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Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
October 31, 2022 10:15AM
  • Oct/31/22 11:00:00 a.m.

The priority of this government is to ensure that when workers go to work, they come home safe after the end of a hard day’s work. The pandemic was certainly challenging for the entire world, but we were the first in Canada to bring in job-protected leave. If anyone needed to stay home because of the pandemic, their job would be protected.

Furthermore, we hired more than 100 new health and safety inspectors to ensure that workplaces are safe in this province. We’ve done more than 100,000 health and safety inspections to ensure that employers and workers are working in a safe manner, and we’re going to continue every single day, ensuring that workers in this province have the safest workplaces in the country.

Mr. Speaker, we’re going to continue every single day to have the backs of workers in this province to ensure that when they go to work in the morning, they come home safe to their family at the end of a hard day’s work.

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  • Oct/31/22 11:30:00 a.m.

I appreciate the question from the honourable member. She will of course know that across both sides of the House, we have constantly taken this issue very, very seriously. That is why we are putting a significant amount of resources into health and human resources into our hospitals.

I know it’s a cross-government approach. It’s not just about this instance, but we want to make sure that across the province of Ontario, in every region of the province, that the issues raised in the member’s questions are being addressed.

That’s why we’re looking also outside—the Minister of Colleges and Universities has a bill before this House, I think, that moves the bar further, Speaker.

But having said that, the member raises a very important point, which we are dealing with, which we are addressing, and we are ensuring that, not only in her region but across the province of Ontario, we can help to ensure that all people have access to the important services that the member raises.

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