This act is a continuation of a number of acts that we’ve brought in place since forming government to improve working conditions for the people of the province of Ontario; for the workers who are helping build a bigger, better, stronger province of Ontario. The bill that is before the House right now, of course, strengthens that end. As the minister said, it will take serious actions on what the minister called “scumbag” employers who do not follow the rules.

What we’re doing when it comes to workers, Mr. Speaker, is ensuring that we have a workforce, by working with the Minister of Colleges and Universities and the things that the Minister of Labour is doing—that we have a workforce that can support the incredible infrastructure investments that we are making across the province of Ontario, and the workforce that is needed because of the investments that the Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade has brought to the province of Ontario. That’s over 600,000 jobs that have been created in the province of Ontario, because of the environment that we have put in place.

We need 300,000 jobs that are still unfilled, and it’s because of the hard work of this government that we will meet those targets and continue to build—

The member, of course, knows that the Temporary Foreign Worker Program is a program that we, in co-operation with the federal government, implement, and that these workers are so important to the province of Ontario, especially in our agricultural sector. That is why we have stepped up consistently to make sure that those workers are protected.

But when it comes to the NDP and workers, let’s talk about the NDP themselves and their own post-mortem of their election. Let me tell you what they said. They said that they should have been better. They outspent their rivals and they had a diminished Liberal party, and yet the NDP dropped to 31 seats from 40, lost 813,000 votes—and were the only party to do so. They have suggested that in order to get better, they have to do a better job of connecting with workers, like the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario has done. Congratulations.

When the cameras are on, you can always depend on the NDP to say something that is important. They try to take credit for the things that we have done. But when the cameras are off, they vote against it. Whether it’s on protecting workers, whether it’s on health care, whether it’s on bringing jobs to the province of Ontario, they say one thing and do another. You don’t have to take it from me. Their own post-mortem from the last campaign suggested that they got it all wrong, and it suggested that if they are ever to regain power—which they have never had but one time—they have to be more like the Conservatives and listen to the people of the province of Ontario. Maybe then they’ll do a better job of attracting votes.