In Ontario, about 200,000 to 300,000 people are injured on the job every year.

Over a century ago, workers gave up their right to sue their employer in exchange for a system that would provide them with a just compensation. However, that is not the reality in Ontario, leading to injured workers living in poverty and also without timely access to medical care and quality medical care.

This petition is calling on the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to change the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act to eliminate the practice of deeming, or determining, which bases compensation on phantom jobs that injured workers actually do not have.

I support this petition. I will affix my signature to it.

Under Conservative Premier Mike Harris, the 50% operating cost that was shared between the province and municipalities was downloaded to the city of Toronto. Since then, the TTC has become the least subsidized public transit system in North America, leading to systemic underfunding issues and problems in our transit system.

This petition is calling on the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to immediately restore the provincial funding of 50% of the TTC’s net operating costs.

As a transit rider and a Toronto resident, I fully support this petition, and I will affix my signature to it.