Letter: B

• Babikian, A. (PC, Scarborough—Agincourt)

  • Members' statements
    • Armenian genocide anniversary, 84
  • Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
    • second reading, 117

• Bailey, R. (PC, Sarnia—Lambton)

  • Business - local
    • promotion of
      • Buy Ontario, Buy Canadian Day, 158
  • Business - small- and medium-sized
    • government strategy, 159
  • Question period
    • Economic development
      • presented, 158–159
    • Government accountability
      • responded to, 157

• Begum, D. (NDP, Scarborough Southwest)

  • Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) expansion - Scarborough subway extension
    • delays, 321

• Bell, J. (NDP, University—Rosedale)

  • Affordable housing
    • government strategy, 336
  • Business - small- and medium-sized
    • government strategy, 336
  • Education funding
    • general remarks, 336
  • Health care funding
    • general remarks, 336
  • International trade - tariffs, United States
    • government strategy, 209
    • jobs, impact on
      • government strategy, 209
  • Petitions
    • Education funding, 215
  • Question period
    • Manufacturing jobs
      • presented, 208–209
  • Special economic zones
    • selection of
      • accountability and transparency, 297
  • Taxation
    • reduction
      • impact, 336

• Bethlenfalvy, Hon. P. (PC, Pickering—Uxbridge)

  • Economic conditions
    • government strategy, 257
  • Employment
    • government strategy, 264
  • International trade - tariffs, United States
    • government strategy, 209
  • Question period
    • Automotive industry
      • responded to, 257
    • Government accountability
      • responded to, 27
    • Labour dispute
      • responded to, 264–265
    • Manufacturing jobs
      • responded to, 209
    • Ontario economy
      • responded to, 266

• Blais, S. (LIB, Orléans)

  • French-language debates
    • Débat sur le discours du trône
      • participation, 47
  • Judges
    • independence of, 261
  • Members' statements
    • City of Ottawa, 20
  • Ontario Place - lease of, redevelopment agreements
    • transparency and accountability, 30
  • Ottawa
    • municipal finances
      • provincial contribution, 20
  • Question period
    • Government accountability
      • presented, 30
    • Justice system
      • presented, 261
  • Taxation
    • reduction, 319–320
      • lower- and middle-income households, 332
  • Throne speech debate
    • participation, 46–48, 55
  • Unhoused persons
    • government strategy, 410

• Bouma, W. (PC, Brantford—Brant)

  • Agriculture industry - food processing
    • appreciation for, 148–149
  • Cadets
    • appreciation for, 19
  • Indigenous relations
    • government strategy, 280
  • Members' personal narratives, 183
  • Members' statements
    • Cadets, 19
    • Ferrero Canada, 148–149
  • Mining industry
    • opening a mine
      • approvals and processing time, 277
  • Mining industry - Indigenous communities
    • duty to consult, 277, 279
    • economy, impact on, 280
  • Petitions
    • Taxation, 163
  • Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5)
    • second reading, 275–280
  • Throne speech debate
    • participation, 168–169, 183

• Bourgouin, G. (NDP, Mushkegowuk—James Bay)

  • French-language debates
    • Débat sur le discours du trône
      • participation, 184–187
    • Déclarations des députées et députés
      • Sécurité routière, 21
  • Health care
    • access
      • northern Ontario, 358
  • Health care funding
    • general remarks, 358
  • Highway 11
    • 2+1 system, 357
  • Highways and roads - safety
    • general remarks, 357
  • Highways and roads safety
    • Highway 11/17, 31
    • northern Ontario, 21, 31
  • Land use planning
    • special economic zones, 345
      • and duty to consult, 345, 347
  • Members' statements
    • Highway safety, 21
  • Mining industry
    • policy development
      • Indigenous consultation, 347
  • Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5)
    • consultations
      • with Indigenous communities, 346–348
    • statements from stakeholders, 346
  • Question period
    • Highway safety
      • presented, 31
  • Ring of Fire development
    • environmental assessments, comprehensive, 170
    • Indigenous consultation and consent, 170
  • Throne speech debate
    • participation, 170, 174

• Bowman, S. (LIB, Don Valley West)

  • Business - small- and medium-sized
    • closures, 328
    • and United States tariffs
      • government strategy, 115
    • US tariffs, impact on, 50
  • Business - taxation
    • small business tax rate
      • statements by stakeholders, 328–329
  • Canadian Free Trade Agreement
    • party-specific exemptions
      • removal, 109–110
      • and supply-managed industries, 113–114
  • Employment
    • creation/loss, 155
    • rate of, 155, 328
    • rates
      • government strategy, 50
  • Government contracts
    • domestic procurement, 111–112
  • Health care
    • government strategy, 52
  • Highways and roads - construction and expansion
    • Highway 401 tunneling, 50–51
  • International trade - tariffs, United States
    • government strategy, 50
  • Interprovincial trade
    • barriers
      • impact, 112, 118
    • direct-to-consumer alcohol sales, 110
    • government strategy, 108
    • labour mobility, 110
      • and unions, 117
    • mutual recognition of goods and services
      • as deregulation, 111
  • Light Rail Transit (LRT) - Eglinton Crosstown
    • delays, 83
  • Members' statements
    • Eglinton Crosstown LRT, 83
  • News media
    • role of, 193
  • Ontario Place - lease of, redevelopment agreements
    • transparency and accountability, 28, 82
  • Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
    • second reading, 82, 108–118, 193
    • employment protections, 113
    • impact
      • evaluation strategy, 111
    • implementation
      • process, 112–113, 117
    • legal challenges, process, 113
    • stakeholder consultations, 116
  • Question period
    • Government accountability
      • presented, 28
    • Job creation
      • presented, 155
  • Special economic zones
    • selection of
      • accountability and transparency, 287
  • Taxation
    • reduction, 318
      • lower- and middle-income households, 328
  • Throne speech debate
    • participation, 49–51

• Brady, B.A. (Independent, Haldimand—Norfolk)

  • Land use planning - ministerial zoning orders (MZOs)
    • by site
      • Nanticoke Industrial Park, 210
  • Members' statements
    • Canada's Kindest Community Contest, 202
  • Members'/ministers' constituencies
    • Haldimand—Norfolk, 202
  • Question period
    • Land use planning
      • presented, 210

• Burch, J. (NDP, Niagara Centre)

  • Interprovincial trade
    • labour mobility
      • and colleges, 81
  • Members' statements
    • Health care, 82–83
  • Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
    • second reading, 81