 If it is therefore time for members' statements, the member from Whitby, Oshawa. Thank you, Speaker. In August of 2016, a report from the Ombudsman of Ontario entitled, No Word at Turn, highlighted the recommendation from the Select Committee on Developmental Services to Improve Service Delivery for Developmentally Disabled Ontarians. Speaker, for the past nine years, the Developmental Services sector, led by the Ontario Agency's supporting individuals with special needs as experienced a lack of annual financial investment. Speaker, 23% of government-funded community agencies are at risk for financial crisis with an additional 56% at moderate risk after facing nine years of zero increases in their budgets. Speaker, the longer that the Ontario Agency's supporting individuals with special needs goes without additional investment, tenuous situations will continue to grow and negatively impact service delivery for a vulnerable community. Speaker, these communities need and deserve the government's support and commitment. It's not right or fair, Speaker, to leave this substantial financial burden on Ontario families. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you, members. Further member statements? The member from Canora Rainey River. Thank you, Speaker. It is an honour to rise and deliver one final statement in this House as the member of Canora Rainey River. Throughout my short time in this place, I've always been a northerner first, believing that northern issues are too important to become a casualty of partisan political wrangling. I held dear the advice imparted to me by the former member of Trinity Spadina, Mr. Rosario Marchese, who cautioned me to remember who elected me. For me, this was always easy to do as there's always been so much work to do to make Northwestern Ontario and make sure that Northwestern Ontario gets a fair deal. Much of the work here that I've done has been on ensuring that northerners have a robust healthcare system where no one is left behind due to their inability to pay or their postal code, a safe, reliable network of roads and transportation options, low hydro cost for residents and industry, a positive, respectful relationship with indigenous populations, thriving local economies with stable employment and resource revenue sharing with northern communities, affordable childcare, appropriate senior care and overall respect for our northern culture and values. I wish the two new members who will represent Canora Rainey River following the election the very best of luck. I sincerely hope that they too will remember who elected them and that they remain fierce defenders of the north above all else. This focus has always meant more to us than party colors. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'd like to all too want to thank the member for her service. Further member statements, the member from Beeches, East Georgia. Well thank you Speaker and today it is my honor and privilege to recognize Jean Domegal at the mayor of the beach. This past weekend a local laneway in old East Toronto was renamed of Jean Domegal Laneway, a permanent reminder of Jean's unparalleled contributions to our community. Jean is a local historian who is volunteering efforts in community leadership our legendary. He helps run the Santa Claus funds depot in Parkdale and is a tireless ambassador for community center 55, a remarkable beach institution that runs a daycare summer camps, a Christmas parade, senior services and a holiday hamper program that serves nearly a hundred, nearly a thousand families. Jean is a leader who shows great, shows others the importance of empathy. He holds up a sign during the Santa Claus funds depot it says we deliver, we do not judge and over the past four decades Jean has led historical preservation projects including salvaging the lutee lifeguard station, an iconic landmark of the beach as well as getting the name right on the Q. Williams cottage in Q gardens. He also started the spring sprint, a fundraising run in support of beaches recreation center now in its 31st year in slobberfest, a special event for dog lovers whose highlight is a pet owner lookalike contest. Jean also speaker runs a whole bunch of historical tours in our community and I had the great fortune of being on one early in my career when he stopped in front of this beautiful house on Lyle Avenue which has a big lion sticking out three dimensional from the roof underneath the on the front of it, a grimace I call it, it's a lion and I looked at it and he gave a bit of history of the house. Two weeks later I came up for sale and I bought it. So with all you've done Jean I want to thank you for helping me find my residence in the upper beach. Thank you for all you do. You're a great inspiration to our community and a great friend. Thank you. Member statements to the member from Niagara west of Glenbrook. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Last week the leader of the breast conservative party of Ontario Doug Ford made a very exciting announcement that it's going to help a lot of lower income people across the province of Ontario. Doug Ford's commitment is that under a PC government if you're making minimum wage you're going to pay no income tax at all. The Ontario PC leaders tax credit would exempt 623,000 low wage workers from paying the provincial portion of income taxes saving them up to $800 a year and costing the province roughly $500 million. Mr. Speaker that's money that our government will put back into the pockets of hard working Ontarians. The reality is that the impact of Bill 148 was not thought out well by this government. We've seen the impact of local job creators in Niagara west of Glenbrook and across the province of Ontario with jobs being lost in agriculture in various other industries including at Tickler berries in my home riding in Niagara west of Glenbrook where they're competing in an inter-jurisdictional economy against also American companies. Putting over $800 back in the pockets of hard working Ontarians means that they can afford more of life that has become more and more expensive under an Ontario liberal government that has failed to listen to the hard working taxpayers of Ontario, the job creators of Ontario and the families of Ontario. I'm very proud to be supporting this legislation. I'm hearing lots of good things about it from my writing and I look forward to supporting it after June 7th. Thank you. Further member statements? The member from Kitchener Waterloo. Thank you. Today I want to share the story of Nolan Casconet and his family. Nolan is nine months old. He has been diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy. His survival is dependent on a drug called spinraza. Spinraza is not yet publicly funded in Ontario. Families should not have to endure the slow approval process for public funding as they watch their children degenerate. They should not have to rely on pharmaceutical companies or private insurance for access to this life saving treatment. The Canadian Agency for Drug Technology and Health has recommended that spinraza be covered for type 1 babies diagnosed before 7 months of age who are not on life support. Nolan wasn't on life support at first diagnosis, but he is now. It was the only way to keep him alive. Nolan has already made great strides. He comes off the ventilator for over an hour each day, but Nolan is still technically on life support. Nolan's parents wanted me to emphasise that the CADTH position is essentially unethical. Nolan is not laying in a bed dying. He is learning how to live. Not offering or especially not continuing spinraza to a patient on life support is like denying someone a kidney transplant because they are on dialysis. Biogen will fund Nolan two more doses if there is no decision, but if a funding decision is made that excludes him, doses covered by the company would stop. I want to thank the Premier's office for responding to my letter and contacting Nolan's parents. Ontario can lead in fast-tracking and reducing barriers to spinraza. Please let's get spinraza approved for public funding. Let's not restrict access to this life-saving drug so that this beautiful little boy can live. Thank you. Further member statements? The member from Mississauga Streetsville. Thank you, Speaker. Ontario's largest children's treatment centre, Erano Kids, now has a new headquarters in Mississauga and three new state-of-the-art facilities to serve families with children with learning and developmental difficulties. New facilities in Brampton, Mississauga and Oakville will enable Erano Kids to assist children and young adults with autism and other learning disabilities. Among my first visitors as a newly elected MPP in 2003 were parents of autistic children, along with my MPP colleagues over the years, including current Brampton Mayor Linda Geoffrey. I have worked with the province to expand funding for such programs as the Ontario Autism Program and to bring provincial funding to enable Erano Kids to offer families more choice and ability to get some respite and to offer kids the best staff and technology available to help them learn. In Erano Kids' new headquarters, staff can better assess children's needs, can better identify their strengths and goals, and can properly plan interventions to enable kids and their families to live their lives with greater dignity. Congratulations to Erano Kids' management and staff, to the Erano Kids Foundation, particularly to President Bridget Futrell and to the founder of the foundation, former President Linda Rothney, and also to the volunteers, to the families and the children whose lives will be made better in this very new state-of-the-art facility at Erano Kids in Mississauga. Thank you. Thank you. Further Member Stamis, the Member from Dufferin, Caledon. Thank you, Speaker. This week we learned more disturbing news from the Independent and Nonpartisan Auditor General. The Auditor General outlined in her report the deficit is not, in fact, $6.7 billion as the Liberal government has claimed, but a staggering $11.7 billion nearly doubled their claim. With the Auditor's report, we now know that Ontario's net debt to GDP ratio is 40.1 percent, and Ontario's debt is forecast to be $393 billion, $33 billion higher than what the government had reported. The Liberal government created their own accounting rules to make the size of their deficit much smaller than the actual cost. Paying for debt is currently the third highest expenditure in Ontario. This means that there are fewer tax dollars going to fund hospitals and schools or pay for the services we rely on. Instead, more money will have to be spent paying the interest on our debt. The Auditor General's report shows that the government inappropriately withheld the expenses related to their hydroplan after their years of waste and mismanagement. I am pleased that my Leader Doug Ford has announced he will launch an independent Commission of Inquiry to get to the bottom of the deficit scandal. The Independent Commissioner of Inquiry will build on the Auditor General's valuable public service work and finally restore integrity in the government of Ontario's financial reporting. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, and I'd also like to congratulate and thank the member from Canora Rainey River for her service. Today in the House, we recognized the day of mourning. On April 28th across Ontario, in our communities, there will be ceremonies and gatherings that honour those killed, injured, and made ill. At those ceremonies and gatherings, we will all also recommit to making all workplaces safe. This Saturday, I'll be joining my colleagues, the Ottawa District Labor Council and many others at Vincent Massey Park, at the CLC Monument in our ceremony. The park is not far from Heron Road Workers' Bridge. Speaker, almost 52 years ago, on August 10th, 1966, the then-under-construction Heron Road Bridge collapsed, killing nine men and injuring 60 others. Lives were changed forever. I'd like to read the names of those men who lost their lives to honour and remember them. Leonard Baird, Clarence Beattie, Jean-Paul Guerin, Omer LeMadele, Edmund Newton, Lucien Regimbald, Dominic Romano, Raymond Tromble, Gio Vegas. Wives lost their husbands. Thirty-one children were left without a father. Almost 52 years have passed, and it's important that we honour them through our work to ensure that everyone returns home at night safe and sound. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you for the number seen as the member from Scarborough Rouge River. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm very happy to introduce in this legislation an excellent organisation called TAIBU in my Scarborough Rural Writing. TAIBU is a community health centre founded in 2008 and has been funded by the Ontario government. It provides comprehensive primary health care programmes and activities from Monday through Friday. This month marks the 10th anniversary for TAIBU. Monday, around 80 women and 20 men from the community meet regularly to break social isolation. Tuesday, all the adults participate in the laughter yoga session and use attending the City of Toronto Cultural Project called From the Margins to the Centre. Wednesday, free lunch programme is provided in partnership with the Muslim Welfare Centre 42 police division, Melbourne Presbyterian Church and the Wernher of Melbourne for about 200 socially isolated community members. Up to now, they have served over 21,000 meals. Thursday, the Jamaican Canadian Association provides dementia prevention management programmes for seniors. Friday, the Gentle Access Program for seniors. In 2016, TAIBU was identified as the only primary care French language service provider. Another excellent new service is the Indigenous Mental Health Outreach that started in December 2016. I'm very proud to support TAIBU since its inception. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you. I thank all members for their statements.