QUEEN’S PARK – Following the news that the Royal Victoria Hospital Regional Health Centre (RVH) in Barrie was facing an $8-million budget shortfall, Leader of the Official Opposition and Simcoe North MPP Patrick Brown urged the Premier to properly fund Simcoe County hospitals. “Royal Victoria Regional Hospital Health Centre delivers some of the best quality […]
Read moreQUEEN’S PARK – The poor quality of Ontario’s jails and their persistent lockdowns are leading to convicted offenders regularly receiving extra credit and shortened sentences. Hundreds of labour-related lockdowns at jails across the province have resulted in at least five different reduced sentences. In one case, a convicted offender had his sentence for firearms offences […]
Read moreQUEEN’S PARK – Local MPPs whose constituents depend on Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH) are speaking out in concern about cuts occurring at the hospital. As a result of an $8-million shortfall, RVH will be eliminating 24 vacant positions as well as 32 full-time positions. “RVH provides exemplary services to almost half […]
Read moreQUEEN’S PARK – Today in Question Period, Ontario PC Critic for Women’s Issues, Laurie Scott, MPP, challenged Premier Kathleen Wynne on why she was unaware that the Liberal Cabinet authorized two publicly-funded Ontario colleges to create male-only campuses in Saudi Arabia. “You would think that a Premier who promised to be a force for […]
Read moreQUEEN’S PARK – The Wynne government is retreating in several different directions after a document exposed LCBO plans to sell 250 store locations, Ontario PC Finance Critic Vic Fedeli charged today. “Yesterday, we provided details of the LCBO document that states – and I quote — ‘the LCBO’s main intention is to sell properties,’” […]
Read moreQUEEN’S PARK – After four years of frozen hospital budgets and a $54-million cut to health care in last year’s Budget, the Liberal Government’s Budget 2016 included only negligible investments in frontline health care while the province’s most vulnerable continue to suffer. “Despite the fact the budget was released at the end of February, […]
Read moreQUEEN’S PARK – After spending the weekend in Ottawa where he toured the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, Leader of the Official Opposition Patrick Brown used this morning’s Question Period to highlight the Wynne Liberal Government’s cuts to physician services in Ottawa. “I heard story after story about the impact of this government’s cuts to […]
Read moreQUEEN’S PARK – This morning during Question Period, the Official Opposition pressed the Minister of Northern Development and Mines to take real action towards developing the Ring of Fire. “It will take more than continued talk by this government to develop the Ring of Fire,” stated Norm Miller, PC Critic for Northern Development and […]
Read moreQUEEN’S PARK – This morning Ontario PC Health Critic Jeff Yurek (MPP Elgin-Middlesex-London) questioned the Liberal government on the impact of rationing health care on mental health patients. “Minister, your government’s rationing of healthcare has created a crisis in Ontario. Last week in London, 22 mental health patients were left waiting for beds. They were […]
Read moreQUEEN’S PARK – Ontario PC Finance Critic Vic Fedeli is demanding answers from the Wynne Liberals after he exposed an LCBO document detailing plans to sell 250 store locations in the Legislature today. The document dated February 24 – one day before the Ontario budget was released — outlines a Request for Proposals (RFP) issued […]
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