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I'm Sure the People of Ontario Noticed, and the Speaker Appreciates It Very Queen’s Park Today – Daily Report November 1, 2019 Quotation of the day “I’m sure the people of Ontario noticed, and the Speaker appreciates it very much. We can do it.” Speaker Ted Arnott closes out the last question period of the first week of the fall ​ ​ session by praising a “higher standard of decorum.” While MPPs started the week relatively subdued, the rowdiness has ramped up. Take yesterday’s debate for example, when Arnott had to stop the clock because he couldn’t hear over a standing ovation after Premier Doug Ford seemed to take a shot at the ​ ​ Opposition, saying PC MPP Donna Skelly is “the only member that’s working their back ​ ​ off in Hamilton.” All other Steeltown MPPs are New Democrats. Today at Queen’s Park On the schedule The house is adjourned until Monday, November 4. Thursday’s debates and proceedings MPPs kicked off second-reading debate on Bill 116, Foundations for Promoting and Protecting ​ ​ Mental Health and Addictions Services Act, ahead of question period. The bill, tabled in May, would create a central agency for mental health and addictions care and allow Ontario to join class action lawsuits against an “opioid-related wrong.” The government’s time-allocation motion on Bill 124, which proposes to hold public sector ​ ​ salary increases at one per cent, passed after question period (Ayes 65; Nays 42), with PC support. Bill 124 itself cleared second reading later that afternoon (Ayes 59; Nays 32). Per the ​ time-allocation motion, the bill will now go under the microscope at the Standing Committee on General Government with one day of public hearings on November 4; it’s due back to the house for third reading by November 7. During the afternoon’s private members’ business debate, a PC bill was sent to committee, a Liberal bill was killed and an NDP motion was shot down. ● PC MPP Andrea Khanjin’s Bill 130 — which proclaims the second Tuesday in May as ​ ​ ​ ​ annual litter cleanup day in Ontario — was referred to the general government committee after receiving unanimous support at second reading. ● Liberal MPP Michael Gravelle’s Bill 133, Buy in Canada for Mass Transit, failed at ​ ​ ​ ​ second reading (Ayes 32; Nays 54). ● NDP MPP Jamie West’s motion to declare an emergency over opioid overdoses in ​ ​ northern Ontario was voted down by the PCs. Associate Small Business Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria started off second-reading debate on ​ ​ Bill 132 before the house rose for the weekend. ​ In the park “Moo instead of boo!” PC backbencher Christina Mitas was spotted in a cow costume for ​ ​ ​ ​ Halloween day’s question period. Mitas was the only MPP to get into the spirit inside the chamber, but the PC caucus turned into witches, athletes and a Star Wars character for a video series on safe and accessible ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ trick-or-treating. Meanwhile, Premier Doug Ford shook hands with a mini version of himself. ​ ​ ​ ​ The legislature’s former and longest-serving Speaker, Dave Levac, was also in the house to ​ ​ watch Thursday’s question period. PCs wrap up water-taking review, float expanded fines for violations — but advocates say changes will make it easier, cheaper to pollute Environment Minister Jeff Yurek says the government is finishing up its review of water-taking ​ ​ permits and, in the meantime, is tweaking penalties for permit violations. The PCs had extended the Liberals moratorium on issuing new permits or expanding existing ones for another year; it’s now set to expire on January 1, 2020. Yurek said he’ll have more to say on the matter in December and that the extension allowed the province to complete a thorough review of its water bottling policies. However, he isn’t ruling out another extension, saying he wants to ensure resources are protected and sustainably used. Advocacy group Environmental Defence and the township of Wellington Centre are calling on the province to extend the moratorium, according to the CBC. ​ ​ Wellington Centre is where Nestle purchased a well in 2016 that the township had also bid on, spurring criticism that led the Grits to introduce the moratorium. Meanwhile, Yurek announced proposed regulatory changes to expand the use of administrative ​ ​ financial penalties for breaching key environmental statutes, including the terms of water-taking permits, selling pesticides without a licence and illegal sewage dumping into waterways. Any cash collected would go back into a rebranded version of the Ontario Community Environment Fund to support green community projects. Scofflaw entities could still face prosecution, but only for “serious violations.” The government says Ontario’s current penalty system is limited in scope which has led to gaps in enforcement. But Keith Brooks, programs director for Environmental Defence, said the changes would ​ ​ actually make it less expensive for companies to pollute. He pointed out that violating the Water Resources Act currently comes with a fine of up to ​ ​ $100,000 per day, while the PCs want to pare that down to $200,000 per contravention. “It is highly deceptive of the Ontario government to claim that it is doing more to hold polluters accountable, when they are actually cutting the penalties polluters face,” Brooks said in a statement. NDP Environment critic Ian Arthur accused the Tories of “giving industry a cheaper pass when ​ ​ it comes to dumping sewage in our water, using toxic pesticides and polluting the air.” “For big companies, these fines are so insignificant that they will simply be incorporated into the cost of doing business,” Arthur said. People have until November 27 to weigh in on the proposed changes, which are also part of Bill ​ 132, the sweeping red-tape reduction legislation, and the “made-in-Ontario” environment plan. ​ Today’s events November 1 at 2 p.m. – Oro-Medonte ​ Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Steve Clark will make an announcement at the ​ ​ Township of Oro-Medonte Administration Centre. Area MPPs Doug Downey and Jill Dunlop ​ ​ ​ will be in tow. November 1 at 7 p.m. – Toronto ​ Newzapalooza, the annual battle of the media bands in support of the Children’s Aid Foundation, goes down at the Opera House. Toronto Mayor John Tory is one of the judges. ​ ​ Topics of conversation ● Elementary teachers in York Region have voted overwhelmingly for a strike mandate with 99 per cent support, Global News reports. The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of ​ ​ Ontario is wrapping up provincewide strike votes amid ongoing contract negotiations with the province and school boards, and results are expected as early as today. ​ ​ ○ The high school teachers’ and Catholic teachers’ unions are also holding strike votes, with results expected by November 15 and November 13, respectively. ● Minister Lisa MacLeod pumped up her newly named Heritage, Sport, Tourism and ​ ​ ​ Culture Industries file in a luncheon speech to the Economic Club Thursday. ● Steve Paikin, host of The Agenda, looks back on former TVO CEO Lisa De Wilde’s ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ transformational 14-year tenure on her last day at the provincial public broadcaster, which was yesterday. ● MVP MPP: Bhutila Karpoche, the NDP who represents Parkdale-High Park, was voted ​ ​ ​ Toronto’s best MPP in a NOW Magazine reader survey. ​ ​ News briefs — governmental Ford approves Sidewalk Labs agreement, notes it’s not a done deal ● Premier Doug Ford is taking Thursday’s deal between Sidewalk Labs and Waterfront ​ ​ Toronto with a grain of salt. The deal brings the high-tech Quayside neighbourhood project closer to reality — but Ford noted it “isn’t a final agreement,” but rather a confirmation to continue the conversation. ○ “The right balance has been struck between protecting the interests of the people of Ontario and encouraging investment, innovation and economic development,” Ford said in a statement. ○ The agreement scales back the scope of the project to the 12-acre site instead of an earlier proposal for a 190-acre parcel that stretched into the Port Lands and gives Waterfront Toronto (made up of representatives of all three levels of government) a lead role in data collection. Sidewalk Labs’ proposed “civic data trust” is no longer on the table, and the company agreed to comply with government privacy standards. ○ Sidewalk Labs, a sister company of Google, also wanted to be the exclusive developer in the area, but agreed to partner with other developers through a public procurement process led by Waterfront Toronto. ○ Ford had called Sidewalk’s earlier proposal a “terrible deal for taxpayers.” ○ “We’re good with the 12 acres, but that’s not going to be my decision, that’s going to be up to the Toronto Waterfront committee to decide that, and I have confidence in them,” Ford said in August. ​ ​ ○ The PCs changed up the provincial representatives on the Waterfront Toronto committee following a damning report from the auditor general in December. ○ The project is now up for a formal evaluation and further public consultation with the final vote pushed to March 31, 2020. More schooling on the skilled trades ● Education Minister Stephen Lecce highlighted 122 new programs aimed at encouraging ​ ​ high school students to enter into the skilled trades career field under the Specialist High Skills Major program. ○ The new programs cover 19 different sectors including construction, mining and agriculture at a cost of about $3.5 million, rounding out the total budget for the programs at $42 million for fiscal 2019-20. ○ It’s a topical announcement as next week happens to be “National Skilled Trades and Technology Week.” Question period NDP lead-off Long-term care ● Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath devoted several lead questions to the ​ ​ long-term care system, which the financial accountability officer said this week will see wait lists peak and hallway health care get worse despite the PC’s pledge to create 15,000 new beds.
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