 Yes, therefore it's time for Member Statings, the member from Bruce Gray Owen South. Thank you very much Mr. Speaker. It is my pleasure to rise and recognize one of the brightest and boldest nuclear leaders with the most revered work ethic and legacy this province and this country has seen in generations. Duncan Hawthorne, the affable and straight shooting President and Chief Executive Officer of Bruce Power, has announced he will be stepping down after leading Canada's only private nuclear power plant for 15 successful years. It's an understatement to say that Duncan, an engineer who advanced from the shop floor to hold senior positions in the UK, US and Canada, has revolutionized nuclear after rebuilding units one and two at Bruce Power, the world's largest operating nuclear facility and home to eight can-do reactors. The remaining six reactors have been approved for refurbishment under his leadership and will revitalize the economies across the regions of Gray, Bruce and Huron and in fact the entire province. In his 15 years at Bruce Power, Duncan's can-do attitude has helped him reach every goal he has endeavored to pursue. Just last year, Bruce Power achieved record output for the site providing over 30% of the material's electricity at 30% below the average cost of electricity. Under his leadership, Bruce Power has secured production until 2064. I sincerely enjoyed working with Duncan, which I did up until I ran for public office in 2011 and had the privilege of seeing him work relentlessly to return the site to its full eight-unit potential thereby establishing a long-term structure that ensures safe, reliable, clean and low-cost electricity for the people of Ontario. I know Duncan will be greatly missed by Bruce Power's 3,000 permanent employees including boiler makers, carpenters, electricians, insulators, iron workers and rodmen, labors, mill rights, operating engineers, painters, pipe fitters and plumbers, sheet metal and roofers and teamsters and the thousands of tradespeople who work on the refurb. I invite the House to join me in thanking Duncan for all he has contributed to our community and province and wishing him and his wife Leslie all the best as a return home to the UK where Duncan will be taking on the challenge of building a new nuclear fleet. The one thing he has not yet accomplished yet. Thank you Mr. Speaker and thank you, Duncan Hawthorne. Thank you for the member. It's a member from Canora Rainey River. Thank you Speaker. Following the last election, people had high hopes for this premier and her government. They believed her when she said that she was going to change the way things were done in this province. Well it turns out that things have changed. They're worse. They're worse for the people right across this province, but they're getting worse for northerners. They're getting desperate for northerners. One woman who lives in Wabagoon just outside of Dryden wrote to me about how bad things are getting. She writes, both my son and daughter-in-law work minimum wage jobs. They have three children. Groceries, vehicle insurance, heating, costs and hydro are already out of control. Guests roll out the food bank. Daycare is outrageous. We the grandparents have tried to hobble out a schedule. My husband does not work. He is disabled. I work full time. At this rate I will never be able to retire. We help our family with childcare, groceries, gasoline and many loans in between paydays. We live in Wabagoon Dryden. No mass transportation here. Oh, their fourth owner vehicle died. A private vehicle is a requirement, not a luxury here in northwestern Ontario. They are currently using my old vehicle. Funds to buy a newer one are just not there. I am ashamed of this government. Speaker, this woman hit the nail on the head of what this government is doing wrong in northern Ontario and countless others share her struggle. It's disgusting that people should have to work so hard and still not get ahead. When will this government start prioritizing the very basic needs of northerners? Thank you. Further member statements? The member from the Public Health Centre. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Speaker, earlier this year, Mayor John Tory announced that he's changing the western portion of the smart track transit plan along Ellington Avenue to replace heavy rail with an LRT. The LRT would connect Mount Dennis to the Mississauga Airport Corporate Centre and Pearson Airport. I have been following this issue closely, Speaker. The Ellington Corridor is vital to my community, and while some have expressed excitement about new transit, I have also heard concerns about how an LRT could impact traffic along the Ellington Corridor. I personally believe, Speaker, in smart transit that is built with community input on the basis of a strong business case that includes a plan to address the impacts on the local community. We need a plan that can deliver excellent transit for riders that serves the local community and that ensures that taxpayers' dollars are spent wisely. To achieve this, I have consulted with members of the community and local resident and ratepayers' organizations. I co-hosted a transit town hall with Ontario's Minister of Transportation, Stephen Dalduca, so that the minister could hear directly from members of my community, participated in a local consultation co-hosted by the City of Toronto in Metrolinx, and I met with Premier Kathleen Nguyen and Minister Stephen Dalduca to share my constituents' perspectives and feedback. I know how important it is to build transit, but it is also important that we build the right transit. So to give a clean-blind endorsement of a transit project without knowing all the impacts is not why I ran to be an MPP, Speaker. I look forward to welcoming the Minister of Transportation to Atobico Centre in the coming weeks to see for himself. We need a transit solution that is beneficial to commuters, to taxpayers, and to our community, and I won't stop working until we achieve that goal. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you. Members, statements to the member from Elgin, Middlesex London? Thank you very much, Speaker. I rise again in this house to raise the issue of great concern to my riding and that of the municipality of Dutton-Dunwich. A few weeks ago, this Liberal government awarded five wind turbine projects across the province, and one of those projects was in my own riding of Elgin Middlesex London and the municipality of Dutton-Dunwich, who was emphatically against the wind project. In fact, the municipality of Dutton-Dunwich did their due diligence, conducted a survey of the residents, and did all that before declaring themselves a non-willing host. The survey showed a whopping 84% of the community was against the wind turbine project municipality. That survey was shared with the ministry and many meetings were held to discuss the municipality's desire to be a non-willing host and remain free of any wind turbine projects. However, at the same time, the municipality of Malahide in my ride just east declared themselves a willing host and had a company submit a project to the ministry. That project was denied, whereas the Dutton-Dunwich project was approved. The government stated that municipalities will have a say in wind power. However, it is clear that's furthest from the truth. This government is blatantly ignoring rural Ontario and the local voice. In a testimony committee in November 2013, this energy minister said municipalities would be given a veto over projects and be very rare indeed for any approved project without a miscible backing. It would be almost impossible for somebody to win one of those bidding processes without support from local municipality. I'm calling on this government to stop the wind project in Dutton-Dunwich. It's tearing the community apart. It's my hope that this government will do the right thing, hold true to their word, and relook at the legitimacy of this project. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. 26 cents of difference for the price of gas across the province of Ontario. Tell me how that makes any sense. Tell me how a gas company who refines gasoline in this province can get away with selling gas at 26 cents differential per gallon in different parts of the province. In Kirkland Lake versus Timmons, which is not very far, it's an hour and 45 minutes down the highway, there's a 12 cent difference. Clearly, the gas companies are colluding. Clearly, the gas companies are doing everything they can to put as much money into their pockets at the cost of the consumer. We as a province have the ability to regulate. City of Timmons has taken a position that they're bringing to council. They're going to be trying to organize various municipalities in order to be able to try to get this provincial government to move on gas price regulations so that we can limit what those companies are doing and take away these huge differentials that we have where you can sell gas at 26 cents a liter difference in one part of the province of the other. I commend our council, I commend our Mayor, Steve Black, for taking this on and working with us. What's interesting in the City of Timmons is seeing this not as an issue just for Timmons, but they're trying to bring other communities into this. Kirk and Lake, North Bay is already there and a whole bunch of other municipalities. To be able to tell this government you need to stand up for the consumers of this province. You need to utilize your regulatory powers as a province and to regulate the price of gas so that the consumer doesn't get gouged. Thank you for the members. Thank you, Speaker. Yesterday, the Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities came to Durham region with good news. Since 1969, the Simca building has been standing on the campus of Durham College. Though it was clear to everyone that it was only meant to be temporary fixture, now with 22 million in funding from our government, the Simca building will be replaced with a new facility, one with a plan health science center and entrepreneurship center. Speaker, my daughter attended Durham College and I know that everyone in my writing sees the campus as a gem in our region and a real benefit to our community. I want to congratulate the staff and students on the work they have done ahead of the Colleges 50th anniversary in 2017. I also want to thank the member from AJAX, the Minister of Children and Youth Services, who along with myself have been tireless advocates for the college from our side of the house. I should also thank the member from AJAX and the current former members from Whitby, AJAX for their effort as well. I hope we can continue to work together and doing what is right for Durham College and what is right for the region of Durham. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you Speaker. Darcy McHugh, MPP of Chatham, Kent from 1963 to 1977 served in the 27th Parliament of Ontario through to the 31st Parliament. Mr. McHugh served as community in his province proudly as a Treasurer of Ontario, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Minister of Energy under the Bill Davis PC Government. In his time here, Speaker, he was no stranger to the thrust and parry of the legislature. He could duke it out with the best of them and more often than not he gave better than he got. He was mockingly dubbed the Duke of Kent by an opposition MPP, but Darcy Ward as a badge of honour to this very day is affectionately referred to as the Duke of Kent, not only in my writing of Chatham, Kent, Essex, but across Ontario. 1972, Mr. McHugh was part of a minor scandal with just one of 2,000 rubber stamp approvals he made as the Minister of Municipal Affairs to your questions as a potential conflict of interest. He resigned immediately because it was the right thing to do morally and as time has shown even politically. What has to be feels it was still the right decision to step down considering the larger scandals that have rocketed provincial politics in recent years without any resigning, McHugh said absolutely. He set the standard for accountability that should be followed today. McHugh went toe to toe with Hydro One and put a focus on achieving budget surpluses before it was even fashionable. These lessons and countless more can be found in his memoirs, The Duke of Kent. So thank you Darcy for what you have done in this Ontario legislature and thank you for what you continue to do for the residents of Chatham, Kent. Thank you. I didn't see a problem. The member's statements, the member from Brampton Springdale. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, community safety is an ongoing issue throughout Ontario and our government is creating strategies for a safer Ontario. Recently there's been an increase in Brampton in crimes, in crimes and residents are truly concerned. With pizza robberies, break and enters, pets being stolen, the concern is genuine. In December we had Minister Nuckby come to Brampton Springdale to listen to the input of the residents about street checks to ensure that police interactions with the public are without bias, consistent and carried out in a manner that that promotes public confidence. The province takes the protection of human rights very seriously and has zero tolerance for any form of marginalization or discrimination that violates rights under the human under the charter of rights and freedoms. Ontario does not support any practice where police are stopping individuals without reason or cause. I also hosted another town hall in January in collaboration with the Peel Police, Peel Crime Prevention and Peel Stoppers for the local drillers in the community. In line of the recent occurrences, the community needed to gain valuable knowledge on how to protect themselves and their families. Mayor Bonnie Cromby and the Saga Councillor Caroline Parrish have also been very active on this. Tomorrow we will be hosting a town hall with Minister Nuckby again in order to we want to invite community members to join us to give us their input on some of the changes that we'll be making in the policing services act and modernizing the police services act. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Thank you for the remember statements from all of the on. Thank you Mr. President. I was very proud to celebrate the 2016 Horde de la Playa, which celebrates each year six Ontarians who have distinguished themselves exceptionally by their contribution to the French language. There were very important efforts from these people to promote the French culture in their respective communities but also in the whole Francophonie in Ontario. I would like to congratulate here one of my constituents, Louis Fabou. Louis worked with will, perseverance and passion to promote Orléans and Francophonie in Ottawa. He was also recognized for his efforts for accent aigu in Orléans. Louis Patrie, Carmen Portolence, Lauren Hamilton, Pierre Foucher, Dianne Dubois, Alain Baudouin all received the Horde de la Playa. You are symbols for the generations to come and thank you to the Francophone Parliamentary Association for this initiative that started in 1976. Thank you. I thank all members for their statements.