 therefore time for member statement to member from Oxford. Thank you very much Mr. Speaker. I rise today to speak about the strike that came out of motive plant. This plant employs thousands of people in my community, people who are worried about the future of the plant and their jobs. I share their concerns and I support their efforts to keep those jobs in Ingersoll. In fact last week I asked the Premier to change your government policies that have already driven 1,300 jobs out of Oxford. The number one issue I hear on the picket line, heard on the picket line this weekend and the number one concern when I talk to Kami employees is keeping those jobs in Ingersoll. I've heard from employee after employee who is suffering because of this strike. They are worried about their future. We make quality cars in Ingersoll because we have hard-working and skilled workforce. Those workers shouldn't have to worry about companies moving those jobs because of high hydro cost, taxes and red tape. While we as MPPs are not part of the contract negotiations government should be doing everything they can to keep those jobs in Ontario. So I want to again ask the government to ensure companies like Kami can succeed so they can provide stable jobs for thousands of people. I want to once again encourage both sides to try and settle this as quickly as possible for the sake of those employees. And I want to say to the workers I support your efforts. I understand how difficult this is for you and I will continue to fight to keep those jobs in Oxford. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Thank you for the member's statements. The member from Windsor to come see. Speaker yesterday more than 200 friends of Arnold Amber got together to celebrate his remarkable life. Arnold was a journalist. He started out as a correspondent for the Reuters News Service in Africa in Europe, but he was best known for his work behind the scenes at the CBC. For many years he was the executive producer of CBC News Specials. That covers most of the federal elections since the 70s, many provincial ones, the royal visits, breaking news coverage at all hours of the day and night. Arnold Amber was also a fierce advocate for social justice and human rights. For 25 years he was the president of the Canadian Journalist for Free Expression. He served as the president of the CBC branch of the Canadian Media Guild. Hundreds of CBC employees owe their full-time jobs and their pensions to Arnold Amber. He fought to do away with contract positions and turn them into full-time jobs. I served on the CMG's national executive with Arnold and we spent 10 years together on the international executive of our union. He was our Canadian director and a warrior for fairness, be it at our small town newspapers right across the country or at many other dailies or at TVO, the Canadian press or the CBC. Speaker some say fittingly he passed away in Labor Day. So to Phyllis, Janine, Jillian and David, thank you for sharing Arnold's precious time with us, his union family. I take pride in saying I loved the guy. He was a friend, a mentor, and he certainly left his mark on Canadian journalism, human rights, and the fight for fairness for us all. Thank you. Further member states, Menacing Beaches is short. Well thank you, Speaker, and I rise today, on behalf of my constituents, to celebrate and acknowledge Jason Bogapole, who was recently named the 2017 Beaches Citizen of the Year by our Beach Metro News. Now Jason began volunteering well over a decade ago when somewhat paralyzed by feelings of helplessness, he channeled his challenges with mental well-being into volunteerism. It started, Speaker, with a can of goof-off. When he went out with the community and start taking graffiti and other things off of posts and graffiti and recognized that he was actually now doing something positive in the neighborhood and it empowered him. And while out there doing that he met Bob Murdock. Bob's another great stalwart in our community working at Center 55 as chair of that board and he brought Jason onto the board at Center 55 and Jason went on to become the chair of that board for almost nine years. And Jason has worked on a whole long list of other initiatives with exceptional organizations in the beach and some that he started himself. Between 2009 and 15 he served on a board of a local service agency, Neighborhood Link Support Services, and he founded a Beaches Mental Wellness Group, a community-based wellness support group that has supported him as much as it has the dozens of other people that he's touched in his life. And what Jason has repeatedly found in his voluntary activism, it's not about just helping others, because in helping others you're helping yourselves. So Jason was rewarded the 2017 Beach Citizen of the Year Award surrounded by other recipients on Sunday down in Tupac and I want to ask all of us in recognition of all the great volunteers in our own community that Jason, as an example, thank you so much for the service you do to our community. Thank you. Congratulations. Further member statements, member from Nipissing. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm rising today for the Franco-Ontarian Day. September 25th is a moment for the Nipissing writing to celebrate our rich Francophone heritage. On September 25th, it has been named officially Franco-Ontarian Day in 2010. A few years before, the Franco-Ontarian drop flag has been raised for the first time in the suburb at the Laurentian University on September 25th, 1975. Mr. Speaker, I'm very happy that young political science students, Michel Dupuis, is the one who created that flag. He comes from North Bay in my writing. The other person was a history professor at the Laurentian University, Gaétan-Gervais. The green and white of the Franco-Ontarian flag represents summer and winter. It's a perfect combination and a perfect symbol. Let's celebrate that beautiful Franco-Ontarian Day all together. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to share with this house a tale of two cities. The first city is experiencing a boom in real estate and construction and digital creative, with 10 firms listed among the fastest growing Canadian companies in 2017. Collectively, these firms are Cane, Voices.com, Big Viking Games, Big Blue Bubble, Zumeran, Digital, Akidna, Diagnostics, Biochem, StarTac.com, HR Downloads, and Canada Tube Forum grew their revenues more than 600 percent over the last five years. The second city was also ranked among the top cities in Canada. It came third in the country and second in Ontario for the highest rate of opioid hospitalisation last year, as well as the highest proportion of children living in low income. And while other Canadian cities saw 10 percent growth in median income over the last decade, this city saw a drop of 2.1 percent. Median income is now second lowest among Ontario urban centres. This city reported the lowest labour market participation rate of any major Canadian municipality with about one quarter of working age residents not working and two discouraged to look for work. What are these two city speakers? They are both London, Ontario, and these statistics paint an alarming picture of an economy that is leaving too many people behind. Clearly, Speaker, we can do better. Londoners deserve a city that is both innovative and inclusive, and a government that is committed to helping achieve that goal. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm thrilled to tell you about a spectacular two-day festival that was held in my riding of Kingston and the Islands on the 9th and 10th of September. The annual Garrison Kingston Family Fest celebrates our amazing military community and their families. And without question, their hard work, dedication, and special commitment to protecting our nation and its security is of paramount importance and deserves both recognition and celebration. The central theme this year was Canada's 150th anniversary and 25,000 people came out to enjoy the many attractions in and around the sports centre. Fort Henry, CFB Kingston, our Armed Forces base. From learning about Kingston's rich military history to watching the snowbirds soar across Kingston skies, there was something for everyone. They had a fully operational griffon helicopter and a completely refurbished Sherman tank. We also had our very own Invictus Games Relay, which gave participants of all ages a chance to engage in some healthy competition and win prizes. The Great Canadian Rock Show, which featured Trooper, one of Canada's most celebrated bands, among others, was sold out and had the crowd rising to its feet during an energetic and engaging performance. The list goes on. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the staff, management, and volunteers team at CFB Kingston, Via Rail, the City of Kingston, Kingston Police, Kingston Transit, Fort Henry, as well as the vendors and sponsors who made this event a success. Kingston and the Islands treasures the military community and events like the annual Garrison Kingston Family Fest gives us the opportunity to recognize and celebrate everything they do to keep our nation safe. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you. Further member statements? The member from Bruce Gray owned sound. Mr. Speaker, I'd like to ask you to ask consent of the House if I could proudly wear my Invictus pin, which is a part of my... The member from Bruce Gray owned sound is seeking an item that's sent to where the Invictus pin, do we agree? We agree. Agree. Member? Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I'm honored to rise as the PC Party's accessibility critic and recognize the opening of the 2017 Invictus Games, a unique competition to commemorate and honor the perseverance and determination of our wounded and injured soldiers and veterans who have overcome tremendous odds and continue to inspire us through this adaptive sporting event. And so as we welcome 550 soldiers and veterans from 17 nations to take part in the games this weekend, we also open our hearts and minds to their many personal stories of courage that display only the very best of the human spirit. I encourage all members to follow the games and the personal stories from Team Canada that showcases 90 members from the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, and veterans as well as our fellow comrades from Afghanistan, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Australia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Romania, Netherlands, Georgia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States, Germany and the Ukraine. They are all our allies and those with whom our troops have recently fought alongside during the war in Afghanistan and in the rebuilding of Iraq. In the words of Prince Harry, and I commend him for following in his humanitarian causes like his late mother Princess Diana, and I quote, time and time again, competitors from around the world tell me that sport has saved them, that the Invictus Games have given them a new lease on life and that to represent their country game with fellow comrades is something that they could only dream of while lying in hospital. These competitors, and again I quote, have cheated death and come back stronger than before, Prince Harry said, and they're proving to the world anything is possible when you choose to be an unconquerable soul. It's a forward-moving perspective and one I strongly support. To echo the lines from the poem Invictus that is the inspiration behind the name of the games, in the fellow clutch of circumstance I have not winced or cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance, my head is bloody but unbowed. It matters not how straight the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. I ask all of us to wish these unconquerable souls only the best of the games. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Thank you. One more member of statements, the member from Ottawa of Vigniers. Mr. President. Mr. Speaker, today is the Franco-Ontarian Day. It's the opportunity for all of Ontario to celebrate the contribution of the Franco-Ontarian community. I would like today to underline the vitality of the Francophone institutions. In my writing of Vigniers we have the Montfort hospital with the expansion of its services and it's a huge investments in research. We have also community organizations that meet the needs of the newly arrived. We have two Catholic, two school boards that meet the needs of the new learners in a diversified manner. Their programs are there to meet the needs of, meet the needs. We have City Collegial whose programs meet the needs of the new labour needs. And I would like to mention of course we will have a new Francophone University but we also have the University of Ottawa which is a pillar of research on Francophone matters. There is a lot of energy in our Franco-Ontarian community in Ontario and this energy will continue to contribute in a relevant manner. It will be innovative in the Ontario society. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. A further member from Haldeman Norfolk. Haldeman Norfolk's blessed and abundance of fairs and festivals is unique to our diversified rich farm heritage ranging from Dunbills Mudcat Festival, Port Rones Bay Fest, Charlotte Bills Donnybrook, Dell High's Fall Fest. We find something to do every weekend leading up to Waterford capping and off with Pumpkin Fest. So the week leading up to Thanksgiving presents two great fairs Caledonia and the Norfolk County Fair and Horshaw. Norfolk Fair will attract up to 160,000 people, ranks the fifth largest competing with the likes of the C&E to our winter fair. Here at Queens Park and elsewhere I get asked which country star or band is attending the stage or cabbage rolls on the menu? Where do I get a Dixie Dog? Who grew the biggest pumpkin this year? Caledonia, Norfolk, all the fairs and festivals take us back to our younger days. Again the Dixie Dogs, the Candy Flass, Caramel Corn, the Lights, the Music, the Buzz of the Crowd. Following Caledonia the Norfolk Fair offers on Canada Day, Warriors Day, Country Stars Tim Hicks and Chad Brownlee, Monster Trucks, Demolition Derbies, the livestock barns of course as well as beautiful show and the heavy horses. So I invite everybody down to the Norfolk Haldeman come down and take in some of the best fairs in the province. Thank you. Thank you. I thank all members for their statements.