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August 7, 2019 Queen’s Park Today – Daily Report August 7, 2019 Quotation of the day “God’s plan? Nah — it’s the mayor and council’s plan.” The City of Pickering responds to Drake’s complaint about spotty Wi-Fi while cooking up new ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ music with local producer Boi-1da. ​ ​ Today at Queen’s Park On the schedule The House is adjourned until Monday, October 28. In the park A Lamborghini and pickup truck wound up near the legislature grounds following a collision over the weekend. No injuries were reported; witnesses told CityNews it appeared the vehicles were ​ ​ “street racing,” but it wasn’t clear if police laid any charges. More than 70 potential Ontario Health Teams out of the gate Seventy-two potential Ontario Health Teams have emerged as part of the Ford government’s major health-care restructuring. The health ministry published the full roster of proposed teams — which is subject to change — ​ ​ on its website Friday. Of those, 31 cleared the government’s initial assessment and have been asked to submit a more in-depth application by the fall, while 41 teams are still “in development.” The government whittled down the number of proposed OHTs from 150 aspirant groups, made up of a mix of providers including hospitals, home care agencies and family doctors. When announcing the new Ontario Health super-agency in February, the government proposed 30 to 50 teams would deliver and coordinate health care regionally (and replace the 14 Local Health Integration Networks). After being bombarded with applications, Health Minister Christine Elliott said in June the number could round out at over 50. ​ Scheer promises increased health and social transfers, draws Wynne-Trudeau parallel in response to Ford comparisons Conservative Party of Canada Leader Andrew Scheer vowed to increase federal transfer ​ ​ payments to the provinces and territories for health and social programs if he becomes prime minister after this fall’s election. Scheer said he would raise the Canada Health Transfer and Canada Social Transfer funding by at least three per cent every year to ensure stable funding for public health, education and child care. “I have signed my health and social guarantee,” Scheer told reporters in Toronto on Friday. He wrote to the country’s premiers Thursday, saying he wanted to put his pledge in writing lest his political opponents paint him with an austerity brush. The federal Liberals have likened Scheer to Ontario Premier Doug Ford, despite the fact Ford ​ ​ has repeatedly said he will steer clear of the federal election fray. Scheer seemed reluctant to talk about his provincial cousin. When asked what he thinks about Ford’s performance, Scheer pivoted to his predecessor, ex-premier Kathleen Wynne, and drew ​ ​ a parallel to the federal Liberals. “When I talk to people in Ontario there’s a high degree of awareness that the same people who ran the disastrous government of Kathleen Wynne, the same Liberal staffers who designed the scandals, the corruptions, the deficits, the tax increases here in Ontario are now working for Justin Trudeau and doing the exact same thing,” Scheer said. “People want to avoid that scenario at the federal level.” Ford has been a choice foil for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who invoked the Ontario Tory ​ ​ ​ ​ premier last week. “Conservative politicians love to say they’re ‘for the people,’ but we all know what happens when they’re in office,” Trudeau told a friendly crowd of partisans in Ottawa. “The middle class can’t afford another Doug Ford, and it’s up to every single person in this room to make that case by sharing our positive, inclusive vision for the future.” Recent public-opinion polling has suggested an increasing number of Ontarians are less likely ​ ​ to cast ballots for the federal Tories because of the Ford government’s policies. For his part, Scheer has downplayed comparisons to Ford. “I believe that Justin Trudeau would like to run this next election against anybody except for me,” he said. Today’s events August 7 at 10 a.m. – Innisfil ​ Agriculture Minister Ernie Hardeman and Environment Minister Jeff Yurek will make an ​ ​ ​ ​ announcement at Innisfil Creek Honey, a honey and beekeeping shop. Area MPPs Andrea ​ Khanjin and Attorney General Doug Downey will also be on hand. ​ ​ ​ August 7 at 11 a.m. – Peterborough ​ Solicitor General Sylvia Jones will make an announcement at the Peterborough fire station ​ ​ alongside local MPP Dave Smith. ​ ​ August 7 at 12:15 p.m. – Gravenhurst ​ Environment Minister Jeff Yurek will make an announcement about the Muskoka watershed at ​ ​ Alexander Peter Cockburn Square. Topics of conversation ● “Open for business, closed for autism.” Parents and advocates of children with autism waved signs displaying their version of the government’s slogan at rallies outside PC MPPs’ constituency offices across Ontario Tuesday, including Premier Doug Ford’s in ​ ​ ​ Etobicoke, to protest the slow progress on a needs-based therapy funding model. ​ ○ Children Services Minister Todd Smith recently expanded the mandate of the ​ ​ government’s expert advisory panel to include recommendations for a needs-based autism program. That will help inform the re-revamped autism program, which will start to roll out in the fall and is expected to be fully implemented by April 2020. ○ Families say the timeline is too long. Some are still waiting for services and having to pay tens of thousands of dollars out-of-pocket to cover therapy. ​ ​ ● Premier Doug Ford remains opposed to a handgun ban as Toronto Mayor John Tory ​ ​ ​ and the NDP renewed their calls following a long weekend that saw over a dozen reported shootings in the city, the Toronto Sun reports. ​ ​ ​ ​ ○ “We don’t believe it’s an effective way to combat guns and gangs,” Ford spokeswoman Ivana Yelich said. ​ ​ ○ NDP co-deputy leader Sara Singh said it’s not enough to properly resource ​ ​ police and the justice system; meaningfully tackling gun violence also requires allowing municipalities to ban handgun and ammo sales. “We can’t look at one part of the solution and refuse to do it because it’s not the whole solution,” she said in a statement. ● Agriculture Minister Ernie Hardeman wants the feds to compensate Canadian farmers ​ ​ and producers impacted by China’s ban on pork and beef shipments. In a letter to his ​ ​ federal counterpart released Tuesday, Hardeman said he’s heard from industry stakeholders that impacted meat processors are “incurring losses on a weekly basis of up to $15 - $30 per hog in lost revenues.” ○ “Ontario strongly encourages the federal government to work with the meat sector to provide compensation if required to ensure they remain viable until predictable trade is restored and assist them in securing new export markets,” Hardeman wrote, noting that Ottawa provided support to canola farmers after their product was blocked by China earlier this year. ○ Hardeman also called on Ottawa to make “maximum use” of Canada’s World Trade Organization rights. ○ China began blocking canola shipments in March, pork shipments in May and beef shipments in late June. ● Ontarians are among the Canadians most worried about flooding, according to a new Forum poll reported on by the London Free Press. ​ ​ ​ ● Campus cops are no more: a little-known clause in the PC government’s revamped policing legislation, which passed in spring, bans employers from referring to special constables as “police” — reversing a decades-old practice for a handful of universities that will now have to cover the cost of the change, including cash for new uniforms and logos. The Toronto Star has the story. ​ ​ ​ ● Former Ontario Liberal Party staffer and opposition researcher Joseph Uranowski has ​ ​ penned a long read on why he thinks his party bombed the 2018 election — and why ​ Grits need to ditch the narrative that they lost the “air war” in the media. ○ Among Uranowski’s criticisms of the Ontario Liberal Party: its failure to nurture an “activist class” and volunteer base, its delayed candidate nomination process and platform rollout, the decision to privatize Hydro One, an obsession with austerity and balancing the budget, and its ignorance of global populist trends. ○ “Not only did we Liberals ignore the populist energy percolating among the Ontario population, we also leaned in on the ‘elite’ brand and refused to take up the populist mantle when given easy opportunities to do so. Having Ed Clark, the ​ ​ former CEO of TD Bank come in as a “privatization czar” right after the 2014 election [where we won] campaigning against privatization and cuts, was not a good look,” Uranowski writes. News briefs — Governmental Ministry of Health ● Health Minister Christine Elliott said the provincial government will appoint an adviser ​ ​ to participate in an external review of CAMH after multiple patients escaped from the downtown Toronto mental health facility. ○ “Based on recent events, the government and CAMH have agreed that the government will participate directly in the external review of the hospital’s procedures for issuing passes and granting privileges for forensic patients,” the minister said in a statement Tuesday. “The recommendations from this review will provide expert advice on how to improve hospital protocols and will protect patients and the community.” ○ An adviser will be publicly named to the panel once the information “becomes available.” ○ Four patients have gone missing from CAMH in recent weeks, prompting the review. ○ The notable case of Zhebin Cong, who fled the facility and boarded an ​ ​ international flight, angered the community and Premier Doug Ford, who vowed ​ ​ to get to the bottom of which organization “dropped the ball” to allow a “nutcase” to escape. Cong was found not criminally responsible for killing his roommate in 2014. Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks ● The Ontario government is looking to kick its existing blue box recycling program to the curb.
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