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Decentralized Democracy

Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
March 1, 2023 09:00AM
  • Mar/1/23 11:30:00 a.m.

Mr. Speaker, I will remind the member opposite that she wholeheartedly—her and her party —supported our program that we brought forward to support workers during COVID. We were the first jurisdiction in the country to bring in job-protected leave. We were the first jurisdiction to bring in paid sick days in the province of Ontario to protect those workers during the pandemic.

We are continuing to bring forward initiatives to support workers. One of the things I’m really excited about and proud of and that I hope the opposition will support is our plan to bring in portable benefits to millions of workers in the province today that don’t have health and dental benefits.

Mr. Speaker, we will continue having the backs of workers every single day.

But, Mr. Speaker, the NDP have really changed over the years. They’ve abandoned workers in this province. For example, when we hired 100 new health and safety inspectors in this province to bring the inspectorate to the highest in provincial history—

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