 It's now time for members David, the member from the Pee and Carlton. Thank you very much, Speaker. It is with a great degree of humility that I address the assembly here on our first day back. It's also the first day back since I ended my leadership bid for the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party. And as a result, I wanted to say thank you to a number of people across the province who have enriched my life and who've given me an amazing experience, and who I wish to say thank you to. I had a group called Mums for Lisa across the province who agree with my stand on choice and childcare. And I want to say thank you to Tracy Skeleton of Oakville for doing that. I travelled from Windsor all the way to Cornwall on the 401. I got to go to Sudbury and to Thunder Bay and all points in between. And for any member of the assembly to have that opportunity is so incredible to see this great province. I have profound appreciation for every member of this assembly and I want them to know that. I have profound appreciation for the Progressive Conservative Party, its members and the remaining leadership candidates. I received advice from time to time, Speaker, in this leadership bid from many unlikely faces. Many from my own party but also from the NDP House Leader, the Finance Minister and even my former nemesis, Dalton McGinty. But ladies and gentlemen of this assembly, I want to say to you today how proud I am as a member to be standing here in this assembly for the fourth time in my career and I look forward to completing this mandate and running again in 2018. But Speaker, through you to all members of this assembly, particularly to my own caucus and to members of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, I would like to say thank you. Thank you. Member Stamets, the member from Timmons, James Bay. I'm so glad you're staying. Come and give me a hug. I want to bring to the attention of this House the situation with the hospital in Attawapiskat and just to say that as you know, just before the new year there was a diesel spill and a brand new fuel handling system they had installed at the hospital in order to not have these type of things happen again, well the impossible happened and this thing spilled and unfortunately it contaminated the crawl space underneath the hospital in Attawapiskat just so that people know the hospital is faring anew, it's only about 20 years old and it's a pretty darn good facility considering where it's at. The community in Winnebago have been working really hard and the staff have been saying have been working extremely hard in order to try to make a good thing out of a bad to keep on providing health services in Attawapiskat at a time where they don't have a home and having to intrude on other organizations within the community but I got to tell you the community and the Chief and Council have been very supportive of trying to make this work as best they can. Staff have been working flat out. We're working on a plan in order to be able to clean that facility, the crawl space underneath it. I'd like to report to the house, I had a discussion with the Minister earlier. He seems more than willing to be able to find a way forward to deal with some of the bureaucratic stuff that we get out of the way in order to allow money to flow so that we can actually start getting the materials in place during this particular winter season because if you miss the window you've got to wait till next year and that means to say we would be out of a hospital and out of Attawapiskat for another 12 months so I just wanted to report to the house there is some progress being made Winnebago, the community, the staff are all working hard at making that happen and I look forward to continuing working with the Minister of Health because it looks as if we have some movement in that direction. Thank you. For the Member's Statement, the Member from Attawapiskat. Thank you Mr. Speaker. This Saturday my colleague from Attawapiskat, Peter Milchin and I are going to be hosting the 2015 Government and Community Services Fair at Cloverdale Mall in Etobicoke. This fair is an annual event and it offers constituents of our ridings and those from communities across the region a chance to learn more about the services offered both by the provincial government but also by non-profit and for-profit agencies that do good in our respective communities Mr. Speaker. These organizations offer many services, services that are not always well known to Ontarians and therefore sometimes underutilized by those who are most in need and I think we can all think of instances where we've helped constituents in our respective communities find local organizations or elements of the provincial government that actually can serve their specific needs. So bringing the fair to the people of Etobicoke each year helps us raise awareness about the services offered in our communities and connects our citizens with important resources created specifically for them. I'm really proud of this event because it attracts over 110 exhibitors from the provincial government, from agencies and from community organizations and the fair what it also does is it allows constituents to engage one-on-one with official staff and volunteers on issues that impact them so they can get their questions answered in many cases on the spot. And this in-person connection helps bridge the divide between the service providers and those relying on those services. Every year the fair attracts around 3,000 people to continue to drop by every year. The fair is going to be taking place this Saturday, February 21st from 11 to 3 p.m. at the Cloverdale Mall in Etobicoke. I'd like to invite all the constituents of Etobicoke, Senator, join me in all of you in this house to invite your constituents to join us in Etobicoke for what promises to be an important event. Thank you very much. Thank you. Member Stevens. The member from Stormont Dundas and South Glen, Gary. Thank you, Speaker. In mid-January, the Cormo Police Services received a 911 call from a senior upset about the food she was receiving. The operator was suspicious about the circumstances and forwarded a request for Cormo Police Services to investigate. The investigating officers found a very sad situation. It turned out to be an elderly couple where the husband was trying to the best of his ability to care for his wife, who was suffering from an advanced dementia. The man, too proud to ask for help and faced with increasing financial challenges, could not pay the bills and to put food on the table. In fact, he had to sell his wedding ring in 54 years just to put food on the table for the two of them. The Cormo Police officers and the civilian support staff went well above and beyond the call of duty that day. They quickly began canvassing amongst themselves and not only collected enough money to buy $150 worth of groceries, but they also raised $130 required to purchase the ring back from the local pawn shop. This example of generosity and community spirit from some caring residents of my riding at Stormont Dundas in South Hungary, not only made the local news but became news worldwide. So I would like to take this opportunity to thank the members of the Cormo Police Services D-Team and civilian support staff who stepped in to help a very needy couple in my riding. Despite the very difficult job that they are called upon daily to complete, they still have the dedication and compassion to go the extra mile and help a couple truly in need. Thank you. Thank you. Members from London Fast Shop. Speaker, today I would like to take a moment to express my serious concern for the state of mental health care in London and the province as a whole. Over the past few weeks I have met with experts in the field that are affected by mental health issues in the community and they have identified that we are now facing an incontrovertible mental health crisis in London. Last year my colleague Ms. Sattler and I spoke out in the legislature regarding the backlog in our emergency rooms of mental health patients waiting for days for a hospital bed. I hope this government and other MPPs have seen the various news articles in the past few weeks that reveal that the psychiatric unit at Victoria Hospital, London is dangerously over capacity. In recent weeks it has come to our community's attention that this overcrowding is causing a serious safety issue for both patients and health care workers. That safety issue also extends to mental health patients who are living in the community. In London we recently suffered the tragic death of a man living in an unregulated group home that provides housing for individuals with mental health issues. These are vulnerable people living in questionable housing with few supports. People are getting hurt and people are dying. We need a solution and we need it now. This government needs to take real, effective action on this issue without further delay. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you. Further member Stevens? Member from Ottawa. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And Mr. Speaker, as you know, the third week in February is kindness week in Ontario. And we could tell this morning in question period that everyone was aware of that. I'd like to recognize Ottawa's kindness week today. The Citywide Initiative encourages community members to choose to be kind and recognizes everyday acts of kindness. Kind Ottawa has become a vibrant movement in our community and under the leadership of Kindness Week Chair, Rabbi Ruben Volcker, community leaders and volunteers from across Ottawa employ their resources, experience and enthusiasm to bring kindness week to life in Ottawa. Rabbi Volcker was also instrumental in the unanimous passing of the kindness week in Ontario in this legislature in 2008. And I'd like to thank my colleagues, Minister Nakvi, MPP Jones, and MPP Jelena for handing out cookies this morning. I'd like to thank Jackie Schochet from the House Leaders Office who was kind enough to bake the cookies on the weekend. I would like to encourage you to participate and perform acts of kindness towards your family and your colleagues and take the time to help others. We all have the opportunity to create the kind of community that we want to live in. So I would like to encourage everybody to look for opportunities to be kind to other people and take that opportunity this week. You're very important to do. Thank you very much. Thank you, Speaker. Today's Ministry of Labor announcement launching public consultations that focus on the Ontario Labor Relations Act provides government an opportunity to finally close the legislative loophole that allows Labor monopolies to command local infrastructure tendering. As the review announcement highlights, quote, globalization and trade liberalization as two workplace trends to be examined, we must ensure that examination results and fairness for local contractors to bid on publicly funded infrastructure projects in their own communities. And Speaker, given the review it's designed to support government's four-part economic plan to build new public infrastructure, I feel it's incumbent on government to ensure these projects are being tendered fairly. Taxpayers expect their infrastructure to be built with the highest quality work at the lowest possible cost. Much as we predicted, the impacts of closed tendering in my own community of the region of Waterloo and around the province are limiting competition while driving up price for local infrastructure. Tendering restrictions across Ontario are wasting up to $283 million annually. Despite the widespread support I received from my fair and open tendering act, my aim to close this legislative loophole has yet to be realized. And while I look forward to round two, today I am hand-delivering a letter to the Minister of Labor to A. Invite him down to the region of Waterloo to consult with local contractors and their workers and to three, use that opportunity to restore fairness, open competition and sustainability to our public tendering process. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you. Will the member see this? The member from Beaches East York. Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. On February the 21st in the great multicultural riding of Beaches East York, I will be participating in an enthusiastic way in a ceremony celebrating International Mother Language Day. The day was first recognized by UNESCO in 1999 and began as an annual observance in February of 2000 in Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital. In 2009, this house unanimously passed a motion introduced by my colleague from the riding of Richmond Hill regarding International Mother Language Day. And the origins of it trace back to February 21st, 1952 when students from different schools gathered in Dhaka in what was then East Pakistan to rally in recognition of their mother language, Bangla. At that time, the government did not provide the opportunity for Bangla language students to be educated in their mother tongue and the demonstration turned violent and students were shot dead during the protest. So every year on February 21, we observe to promote awareness of the linguistic and cultural diversity of multi-lingualism in honor of that tragedy. And Beaches East York is home to one of the largest concentration residents of Bangladesh in this country. So on Saturday, we gather to recognize International Mother Language Day and I will wear my red Punjabi. And I briefly met with Mr. Rizan Raham and Azim Diwan who have launched a non-profit organization to erect an International Mother Language Day monument in the riding of Beaches East York and they will reveal a new war design in early March. So please join me in recognizing this important day and join us Friday, Saturday for your own celebrations and your own writings celebrating International Mother Language Day. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you for the members, the members from Northumberland and Quinty West. Well, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it's my pleasure to welcome again Adrienne Draupadi-Quinn from Kaley's Acres and their guest from Brand New Foods from my riding in Northumberland and Quinty West. The Quints were here in late November when they received the 2014 Premier's Award for Agri-Food Innovation for Kaley's Acres. In 2009, they converted 10 acres of former tobacco fields into kale, into kale production and then transformed these leaves into delicious snacks. These days, more and more nutrition-conscious consumers are reaching for healthy snacks. That's exactly why Kaley Acres were recognized with the Premier's Award for Innovation. They're producing kale in the form of chips and they are delicious, Speaker. I'm proud to have folks such as Draupadi and Adrienne Quinn with creative new ideas in my riding to help to keep our agricultural sector thriving great jobs along the way. We're excited to have them back visiting us and we're really excited that they brought bags of kale chips to all members of this house. Again, congratulations and a well-deserved prestigious award and welcome again to Queen's Park. All right. I thank all members for their statements and I also...