With regard to the government’s bill, the Less Red Tape, Stronger Ontario Act: I see that the government has tinkered with the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act. I’m wondering if the government’s bill has any changes that will actually help protect the 50% of injured workers who we know are living in poverty. I’m wondering if this bill actually brings back any of those billions of dollars of “WSIB surplus” into the hands of injured workers, as opposed to billion-dollar corporations.

We obviously recognize, as a government, as all Ontarians do, the value of the WSIB. It’s one of the largest insurance organizations in North America. But we know that it’s important to ensure that more dollars are always being able to go to the workers and not to administrative burdens. That’s why reducing the administrative burden for the WSIB will also enable them to work more efficiently and to create an agile system that is better able to cater to the needs of workers here in the province of Ontario. Codifying the WSIB’s long-standing operational practices is going to eliminate any operational confusion that might have come about between employers, workers and service providers alike.

While these changes are coming into effect—they’re going to align WSIB’s operational practices, but no substantial implementation steps are going to be required to support these amendments. It’s really going to ensure that we’re reducing some of those redundancies and codifying the practices that exist.

No, what they want is a greenbelt. What they want you to do is to actually build on the land that you have.

Just because the Premier believes it’s part of his job to make his already really rich friends a little bit richer, we’re opening up the greenbelt. You took all the red tape off for those few very rich people who are going to make a little bit more money, even though your own commission said to you, “You know what? You’ve got the land. Don’t do this. You don’t need to do it.” But you did it anyway. Why? Because the red tape you were interested in removing was for a very small number of people.

That’s not the red tape we need removed. We need red tape removed from OHIP+, a rare disease strategy, take-home cancer drugs, Bill 124, the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act.

I’ll be happy to take any questions; I’m sure I’ll get a couple.

Listen; there are good things in here—that’s what I led with—but here’s the thing, to the member opposite: I know you don’t want families to have a harder time getting the drugs that they need. I know that you want to have a rare disease strategy here in Ontario. I think you would like to have take-home cancer drugs, too; I’ll make that assumption.

What I’m saying is, that’s red tape in people’s lives. And when we talk about red tape—you know, there’s nothing wrong with doing what we’re doing; we still have to dig into it a bit more, but we actually have to look at what’s happening in people’s lives. If they can’t get the drugs that they need because the government has made up some crazy rule, that’s red tape. That should be in this bill. That should be changed. That should be fixed.

It would be easier to vote for the bill if you had something like that in it.

And you know what? What would be really nice is if you could save those families that are spending thousands and thousands of dollars on drugs 5,000 bucks a year. That would be a great thing.