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Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
December 6, 2022 09:00AM
  • Dec/6/22 11:30:00 a.m.

I know Scarborough very well, from top to bottom, from east to west, north to south. I just want to remind the people of this province: You were one of the ministers, and your whole gang there—you lost 300,000 jobs. I spoke to the auto sector with my friend Vic Fedeli here, and they chased jobs out of the province.

Let me remind everyone: As we stand today, in four years, there are 500,000 more people working today than when we took office. Mr. Speaker, there are 380,000 jobs available as we sit right here. You can go anywhere down any street in the province and find gainful employment.

As the Minister of Finance said, we dropped the gas prices for the supply chain by 10 cents. We need the federal government to drop their 11 cents and put meaningful, meaningful relief to the taxpayers of this province. They refuse to—

As for transit, Mr. Speaker, the member from Scarborough voted down the Scarborough subway over and over again. Through our great Minister of Transportation, we’re building the largest transit plan in North America—$30 billion. We’re bringing transit to the people of Scarborough.

We’re making sure that people who are on Ontario Works have an opportunity to go out there and get a great job, to make themselves feel great and also put money into their pockets. That’s what we’re doing. As they just absolutely destroyed the economy, we’re growing the economy. We saw gains of 22,000 full-time jobs just last month and again the previous month. We’re growing Ontario. We’re getting it done for the people here.

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