Taken away; sorry, I apologize.

Let’s take a look at increases to maximum penalties to the OHSA and the ESA. Look, I’m not going to deny that’s important. Employers who put the health and safety of workers at risk deserve to be fined. Those fines, by the way—I’ve walked an injured worker out of my plant. I’ve actually taken a worker who died in the workplace out of the plant. You know that company, General Motors, got fined $350,000. But that money doesn’t go to the family. I want people to understand that. A lot of people say they get the fine and it goes to the family so their kids can go to school. It doesn’t happen. What happens is, that single mom now may have to live in poverty because she lost her husband, in this particular case, Joel Murray. Everybody in the plant thought that that money went there. It doesn’t, not one penny. It should go to the family so they can raise their children, make sure they get a good education. That’s something that they should take a serious look at.

I’d also raise our concern with changes outlined in schedule 1. How will they be enforced, when migrant workers have been asked to call into a complaint line or file paperwork with the minister to have these changes actually enforced? Also, will the information on these changes be adequately communicated to migrant workers and available in multiple languages? Because we know they come from all over the world.

I think those concerns are legitimate. It’s something that should be looked at by this minister. We know that migrant workers are afraid of retaliation from their employer—I’ve seen that in my own riding—and do not use the rights they have now. We can’t continue that going forward if we want to fully protect them.

This government likes to talk about how much they are doing to help certain workers in this province. That includes their recent announcement to cover certain cancers as occupational diseases for firefighters in Ontario. But that comes from the same government that just a few weeks ago made a cruel decision to vote no on a motion that would cover PSA tests in Ontario for men. Think about that for minute. How awful of this government to come forward and make this big show about supporting firefighters and covering occupational cancers that they’ve been fighting for years for, and then they turn around a few days later and not support a test that would prevent late-stage diagnosis of cancer. This is just another example of how this government talks out of one side of their mouth and turns around and does something completely different.

I’ll tell you, yesterday, five people in the province of Ontario—men—died of cancer, prostate cancer, and the only speaker you put up was a woman, who doesn’t have a prostate. You know who else has prostates, Madam Speaker—I’m not going to get to the rest of my—firefighters have prostates. They deserve to have that test as well.

I want to say this to everybody who’s out there bargaining collective agreements, and to the government—because there are a lot of new people here who might not know—do you know in the province of Ontario 98% of all collective agreements are negotiated at the bargaining table? Why are we protecting the 2% that won’t go to the bargaining table and do a fair collective agreement?

But I will talk about the firefighters. The firefighters have been fighting for cancer to be covered for years. We should protect firefighters. The firefighters in my area, whether they’re volunteer, whether they’re—

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We’ve had this conversation here, but I know some of the people here don’t really pay attention when we’re talking about this. Do you know if it wasn’t for the unions standing up for workers, we’d have more people living in poverty? We wouldn’t have sick days and collective agreements. We wouldn’t have vacation time. We wouldn’t have pensions. Imagine where we’d be without pensions today when we see the number of our seniors that are living in poverty today—

But I don’t mind talking about firefighters. When we’re running out of the house, what’s the firefighter doing? He’s running in, not knowing what’s behind those doors. They’re risking their lives every single day. I’ve already said that I’ve gone to a few funerals of my brothers who are firefighters. One passed away with cancer that I’m aware of; I know there are more. I’ve attended their funerals. We all need to respect our firefighters and we should do all we can. Every single cancer that they’re exposed to should be covered in the bill—every single cancer. Because, when they pass away, do you know what happens? It’s the spouse who doesn’t get the benefit, who loses out—