 It is now time for Member Statements to the Member from Thorneville. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. On behalf of myself and the entire PC Caucus, I am honoured to extend my warmest greetings to all those who participated in last week's 34th annual Holocaust Education Week in Toronto and all over the world. This was presented by Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre of UJA Federation of Greater Toronto. I am proud to be able to say that this year Canada has assumed the position as the Chair of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Holocaust Education Week offers extensive programming designed to engage Ontarians from all different types of heritages, the opportunity to delve into one of the darkest moments in human history and emerge with universal lessons of hope, tolerance and human rights. I myself attended a couple of fantastic events, one at the Royal Ontario Museum to mark the launch of Holocaust Education Week and another lecture at Charles Shalom Synagogue. Holocaust Education Week offers a powerful schedule of activities including films, discussions and exhibits that encourage remembrance and denounce intolerance. I want to take this opportunity to commend the dedication of the survivors, volunteers, staff and supporters from UJA Federation of the Greater Toronto area and the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre for their efforts to make this and every year Holocaust Education Week such a success. Thank you for all the work that you do. Thank you, Mr. Senator, Mr. Member from Parkdale High Park. Thank you Mr. Speaker. It is my absolute honour to stand today and to recognize a woman who truly is a force of nature in Parkdale High Park and throughout the educational system and that's Irene Atkinson, our trustee who is retiring after 40 years as a trustee, the longest serving trustee in the Toronto District School Board ever and not only that, the only trustee who served on the Toronto Board of Education and on the TDSB as well. She's known as the mother of Sororan. She actually saved Sororan Park in our community as a place for families rather than a place for garbage trucks to park. She worked tirelessly and got extra funds for Parkdale public, Queen Victoria public, Swansea public, Keele public, I could go on and on over the 40 years and she, a woman, a true woman of conscience, used to be a red Tory, left the Conservative Party after she saw it by carousel to education in this province, crossed the floor to us. We were the happy beneficiaries of that and continue to serve the same folk. Here's to Irene Atkinson after 40 years. We hope she has a wonderful retirement. Of course, a woman like that, Mr. Speaker, never really retires. She's actually going on to work on the review board and other boards in the community, but we're going to miss her and I can tell you, a generation or two of education ministers are not going to miss her because she kept on their heels. Here's to Irene and all the women like her. Thank you. Members, statements from Mrs. Fargo-Streetsville? Thank you, Speaker. Speaker, last week, Ontarians all across our province paused for a minute of silence on November the 11th to commemorate the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month when the guns of World War I fell silent with the signing of the armistice between the Allied nations and the Central Powers. The beginning of the end of war, wrote American veteran and author Herman Wouk, lies in remembrance. Our Royal Canadian Legion Branch 139 Streetsville marched with veterans, elected officials, fire, police, an emergency response, as well as our very active Army Navy and Air Cadet Corps. Queen Street in 2014 was lined with more people than anyone can ever recall attending a Remembrance Day ceremony. This year's ceremony was the first Remembrance Day at the redeveloped Streetsville Square with its rebuilt cenotaph and the last Remembrance Day for Hazel McCallion to preside as Mississauga's Mayor. An estimated 3,500 people lined the streets and jammed the square to pay tribute to Canada's fallen soldiers and to remember not merely those who served in Canada's wars and peacekeeping but also those who returned to build the great nation, the province and the communities that we have and enjoy today. Thank you, Speaker. Mr. Speaker, recently we celebrated the first annual Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week, part of the Hawking-Ginak Act which passed last year. I want to commend Ontario Fire Departments for their support and their efforts to raise awareness. For example, the Perth East and West Perth Fire Departments made the Wake Up Call, a CO safety video that educates people on the dangers of carbon monoxide. In Peterborough, the Fire Department worked with First Alert and the Peterborough Peach to create an information display. In Barrie, the Fire and Emergency Services knocked on doors and distributed printed materials describing the new CO laws in Ontario and held a talk with John Ginak, founder of the Hawking-Ginak Foundation for CO Education. I also want to recognize the Insurance Bureau of Canada who have donated over 2,000 carbon monoxide detectors. In recognition of CO Awareness Week, they made donations in London, Ottawa, Cornwall and several Oxford Fire Departments. They also donated to Habitat for Humanity in Leeds and the Thousand Islands. These carbon monoxide detectors will play an important role in protecting Ontarians. You can't see, smell or taste carbon monoxide, so the only way to know your family is safe is to have a detector in your home. I want to thank everyone that helped promote Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week, including the members of all three parties. These efforts are making Ontario families safer and are a tribute to the Hawkins family. And I want to thank each and every one of you. Thank you. Member Stevens, the member from Welland. Oh, thank you, Speaker. Last Thursday, November the 6th, I had the opportunity to actually attend a event in my community at the Welland Community Centre to protect our local hospital services in our communities. You know, we hear about this issue day in and day out from small and rural communities across this province. It was attended by many, many people in my riding. And they all had the same concerns. Closing hospital beds, cutting CCAC services in our communities, wait lists for mental health services, wait lists for long-term care beds, giving our long-term care beds to the private sector instead of to the nonprofit sector. And those dollars should actually be going to the care of individuals in our community. Now, this coming Friday, and I would encourage all MPPs to attend this event, there's actually going to be a rally here at Queen's Park. It is sponsored by the Ontario Health Coalition and the Niagara Health Coalition. And it's here at 12 p.m. on Friday. There are buses coming in from across the province because everyone is concerned about the erosion of health care services in their communities. And so I, you know, in my own community, many hospitals have closed. Another one has slayed it for closure. And so please attend this rally and show your support to keep our hospitals open. Thank you, Member Statements, the member from Davenport. Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am rising today to recognize a tremendous milestone in Davenport. On Saturday, November 8, Regal Road Public School celebrated its centennial anniversary. This means that since 1914, Regal Road has been at the forefront of guiding and educating Davenport's young people. Regal Road Public School was constructed for the Dovercourt community, just as the area was annexed to the city of Toronto. It is a magnificent building designed in the Boards style by architect Franklin E. Belfrey, who also designed many other schools in Toronto, including Oakwood Collegiate, also in my riding. And in 2007, the city of Toronto declared the school as a heritage building. Regal Road is a wonderful school located at the northeast corner of Davenport Road and Dufferin Street. And actually, my colleague from Northumberland, Quinty West, attended Regal Road when he first moved to Toronto in the 1960s. The school enrolls approximately 520 students from JK to Grade 6 and offers a dual track system with both English and French immersion curriculum. Reflective of my riding of Davenport students at Regal Road are from my diversity of cultural backgrounds. Mr. Speaker, I have the pleasure to meet a tour group from Regal Road at the Legislature in September, and I look forward to meeting more students from this exciting school going forward. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Today, the government releases its fall economic statement. The Ontario Chamber of Commerce has said Ontario should be very concerned about the direction in which this province is heading. The recent interim report by Ed Clark is proof the Liberals will not make tough decisions to reduce spending to balance the books. We can expect today's economic statement to continue the Liberals' unrealistic and unaffordable path that puts frontline services in jeopardy while hurting families in every part of this province, including those having the hardest time. Mr. Speaker, this government is spending beyond its means. The Bank of Canada and Conference Board of Canada have also provided evidence that the government's path is unsustainable. Under the Liberals, our debt has doubled, and our annual debt interest payment now approaches $11 billion. That's taxpayers' money that should be invested in frontline healthcare, first-rate education, reliable roads, and transit. All Ontarians are paying the price for debt interest costs that take money out of priority services like healthcare and education. This Liberal government is always trying to blame someone else for not getting their own house in order. They've doubled the debt in just 11 years, Mr. Speaker. They continually blame lower than expected revenues and the federal government. Mr. Speaker, this Liberal government must take responsibility for their bad policy decisions. I hope they'll do that today. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Member Stevens, the member from the Topical Center. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, last week I had the privilege of traveling to Ukraine to support a medical humanitarian mission where Canadian doctors form surgery on patients' victims of the war in eastern Ukraine, people who are fighting for their freedom and their democracy. I also had the opportunity to visit the National Haldemore Memorial, and I stand here today to commemorate the Haldemore. Haldemore Commemoration Week, which is this week, is the 81st anniversary, pays tribute to the 81st anniversary of the Haldemore when Joseph Stalin closed Ukraine's borders confiscated grains and to destroy a Ukrainian population that resisted his rule, who sought the freedom and democracy that the people in Ukraine are fighting for today. During that time, Mr. Speaker, 17 people per minute, 1,000 per hour and 25,000 per day were dying from famine. And the world, Mr. Speaker, was silent. Millions died as a result. My grandmother was one of those people who survived the famine, and she lost three of her brothers to the Soviet regime. She once told me that she hopes that the victims of the Haldemore will not only be remembered but honoured. Honouring means not just remembering them and commemorating them, but also learning from their mistakes, learning from the mistakes that we made and making sure that we take the steps to make sure it never happens again. And one of the things that needs to be done is make sure that our young people here in Ontario learn about the Haldemore. And that is why I'm so pleased to be here today, to stand here with the leaders of the Ukrainian community who have worked towards that for so many years, with you, Mr. Speaker and other members of the legislature who co-sponsored a bill to commemorate the Haldemore and with our Premier and with our Education Minister who have spoken in the past about the importance of teaching the Haldemore and have ensured that the Haldemore will be part of our curriculum so that every Ontarian learns about the Haldemore. Today, I'd like to take this opportunity, Mr. Speaker, to not only reflect, commemorate the victims of the Haldemore, but ask us to recommit ourselves to make sure that we learn from the mistakes of the past and make sure tragedies like this and those that are happening in Ukraine never happen again. Let us do what my grandmother would have asked. Let us not only remember them, the victims, let us not only commemorate the victims, let us honour them, Mr. Speaker. Thank you. Thank you. Members, statements? The members from Ottawa or Leeds? Mr. Speaker, I'm proud to raise today to support the months of Crohn's disease and colitis. Crohn's disease and colitis are the most current diseases that are attacked in Palestine. At the present time, there is no treatment that is known and we don't really know what causes that kind of disease. Ontarians should be really preoccupied by colitis and Crohn's disease. Ninety-five thousand people in Ontario have one of these diseases and in my family is one of the families that are affected by this disease. Two of my cousins have this disease so I know what challenges those people have to bear. For 40 years, Crohn's disease and colitis associations, they try to find a cure and they also want to improve the lives of children and adults that are affected by this disease. Once again, Andrew Oldt and his mother, Marta, who are here today, volunteers and the staff of Crohn's Colitis Canada for their efforts and their development. They work hard to facilitate the daily lives of people living with this disease. And they try to work and to fight this disease. So thank you very much. I thank all members for their statements.