
- Nanjing Massacre
- Northern health services
- Northern Ontario
- Organic Products Act, 2017 (Bill 153)
- PANDAS/PANS
- Poet Laureate of Ontario Act (In Memory of Gord Downie), 2018 (Bill 186)
- Putting Voters First (Election Amendment) Act, 2016 (Bill 75)
- Supporting Agricultural Experts in their Field Act, 2016 (Bill 4)
- Transparency in Gas Pricing Act, 2017 (Bill 146)
- Protecting Students Act, 2016 (Bill 37)
- second reading, 768
- time allocation motion
- Protectionist policies
- Provincial infrastructure
- Public assets
- Public education campaigns - Agriculture
- Canadian Agriculture Literacy Month, 2753–2754
- Canadian Agriculture Safety Week, 3172
- Ontario Agriculture Week, 648
- Public procurement, reciprocal access
- Public sector employees
- Public transportation
- in northern Ontario, 6867
- Putting Consumers First Act (Consumer Protection Statute Law Amendment), 2017 (Bill 59)
- Ranger Survey Systems Canada Inc. Act, 2016 (Bill Pr55)
- Regulations
- Regulatory burdens
- Renewable energy contracts
- cancellation of, 7295
- feed-in tariff (2009), 7346
- Representation Statute Law Amendment Act, 2017 (Bill 152)
- Residential buildings
- Ring of Fire development
- Road maintenance
- Safer School Zones Act, 2017 (Bill 65)
- Sales, door-to-door
- Schools in rural Ontario
- Speaker's rulings
- Points of order
- Debate on matters sub judice
- Speed limits
- reduction of, in community safety and school zones, 2934
- Strengthening Protection for Ontario Consumers Act, 2017 (Bill 166)
- Strikes, college faculty
- Stronger, Fairer Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2017 (Bill 177)
- Stronger, Healthier Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2017 (Bill 127)
- Sudbury by-election 2015
- allegations of offer of employment/political office to Glenn Thibeault, 1354–1355
- Supply Act, 2017 (Bill 111)
- Supporting Children, Youth and Families Act, 2017 (Bill 89)
- Teacher misconduct
- protection from wrongful accusations, 768
- Throne speech debate
- Time allocation motions
- Anti-Racism Act, 2017 (Bill 114)
- Budget Measures Act (Housing Price Stability and Ontario Seniors' Public Transit Tax Credit), 2017 (Bill 134)
- Building Ontario Up for Everyone Act (Budget Measures), 2016 (Bill 70)
- Fairness in Procurement Act, 2018 (Bill 194)
- Modernizing Ontario's Municipal Legislation Act, 2017 (Bill 68)
- Ontario Rebate for Electricity Consumers Act, 2016 (Bill 13)
- Protecting Students Act, 2016 (Bill 37)
- Transportation
- bus service
- northern Ontario, 6521–6522
- passenger rail service
- Transportation infrastructure
- Tributes
- Black, Ken (former member, Muskoka—Georgian Bay), 4008–4009
- Bolan, Michael George (former member, Nipissing), 4488–4489
- Havrot, Edward (former member, Tmiskaming), 5224
- Wildlife protection
- Wireless services
Vernile, Hon. D. (LIB, Kitchener Centre)
- Agriculture industry
- Algonquins of Ontario land claim
- agreement with Ontario and federal government, 891
- Arts and culture
- Celebrate Ontario grants, 7637
- Automated speed enforcement systems
- in community safety and school zones, 2276–2277, 2929, 3228, 3239–3240
- fining of vehicle owner, 2925, 3224
- general remarks, 2912
- on highways, 3249, 3406
- implementation of, by municipalities, 2276–2277
- Building Better Communities and Conserving Watersheds Act, 2017 (Bill 139)
- Building Ontario Up for Everyone Act (Budget Measures), 2016 (Bill 70)
- Bullying prevention
- Burden Reduction Act, 2017 (Bill 27)
- Businesses, small and medium-sized
- Cap and trade auction
- Cardiac care
- St. Mary's General Hospital (Kitchener)
- Child care
- 100,000 licensed spaces for zero to 4 age group, 86
- Clean technology
- research and development, 1122
- Climate change
- government strategy, 6617
- Coal-fired electricity generation
- Community safety zones
- Concussion prevention and management
- Craft distillers
- commission rate [from LCBO], 1771
- Debates re answers to oral questions
- Development charges
- exemption for secondary suites, 675
- Driver licences
- medical suspension, 262
- reinstatement after medical suspension
- Economic growth, 3031–3032
- Education funding
- Election Finances Statute Law Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 2)
- Election Statute Law Amendment Act, 2016 (Bill 45)
- Electricity price mitigation
- Employment and unemployment
- Employment standards
- Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017 (Bill 148)
- Financial literacy
- Fuel market
- GO Transit service expansion
- GO Transit stations
- Government data
- Open Government Partnership, 2012
- Government orders
- Harmonized sales tax (HST)
- rebate on provincial share (8%)
- for electricity bills, 85
- Highway safety
- Hospital service expansion
- cancer care in Grand River Hospital, 1415–1416
- Immunization
- International trade
- diversification, 5876
- impact on small and medium-sized businesses, 5877
- trade missions, 683
- International trade agreements
- North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 2291–2292
- Leaves of absence
- for survivors of domestic or sexual violence, 6858–6859
- for survivors of domestic or sexual violence [paid leave], 5345–5346
- Legislative procedure
- debates
- speech should relate to matter being discussed, 2930
- Living wage
- Members' statements
- Anti-racism activities, 3666–3667
- Automated vehicles, 2139–2140
- Family skate, 2518
- German heritage, 689
- German Remembrance Day, 1624
- Girls Can Fly!, 4780
- GO Transit, 7062–7063
- Grand River Hospital cancer centre, 1415–1416
- High-speed rail, 4685–4686
- Hollinger, David and Doug Gibbons, 5514
- Meals on Wheels, 2962
- Nutrition for Learning, 4362
- Polzin, Rita, 6827
- Public transit, 77
- Rohingya Muslims, 5933
- Sanctuary Refugee Health Centre, 849
- Say Hi Day, 198
- St. Mary's General Hospital, 416
- STEM girls, 6020–6021
- Sullivan, Sean and Michael, 4547
- Members'/ministers' constituencies
- Members'/ministers' correction of record, 5979
- Members'/ministers' remarks
- Minimum wage increase, economic impact
- Modernizing Ontario's Municipal Legislation Act, 2017 (Bill 68)
- Municipal governments
- increased flexibility and accountability, 1742–1743
- Municipal infrastructure
- Municipal Statute Law Amendment Act (Councillor Pregnancy and Parental Leave), 2016 (Bill 46)
- Nutrition for children
- Ontario history
- Ontario's Fair Hydro Plan
- general remarks, 2671
- impact on long-term energy costs, 5970
- Oral questions
- Aboriginal land claim
- Access to information
- Agri-food industry
- Anti-bullying initiatives
- Anti-racism activities
- Arts and cultural funding
- Climate change
- Community colleges
- Economic development
- Education funding
- Employment standards
- Energy policies
- Financial literacy
- Gasoline prices
- Hydro rates
- Immigration and refugee policy
- Infrastructure program funding
- International trade
- Mental health services
- Mining industry
- Municipal government
- Nurses
- Public libraries
- Research and innovation
- Senior citizens
- Sexual violence and harassment
- Small business
- Transfer payments
- Waste diversion
- Water supply
- Youth employment
- Parental leave
- Payments to health care professionals/organizations, disclosure of
- Petitions
- Animal protection, 5169–5170, 5398–5399, 6689
- Consumer protection, 1259, 1698–1699
- Dental care, 3065
- Employment standards, 6834
- Government anti-racism programs, 2799–2800, 4135, 4256–4257, 4508, 5168
- Home inspection industry, 3375
- Hydro rates, 2903, 3377, 3517
- Ice machines, 304–305
- Lung health, 528
- Sexual violence and harassment, 527, 1585, 1752, 5170, 5521–5522, 5729, 6691–6692, 7066–7067
- Police officers
- suspension without pay, 6699
- Political contributions
- ban on corporate and union donations, 426
- maximum allowable donations, reduction, 551
- Political fundraising
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Private members' public business
- Domestic and Sexual Violence Protection Act, 2017 (Bill 157)
- Driver licences
- Municipal Statute Law Amendment Act (Councillor Pregnancy and Parental Leave), 2016 (Bill 46)
- Safe Texting Zones Act, 2017 (Bill 19)
- Transportation planning
- Promoting Affordable Housing Act, 2016 (Bill 7)
- Protecting Patients Act, 2017 (Bill 87)
- Protecting Students Act, 2016 (Bill 37)
- Public education campaigns - Community development
- Public education campaigns - Health
- Public education campaigns - Historical/National
- German Remembrance Day, 1624
- Public education campaigns—Anti-discrimination
- Bullying Awareness and Prevention Week, 6392–6393
- Public libraries
- Racism and anti-racism, Islamophobia, 3666–3667
- Refugees
- health service clinics
- Sanctuary Refugee Health Centre, 849
- Renewable energy
- Research and development
- Road safety
- under municipal jurisdiction, 2275–2276
- school and community safety zones
- Rohingya Muslims
- Rowan's Law (Concussion Safety), 2018 (Bill 193)
- Safer Ontario Act, 2018 (Bill 175)
- Safer School Zones Act, 2017 (Bill 65)
- second reading, 2275–2277, 2912, 2921, 2925, 2929, 3224, 3228, 3239–3240, 3249, 3403, 3406, 3556
- third reading, 4266, 4276–4277
- Settlement agencies for refugees
- Sexual abuse of patients
- Sexual violence and harassment
- Social housing
- as municipal responsibility, 671, 818
- Speed limits
- reduction of, in community safety and school zones, 2276–2277, 3224
- Strengthening Quality and Accountability for Patients Act, 2017 (Bill 160)
- Stringer, Rowan
- Stronger, Healthier Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2017 (Bill 127)
- Theatre
- Canadian Music Theatre Project, 2959
- Throne speech debate
- Transfer payments
- Transfer Payment Administration Modernization, 1353
- Transit system expansion
- high-speed rail routes to Kitchener, 4685–4686
- transit hub in downtown Kitchener, 77
- Transit systems
- Transportation planning
- Tributes
- Vehicles, self-driving
- Voter participation
- Voters
- provisional registration for youth age 16 and 17, 1207
- Waste diversion
- externded producer responsibility model, 2615–2616
- Water extraction
- Water fluoridation
- municipal responsibility/jurisdiction, 700
- Youth employment
