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Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
March 20, 2023 10:15AM
  • Mar/20/23 11:10:00 a.m.

Thank you very much for the question.

I would certainly be happy to meet with the member’s constituent.

It is for Sarah and for others across the province that we are working so hard to ensure that we can bring jobs and opportunity to the province of Ontario. It is why the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing has been working so hard to bring more housing to Ontario. That includes affordable housing, and if you look across the government, what the Minister of Education did to ensure that we had the best child care deal in the country, because we want Sarah and we want people in communities across this province to not only have hope today but hope for tomorrow, so that they can have a job, they can have opportunity, they can live in a safe province of Ontario—one that is booming. That is exactly what we’re doing, whether it’s the broadband infrastructure investments we’re making, investments that we’re making in housing across the province of Ontario, and why we are working so hard with our partners in the municipal government to ensure that, especially, purpose-based rentals and—

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  • Mar/20/23 11:40:00 a.m.

Again, Mr. Speaker, let’s look at what the opposition want us to do. They want us to nationalize long-term care. They want us to spend billions of dollars buying real estate. Instead, what we’re going to do is put the toughest regulations in North America, which we’ve done; back that up with the highest inspector-to-home ratio in North America, which we’ve done; and increase the level of care to four hours, which we are doing—this year an additional $1.2 billion, next year an additional $1.8 billion, which we are doing.

We’re going to hire 27,000 additional health care workers for long-term care alone and we’re making sure that we’re getting the homes built, because the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing is giving me MZOs so that I can get those homes built.

The Minister of Colleges and Universities is training PSWs and nurses to ensure that we can get it done.

The Minister of Labour is training the people who are building these homes across Ontario.

We’re building homes and staffing them, we’re giving them the highest level of care—something that they have voted against every single time.

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