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Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
June 8, 2023 09:00AM
  • Jun/8/23 11:00:00 a.m.

Before I respond to the opposition: John, the wolf was Ralph and the sheepdog was Sam. I just figured you’re Ralph; I’m Sam. I’m protecting the herd, and you keep trying to go after the herd.

And to the Clerk, there are many attributes, but one of the most important things is that you’re an Etobicoke boy, so thank you.

I think I ran half my time out, but—the supplementary question.

Mr. Speaker, let’s look at our accomplishments just over the last year, just since January: We reached a record-low unemployment, the lowest since 1989. That’s 34-year record unemployment. We landed a historic Volkswagen deal to build the largest manufacturing plant in the history of Canada. We—I’ll go to supplementary.

Mr. Speaker, we expanded GO service to Niagara, bringing the total to 21 round trips per week.

Talking about health care, there’s no government in the entire country that has invested more in health care than we have: $81 billion. We’re building 50 new sites or upgrading 50 new sites to a tune of $50 billion. We had more nurses registered last year than in the history of this country, 12,000 of them—12,000. We added 3,100 beds. We’re going to be adding another 3,000 beds—more than, again, any time in the history of this province. We’re investing in our doctors and new doctors coming online with two medical schools—

Interjection: Tell us more, Premier.

As the Liberals and NDP chase these companies out of the country, out of the province, we’re attracting companies from all over the world to invest right here in Ontario, the best place to live, work and raise a family.

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  • Jun/8/23 11:20:00 a.m.

I want to thank our all-star member from Brantford–Brant. You’re doing an incredible job. Thank you.

Friends, our government just took a simple approach when we came into office, when the previous government had the largest sub-sovereign debt in the world, the highest hydro rates, and companies were leaving. We remember those days, Mr. Speaker: high unemployment.

We believe in giving back to the people, putting money back in their pockets, no matter if it was getting rid of the tolls on the 412 or 418 or getting rid of the licence sticker fee or dropping the gas tax by 10 cents. Just imagine if there were 10 cents on top of the buck sixty that everyone is paying already. We believe in putting money back into people’s pockets until they can stir the economy. They can go out there and buy a piece of furniture, maybe go out for dinner, maybe go on a trip somewhere in Ontario.

Other than doing what they did for 15 years—taking money out of people’s pockets, chasing companies out of this province. We have cut the burden of businesses by $8 billion to attract more companies to come here, to create more jobs—

We have more cranes than LA, Chicago, New York, Washington, Boston combined. There’s a reason why people are investing in Ontario; there are reasons why pension funds are investing here—because they know they have a business-friendly government that they haven’t seen in 15 years.

As much as the world is large when it comes to sectors across the world, it’s very small. We’re leading the tech industry in North America. We’re employing—

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