Good morning. Let us pray.

Prayers.

Ms. Thompson moved second reading of the following bill:

Bill 171, An Act to enact the Veterinarian Professionals Act, 2024 and amend or repeal various acts / Projet de loi 171, Loi visant à édicter la Loi de 2024 sur les professionnels vétérinaires et à modifier ou à abroger diverses lois.

That concludes our members’ statements for this morning.

Mushkegowuk–James Bay is next.

Once again, I’ll ask the members to keep their introductions as brief as possible.

Unless there are objections, I’d like to continue with introduction of guests.

I understand that the member for Orléans has a point of order.

The government House leader, to speak to the point of order.

The supplementary question.

The Premier can respond.

Order. I’ll remind the members to make their comments through the Chair.

Final supplementary.

The Premier.

Minister of Infrastructure.

Supplementary.

The next question, the member for London West.

To reply, the Minister of Colleges and Universities.

The supplementary question.

Supplementary question?

The Minister of Long-Term Care.

Once again, I’ll remind the members to make their comments through the Chair, not directly across the floor of the House at each other. And secondly, we refer to each other either by our riding name or by a ministerial title, as applicable, not by nicknames.

We can start the clock. The member for Thornhill.

Thank you.

Supplementary question.

The minister will please take his seat.

Next question?

There being no further business this morning, this House stands in recess until 3 p.m.

The House recessed from 1154 to 1500.

Nous avons aujourd’hui, dans la tribune du Président, un groupe de Franco-Ontariennes et de Franco-Ontariens qui ont été sélectionnés par un comité multipartite de parlementaires pour recevoir l’Ordre de la Pléiade. Ces personnalités sont reconnues pour leurs contributions exceptionnelles envers la francophonie ontarienne.

The recipients are; les lauréats sont les suivants : Ronald Bisson, Lise Bourgeois, Melinda Chartrand, Claudette Gleeson, Abel Maxwell et Denis Poirier. Please join me in warmly welcoming our guests to the Legislature and congratulating them for this important achievement. Félicitations.

First reading agreed to.

First reading agreed to.

First reading agreed to.

That concludes the time we have available for petitions this afternoon.

I should perhaps remind members that, while we have had a long-standing practice of allowing members to read petitions verbatim, another alternative is to summarize the petition more briefly than that if they choose to do so, but they can’t do both.

Welcome back, Mr. Gilchrist. It’s great to have you here.

Resuming the debate adjourned on March 20, 2024, on the motion for second reading of the following bill:

Bill 171, An Act to enact the Veterinarian Professionals Act, 2024 and amend or repeal various acts / Projet de loi 171, Loi visant à édicter la Loi de 2024 sur les professionnels vétérinaires et à modifier ou à abroger diverses lois.