Good evening everyone!
Today saw a fair bit of action, including the introduction of Bills 12 and 13!
First up is Bill 12 – Ending Automobile Insurance Discrimination in the Greater Toronto Area Act. This act would make it so insurance providers can no longer use where you live as a classification of risk, and as such can’t charge you more for living in the wrong area!
Next up is Bill 13 – Northern Health Travel Grant Advisory Committee Act. This Bill would establish a committee to investigate the grants currently offered for healthcare-related travel to residents of Northern Ontario and find ways to improve them. The hope is to improve access to healthcare in areas where the population is too small to justify building certain facilities.
There was a small Bill, Bill Pr2, which I won’t be covering. Basically it involves re-establishing a provincial company (405456 Ontario Limited for anyone interested) for the purposes of cleaning up some business that hadn’t been resolved when the company was resolved. I’ve seen a fair number of these show up in the House of Commons, so this is a pretty standard thing to come up and not really worth digging into.
A motion was introduced by Andrea Khanjin (PC, Barrie–Innisfil) that would see Bill 2 – Plan to Build Act, and Bill 7 – More Beds, Better Care Act fast-tracked. When they next come up for debate they’ll immediately be put up for their second reading vote, then put up for their third-reading vote that same day with no more than 2 hours for debate. (Completely bypassing the committee review stage)
Michael Mantha (NDP, Algoma–Manitoulin) proposed an amendment to the motion that would have the two Bills sent to their respective committees instead.
Paul Calandra (Markham–Stouffville) moved to end the debate, but the vote failed 0 For and 69 Against. He later moved to adjourn for the day and failed again, 0 For and 71 Against.
No votes occurred for the motion itself or for its amendment. (That I can see)
And that’s what happened yesterday! Bit more of an action-packed day there.
Note: I can’t find anything about who voted which way on those two moves to end the day there. I see in the debate mention that the NDP didn’t vote at all but can’t find any voting records for them.
After my previous issues with the website I had sent out an email to my representative and was contacted by the IT team for the provincial site pretty quick! I made sure to let them know how inaccessible the site is, so maybe if we’re lucky they might improve things a bit! (Bit of a pain not being able to see what votes happened on these motions, I send out bi-weekly emails to basically everyone and will definitely be mentioning this this week.)
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