No. 7A No 7A 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) Monday 1 November 1999 Lundi 1er novembre 1999 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. 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After 145 years of ANTHONY PETER TOLDO family ownership, the paper was sold earlier this year to Mr Dwight Duncan (Windsor-St Clair): Last Mon- Metroland Printing and Publishing Ltd. day my friend and constituent Anthony Peter Toldo of Johnny James was a veteran of World War II, having Tecumseh, Ontario, was awarded the Order of Ontario. served in the Midland regiment before transferring to the Mr Toldo owns manufacturing plants in three coun- Directorate of Military Intelligence in Ottawa. He held tries and employs more than 1,200 people. many important responsibilities, rising to the rank of Born in San Fiore province in Italy, Mr Toldo started a captain and being in charge of the security section in bathroom fittings company in Tilbury. In 1980, he turned England, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. entrepreneur again and formed Centoco Manufacturing Johnny James will be remembered for many of his Ltd in Tilbury near Windsor to make plastic plumbing community events. On a lighter note, he will also be fixtures. In 1985, he built a third plant in Windsor and remembered by many constituents for being present at moved all the bathroom fittings production to Tilbury to almost every community event with his notebook and concentrate on making automotive steering wheels there. camera at his shoulder. In 1988, he created the Toldo Group of companies, which I would like to extend my deepest sympathies to his manufacture a wide range of products, including fast- family, especially his wife, Dorothy, who remains a food restaurant furniture. strength in the community; their children, John and his In 1997, Mr Toldo donated $1 million to the Windsor wife Linda, Robert, Rick and his wife Kim; as well as to Regional Cancer Centre to purchase medical equipment eight grandchildren. I would like Johnny’s family to and to help restore its building. In 1998, he gave know that my thoughts and prayers are with them at this $325,000 to the same centre for the treatment of prostate difficult time. John James truly helped make our com- cancer and contributed $100,000 towards a building for munity a better place to work. the Italian senior citizens’ centre of Windsor. In this year alone, Mr Toldo has donated more than $600,000 to Windsor area hospitals. SPECIAL EDUCATION FUNDING Mr Speaker, I know I speak on your behalf and on behalf of all Ontarians, particularly people who live in Mr Bruce Crozier (Essex): My comments are for the my community, in saying congratulations to Mr Toldo on Minister of Education. Minister, you will know that special-needs students are being denied services they the Order of Ontario and, more important, a very special thanks for his enormous generosity and contributions to need to reach their full potential as a result of govern- our community. ment freezing of the intensive support amount grant. Even the government apologist, the Education Improve- ment Commission, has been forced to admit that special- JOHN JAMES needs students have been “adversely affected” by the Mr John O’Toole (Durham): Last week my com- funding formula. munity in Durham lost a very special individual. Mr John Ontario schools are short $100 million for special James, in his 89th year, passed away. education services. In my riding of Essex, the Windsor- John James was well known to many in the commun- Essex Catholic District School Board estimates a ity. He was the former publisher of one of our local shortfall of $2 million. The Greater Essex County District newspapers, the Canadian Statesman, and a long-time School Board will fall short by $2.5 million. reporter of many community events. Johnny, as he was To quote the Greater Essex County District School fondly known, was also a Liberal member of Parliament Board special education advisory committee: “The com- from 1949 to 1957, but he will be best remembered for munity is struggling to find funding for adequate services 218 LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ONTARIO 1 NOVEMBER 1999 for students requiring children’s mental health facilities. 1340 Many students are returning to their community schools.” Option B, preferred by St Joe’s and all physician Simply put, in the words of the Windsor-Essex groups, simply requests no transfer of patients until the Catholic District School Board superintendent of educa- construction to house both services and provisions for tion, “There is no funding for students who register in the patients is completed by the year 2001. boards from provincial institutions or pre-school.” In addition, in this government’s zeal to save money, Last week, in answer to a question in this House the Minister of Health has not addressed a new proposal brought by our education critic, you bragged about put forward by a joint submission of St Joseph’s in spending more money on special education per pupil but Brantford and Hamilton and McMaster University, to said nothing about the intensive support amount, which create a partnership and have St Joseph’s act as a has been frozen. teaching facility and maintain complex continuing care, Last Thursday, I spent an evening at Villanova high rehabilitation and palliative care. school in LaSalle. A forum on special education funding This proposal is providing the government with an issues was held for parents and educators of children with opportunity to save millions of dollars on strained health special needs. I can tell you, Minister, these parents of care, save and solve the doctor shortage in our riding, and kids in need of intensive support don’t believe you and forge a new partnership between two leading-edge health they don’t trust you to deliver. practitioners. I call on the Minister of Health to personally review the decision, as she promised, because of the hardship on ALICE KING SCULTHORPE my riding by possibly having to transfer services twice Mr Doug Galt (Northumberland): I rise in the across the riding and to personally intervene into the House today to recognize the efforts of Mrs Alice King facility to ensure that Brantford and Ontario are better Sculthorpe, a long-time resident of the town of Port served. Hope, and to congratulate her on receiving the Order of Ontario on October 25, 1999. Since moving to Port Hope in 1949, Mrs Sculthorpe OAK RIDGES MORAINE has played an important role in preserving the commun- Ms Marilyn Churley (Broadview-Greenwood): This ity’s heritage buildings and landmarks. Her unmatched morning I attended a very important press conference put enthusiasm and persistence led to her position as director on by the Federation of Ontarian Naturalists, Save the of the Capital Theatre Heritage Foundation, where she Oak Ridges Moraine Coalition, the Uxbridge Conserva- helped raise $1.5 million to convert the old movie house tion Association, the Kettle Lakes Coalition and Earth- into a majestic theatre for live performances. roots, assisted by the Sierra legal defence fund. It is her tremendous passion for Port Hope’s Walton In all the controversy over the scandal that’s erupted Street heritage district that has made it one of Canada’s around this issue, we must not lose sight of the urgent best 19th century streetscapes. She has organized the need to protect this environmentally sensitive land.