My question is to the Minister of Education.

TVO workers have entered their seventh week on strike, fighting for fair wage increases, after a decade of watching inflation erode their salaries. Now they’re being asked to accept another three years of below-inflation increases while TVO management have set aside $17 million for mysterious and unspecified “long-term investments.” A small fraction of that $17 million could end this strike tomorrow.

Will the minister direct TVO management to make a fair bargain with CMG workers?

These are education workers, they’re journalists, they’re producers, and they’re buckling under the affordability crisis—whether it’s rent, whether it’s food.

So I will ask again: Will the minister, will the government of Ontario direct TVO to make a fair deal with its workers or agree to binding arbitration to end this strike promptly? Again, to the Minister of Education.

To reply, the Minister of Education.