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Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
April 27, 2023 09:00AM
  • Apr/27/23 10:50:00 a.m.

Thank you very much, Madam Speaker, and congratulations to you in your role today.

I want to thank the member opposite for this very important question. Tomorrow is the Day of Mourning in the province of Ontario, and our number one priority as a government is to ensure that, when workers go to work, they come home safely to their families at the end of that day. That’s why we’re investing historic amounts to ensure that we have more health and safety inspectors out there, and those new health and safety inspectors that we’ve hired have backgrounds in the industries that they’re inspecting.

That’s why we’ve increased the health and safety action centre. If there’s a worker out there concerned for his or her health, they can call the Ministry of Labour and we’ll investigate as quickly as possible.

We’re going to continue every single day working with our partners like the United Steelworkers union and others across the province to ensure that every worker comes home safe to their families at the end of the day.

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  • Apr/27/23 11:00:00 a.m.

Madam Speaker, through you, to all members in this House and to everybody across the province, every worker has to come home to their family at the end of the day. That’s our mission. That’s our number one priority.

We’ll continue strengthening health and safety laws in this province. That’s why in our latest Working for Workers legislation that I encourage all members in this House to pass and to support, we’ve increased fines for corporations. Health and safety infractions should never be a cost of doing business in the province. In Working for Workers 3, we’ve set forth the highest fines in the country to those bad employers, those bad recruiters that are withholding passports and work permits of migrant workers—to ensure that if they’re holding those documents, that they face really high fines, that they face time behind bars.

We’re going to continue, every day, working with our partners and ensuring that workers are safe in this province.

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