 It's now time for a member's statements. I recognize the member for Niagara West. I had the privilege of attending two services of remembrance in my riding of Niagara West last week including ceremonies in Font Hill and Jordan. I want to thank the local local legions in my riding including branches 127 and Grimthee 612 in Beansville and Jordan 613 in Font Hill and 393 in Smithville as well as the township of Wayne Fleet for hosting meaningful tributes. A little over a hundred years ago following the First World War as Canadians gathered at warm memorials like the Senators in Niagara West last Friday, many considered it unimaginable that the bloodshed of that great conflict would ever be repeated. It was called the war to end all wars and yet a short generation later the world was once again plunged into a struggle against the hateful ideology of fascism in defense of the democratic values and human rights that we hold dear. Throughout the 20th century time and time again the call to arms was issued and young men and women in uniform across Canada and Ontario including members of First Nations, Inuit and M.A.T. communities died for freedom and perhaps many of us today consider it inconceivable that we would ever again enter into such terrifying conflicts and yet even today our northern neighbour the Russian Federation is an aggressor state pursuing its illegal invasion of Ukraine against the pleading of civilians and the cries of humanity. Once again war has returned to European soil and we are again reminded of the need to ever stand on guard. As a descendant of those who emigrated to this country because of the sacrifice and heroism of Canadian soldiers including those who liberated the Netherlands, my family and I are personally grateful to those who have and continue to fight for freedom and democracy. Last Friday, as we should every day, we remembered those who fought and died in battle. They are passing the torch to us so that the memory of their sacrifice will continue and the values they fought for will live on in all of us. May God rest their souls. Thank you Speaker. I rise today to speak about something inspiring Ontario's Labor moment. Last week we're all reminded who makes this province function and that's workers. For a long time this conservative government dismissed that but with their action of QP education workers along with their support for the entire Ontario Labor movement the government was made to pay attention. Bill 28 should never been drafted let alone introduced. It's a bill intended to break unions and attack workers. At my office in Niagara Falls we had nearly 1,000 people telling the government they were wrong. When they decided to use the notwithstanding clause to strip workers of their collective bargaining rights they woke up a giant. They united the labor movement against them from coast to coast to coast. I hope this government follows through on their promise to repeal Bill 28 immediately. But we can't walk away from the experience without holding people accountable. The Minister of Labor sits in this chamber and tells us he supports workers. He tells the labor movement that he's there for that he's our friend but when Bill 28 was introduced and voted on he was the first member to stand in a potted passing. He was happy to strip workers of their bargaining rights. He was happy to continue attack workers who are prominently women and also supported Bill 124. As Minister of Labor his role is to support workers in this province but instead he clapped for legislation that ripped basic rights away from them. For that alone it's time for the minister to resign. He never supported the labor movement and last week he proved it. Thank you very much. Member statements? Member for Cambridge. To share about a story of an award-winning, month-long festival taking place in my writing. Winterfest, formerly known as Christmas in Cambridge knocks off on November 25th with Phil Klein's Unsilent Night. This event attracts thousands of residents young and old who enjoy a musical walking tour through a historical downtown Cambridge. It's illuminated with various lights, art installations along the route. It's truly a memorable way to start your holiday season. The week leads up to the Christmas Day which we'll visit or excuse me today. A visit from the CP Holiday Train, winter ice and lights in Preston Central Park, music and lights in the village and the Cambridge Christmas Market at the David Derwood Centre and the Cambridge Centre for the Arts. I encourage everyone to go. This is one of the top 10 festivals named by the festivals and events Ontario for the past three years. If you haven't been, I encourage you to go. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Another fall migration is just winding up and over the past couple of months millions of birds have been migrating across the Great Lakes to winter in Ontario. But windows that reflect the sky and the clouds can appear invisible to a moving bird so they continue to fly at high speeds until they smack into the glass and fall to the ground. Some are rescued by compassionate people working with organizations like BirdSafe and Flap Canada but many do not survive the trauma. The bird photographer, Priya Ram Singh writes, if you walk around one of the city's large towers during the migratory season you'll find the bodies of dead birds with their feet curled up in the air. These are brilliantly coloured birds including electric blue indigo buntings, warblers with yellow green and blue wing markings and scarlet tenagers with regal red feather plumage. 25 million birds die from window collisions each year in Canada. This week I am reintroducing a motion to adopt the Canadian Standards Association 2019 bird friendly design standard into the Ontario Building Code for all new construction and retrofits in the province. At a rally on the lawn of Queens Park tomorrow at 11 30 a.m. we'll be showing Ontario residents simple measures that they can take to make their windows bird safe and to reduce the risk of collisions. I invite all members of the house and residents who want to make our built environment bird safe to attend the rally. Come help us protect Ontario's biodiversity for years to come. Thank you. Member for Perth Wellington. Mr. Speaker it's my pleasure to rise in this place to recognize the good work SE Health does in my riding and across Ontario. SE Health is a non-for-profit health care provider in Ontario. Mr. Speaker SE Health currently provides nearly 50% of all home care services in Ontario. A couple weeks ago I had the pleasure of meeting with them and representatives locally and touring the location in Palmerston. I had the opportunity to meet Kelly a community nurse in the town of Mental and Works for SE Health. She does important work to support our seniors and those recovering at home for major operations. She's also a community care nurse at Mental Clifford Public School. I had the opportunity to join her at Mental Clifford to meet some of her brave patients. No matter the need Mr. Speaker Kelly ensures her students are living a healthy and rewarding life. We had a great discussion about how best we can work together to better serve those living in our communities. I want to thank Kelly for everything she does for our rural communities and the children she helps every day. Our government is committed to helping our elderly remain in their homes longer and ensure Ontarians receive the right care in the right place. I appreciate everything SE Health does and all their employees do in my community and across Ontario. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Member Statements, the Member for Nickel Belt. Thank you Speaker. I rise today to speak about the important work that nurse practitioners do serving patients in every corner of our province and why we need this government to fund more nurse practitioners position. At a time when many family physicians are retiring, patients across Ontario lose access to primary care, leaving them dependent on walking clinics or emergency department. Meanwhile, Aboriginal Health Access Centre, Community Health Centre, nurse practitioner led clinics all have nurse practitioners that want to be higher, that are available, but they have no money to hire them. These nurse practitioners can assess, they can treat, they can advise patients with complex medical condition who otherwise end up in our crowded emergency room. Unfortunately, this government refuses to modernize their antiquated funding model so nurse practitioners can be hired to provide the excellent services to more patients. For example, an executive director in a nurse practitioner led clinic has to be a nurse practitioner, but she still has to carry 800 patients load, roster and her administrative duty in that clinic. In fact, this funding model is so rigid that the government claims that they are still working on the paperwork to provide nurses working in these clinics with the retention bonus that was promised nine months ago. If the government wants to improve access to healthcare services to thousands of people across Ontario, invest in nurse practitioner position, it will pay off. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you, Member Statements, the Member for Mississauga, Erin Mills. Mr. Speaker, last Tuesday I was pleased to join the Honourable Solicitor General at Peel Region Police Headquarters in Mississauga. Alongside Chief Nishand Rabba, who I commend for being recently appointed to the Order of Ontario, we kick off the Crime Prevention Week, an opportunity for all Ontarians to recognize the important men and women in uniform who sacrifice so much to protect our communities. Organizations present included the Ontario Association of Chief of Police, Safe City Mississauga, Empowering Against Exhabilitation, Vision Zero and Peel Crime Stoppers. Additionally, on November 4th, myself and many of our colleagues welcomed Deputy Chief Nick Milovich and Surgeon Earl Scott here in Queensborough to recognize them for the $25 million drug seizure, one of the largest in Beale police history. Mr. Speaker, one of the foremost priorities for people and businesses in Ontario is to feel safe and comfortable in their city. I want to recognize the important role that low enforcement officials play in keeping our province safe and protected, our most vulnerable. Crucial to this process is a strong relationship between low enforcement and local communities, working hand in hand to ensure safe and prosperous society. While Mississauga is one of the safest city in Canada, we are nevertheless seeing a rise in car theft and pharmacy hold-ups. We will continue to work with Peel Police to support them and allow them the resources to prevent crime. This partnership between police, community and government is a relationship we cannot afford to foresee. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you very much, Speaker, and I'd like to say a few words and tribute to Dr. Barry Adams, a pediatrician from Ottawa, who was my pediatrician and my child's, my children's pediatrician, and in fact the pediatrician for thousands and thousands and thousands of families over his long career. Barry was an incredible, gentle, warm, kind person. He was always available. He was a big proponent of our Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, and I wanted to spend all this time talking about his accolades, but his accolades are actually the thousands and thousands and thousands of families whose lives he touched and improved by his work. I was thinking about what Barry would have had to say today, if you were alive, about what's happening at the Children's Hospital in Ontario and with our children in this province. Barry could be very kind and very gentle, but he could also be very stern. And what he would be asking us is, why is there this indifference to what's happening to our children? Why are we not masking? Why are we not making sure we're all vaccinated and their kids are vaccinated? You know, Barry was a physician who was old enough to know when measles outbreaks occurred and he was always astonished at the efficacy of the vaccine and how it was almost non-existent. So Speaker, I think we should learn from Dr. Barry Adams's example that our children are important and that right now there are some things that we need to do to protect our children. We should be doing them masking, vaccination, washing our hands and staying home when we're sick. Thank you Speaker. Member Statements. The Member for Central Grade. Thank you Speaker. It's a pleasure to rise in the House this morning. Speaker, last week we spent time in our collective writings honouring and remembering our veterans as we proudly wore our poppies and attended Remembrance Day services. And Mr. Speaker, I'd like to pay tribute today in my comments about the Royal Canadian legions that pepper our writings and our communities across the province. In my writing of Simcoe Gray, there are 12 legions and each branch has a proud history of supporting veterans and serving the communities. They act as community hubs, they host important civic events from Veterans Week events to political events and from community events to private celebrations. Alison, Angus, Beaton, Collingwood, Cremor, Everett, Lyle, Nulol, Stainer, Thornbury, Tottenham and Wassega Beach all have thriving active legions that serve these communities. And on Saturday, November 5th, I had a great opportunity to spend a night at the Collingwood Legion in a dinner in honour of our veterans in preparation for Remembrance Day. And as I sat in the facility, I was reminded that during the pandemic, the Collingwood Legion served as the overflow facility for the Collingwood Marine and General Hospital. 18 beds, it served a vital purpose as an overflow unit and during a number of the waves had many beds filled. And that was one way that a Legion can help work with our communities, collaborate with our communities to support them. Last Friday on Remembrance Day, I had the privilege of going to Alison Legion and sitting with Albert, one of the last remaining World War II veterans. He's 98 and his hearing isn't great but we had a wonderful conversation and so it's wonderful to be able to rise and pay tribute to our veterans like Albert. And during the course of that meal, I was reminded by the Speaker there that the Alaston Legion had received a vital grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation for much necessary capital improvements. These facilities serve our writings and I want to thank the executives and presidents of each of the legions for their great work. Thank you Speaker. Her honour, Elizabeth Dodds, well the Lieutenant Governor will bestow the province's highest honour to the new Order of Interior appointees on November 21st, 2022. One of those appointees, Speaker, is Dr. Angela Brathway from Whitby. Over nearly five decades as a nurse, Dr. Brathway has launched initiatives to promote nursing education, improve women and children's health, and address racism in a nursing profession. Speaker, in announcing the appointees, Her honour said this, their service to our province is a reminder to all of us fortunate enough to call Ontario home that the fabric of society is a knit together by the good deeds and dedication of individuals. May their accomplishments be an inspiration, an example for many to follow. Congratulations to Dr. Brathway. Your dedication, drive and lifetime of service is an inspiration to everyone in Whitby and other parts of the region of Durham who aspire to build better communities. And Speaker, a stronger Ontario. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes the time for the 92nd Member's Statements.