As we welcome so many fire chiefs here today from throughout Ontario, I want to especially welcome my friend, the president of the Ontario Association of Fire Chiefs, Deputy Chief Rob Grimwood. Welcome to the Ontario Legislature.

I want to welcome all the fire chiefs that are here from across the province of Ontario, but I’d also like to give a special welcome to Jo Zambito, the fire chief of the Niagara Falls Fire Department. I’m looking forward to our meeting at 12 o’clock today. Welcome.

I’d like to introduce, from the great riding of God’s country, Craig McFarlane, the vice president of Linwood Homes.

As a firefighter, I appreciate everything that these fire chiefs do and I’d like to send a special welcome out to, from my home community of Chatham-Kent, Chief Chris Case.

I, too, would like to welcome fire chiefs. A special welcome to Gene Thompson, Brighton fire chief; Jeff Ogden, Port Hope fire chief; and Kevin Ashfield, deputy chief for Cobourg. I’d also like to thank Mark MacDonald and all the firefighters who contribute valuable service on our section 21 committee as well.

A big welcome to Dave Upper and Andrea DeJong from St. Catharines fire.

I also have a very special thing to tell the House today: that it is my seatmate the member for Bruce–Grey–Owen Sound’s “big five” birthday, so I just want to welcome him to see this place.

I’d like to wish my good friend and colleague Jennie Stevens a happy 60th birthday today.

I have a couple of introductions. First, I would like to welcome the fire chief from South Glengarry, Dave Robertson. Welcome.

And then, as well, it’s my pleasure to introduce the Mental Health Commission of Canada to the Ontario Legislature. Today is an important day at Queen’s Park for men’s mental health. Please come by and show your support in room 228/230 from 12 to 2. I’d like to welcome Michel Rodrigue, CEO of Mental Health Commission of Canada; the platoon chief with Burlington Fire and keynote speaker, Steve Jones; as well as co-chair of the federal mental health caucus MP Matt Jeneroux.

I’d like to welcome representatives from the OAFC here today, in particular Dave Robertson, James Waffle, Bruce Morrison, Jeff Ogden and, from the Thunder Bay fire service, Mr. David Paxton. To all firefighters here in the House today, thank you for your service.

I’d like to welcome, from Central York Fire Services, Deputy Chief Jeremy Inglis. Welcome.

I’d like to wish a warm welcome to two members of the fire service who I’ve worked with over the years, incredible people: the deputy fire chief from the city of Windsor, James Waffle, and the fire chief from the town of Amherstburg, Bruce Montone.

I’d like to welcome a number of fire chiefs from my riding today: Cameron Smith, deputy fire chief for the town of Blue Mountains; Brent Thomas, fire chief from Innisfil; and Steve Emo, deputy fire chief from the town of Collingwood. Thank you for all you do.

We have a number of representatives from a mainstay in my riding in Ontario, Toyota manufacturing. I’d like to welcome Mike Cavanaugh, Andrew Gordon, Ryan Westbrook, Diana Galassi, Lynn Hall, Tarek Abdel-Missih, Leah Michalopulos, Leslie Miller, Frank Ricci and Vanessa Montana. I invite you all to swing by the reception in room 228 at 5:30.

Thank you, Speaker. I have a point of order, actually. I want to correct the record.

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An introduction.

I’d like to welcome the chief from Prince Edward County—I think I see him up there—Chad Brown. Good to see you, Chief.

Look, as I said yesterday, if the honourable member has additional information that she would like to provide to the Integrity Commissioner, I encourage her to do so.

I believe that everyone here has been introduced—oh. The member for St. Catharines.

The Leader of the Opposition.

The government House leader can reply.

Look, as I said, I have every confidence that if the member has information that she wants to share with the Integrity Commissioner, the member will do so. I have the same confidence that the Integrity Commissioner will review any information that he has, and if he needs to inform this House of additional actions that need to be taken, I’m sure the Integrity Commissioner will do just that.

The Leader of the Opposition talks about accountability. Well, the people of Ontario just returned a verdict on accountability, and they returned two Progressive Conservatives to this government. They didn’t just return two Progressive Conservatives, they returned them in greater numbers than they did at the general election. And do you know what happened at that point? They also passed judgment on the Leader of the Opposition and on the leader of the Liberal Party. Do you know what that judgment was, Mr. Speaker? That they continue to fail the people of the province of Ontario.

In the NDP’s case—

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Out of the ashes of them, we are building a bigger, better, stronger Ontario—

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The Leader of the Opposition talks about accountability; we know what accountability means for the NDP. We’re seeing it in Ottawa right now: They could bring down a government in Ottawa that is forcing a carbon tax on the people of the province of Ontario and Canada, which is harming Canadians. What do they do? They sit on the sidelines. When the former Liberal chief of staff was going to jail, what did they do? They kept him in office, Mr. Speaker, because that’s what the NDP do.

They don’t want to do the work. They don’t want to put the time in to build a bigger, better, stronger Ontario. They’re always happy to talk down to the people of this province.

What we will do is talk up Ontario, continue to bring investment opportunities—700,000 people have the dignity of a job that didn’t before, and we’ll continue on that path.

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Now, just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, the Liberals came in and doubled down on bad government. So what did we have to do? Rebuild the province of Ontario from the ground up, Mr. Speaker. We had to encourage people to come back and invest in Ontario. We had to rebuild our health care sector. We had to ensure that our emergency services—our police, fire, paramedics—

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We had to build new schools, roads, public transportation. The job is not done, Mr. Speaker. We will continue to build a bigger, better, stronger Ontario whether they join us or not. We know the Liberals never will. We will continue to get the job done.

Member for Nepean, come to order.

The final supplementary.

The government House leader.

Interjections.

Start the clock. Next question.