 Thank you Mr. Speaker. I am deeply honoured and proud that the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 258, a vital institution within Highland Creek Community. The Highland Creek Branch was founded back in 1934 and has advocated for veterans and their families ever since. They have always led a successful poppy campaign and this year was no different. They have actively supported local caucuses by sponsoring local cadets as well as hockey and baseball teams and they have contributed to many charities that is because they believe strongly in Canada and its values. More than that, the Legion has always served as a place for longtime friends and neighbours to gather, have a drink and a good laugh. Four years ago when it was newly elected in PP, they welcomed me with open arms and for that I will always be grateful and ever since Mr. Speaker, we have made it a tradition that I come every cannery with a freshly baked cake. In many ways, it is one of my favourite events of the year and this year the old Legion Hall was closed and the Branch 258 has moved to its brand new location at 305 Moorish Road. I know this is a bittersweet moment for many of us but I am confident that they will share many good times in the years ahead. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Member statements. The Member for Windsor West. Yesterday marked the start of Living Wage Week, an important reminder to all of us to recognise the need for a livable wage in Ontario. The Ontario Living Wage Network released their yearly living wage rates for the province for 2022. The stark reality is that there isn't a single one of the 51 communities analysed where the livable wage has been identified under $18 an hour, far above the current minimum wage. Many people in Ontario are finding themselves fully employed yet unable to afford the cost of living as inflation rates continue to soar. The cost of groceries, housing, utility bills and transportation have all increased while wages have remained stagnant. We know that those making the lowest wages in this province are the most impacted when the cost of living increases. In my community of Windsor, a livable wage has been identified as $18.15. That's the lowest hourly wage someone needs to make to be able to put a roof over their head and food on the table. Yet minimum wage is currently set at $15.50, a $2.65 an hour difference equaling $5,500 per year that people are coming up short. Yet the Conservatives were just bragging about their minimum wage. That doesn't account for the employees that are forced into precarious part-time positions where hours are not guaranteed. Many Ontarians are working two or three jobs just to make ends meet. Ontarians deserve to be able to afford the basic cost of living. It's time for big corporations who make record profits this year to step up and pay a fair wage. We must support Ontarians and raise the minimum wage. The Conservative government's empty slogan working for workers doesn't cut it. If they genuinely supported workers, they'd ensure they get paid a living wage. Poverty is this government's policy choice. Member Statements. The Member for Sarnia Lampton. Thank you. It's an honour to rise in the Legislature today to share the news of another important investment in Sarnia Lampton by the Government of Ontario. Mr. Speaker, on October 6th, I was honoured to join the members of the St. Clair Catholic District School Board family along with the Indigenous partners from the Kettle and Stony Point and Walpole Island First Nation at the site of the new Gregory A. Hogan Catholic School in Sarnia. This new state-of-the-art facility which will include spaces for 659 students and a five-room childcare centre is being made possible by an investment of over $24 million by the Ontario Government. This new school will provide more student spaces in the new quality learning environment for the growing student population in Sarnia Lampton as well as affordable childcare spaces for those local parents. In total, the Government of Ontario is delivering more than $26.6 billion in education funding for the 2022-2023 school year, including an increase of over $600 million this past September, which is the highest investment in public education in Ontario's history. Mr. Speaker, the funding for the new Gregory A. Hogan Catholic Elementary School is great news for our community. This investment will ensure families and students have access to a quality learning environment in the years ahead and that every young person has the opportunity to reach their full potential. Thank you. Member Statements. The Member for Scarborough South West. Thank you very much, Speaker. Speaker, Canada is facing an enormous labour shortage. In fact, recent data from Statistics Canada shows that the unemployment-to-job vacancy ratio in Canada is at a historically low level. Here in Ontario, for example, our healthcare sector is a prime example where we are seeing extreme labour shortages, which has added to the healthcare crisis, especially as we try to tackle the challenges of overcapacity in our emergency rooms and to the insufferable long wait times for treatment. According to the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, more than 60% of their businesses and workplaces are facing difficulty with hiring, whether it's healthcare retail constructions just to name a few. Our province simply does not have the human resources to fill this gap. The Minister of Labour himself said that there are over 370,000 jobs across the province, but not enough people to meet the demand. This demand speaker is continuing to rise, with continuing increase in retirement and a slowdown of immigration, especially during COVID-19 owing to the massive immigration backlog on the federal level. And we are seeing thousands of jobs go unfilled. Immigrants contribute greatly to every sector of our province, be it academic, scientific, cultural, manufacturing, food and agriculture, healthcare and many more. I am calling on the Premier and the Minister of Labour Immigration Training and Skills Development to work collaboratively with the federal government to improve Ontario's immigration process and address the massive immigration backlogs so that those who want to contribute, Speaker, to this province are able to do so and have the opportunity to build their life in this great province. Thank you very much, Speaker. Thank you, Member Statements, the member for Brantford Brandt. Thank you, Speaker. As many of you are aware, my riding of Brantford Brandt is home to a vibrant, motivated and active cadet movement. We are home to Admiral Nellis, the Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps, the 104 Starfighter Air Cadets, the 56 Field Regiment Army Cadets and the Admiral Landymore Navy League Cadet Corps. After a two-year hiatus, this remembrance day, cadets representing all four corps held a nighttime vigil at the Brant County War Memorial. I stopped by the DeLuzzi Street Senate to have to spend some time with the cadets, officers, volunteers and family members as the youth stood in silence, paying tribute to Canadian and Allied soldiers that fought, were wounded and paid the ultimate price for our freedom. I spoke to several officers who were supervising the cadets and Lieutenant James Massacar, commanding officer at the Royal Canadian Sea Cadet, said, the remembrance vigil is a living act of remembrance that the young people of Brantford, Brant and Six Nations take part in. It has endured since 2011 not only because of the commitment of the community, local leaders, officers, but most importantly the sea, navy league, army and air cadets who hold the torch of remembrance high each year as they mount their vigil. Speaker, witnessing firsthand the solemn respect and sheer professionalism these youth displayed for the fallen soldiers of our country far exceeded their young years. I was moved and impressed. Brantford Brant has some of the best volunteers in Ontario and I urge all to support your legions in Cadet Corps and encourage them to keep up the great work they do week after week. Thank you, Speaker. Member statements? The Member for London West. Thank you very much, Speaker. London West parents are worried. One mother wrote to me, parents are looking for guidance from our leadership right now and we are getting nothing. As a parent to a three-year-old son I am terrified when I see the news about pediatric ICU beds. Another said, the state of our healthcare system particularly pediatrics is horrifying as the mom of a toddler who has been sick with COVID, hand foot and mouth disease and pink eye in the past six weeks I am terrified. While we have been lucky to not have to go to the ER yet I am fearful of what we would experience when we arrive. What she will experience at London's Children's Hospital is a stressful hours long wait in a crowded emergency room that was built to handle about 100 visits per day but is being overwhelmed by 200 or more sick children double the usual volume. Parents of teens admitted to ICU now face the prospect of admission to an adult ICU bed which has ICU nurses concerned about taking on teen ICU patients without specialized pediatric training. Children's Hospital emergency room director Dr Rod Lim warns that it may get worse before it gets better. I think November and December are going to be tough he said. Speaker London parents are asking me what is this government doing about this crisis from the budget that was tabled yesterday my answer is clearly not enough. Thank you member statements the member for Mississauga Lakeshore. Thank you Speaker on Friday last week the President of the Treasury Board joined me in Mississauga Lakeshore for a tour of the construction site at the Mississauga Hospital where work is well underway on a new eight-story parking structure with spaces for almost 1500 vehicles. This is an important first step towards the complete reconstruction of the entire hospital the new 24-story facility will almost triple the size with almost three three million square feet of space and almost a thousand hospital beds over 80 percent which will be private rooms it will add over 20 new state-of-the-art operation rooms this will be the largest and most advanced hospital in the history of Canada. Speaker the fall economic statement yesterday reports that the RFP has closed and it is confirmed our government is committed to this historic project so I want to thank the Minister of Finance for his statement yesterday and this Minister of Finance cares about Mississauga Lakeshore and again I want to thank him and the President of the Treasury Board for their support for this important project. We've been looking forward to a new modern hospital in Mississauga for many years and it's very exciting to see the shovels in the ground. Thank you. Member Stevens, the member for Don Valley East. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker I stand before you with the grim realization our children are being let down by this government. It has been said that the true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members. All of us bore witness to this government's failure of our elders in long-term care homes during the pandemic. Most recently this government took aim at our lowest paid education workers by trying to trample on their charter rights and now is our children who our government is failing and they don't have a voice to advocate for themselves. Regrappling with overcapacity pediatric ICUs, ERs in critical care that is overwhelmed, kids in adult ICUs and surgeries being delayed. This summer when this government was nowhere to be found I called for the government to take measures to prepare for the upcoming respiratory season and yet the fall vaccination campaign was non-existent and the plan to stay open has not eased the emergency care crisis in the in the slightest. Now I would be remiss if I did not address the current state of the Ontario autism program. Under this government the OAP's waitlist for core services has more than doubled skyrocketing from 23,000 in 2018 to 57,000 in 2022. That is enough children to fill the Roger Centre and then some. This government needs to be transparent with families. How many children are registered? How many are waitlisted? And how many are receiving core services? I eagerly wait for those answers. Thank you. Members statements? The member for Thunder Bay Atacoken. Speaker I recently had the opportunity to attend a fundraising dinner for the medical equipment modernization opportunity or memo for short in Thunder Bay. Since 2004 memo has shipped 100 containers to Cuba, El Salvador, Liberia, Nicaragua and Zambabwe totaling millions of dollars in equipment and saving countless lives along the way. Every container holds 10 tons of medical equipment and supplies that are redundant according to the Canadian health standards but remain useful and continue to save lives in developing countries. The organization is completely run by volunteers so that every dollar donated goes entirely to support the work. I want to recognize Dr. and Mrs. Jerome Harvey whose dream began 18 years ago while looking outside of their kitchen window at the soon to be closed 250-bed Port Arthur General Hospital. He wondered what was going to happen to all the medical equipment left behind in this hospital as well as the other old hospital to be closed, the 375-bed McKellar Hospital. He discovered that because of Thunder Bay's isolation the cost of removing and shipping made the contents of the two old hospitals valueless. Reluctantly the hospital administration admitted that most of the equipment would be sold to a scrap dealer for $180 a ton. This led to a meeting with the Cuban doctor and Cuban ministry of health officials and assured him that anything memo could send would be helpful as Cuba had an adequate supply of well-trained doctors but was woefully inadequate in medical equipment and supplies and thus memo was formed under the auspices of the Evangelical Free Church of Canada. I commend Dr. Harvey for his initiative in leadership of this venture that is making a difference in the lives of residents in developing countries. Thank you. Thank you. Member Statements to Member for Don Valley North. Thank you Mr. Speaker. I'm hearing from many constituents in my riding up Don Valley North who are extremely concerned about the dramatic increase in incidents of vehicle theft and carjacking in our area. Speaker, according to an article in The Toronto Star, 70 vehicles were stolen in North York during the week of October 13th to 19th. The previous week the number of stolen cars in the area was 54. Speaker, there is one vehicle stolen every six minutes in Canada and the proceeds from stolen vehicles are often used to fund global organized crimes and terrorism. Speaker, this issue is being addressed by the police in our community and through public safety initiatives in our province but without proper legislation and procedures to hold accountable those who alter vehicle identification and to prevent stolen vehicles from existing Canada we are far from solving this serious public safety issue. Speaker, I hereby call out to the federal government to tighten border controls and stop stolen vehicles from being exported overseas. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Thank you. That concludes our Member Statements for this morning.