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The official website says that any iPhone model supports such audio formats as AAC from 8 to 320 kilobytes per second, protected AAC, files from iTunes Store, HEAAC, Mb3 from 8 to 320 kilobytes per second, Mb3 VBR, Dolby Digital, AAC3 Dolby Digital Plus, EAC3, Apple Formats 234, Audio Enhanced Audio, Aax and Aax Plus, Apple Lossless, AIFF and Wave. iPhone can play video only in the following formats, Mb4, MOV, M4V, and they will be played only if they were created with the compression standards MGPEG, MPEG4, or H2064. It applies to pre-installed or official software. If you need to play a different audio format, you can install a third-party application on your iPhone. By default, there is no music or video in an iPhone. You can download music or videos to your device with iTunes or buy them in iTunes Store. For starters, install iTunes on your PC. The application is free, so go to the official website and download it. Find the link in the description. Connect iPhone, iPad or iPod to the computer with a USB cable. Then select the mobile device in the iTunes window on your computer. Go to the menu file and file folder to library. Select the file or folder and add it to iTunes. Go to Music or Movies section depending on what files you are downloading. And check the box Sync. Select Artist, Generous or Playlist, which you would like to download to your iPhone, iPad or iPod. Click Apply and wait until the files are downloaded to your device. Ready? You have loaded music or films from a computer to an iPhone, iPad or iPod. Right after sync is over, they will be available for listening in music app or for watching in video app. Remember that synchronization will delete all video and audio files if they were loaded in another PC. There is a good alternative to iTunes, which allows to load contents from a computer to iPhone very quickly and without syncing. It's iTunes. It doesn't have the function of iTunes. In organizing a music or video collection, but not so many users need it. In order to load music or films to iPhone with iTunes, connect the device to the computer with a USB cable and start iTunes. Go to the menu Music or Video and click on Import. Select the folder or file you need and click OK. Ready? Selected files have been loaded into the memory of your device. They will be available for listening in music app and for watching in video app. I showed it with the example of a music file, but importing video is the same. The only thing to change is that you will use Video menu. The advantage of loading music with iTunes is that the content is loaded without synchronization, which saves a lot of time and files can be loaded from any computer. The content you loaded is available in standard apps, music and video, as well as in the case with syncing iPhone with iTunes. You can transfer files between iPad, iPhone and a computer with a USB cable and with a Wi-Fi connection, though only few people know it. This method will be useful if you are not at home and you don't have a computer with the necessary software and a USB cable. You will need to download and install a free application Air Transfer from App Store. After starting the program, a user can both download files from iOS devices to the computer or load music or video from a PC to an iPhone or iPad. To download files from a phone to the computer, add files to the application. To do it, click on the plus icon in the menu below, select category and files. After that, they will become available in the application. To save shared files to the computer, click on the Wi-Fi icon in the application. One important thing – your device in the computer should be in one network that is connected to one router through Wi-Fi or a network cable. In this menu, you will see the network name and URL, enter the URL given by the application into the browser of your computer and you will get to the web interface of the application. Now that you can find all files shared in the application on your device. To download them to the computer, check the box next to the necessary file and click download. The file will be downloaded as a zip archive. To load files from a PC to a phone with AirTransfer, drag the necessary file from the computer into the load files window of the application web interface. When you open AirTransfer on iPhone or iPad, you will find the files there and will be able to use them. AirTransfer is not the only app that can do it. There are others as well. By the way, many third-party audio or video players also support connecting a device to the computer via Wi-Fi or FTP. They are based on the similar principle. Having loaded music to iPhone, you can play it with a standard music application. It has a default audio player integrated into every iPhone. It's very easy to use, as you can see everything – playlists, artists, songs, albums, etc. You can work with music in different ways – play songs or albums one after another or create your own playlist, play songs by certain artists only or in certain genres only. You can also manage music application in the multitasking panel. If you want, you can install alternatives to the standard audio player from App Store. You can choose a player to your taste. Among free products, I'd like to find out some names. Vox. The Mac version of this player was a super-hate once. Users with accounts in SoundCloud and LustFAM can connect Vox to its cloud collection of music. It also supports such formats as FLAC, APE, WMA, and CUE. Listen. A player which you can control without looking at the screen. It is very convenient to switch from song to song when driving or exercising. It's a good choice for drivers and spurious people. And don't forget about online music services – first-of-all Apple music, Yandex music, Google Play music, Deezia, Spotify, etc. To play video, iPhone also has a standard application – video. It is a default video player integrated into every iPhone. Users are often critical about it. However, it is good enough to play films bought at iTunes Store or other videos in standard formats. If you want, you can install alternatives to the standard video player from App Store. You can choose a player to your taste. And I'd like to point out the following. AV Player. Ranks among the 20 most popular apps of all times from App Store. You can play video in a huge number of formats, including those unknown to iTunes. AV Player is versatile, dealing with videos in 720p and 1080p. However, it is not free. You can download AV Player for iPhone or iPad, find the links in the description. VLC is the most popular free video player. Many users know it from its desktop version. As well as most video players, VLC continues playing files from the moment where it was closed. Traditionally, it supports all necessary formats. VLC can play streaming video and download it from web servers, Wi-Fi, Dropbox, Mega, and even the Antex disk. You can download VLC for iPhone and iPad for free. Find the link in the description. I would like to remind you that this video deals with loading and playing music and films in standard formats supported by Apple devices. You may face difficulties when loading and playing files in non-standard formats. I will tell more about overcoming these problems in my next video. If you liked this video, click the Like button below and subscribe to our channel to see more. Thank you for watching and good luck.


Welcome to the next session. Our next speaker is Grace Kumar. Hello. Hi, Grace Kumar. So where are you from? I'm from Bangalore, India. Very nice. So it's very far from me. I'm from Switzerland here. So I see you are talking about type checks in Django. So type hints. So I'm looking forward to that. And some important things. If you have questions, please use the chat again in the conference 3 need channel. And at the end we can come to the Q&A session. Okay, let's start. Welcome to my user python talk. I'm Jack Django app. Who am I? I'm a software engineer based out of Bangalore and Grace Kumar. For the course of the talk, I'll talk about recently introduced gradual typing in python. Very specifically for Django. Through all this talk, all the examples are recorded using the latest version of Django 3.2 and the static type checker used is my pipe. Types at runtime. Python is a dynamically typed language. So while you're creating a variable or creating a function, there is no need to specify the types of the input and output. So to find the types, but still behind the scenes, Python data holder expression has its own time. So by default, Python interpreter has this method called time where when you pass a data holder returns the time. Here is a small example. Type function takes a tuple of two elements. First element is library of string time and second one is integer and the type function returns the output as tuple. Here is a user object, Django inbuilt user object and the result of the filter is path on board and it returns query set. Static checker type. Similar to type, my pipe Python static type checker has got a inbuilt method called reveal type. So here we have a tuple address and port as its elements. When you pass it to reveal type the type is revealed as tuple, but it goes one level deep and also specifies the types of the elements that are string and integer. Same thing. Now we are passing output of the user manager's filter method. The reveal type says it's a user manager of user. As noted, like the reveal type is much more much more in depth. It goes one level deep and tries to find the elements as well. This is the difference between the dynamic behavior at runtime and the static typing behavior. So MyPy has a configuration file. Since Django app does not contain default type, since we need to add certain information to MyPy config so that MyPy can understand the custom types of Django. The first thing is for the course of the talk and to work with Django we need to use a third party library called Django Stubs, which is an internet organization called type Django. So first we need to mention that MyPy can find the custom entry point for Django in this plugin called MyPy Django plugin. Once we mention that, then the whatever settings that plugin needs, we mention it in a different section that is MyPy.plugins.jango-stubs and here to work with Django app we need to mention the Django settings. Once you mention these two pieces of information then MyPy static checker can internally figure out what are the types being used for example, what is the request type, what is the response type, what is the user manager type all those details can be inferred using this settings file. Rotations in touch. So how do you rotate a piece of code in Python? So you have a variable name separated by call it and you specify the type of that variable then the value here lang call you specify the language variable of string year code and date says year variable of type date. Same syntax follows for a function or for a method. So here is a function called sum which takes in two arguments A and B and both are of type integer A called a name, B called a name specifies it's an integer and the return type is integer. We are using arrow to specify the return type similar example we have for initializer for the class person self name is of type string age is of type integer is alive is of type boolean since initializer does not return any value then no need to return no need to annotate the return in a type in Django code let's start with simple view function you have view function index it returns a response so always a view function takes a HTTP request and returns HTTP response HTTP response can be of multiple subtexts let's say an example of that here is a simple view function which returns HTTP response not found there are three different ways to annotate the same function the input argument is same HTTP request but the output can be annotated three different ways in the first example we say the HTTP response second example we say HTTP response not found third we say it as object so now mypy according to mypy all three are valid return types now we will say how mypy is able to understand these three different types these are the different classes and not complaining they are not exactly the same so every class has got this method resolution order method resolution order returns the order in which from child class to the parent class hierarchy for example HTTP response inherits HTTP response base HTTP response base internally inherits object now let's another example HTTP response not found HTTP response not found inherits HTTP response HTTP response inherits HTTP response base and object since HTTP response not found is a special case of all these three cases mypy did not complain because they are they form this they are part of the same inheritance check so this principle is called LISCOP substitution principle according to LISCOP substitution principle that an object oriented program substituting a superclass object reference with an object of any of its subclasses the program should not break next is Django models create method here is a simple model question which has got two explicit fields the first one is a question text of character field here is a helper method create question which takes a question text and returns a question instance this is like a simple way to create a question object next is a read to get an object from the database we normally use a filter method or a gate method here we have used a filter method here is a method and here is a function called gate question which takes a question text and returns a question it uses filter internally it does question what object is dot filter and dot first now when you run this code I guess my pay complains that incompatible return value it is saying like the question what is annotated as a return type is incompatible and let's see what it says optional of any expected question so what it says is like the function that is annotated to return question but it is possible that it can return optional of any so what is optional here means none of the internals are first whenever the value is formed then only the first to return an instance will return none so my pay is able to catch that error that this particular implementation can return none even though you can be confident that this question takes existent database but it is technically possible that it can return a none value so my pay is warning that that it is possible that you are missing the none condition here how do we fix this there are two ways the first way is to go say that to the type checker that hey now I am changing it to optional of question that means this function can return none or instance of question second way is to control the config of my pay tell my pay not to complain when optional is returned so here is a simple example strict underscore optional so my pay works in two different modes that is strict mode or linear mode whenever you want none to be skipped you can say strict underscore optional is equal to false when you annotate it to return question my pay internally understands that if it is possible to return none but I will not complain when none is returned next is filter method so questions.objects.all returns a query set of questions same thing when you do a questions.objects.filter returns a query set of question that is query set always carries a empty is either an empty query set with models so query set cannot work alone so query set is a box type whenever it is carrying an items inside it all of the items will be of the same type that is of same model here is a simple example query sets.objects.filter and objects.exclode you say query set of question so how do you say it is off it is like user squared brackets to mention that outer type contains the inner type here the outer type is query set and inner type is question some other method will return queries that all it reverse etc now let's see aggregate function aggregate functions before getting into the code here we have two models one is a publisher model which has got an explicit field name there is a book model which has got six explicit fields name is of type character field page of integer field rating is of float field publishers of orn key 2 publisher model update is a dead field now here we have a function called get average price so what it does is it does average SQL aggregate function all the books present in the book table so average average underscore price is equal to abg of price where you mentioned the price is a column name the value will be contained in the average price variable so if you run the query you can see the result to be in a dictionary average price as a key the value in decimal now how do we annotate this we know the return type is going to be dictionary so we can say the dictionary we need to specify the type of the key and values type we know the type of the key is going to be string and we know the values type is going to be decimal so we say bit of str comma decimal always keys type will come first values type will come second next is annotate method now we have a function called count by publisher here now we wanted to do is we wanted to count the books published by publisher for example if it's a penwheel we want to specify how much penwheel has published if it's vintage how many books has vintage published so what we are going to do we are going to use annotate method so our annotate dot num books is equal to count of books so which will say like it will group the publisher by name and return the number of books returned by the publisher and it is going to return dot values okay now if you see the output it looks something like this a list of dictionary because there are more than one publisher percent and each key has got so the dictionary like structure has got two keys one is name other is num underscore books now if you remove dot values then what happens is annotate returns are very now count by publisher is not only returning name and num books value returns are what to say the query set now there is one more function called print underscore which consumes the count by publisher there are two word blocks here first is if it's not second part is for loop the if block the num books is value is passed the return result from the count by publishers further filter and any book any publisher which matches the number of books or greater than the number of books only those results are returned the for loop we print the name and the num books now let's try to annotate these two functions very specifically count by publisher and see what might I say to us if you see the output it works as an inspector name of the publisher number of books so this is a legit code excuse me since we saw this output looks like a dictionary so what we can do is we can actually annotate the output to look like a dictionary since we know the keys keys are static that we already know it's going to contain two keys and what are those values so we can use something called type tick so type tick helps us to annotate when there are more than one keys in the dictionary and when the key and values types are known in advance in our case we know it is going to be name which is of type string, num books of type integer and we give a name called published book out now since there is going to be more than one result we are going to say it's iterable since we are using a for loop so it is understood that iterable is a valid type so iterable are published to book out now let's see what does mypay say about this rotation now mypay complies with two errors, the first it says at line number 46 that is wherever we are annotating say count by publisher it says that you are saying it is iterable or published book out but it is supposed to return it is returning very set of any that means like annotate is returning very set of any but you are saying it returns iterable or published book out and further inside that for loop it is saying iterable or published book out has no attribute filter it is like inside the if block you see there is a filter further so now they are too valid yes definitely these are valid how do we fix this since mypay is confident that it is saying it is very set of any let's try to annotate this as very set of publisher now once you annotate that as very set of publisher and run this against mypay now mypay says first error gone so it is correct now publisher has no attribute if you look at the if you remember from the previous slides publisher had only one explicit attribute called name num books attribute was not declared in the model since it is an annotate method jango dynamically adds this attribute num underscore books in the return result and because of that because of the dynamic jango behavior mypay is unable to understand how this num underscore books was added to the result this is a valid use case because there is nowhere in the jango declaration that num underscore books was present how do we fix this this is actually a bug in jango because annotate method since it can add values to the result at run time it is not possible to annotate properly so what there is a workaround for this so from typing module import type checking and you can use this type checking block to declare certain type of types which is available only for mypay and not available during python run time so here what we are doing we are creating a new type called type publisher which inherits from publisher first thing so we have the name model now we are creating a new field called num underscore books which is of type integer field and third we are saying it abstract is equal to 2 now this type checker now while type checking block is executor now the type publisher is available to mypay so what we are going to do is like convay publisher now returns query set of type publisher query set as I said earlier can only contain instance of the model so type publisher inherits publisher so it will be instance of the model so it will not complain now let's go back to the if block since if block contains like a filter method filter method works on the query set yes that condition is satisfied now let's go to the for block in for block we have dot name this type publisher has got dot name now num books has got num book is declared in type publisher yes we will not complain that these fields are missing now that we have seen some of the ways for at a Django code now it is not always possible to annotate source code from the beginning so there are some tools which can help you to get from 0 to some position and then you can manually add types I'm going to speak about one such tool this is called py annotate what it does is like we are running the python program it can infer the types of run time and it can convert the run time types into static time types or there is a plugin called py test annotate which can infer the types during this execution and can write it to a file and later you can use those annotations to annotate your code also I have shown example so here is a sample Django code which has got two views there is no annotation for request and response now you have some test case like this where you set up a test factory and then you make a HTTP code and then there is some kind of a response here in this code there is no assertion but in general there will be some sort of an assertion now that you have a source code now that you have a test code now you can actually run the py test plugin with extra option called annotate output this implies that you already installed py test annotate and then you can pass this extra argument called annotate output and the file location so once you do this at the end of the test you can see a file like this where each and it contains a list of dictionaries where each dictionary represent type annotation for a single data holder which could be which could be a python function or a method or it can be land expression whatever it is so the structure is similar which has got a path what is the line number, what is the function name what is the time declaration, how many samples did this test case use now that you have annotation now that now you can apply this annotations to this source file to cotton pirated CLI and say the type information is available in annotations.py file and you add type annotations to this particular file called pole slash views dot p by views python 3 syntax now what would happen if the type hints are missing then pirated will automatically add types to each of the available code parts for example in our case there are only two view functions it is added request as visgi request response or HTTP response you can see that view function 4040 it adds a HTTP response and the imports are automatically added though there it is not smart of importing HTTP response and response not one for the same module it has got two lines for it as you can also see that there is a drawback that visgi request is annotated as visgi request since this is a drawback how Django tests are run it is not actually HTTP request it is actually a visgi request because of that it is adding it as a visgi request but in general you can replace it to be HTTP request now some learning resources since gradual typing is new or it is evolving there are not much resources to learn gradual typing so I have come up with a project called python typing kons so what does this python typing kons do it is a github repository it provides various examples for learning concepts related to gradual typing the code is organized into three structures one is python, other is Django, other is DRF once you've grown the repository and run the summary, use list of all the files which don't have annotations where annotations are missing as a learner you open one up the file and start editing the annotations and then run this file here is the output from one such file so here you have a file called 103 model managers.py and when you run against static type checker it says there are three errors and you can see the error first one it says missing type parameter for generic type query so now the function is missing return type annotation now as a learner what you would do is go through the source code and you start adding type things for all the data orders like variables, methods, add reviews, functions all the expressions and then what you would do you would again run this command and you would see the errors now when the error moves from 3 to 0 that means you have solved all the errors now you can be confident that you have some understanding of how gradual typing works in python in very specific concept as well so there are around like 25 examples and you can go through one by one and the difficulty level is there in the file name medium here says that difficulty level has media so you go over the course of time you can see from easy you go to media and you will learn the concepts in gradual typing that's it thank you for taking my talk in case if you would like to contact me to it I am Chris the king in twitter have a good day bye thank you very much for your talk I have one first question is it possible to use type hints for lists with different data types for example hello 3.145 world oh type one here right, right definitely it is possible to use there are two ways to annotate one is a union type union of string, union of load and integers that is one way, second way is to say any but by default since it's a gradual typing any all variables will have a default type any so it depends on the use case I would prefer saying using a union type which will be explicitly saying the only ABC types are allowed to in this particular list okay at the moment there are not more questions so I don't see in chat someone sometimes you have to give people a little bit time for questions sure sorry for the technical internet issues no problem that's what's really funny about live conferences these things have to happen so it's more realistic and more fun than I mean we could just watch youtube videos that would be really boring okay I see someone is typing so let's just wait a bit sure I'm okay we actually do have question one second okay the question is which is the best way to start a Django project with type annotation okay this looks harder which is the best way to start Django project with type annotation what does this mean so if you are starting a new project I would say start with type annotation so it will give you a meaningful work but you have to also take in the consideration like is it a big project or is it something a big project or is it only a prototype that is one second thing is start using Django stubs that can help you first try to cover the the breadth as much as possible later you can move on for the very precise definitions like strict mode versus linear mode so that could be the approach I would suggest so at the moment there are not more questions so let me thank you again for this talk and maybe one more question will pop up in the chat so I hope you will be around there and we can make a small break and then we will come to the next talk thank you thank you


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Well, for their introductions, therefore it's time for questions. The member from the Hall of... Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and happy International Women's Day to everyone. Question is to the Deputy Premier. Since her colleague, the Minister of Education, ran away from CP reporter Alison Jones yesterday when asked about school closures, maybe she will answer her question today. Mr. Speaker, how many Ontario schools are under threat of closure? Well, Speaker, and happy International Women's Day as well. I'm delighted to be here today to talk about significant improvements in education right across this province. You know, Speaker, when we took office, only 68% of students were graduating from high school. Only 68% of students. We now have exceeded 85%. So what I can tell you is that our education system is delivering real results. Our students are doing... Stop the clock. No, it's too late. The member from Renfrew come to order. And I'm also going to not invite you to make comments to the people behind me. The convention is ignorance. And I would appreciate the tone remaining civil. Deputy Premier. So, Speaker, when you measure our education system by the success of our students, which is I think a very fine way to measure the success of our education system, Ontario is a world leader. People are coming from around the world to understand what happened here in Ontario. I'm going to ask the member from Bruce Greyhound Sound to come to order. But I'm doing so with the anticipation. I do not want to move to warnings, but I will. Carry on. So, students, I will address in this supplementary the question that was asked. But what's really important is our students are rocking. Thank you. Supplementary. Well, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Back to the Deputy Premier. So yesterday, the Minister of Education said that it's not about the number of schools and said that she wouldn't give an arbitrary number. Well, that's great because nobody wanted an arbitrary number. They want a real number. Mr. Speaker, how many schools are under threat of closure? Is it as high as the 600 schools the minister previously identified? Good question. Well, Speaker, I think the numbers speak for themselves. Since 2003, we've increased education funding to $22.9 billion. That's an increase of almost 60% since they were an office speaker. And despite declining enrollment, per pupil funding has increased more than $4,500 an increase of 63%, Speaker. Funding for rural boards has increased 43% since we took office. Despite declining enrollment of 14%. So, Speaker, since 2003, our government has opened 810 new schools. Supplementary. Well, Mr. Speaker, I still didn't get a firm number of how many schools you're closing. But let's talk about our Lady of Peace in Vaughan. It was 97% full and it has both an English stream and a French immersion program. But because of this government's twisted priorities, it will close its doors in June. The Liberals may have made up their mind about our Lady of Peace and signal that there will be more closures to come when they voted down our motion on a moratorium on school closures, but it's not too late for them to change course. They can still announce a moratorium today. I'm giving you a chance. So, Mr. Speaker, will the Liberals announce a moratorium on school closures until they can get the process right? You're the one closing the school. Ken Hyde. Deputy Premier. As I was saying, we build, they cut. We have built 810 new schools. Significantly renovated another 780. The member from Leeds-Grenville. In this province. And that includes 450 new and improved schools in rural Ontario, Speaker. We are investing. Member from Leeds-Grenville. Second time. Better school, Speaker. Because we are a party that believes in education. We are a party that believes that every child in this province deserves the opportunity to achieve their full potential. And they do that in school, Speaker. And that's why we're making the investments we are. Thank you. New question? Member from Health and the Fourth of April. To the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care. This past week I was showing a letter written to a doctor. It read, Your patient will be placed on the waiting list for surgical consultation. Can you guess how long that wait time was? It is, and I quote, approximately two years. Now, Mr. Speaker, two years is far too long a wait for a surgical consultation. How is that an acceptable wait time for Ontario patients? It's not. Thank you. Minister of Health and Long-Term Care. Well, Mr. Speaker, I'm not knowing the specifics of this case, but generally I would agree with the member opposite that two years is too long of a period to wait. That's why we're working with our physicians, with our frontline healthcare workers, with our primary care providers that are that foundation and often the gateway to specialist access that we're working with them through a variety of different means to speed up that the two elements of referral, which are both equally important, the time for an individual to get from their family doctor or their nurse practitioner to see a specialist in the first place, and then if a specialist deems that a further intervention, a surgical procedure, for example, is required that time as well. So we're working, despite the fact, Mr. Speaker, we have across the board, particularly with regards to surgery, either the best or close to the best wait times in all of this country, Mr. Speaker, we're continuing to make improvements. Thank you. Supplementary. Back to the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care. On Monday at the Queensway Carleton Hospital, 22 patients were left on stretchers in the hallway waiting for a room. One gentleman was put behind a privacy screen and given a wheelchair to sit in because there wasn't a stretcher for him. Mr. Speaker, stretchers in the hallway, no beds available. Is this the healthcare legacy that this government wants to leave behind? Thank you, Minister. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And, you know, with regards to Queensway Carleton Hospital and other hospitals that have, over recent weeks, have experienced capacity issues, and it is, you know, I don't find it acceptable any more than the member opposite does. That's why we're continuing to make investments so that we can alleviate those pressures. The member opposite needs to, I think, would probably agree that there is an element of this that we saw an outbreak of flu, but also respiratory illnesses this winter. Part of the effect that we're seeing is an annual effect due to the flu, and this flu was worse certainly than it was last year. But, Mr. Speaker, we're making investments, including in Queensway Carleton Hospital and others, to ensure that they have the necessary funding to do the important work they do. The Ottawa Heart Institute, a 4.1% increase in funding last year, Royal Ottawa Health Care Group, a 2% increase in the Ottawa Hospital, a $14 million, 2% increase as well, to help them deal with these capacity issues. Thank you. Back to the minister. Leah Levac, vice president of patient care and chief nursing executive at Queensway Carleton Hospital, had this to say, and I quote, I would say it is a crisis when you are cancelling surgery and you've got 22 patients who are on stretchers and deaths are being pushed aside to make room for hospital beds. So, Mr. Speaker, those are the words of frontline health care workers. How is it acceptable for Ontario hospitals to be forced to use office space as makeshift hospital rooms? It's not acceptable. You have to do something. Thank you. Well, thank you, Mr. Speaker. And as I mentioned in the previous responses... Chief Government Whip. We are working... We're making the necessary investments to allow those hospitals and others across the province to deal with those capacity issues. But what we won't do, Mr. Speaker, is we won't make the kind of commitments and promises that the party opposite did to cut 100,000 jobs, many of them in the healthcare sector as they did in the last election. We're not going to do what they did when they were in government, Mr. Speaker, and literally close dozens of hospitals across this province the former Minister of Health is suggesting that they somehow didn't, but the facts remain that they closed dozens of hospitals when they were in government, Mr. Speaker. We won't do that. We will make investments. We made a 3%, almost 3% increase in the healthcare budget last year. We continue to invest in those elements in the healthcare system that we're proud of, and we have some of the best records in the country in terms of performance. Remember from simple grade, come to order. New question, the leader of the third party. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I also want to wish all the women legislators and staff and all the people that work in this building who are women, a happy International Women's Day, as well as all the women across the... My question is for the acting Premier. Over the past few months, I've been welcome into the homes of many women in this province who are worried about their skyrocketing hydro bills. Women like Adele from Cambridge, a single mom who fought back tears as she told me how her children go with less because her hydro bill has doubled in recent years. Why doesn't the Liberal government come up with a plan that will permanently lower Adele's hydro bill and invest in the services that her family needs instead of saddling her kids and their kids with the bill? Thank you, Deputy Premier. Well, thank you, Speaker. I want to start by saying that we are implementing a plan that reduces the average hydro bill... Remember from Hamilton, East Stony Creek, come to order. 25%, Speaker. We have already done the first 8%, and we are looking to take the further 17% off later this year, Speaker. So let's remember, we are implementing a plan that will help people like Adele. Speaker, that is for all the households. 25% on average. For those who are low-income families, there's even more support, Speaker. And for those who live in the rural parts of Ontario, there is even greater relief. We have a plan we're implementing a plan it addresses the stories that we heard from people across this province, Speaker. I'm proud of it. I wish the Leader of the Opposition would stand up and say good work. Supplementary. Well, Speaker, Adele doesn't just need lower hydro bills. She needs good health care. She needs good schools for her kids and instead of investing in health care and education, the Premier's hydro plan gives an extra $40 billion to her well-connected friends on Bay Street. Bringing hydro one back into public hands will put $7 billion into the public, it will mean we can invest in families like Adele's again. Doesn't the Acting Premier think that making $7 billion is better than spending $40 billion, Speaker? Thank you. You know, Speaker, I was I was really pleased when the NDP actually came up with a plan to bring down hydro prices because we had heard lots of identification of the problem from the opposition parties, both parties. We didn't see much, by the way, of solutions. So I was very Remember from Stormont, Dundas, and Gary, come forward with the plan until I read the plan. And there just was nothing there that would bring down hydro prices, Speaker. There was nothing there that would achieve the goal that we all want, which is to provide immediate relief for people who are facing real challenges when it comes to their hydro prices. Thank you. Final supplementary. Speaker, if there's nothing there, why did they scramble so fast to put something out themselves? And in hospitals, and in childcare, and in stronger public services, we're going to sell off of Hydro One and returning it to public ownership will give the people of this province a $7 billion payday and lower their hydro rates permanently. How is the Liberal government's $40 billion investment in bankers on Bay Street going to help women like Adele, her children, and her grandchildren live a better life? Thank you. Do you see it, please? Do you see it, please? Deputy Speaker. Well, Speaker, let's be clear. Our plan is fast. It is substantial. It is widespread. It is long-lasting. Finish, please. The NDP plan, sadly, is very vague. It relies on these expert panels to be struck sometime in the future. Their biggest idea to buy back the shares of Hydro One does not take one penny off one bill in this province, Speaker. There is zero evidence that they are keeping it. Carry on. Speaker, as far as I can tell, the only idea in their plan is to get the deputy leader elected leader than Prime Minister of Canada, and he will give that five percent off. New question? The leader of the third party? Thank you, Speaker. My next question is for the acting Premier. In her one-year report on the progress of her community hubs plan, the Premier told Ontarians and I quote, the province needs to remove barriers to community hubs and that she was proud to say that they are doing just that. But a freedom of information document the NDP obtained reveals that the Liberal Community Hub plan is being threatened by what? By the Liberal's own so-called school board modernization plan and they know it. Can the acting Premier tell us why the Liberal government is telling Ontarians one thing in public but acknowledging in private that they are doing the exact opposite? Thank you. Deputy Premier. Minister of Infrastructure. Thank you, Speaker. We are actively encouraging and supporting opportunities for community hub speaker to use excess school space in particular. The Ministry of Infrastructure is embracing an active role in making it easier for community partners to offer coordinated services to community hubs. In fact, the Minister of Education has about $450 million Mr. Speaker to work with school boards and communities and municipalities with particular emphasis on rural communities Mr. Speaker to engage community hubs. There are many services in communities that can benefit from coming together in a school around a school and animating the community Mr. Speaker to come together to provide services of people. There's money in the budget Mr. Speaker there are resources that are made available to community leaders to enable them to create hubs Mr. Speaker and it's going to... Well Speaker the FOI also shows that some schools calculated as being underutilized and I'm quoting now from the FOI some schools calculated as being underutilized are actually at full capacity. The government's own documents show that they are closing fully utilized schools based on the failed Mike Harris era funding formula that the Liberals have not had the political will to fix after 14 years. Since this government knows that their formula to determine school closures is broken can the acting premier please explain why their government continues to close schools across this province on mass. Thank you. Minister the Deputy Premier Deputy Premier Speaker I was very pleased yesterday to see that the Minister of Infrastructure and the Minister of Education sent a letter to community partners to municipalities to school boards to say the best solutions are local solutions work together to find the best use of the opportunities in your community to put these schools to work there is hard work to do when enrollment is declining we need to put resources into teaching our students but those schools are an important part of a community we all understand that in our own communities and that's why we're inviting and we're actually putting money into the notion that if communities work together if school boards who serve in the public area can work together if the municipalities and communities all work together to devise proposals for these buildings we want to be supportive of that I'll supplement you People are already doing that and the Liberals are still closing the schools they're doing exactly the same government are telling communities that they support community hubs and they're telling parents they're investing in schools but in reality the Liberal government has closed rather 227 schools since 2011 while knowing that at least some of those schools were at full capacity with some even being used as community hubs housing full childcare centers for example can the acting premier explain to the people of this province why she's closing full capacity good neighbourhood supporting schools when those families who depend on them are watching them fulfill a broken funding formula from 14 years ago Deputy Premier you see it please you see it please thank you Deputy Premier on this side of the house we actually respect school boards and respect the difficult decisions that they have to make but what I can tell you is that we are active partners we have a new model of community hub speaker we think that there are opportunities here we're inviting municipalities community groups school boards to work together to find these solutions but I do want to repeat speaker this is a fact Ontario has opened 810 new schools we have renovated an additional 780 schools that includes 450 new and improved schools in rural Ontario we remain committed to our students we remain committed to ensuring that they have the best spaces in which to learn speaker thank you new question from forward hill thank you and my question is to the Minister of Children and Youth Services Mr. Speaker when I still work as an optometrist and believe me I miss it every now and then I spent considerable time implementing in an eye care clinic I was no IT expert yet I managed to purchase the right hardware software and staff training within a budget in contrast this government has spent over $27 million just to consult on the software design of CEPIN our new child protection information network all of us are committed to the idea of a province wide electronic data system for child welfare but Mr. Speaker can the minister assures that this time the government is implementing a system that will do everything workers and children needed to do well thank you Mr. Speaker and I want to thank the member for the question because it is an important question CEPIN this information network that we're implementing across the province is going to ensure that young people when they enter child protection that their information will be protected but also it will be shared among different protection service agencies so we want to make sure Mr. Speaker that when a young person is placed in protection in Australia for some reason moves to Toronto that there is a communication line and no child is left behind this is our plan to ensure that children are at the centre of decision making and when they move from one jurisdiction to the next that all people that are their place to make sure that they're safe have the right information on time and the most relevant information today thank you supplementary again to the minister Mr. Speaker I think Ontario residents really do believe that Jeffrey Baldwin and Caitlin Samson might be alive today if Ontario's children's aid societies had had a central database that would have flagged their murderers as unfit guardians the government has spent hundreds of millions on CEPIN yet few child welfare agencies are using them and it still needs costly upgrading and training this new database isn't practical and not even fully searchable our social workers are now being asked to be trained stenographers rather than helping children they must spend hours typing since no one seemed to have the thought to make CEPIN voice inputting friendly Mr. Speaker will the minister tell us why Ontario residents should count on his government to suddenly show information technology Mr. Speaker I hope the member obviously doesn't think that this is just an easy task of putting in some information and moving it from here to there we're talking about millions of records that date back many years when it comes to children we need to make sure that the information that's being inputted is done accurately and it's done with efficiency so I'll tell you to date we've moved 40 million records representing 15 societies Mr. Speaker there's a lot of information that is being moved so that represents 37% of all children and family records to date have been moved so we've got a plan moving forward we didn't want to do this overnight because you know we have to be careful on the approach we have five more societies that are scheduled to be moved over into the CEPIN system and Mr. Speaker I'm proud of the progress we've made but we need to do this in a very careful way so we don't make mistakes and it's suggesting we that she's doing thank you I wouldn't risk it new question the member from the member from nickel belt thank you Mr. Speaker my question is for the Minister of Health and long-term care Carmen Sebastian is a 68-year-old woman who has advanced stage cancer she is one of the 100,000 Canadian women who get diagnosed with cancer each year on Friday Carmen got a very disturbing voicemail telling her and I quote that there was a province-wide shortage of chemo drugs and her treatment would be delayed indefinitively Speaker I cannot imagine the worry and the stress that Carmen and dozens of other patients went through this past weekend Carmen has a simple question and I hope you'll agree that she deserves an answer why was there no backup plan to prevent cancer patients like Carmen from having their cancer treatment cancelled Mr. Health long-term care well thank you Mr. Speaker and by speaking directly to Carmen I can only imagine the unnecessary stress and anguish that she and her family and loved ones had to go through as a result of that phone call Mr. Speaker it is important that those of us in the legislature Carmen and Ontarians know that this was a national issue it wasn't specific to Ontario it was the result of a quarantine done by Health Canada of a number of thousands of vials of 5FU which is a specific anti-cancer medication used in a number of situations including breast cancer when we were alerted to this on the same day Friday of last week in Cancer Care Ontario as well we immediately contacted Health Canada and put into motion a process that resulted in Monday afternoon more than 3,000 vials of this cancer curing, treating medication being released by Health Canada Supplementary Speaker our health care system failed it's failed people like Carmen who had to live having her cancer treatment cancelled I would like the government and the minister after he agreed that he learned about this last Friday I would like him to answer another question that a lot of Ontarians are wondering about will the minister tell us exactly how many Ontario hospital actually ran out of this chemo drugs and how many patients were affected and had their cancer treatment cancelled because of this shortage Thank you Minister After we got involved on Friday through the ministry in Cancer Care Ontario in conversations with Health Canada they understood just how much of a priority this was over 3,000 vials were released Monday afternoon McKenzie Health received vials yesterday afternoon they have now have either rescheduled or in the process of rescheduling every single one of those individuals they're opening a clinic as well this weekend and are confident that within the week they will have provided the appropriate treatment to all of those individuals we have a mechanism in place Mr. Speaker to ensure coordination and I can also say that McKenzie Health was the only hospital that was impacted by this shortage was McKenzie Health Mr. Speaker Thank you Mr. Speaker my question is for the minister responsible for the status of women Today is International Women's Day and we celebrate the achievements of women and look ahead at the work that needs to be done to create a fairer society In fact just last Friday we were reminded of the fight that we as a society still face I along with thousands of other Canadians was appalled to hear that there are those that still believe a drunk can consent Last September I hosted a sexual violence and harassment community networking and advocacy session in my riding of Kingston and the islands This session brought together key members of our community who work tirelessly to fight sexual violence and harassment I know that our province has done extraordinary work to fight this mentality and on Monday I was pleased to see an update on sexual violence and harassment action plan This is a step in the right direction but I know and we all know that there's more work that still needs to be done Through you to the minister can you please update the house on the ongoing work being done around sexual violence and harassment Minister of the status of women Thank you Speaker and thank you to the member for this very important question and her ongoing advocacy on this issue I would like to mention a woman, a mother the statistic that one in three women will experience some form of violence in their lifetime is absolutely unacceptable to me All Ontarians deserve to feel safe from sexual violence and harassment in their communities, workplaces, homes and schools In this province we believe strongly that consent has to be affirmative and ongoing Yes means yes and no means no to the health and education curriculum which we launched with our two public awareness campaigns it's never okay and who will you help We not only want to erase awareness about sexual violence but also challenge attitudes and encourage behavioral change After all we must talk to our children about safety Speaker this is all a step in the right direction we're calling on all Ontarians we all have to role to play in ending violence Minister for her answer I know that this government recognizes the importance of educating the public on sexual violence and harassment Speaker unfortunately the members in this house are well aware that violence against women remains a real danger in society In fact more than 10,000 women and over 6,900 of their children were served by a violence against women shelter last year Let's be clear Violence against women impacts us all not just the women who are victims it's their children, their families and also their communities Speaker our government recognizes this and has increased spending on programs to reduce violence against women by over 60% since 2003 However we know that there's more work to be done Could the minister please outline how we continue to support the violence against women sector in Ontario Minister Minister of community and social services Minister of community and social services Thank you Mr. Speaker and thank you to the member from Kingston and the islands we both visited Kingston interval house in her riding and it was obvious that she was recognized as a great supporter of women fleeing domestic violence My ministry invests $147 million annually to support the violence against women sector Last summer we opened a new shelter in Elgin County and earlier this winter I announced the building of a new shelter in Dryden Through the $1 million rural realities fund we help rural, remote and northern communities address the unique challenges they face Along with partner ministries we launched Ontario strategy to end human trafficking Part of the strategy is a partnership with the native Ontario women's association to deliver five indigenous human trafficking liaisons Mr. Speaker our government continues and supports and services to ensure we're building a safer future for every woman and girl in this province Thank you Mr. Speaker Thank you very much Mr. Speaker My question is Minister of health and long-term care Alistair and Mary McCarroll have been together for 69 years They're community builders even helped build a nursing home The international odd fellows in Rebecca's home on Brook Street and Berry When Alistair and Mary get sick and frail the province's long-term care system forced them apart The minister has stated in this house that spousal reunification in long-term care is and I quote extremely and personally important to them and keeping couples together is the highest priority There is no other priority My question then is if it's so extremely and personally important and if there's no higher priority then why have Alistair and Mary been forced to live apart for over a year Minister of health long-term care Thank you Mr. Speaker I appreciate the learning of here in the legislature Mr. Speaker of this this couple and we not that long ago we had a situation in another part of the province where I have to say the member NDP member at that time engaged me very directly privately and we worked hard together collaboratively to try and find a solution Ultimately we were successful in finding a solution for those individuals that for a variety of reasons find themselves in similar circumstances so I would invite the member opposite I would be enthusiastic overjoyed in fact to have the opportunity to work with him to see if we might resolve this particular case Thank you Back to the minister Well minister Premier Nguyen wrote the family last month to acknowledge the separation said she'd asked you to deal with it so either she didn't do what she said or you're not doing anything with the file sadly the mccarrows are not the only couple forced to live alone and die alone under your long-term care policies there are others who have been told by the CCACs that due to high wait times the mccarrows case is 3.5 to 5 years it's not even worth trying to live together in long-term care the fact is you left in terror with a severe shortage of beds as of today there are 6,500 seniors on your wait list a list that will double to $50,000 within 5 years the interior association of non-profit homes and services for seniors and the interior long-term care association have asked you to start fixing this mess by adding at least 2,500 beds in the upcoming budget given the heartache, given the inexcusable weight and the suffering of all these seniors minister will you commit to adding those beds as an absolute bare minimum Thank you minister Mr. Speaker the member I think knows that we have committed to redeveloping 30,000 beds over the next number of years but over approximately the last decade we have added 10,000 new beds to the long-term care system and we continue to make important investments and I need to Mr. Speaker as well now I do recall the couple in question and I do recall it because the member from Barrie has been discussing this case with me and is directly involved and directly involved with my ministry in trying to resolve it and we have been working hard through the ministry with the member from Barrie to resolve this particular situation Thank you Thank you My question is to the acting Premier 2017 marks the 30th anniversary of pay equity legislation in Ontario after 30 years however the lack of active enforcement of pay equity laws has contributed to a gender wage gap that is stuck at 30% a gap that is significantly wider for immigrant and indigenous women and women with disabilities the closing the gender wage gap steering committee called for amendments to the pay equity act in its final report last August more than six months after the release of that report nothing has happened Can the acting Premier explain why she is dragging her heels on the immediate actions like amending the pay equity act that would make a huge difference to close the gender wage gap for women in Ontario Thank you Minister Labour Thank you Speaker and thank you to the member for that excellent and timely question Speaker there's no doubt I think all members in this House will agree that the gender wage gap will be a big part of the community of Ontario and across every jurisdiction and we need to deal with it Speaker other parties in the past have said they would deal with it Speaker but they haven't Speaker we haven't made the progress it needs to be made the conversation that is taking place right now in the province of Ontario Speaker involves some very real work that was done by the government they came from the civil service Speaker they bought us their best advice we're moving that on now Speaker we've got a group together of some of the best minds in this province some of the best minds on this issue Speaker their first meeting is scheduled for April the 13th I want Ontario to be a leader in this we should all want Ontario to be a leader in this it's simply timed the level of tolerance for the gender wage gap simply has expired the member for Weldon thank you Speaker this government has had 14 years when the non unionized auto manufacturers recently sought changes to workers personal leave the premier changed the law for them overnight through quiet regulation when large construction firms like Alice Don sought reforms that negatively impact workers you quickly change the laws for them what are you going to do today for the majority of low-paid workers in this province almost 60% of them women to have a decent secure work that pays at least $15 an hour minimum wage thank you Speaker and thank you again to the member as I said this is a very timely question Speaker and I'm proud to stand in this House Speaker with the changing workplaces review with the gender wage gap study work confronting issues where the solution has escaped previous government Speaker we're taking concrete action when the advice came forward Speaker from the gender wage gap working group there was work to be done in the future but they told us there's things you can do right now and we acted upon that Speaker gender based analysis is used by this government it's required when we're passing any policy that relates to this government Speaker needs to go through a gender wage gap lens Speaker that wasn't done in the past it should have been under this government it is being done Speaker we're moving ahead on this issue we're determined to put an end to the gender wage gap in Ontario wow thank you Mr. Speaker this question is for the Minister of Housing and Minister responsible for the poverty reduction strategy on behalf of many of my constituents in Davenport I'd like to raise a critical issue an issue I have raised in the past rental costs are rising at a dramatic pace in the Toronto area I've heard from my constituents about a lack of stability and the price of their rents making it difficult for people to find affordable rental options this is an issue that does not just affect those who are less fortunate but often times middle income earners and young professionals who are just building lives and careers in the city not being able to budget free housing leads to insecurity that makes it difficult for one for one to plan for one's future Mr. Speaker what is the government's position on rising rental costs in Davenport and across Ontario thank you Mr. Speaker thank you to the member for her steadfast advocacy on this issue Mr. Speaker finding an affordable house in a community we love as a goal we all share it's about putting down roots it's about raising a family each day in a place we truly love I know Ontarians face real challenges in our booming market as they search for an affordable place to live too many are feeling the pinch of a rental market that's struggling to keep up with demand through the Residential Tenancy Act we provide protection for tenants the act ensures that rent increased guidelines are kept to a maximum of 2.5% per year for units built before 1991 Speaker 2017 the rent increase guideline is 1.5% but we know there's more that needs to be done and that's why we're looking at ways to ensure and increase protections for tenants supplementary thank you Mr. Speaker and I'm pleased to have had many important conversations with the minister about the rising rents facing my constituents and always appreciate his attention to this critical issue Mr. Speaker I'm pleased that the minister shares and understands my concerns individuals and families deserve the peace of mind of knowing that they can secure an affordable home they'll provide them with a reliable foundation where they can live comfortably secure employment raise their families and thrive that's what we all want the supply of affordable rental units in Toronto is dwindling and government must take action to address this Mr. Speaker will the minister inform this House what actions he's undertaking to get more affordable rental options into the market thank you minister well thank you and thank you again to the member for Davenport Speaker ensuring a robust supply of affordable rental units is critical to ensuring people have options to choose from this includes working with our municipal partners to make secondary suites those are the self-contained residential units that already exist in many homes available quickly helping communities better respond to renters needs we've also just passed legislation that allows communities to use a new tool a tool called inclusionary zoning to require affordable units be created and kept long term in new residential developments our government is also freezing the municipal property tax on apartment buildings to provide some relief to renters Mr. Speaker 82% of rental units in the province are pre-1991 buildings and because of that they're protected by rent control but I know booming areas face concerns I'm continuing to look at ways to increase the supply of rental options across the province New question? Thank you very much my question is to the minister of community safety and correctional services in May 2016 your Liberal government announced that the Elgin Middlesex Detention Center's main facility would have its body scanner installed by the end of this month after a drug overdose death at EMDC former minister said that he would prioritize the installation of the body scanner now the new minister's office is saying that the scanner is prioritized for installation in the fall of 2017 you keep using the word prioritize I do not think it means Speaker how exactly does failing to meet a deadline meet prioritize Mr. Community Safety and Correctional Services Thank you I would like to wish all women here a very happy International Women's Day I thank the member opposite for his question first off one of my most important responsibility as a minister is the safety and security of our staff and our inmates and Mr. Speaker our government has recognized the challenging surrounding contrabanded our correctional facilities which is why we've announced $9.5 million funding to install body scanners at each and every facility across our province by 2018 Mr. Speaker this makes Ontario the first jurisdiction in Canada to install body scanners at every jail we've installed one of the first scanner at the adjoining regional intermittent centre right next to the EMDC where we can have inmate scan in exceptional situation and EMDC will be getting a body scanner this year and I can confirm that 11 facility Thank you Well words are empty they need to be followed up with action now back to the minister Ontario's gold standard jail, Toronto's South Detention Centre was recently called a billion dollar hell hole by Toronto Light Magazine the jail has been a disaster from the start unbreakable windows were broken by inmates, officers worried that inmates would grind glass into powder and blow it in their faces they were told by management to wear goggles negative pressure rooms for inmates with serious airborne diseases regularly malfunctioned the software system controlling cameras intercoms and locks regularly stops working when asked why a female officer was trapped in an elevator with inmates for an hour the staff were slapped with a threatening memo to keep quiet well it didn't work staff keep speaking out and the truth has been told about the cell Speaker to the minister why did the government go ahead and resign despite warnings from the auditor general and staff and I want to thanks the member for his good question Mr. Speaker we recognize the hard work and I want to take the time today actually to recognize the hard work of our correctional officers our nurse our maintenance staff and our cooking staff everyone that works with challenging situation at times every day to keep our institutions and our community safe I recognize that the Toronto South Detention Centre is not without its challenges and we know that more works need to be done to make life and to live it up to its full potential we need to hire more staff reduce the lockdowns and improve the overall condition of the institutions in fact I was there a couple weeks ago I visited the jail and I saw a group of passionate staff who are dedicated to maintaining law and order in our society and through this visit I got a sense of the progress actually that needs to be made so Mr. Speaker our government is committed to the transformation and I'm working on this thank you the leader of the third party thank you speaker my questions for the acting Premier this government talks a lot about childcare but we see no action they talk about the need to get women back into the workforce and the reality that childcare is just too expensive for a lot of families but when it comes to taking action this government fails last week the Liberal government voted against investing in not-for-profit public childcare centres can the acting Premier tell us why she believes private corporations should be making money off children thank you the minister of early years in childcare speaker thank you Mr. Speaker I want to thank the member opposite for this very important question speaker I want to be very clear about what we mean when we're talking about funding for childcare operators this type of funding supports subsidies subsidies for low and middle income families it actually supports programming for children with special needs and supports increased wages for skilled childcare workers and early childhood educators what I'm trying to say is essentially this funding follows the child speaker absolutely we understand the important role non-profit play in our childcare systems that is why in Ontario 77% of childcare centres were non-profit past capital investments have only gone to school based not-for-profit childcare speaker that's our families expect us to give them more options not fewer that means ensuring that all Ontarians have access to quality affordable childcare spaces rural areas and urban areas well speaker all evidence points to the fact that not-for-profit and public childcare is higher quality and in fact they are being served better in not-for-profit and public childcare speaker that's just the reality that exists but instead of supporting that model the liberals are spending public dollars on for profit private childcare I guess this shouldn't be a surprise speaker she always seems this liberal government always seems to prioritise the well connected and well for beaches east York second time liberal government must understand that regular families need support and that investing in non-profit childcare is the best way to help the people that really need it why did the acting premier and her liberal government want to see childcare being traded on the stock market and kids being profited off of by private companies minister I'm so happy and pleased to be answering this question because absolutely we are building childcare in this province we are transforming it making it more accessible and more affordable for all Ontarians not just for some Ontarians the bottom line is this not all Ontarians have access to for profit and not for profit centres in this province we have to build a system that supports all Ontarians in some instances in northern areas the only way to create more access is to ensure that those centres in those areas actually get the support they need we are not going to go in one route or the other we are going to ensure that all Ontarians can see it thank you the member from Barrie my question is for the minister of labour as you have already heard today is International Women's Day this day celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women but it also challenges all of us to seek change in society the theme for this year is be bold for change which calls for a better working world a more inclusive gender equal world Ontario has been bold for change and in particular our minister of labour has been looking at change in the working world through the gender wage consultations can the minister please update the house and talk about the progress we are making thank you I want to thank the member for that question and the interest she has and the advocacy I also want to wish everyone a happy International Women's Day to the women, to the men, to the boys and girls in this house this should be a day that we are all engaged on speaker because I am so confident that the be bold for change theme is going to continue to get people all over the world engaged on this issue this is an issue that begs the attention of all members of this house it crosses partisan lines this government is absolutely committed and to build on the progress we have already made as I outlined earlier speaker the first meeting of the group is April the 13th we are going to get the best advice we are going to get the best feedback and we are going to make sure that the advice we have received in the past is implemented we have taken those immediate steps speaker that we could take without further consultation and speaker we are bold for change in the province of Ontario we are going to increase fairness in this province I want to thank the minister for his answer and for being such a strong advocate for closing the gender wage gap he is right we all need to work together because international women's day reminds us that despite our progress there is still work to do on average women still earn less than men and simply put this needs to change we also know that all women across the economic spectrum are affected by the wage gap but the gap is more pronounced for women who are minorities Aboriginal newcomers or living with disabilities Deloitte reported that the gender wage gap represents 2.5% of Ontario's GDP and closing it could generate 11.6 billion in increased annual consumption of goods and services speaker through you to the minister can the minister please explain what else our government is doing to ensure women continue to play an important role in our working system I want to thank the member again speaker it's not only the right thing to do the fact of the matter is that equality for women when it comes to the Ontario economy to any economy speaker simply makes good business sense as well it makes sense for workers it makes sense for business it makes sense for our economy speaker it increases productivity it strengthens skill sets it's a healthy workplace it prepares for the workplace of tomorrow speaker it was great to see the Ontario Federation of Labor here at Queen's Park this morning contributing to this very important conversation speaker women play a critical role in our labour force the minister of labour were determined to improve the working lives and conditions of all workers in Ontario including women on International Women's Day with labour and business continue to make Ontario one of the best place in the world to work new question the member from kitchener comes over my question is to the acting premier this government's federal liberal counterparts in Ottawa today have an opportunity to take a great legislative step towards ending genetic discrimination and yet well government members here in Ontario seem brave enough to take that step provincially and I commend for his private member's bill that would take similar steps their federal cousins seem to be getting cold feet after federal attempts to gut the bill last month the justice minister has been pulling our premiers to drum up further opposition the justice minister is looking for advice bill s201 goes to a vote this afternoon will the government assure their federal cousins today that the people of Ontario have time for constitutional jurisdictional excuses they want action and genetic discrimination will you agree thank you very much speaker and I thank the member opposite for asking the question albeit an odd question because sounds like this is the question that the member should be asking in the federal parliament because he is talking about a federal piece of legislation that is not up for debate in this house he is referring to a bill called s201 which may be voted in the house the federal minister of justice I understand has advised her caucus that the bill may be unconstitutional because of division of powers between federal and provincial governments under the constitution of Canada whatever the case may be speaker that is a decision of the federal parliament and of the federal minister of justice and has very little to do with this parliament thank you very much supplementary I will remind the minister that the federal justice minister issued your government a letter asking for input and so therefore it does become an Ontario issue and so speaker of course Ontarians and Canadians deserve to live free of discrimination in fact constitutional experts consulted on the federal bill agreed that it does not overstep on jurisdictional boundaries the government member from Eglinton Lawrence here in the province of Ontario your member he appalling that they are hiding behind this provincial jurisdictional constitutional excuse for not ending discriminatory practices in province he called it mind boggling and I agree with that member the federal justice minister has turned to premiers for support will the premier give her support to end genetic discrimination yes or no once again speaker this is a federal matter I am in not any position as the attorney general for the province of Ontario to be giving constitutional advice to the federal government they have a very robust ministry of justice speaker they have a very robust constitutional branch and they have the full capacity to be able to provide any legal advice whatsoever the federal minister of justice has written I believe to the council of federation and I leave it to that secretariat to be able to find but it is not our place to be giving advice on constitutional matters to the federal parliament that is solely within the sole discretion of the federal parliament what I know is speaker that under our human rights code we have very clear laws when it comes to discrimination on any grounds that includes grounds like genetic discrimination I do want to applaud the member from Eglinton Lawrence for bringing a private member dealing with genetic discrimination and I believe that bill has passed through this on second reading thank you thank you very much Mr. Speaker my question is to the acting premier two weeks ago striking workers from York University and the University of Toronto came to Queens Park to hold a silent vigil I had the opportunity to hear some of their stories one in particular hit hard this cafeteria worker on strike a single mother paid just $12 an hour found it impossible to make ends meet just providing lunch for her daughter is always a challenge through tears she told me that sometimes she has to ask the bus driver to let her on for free so that she can go to work a single working mother shouldn't have to struggle or strike for fairness in Ontario this woman works in a public institution on contract it's an example of the ever growing precarious work in this province over the last 13 years workers at York just settled with no help from this government for $15 an hour will this government raise the minimum wage for all workers in Ontario to $15 an hour thank you to the Minister of Labour Minister of Labour Thank you and thank you for that very important question and I do applaud this element that was reached in that regard Speaker Speaker between 1996 and 2003 we had a frozen minimum wage in the province of Ontario in increase one speaker 685 since 2003 to the present date Speaker we've increased the minimum wage by 64% a total of 10 times Speaker what business asked for was flexibility Speaker what the workers asked for Speaker what the workers asked for was fairness and they wanted to know that increases were coming on a regular basis Speaker Speaker the minimum wage right now in Ontario is $1,740 Speaker it goes up every single year and it's predictable Speaker and when the advice was asked for Speaker when we went out to poppy advocates where was the NDP nowhere to be proud Speaker they didn't raise their voice when the workers of this province completed the NDP it is absolutely never too late to be asked to leave Speaker the fourth follow-up .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. concerning genetic discrimination okay this matter will be debated today at 6 p.m. government House leader on a point of order thank you speaker in my answer I I said that the member from Eglinton Laura's private members will has passed second reading I meant to say it's past first reading all members have the right to correct the record and the minister of infrastructure on a point of order speaker want to correct the record to my answer today the number should be 50 million and not 450 million speaker thank you minister community mr. community safety and personal services merci monsieur the president thank you mr. speaker just would like to recognize our young parliamentarian that are here Alidia Philippe du collège catholic merbleux Alina Zoui du collège catholic merbleux sannaizir du collège catholic merbleux carlie angèle pierre du collège catholic merbleux jasmine zemny de l'école secondaire publique jizal la longue cléman c'est avait de l'école secondaire catholic béatrice des loge et matieu cassie joua reste de l'école secondaire publique l'ouriel qui sont avec they are with us today thank you very much