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“Boy, That's the First Event I've Ever Had Some Boos — But Queen’s Park Today – Daily Report May 16, 2019 Quotation of the day “Boy, that’s the first event I’ve ever had some boos — but anyways.” Premier Doug Ford shrugged off boos at the opening ceremony for the Special Olympics ​ ​ ​ Invitational Youth Games. (It was not the first time Ford had been booed.) ​ ​ Today at Queen’s Park On the schedule The House convenes at 9 a.m. The government could call any of the following pieces of legislation in the morning and afternoon: ● Bill 107, Getting Ontario Moving Act; ​ ● Bill 108, More Homes, More Choice Act; and ​ ● Bill 100, Protecting What Matters Most Act (the budget measures act). ​ Three backbench bills are up for second reading during the afternoon’s private member’s debates: ● Co-sponsors NDP MPP Paul Miller and PC MPP Bob Bailey will put forward Bill 60, ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Ministry of Community and Social Services Amendment Act (Social Assistance Research Commission). The bill would establish a social assistance research commission. ○ Miller has introduced similar legislation in the past. ● PC Natalia Kusendova will call Bill 105, Mandatory Police Training Act, which would ​ ​ ​ ​ require anyone serving as a police officer be first trained in administering naloxone, a temporary opioid-overdose reversing drug. ○ Kusendova will hold a morning presser in the media studio to talk about her bill. ● PC Vijay Thanigasalam will move Bill 104, Tamil Genocide Education Week, to ​ ​ ​ ​ proclaim an awareness week in May. ○ He will also hold a news conference about his bill this afternoon. Wednesday’s debates and proceedings The government’s time-allocation motion for Bill 107 passed after morning debate (Ayes 68; ​ ​ Nays 44). The bill to upload Toronto’s transit network still needs a second-reading vote before it’s sent to the Standing Committee on General Government; it’s due back to the House, with any amendments that arise at committee, for third reading by May 29. NDP MPP Sandy Shaw tabled Bill 114, Nancy Rose Act, which would require the province to ​ ​ ​ ​ develop a pediatric hospice palliative strategy informed by health experts and families with children requiring palliative care. The bill is named for Shaw’s younger sister, who passed away from leukemia as a child. Finance Minister Vic Fedeli kicked off third reading debate on Bill 100, the budget bill, in the ​ ​ ​ ​ afternoon. In the park Cystic Fibrosis Canada is scheduled to hold its lobby day and a lunch reception. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is planning an afternoon rally over gas prices. Ford booed at Special Olympics opening ceremony Premier Doug Ford is dismissing getting dissed at a Special Olympics event on Tuesday. ​ ​ “It was so great to see the smiles on the kids’ faces and all the energy in the room,” Ford told reporters at Queen’s Park Wednesday morning. “Our government supported it, we funded it, and I’ll always continue to support kids with disability. I’ve done it my whole life through Rotary and we’re going to continue doing it.” Ford was booed at the opening ceremony for the Special Olympics Invitational Youth Games held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Toronto Mayor John Tory was also there and ​ ​ received applause. The NDP made jabs during the morning’s question period and suggested there is growing criticism over the PC’s policies. NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said “it seems [Ford] can’t show his face in public without getting ​ ​ booed.” “It sounds like the folks at the event last night would have wished that the premier hadn’t showed up at all,” NDP MPP Taras Natyshak quipped. ​ ​ Ford fired back that Natyshak “didn’t even bother showing up. At least we showed up.” “It’s not about getting into gutter politics and worrying about if you get a cheer or a boo,” he added, to thunderous applause from the PC benches. “It’s about being there for the kids.” While on stage Tuesday night, Ford seemed to downplay the jeers. “I haven’t heard that much energy in a long time … Boy, that’s the first event I’ve had some boos,” Ford said and laughed, before continuing with his remarks. But it isn’t the first time he’s been jeered publicly. During a 2014 Toronto mayoral debate, Ford was booed when he responded to a question about his later brother and former mayor Rob ​ Ford’s anti-Semitic comments by mentioning his Jewish doctor, lawyer and accountant. He was ​ also booed last November at a Peterborough Pete's hockey game, according to the Star. ​ ​ ​ Nor is Ford the only Ontario first minister to get booed in recent history. In 2016, then-premier Kathleen Wynne was heckled by the crowd at the International Plowing Match. ​ The booing of Ford, in contrast to cheers for Tory, may suggest the Toronto mayor’s campaign against the provincial government’s social services cuts is working in some quarters. A recent survey by Corbett Communications found that Tory would best Ford by a slim margin in a head-to-head election, were he the leader of the Ontario Liberals. Today’s events May 16 at 9:30 a.m. – Toronto ​ ​ NDP health critic France Gélinas will be in the media studio to discuss how the PC’s proposed ​ ​ cancellation of out-of-country OHIP coverage will impact Ontarians with kidney failure. May 16 at 11:30 a.m. – Toronto ​ ​ Federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer will deliver a luncheon speech entitled “Limited ​ ​ government, Limitless Potential” to the Economic Club of Canada. May 16 at 11:30 a.m. – Brampton ​ ​ Brampton NDP MPPs Sara Singh, Kevin Yarde and Gurratan Singh will hold a roundtable ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ discussion on autism funding at Chris Gibson Recreation Centre. Topics of conversation ● Finance Minister Vic Fedeli told iPolitics the Ontario Cannabis Store has a security team ​ ​ ​ ​ in place that’s headed up by a former cop, but dodged questions about an earlier report that OCS never filled a $270K position after it was turned down by longtime Ford family friend and Toronto police superintendent Ron Taverner. ​ ○ “The OCS handles all of the HR,” Fedeli said when asked repeatedly by iPolitics ​ if the job was created just for Taverner. ○ Opposition critics slammed Premier Doug Ford after the news broke earlier this ​ ​ week, with NDP Leader Andrea Horwath saying there is a “pattern” of partisan ​ ​ appointments with this premier — “he likes to find cushy jobs for his crony friends.” ● The Ontario Court of Appeal has shot down a legal challenge from a group of doctors fighting for conscience rights. The court ruled all Ontario physicians must follow the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons’ requirement to refer patients to medical services such as abortion and physician-assisted suicide, even if the services go against their religious beliefs. ● The Ford government’s TV attack ad on the federal carbon backstop has been parodied by a federal Liberal staffer. Braeson Holland, press secretary to Women’s Minister ​ ​ Maryam Monsef, tweeted out the alternative cut Wednesday, which was dubbed over to ​ ​ ​ say, “Doug Ford is wasting $30 million of your tax money fighting climate action in court ​ ​ to make it free for big polluters to pollute.” It also swaps out the $648 that average Ontario families can expect to pay by 2022 with the $697 they can expect to get back in tax rebates. ● Meanwhile, the PC’s “review” of government advertising rules is still ongoing, Treasury Board President Peter Bethlenfalvy said Wednesday. On the campaign trail the PCs ​ ​ ​ promised to restore the auditor general’s oversight powers over government advertising but have since backtracked. Amid mounting criticism of the PC’s anti-carbon-pricing ad campaign, Bethlenfalvy told reporters he’s focused on other priorities such as health care and education. ○ Bethlenfalvy previously said the government would opt for a review instead and wouldn’t commit to making changes when the AG’s annual report was tabled last December. ○ Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk has said the previous Liberal government ​ ​ watered down the rules over partisan promotions paid by taxpayers and effectively reduced her role to a “rubber stamp.” ○ NDP MPP Taras Natyshak has a private member’s bill to restore those powers ​ ​ on the order paper. It’s identical to a PC PMB from when the party was in opposition. ● NL Women’s Magazine profiled the premier’s wife, Karla Ford, for its most recent cover ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ story. Normally media shy, Ford opens up about her favourite bible passage (Ephesians ​ 4.32), her workout routine (lots of hypertrophy training) and her preferred dessert (KyKy ​ ​ Kookies made by her daughter Kyla.) ​ ​ ​ ○ The story also includes a photoshoot and Mother’s Day shout-outs from Kyla and the other Ford daughters Krista, Kara and Kayla. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ● Ex-premier Dalton McGuinty’s former staffer Ben Chin is moving to Justin Trudeau’s ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ PMO to serve as a senior advisor. Chin was most recently chief of staff to Finance Minister Bill Morneau. The PMO has been low on top staff since Gerald Butts — also a ​ ​ ​ ​ former Queen’s Park staffer — resigned from his principal secretary role in February after the SNC-Lavalin scandal broke. ○ Chin was also a top advisor to former B.C. Liberal premier Christy Clark. ​ ​ ● Buck-a-beer is back for the May 2-4. The LCBO has a handful beers on offer for $1 from ​ May 17 to 19. Question period NDP lead-off Public health cuts ● Cuts to municipal public health budgets continued to feature prominently in question period. Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath again led with a question about ​ ​ hacking tens of millions from Toronto Public Health this year, and $20 million in 2020-21, according to the board of health chair Councillor Joe Cressy.
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