Speaker, what Ontario parents want is that their kids are financially literate and graduate with life skills in this province—which is why we brought forth a comprehensive plan today to do just that.

The Leader of the Opposition has a history of voting against every single investment in our school-building fund.

It was Premier Doug Ford who doubled the funding to build more schools, who cut the timeline in half, who actually achieved the Auditor General’s recommended investment of maintenance funding.

But the member opposite lacks the courage to stand up to the TDSB, which many of her compatriots sit on, and insist to the NDP trustees of the board to actually do their job and invest the money in that very roof.

It is comical that you think it’s acceptable they’re sitting on $300 million when they ought to be investing it in our school system. They are the only board to have done so. We passed a law to prohibit it in the future. It’s unacceptable. We’re standing up for students.

“Invest in our schools” is our message to the TDSB.

My goodness, 22% increase in funding—we doubled the funding, 136% increase in capital. We added $1.3 billion of investment. We cut the timeline in half—maintenance funding, as encouraged or recommended by the AG, at 2.5%, which we have done.

This school board, specifically, is literally sitting on $300 million of cash—so much so that they conceded yesterday that they don’t even have the capacity to spend it all because there aren’t enough skilled trade workers to do it. It’s not a lack of money. It’s a lack of will.

Stand up to the school board and demand better for your kids.

We announced today a plan to introduce Ontario’s first financial literacy graduation requirement, that actually will ensure young people graduate with real life skills and practical knowledge on how to balance a budget, live a life of purpose, save and retire.

We announced a plan today to hold new educators to account, something the Leader of the Opposition would never do—they’ll never stand up to the teacher unions—while we expect better from our new educators by imposing the math proficiency test, elevating standards; something that is radically different from the NDP, who want to water us down and talk us down in this province.

We announced a plan to introduce home economics—a modernized version.

This is how we restore life skills, job skills and give young people knowledge they can apply to their lives.