OTTAWA – Today during a visit to Ottawa, Leader of the Official Opposition Patrick Brown and MPP Lisa MacLeod (Nepean-Carleton) toured the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre (OCDC). This is the most recent in a number of tours of jails throughout the province by Brown. “I came to Ottawa to see first-hand the unacceptable conditions at […]
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QUEEN’S PARK– This morning, Lambton—Kent—Middlesex MPP Monte McNaughton responded to the recently announced April employment numbers. McNaughton addressed many of the key statistics in the monthly Labour Force Survey announcement. “Last month Ontario lost almost 17,000 private sector jobs while youth employment is still 13,100 jobs short of what it was at this same […]
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QUEEN’S PARK – The sale of the LCBO head office lands is further evidence of the government using temporary measures to artificially balance the budget, Nipissing MPP and Ontario’s Finance Critic Vic Fedeli said today. Liberal Finance Minister Charles Sousa announced today that the LCBO head office lands, which are composed of 11 acres […]
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QUEEN’S PARK – Today, hundreds of concerned Ontarians will gather together on the lawns of Queen’s Park to protest the Liberal Government’s cuts to autism therapy for children. The Ontario PC Caucus used the opportunity to share stories from affected families in the Legislature during Question Period, repeating their calls for the Liberal Government […]
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QUEEN’S PARK – Today, Ontario PC Francophone Affairs Critic, Gila Martow (MPP for Thornhill) questioned the government on its decision to close Centre Jules-Léger in Ottawa, the only bilingual school for the deaf and blind in Ontario. “Despite the government’s one year respite, they continue to look at Ontario’s deaf and blind as a […]
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QUEEN’S PARK– This morning, Lambton—Kent—Middlesex MPP Monte McNaughton questioned Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne regarding the conflicting aspirations of her Minister of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure, Hon. Brad Duguid, and her Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Glen Murray. “Just last year the Premier appointed Ray Tanguay – the auto czar – […]
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QUEEN’S PARK – Leeds-Grenville MPP Steve Clark is insisting the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport act immediately to stop the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) from implementing a plan that would cut the program’s local roots. In Question Period today, Clark, who serves as Official Opposition Critic for Tourism, Culture and Sport, revealed the […]
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QUEEN’S PARK – Yesterday, it was revealed that the Ontario Provincial Police had launched their fifth investigation into the Liberal Government. “This morning I was planning on asking the Liberals about health care cuts and autism funding cuts. Instead, I’m forced to ask this Premier about an unprecedented fifth OPP investigation,” said Leader of […]
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May 4th marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, also known as Yom HaShoah. On this day, people around the world stop to remember the millions of innocent Jewish men, women and children who were put to death in Nazi concentration camps. The Shoah stands as a stark lesson in the consequences of hatred and violence. We […]
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On this day 101 years ago, Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae of Guelph, Ontario, penned the fifteen lines that would become Canada’s, and perhaps the world’s, best known war poem, In Flanders Fields. McCrae was already a veteran of the Boer War with a distinguished medical career when he joined the 1st Brigade CFA (Canadian […]
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