There being no further introduction to this now time for question period the leader of Her Majesty's Mr. Speaker my question is for the Premier Mr. Speaker the Liberals just won't stop the Cree the Premier claims She's interested in cleaning up the fundraising mess. She created yet last week We learned that Apotex used a by-election loophole to donate nearly ten thousand dollars to the Liberals And what does the Premier do she pops by for a visit at Apotex? You know I would have be alarmed by a few small donations But this is the same company that donated nearly $200,000 to the Liberal Party So mr. Speaker Can the Premier guarantee this house that by taking Apotex money that has never affected a government policy decision? You know I am very much looking forward to a constructive meeting with the leaders of the opposition this afternoon I I'm not going to presuppose what will take place at that meeting mr. Speaker But you know this this whole discussion about the the fundraising rules is Is one that we need to have mr. Speaker? I said last June that it's something that needed to happen I look forward to building on changes that we have already made and I look forward to input from the leaders of the Opposition on legislation that we will bring forward in the spring I think there's a broad consensus that we need to make a transition away from corporate and union donations mr. Speaker and I look forward to the input from the leaders of the opposition on what that transition might look like Mr. Speaker again to the Premier in my question and Apotex has not been answered It's one thing to receive a small donation, but the Liberals received nearly $200,000 from this one company What what what does this get this company? How about $650,000 a year in drug purchases from the Ministry of Health does this not merit a public inquiry? I don't understand why the government is running from the public inquiry if they had nothing to hide So I'll ask again to the Premier has this almost 200k that the Liberal Party has taken Affected a government policy decision related to Apotex, please answer the question. Yes or no Political donations do not buy policy decisions in my government Excuse me The member from Harlem and Norfolk will withdraw Bring it any innuendo or suggestion to the to the opposite mr. Speaker is false. That is that is the fact So I've been always been very clear that the decisions that we make in my office and in my cabinet are made based on Evidence they're based on the best interests of the people of our best of our ability mr. Speaker And I would say to the member opposite again I'm looking forward to our discussion this afternoon. I look forward to their input Mr. Speaker again the premier this is all smoke and it's not fire then the premier would embrace a public inquiry Mr. Speaker there are plenty of drug companies that receive money from the Liberal government So what else may Apotex benefit from well in 2011 the government led by then Health Minister Matthews appealed a court ruling that would allow pharmacies to have their own private labels This would have allowed pharmacies to sell their own drugs for the same price But not the drugs mandated by the province like Apotex at the time the Globe and Mail called the decision to appeal the ruling a Minor mystery they went on to suggest that perhaps the Liberals are looking out for Apotex the largest domestic manufacturer mr. Speaker again to the premier can the Sure us that these donations are not affecting the government's decisions and will she embrace the public inquiry Everybody else Interesting to see the new found interest that the member apparently has in fundraising because I have here a list of his Donations during the leadership campaign. They're absolutely astounding he broke an all-time record He said first of all mr. Speaker that soon as he got here. He was interested in fundraising Thank you The member from Renfrew Nipissing Pembroke come to order The member from Memphis, Inc. Pembroke is now second time now. I'm gonna ask the member to leave his list on his desk I'll be I'll read it from here mr. Speaker An all-time record and fundraising for a leadership candidate Was what was achieved by the leader of the official opposition? Who said when he got here? He was astounded by the fundraising rules And yet he took advantage of those fundraising rules to raise well over 1.6 million dollars New question Leader of the opposition mr. Speaker my question is for the premier Well, this government has been busy attending secret $6,000 fundraising dinners I've been touring hospitals and meeting with frontline workers across this province Just this past weekend. I was in Windsor. I was told first-hand I expect I expect some Civility here and that I'll get it one way or another Finish, please Mr. Speaker, I was told first-hand the impact of this government's mismanagement on health care in Windsor a hundred and twenty Nurses are gone because of this government and twenty million dollars cut to the Windsor regional because of this government The budget promised one thing, but what we're seeing in reality is very very different I can tell you mr. Speaker. I didn't charge a single red cent to meet with nurses in Windsor I wanted to hear their concerns. I wanted to hear their stories. So my question for the premier Mr. Speaker will the premier meet with the nurses at Windsor without charging them $6,000 a place. Thank you Thank you very much. Mr. Speaker. Well, I I think that the leader of the opposition is fully aware that I meet with people all Mr. Speaker from every sector and we're committed on on health care to making sure that people in Ontario have the Right care mr. Speaker that they have it in a timely way and that they have it in the right place and to that end mr. Speaker funding for well for Windsor hospitals has increased by a hundred and twenty four million That's a forty seven percent increase here seven million dollars was provided to help Windsor regional hospital with budget pressures And to help the transition process from a registered nurse to a registered practical nurse model Mr. Speaker and that is work that is going on in other parts of the province and the focus of those funds was to ensure that Reduction of FTE's occurred through attrition and retirement and not through layoffs mr. Speaker. So it's a different model There is a transition answer there is overall in health care a transition going on mr. Speaker And we are working with with the health care sector in every community across the province mr. Speaker Mr. Speaker back to the premier those are talking points to justify a 20 million dollar cut the Windsor regional hospital But I can tell you it's not just St. Joseph's health center in London was forced to cut 49 full-time positions and 12 Transitional care beds just last month life labs announced. They're closing 15 patient service centers The CEO of life lab said because the demand for testing had increased But funding had not patients will struggle to get the testing they need done the government has Has created the situation forcing communities to close clinics doctors offices They have fired nurses and frontline health care workers So my question mr. Speaker is now that the premier has demanded the minister of health not have private High-level fundraising dinners. Will he now have the time to support physicians nurses and stop closing labs? Let me just reinforce that The way we make policy decisions on this side of the house has nothing to do with political donations even though Side of the house would suggest that would suggest that mr. Speaker. It's simply false Finish please the leader of the opposition does not talk about is the rehiring of nurses mr. Speaker He doesn't talk about what's happening in one part of the the sector We've increased the percentage of nurses working full-time by 13.9 percent in our term of government mr. Speaker since 100 more nurses working in nursing in Ontario since we took office mr. Speaker There's been a massive influx of nurses into the system mr. Speaker and we are working with communities around the problems Mr. Speaker back to the premier once again if the premier wasn't petrified of a public inquiry She would welcome this sunshine this spotlight on this topic We all know doctors have been without a contract for two years during that time liberals have unilaterally Unilaterally cut 815 million dollars from physicians further the minister of health won't even meet with physicians So mr. Speaker my question is is it because the doctors didn't ante up to the liberal fundraising cause mr. Speaker How many $6,000 dinners will it take for the premier and the minister of health to actually meet with our physicians? Mr. Speaker the minister of health is very much engaged with the OMA We would like to very much have an opportunity to sit down at the table and to work out a Workout an arrangement with them mr. Speaker, you know the leader of the opposition may not remember But this is the the highest-paid group of physicians in the country. They they earn their they earn their money They have every right to earn earn a good wage mr. Speaker But the reality is that we need that opportunity to Open to that we want to work this out mr. Speaker and the minister of health is engaged with them on a regular basis to try To get that opportunity to have the conversation with them Thank you very much mr. Speaker my questions for the premier a new Democrats fully support the elimination of corporate and union Notations, but we know there are a number of other issues that need to be resolved So later today, I'm going to be reposing to the premier the leader of the opposition as well that this legislature Initiate a transparent independent and non-partisan process to make recommendations on new rules speaker for financing political parties and the electoral process New rules for governing third-party advertising in elections as well Will this premier actually support a process that will be truly transparent independent and non-partisan? Conversations afternoon as I already said to the the leader of the opposition I look forward to meeting with both leaders mr. Speaker. We are going to be bringing legislation forward in the spring We are going to propose that we have an extended period of consultation Mr. Speaker that the Standing Committee that that is working on that piece of legislation Travel the province and there be adequate and ample opportunity for people in this province to have input So we get that legislation right but mr. Speaker I think there is a high degree of agreement that we need to move forward We need to catch up with other jurisdictions that have have already changed the rules mr. Speaker I said last June that we needed to do this I look forward to moving moving ahead with this and I look forward to the conversation this afternoon with the leaders Well speaker when Premier Bill Davis was faced with reforming how Ontario funded elections back in 1970 He asked a tripartisan commission to make recommendations because he said he wanted to create quote an atmosphere Above and beyond public doubt suspicion or cynicism and quote But this premier appears to want to have all the power to make these decisions in her office Why is she push pushing to create a system that's open to doubt suspicion and cynicism? Thank you Well, mr. Speaker quite to the contrary the reason I've asked the leaders of the opposition to come in to have a meeting with me to Talk with them and I understand that they they're very interested in this subject And they have they have input that they can bring from from their benches and beyond mr. Speaker and that we then have a Very full discussion of that legislation in the public realm That's why I will be proposing this afternoon and there are some specific issues in terms of transition into The the ban on corporate union donations some of the timing and what we should how we should manage those I'm looking forward to hearing their input when we meet this afternoon. Mr. Speaker When new financing rules were passed in Ontario in 1975 an election finances commission was created It had representatives nominated by political parties Nonpartisan benches from the Law Society of Upper Canada the chief electoral officer and a chair put forward by the lieutenant governor of the province Speaker it created a system that was stable for almost 25 years then in 1998 an order to eliminate a nonpartisan expert commission came right from the office of Premier Mike Harris the premier has acknowledged that she already is writing the new rules without any consultation Why is she following the example of Mike Harris speaker? Mr. Speaker I am very interested in an open process I'm very interested in moving ahead, but mr. Speaker I believe that there is a fair degree of consensus in terms of the direction that we need to move I also believe that to add process to layer process on top of process to delay the final decisions Make the decisions that have been discussed in public for some time that other jurisdictions have already adopted mr. Speaker We need to take those steps to move expeditiously. I look forward to our meeting this afternoon Also for the premier. Thank you very much when when Mike Harris decided to get rid of this Nonpartisan system by fiat from the premier's office the current member for St. Catherine's called it an anti-democratic strategy hatched in the back rooms of the premier's office and John Gerritsen the former liberal member for Kingston in the island said quote What's happening here is that the governing party that happens to be empowered at any one time is going to have a distinct Advantage above the normal advantages of incumbency and quote former liberal premier Dalton McGinty said quote there are simple rules of fairness You can't change the rules of the games without the consent of all players involved and quote So why is this premier speaker hatching plans in the back rooms of the premier's office instead of through a non partisan process that gets Ontarians to buy in The third party why is she not talking about the substance of the changes that need to happen? Why is she not putting forward ideas about how she thinks the system needs to change mr. Speaker because that actually is the issue Instead of talking about how we can have more process that will actually delay the final decision mr. Speaker Why is the leader of the third party not putting forward her ideas on what the transition should be between? The current system and the changes and banning corporate union donations mr. Speaker. Why is the leader of the third party not talking about? Third party advertising why is she not talking about the kinds of changes that she would like to see those are the subjects that I'm looking forward to having a conversation about Speaker the Toronto Star weighed in at the time as well They said quote the rules governing elections have been changed only when there has been a consensus Among the three parties in the legislature McLean's wrote quote for 25 years election financing bills in Ontario have been tabled with all party consensus But Ontario premier Mike Harris tossed aside that tradition and quote and Richard Brennan who at that time was working for my own Hamilton spectator speaker wrote quote the government broke tradition yesterday by tabling proposed legislation Affecting the election finances act without first getting all party consent. Why does this premier believe that she alone should be writing the rule speaker? I think that there has already begun a broad public discussion I think that there is a fair degree of consensus on where we need to go I have heard I have heard from certainly the leader of the opposition where he thinks he we need to go in terms of Banning corporate union donations. Mr. Speaker. I'd love to hear from the leader of the third party the substance of her ideas I look forward to that conversation this afternoon, Mr. Speaker Where perhaps we will be able to talk about the direction that we should go so we can build some consensus among ourselves and We can then begin that public discussion as a result of the introduction of legislation into which there has been input from all sides of the house Speaker it is definitely time to take big money out of politics It's time to get rid of corporate and union donations But this premier is actually choosing a partisan route that was begun by Mike Harris instead of our proud History of consensus speaker can this premier explain why she's tossing out Decades of tradition and deciding that decisions should be made in the back rooms of the premier's office Mr. Speaker, you know What I what I am doing is I am responding to a moment in time where there are other Jurisdictions that have moved in a particular direction have made changes mr. Speaker that I believe we need to make we are Updating a system that has grown out of date mr. Speaker I said a year ago in June that we needed to make changes. I am looking for input from all sides of the house There's been a public discussion discussion in the last number of weeks that has been precipitated by the media and isn't it's a welcome And important discussion mr. Speaker, so I look forward to hearing from the leaders of the opposition I look forward to the public discussion that will ensue once we bring legislation to the house mr. Speaker and it then goes to committee and Across the province people can have input into how they think that legislation should change the rules under which we all operate Thank you very much My question this morning is for the premier Speaker on Friday an environmental review tribunal granted a stay of construction for the white pines wind turbine Project in Prince Edward County an unwilling host community under the terms of the contract this project has to be finished It's construction and attached to the grid by mid-June of this year if it isn't WPD has defaulted on the terms of their contract and the taxpayers can get out of it without a cost That is unless they get an extension that only the minister of energy can give them So speaker my question is will the minister be granting an extension to WPD or will they have to be operational by June? Mr. Speaker, this is before the environmental review tribunal right now. They have not made a ruling yet They have issued a statement that they will be consulting with both parties to look at the consequences We operate the ERT on the weight of convenience mr. Speaker Which means that they look at harm at both outcomes in making their decisions as there can be an appeal To me and to this government is very important that we as the house protect the integrity of that process and not politicize it So I would suggest that we allow the ERT process to proceed as an independent process And at the right an appropriate point when a pitwood appeals can happen from the ERT But I don't think we should be commenting it on this house until that process Mr. Speaker back to the premier the people of Prince Edward County are watching this government's every move The IESO can uphold the current terms of the contract But if WPD wants an extension they can only get it from the minister of energy They've also WPD contributed $15,000 to the Ontario Liberal Party Most of it since the environmental review process began Speaker my question to the premier is simple Will she require that the IESO Enforce the current terms of the contract which would put WPD in default if they aren't connected by mid june Or has WPD already bought themselves an extension? This is the moment in which I've alerted all members That I will be listening carefully to this and I'm going to ask the member to very If the theme is there to be very cautious of how he intunes any motive And you will need to do some homework on that to ensure that it's not happening Minister thanks. Thanks, mr. Speaker I want to recognize that there are people here in the gallery from the prince Edward Hastings local business and tourism board and I I want to Recognize the efforts that they are taking and to work through a democratic process mr. Speaker On that process mr. Speaker, but I also want to deal with the last point the member made Sorry You're not endearing yourself by repeating what I asked not to be repeated Carry on I want to make one point here, mr. Speaker through this process our job mine and the The member for Hastings prince Edward county is to protect the integrity of this process And I'm very clear it have no difficulty doing that And I find it deeply deeply offensive that someone would suggest in a process in which politicians are not allowed to interfere in He is actually suggesting I interfere in that process, mr The member from prince Edward Hastings will come to order You have one sentence wrap up, please So shame on him, mr. Speaker because it sounds like the pot is calling the kettle black Thank you very much mr. Speaker my questions to the premier For 25 years it was the practice to have consensus among Ontario's political parties Before changing the rules about election campaigns bill davis established a multi-partisan election finances committee in 1975 That included the chief electoral officer and non-partisan members of the legal community to ensure that there was fairness David peterson changed the rules But only after extensive discussions with the other leaders and the same elections commission But when mike harris changed the rules it came straight from the premier's office Is this uh premier going to be following in the footsteps of bill davis and david peterson Or will she keep all of the decision-making power in the premier's office just like mike harris Is just because I think the only person who would be more agitated about me being compared to mike harris is mike harris Mr. Speaker we didn't see I think it's very important that there be a public process I think it's very important that we look for the consensus among all sides of Along the political continuum mr. Speaker, and I think that moving to where other jurisdictions including the the federal government Mr. Speaker a process that began under a liberal government and continued under uh the conservative government that we That we moved to that consensus position that other jurisdictions have taken mr. Speaker I look forward to the conversation with the leaders of the opposition I have said that we will be introducing legislation that has many of the components That other jurisdictions have already adopted mr. Speaker, but I look forward to the the conversation with the leaders of the opposition parties Because there may be some there may be some Issues in terms of transition and so on that that they would like to share with me. Thank you Thank you very much mr. Speaker. I I think it's important for the premier to understand that Ontarians and the most of the people in this house don't think that you're going to get this right on fundraising Ontario's new democrats want to see a process that ensures that the new rules are developed through an independent and transparent And non-partisan process and once passed into law have the broad support of ontarians required to ensure their Legitimacy and the respect will the premier commit to taking this process out of her back rooms And make this non-partisan and transparent process led by consensus among ontario's political parties Asking for is more process that will delay the decision mr. Speaker That is not what we are going to do what we are going to do is we are going to put in place a process Whereby there will be broad input from people across the province mr. Speaker There will be broad public discussion We will extend the hearings mr. Speaker and make sure that there is a longer period for that consultation In the interim mr. Speaker the input that i'm looking for from the leaders of the opposition parties Yes, i'm having a meeting today. I look forward to that But mr. Speaker as we draft the legislation if there is input that they would like to give us We look forward to that and then we will be able to get on with that broad public discussion that I think is necessary Mr. Speaker Member from Davenport My question is to the minister of training colleges and universities Minister the young people in my riding of Davenport often find trouble navigating the barriers to getting involved in the process of finding a job I often hear that they lack the direction and guidance They need to make informed decisions and find good jobs that will contribute to their growth as a professional This is especially the case for young people who face multiple barriers to employment resulting from some combination Of complex challenging life circumstances Minister, I understand that you recently announced the launch of a new summer program aimed at helping young people overcome challenges and barriers to finding suitable meaningful employment Can you please inform the members of the house on how this new program will help our most vulnerable youth access The necessary training and employment services to find meaningful jobs Thank you minister training college universities Thank you, mr. Speaker and I want to thank the member from Davenport for that very good question, mr. Speaker Mr. Speaker early the last week my ministry was pleased to launch a summer component of Ontario's youth job connection program The youth job connection is a key component of our government's youth job strategy I am proud to say that mr. Speaker through this strategy our government's investing an additional 250 million dollars Over two years to help roughly 27,000 of Ontario's students to find part-time and full-time jobs The youth job connection summer program will provide part-time and after-school job opportunities to high school students age 15 to 18 who face challenging in the life Challenging life circumstances and they may need support transitioning between the school and the work Mr. Speaker and this is one of the two new programs Thank you, mr. Speaker Thank you, mr. Speaker and thank you to the minister for the answer Minister when youth face barriers to opportunity based on background or circumstance It is the responsibility of this government to make sure that they have access To the training they need to help them grow their skills and join the workforce It is reassuring to the young people in my writing that the summer component of youth job connections Is now in place to help them gain access to the labour market I understand this program is part of our government's commitment to strengthening Ontario's youth job strategy, which will help support a comprehensive suite of new youth employment programs Many constituents in my writing of Davenport would be happy to know more about another program That launched last week to help young people with fewer barriers access services that are available year round Minister, could you inform myself and the members of the house question youth job link another new program that is now in place To support young people across our province. Thank you minister. Thank you, mr. Speaker again I want to thank the member for that question Mr. Speaker helping youth have all abilities and the backgrounds access The most effective employment and training is part of our government's economic plan to grow The economy and create jobs in this province With that goal in mind this this week last week, Ontario also launched a youth job Youth job link which is helping young people age 15 to 29 Plan their careers prepare for the labour market and connect to job opportunities The youth job link program will be available year round to youth and the students at more than 320 locations across our province It will offer information on career options Help with the resume writing preparing for interviews and assistance to match their skills with employers needs Mr. Speaker with youth job connection summer component as well as youth job link program In place Ontario has the right combination of programs in place to help youth with the broad spectrum of backgrounds abilities and the needs to get training they need to actively participate in our economy Question the members from Leeds. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you. My my questions to the premier The Sudbury by election allowed the liberal party to raise 2.2 million dollars That's just shy of the 2.6 million dollars. They raised in the last general election. Some may ask How could they do that? Well, they had prolific liberal backman jerry law heat jr. Up there in Sudbury A man notorious for making promises in exchange for favors A man who is under investigation and facing corruption charges. Mr. Speaker How many promises did jerry law heat jr. Make in exchange for donations to the liberal party? Interesting my I have a favorite Biblical quotation for the member And it comes from the new testament John 8 verse 7 And I'll paraphrase Let he who is without sin cast the first stone If you and your leader were so interested in reforming fundraising in this province You'd be wondering about that $5,000 person dinner at barbarians and whether you're going to cancel it Or that $10,000 a person dinner at the albany club with an exclusive 10 in the province Or the leader's dinner donors are Courage to pay $25,000 for a victory table 10,000 more than a normal table for an opportunity Answer the caucus member You are living sir your party to I say through the leader and the glass house. I advise you not to throw stones Thank you Supplementary I'm not sure uh speaker if that was an admission of guilt with that dodge and deflection from the leader I'm sure that the member opposite will agree with me. We know jerry law heat jr. Confund rates He once raised $115,000 in a single night for justin trudeau at a swank $1,300 a plate dinner Finish please The jerry law heat jr. Is uh facing corruption charges He alleged promised a job to andrew Olivier in exchange for stepping down How do we know speaker that he didn't make promises as part of those donations in the liberal bioaction in sudbury But you know what the the member opposite likes to make a number of quotes. I'll make a quote today I think the the best indicator of our future behavior is past behavior That's why we on this side of the house are asking for an inquiry. Mr. Speaker does the premier have anything to hide Thank you with the millions of dollars Is everybody house leader Well, thank you very much. Mr. Speaker. I I think if the member would go through the list of donations He would find out that none other than the progress of conservative party has received donations from jerry law heat Did that have any influence on on anything that is done by the conservative party? I always wonder mr. Speaker when I Read about a fundraiser such as the $10,000 a person fundraiser at the albany club I watch carefully the next day or the next house sitting to see what questions are asked in the house Because one might draw the conclusion When one sees who's at that dinner and then listens to the questions in the house or the stance taken by the opposition Remember from leeds granville second time The member from leeds granville is warned Next comment Wrap up, please So one always wonders when uh, there's a fundraiser and the questions come in the house and the stance is taken Whether the people at that fundraiser had any influence on conservative party policy Speaker my question is to the premier Hospitals in london are grappling with another year of deep cuts under this liberal government In the past two weeks, we've learned that st. Joseph's and london health sciences are both cutting the equivalent of 60 full-time positions Budgets for supplies are being cut and 12 Crucial transitional care beds will be shut down this october People in my community want to know why is this premier forcing hospitals in london to cut patient care?  Speaker, uh, I know that the uh, the member opposite when she is in conversation with constituents will remind the uh The constituents that the uh, the budget actually puts a billion more dollars into Health care in this province, mr. Speaker, including $345 million for hospital funding and mr. Speaker You know in terms of in terms of the number of nurses in this province, mr. Speaker in terms of the numbers of doctors There have been thousands more nurses and doctors in this province in our term of government 26,300 more nurses mr. Speaker in this uh in this uh, uh in this province as a result of our policies so mr. Speaker we will continue to support the health care system We will continue to work with uh with individual health care systems and hospitals around the province Including in london mr. Speaker including in london and make sure that people get the health care that they need In a timely manner mr. Speaker Speaker when i'm speaking to constituents, uh, they're reminding me about the health care policies that this liberal government is causing to fail The services of health care Again to the premier hospitals in london have been have revealed just how deep This liberal government is cutting health care st. Joseph has seen effectively a 36.5 million dollar cut to its total budget over the past four years london health sciences says that 2016 17 marks the fifth straight year that funding will not keep up with rising costs And we all know who pays the price for these cuts It's patients who wait longer for care they need It's families who are forced to deal with more worry and more stress And it's the frontline health care workers speaker that don't deserve a pink service government How can this premier once again slash funding to hospitals in london and expect patient health care not to suffer? Thank you Cognized in this budget that there was a need to increase funding to hospitals. That's why mr. Speaker There's a 345 million dollar increase to hospitals in the province I had talked I had talked with CEOs of hospitals, mr. Speaker the minister of health and long-term care had talked with health With hospital CEOs. We understood that there needed to be an increase That's why there's a billion more dollars in health care overall and three hundred and 45 million dollars for hospitals, mr. Speaker You know st. joseph's health care That's the the hamilton st. joseph's health care system. Mr. Speaker received 395 million Dollars mr. Speaker in 2015 16 for base in base funding and that's a 48 percent increase since 2003 mr. Speaker So over that period of time 48 percent increase mr. Speaker and that's just one hospital mr. Speaker across the province There have been increases and this year 345 million dollars in this year's budget Thank you mr. Speaker my question is for the minister of municipal affairs and housing After each municipal election cycle It's regular practice for the ministry to conduct a review of the rules governing municipal elections And last week in the house the minister introduced proposed changes via bill 181 the municipal elections modernization act Mr. Speaker we're all aware that our local communities are critical hubs of democratic activity And an important entry point into ontario's governance system That's why our municipalities and local leaders need to be supported by strong clear and modern rules Mr. Speaker these are important goals through you can the minister explain How these goals are going to be reflected in this bill Mr. Speaker I want to thank the honorable member for his question I'll do certainly the best I can to answer it After each he's correct after each election we do do a consultation And uh this time around we had 3400 submissions From councils citizens staff municipalities And based in turn on that we look closely at changes to campaign finance rules Regulating third party advertising Challenges and barriers to making elections accessible Increasing of course transparency and accountability And allowing more local choice the length of the campaign period And whether municipal election rules are effectively enforced Mr. Speaker if this bill Should be fortunate enough to be passed. There'll be improvements in all those areas and I look forward to the bill moving That's her. Thank you supplementary Thank you, Mr. Speaker and as a former municipal councillor I very much appreciate The changes that have been proposed to make our elections more effective and more transparent But in addition to those goals the minister is Put in place a new Objective and that is to give our municipalities the option to have ranked ballots in the 2018 municipal election Mr. Speaker this is a new frontier in Ontario And this goal has garnered a lot of attention throughout the province and our municipal partners have been asking us Whether we could move forward with these efforts For 2018 for their communities Mr. Speaker can the minister share what his what he and his team have been hearing and working on with respect to rank ballots Thank you minister. Yes, uh, mr. Speaker I could do that the majority of feedback we received During our consultation in fact had to do with ranked ballots Which is why we propose to make that an option for our municipal Municipal partners the sense was in the letters that we received that with voter turnout going down And and seemingly less interest in municipal elections That we needed a way to help engage more voters in the process And also one that would enhance the process itself by having it be more substantive and terms of debate and what have you so We think we've done that in a number of ways ranked ballots being won Of course, it will be optional and Our hope is it would get us away from some of the negative campaigning that so often happens in political arenas So we look forward to continuing to work with communities They deserve the best possible municipal leadership and we think the changes and bill 181 will help assure that Thank you new question Uh, thank you speaker my questions for the premier A year ago the minister of health was asked by christine elliott to expand pulse stroke recovery services for those individuals between the ages of 20 through 64 She referenced the circumstances of a local Durham resident jim mcqueen whose champion changes to the legislation Speaker unless covered by private assurance pulse stroke survivors cannot receive the essential rehabilitation services that are needed for recovery The minister responded at that time speaker my ministry for some time has been working on the precise issue that she has raised Mr. Speaker one year One year after that statement was made in this house Nothing further has been forthcoming to help pulse stroke survivors When will the premier and her government start to satisfy not only the expectation of interior residents But its actual commitments The associate minister of health and long-term care Associate minister of health and long-term care Thank you, mr. Speaker, and I thank the member opposite for the question and his ongoing advocacy And I just wanted to say as we all know minister huskens is Absolutely committed to putting patients first and making sure ontarians get the health care they deserve And that's why mr. Speaker in this budget. We have increased base funding for ontario's hospitals by 345 million including a one percent increase to base funding. This is an investment that'll keep not only hospitals Open across our system, but also ensure that ontarians get the care they deserve But mr. Speaker, you know, we are making investments across the health care sector And let me just give you an example on friday I was up in cochrane only to announce the redevelopment of 69 new beds, mr. Speaker These are the examples of the investments we continue to make in health care. Thank you, mr. Speaker Speaker against the premier Well, the premier now omits that she's been unable to implement this essential reform Because of the inability of her government to adequately manage the health care system Speaker is this not simply further evidence of the systemic problems inherent With the government mired in its own scandal waste and mismanagement Or do post-stroke survivors have to attend six thousand dollar liberal dinners to get their voices, sir Thank you, mr. Speaker I just want to talk a little bit mr. Speaker about some of the rehab services that we have been investing in For example, mr. Speaker With our changes we've doubled the number of publicly funded physiotherapy clinics in ontario in total 200 000 additional seniors will have improved access to high quality physiotherapy by the end of 2014 ccac is Provided in home services to an additional 35 000 clients, mr. Speaker We have set no limits on physiotherapy sessions to ensure that ontarians get the rehab The services that they need mr. Speaker and I can assure this house that the minister when he is back will Be able to speak at length about some of the investments we continue to make mr. Speaker I can assure this house that Our minister and our premier are committed to ensure that ontarians get the services they need and deserve at the right time Thank you, mr. Speaker. Thank you Thank you, speaker my questions for the premier Supervised access sites are a way for families going through often adversarial family matters where children are involved to have a neutral And as the name suggests supervised visit between non Non-custodial parent and their children in hamilton's supervised access has been provided professionally and compassionately for years by the downtown ywca But the y has not received an increase in base funding for eight straight years And has now had to cut back on the hours the days the access speaker that's struggling families desperately need It is so bad that the y has been forced to remove five families now from the waitlist that already stretches into years will Sorry does the premier think it's okay that her government is preventing children from seeing their parents speaker Minister children in your services Thank you, speaker I don't want to thank the member of the third party for her question Of course, it's always the intent on the government side to keep families intact wherever possible to keep families With their children where possible where they can be safe and secure and healthy And if that's not the case the speaker we want to make sure that All of our partners in the sector who are mandated look after children Achieve that objective whether it's a children's aid society a partner agency And i'm very happy to talk to the leader of third party about the specifics of this case recognizing I can't comment on Individual children or their family situation, but our goal remains the same We are resolute in ensuring that children receive their supports and the services that they need To be protected and to reach their full potential. Thank you Thank you Well with all due respect to the minister speaker That's exactly the opposite of what's happening here in hamilton Supervised access isn't even a choice for struggling family speaker. It is a court ordered process It's court ordered Supervised access centers place the focus on children as one hamilton mother actually described it to me The supervised access site at the y helps quote keep families together in a healthy way Which leads to well-adjusted children turning into well-adjusted adults and quote So what does the premier and her minister say to this mother and to all families who are desperate for supervised access For the sake of their families But who can't get it because the government refuses to adequately fund it speaker Thank you minister Thanks again speaker, and uh, I'm open to uh, you know the device of the third party. Obviously we do uh, Respect and uphold court orders when it comes to the care and protection of children in our province And I'll be pleased to speak to her as well as my colleague ministries who provide funding for local community groups and uh At the end of the day speaker. It is about what's best for our children It's about what's best to help them reach their full potential Of course, we'll adhere to we want to recognize and respect the court orders and at the end of the day speaker Each situation often has its own circumstances. So as I said, I'd be happy to hear from the The leader of third party or my critic About the case in general and then we can respond perhaps more specifically to her. Thank you Thank you Thank you, mr. Speaker. My question is for the minister of aboriginal affairs The minister has recently announced a number of investments targeted towards driving economic development and creating jobs in indigenous communities Just last month. I had the opportunity to announce funding for two programs in my riding of kinkson and the islands that provide support for aboriginal students st. Lawrence Colleges project kickstart college and the self identification project at queen's university developed and run by four directions in the aboriginal Student center These investments reflect the government's commitment to work with indigenous partners and indigenous youth to create a better future For everyone in the province Can the minister please elaborate on the steps our government is taking to create economic opportunities for indigenous questions in ontario Thank you minister of aboriginal affairs Thank you. Speaker the ontario government wants to ensure indigenous peoples have the opportunity to succeed and fully participate in the economy Our government is moving forward on many fronts by creating initiatives that are supporting business growth and providing economic development opportunities Jobs and skill sets for aboriginal peoples. That's why we're doing the following four things Three hundred and twenty two thousand dollars for the timmins native friendship center through the aboriginal community grants program A hundred and seventy five thousand dollars to support a new welcome center in aquasoc snake Two hundred thousand dollars for miss weebeek to develop Employment and training opportunities for indigenous peoples here in toronto Four hundred eighty one thousand dollars for gagiga meekum aboriginal employment and training center To attract higher train and retain indigenous apprenticeships in skilled trades. This is good for aboriginal economic development It's good for ontario's economic development Mr. Speaker, it's clear that our government is committed to working with indigenous partners to create good jobs and economic opportunities in indigenous communities Because we all recognize that creating economic opportunities for indigenous peoples strengthens ontario's economy When indigenous people prosper all of ontario prospers I understand that these recent announcements are part of larger initiatives to promote economic development opportunities for indigenous peoples Through initiatives such as the aboriginal economic development fund and aboriginal loan guarantee program Our government is creating stronger more effective partnerships with indigenous communities Mr. Speaker, could the minister please tell us more about how the government is working to ensure that indigenous people have the opportunity To succeed and fully participate in the economy through the aedf Mr. Speaker our government introduced the aboriginal economic development fund in 2014 in the budget It was to help aboriginal businesses communities and organizations create Diversify and collaborate in their economic development So as a result to date ontario has funded 44 projects with indigenous partners through this fund Partnerships like these reflect the government's commitment to work with indigenous partners to create a better future for everyone in the province That is why our government launched the the aboriginal economic development fund to create these initiatives that support economic growth Provide opportunities for jobs and skills for aboriginal people Speaker supporting economic development for indigenous communities through this fund Is just one of the many many steps on ontario's journey of healing and reconciliation with indigenous peoples Thank you very much speaker my question is to the minister of transportation Last month the minister met with me and a delegation from renfrew county to go over the frequently talked about continued twinning of highway 17 While the project will reach shield drive this year the next phase has yet to make it into the ministry's five-year plan The minister knows this project is vital to the economy of renfrew county as a transportation corridor It connects canadian nuclear laboratories and garrison petawawa to the nation's capital and is a major artery for commercial truck traffic Given how crucially important this roadway is Will the minister commit to putting the further twinning of highway 17 into his ministry's five-year plan? Thanks very much speaker i want to thank the member from renfrew nipissing pemberg for not only for his question speaker But also for his advocacy on this issue. He was uh, he was good enough to join Speaker he was good enough to join the municipal representatives that i had the pleasure of meeting with from his community We had a fantastic conversation The ministry both the ministry and myself speaker recognized the importance of this particular Highway project and the impact that potentially that it will have or the impact that it will have as we continue to forlain through the county of renfrew speaker I can assure that member that i will continue to work closely with his community and the ministry understands the importance of this This particular artery artery in eastern ontario and we'll continue to have conversations as we go forward The member should also know i believe he does speaker that the environmental assessments for the next phase is being completed And the ministry will continue to work with his community on this project Thank you speaker i say to the minister we appreciate the work that has been done up till now But we cannot stop the ministers predecessors ask the county the county government to make the case for the continued twinning of 17 And i believe they have made that case over and over again in spades It's now up to the minister He would also know that the federal government has made favorable overtures regarding infrastructure investments Given that this is a trans canada highway I would ask that the minister take advantage of the federal infrastructure commitment and place the highest priority on this project Forlaining will be a boom to renfrew county both economically and socially as well as making the route safer for everyone who travels it Speaker i'll ask the minister again if he will commit to putting the next phase of twinning highway 17 into his ministry's Five-year capital infrastructure plan. Thank you. Thank you minister Thanks, thanks very much speaker. I thank the member opposite for his follow-up question I also want to thank him speaker for acknowledging that we now have a federal government in ottawa that understands the importance Of investing in crucial infrastructure Speaker i i believe that member also knows that in this year in 2015 2016 the ontario liberal government Has committed more than 2.4 billion dollars to expand and rehabilitate roads Bridges highways right across the province of ontario budget 2016 included speaker a number of these crucial projects And not that many days ago. I joined with a number of my colleagues We were down in the community of puslinch where we announced, of course funding support in that community in wellington speaker for The morriston bypass, which i know is of crucial economic importance to that part of our province Speaker as i said in my Initial answer i'll continue to work with that member and with this community to make sure that going forward Perhaps in partnership with the new liberal government in ottawa that will get this done. Thanks very much speaker My question is to the premier premier unfortunately, you would have heard like all ontarians The tragedy that is taking place in atta wapiscat as we speak Unfortunately, this is not the first time that we've seen a rash of suicides on the james bay In fact about five years ago. We had a similar situation going on Myself and pegatano and others from the james bay along with then grand chief stan luded Went to your government and asked for money for pegatano in order to put in place the staff necessary To deal with this on an ongoing long-term basis and your government did it i'll give you some credit But Two years later. You took that money away We got over a million dollars in order to hire staff to be able to do the work That helps prevent these type of things from happening My question to you is if you make a commitment to do something this time We should take the money out once the media has gone away. Thank you Mr. Speaker i'm very worried about and very concerned about what's happening in atta wapiscat and quite frankly in other In other remote northern communities as well The member opposite knows that i've been to atta wapiscat I know that there are there are myriad concerns with Within the community whether it's housing whether it's Whether it's counseling and support as the member opposite has said we've assured chief belgarde that our government is is Convinced and is committed to supporting first nations communities in their times of need and in fact Minister huskens will be traveling to atta wapiscat this week, mr. Speaker But in the interim as we speak there is assistance leaving from From our government's resources to go to atta wapiscat right now So mr. Speaker, we will we will do everything we can to put the supports in place I know that the member opposite knows that the the concerns are multifaceted. There's not a single thing There's not just one thing that has to be done. There are a number of concerns and we'll be working with the community, mr. Speaker Supplementary I agree with you premier. It is a multifaceted response that's needed to a very complex issue And there's not enough time and question period to go through it But I think what I want to know and I think what the people of james bay and atta wapiscat want to know Is that there is a long-term commitment to what is a huge problem in our communities when you have 11 people in one day From age 11 to age 71 Who try to take their life because of the situation in their community? I think people need to know that the response on the part of our provincial and federal government because We're the ones who do social services in those communities with their child and youth services We're the ones that run the hospitals that provide the services in those communities So we need to have an assurance that whatever we do going forward from here is going to be an ongoing and long-term commitment And we're not going to pull it away once the cameras have moved away from the state Well, Mr. Speaker With the with the member opposite and apart from the you know the innuendo at the end that somehow this is about The lights of the cameras. That's that's not at all what this is about. Mr. Speaker This is about long-term sustained support that we are working to put in place across the province Working with the federal government. Mr. Speaker the minister of children youth services will also be going this week Mr. Speaker to make sure that the resources that we are sending the resources that are in place are Adequate where they need to be enhanced we need to figure out how to do that And we have to work in partnership with the first nation and with the with the federal government So I agree with the member opposite. I think he knows that I think he knows that my concern And it's not you know It's not solely in response to the truth and reconciliation commission Although that is that is a new part of the context within which we're working So we will continue to work with the with the umbrella organizations with nann. Mr. Speaker with With the afn button most specifically with the communities each of which has a particular set of concerns And my ministers will be going this week to make sure that we are sending the right resources that can be there To support in the short and the long term. Mr. Speaker Pursue understanding order 38 a the member from prince Edward Hastings has given notice of his dissatisfaction With the answer to his question given by the minister of environment and climate change Concerning the granting of an extension of wpd's Wind turbine project in prince everd county. This matter will be debated tomorrow at 6 p.m Also pursuant to standing order 38 a the member from whitby oswald has given notice of his dissatisfaction with the answer to his question Given by the associate minister of health and long-term care concerning post stroke services This matter will be debated tomorrow at 6 p.m The government house leader on a point of order. Thank you. Speaker. I just want to extend my warm welcome to sprague plato Who is the board chair of parkinson society of ottawa sprague was in the house earlier And I just want to I want to thank him for an amazing community service. He he delivers And I appreciate it. Thank you There are no deferred votes this house stands recess until 1 p.m. This afternoon


Hello and welcome to another Understanding Thermodynamics video. In the previous video we introduced the concept of flow energy and noted that flow energy and internal energy is combined to reflect the energy of a flowing fluid. We also discussed enthalpy and ideal gases and in this video we are focusing on real gases, liquids and solids. So we will cover the calculation of enthalpy for real gases two-phase vapor liquid equilibrium systems and then sub-cooled liquids and solids. The entropy of steam as a function of pressure has this familiar dome shape that we're getting used to. This line is the saturated vapor line, this line over here is the saturated liquid line. The area inside the dome is the two-phase region. This area is the superheated vapor and gas and over here we have the sub-cooled and compressed liquid region. Let's do a few examples. Let's consider steam at 100 kilopascals with an enthalpy of 2000 kilojoules per kilogram. We need to determine the outstanding properties. We first need to determine the phase. Is it superheated, two-phase or a compressed liquid? When we plot the state of our system on the pressure enthalpy diagram as the one you've seen in the previous slide, it is clear that it lies inside the dome and is therefore a two-phase mixture. We can also determine the phase by looking at the tabulated values on the saturated water pressure table and at 100 kilopascals, the enthalpy of saturated liquid is 417.51 kilojoules per kilogram and the enthalpy of saturated vapor is 2,675 kilojoules per kilogram. The enthalpy of our system is between these two values and therefore is a mixture of vapor and liquid. For a two-phase mixture, the temperature is the saturation temperature at 100 kilopascals, which is 99.61 degree Celsius. In order to determine the value of specific volume, we need the value of x also known as the quality. Let's see how this is done. So the enthalpy of a two-phase mixture is given by the following equation. From this, we can determine the quality of our system using the known values and we get a quality of 0.701. We can use a similar equation that we just used for enthalpy to calculate specific volume. The specific volume values for the saturated vapor and liquid can be read from the table in the previous slide as well. See if you get the same answer as me. Let's do another example. Consider steam at 150 degrees Celsius with an enthalpy 2,780.2 kilojoules per kilogram. Now we need to determine the outstanding properties. First, we need to determine the phase. We can find the enthalpy of saturated liquid water at 100 kilopascals in the saturated liquid water temperature table. At 150 degrees Celsius, the enthalpy of our system is larger than that of the saturated vapor. And we can therefore conclude that our system is a superheated vapor and we need to consult the superheated tables and find the pressure there. You will see that at 10 kilopascals and 150 degrees, the enthalpy of steam is 2,783 kilojoules per kilogram, which is too large. We will also see that at 50 kilopascals and 150 degrees, our enthalpy is exactly the same as that shown on the table. And we can say that the pressure is thus 50 kilopascals. In general, it may be necessary to interpolate between these different pressure values to find the value that you're looking for. Let's do another example. Consider steam at 1,000 kilopascals and 50 degrees. Determine the outstanding properties. Now first again, we need to determine the phase. On the saturated water pressure table shown, we can see that the saturation temperature of water at 1,000 kilopascals is 179.88 degrees Celsius. From the saturated water temperature table, which is not shown here, we can find the saturation pressure of water at 50 degrees Celsius is 12.35 kilopascals. This is also evident in the pressure temperature phase diagram where we can see we are in the compressed or sub-cooled liquid region. For liquid water, we assume the pressure does not affect the enthalpy of water and that the enthalpy of liquid water at temperature T and pressure P is equal to the enthalpy of saturated liquid at temperature T and in this case, that's 50 degrees Celsius. And we can read the value of enthalpy from the table. Also note that the values of internal energy and enthalpy is almost the same. This is because the product of pressure and specific volume is very small due to the small value of specific volume. And we usually assume that for liquids, enthalpy and internal energy have the same magnitude. The implication of this assumption will become clear in the next slide. When working with sub-cooled liquids for instance to massive water and solids, it is often convenient and sufficiently accurate to assume that delta U equals delta H equals Cp delta T. The values for solids and liquids can be found in tables such as the ones shown here. And for liquid water, we use a value of 4.18 for the specific heat. So in summary, the diagram of enthalpy as a function of pressure or temperature has that familiar dome shape. We can draw a free hand sketch of this dome or use the tables to determine the phase. And for a sub-cooled liquid, we assume that enthalpy at a certain temperature and pressure equals the saturated liquid enthalpy at that given temperature. For solids and liquids, the value of specific volume is small and we usually assume that numerical values of enthalpy and internal energy are the same. The course notes which these videos are based on is available on my website, adreonsblog.com. I'm also on Twitter. If you've got any questions, you're more than welcome to post them there and I'll answer them. Thank you very much for watching and I will see you in the next video. Bye.


to each and every one around the world. So, Alain has already been said about, with regards to machine learning and AI, then I'm continuing with the, a minute. Okay. So I'll be continuing with RS and left wing, which is also a content quality two that was developed by the machine learning team back in 2015. So I'll first start with RS, why it has been deprecated, then move on onto why we are moving most of the models, all the models from RS on to left wing at large. Okay. So first of all, with people who are new to machine learning tools with regards to content quality, improving content quality on a Wikimedia project at large, RS is basically a two, a machine learning two that's helps to improve the content quality on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects at large. It helps most of the contributors to be able to detect vandalism, to be able to identify good edits, quality articles and to be able to also manage their workflows at large within the most of the Wikimedia projects. So why RS? It helps most contributors to be able to streamline their workflows in terms of being able to aggregate certain kind of articles that also help them to be able to know the kind of articles to be able to also work on or contribute to. With regards to new editors, it also helps experienced editors to be able to also identify new editors who are contributing to most of the Wikimedia projects that also be able to guide them, provide some form of guidance and some form of assistance to them in terms of they contributing to most of the Wikimedia projects, especially English Wikipedia. And it's also a community support driven, which means that it's open to most of the Wikimedia community as a whole. That also helps people to be able to communicate and work on discussions together, share ideas and know how best to be able to improve the two. Okay. So RS is basically used by the test community managers and also researchers around the world, especially researchers within the Wikimedia ecosystem. It is also a crowdsourcing content for Wikimedia projects such as Wikisnary and Wikidata at large. Then when was RS created? As earlier, I stated that it was created in the year 2015 by the machine learning team. And through year by year it has been able to improve the quality of articles or contents within most of the Wikimedia projects that has been using RS since 2015. Okay. So if there are any questions at the moment, if there isn't any question, I can be able to also move on. So a lot has been said already with regards to model names, models at large, how these models are being built to be able to also assist users to be able to identify articles and contents to be able to also improve upon them. So some of the model names are Vandalism Classifier, which is one of the models that is able to also help contributors who normally do use RS at large to be able to identify contents that involve vandalism and help them to be able to resolve such contents that involve vandalism. It also helps us to be able to classify or be able to identify articles that stand in good faith or contributors who contribute to articles in good faith. And if there are certain minor issues pertaining to their contributions to, we can be able to improve upon their content at large. Then article quality due to that is able to also help us to know the accuracy of contents that are being placed on most of the Wikimedia project, especially English Wikipedia. So with regards to access on RS, although it's been deprecated, but from time to time, I'll also take you through the process of being able to access a left wing at large, how RS is also being moved. The models on RS has been moved to left wing at large. So RS is available online for all and has its own website, which has been moved onto left wing. So at the moment, you can find RS on RS.wikimedia.org. And it can be accessed either through the webpage or any through the media wiki API at large. So why RS? So machine learning is basically a two. It's simply a machine learning, why left wing, sorry. Left wing is basically also a machine learning two that has been designed to improve upon how RS does work, although still under development, there are certain features that needs to be developed in order to be able to also improve upon the contents quality related to most Wikimedia project at large and to be able to also host multiple deployments in different languages and also help different languages to be able to also identify classifications that they do want to work on. So with regards to the differences between RS and left wing, left wing basically is a generic model as it was stated earlier within the first session before my session. So it being a generic model, it basically also helps us, it basically also helps us in terms of article revision as well with regards to RS, but it being a generic model, it's basically hosts multiple models and helps us to be able to expand the production, expand the production rights in terms of generating models, that can be host a lot of models that can be able to also help us in terms of generating scores in different Wikis at large with regards to languages as well. So with left wing, it being able to host models as microservices too, it can be able to also help us to aggregate multiple scores or many scores as compared to RS. And with regards to article revisions too, it can be able to enhance article revisions. So the content quality wise of article revisions improves from time to time with regards to using left wing. So it also helps us in terms of faster deployment and currently RS does has a pre-cache which basically helps us to be able to get updated with regards to revisions that have been made on most recent changes, but with a functionality regards regarding to a left wing, from time to time, that functionality too will be developed in order to be able to also contain that. So why RS has been changed from, why the changes from RS to left wing? So with RS, it will become much more accurate in terms of contributing to Wikimedia project at large, in terms of it accuracy, in terms of using its models to provide article quality, using its models to be able to identify vandalism, using its models to be able to identify coordinated edits and using multiple models within other Wikiproject at large. So left wing is basically more, will be more sustainable, has the potential being more sustainable in terms of going through the process of being able to update multiple models that have been built year by year, but it being using microservices will give it elasticity and will be much more sustainable in terms of using left wing. So with regards to accuracy, for left wing, Stady has already indicated that left wing was able to identify 80% of quality revisions that were being made, while RS was able to currently identify 70% of high quality revisions as compared to 80% of low quality revisions for RS at large. So in terms of scalability, RS can also be used in a number of ways in which revisions being done on left wing can also be used in a number of ways in which revisions being done on RS are not able to meet. Since Wikipedia keeps growing and technology keeps evolving, within the technological infrastructure of Wikimedia still needs to grow and there needs to be improvements in terms of technological infrastructure at large. That's why we've decided to be able to move on to left wing to be able to improve upon content quality within most of the Wikimedia projects. So as stated with sustainability, it also helps us to be able to update new data in order to be able to remain accurate. That was the job that RS was basically doing. So as time went on to coming up with a left wing, that would make it much more simpler since it being in a human in a loop system whereby both humans and us that can be able to blend together in terms of supervised machine learning and also active learning. Combined blending these two together to be able to be able to rely on data, to rely less on data in order to be able to improve upon contents based on this kind of blend between active learning and supervised machine learning, it will make it much more easier. It wouldn't only solely rely on new data to be able to be updated all the time, which is much more costive too and takes a lot of time to be able to deploy such solutions. So my call for this particular session is to be able to raise the expectations of Wikipedia content quality and also to be able to improve upon content quality so far. And we also do look forward for you guys being able to also follow the update and process procedures that have been implemented in order to be able to also help and contribute in terms of improving content quality within most of the Wikimedia wikis that we do find ourselves in. And as time goes on, as models are being generated in different languages from a good faith model to other different classifiers and models too can be able to also help us in terms of knowing how best we can be able to also improve upon our contents on most of our Wikimedia wikis. Now to be able to find most of the resources that I currently use for this particular session, you can be able to access the RS website to be able to go through the whole procedure then understand how this to serve a great purpose within the Wikimedia ecosystem aside that you can also, this is the RS page on Wikitech, same for left-wing, then if you want to try or have a few of how the RS is currently working, then you can be able to also try the special page on recent changes on English Wikipedia or if you are already an administrator on any of the wikis on English Wikipedia so you can just feel free then, try to go through the process of downloading and installing Hago, then know how best to be able to use these tools to be able to improve upon content quality on most of our Wikimedia wikis. Okay, thank you. If there are any questions, you can feel free and ask. Okay, so with regards to the models that I was talking about, currently RS was holding these kind of models that have been moved to left-wing and the machine learning team is currently also looking forward to be able to add more models in terms of left-wing being able to hold a number of large model-based in terms of having multiple models in different languages that can be able to also help improve upon most of the Wikimedia wikis at large. So we have the article quality model type, we have the draft model type, the damage-gen model type, which as we can see already, some of them are already in different language wikis, then we have the good faith model type that we can see in different language wikis at large. Then we have a model type for reverted, articles that can be reverted, having the reverted button to be able to revert contents that contributors do feel that does not meet the criteria needs to be reverted or improved upon. Same for article topic, then draft topic at large. Thank you very much. Okay, so with a last face, so with regards to having RS on most of these models, special wiki pages, we can be able to find that these models are being implemented at the back of most of our Wikimedia wikis at large and based on the model types that we do also find, we can be able to identify that as we are able to take any of the, select any of the models that we do want to find revisions related to these kind of models, then we can be able to identify models that are related to such, and we can be able to also find revisions that are related to such models. And based on these, it can be able to also help us to review or be able to go through some of the contents that are being updated or that are being published within our special revisions or revisions that we do find in our wikis. So as this too is currently being deprecated, I do know that from once the whole two has been, well once the whole left wing two has been deployed, it would make it much more easier for people to be able to also use the left wing two at large. Okay, so a template like this, this template can be reviewed based on the contributions that the person made, we can be able to also review such contribution then know if the contribution is of good faith, if it's not on good faith, if it's been identified manually as the vandalism contents, then we can be able to also select the vandalism option to be able to also rate the contents or the updates or the revision that has been made as the vandalism. If we want to roll it back based on your user rights that you do already have, you can be able to also roll it back, same for all the user rights that you also do have using RS, okay. So I would like to end here and have more time for yourselves to prepare for other sessions if there aren't any other questions at large. Thank you all very much for joining this session.


We're here at Beyond 2015, the Global Youth Summit in San Jose, Costa Rica and I'm very pleased to be joined by Dr. Hamidin Toure, Secretary General of the ITU. Dr. Toure, thank you very much indeed for being with us today. Good to be here. The Beyond 2015 Global Youth Summit kicked off yesterday, 9th of September in San Jose, Costa Rica. I'd like to talk to you about how many people are participating in the summit and the different ways that they're doing it. We're here in Costa Rica for the Global Youth Summit, over 600 participants from 67 countries. Some of them came from very far places, from Afghanistan, Australia, from places like Zimbabwe and really we have the real United Nations here today. Beyond the participation of the 67 countries here, we have over 3,500 delegates around the globe in 50 hubs scattered over 30 countries. Those are using the normal platforms that we have from social media that are giving them the opportunity to be full participants of this conference, so it's really exciting. It's an incredible scale. Has the ITU been involved in such a large gathering on a global basis before? Well, this is the largest gathering ever on this issue and especially giving the youth the opportunity to speak out. You have youngsters who do not own computers or who do not have an internet connection but are participating in this event for the first time and we believe that this is going to have a real snowball effect in addressing the issues regarding the youth, which is our future, and at a global level we'll be able to continue to use these kind of platforms. I was going to ask you, what is the aim of this summit? What's the aim of Beyond 2015 and what are some of the issues that are going to be focused on? Well, it's very important to bring the youngsters together today that the United Nations is discussing the post-2015 agenda, the Millionaire Development Goals and the Cecil Development Goals and the climate change issues were giving the youth the opportunity to bring in their contribution to this debate. President Chinchia, who is the patron of ITU's giant online protection, who was the initiator of this initiative, will be bringing this message to the UN General Assembly later this month in New York. But Mr. Ahmed Alandawi, who is the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Youth and myself, will be carrying this message as well through the United Nations system. But we are fortunate with the participation of also the President of ECOSOG, who will be carrying this message at the ECOSOG level. Therefore, we really believe that the voices of the youth will be heard. Finally, I'd like to ask you, being surrounded by all these energised young people in such a stimulating environment, how does that make you feel for the future? Well, it's very exciting. I mean, there is a contagious dynamism in this room. But beyond all this, what I can see in the eyes of the youngsters, there is hope. They are very confident about the future of the world, and they know what to do. They should not be underestimated, and we are giving them the opportunity to do that. And they will be coming with a real good product. Their parents, their seniors, will be very much proud of them. Dr. Joy, thank you very much indeed for being here today. Thank you.


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I'm standing in the historical museum of Bosnia in Sarajevo, a city that was devastated by a war 20 years ago. The city has almost fully recovered after the war, but a lot of people were traumatized and became drug dependent. Several NGOs are providing services for these people, but these services, which were previously funded by the Global Fund to fight AIDS to wear clothes in Malaria, recently lost their funding because the Global Fund is leaving the country. There are concerns that if the government does not provide funding for these programs, then the country can experience the same outbreak of HIV and hepatitis, which for example Romania experienced a few years ago. PROE is the NGO that operated the first and only program in Sarajevo that distributed clean needles to people who inject drugs to prevent infections. It was funded by the Global Fund. Samir Ibizevich, the head of the NGO told us that they had to close down the outreach and the dropping center. Of course it was a big disappointment in terms of breaking these ties because it's 10 years, it's a long time. As a result, we see many people get recovered, their families finally unify with them. At the same time, we reach many people who didn't want to go for go drug free. We provide them with harm reduction services, with needles, syringes. I believe that we prevent many deaths, we prevent many diseases. Some dropping centers in the country are still open. We visited the dropping center of the NGO Marginna in Zenica, an industrial town near Sarajevo. This center provides social and health support for drug users, including clean needles and syringes to prevent HIV and hepatitis C infections. This is one of the centers that have lost their funding from Global Fund, so now they are struggling to survive. Unlike in Sarajevo, the town of Zenica provided a free rent-off site for the organization so they could stay open. The head of the center, Deniz Dedaic, told us that the center shares a building with an unusual neighbor, a kindergarten. For all this year we don't have any problem and incident with regarding the kids and our clients. Our service is free of charge for everybody and our service is saving money and saving lives. It's a friendly atmosphere and a friendly place for these people. It's a classical needle exchange program. You look at equipment, different types of needles and syringes. The cookers, insulin syringes, alcohol pads, citric for the cooking room, heroin, water, distillate water. And all this wouldn't be possible without Global Fund money? Yes. And do you have any numbers? Like how many people from your clients live with HIV and hepatitis? We don't have any clients with HIV. But they have a specific situation regarding hepatitis C. It's the lowest percent of hepatitis C in the whole country. Incidents of hepatitis C in the population injecting drug users less than 22%. In Sarajevo we have an incidence of more than 40%. In Banyaluka we have an incidence of more than 60%. Do you think it would be possible without needle and syringe program? No. Definitely. We have started first, like the first program in the country from 2002. So you can very easily argue that there is an evidence that in cities where you introduced last year in needle and syringe program you have low level in other cities? Absolutely. How do you get salary? Where do you get salary from? We don't have salary from this moment. All staff in Margina in our three centers Tuzla, Zenica and Mostar working voluntarily. So people work for free? Yes, absolutely. It's our mission. Our first obligation is to our clients. In our organization working voluntarily, working for society, it's a second side of our obligation. Then it's also explained that there are not only public health benefits of the program but positive impact on public safety. When the program started more than half of their clients were involved in criminal activities and now their numbers are cut in half. They carried out a cost-effectiveness study which showed that they saved 2.5 million euros annually for the taxpayers. For annually saving, every year you'll be able to build new kindergarten or new school or whatever for the society. The dropping center has stored clean needles and other equipment enough for one year. After that they will run out but they have good chances for government support because they are the only harm reduction service in Bosnia that has been accredited. Then it's said they have good cooperation with the police. However, a client at the center told us drug users do have problems with them. So if the police finds a syringe in your pocket then they will take you and arrest you. Here in Zenica first they beat you and then they ask you for a name. Name of the dealers? No, no, your names. The dealers are after. He explained that he tried to stop using drugs several times but has been unsuccessful. This dropping center is the only place where he could get the proper syringes he needs. Do you think if there is no center here then you would get infected with hepatitis? It's 100%. If these problems stop here in Bosnia then there will be an epidemic. Now he has prescribed a subscription drug called Suboxon which can substitute the street heroine so he doesn't have to engage in criminal activity to buy his drug. Clients like him are referred by NGO Margina to a local clinic to receive opiate substitution treatment in addition to other therapeutic programs. The head of the center showed us around in the clinic. Our treatment is not only OST. We have individual and group psychotherapy, sociotherapy, sociorehabilitation treatment and education treatment. And this is room for distribution of opiate substitution therapy, table for distribution therapy and space for patients is here. Its methadone is juice. Service is financial, financial free. No cost for any kind of treatment. Unlike needle and syringe programs the funding for opiate substitution programs seem to be secured for the near future. Not only in Zenica but also in Sarajevo where a brand new clinic provides substitution treatment. This is the largest number of opiate substitution programs in Bosnia-Herzegovna which have around 100,000 in the whole of Bosnia-Herzegovna. Now we have a variety of conditions for work. We have all the forms of treatment from hospital treatment or detox program for heroin, for detoxification. We also created a part for treatment of acute alcohol conditions for those who take alcohol. Do you have patients with hypotipacy? Yes. If they can get treatment here or how do you solve it? They can get treatment in an infective clinic and clinic via pathology. And we have cooperation in Zenica. I would like to say that we are very sorry that Global Fund has finished its program but we have a promise that they will be partners in the next four years with our local and health and political authorities in maintaining this program with the help of local representatives and in their technical support. So we think that these programs will continue to live in the future. The primary recipient of the Global Fund grants in Bosnia-Herzegovna was the local office of the United Nations Development Program. They distributed the funds to the harm reduction NGOs in the past decade and they are pleased with the results. The estimated injection drug user in Bosnia-Herzegovna is 12,500. We actually reached by the end of December and the project more than 8,000 people. So we distributed more than 2 million needles in syringes within the program. We are quite happy and quite satisfied with the results of this decade. All together, $40 million entered this country in the last decade, which resulted with the fact that we have the lowest prevalence of HIV in the region. It is three times less than in Montenegro and four times less than in Croatia and Serbia, number of HIV positive on 100,000 citizens. We strongly believe that therapeutic centers by themselves are necessary and working a good job. But without outreach, I'm afraid that we will not have an inflow of these populations towards the institutions which could offer opiate treatment. Now we are coming to a period when the country should take over responsibility. Sridan Kukoyl, president of an HIV prevention NGO based in Banyaluka, pointed out that the sophisticated political system of Bosnia-Herzegovna is a real challenge because it is hard to identify and reach officials who are responsible and also because the government officials are frequently changing, so they have to start explaining everything all over again. Many people from the global fund are talking about the sustainable transition to domestic funds, but does it really happen? Is it really a sustainable transition that we see now in Bosnia and in Albania and other countries? It's not really going on. It's hard to explain that something that you had for 10 years, it will be stopped in one minute, you know. I think that the hundreds, maybe thousands of people will going to stay on the street without our support. What do you think will be the consequence if these programs close down? Looking at other countries, we can expect that the number of new HIV cases among ejecting drug users will going to increase. Some year thinks NGOs working in the field should do more to make their voices heard by the general society and find supporters for the cause of harm reduction, which should be framed not only as a health problem, but a broader social issue. I think we still have some space or some time to act properly. We are not losing the battle at this moment. So if funding would be available, you would start again dropping something? Of course. I would be the most happiest person in the world if we could continue.