 First responders are essential in keeping our community safe and volunteer firefighters are an integral part of this group. The municipality of South Bruce in my riding recently acknowledged volunteer firefighters for their years of service. Today I would also like to recognize these individuals and thank them for their dedication to the safety and well-being of citizens of South Bruce. Thank you to Jake Launce, who is carrying on the family tradition, who is celebrating his five years as a volunteer firefighter. Darcy Wittek and Kevin Hogg, who are celebrating 10 years. Thank you to Paul Woodcock, Jeff Robbins, Bill Jefferson and Tom Fisher, who are all celebrating 20 years of service. To Doug Dittner, Trevor Bell, Ron Murray and Gary Voizen, you have dedicated 25 years of your lives to be volunteer firefighters. Thank you. And last but certainly not least, a great big thank you to Graham Cassidy, who is celebrating an admirable 50 years of service in our community as a volunteer firefighter. Whether you've been working for five years or five decades, your work and your service has not gone on notice. And I want to thank all of you for your passion, your dedication and bravery that you have displayed as volunteer firefighters in the Teeswater and Mildmay communities. Thank you to all of you and your colleagues for keeping us safe at home. Thank you. Further member Savas, the member from Windsor to come see. Good afternoon, Speaker. Let me tell you about a fundraiser I attended last weekend. It was to raise money for healthcare, actually, for our hospice in Windsor. You may not know this, Speaker, but our hospice in Windsor and Essence County was the first in Ontario. We've had one since 1979. It's the largest in Canada. In fact, it's the first community-based palliative hospice village in North America. 600 volunteers help provide support in areas from pre-diagnosis to bereavement counseling. Our hospice couldn't provide the services needed in our area without private fundraising. More than 2,000 local families found comfort through the services offered by our hospice last year. The demand in our area is so great, we opened a 10-bed satellite hospice facility in Leamington earlier this year. The fundraiser was put on by the local Knights of Columbus. It was hosted by the Knights from St. Peter's Maronite Church. The various KFC councils have been putting on these annual events for the past 19 years. It all started with an idea a friend of mine had, and he convinced his brother Knights to get on board. Mike Aegis is still actively involved and is the KFC liaison to the hospice. Speaker, the Knights raised about $15,000 on Saturday night. That brings their total for the hospice to more than $180,000 in the past 19 years. The Knights do so much good in our community, and the hospice is just one of the many charities they support, so from Queens Park to Mike Aegis and the Knights of Columbus. Thank you and keep up the good work. Thank you, Speaker, I rise today to recognize West Labelhoek House and its dedication to help New Canadians settle in Toronto. New Canadians, including those from war-turning regions such as Syria. The Government of Ontario has committed to invest over $22 million over the next two years to 119 agencies across Ontario through its New Commerce Settlement Program, which support new immigrants and their families as they adjust to life in Toronto and Ontario. I'm proud to say that through these programs, through this program, West Labelhoek House is receiving over $400,000 in funding to support New Commerce Settlement. West Labelhoek House has been in my writing for over 100 years, and has helped thousands of newcomers from all backgrounds and culture to adjust life in Toronto. I have the privilege to represent one of the most diverse writings in all of Canada, and it's thanks to organizations such as West Labelhoek House and that newcomers living in Tunis, Spadina, can feel welcome and participate fully in their communities. I, along with the rest of my writing, am extremely proud of the achievements and hard work and dedication from West Labelhoek House, and it's because of them that Tunis, Spadina, is known as a community where newcomers can feel welcome and succeed in Ontario. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you. Further members? Members from Dublin, Caledon. I want to share my concerns about the proposed changes to the Ontario Trillium Foundation. The OTF, as we all know, provides funding to organizations that offer unique programs in infrastructure in our writings. The OTF relies on grant review teams that are comprised of local volunteers who meet with organizations applying for grants to ensure that an application meets a community's needs. Unfortunately, the government has allowed an increasing number of vacancies to accumulate on the two grant review teams that serve my writing, and I understand many of the grant review teams across Ontario have multiple vacancies. As a result of the OTF's proposal to decrease the number of grant review teams from the current 16 to much larger teams of five, if the Ontario Trillium Foundation proceeds with the proposed changes, there will be less local voices and less local knowledge provided when improving grants for a local initiative. That's not what communities need. The Council is in Dufferin County, the town of Mono, the town of Shelburne, and the township of Mulmer in my writing are all raising the same concerns. Both Shelburne and Mulmer have passed resolutions stating that they are opposed to the proposed changes of the make-up and quantity of the grant review teams and that the Trillium Board is pursuing. It is calling on the Board to improve the process for filling vacancies to ensure local representation. I agree. The Minister needs to focus on filling the many vacancies that exist to ensure grant applications are being reviewed appropriately and in a timely manner instead of increasing the number of regional teams. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to think that you left your house and your family and you went to another province so as to get another job. All of returning to Ontario to be with your family always on the top of mind. Speaker, as you know, this is the reality for many people in Canada. I would like to share the story of one man and his family whose story began just as I began this statement today. This is the story of Dan Duma. When Dan's job at the GM plant in Windsor came to an end because the plant permanently closed, Dan had no alternative but to relocate to Alberta with his wife, Anna. While living in Fort McMurray, Dan was diagnosed with cancer. Dan's health took a turn for the worse. He was hospitalized and the wildfires that ravaged Fort McMurray soon forced Dan's evacuation to Edmonton. While in Edmonton, Dan was told he would not recover from his illness and that he and his wife should return to their loved ones in Ontario. Dan and Anna returned to Windsor where Dan would live out his remaining days with his daughters by his side. Unfortunately, because of an exclusion in the health care into provincial billing agreement, Dan was not able to spend the final days of his life in his private residence while receiving home care to keep him comfortable without facing financial hardship. Speaker, today I will introduce a private member's bill named after Dan Duma entitled Dan's Law. If passed, this bill will ensure that all Canadians with a serious illness that are covered by any province's public health benefit who choose to move to Ontario to spend their final moments with their loved ones get the home and community care that they need when they need it without facing financial hardship. My hope is that all members of this House will support Dan's bill. Thank you very much Mr. Speaker and we all saw the Blue Jays season come to an end last week and want to congratulate them. But you know, Ontario does have baseball champions and in my hometown of Ottawa, we have the Ottawa Champions and the Ottawa Champions enter the Can-Am League finals. Now this is in the fall, a little earlier in the fall, with the momentum after completing an upset over the first place finishing New Jersey jackals in the semifinals. After being down two games in the final series, the Ottawa Champions came back to defeat the Rockland Boulders and capture the 2016 Can-Am League title this past September. It was a long and grueling season but the underdog champions made sure that their name was not just a word across their chest. I would like to thank owner Miles Wolfe and President David Goorley for bringing the baseball club to our city and only after their second year in Ottawa, David and his team have driven a multi-million dollar business that is supporting our community and helping to foster local baseball and sports interests. On behalf of my Ottawa Caucus colleagues, congratulations to the entire team as well as the fans in the baseball community in Ottawa for their support and I look forward to watching the champions defend their title next May. Thank you very much Mr. Speaker. Thank you. Further member statements? Member from Simkelgrave. Thank you Mr. Speaker. I rise today on behalf of my constituent Mr. Dean Bunston of Ottawa. Mr. Bunston wrote me to express his great frustration with the Liberal government. He told me and I quote, I cannot express enough my concern and disgust with the political landscape that has emerged over the past decade, more specifically the mismanagement in confidence, corruption and betrayal bestowed onto the citizens of Ontario over the last few years. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Bunston goes on to talk about electricity. He says almost every person in Ontario needs and uses electricity and at one point, and albeit indirectly, owned the public company that provided it. There does not seem to be any record of plans to sell off Hydro One and Kathleen Wynn's last election platform. Mr. Bunston continues, for any government to have plans to sell off an asset that affects almost every person in the province, now and in the future, is an issue that should have been divulged prior to the election. I certainly agree, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Bunston also touches on the Green Energy Act. He calls it a disaster and writes that, quote, aside from being totally mismanaged and under-researched, the act will cost Ontarians dearly for many, many generations. Mr. Speaker, it's time the government started listening to Mr. Bunston. It's time they smarten up over there. This is one of the best letters I've received in 27 years, and it's unfortunate I didn't have time to quote it all. This is a senior citizen, extremely frustrated. We hear it all the time when we're home on weekends, at home on Constituency Week. People have had it with your government. Start listening or get out. Hear, hear. Hear. Hear. Hear. Hear. Hear. Hear. Hear. Hear. Hear. Hear. Hear. Hear. Hear. Hear. Hear. Hear. It's been 25th years since being diagnosed with ALS. Recognized as ALS Canadian ambassador he's putting all his efforts to raising funds and awareness in the hopes of finding answers about the debilitating disease. As some of you may know, most people with ALS lose the use of their legs in the first two years of the disease, and do not typically survive beyond three to five years. These statistics show how truly amazing Edde's journey has been. 25 years later, Duberville's own Eddie Let's Roll Out ALS Campaign has made it his mission to raise money to find a cure for this devastating disease and support those living with ALS. Many would like to tell you his spirit and smiles are contagious. His Let's Roll Out ALS Campaign is a true testament of his beliefs that you should always live every day to its fullest and always remain in great spirits. I encourage you all to visit Eddie's website to read his story and support his campaign. All proceeds go to ALS Canada to fund research and treatment and equipment purchase for people living with ALS. www.let'sroll.ca. So let's help Eddie LaFrancoise reach his goal of raising $25,000 for ALS research. Let's help him find a cure and as Eddie would say, let's roll. Thank you. Further members, same as the member committee, Dr. Pickering. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Ontario, our wonderful home, its large and vibrant community of Hindus in all nationalities. Since the first Hindu immigrants began to arrive in Canada at the beginning of the 20th century, the Hindu community in Ontario has made considerable contributions across all fields, science, education, medicine, law, politics, business, culture and sports. Right from the start, Ontario's Hindu community has helped build our province into the greatest place to live, work and raise families. We're all proud of the achievements the Hindu community and how they have helped each other and enrich our province. That is why I will be introducing a bill this afternoon to recognize these accomplishments and contributions to Ontario. I will be introducing into the legislature a new bill to recognize October in each year as Hindu Heritage Month. Speaker October is a special month for Hindu Canadians. And each year, three important festivals that members of the Hindu community celebrate occur in and around October. These festivals include Navrati and Durga, which were celebrated earlier this month, and Diwali, the festival life which we begin next week. I look forward to attending a Diwali celebration that the community tomorrow in a few minutes will be standing up again to introduce this bill. And should it come to pass, Ontario would recognize the important contributions that Hindu Canadians have made to Ontario's social, economic, political and cultural fabrics. It might propose Hindu Bill Heritage Month would give all Ontarians an opportunity to remember to celebrate future generations about Hindu Canadians and the important role that they have played to date and continue to play continuously across Ontario. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you. I thank all members for their statements.