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Queen's Park Today – Daily Report October 24, 2018 Queen’s Park Today – Daily Report October 24, 2018 Today at Queen’s Park ............................................................................................. 1 Today’s events .......................................................................................................... 4 Topics of conversation .............................................................................................. 5 News releases — Governmental .............................................................................. 6 Question period ......................................................................................................... 6 Quotation of the day “The people of Canada are too smart to believe that [Prime Minister Justin] Trudeau’s phony rebates are anything more than a temporary vote-buying scheme that will be discarded once the election is over. In contrast, the carbon tax rip-off is forever.” Premier Doug Ford takes a shot at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who unveiled details of the federal carbon tax rebate plan in Ford’s home turf of Etobicoke Tuesday. Today at Queen’s Park On the schedule The House will convene at 9 a.m. The government could call votes or more debate on: • Bill 4, Cap and Trade Cancellation Act; • Bill 32, Access to Natural Gas Act; • The time allocation motion on Bill 34, Green Energy Repeal Act; • The government’s motion modifying the standing orders. Tuesday’s debates and proceedings Tory House Leader Todd Smith introduced a time allocation motion on Bill 34, Green Energy Repeal Act, which would require that the legislation moves through the committee stage quickly and is returned back to the House, with any amendments, for third-reading debate by November 13. Economic Development and Job Creation Minister Jim Wilson introduced the PC government’s omnibus labour bill, Bill 47, Making Ontario Open For Business Act, in the afternoon. Wilson said it will be followed up by a series of other bills aimed at lowering business costs and boosting competition. 2 October 24, 2018 The controversial legislation to nix Liberal-established workplace modernization laws required a rare recorded vote on the motion for first reading. The motion carried with PC support (Ayes 53; Nays 38). More on the legislation below. Bill 4, Cap and Trade Cancellation Act, was returned to the House from committee and now awaits third reading debate. MPPs debated Bill 32, Access to Natural Gas Act, in the afternoon. In the park Home Care Ontario will hold a lobby day, including a breakfast for MPPs; the Retired Teachers of Ontario will hold a networking event focused on issues facing seniors over lunch. Minister for Seniors and Accessibility Raymond Cho is expected to deliver remarks. In the evening both the Professional Engineers of Ontario and Chicken Farmers of Ontario are hosting receptions. Tories’ bill rolls back workers’ rights in the name of growing the economy The Progressive Conservative government tabled the official death knell for Liberal- established workplace reform laws Tuesday, stirring up the age-old clash between labour advocates and business groups. The Tories’ Bill 47, Making Ontario Open For Business Act, officially guts Bill 148, Fair Workplaces and Better Jobs Act, by freezing the minimum wage at $14 per hour for the next two years — something the Tories vowed to do during the election campaign — and slashing new workers’ rights provisions. Bill 47 proposes swapping the 10 days of annual personal leave workers are currently entitled to — including two paid sick days — for a maximum of eight unpaid days off. Specifically, workers would get up to three sick days, three personal days and two bereavement days, all of which are unpaid. The Tories will keep certain provisions from Bill 148, including the three vacation weeks for employees with five years of experience at the same company, and leave for survivors of domestic violence. The government is also still planning to offer an income tax break for minimum wage earners. The minimum wage will begin to rise again in October 2020, when the province will tie increases to the base wage to inflation. The legislation also reverts back to the old rules for union certification, and adds an extra step, which critics say is designed to make it harder for workers to form a union. It will allow employers to require staff provide sick notes from doctors if they take time off for illness; remove new rules obligating employers to give shift workers ample notice of their work schedule; and eliminates a guarantee of equal pay for equal work for casual, part- time and temporary workers. Copyright © 2018 Queen’s Park Today queensparktoday.ca 3 October 24, 2018 Economic Development Minister Jim Wilson said these changes will boost business growth and create more well-paying jobs so Ontario can move away from a minimum wage economy. “We are making Ontario open for business. It is time to bring quality jobs back to Ontario and help families get ahead,” Wilson said in a statement. As part of Bill 47’s promise to “modernize Ontario’s apprenticeship system” and cut red tape for businesses, the PCs will also wind down the College of Trades by next year; the college was established in 2009 under former premier Dalton McGuinty. Labour Minister Laurie Scott and Training, Colleges and Universities Minister Merrilee Fullerton, who participated in the bill’s announcement with Wilson, said Bill 47 will make it easier for more youth to enter the skilled trades by setting journeyperson to apprentice ratios at one-to-one and by setting a moratorium on new trade classifications. The Tories’ bill prompted jeers from workers’ rights advocates and cheers from business groups. “Fair scheduling, equal pay for equal work, paid sick days. These rights are not frivolous — they are practical, minimum standards for fairness. [They are] standards that help grow good jobs and keep workers safe,” said Unifor president Jerry Dias. OPSEU president Warren “Smokey” Thomas decried the move as a “race to the bottom.” Meanwhile, the Ontario Chamber of Commerce — one of the business groups that has been urging the PC government to roll back Bill 148 — lauded the base wage freeze. CEO Rocco Rossi said the Liberals’ Bill 148 that enshrined a $15 minimum wage effective January 1, was “too much, too fast” and that he is “absolutely thrilled” with the PC’s proposal. “The compounding labour reforms and unintended consequences came at too high a cost to Ontario’s economy,” Rossi said in a statement. Changes to apprenticeship rules were lauded by Colleges Ontario and some construction associations. Ontarians will pay $244, receive $300 under federal carbon tax plan The average Ontario family will pay $244 in carbon-tax costs and receive about $300 in rebates next year, according to federal government estimates. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, flanked by his Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, unveiled details of the hotly contested federal carbon backstop plan in the heart of so-called Ford Nation in Etobicoke Tuesday morning. Copyright © 2018 Queen’s Park Today queensparktoday.ca 4 October 24, 2018 The plan, which will come into effect for provinces without a pricing plan of their own, will tax Ontario’s greenhouse gas emitters and return revenues to the province in the form of direct tax rebates to citizens and in grants to “affected sectors” in the form of energy efficiency programs. Ottawa’s carbon levy is now scheduled to kick off April 1, 2019, when emitters will begin being charged. Carbon will be priced at $20 per tonne and rise each year to hit $50 a tonne in 2022. Tension has been frothing up between Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill in recent weeks over carbon pricing, cannabis legalization, the USMCA trade deal and anti-terrorism. Ford pulled no punches in a statement shortly after Trudeau’s announcement, saying the prime minister “does not have the right to ram a carbon tax down the throats of Ontario families and job creators.” The federal government plans to impose its carbon backstop plan on Saskatchewan, Manitoba and New Brunswick, in addition to Ontario, because they do not have a carbon pricing program of their own. Premier Ford has vowed to fight the plan in the courts and recently embarked on an anti- carbon tax tour out west, visiting with Alberta’s United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe. Saskatchewan and Ontario are intervening in each other’s respective provincial court challenges of the federal fuel levy. Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister recently did a 180 and joined the carbon-levy resistance as well. Today’s events October 24 at 9:30 a.m. – Toronto PC MPP Gila Martow will hold a press conference in the Queen’s Park media studio regarding the government’s Bill 47, Making Ontario Open for Business Act. October 24 at 1:45 p.m. – White River Premier Doug Ford will attend the opening of Harte Gold’s Sugar Zone mine near Wawa. He will deliver remarks and participate in a photo-op. October 24 at 5 p.m. – Toronto Environmental Defence and Ripley’s Aquarium will cut the ribbon on a new exhibit on plastic pollution at the aquarium. “The sculpture made of 12,000 plastic bottles represents just four minutes of Ontario’s waste,” the environmental advocacy organization said in a press release. October 24 - October 26 – Niagara-on-the-Lake The Ontario Chamber of Commerce is holding its annual economic summit. A dozen cabinet ministers will be at the event, which features speeches from Premier Ford, Economic Development and Trade Minister Jim Wilson, U.S. Ambassador to Canada Kelly Craft and Canada’s Ambassador to the U.S. David MacNaughton. Copyright © 2018 Queen’s Park Today queensparktoday.ca 5 October 24, 2018 Topics of conversation • Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has waded into the drama swirling between the Pink Palace and Parliament Hill. Singh, the Ontario NDP’s former deputy leader, called on the federal Liberals to swoop in and rescue Ontario’s basic income pilot project.
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