 Thank you to find my time for member statements the member from Thank You speaker on October 16th I was pleased to hold my very first annual Community family barbecue and corn roast the rain held off and it was a great success as A new MPP. I was thrilled to host more than 500 of my constituents outside at the Riverwalk Commons in downtown Newmarket There was live entertainment by the great George St. Kitts delicious food face painting for the kitties a photo booth for fun family pictures and some great giveaways I Must thank my dear friend Teresa Cruz for managing the entire event With her master event planning skills at the home the residents of Newmarket, Aurora Had a fun time for the entire family Thank you to all the volunteers Including my husband Ivan and my son Robert as well as my entire constituency staff along with another 15 volunteers who gave up four hours of their Sunday afternoon to help make my first constituency event a great success. Thank you. I also would like to Thank the many families that came out. It was great to have so many families there Families who came up to speak to me just to thank me and also to have a conversation And I would like to thank all the residents who brought a non perishable food item to the event I'm pleased to say that we collected 10 full boxes Thank you. Thank you very much madam speaker I'd like to take a moment to address the growing challenge of level zero sometimes code black here in Ontario This is the complete absence of ambulances available to respond to 9-1-1 calls in 2021 Ottawa paramedics spent more than 49,000 hours in offload delay at area hospitals This resulted in 750 incidents of level zero now the 90th percentile hospital offload delay Was 97 minutes which far exceeds the 30 minute benchmark This means that paramedics are waiting for over an hour and a half to transfer their patients to hospital Two paramedics and an ambulance stuck at the hospital because the hospital is too backlogged to take them In the first seven months of 2022 the Ottawa paramedic service experienced more than 1,125 instances of level zero in some cases Ottawa had 11 consecutive Level zero hours 11 hours of consecutive level zero madam speaker and in and some low-acuity Patients waiting more than seven hours before being transported to hospital level zero isn't just a problem in Ottawa Of course, it's happening right across the province the province and Municipalities pay for paramedics to be assisting residents needing urgent medical attention They do not pay them to wait at the hospital to offload their patients It's imperative that the government provides the funding necessary to municipalities in particular the monies requested by the city of Ottawa To hire the paramedics needed to end level zero events and better serve our friends and neighbors. Thank you madam speaker Good morning speaker. Good morning colleagues The people of Ottawa and Gatsuneau are preparing a protest unlike anything you've ever seen speaker We will be using an iconic item you see everywhere in Canadian society, and I'm not talking about hockey sticks I'm not talking about doughnuts speaker. I'm not even talking about duct tape. I'm talking about electrical cords You heard me right speaker Electrical cords on November 5th the people of Ottawa and Gatsuneau will gather together with Extension cords electrical cords the same thing that powers backyard barbecues Halloween decorations and holiday lights And why are we going to be doing that? Because speaker at a time when we need to double Ontario's electrical capacity This government has decided to rip up its energy agreement with Quebec. It makes no sense We could continue to import Quebec power For five cents a kilowatt hour. It's affordable and it makes sense But instead we're pledging to fire up gas-fired electricity that will cost at least twice as much Balloon our admissions and ruin our attempts to deal with our climate emergency The only people who win speaker are gas industry executives and lobbyists So folks back home are going to show the government with people power a different way We're going to run extension cords from Quebec to Ontario for a family-friendly event And I invite all members of this house to join me as we celebrate how we bring clean power to Ontario and fight for our Kids future stay tuned for details about the electrical cord protest members see the member from Perth Wellington Thank You speaker earlier this fall I had the opportunity to attend Stratford Optimus Place women's shelters 40th anniversary celebrations Optimus Place provides an integral service to our community They offer shelter counseling and protection for women and children in abusive or precarious situations at their anniversary celebrations They also marked the official groundbreaking ceremony of their 7,000 square foot 18 bed expansion project this expansion project will add 10 new bedrooms Seven new washrooms three laundry rooms a new playground two counseling offices a multi-purpose meeting space and a kitchenette Through private donors government and in-kind support. They've already raised 80% of their five million dollar capital budget Mr. Speaker, I'm pleased to announce they will they also received over $100,000 through the Ontario Trillium's resilient community fund They plan to use this funding to support additional staff Programming and the development of an optimum social enterprise initiative this physical expansion and the new social enterprise initiative Will allow Optimus Place to help more women and children in our communities Congratulations again to Jasmine and the entire team. Thank you for everything you do in our community Member statements the member for London West Thank you very much speaker speaker I'm wearing purple today to show my support for the education workers the education assistants custodians early childhood educators school secretaries and other school support staff who provide vital supports to students yet Are the lowest paid workers in the school system parents in London West and across the province know the Contributions of these workers to the success and safety of their children and they want to see them fairly compensated They also want more supports for struggling students in schools instead of direct payments to parents for an hour Or two of tutoring which won't do anything to help students catch up and requires parents to try to track down a tutor CBC London shared some comments from parents one said you can't have a government at the table Saying we have no money to give education workers then provide all these random payments to parents Another asked wouldn't it just be a better decision to take that money and hire EA's that way the so-called catch-up plan could be a plan that helps teachers support our students and not put the burden Back on parents a third said this feels a little more like a bribe to parents And I'd rather have that money go back into the education system Speaker instead of a 365 million dollar catch-up program Why won't this government invest in the supports that would really help kids catch up the Education workers who support students in our schools Member for Kitchener Conestoga. Well, thank you very much, mr. Speaker And it's great to be back here in the house after a busy and productive month working in our ridings And it was nice to get out to some fall fairs that took place, especially My favorite October Fest mr. Speaker, which is one big day for Waterloo region and of course my riding of Kitchener Conestoga And speaking of promoting local events We've just celebrated small business week here in the province where I had an opportunity to highlight just a few of the countless Local businesses in my community over 400,000 small businesses are the backbone of Communities across this province fueling the economy and employing more than two million people Businesses like Morty's Pub mr. Speaker a must-off for wings if you're in the region and the Mary Hill Market for Co-ortha Dairy ice cream and homemade sandwiches as well as a famous St. Jacobs Market That is host to a ton of local crafters artisans farmers and more mr. Speaker So with the holiday season just around the corner I want to encourage everyone to support local businesses It is a great way to get unique gifts and products for yourselves and loved ones not just at Christmas But year-round. Thank you very much mr. Speaker member for Hamilton West and Caster Dundas Thanks speaker There's a frightening crisis in children's hospitals across Ontario Children are waiting days in emergency rooms facing facing canceled procedures and for what must be every Parents nightmare. They are being sent across the province to find care beds Bruce Squires who's the president of McMaster's Children Hospital is sounding the alarm our pediatric critical care Capacity is so limited that critically ill children are having to be transferred outside of their local area to be Admitted to an ICU. This is a situation that he calls extremely Concerning critically ill children from Hamilton have been sent as far away as Ottawa to find a bed in a pediatric unit As of Thursday, there were 11 patients in the ER who had been admitted to hospital But we're still waiting for a bed some for 30 hours or more gray who's a four-year-old boy from Ancaster Waited five days for emergency elbow surgery now His mom is warning other parents that the system is a disaster and people need to know what to expect It should be our highest priority to care for sick injured or dying children But instead hospitals are being slowly starved by this government's disastrous plan to privatize health care We need more investments in our struggling health care system not a profits over people approach We have the solutions. We need to implement them now to make things better for children across Ontario The member for Eglinton Lawrence Thank you, Mr. Speaker It's my pleasure to rise to highlight an organization which is improving the lives of students within my riding and Eglinton Eglinton of Eglinton Lawrence and around Ontario and across Canada pathways to education I fully support pathways mission to help high school students who face barriers to reach their full potential through Education pathways focuses on supporting students from low-income households who might otherwise struggle to finish secondary school or even drop out Pathways provides lots of practical support even bus tickets for participants to get to school Essentially it provides them with what they need to finish their education so that they can have all the possibilities that that opens a Few weeks ago Owen Hainsey and the rest of the pathways team at Lawrence Heights Invited me to once again tour their pathway facilities in my riding I enjoyed meeting the students who were busy working on their homework assignments supported by peers and by other mentors volunteer mentors pathways boasts over 800 volunteers who should be commended for their over 26,000 volunteer hours with over 19,000 students having benefited from pathways since 2001 and over 6000 currently in the program 78% graduate from school and 69% go on to post-secondary education It's a true success story along with the Minister of Colleges and Universities I attended their grad ball recently as well to celebrate with them and continue to support all of their efforts I'm not the member for Eglinton Lawrence, but the volume of the private conversations Collectively is at a level where it must be difficult for members to Concentrate on the presentation so it asked members to please quieten down Next member statement the member for Thornhill Thank You mr. Speaker last month I had the honor of being part of the 25th anniversary ride for Kailas in support of Kailas children Center Kailas or KCC has deep roots in Thornhill Known as a place where children of all abilities can shine Kailas mission is to deliver innovative educational therapeutic and recreational programs for children and youth with disabilities and complex medical needs This year's bike ride involved over 200 cyclists who came out to share support for KCC specialized programs programs that enable children to flourish academically socially Emotionally including a licensed daycare in school on-site therapy Center adaptive sports and life skill programs for teens KCC offers supports and respite for parents siblings and grandparents Giving them the much needed time to run errands or spend time with their other children one of the organizations most recent and Substantial accomplishments was the state of the art hydro therapy Center in the warm waters Children with mobility issues can be independent flexible and free One of the long-standing supporters of the ride for Kayla is Hershey Weinberg who rides under the team name of Zady Hershey Hershey's dedication and support along with so many other organizers including the staff and instructors have helped build KCC as a state-of-the-art facility and by the way mr. Speaker Zady is the Yiddish word for grandfather I want to thank KCC staff for their dedication to the success of every child providing childhood Experiences that otherwise would not exist in Thornhill mr. Speaker We support are not for profits because they support us, and I'm truly looking forward to next year's ride. Thank you very much Once again, I'm going to ask members to please keep the volume of their private conversations lower I can barely hear the member who has the floor Thank you Member statements the member for Carlton Mr. Speaker 40 days ago on September 16 2022 a young 2022 year-old Iranian Kurdish woman Massa Gina Amini was brutally murdered by the morality police of the terrorist and illegitimate Islamic regime in Iran Since then the brave people of Iran have been protesting Protesting 43 years of a brutal dictatorship This is the same dictatorship that almost three years ago shot down Ukraine like PS 75 to killing over 50 Canadians And I would like to thank Premier Ford for taking swift action back in January of 2020 By siding with the people of Iran and announcing scholarships to honor every single Canadian murder during that plane crash Mr. Speaker Hundreds if not thousands of Iranians have been arrested Murder tortured and killed by the brutal and terrorist illegitimate Islamic regime in Iran and Mr. Speaker for Iranians mourning someone's passing the 40th day is incredibly significant And it's not just massa Gina Amini's family that is mourning all of the people of Iran are mourning Iranians around the world are mourning and the world is mourning with them There are nationwide strikes happening and while pro-islamic regime lobby groups like the Iranian Canadian Congress have tried to apologize for the regime The world has opened its eyes The regime has shut down the internet to prevent the voices of the people of Iran being heard But they are asking the world for one simple thing To be their voice to share their stories and to make them heard I have several hundred constituents in my riding who just like me are of Iranian origin And today I want to let the people of Iran know that they are not alone in their fight for freedom and democracy Here in Canada. We are blessed to live in a free and democratic society. The people of Iran deserve the same Point of order the member for carlton I would like to seek unanimous consent from the house for a moment of silence in honor of all of the Iranians who have been murdered and Brutally murdered and tortured at the hands of the illegitimate and terrorist Islamic regime in Iran And for carlton is seeking unanimous consent for a moment silence at this time Agreed Members will please rise