 I am for Member Statements. I recognise the member from Stormont, Dundas South, Glen Gary. Thank you, Speaker. On Friday I had the opportunity to attend the Self-Stormont Volunteer gala. Congratulations to the winners Sharon Potfay and Marc Labrosier. I was able to listen to Gillian Lynch address the crowd. Gillian is here today and is a young professional who is unstoppable in her drive to help others. Gillian is an example of selflessness and strength. She grew up with her family not far from where I live in St Andrews West, along with her brother Miles, who had a lifelong battle with cystic fibrosis. Miles Lynch was the first Canadian to successfully undergo three double lung transplants at Sick Kids here in Toronto. Miles tragically passed away on December 31st, 2021, after bravely living life to the fullest. In the months before his passing, Miles had told Gillian to chase after every dream without hesitation. Gillian has been committed to sharing Miles' story and giving back to the institutions that helped Miles and her family. Gillian is chasing dreams and changing the world. This young lady has quite the impressive resume. Hopefully, Speaker, I'll have enough time to share some of her accomplishments. Gillian has become sought after public speaker for the nonprofits that have supported her family. Gillian has delivered speeches for the Sick Kids Foundation, Cystic Fibrosis Canada, Federated Health Charities of Canada and the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Gillian has delivered 170 presentations for the Heart and Stroke Foundation within four months to companies across Toronto raising $1.6 million. Gillian is also dedicated, cycling across Canada to help raise funds for Sick Kids in Toronto. She was recognized as a top 30 changemaker under 30. I know your community is proud of your work, Gillian. I have no doubt your parents are proud of your drive and determination. Miles would be quite proud of the accomplishments and advocacy, Gillian. Keep up the amazing work. Members of the Stadions, welcome to recognize the member for James Bader Schigowic. Thank you, Madam Speaker. It is a real shame in 2023 that we still lose loved ones because of weak enforcement of workplace safety and sharing regulation. But it is what happens every year. Nearly 1,000 workers die from work-related injuries and illness, while others injured and suffer from occupational diseases. This is why we gather on April 28th, a day set aside to honour the memories of fallen workers to raise awareness for those who still suffer from consequential work-related injuries and illness and commit ourselves to do more. Across Canada, people will gather to express these common beliefs that all workers deserve a safe work environment and that we must learn from the past strategy. This is why we state clearly that we need more than promises from employers and government. We gather to celebrate the West Strait Bill C-45, but also to demand that it be reinforced. We have to do this because every year too many workers are victim from work-related injury, occupation of diseases, and lose their lives on the job. Those numbers confirm that the law is not being sufficiently enforced. It is clear that proactivity and central prevention of the workplace injury, being vigilant and potential threat to unholding companies accountable for their neglect, are just two ways in which we can ensure workers are able to go home once their work day is over. Thank you. I'll remind members you have 90 seconds. I will be cutting you off after 90 seconds for your member's statements. I recognize the member for Scarborough Centre. Thank you Madam Speaker. I rise today to recognize the outstanding work of Donald Halsey and Johnny Valencia from the Salvation Army Chapter in Scarborough Centre. The organization has been serving the community for over 50 years. Their leadership has been instrumental in providing critical services such as operating a homeless shelter, providing housing and support services, running a food bank to help assist the needy, counseling, job training, financial literacy, and the list goes on. They have a network of churches throughout Scarborough community. Their school meal program provides meals for children who may not have this regular access at home. Last year over 115,000 students received nutritional meal that helped them learn and thrive. I want to acknowledge the staff and scores of volunteer for their hard work and dedication in making a positive impact in their community of Scarborough Centre. Thank you Madam Speaker. I recognize the member for Waterloo. Thank you Madam Speaker. Grief is an expression of love. If we don't love we don't grieve. My grandmother Patricia Cunningham passed away last spring in Windsor, Ontario. She was 95. She was a mother grandmother and wife to first husband Ken Wood and second husband Colonel Roger Cunningham and my grandmother was an artist. She loved to find good trouble throughout her life right up to the retirement home stage. She loved animals, music and for some unknown reason devil eggs. One of my favourite memories with her is visiting Ontario Heights. A lifelong resident of Windsor, she loved all genres of music. Was a talented artist whose paintings Grace Holmes worldwide including my own Queen's Park office. She will be missed by her children Alan, Laurie, Lane and Brent and stepdaughters Sheila, Alexis and Martha. They're spouses and some pretty awesome grandchildren plus family and friends. For me she reminded me of Mary Tyler Moore. She was strong, creative, intelligent, independent, former MPP Percy Hatfield and CBC reporter told me that he used to hang out in Pat's office waiting for the scoop when she was a hospital administrator and she was thrilled when he delivered a 90th birthday scroll. I would be remiss if I didn't ask the government to honour the promise of Alzheimer's funding. It's never the wrong time to do the right thing and Alzheimer patients require leadership and it is a cruel disease. I feel fortunate to have called her my nanny Pat. She was a good person who loved us and was loved. Member statements. I recognize the member for Mississauga Malton. Madam Speaker, May 1st 2023 March National Physicians Day in Canada and Doctors' Day in Ontario. In the trying times of 2020 when COVID-19 has struck the world at large we see how delicately and selflessly the doctors all around the world have served the people at large and emerged as true heroes. They haven't thought about their health, family, personal issues but worked around the clock to help and heal. I'm pleased to rise today to express my gratitude and appreciation to all Ontario Physicians for the critical and life-saving services they perform daily. Our government continues to support our physician by accelerating efforts to build up the province healthcare workforce. We're investing over 100 million dollars to expand and accelerate rollout of undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. Our physicians work around the clock sacrificing precious time away from their loved ones facing burnout, putting themselves at risk and protect the health and well-being of Ontario. Thank you for your service. On behalf of my family, my constituents and my caucus colleagues I want to express my most sincere appreciation to Ontario Medical Association and thanks to our province 31,500 practicing physicians and 1,900 medical students. Thank you for the care you provide in a normal and extra-honorary time. You are a true representative of Ontario Spirit. Thank you Madam Speaker. Are there member statements? I recognize the member for Oshawa. Thank you Speaker. Housing is a human right but in Ontario things that have gone terribly wrong. There isn't enough actually affordable housing across communities. This government isn't building it and it isn't supporting low-income tenants. Lately we've been hearing about slum lords who aren't maintaining units. They're allowing mold to fester, they're not fixing appliances or turning the heat on. We know of abuse of the landlord's own use eviction where landlords have been caught lying trying to evict tenants. There's rampant discrimination in applying for housing. Many landlords aren't accepting folks on ODSP or new Canadians or racialized people. Recently I met with folks on Ontario Works who need better protections from slum lords. They told me that instead of first and last month's rent being required now they're being asked for four months or more to even compete for a spot. People sharing a room have zero protection speaker because they aren't technically tenants. So when they answer an ad and they're forced to pay $800 for a room and then move in and find another person, a stranger, paying the same amount for the other half of the room there's nothing they can do and there's no work for them to go. The Human Trafficking Coalition and Durham recently flagged a new danger is accommodation ads targeting vulnerable unhoused women. Ads for a bedroom rental in a house or apartment look safe and renovated. However many of these addresses aren't even residential but a young girl looking for a safe place to live doesn't know that and predators are counting on it. Ugly things are happening in Ontario. Home is supposed to be a safe place and in Ontario this government is turning its back on low income in underserved Ontarians. Just because this government pretends it isn't happening doesn't mean it is. Do better. These are people's lives. Thank you. Member Statements. I recognize the member for Scarborough Agent Card. Thank you Madam Speaker. On April 24 the Armenian community of Ontario and Canada commemorated the 108th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide which took place in the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923. Someone and a half million Armenians perished in one of the first genocides of the 20th century. I am the grandson of survivors of the Armenian and the Greek genocides. Armenians will never forget that during their darkest hours Canadians stood by the survivors. The Armenian Relief Association of Canada under the patronage of the Governor General Bing Archbishop Neil McNeil, Venerable Archdeacon Cody, Colonel Sir Henry Pellet and other prominent Canadians raised $300,000 to feed cloth and house the refugees. Toronto's The Globe spearheaded the campaign to raise funds for the starving Armenians. Furthermore the association brought 109 orphan boys to Canada and resettled them in farm near Georgetown. At the same time nurse Sarah Corning of Nova Scotia saved 5,000 Armenian and Greek orphans from slaughter in the city of Smyrna. In keeping with the tradition of our forebearers the Canadians and the Canadians' first international humanitarian mission. Member's statements. Members statements. Members statements. I recognize a member for Ottawa South. Thank you very much speaker. Earlier this week in question period I raised the issue of wait times for breast cancer surgery at the Ottawa hospital. I told the story of Lisa whose wait was so long she was forced to travel to a private clinic in Montreal and pay $50,000 for life-saving surgery. Lisa is not the only woman who has suffered as a result of unconscionable wait times at the Ottawa hospital. Christine McMillan of Ottawa was stunned when her surgeon suggested that she go private. She said the wait was torture. Kiel Kelpin said the two surgeons suggested she consider a private clinic for surgery and because she travels for work one surgeon suggested that she may have to go to another country. How is it that at the Ottawa hospital, one of the largest hospitals in Ontario, that only 13 percent of women are getting their breast cancer surgeries within the safe recommended time? At the civic campus not much better 29 percent and for gynecological cancers at the same hospital it's 30 percent. There's a reason that Ontario started measuring wait times in 2007. It was to prevent this from happening. The hospital, the ministry, the minister, the premier have failed these women and their families. There needs to be action now so that these women can get the care they need and deserve. Thank you Speaker. Members statements I recognize the member for Ajax. Speaker today I rise honored to represent the people of Ajax. Over the last week I had the privilege of touring two exceptional community care organizations in my riding which I would like to share with you. The first one is SHE Health an organization providing exceptional health care services for over a century with more than 8 000 employees nationwide including nearly a thousand health care workers in Ajax and its surrounding areas. SHE Health delivers over 20 000 home care visits per week to Ajax and its surrounding communities. Due to my tour I had the pleasure of meeting with Kyle the manager and I would like to extend my gratitude to him and the entire SHE team for their dedication to our community. I'd also like to thank the patients that shared their stories of satisfaction and the difference their cares have made outside of the hospitals. The second organization I had the pleasure of visiting was Carrier Health Care Center where I joined my colleague PA the minister the PA on Gallagher Murphy. This registered charity offers free community services and programs such as health promotion and wellness programs counseling primary care and education. I was particularly impressed by their recent event Taking Back Our Health which focused on advance in health equity in Durham. I'd like to take a moment to extend my sincere gratitude to SHE Health and Carrier Health for the exceptional work they do in our community. Your commitment to high quality health care services and programs is truly commendable. The dedication of your staff. Member's statements. I recognize the member for Brampton North. Thank you. Thank you Speaker. Now being a heart Lake Boy, Professor's Lake was a neighbourhood in my writing that I honestly wasn't that familiar with until I saw public office. Since deciding to run I set out to get to know the neighbourhood as best I can and I was thrilled when the residents association invited myself and local councillor Rod Power to host an Earth Day barbecue and litter pickup. The weather didn't cooperate Madam Speaker but I've never been part of a group that was so happy literally lining up to get pickers in the rain to go out and pick up garbage and clean at the neighbourhood. We had about 70 people out at once picking up litter and had around 150 attendees for the barbecue total. I'd like to thank Ward 7 and 8, Brampton City Councilor Rod Power, the Professors Lake Residence Association, Peel Paramedics, Peel Police, Brampton Fire, the Brampton Honey Badgers, Enroute to Success, Bramley Boxing Club, Starbucks, Maple Leaf Foods, Enbridge, Boys and Girls Club of Brampton, Young Bosses and Coca-Cola for all coming out to support the event. Professors Lake is a a heck of a neighbourhood Madam Speaker and it's even prettier today because of the community getting together to clean up the neighbourhood. I want to thank everybody for coming out on Sunday. It was a great time. Thank you.