QUEEN’S PARK – PC Community Safety and Corrections Critic MPP Rick Nicholls (Chatham-Kent-Essex) is calling for a safety review at Ontario’s new $600-million super jail in Etobicoke after a growing number of serious incidents at the facility.Two weeks ago, Toronto South Detention Centre’s Security Monitor Control System malfunctioned for multiple days. “This system controls the […]
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QUEEN’S PARK – Today in the Legislature, Ontario PC Deputy Leaders Sylvia Jones and Steve Clark demanded the Premier demonstrate accountability for her government’s $2.5 million payout to the teachers’ unions. “The government won’t tell us where the $2.5 million payout has come from,” said Jones. “The Premier uses buzzwords like ‘overall compensation package’ and […]
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QUEEN’S PARK – Today during Question Period, Leader of the Official Opposition Patrick Brown asked Acting Premier Deb Matthews about the government’s payments to teachers’ unions. Over the past three provincial election campaigns, teachers’ unions spent more than $6.5 million to run negative ad campaigns and donated nearly $800,000 to the Liberals over the past […]
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QUEEN’S PARK – During Question Period today, Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Critic for Women’s Issues, Laurie Scott (MPP for Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock) asked the Attorney General on whether the government intends to act on her Private Member’s Motion, calling for the creation of a provincial taskforce to combat human trafficking in Ontario. In May of 2015, the […]
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QUEEN’S PARK – Today in Question Period, Ontario PC Deputy Leader and MPP for Leeds-Grenville Steve Clark, stood up to defend prospective homeowners from the imposition of a crippling new tax. Clark called on the Wynne Government to commit it will not amend the Municipal Act to authorize all municipalities to charge a Municipal Land […]
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QUEEN’S PARK – Today, MPP Tim Hudak released details on how his Private Member’s Bill, Opportunity in the Sharing Economy, will empower people to earn needed income from their home, car or parking space. “Right now Ontarians are struggling to make ends meet and balance their budgets. The Sharing Economy gives Ontarians some control over […]
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QUEEN’S PARK – Today, Leader of the Official Opposition Patrick Brown questioned Premier Wynne in the Legislature over the Government’s claim that paying $2.5 million this year for teachers’ unions negotiations is “business as usual.” “The only reason the Liberals’ idea of ‘business as usual’ is out there is because this secret deal was leaked,” […]
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QUEEN’S PARK – Today, Leader of the Official Opposition Patrick Brown questioned Premier Wynne in the Legislature over the severe impact the fire sale of Hydro One will have on Northern Ontario. “The people of Northern Ontario stand to be some of the hardest hit by the Hydro One fire sale,” said Leader Patrick Brown. […]
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QUEEN’S PARK – Today, Leader of the Official Opposition and PC Education Critic Patrick Brown continued his hard questioning of the Premier over her government’s admitted collective bargaining failures with teachers. Following the passage of Bill 122 in 2014, the Liberal Government instituted a new two-tiered collective bargaining system which has complicated the bargaining process […]
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QUEEN’S PARK – Yesterday in the House, MPP for Huron-Bruce Lisa Thompson shared remarks in recognition of National Waste Reduction Week and reminded the government to keep industry involved in a meaningful way in the process of reducing waste. In doing so, she suggested to the Liberal government that their role should be to develop […]
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