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Thank you for listening to Depiction's Media
Radio. Welcome to Policy Rights to show

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about government policy and human rights.
Welcome back to Policy Rights. Here in

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Depictions Media Radio, Doug Ford is
going to make some announcements about how Ontario

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is helping build skills, especially in
this case we're talking about electricians. They

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are coming over the program where they're
going to support electrical skills with two point

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seven million dollars in investments for training
of electricians. Believe or not, there

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are two skills in construction that we
really need to take a good look at,

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especially beyond building of new things,
new buildings at all that the repairing

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plumbers in electricians. They keep our
houses going, they keep our businesses going

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and zake without them, well,
simply put, with electrician, the lights

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wouldn't come on, the computer wouldn't
work. There's a whole bunch of things

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that in today's society with electronics would
go cutput. So it sounds like a

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wise investment in Ontario, and why
don't we listen to what Doug Ford has

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to say at this press conference about
supporting electricians. Good morning, everyone,

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Welcome. My name is Goldie Gamari
and i'm the MPP for Carlton. I

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would like to welcome everyone to Rural
Ottawa today. I'm very excited to be

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here with Premiere Ford and Minister McNaughton, as well as the Mayor. I

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would also like to thank E Electrical
Services for hosting today's event and announcement.

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K E Electrical Services exemplifies both the
contributions and the importance of a contractor in

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a community. Their work includes domestic, commercial and industrial projects locally and throughout

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the City of Ottawa. The Premier
has shown time and time again his support

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towards our electrical workers as contractors are
building new homes at a rapid rate in

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eastern Ontario and rural Ottawa. As
the daughter of an electrician working in the

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skilled trades, I look forward to
today's announcement. I would now like to

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introduce Jesse Lowe, CFO of k
E Electrical Services, to the podium to

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say a few words. Thank you
very much, thank you Goldie, and

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good morning. I am Jesse Lowe, the CFO of k Electrical Limited on

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behalf of KAE. I would like
to welcome everyone, including the Premier,

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Minister McNaughton, the Mayor, as
well as other officials Tower facilities here out

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in a beautiful car. I would
also like to quickly acknowledge that we are

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currently located on unseated Algonquin territory.
We're very excited to host this morning's announcement

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and we're very thankful for the work
that Premier Ford and his government has done,

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specifically in relation to the skilled trades. Initiatives such as enhancing and creating

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exciting opportunities for young students to enter
the skilled trades, increasing apprenticeship ratios,

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coming up with great ways to further
training and education in the skilled trades,

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and enhancing health and safety have all
had a positive impact on KAE, our

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employees, and the skilled trades in
general. It has enabled KAE to do

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their part in making Ontario a great
place to build and to live. I

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want to hope, I hope everyone
has a great exciting time out here today,

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and without further do, I'm excited
to announce our Mayor the City of

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Ottawa, mister Mark Sutcliffe, Thank
ye, thank you, Jesse Bonsieur Tourmentsmond

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and Plasier Detric, the Daque Year, the Premier Minista Danta Riot. I

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want to welcome Premier forward to Ottawa
it's always a pleasure to welcome the Premier

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here to our city, to the
nation's capital, to the great city of

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Ottawa, and especially to rural Ottawa. I know that the Premier and I

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both share an affection for the rural
communities in our in our city and uh

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and this is just such a great
part of our city. I'm looking forward,

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of course to the car Fair later
this year, and always happy to

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spend time in rural Ottawa. And
I want to thank the Premier and his

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government for this announcement today and for
the collaborative relationship that we've been building between

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the city and the province. The
Premier is incredibly responsive, is always available

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when we need him, and so
I'm grateful for that relationship, not just

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for the announcement today, but for
all the other investments that the Ontario government

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has made in Ottawa and the responsive
nature of the relationship. This is a

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really important announcement today, and I
want to express gratitude to Kay Electrical Services

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for hosting us. It's really great
to see the work that's going on here.

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I've got a chance to speak to
members of the family and to hear

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a little bit about the business here
and the farm as well, And this

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is really special. This is a
great example of a local business in our

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community, a local rural business.
And you know, I think electricians are

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really the unsung heroes sometimes of the
trades. They're behind the scenes, they're

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making sure that everything works well even
when we're not noticing it. And so

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this announcement I think is very important
and reflects the need that we have in

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Ontario and in Ottawa to invest in
the skilled trades, to bring people forward

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who can solve problems and be part
of building more homes and more factories and

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just building more in the province of
Ontario. So electricians have a huge economic

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impact. They're a big part of
our city and the demand for electricians and

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for other skilled trades is only going
to rise in the months and years ahead.

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So let's continue to champion the vital
role that they play and support these

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dedicated professionals who power our progress and
really truly light the way for a better

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and brighter future for all of us. Thank you Nasiboku, well, thank

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you Mareth so much for those for
those great words. I'm mount to mcgautin

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and Taro's Minister of Labor, Immigration, Training and Skills Development. I want

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to thank you Jesse and the amazing
team here at KAE for hosting us today

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and for the incredible work that you're
all doing building the future of our province

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and the region. It's great to
be back in Ottawa alongside my incredible colleague

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Golden Gamari, who does so much
for the residents of Carlton, and of

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course Ontaro's Premier dug Ford. Over
the next decade, we're going to need

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one hundred thousand more workers in the
trades to build the hospitals, schools and

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homes that families rely on. Every
single day. You can really see this

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labor crunch already, with businesses struggling
to find the skilled workers they need to

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build our province and grow the economy
for everyone. Each of these unfilled jobs

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represents a paycheck not collected and a
missed opportunity for someone to have a better

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life. Last week, I was
proud to be here in Ottawa to announce

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our government has made historic progress on
this increasing apprenticeship registrations by twenty four percent

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overall compared to the previous year,
and women leading the way with a thirty

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percent jump, bringing us to more
than ninety one thousand active apprentices across the

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province, truly historic records, and
those include trades right here in the Eastern

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Ontario region, like the workers that
are here with us today. From lighting

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our homes to powering our businesses,
these really are the jobs that are making

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a difference where you can be proud
of what you build, earn a solid

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paycheck that lets you provide for your
family. Under the leadership of Premier Ford,

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our government is on a mission to
help every worker gain the skills they

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need to find in demand jobs that
are close to home. Through our seven

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hundred million dollars Skills Development Fund,
we have now launched nearly six hundred projects

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in communities across the province, helping
five hundred thousand workers take the next step

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in their careers. And now I
really wanted to turn it over to the

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Preimer who has made this a central
piece in our government to get more people

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into the skilled trades. There's no
bigger champion for blue collar workers in the

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skilled trades, and internal's Premier Premier
over to you. Thank you, well,

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good morning everyone, and before we
get started, please join me in

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praying for the best outcome and speedy
recovery. Of those involved in the seven

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Chinook helicopter crash near Pettahwahwa, and
God bless the first responders on the scene

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and they aid aide them and their
recovery mission. So our prayers and thoughts

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are with our air force in our
military folks. Thank you Minister Manton for

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that introduction. It's always great to
be back here in Kannada along Minister alongside

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Minister McNaughton an MPP Goldie Gamari,
I also want to recognize a great mayor,

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Mayor Mark Stuckcliffe. Mayor. Right
from the get go, we've had

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an incredible relationship. I always joke
around with the mayor. He calls me

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more than my wife does, and
that's all right. You can call me

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every day. And we had him
over to our house with a few other

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mayors on Friday with a barbecue.
But I'll tell you, Ottawa is so

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fortunate to have a great mayor like
Mayor Stutcliffe. And when we're walking in

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I told him from the day I
was nominated as leader of this party,

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every single trip to Ottawa has just
been a phenomenal time. I love the

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people here and we look forward to
visiting a few folks through the rest of

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the day there and a big thank
you to Gordon and Jesse. Jesse,

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I'll tell you she's seen the look
on the monte in my face and Goldie

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folks. He wasn't reading on for
script or anything. So you have a

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great future in politics after you've finished
it with Ka but the boy you're well,

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well spoken, and the entire team
at k Electrical for hosting us today.

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It's always a pleasure to visit companies
like yours, a company that's grown

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from humble beginnings to one of the
area's premier electrical contractors, helping to build

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growing Ottawa region, helping to build
Ontario. The other thing that I found

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amazing the mayor sent me over a
map of Toronto inside the boundaries of Ottawa

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geographically, Mayor, what is it
three times or four times the size of

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Trona, four times the size of
Toronto. Ottawa has a massive geographical footprint.

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Year and again, I want to
thank everyone for what they do here

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and in the city of Ottawa.
My friends. No secret that Ontario was

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facing a historic labor shortage. Well
nearly six hundred and fifty thousand more people

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are working today than when we took
office in two and eighteen. Still hundreds

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of thousands of jobs going unfilled each
and every day, including sixteen hundred electrician

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jobs. And over the next decade
we're going to need an additional hundred thousand

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skilled workers to help build the housing
and infrastructure are growing province needs. Here

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in Ottawa, for example, we're
working closely with Mayor Sutcliffe to build one

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hundred and fifty one thousand new homes
in Ottawa by two thousand and thirty one.

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And when I look at the mapping, you know Toronto is going to

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be seeing a lot of influx in
people coming there. Ottawa is Kitchen and

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Waterloo, So those regions are the
let's say, the hot head and the

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reason they're coming here because it's a
quality of life. Quality of life that

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you're helping create. Your council's helping
create Mayor and the people of Ottawa to

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bring home ownership into reach for more
people, and right across the province.

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We've embarked on the most ambitious capital
plan in our province's history, with planned

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investments over the next ten years totaling
one hundred and eighty four billion dollars.

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We're building schools, including thirty four
million to build the new Riverside South Catholic

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Elementary School and the Fenlay Park I'm
sorry, Fenlay Creek Elementary School in Ottawa.

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We're investing nearly fifty billion to upgrade
our healthcare infrastructure, including almost thirty

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million towards the Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus. And that's a planning grant that Ottawa

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Hospital is going under the second largest
build in Canada. It's absolutely massive,

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well deserved, and the CEO cam
over there is doing a great job.

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We're investing twenty eight billion in roads
and highways while supporting the largest transit expansion

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on all of North America. This
includes our commitment to build and expand Highways

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four seventeen and four one East.
But at the time when it's never been

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more important to deliver infrastructure our growing
province, we need to do everything possible

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to deliver on our commitment to build
Ontario. We're attracting new jobs and billions

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of dollars and new investments in every
region of our province. We're welcoming hundreds

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of thousands of newcomers to Ontario every
single year. Not too sure if you

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always quote these numbers that Scanda came
out. Four hundred and forty five thousand

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people were landed in Ontario last year
alone, and they're calling at home.

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And that's the reason we need to
continue building, building more homes, and

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we need to get it done.
But we can't build if we don't have

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the workers. That's why our government
is investing over one point five billion dollars

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in our skilled Trade strategy, working
hand in hand with our labor unions and

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business to train the skilled workforce our
growing economy needs. Whether it's upskilling workers,

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training new ones, or getting skilled
immigrants into the province. We're leaving

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no stone unturned. It's all hands
on deck and so as part of our

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Skills Development Fund, we're pleased to
announce that we're investing two point seven million

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dollars to support an innovative project that
will help sixty five electrical workers upgrade their

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skills to meet the demand for qualified
electricians in Ontario. This project, led

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by k E Electrical, will provide
participants with the training they need to progress

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from labors to apprentices, apprentices to
journeymen, and journeymen to foremen. The

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program will help electrical workers earn more
take home pay for themselves and their families,

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while tackling the critical shortage of skilled
trades workers the province faces. It

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will help create a bigger pipeline of
talent so together we can build the homes

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in the infrastructure the Ottawa Region needs
to reach its full potential. Friends,

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as we continue to navigate global uncertainty, our government is hard at work building

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an economy that can weather any storm, any economy that never lose a sight

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of what's most important, helping people
succeed, helping workers succeed. That starts

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with creating the economic conditions that attract
investments and growth and good jobs. We

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have the right plan to build Ontario
collectively, all of us. We're making

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an electrical electricity more affordable. We're
keeping taxes and fees low, we're cutting

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red tape. We're investing in transit
roads and highways to keep people in goods

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moving, and we're training the skilled
workforce to build the infrastructure our growing province

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needs. Thank you all for joining
us today and make God bless of people

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of Ontario. Thank you. Okay, Well, now take questions. Just

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reminder, it's one question. One
follow up, my Premier Floras Stone Globe

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and Mail. How do you make
it all the way. I know,

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it's like it's a miracle. Yeah, I'm from here and visiting my parents.

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Good, yes, hi, I
will. I'll come over for lunch

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one day, sure, dinner,
can babysit um. So you're in Ottawa,

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so naturally I have to ask you
about Toronto. The may all races

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next Monday, and polls are showing
that Olivia Chow is set to win that

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race. You've previously warned against electing
a lefty mayor. You've said it's going

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to be a disaster. She's come
out strong against your Ontario Place plan and

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she has another availability at the site
in Ontario Place today. Are you going

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to be able to work with her
if she wins? And are we in

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for years of gridlock and you know, stalling and between the province and the

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city. I'll work with anyone when
we go through the democratic process. She

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gets elected, I'll work with her
and we'll sit down and come up with

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common grown. It's no different than
I'll say, Andy Horbath. I think

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she works so well with the province. Stephen del Duca, I don't care

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about political stripes. I want to
do what's best for the people and hopefully

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the mayor will We'll do what's best
for the people, not race taxes and

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attract businesses. That's what I'm concerned
about, keeping taxes low, creating jobs

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and attracting more businesses. And I'm
confident if that happens. But in saying

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that, I always say my brother
used to telling me Rob. Dogs are

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for polls, and the only poll
accounts is on election date, So see

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what happens. I'll remember when Rob
got elected two days before the polls I

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call him the fake polls. They
come out and they said George smither One

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was going to win by twelve points. Well there was a difference of twenty

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four points because Rob kicked this up
by twelve points. So don't believe the

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polls. Folks, get out there. Whoever you vote for, go out

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and vote. I encourage you to
vote. Thank you. And I think

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it's been noticed that there's a Mark
Saunders sign on your lawn. Are you

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can you speak about why you're supporting
him and are you now going to endorse

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him? And do you wish you'd
maybe talked more throughout the race about why

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you think he specifically is the right
choice for Toronto. Well, I've always

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said I'm staying out of the race, and I have the right like anyone

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else, to put a sign on
my lawn. I put Mark's sign on

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my lawn. I'm proud to have
his sign on the lawn. But again,

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I tell everyone I'll be voting for
Mark, but vote who whoever you

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know, whoever you want to vote
for. That's your choice. That's not

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up to me or anyone else to
tell you who to vote for. That's

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just my opinion. You'd be the
best. Mayor. Michael Prail, CTV,

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Ottawa. Today, your government is
starting their appeal of Bill one twenty

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four. We've seen yesterday the CMAJ
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province. Here in the Ottawa region, they're ear doctors calling for the removal

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of the health Minister for the lack
of progress that have been made. We

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know that nursing unions say by removing
Bill one twenty four, which was deemed

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unconstitutional, it would improve it would
improve the situation in our hospitals. Why

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is your government, in spite of
all of these calls from medical experts and

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professionals, choosing to continue their appeal. Well, I can't make it common

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since it's in front of the courts. But what I will common about what

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they were mentioning, this government has
put more money into healthcare than any government

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ever in the history of this province. Were's three thirty one hundred additional beds

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since we've taken office, additional three
thousand beds. There's fifty projects totally fifty

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billion dollars that no other government's ever
done. So fifty projects around the province.

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You're either getting a new hospital or
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And as for the nurses, we
set a record and bringing on new nurses

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over twelve thousand last year. That's
from the College of Nurses that gave us

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that report. We have over thirty
thousand nurses in the hopper to join the

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front lines. I think the world
of the nurses and we're giving them everything

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we have, not mentioning the eight
thousand doctors have come on board, not

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to mention the new medical school that
we're putting in place in Branton. And

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I could go on for the next
half an hour of everything that we've done

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for health Again, there's no government
in the history of Ontario. I'll go

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by the numbers that has put more
into healthcare than we have. Despite that,

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though the christ this remains, and
according to health experts, the decision

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your government is making is actively worsening
the problem. So you may not be

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able to speak about what is happening
directly inside the courts, but you can

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speak to the reason that your government
is choosing to do something they say will

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actively make it worse. Well,
why are you appealing Bill one twenty four.

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Let's be fair here. You're talking
on behalf of the union. The

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union's always going to speak that way. I just rattled off half a dozen

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things that we're improving healthcare. We're
making sure that we have community healthcare clinics,

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surgical clinics all around Ontario. That's
what we're doing. We're alleviating the

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burden off the box of the hospitals. Isn't it amazing how the OMA and

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Ontario Medical Associations saying that was the
right decision, then Tario Hospital Association,

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all the CEOs of hospitals saying that's
the right decision. When I talk to

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numerous orthopedic surgeons, they're saying that's
the right decision. So we're investing into

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healthcare to a tune of eighty one
billion we're going to continue to invest in

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healthcare. Comcial premiere, I want
to I want to hear you on paramedics.

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Um, I don't know if mister
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earlier. Today, there's a need
for more paramedics in Ottawa. They are

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losing five hundred hours every day waiting
in hospitals, you know, for transfer

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of patients. Hospitals are having a
hard time. Paramedics are also having a

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hard time and they need and they
want the province to invest in in hiring

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new paramedics. So, um,
anything to say about that? How can

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your government help the situation? Well, first of all, the mayor has

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been a great partner. He called
me right away and we had a discussion.

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Put him in touch with the team. So Ottawa recently received the top

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up and funding of two point six
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which was expanded beyond nurses last year
to allow for more paramedics, position

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assistance and respiratory therapist to assist with
a patient offload. Our understanding is that

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a one hundred thousand was not used. That's fine, they'll use it sometime,

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but it wasn't used. Ottawa also
received fifty three million dollars for their

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land ambulance service Grand and we'll we'll
match the anything the city puts in,

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and that goes for every single city. We'll go for fifty fifty on anything

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moving forward. But they did get
an increase pop up a two point six

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million that there's still eight hundred thousand
there. I can pass it over to

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the merit and you can make it
come if you like. Yeah, thank

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you, thank you, yeah.
Um. And just to be clear where

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we are, so there's two areas
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there's there's two issues there. We need

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to hire more paramedics for growth because
the population Badel is growing, and we're

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prepared to do that and we actually
passed a motion recently to do that and

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we'll split the cost of those fifty
fifty with the province as we always do.

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The other issue is the offload issue
in the hospitals, and from our

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perspectives, that's the fact that it's
taking so long to offload patients in hospitals

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is an issue of the healthcare system, not an issue of the paramedics service.

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So we're asking for help from the
provincial government and we've been having very

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collaborative and cooperative conversations with the Minister
of Health, Sylvia Jones, and with

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the Premier, and so I'm hopeful
that we'll find some solutions going forward.

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There's a number of different ways to
approach this issue. Doesn't necessarily have to

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be hiring paramedics. That might be
another way. So we're happy with the

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progress that we're making in these conversations
and we hope that there'll be a solution

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at some point in the future.
Back to you, mister Premier, I

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want to hear you on housing because
mister Sutcliffe said that last week, Daddy

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wants to end homelessness in Ottawa.
You introduced a bill to you know,

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help help building homes faster, but
it is putting a bit more of a

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burden on cities. So how are
you going to help cities to you know,

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to fill that gap? Well,
yeah, did you just say it

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puts a burden on city? Yeah, to help cities if we build more

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homes and get more rentals. We
set a record all the way back to

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nineteen eighty seven for more purpose built
rentals and also housing starts. We need

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to continue building homes. The four
hundred and forty five thousand people that land

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here, they need a place to
live. We have to have attainable and

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affordable homes. And it's very simple, folks. Everyone understands supply and demand.

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There's a larger demand than there is
a supply, So we have to

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get moving. We have to cut
through the red tape. We have to

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get the permits out a lot quicker
than what we're getting right now. I'm

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not talking Ottawa and talking in general
across the province, and we need to

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start building. That's as simple as
that. We have a growing thriving population,

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and we're so fortunate. You know, everyone knows someone around the world.

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Talk to your friends, you're elder
around the world. You know.

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Because of the great people here,
we have a phenomenal place to call home

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in Ontario and start a business and
get a job and raise a family.

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We're so blessed here and we really
are. And it all has to do

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with the great people. But when
they come, we need to build homes.

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One hello with the Community Voice newspaper
here in the riding. Minister Steve

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Clark intervened with Club Link when their
planned to develop Glenn Abbey was before the

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Ontario Land Tribunal, right about the
same point Canada Lakes golf Course stands today.

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Last time I asked you about Canada
Lakes, you said it's before the

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courts and you can't interfere. Your
government intervened in Oakville. Can you explain

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the difference between the two cases.
Well, that's something that i'll follow up

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with, Minister Clark. I'm not
a thousand percent familiar with it. I

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understand there's a situation happening there,
but I'll follow up and if i'd be

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able to get your number after,
I'll give you the direct answer on that.

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Okay, thank you for that.
Anyways, on school transportation, we're

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seeing information coming from the local school
transportation authority that they're seeing a nine percent

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cut to funding. Why is that
good for students? Well, again,

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that usually goes through the school boards
and we're investing into education and education we're

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increasing it over two billion dollars as
we as we see the students population isn't

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growing with the students, it's relatively
the same. We're pouring money into education

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gets transferred over to the boards.
The boards make the decisions. I don't

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direct the school boards. Some days
I wish I did, but I don't.

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And we're always going to make that
a priority to make sure kids get

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the school via bus or other methods
of transportation. Low Premier at Talcamopenico with

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CBC in Ottawa. Just to follow
up here on Bill one twenty four.

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If you do lose this field,
your government loses. Will you take it

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to the Supreme Court of Canada.
Well, let's just see what happens.

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I don't want to comment since it's
in front of the courts. But our

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whole goal with Bill one twenty four
I have to make sure that we respect

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the taxpayers, but also make sure
that the frontline workers are treated fairly and

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come up with common ground. So
we always look forward to working with our

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unions, no matter public or private
sector unions, and come up with a

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fair deal for the public sector,
but again making sure we always respect the

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taxpayers money. And that's what we're
going to do. So let's see what

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the courts say, and then I'm
sure i'll have comments after the decisions made,

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wondering if you could elaborate on that
point about respecting taxpayers. So my

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colleague asked a couple of times why
your government is appealing and we heard reasons

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from you from your side of how
you've improved healthcare in this province, But

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why exactly what do you tell on
terms about why you're taking this to an

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appeal. Well again Bill one twenty
four eventually laughs. Right, So we're

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going to sit down again with the
unions and we're going to get a fair

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deal for the frontline workers, but
always respecting the taxpayers, making sure that

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we're prudent physical managers of the taxpayers
money. Keep in mind, every non

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public servant you know, gets paid
by everyone in this room that's working in

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you know, the electrical company looking
at people out there and factories. They're

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paying for public service and public servants. They're paying my salary. So I

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have to be respectful and make sure
that always be a prudent physical manager the

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taxpayers money. The problem starts and
hopefully this number happens here. At won't

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under my watch when more people are
taking out of the system than putting into

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the system. And we're always going
to make sure that we have great jobs

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so we can play pay for hiring
great teachers, having great nurses and doctors,

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making sure people have the services that
they expect and need to run a

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beautiful city like Ottawa or Toronto or
any other region of this province. And

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again there's six hundred and fifty thousand
more people working today paying up the Queen's

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Park coffers in the private sector than
there was five years ago. So I

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just believe in putting more money into
people's pockets and businesses until they can reinvest

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it and people can go out and
buy a home or do something might otherwise

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not be able to do. Okay, this will be the last question Zaya

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City News. My questions about at
Eyak closures. So what is the government

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doing about at EYA closures in smaller
communities in eastern Ontario. Okay, well,

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we know that's a staffing issue.
We're going to be there to support

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all the hospitals across Ontario. But
who makes those decisions. I think there's

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a misnomer out there. It's the
hospitals that make the decisions. The regional

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Healthcare is making those decisions, The
board of directors on the hospitals are making

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those decisions. We're always going to
be there to fund the system always,

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but I can't direct the CEOs of
the hospitals. They get their funding and

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they do what they need to do
to run the hospital most efficient way possible.

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But thank you for that question.
I appreciate it. Thanks everyone,

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Okay, thanks everyone, to take
care of all. Right. Education is

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an ultimate thing, and the more
we can get our society supporting education and

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skills, the better, the better
our society is and supporting them in getting

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them into into this into getting these
people into a stream where not only do

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they find a good job, but
maybe they can build a good business.

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And we all have all of the
all these businesses supporting our community and making

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and building a better place for all
of us to live all right. Thank

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