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Wed 7 Jun 2000 / Mer 7 Jun 2000 No. 68A No 68A ISSN 1180-2987 Legislative Assembly Assemblée législative of Ontario de l’Ontario First Session, 37th Parliament Première session, 37e législature Official Report Journal of Debates des débats (Hansard) (Hansard) Wednesday 7 June 2000 Mercredi 7 juin 2000 Speaker Président Honourable Gary Carr L’honorable Gary Carr Clerk Greffier Claude L. DesRosiers Claude L. DesRosiers Hansard on the Internet Le Journal des débats sur Internet Hansard and other documents of the Legislative Assembly L’adresse pour faire paraître sur votre ordinateur personnel can be on your personal computer within hours after each le Journal et d’autres documents de l’Assemblée législative sitting. The address is: en quelques heures seulement après la séance est : http://www.ontla.on.ca/ Index inquiries Renseignements sur l’index Reference to a cumulative index of previous issues may be Adressez vos questions portant sur des numéros précédents obtained by calling the Hansard Reporting Service indexing du Journal des débats au personnel de l’index, qui vous staff at 416-325-7410 or 325-3708. fourniront des références aux pages dans l’index cumulatif, en composant le 416-325-7410 ou le 325-3708. Copies of Hansard Exemplaires du Journal Information regarding purchase of copies of Hansard may Pour des exemplaires, veuillez prendre contact avec be obtained from Publications Ontario, Management Board Publications Ontario, Secrétariat du Conseil de gestion, Secretariat, 50 Grosvenor Street, Toronto, Ontario, M7A 50 rue Grosvenor, Toronto (Ontario) M7A 1N8. Par 1N8. Phone 416-326-5310, 326-5311 or toll-free téléphone : 416-326-5310, 326-5311, ou sans frais : 1-800-668-9938. 1-800-668-9938. Hansard Reporting and Interpretation Services Service du Journal des débats et d’interprétation 3330 Whitney Block, 99 Wellesley St W 3330 Édifice Whitney ; 99, rue Wellesley ouest Toronto ON M7A 1A2 Toronto ON M7A 1A2 Telephone 416-325-7400; fax 416-325-7430 Téléphone, 416-325-7400 ; télécopieur, 416-325-7430 Published by the Legislative Assembly of Ontario Publié par l’Assemblée législative de l’Ontario 3517 LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY ASSEMBLÉE LÉGISLATIVE OF ONTARIO DE L’ONTARIO Wednesday 7 June 2000 Mercredi 7 juin 2000 The House met at 1330. children across Ontario. In order to cast a vote, these Prayers. children must read at least five of the books from the list of candidates in either the fiction or non-fiction cat- egories. MEMBERS’ STATEMENTS This year’s non-fiction titles include Alexander Gra- ham Bell: An Inventive Life; Canada’s Maple Leaf: The Story of Our Flag; and Meet the Group of Seven. This is CORRECTIONAL SERVICES FUNDING an excellent program in many respects. It rewards chil- dren for reading by giving them direct input into the Mr John Gerretsen (Kingston and the Islands): selection of the winners. It encourages our young people Yesterday the headlines of the Kingston Whig-Standard to read books such as those I have just mentioned which screamed out, “OPP Will Pull Plug on Pen Squad.” Once they might not otherwise have read. again the residents of my riding have seen the effects of The Silver Birch program also honours and encour- the government’s downloading and its negative results on ages imaginative authors who create works that appeal to the local property taxpayers. Yesterday the city of Kings- Ontario’s children. ton was unilaterally informed that the OPP will abandon a 15-year commitment to investigate crime in the six area This program would not be possible without the hard prisons in the Kingston area. The OPP staff of six top- work of the dedicated teacher-librarians who organize the notch investigators involved in the joint forces peniten- program within their schools and encourage and assist tiary squad will cost city taxpayers an additional $1 mil- the children in their participation. Some of the teacher- lion annually. librarians in my riding of Durham who have contributed Neither the chief of police nor the police services their efforts are Joan Butt of Cartwright public school, board were advised of this. City Police Chief Closs stated Pam Fis of Prince Albert public school, Stella Kranz of to the Whig-Standard, “We were stunned by the an- John XXIII, Coleen Power of R.H. Cornish, and Isabelle nouncement” without even waiting for a high-level meet- Hobbs of S.A. Cawker. ing that has been promised by the province. The official award for Ontario will presented in Lon- Although the Solicitor General hastily asked the OPP don on June 10. On June 12 there will be a luncheon in to withdraw its letter and has agreed to further discuss the Durham. It will allow the children in my riding to meet issue with city officials, undoubtedly the municipal tax- the authors and the community leaders to discuss their payers of my community will end up picking up more of reflections on the books. these provincial costs. All the Solicitor General said was I’d like to congratulate the teacher-librarians, the auth- that “the letter was premature” and that the city should be ors, the program coordinators and especially Ontario’s footing a larger share of the bill. children who participated, and thank them for their valu- This is another example where amalgamation and able input to the program. downloading is not only not saving the local taxpayers money, but is actually costing the local property tax- payers more money. My advice to the Solicitor General CANCER TREATMENT is to keep the joint forces penitentiary squad, continue to Mr David Ramsay (Timiskaming-Cochrane): Many fund your officers to this force and stop the continual of us have stood in this place and have begged the downloading of province-wide services to the local Minister of Health to treat northerners as she does south- municipal property taxpayers. erners when it comes to access to cancer treatment. Time after time, we get the bureaucratic response from this Minister of Health that the southern Ontario patients are SILVER BIRCH being “re-referred,” as she says, from their region be- LITERATURE AWARDS PROGRAM cause the treatment is not available locally. That’s why Mr John O’Toole (Durham): I rise today to inform southern Ontario patients get airfare, hotel and meals this House of my riding of Durham’s participation in the when they are sent to Thunder Bay and Sudbury for Silver Birch literature awards program. This award is cancer treatment. Northerners have never had access to presented to the Canadian author of the book chosen as many of the kinds of treatments locally in our area for the most outstanding of the year by grade 4, 5 and 6 years and years and have had to, historically, go to 3518 LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ONTARIO 7 JUNE 2000 southern Ontario for treatment. But when that happens, schools, Marmora Senior Public, Earl Prentice and we only get a one-way mileage allowance, not full Sacred Heart schools. expenses. Students were asked to submit artwork that would What’s the real story here? Is it because southern depict their favourite activities with family members who Ontario patients never had to travel before, but do now are seniors. These beautiful pictures were then trans- because of the minister’s mismanagement of the minis- ferred on to fabric pieces, which the seniors took and try, that the government feels obliged to pay the full cost, pieced together to make four quilted hangings. On Satur- whereas northerners, who have never had these services, day, June 3, the quilted hangings were presented at a have to take the lower form of compensation? special seniors’ tea to the three retirement homes and one This makes us angry. You continue to treat us like a long-term-care facility in the village. Third World colony. We, in the north, are sick and tired These quilts are absolutely beautiful. The artwork of being treated like dirt. If it’s good enough to pay the depicts children fishing and playing checkers with grand- full fare for southern Ontario patients who can’t get treat- dad, gardening and making cookies with grandma, as ment locally, then it should be good enough for north- well as watching TV or going for a walk with the seniors erners to get the same assistance. This is discrimination. in their lives. I know these lovely quilts will brighten the You’re providing benefits to one group of Ontarians and homes where they hang and bring a smile to the face of not to another based on where they reside in the province. those who gaze on them. This is wrong, and we will continue to fight until you I want to take this opportunity to congratulate the chil- bring fairness to all cancer patients across Ontario. dren of the Marmora schools and the Marmora Seniors Club 87 for this great intergenerational project. It is an HALDIMAND-NORFOLK ECONOMY example of how youth and seniors can record in a perma- nent way the value of children in the lives of seniors and Mr Toby Barrett (Haldimand-Norfolk-Brant): Re- the value of seniors in the lives of children. cently, a prominent global company, Robin Hood Multi- foods, known locally as Bick’s Pickles, announced ambi- 1340 tious plans to relocate its processing facilities in the town of Dunnville, located in the east end of Haldimand. I RIVERDALE YOUTH SINGERS know Minister Hudak is very heartened to have this development coming into Dunnville, as the $18-million Ms Marilyn Churley (Broadview-Greenwood): On investment will mean about 140 new full-time jobs for Monday, June 5, I attended the spring concert of the the area. Riverdale Youth Singers, entitled A Salute to Canada In October 1998, I had the pleasure of attending a 2000.
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