Our government for the people is getting it done for the people of Ontario by keeping costs down, growing the economy and making it easier to build infrastructure for growing communities, like mine in Niagara West.

Last week, our government introduced the Get It Done Act. And our government is getting it done for Niagara.

Right now, work is under way at the new South Niagara Hospital, the largest public infrastructure project in Niagara’s history, as well as the new West Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Grimsby. These are two critical health care projects for Niagara. Our government said, “Let’s get it done.”

We’re expanding rural broadband in 30 local communities across Niagara West. Fibre optic cable is already in the ground. We said, “Let’s get it done.”

Our government is investing over $2 million to connect 7,600 more people in Niagara to primary care. People across the region said, “We need family doctors.” This government said, “Let’s get it done.”

Our government is expanding GO train service to Niagara. Last year, we added more round trips per week. Commuters are looking for more trains. Our government said, “Let’s get it done.”

Our government is expanding the $1.2-billion Building Faster Fund to small municipalities, like rural communities in Niagara. When it comes to water, to roads and to bridges, this government is getting it done.

In January, I joined the Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade to welcome $65 million in new investments for Niagara’s manufacturing sector in Smithville. We said that we need to become a manufacturing powerhouse. And once again, we’re getting it done.

Speaker, from building houses, hospitals, keeping costs down for families and businesses, or just keeping our word, this government is getting it done.

I was listening to the member quite closely and I just wanted to ask her: She talks about municipalities, and I agree with her—of course they are frustrated, and we hear that frustration, too, which is why we’re helping municipalities so much, because they had such a shortfall in infrastructure funding for the last 15 years under the Liberals—

There’s many items in this bill, actually. As I mentioned, changing the procedures to get things done faster, building the 413, putting infrastructure in place because, if you stay on the highway in gridlock for half an hour, you are not arriving to your destination and you are emitting more gas emissions while you are delayed on the highway. If the whole trip would take, let’s say, an hour, and we save 20 minutes, which is one third, I have saved one third of the emissions, hypothetically. So this bill is helping in this.

And again, the other thing which is not helping is, every time we do a gas tax cut of two cents or three cents, the federal guys say, “phase 5, phase 9, phase 11,” and add more taxes and more taxes and more taxes.

But that doesn’t mean that it’s not on the table. We don’t know. It can be added. I don’t know. But we, at least, are taking a few steps towards that. We are trying to remove the tolls and make sure that we save the people some money.