Last weekend, CityNews shared documents obtained via freedom of information revealing that the Premier and the Minister of Transportation are directing Metrolinx to withhold information from the public about what has gone wrong with the Eglinton Crosstown P3 project. Little Jamaica and midtown business and residents have endured over 11 years of construction disruption in Toronto-St. Paul’s, and now this P3 project is delayed yet again and this government refuses to tell us why.

My question is to the Premier: Will the Premier and the Minister of Transportation stop keeping secrets from the public, stop gaslighting my own community and tell us why the P3 project is once again delayed and when it will finally be completed?

We have a profound staffing shortage in health care, and we know that for-profit health corporations will poach those health care workers from the public system. We also know that large corporate interests will set up shop where they can make the most money, where there is a critical mass of people, like in Toronto, London, or perhaps Ottawa.

We already have a drastic shortage of health care workers in northwestern Ontario, and I’m hearing from these workers daily about how burnt out they are from overwork and that their wages are not enough to keep up with the cost of living. I really wonder where the members opposite think we will be finding nurses and health care workers for remote regions. Yes, you’re offering some scholarships; that’s great. That will help for a while. But basically those nurses are going to be drawn to the easier places in southern Ontario where they have an easier workload. They are not going to be staying in remote communities.

So my question is, where do you think those health care workers are going to come from after they’ve been poached from the public system?