I want to thank the member for Bruce–Grey–Owen Sound for that question and for advocating every single day at Queen’s Park on behalf of his constituency.

Speaker, our government is helping people realize their dreams and build better lives for themselves and their families. It’s easy to pigeonhole people who have criminal records for a single mistake they made when they were much younger. In Canada, four million people have criminal records—10% of the population—and they shouldn’t be held back after doing their time, for their entire lives. It’s time to break the stigma. Second-chance hiring breaks the cycle of poverty and incarceration. To build a stronger Ontario, we must lift more people up.