It is now time for Question Period, the leader of Her Majesty's Royal Opposition. Mr. Speaker, my questions for the acting Premier, last Thursday's fall economic statement just goes to show there is no reason on Terrell should trust this government's numbers. The government took a billion dollars from the reserves and another 1.1 billion dollars from the sale of Hydro-1. The deficit is actually 2.1 billion dollars higher than this government is willing to admit. As the Toronto stars Martin Red Cohen said, the government under promises and then tries to claim they overperform. He said, I quote, on Terrell is a chronic underperformer and is an ongoing overspender. Mr. Speaker, will the government finally admit that they have no plan, no realistic expectation to balance their budget in 2018? Well Speaker, our plan is fundamentally different from their plan, although I must say I'm not even sure that there is a plan. Year after year, we have beaten our deficit. I'll be looking to both sides to start quiet. Finish please. We have beaten our deficit targets year over year. We will continue to do so, Speaker. We have been very clear that net revenues from asset sales like Hydro-1 IPO are being placed in the Trillium Trust, Speaker. We proposed an amendment to the 2015 budget in committee that would formalize that, Speaker, to formalize that all the net proceeds would be contributed to the Trillium Trust. And you know what happened? Both the PCs and the NDP voted against it, which was why it's in this fall. Thank you. Supplementary. Mr. Speaker, again for the acting Premier, and I've got some unfortunate news for the acting Premier, you can't spend the same money twice. You know, the foreign economic statement confirmed what the opposition has been saying all along. The sale of Hydro-1 was not for infrastructure. We've known all along the Liberals, you know, use this money to simply pay for their own scandal, waste and mismanagement. $1.1 billion from the sale of Hydro-1 went straight into general revenue. Awfully enough, that's exactly the same amount the Liberals wasted on the gas plant scandal. Mr. Speaker, why won't the government just come clean? The only reason they sold Hydro-1 was to make up for their own incompetence and waste. Come clean and make that what you did. Thank you. Deputy Premier. Speaker, I think it's really important to point out also that the contingency fund remains as what it was, Speaker, this notion that we somehow use contingency fund to bring down the deficit is simply untrue, and I would love to see the evidence you have that would demonstrate that has been a change. We are committed to spending more on infrastructure. This is a clear direction this government is going. We have a plan to get there. The plan does include asset sales, includes broadening the ownership of Hydro-1 because that's what the people of this province elected us to do, Speaker. We are moving forward on our mandate to build Ontario up. Thank you. Final supplementary. Mr. Speaker, the government's numbers just don't make sense. The acting Premier, everyone understands, everyone understands this is a shell game. Over the next three years, the government is predicting $8 billion in more revenue than the financial accountability officer has forecasted. I know who I trust. I trust the independent officer, not the government's spin machine. The gap is real, and the fall economic statement clearly says the Hydro-1 revenue will be used to fill the gap, an $8 billion gap. They expect to get $9 billion from the sale of Hydro-1. I hardly think this is a coincidence. We all know what's happening here. Mr. Speaker, will the government admit that they are using the next portion of the Hydro-1 sale to plug their $8 billion gap? Tell us the answer, please. Mr. Speaker, we have a non-tax revenue from capital gains on assets and otherwise. We have made it very clear that we are dedicating every dollar that is net result of these assets to the Trillium Trust. Furthermore, we have over $120 billion in revenue. We are not relying on assets to manage the deficit. We are relying on economic growth. That's why we are investing the money to create even more wealth for the people of Ontario. The member officer is actually double-counting when he talks about reserve. I think they need to get their act together in terms of the principles of accounting on this very issue. Thank you. Thank you very much. Speaker, good morning. My question is for the Treasury Board President. Last week, the Finance Minister, Rob, the sale of Hydro-1, intended for infrastructure monies to pay down the deficit. Unfortunately, that type of creative financing is unsustainable and, I dare say, dishonest. Don't just take my word for it. Take the... The member will withdraw. Certainly. Withdraw on speaker. Don't just take my word for it. Take the financial accountability officers. That means the Treasury Board President should be following the mandate letter assigned to her to reduce the size and cost of government. But that's barely mentioned in the fall economic statement. Why? Is it because the Minister of the Treasury Board has failed to hold the line on government spending? In fact, earlier this month, the Financial Accountability Officer affirmed our lower 2015-16 deficit target of $8.5 billion without factoring in the Hydro-1 IPO into his figure, Speaker. So we are at Treasury Board working very hard to keep programs spending low, Speaker. We have to make sure that we're getting best value for every dollar that we're spending. And what's fascinating to me, Speaker, is that what we're hearing from opposition over and over again is spend more. You want us to increase compensation to physicians, Speaker. You want us to... Every day we hear about expenditures you want us to make. And yet now we're hearing that we're spending too much. The fact is Treasury Board has gone through a line-by-line review of every ministry, every program and every ministry to ensure we're getting the best value for those dollars. Speaker, the Financial Accountability Officer actually said we were going through some short-term gain for long-term pain. That's what he said. I remember seeing it. You yourself said when you went through five, we're out of money. Now Ontarians can't afford any new taxes, so the only hope in order for this government to balance the budget and ensure sustainable healthcare and education is through a more efficient government and for you to actually do your job. But that's impossible when the government takes its so-called net-zeros in contract negotiations and applies that money to higher salaries rather than the deficit. There is no discipline on that side of the House. Will the Treasury Board President explain why her department has lost control of government spending and is not doing its job? Thank you. Well, Speaker, the member opposite is simply wrong. In fact, we are looking at an average of 0.9% increase in spending. That is significantly below the rate of inflation. I don't know where you would want to cut more, Speaker, where the member opposite would want to cut more. As I've said, every day we hear about ... Member from Brucecray or South. That they want us to spend more on their particular projects. We have a very clear path to balance. We are on that path, Speaker. We are making difficult decisions, but we are determined to achieve balance by 1718. They will take a variety of approaches to get us there, but we are committed to doing exactly that while we protect the services that matter to the people of this province. Thank you. Final supplementary. Clearly not protecting the services that matter the most to Ontarians. Look at the illegal strikes in education. Look at the health care cuts that my caucus has been raising in this assembly. If you want to talk about who's wrong, I want to know if you were right or if you were misquoted on W5 when you said, and I quote, we're out of money. You can't have it both ways. Your inaction and your lack of discipline speaks for itself. It is not leadership. It is reckless. This government has specialized in mediocrity. You have compromised the province's credit rating and you've made life unaffordable for Ontarians, and only you have yourself to blame. The budget will not balance itself. Will the Treasury Board President admit here today, in this place, that the lack of discipline in her department and across government is what really is in store for Ontarians? Thank you. President, Treasury Board? Speaker, I think this is a question that maybe should go down in history as taking two paths in one question. You've got to choose a length. On one hand you're saying you're spending too much, and on the other the very same question you're saying you're not spending enough. So I really do think that the party opposite needs to get their act together. There was a time where we knew exactly where they stood, and that was slash and burn 500,000 people. We're hearing about a kinder, gentler party speaker, but at the core there's nothing that's changed over there. Thank you. New questions from the Liberal Democrat Party. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the acting Premier. Page 100 of the fall economic statement shows that the money from the Hydro-1 sell-off is going towards government revenue. But the Premier promised that selling off Hydro-1 would build transit in infrastructure speaker. Of course we know that selling off Hydro-1 was never about building anything. The Liberals have counted the money once for transit in the Trillium Trust. And a second time against the deficit will speaker ask any Ontarian, and they'll tell you that you can't spend the same dollar twice. You can only spend a dollar once. Can the acting Premier explain how the Liberals are taking a dollar and counting it twice? Thank you. Mr. Finance. Mr. Finance. So Mr. Speaker, let me explain that we have capital gains on assets, and we have a number of initiatives that happen throughout the budget cycle. Over $124 billion in revenue occurs. In this particular case you have an asset that creates a gain. We have to reflect it as a non-taxable revenue. We have also put a dedicated Trillium Trust that ensures that the values, the net gain is invested into that trust, to be reinvested into new assets, Mr. Speaker. We're not relying on assets in order to manage our deficit. We are what we are doing is growing our economy and enabling us to have more revenue, more activity, and we are controlling our spending, Mr. Speaker. We're the leanest government in all of Canada because of the efforts that we are taking. And the President of the Treasury Board has been acting all this time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you. Mr. President. The government's own fiscal update says the increase in revenue, quote, largely reflects the recent Hydro-1 IPO. The money from the sell-off of Hydro-1 isn't going towards building transit and infrastructure. It's going to actually balance the books for one year. The sell-off of Hydro-1 isn't raising the money the Liberals promised. Minister of Economic Development. The only infrastructure that they promised to the people of Ontario. Will the acting Premier and her government be breaking the promise they made to Ontarians to build transit just so they can balance the budget, Speaker? Thank you. Minister. Mr. Speaker, we've just enacted further regulation around the Trillium Trust in order to ensure that the lands from the Seed and then Lakeview, that head office buildings that are also not as productive, that we look at initiating those gains to be invested into the Trillium Trust. We stipulate it very clearly into the Act. And that is exactly what's happening, Mr. Speaker. The member opposite may want to talk about the fact that she doesn't like the notion of us taking an agency or a company that's underperforming, making it better, creating greater value, netting tremendous gains for the province of Ontario, dedicating its gain into the Trillium Trust for reinvestment into our economy. That's her choice. But, Mr. Speaker, we're going to continue to invest in our economy, to grow our economy and enable for us to have greater revenues overall and greater productivity and prosperity for all people of Ontario. Thank you. Final supplementary. The Liberals promised the Hydro One money would go into the Trillium Trust to pay for infrastructure. Instead, it's going into general revenue so that the Liberals can show a one-time smaller deficit in this year. Will this acting premier finally admit that selling Hydro One was never about infrastructure? And can she tell us, which of the transit projects that the Liberals list off continually in this House, will she be cancelling in order to balance the budget? Thank you, Minister. Mr. Speaker, we have stipulated that we're going to be spending over $134 billion into infrastructure. We've identified in the fall economic statement a number of projects that are well underway. Over 200 more projects have occurred. And Mr. Speaker, this transaction also enabled us to pay down debt by a billion dollars. So Mr. Speaker, we're acting prudently, we're taking assets, making it certain that we're able to gain or achieve greater value of those assets and reinvestment. And of course you have to recognize that gain as a non-taxable revenue. It's exactly what we've done in this budget. We've been very upfront throughout and going forward. We're going to continue doing everything that's necessary to invest in our economy to create even more value. That is what we're doing. And Mr. Speaker, let me say again, we're not relying on assets to control our deficit. We're relying on $124 billion of other revenue that's generating wealth for the province of Ontario. Thank you. Thank you. New question. The Leader of the Third Party. New question is also for the acting Premier Speaker. On the very first page of the fall economic update it says, if revenue growth is slower than expected, quote, the government will need to consider other tools. Does other tools include further sales of revenue generating assets and even deeper cuts to health care and education? Thank you. Mr. Speaker, it's prudent, of course, for us to take consideration of all the tools that are available to the province and to a government. And frankly, Mr. Speaker, Ontario has a lot of flexibility, frankly. We have more arrows in our quiver than other provinces because they have taken some of those tools already into action. We are relying only on going after those that don't pay appropriately. We're going after tax avoidance measures in the economy. We're going after the underground economy, which, by the way, has net an additional $224 million more as a result of those initiatives, Mr. Speaker. We're also controlling our debt. We now have our paying $140 million less than what he had anticipated because we're borrowing $25 billion less as a result of the actions that we're taking. Mr. Speaker, those are the initiatives that we're taking. Those are the tools that we're looking forward to enacting and ensuring that everybody pays their fair share. Thank you. There are so many arrows in the quiver, they should have skipped over the sell-off of Hydro-1 because virtually nobody in Ontario wanted them to use that quiver. Thursday's fall economic statement shows job creation projections are down by 70,000 jobs over the next four years, Mr. Speaker. That's like the entire city of Sarnia not being able to find a job. With a competitive dollar, we should have actually seen some job growth by now, Speaker, not less growth and fewer jobs. Selling Hydro-1 is not going to create jobs here in the province of Ontario. Privatizing other assets will not create more growth, Speaker. Will the acting premier rule out selling more revenue-generating assets? So, Mr. Speaker, let's be clear, Ontario and Ontarians have been doing a tremendous job of promoting our economy. In fact, Ontario now leads Canada in economic growth and our unemployment rate is down 6.8% below the national average. Furthermore, we have over 560,000 new jobs since the depths of the recession because of the diversified economy that we've been employing and initiating. Furthermore, I said very clearly that when we look at our assets, we look at those that are underperforming and are not creating greater value. That is why LCBO and OPG and some other assets are not being used because they provide greater value. Hydro-1 had an opportunity to make more value for the province of Ontario, and it did, Mr. Speaker, well beyond every expectation that most have had. The market bear a strong valuation. We still own 84% of that for our operation, which is now greater in value than it was even three weeks ago. We'll continue to do that to promote more value for all Ontarians. Thank you. Speaker, the value went to their friends. It didn't go to the people of Ontario. That will slow revenue growth, Speaker. That is a fact. Ontario shows that starting next year, the sale of Hydro-1 will start costing us money. That's going to slow revenue growth for this province, Speaker. And the fall economic update says that that's exactly what's going to open the door for the necessity of new revenue tools or more revenue tools to be undertaken by this government. So why is the Liberal government setting up Ontario families for more sell-offs and deeper cuts in the future? Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the majority of Hydro-1 is still owned by Ontarians. The government of Ontario owns 84% of this company still today. And as we proceed forward, 40% of this last IPO went to Ontarians broader in the retail sector. And pension companies, of which the member opposite staff and others are relying upon, also are owners of some of these shares. So going forward, the people of Ontario indirectly or directly still own a great part of this company, which has now been improved because of the actions that we've taken. And that's exactly what we're talking about. More importantly, it's about reinvesting into our economy, reinvesting in new assets, reinvesting in transit, in Hamilton where the member opposite is from. And she would actually probably cut those very initiatives if she did not find sources of revenue and capital to make it so. That's exactly what we've done. We've stipulated that and we've actually rolled out a whole list of projects underway. Thank you. And Mr. Speaker, that's what this is about. Thank you. A new question. The member from Prince Edward Hastings. Thank you, Speaker. My question this morning is for the acting Premier. For months now, the government's climbed onto its high horse and said that the Hydro-1 sale was going to pay for infrastructure. Right up until last Thursday, though, when they couldn't hide the truth any longer, a background document the government handed out for the fall economic statement said, and I quote, the improvement in the deficit projection for 2015-16 is mainly the result of the government's progress on the asset optimization strategy outlined in the 2015 budget related to the recent Hydro-1 initial public offering end quote. Mr. Speaker, the only thing they've sold is Hydro-1. Yep. Speaker, the Premier, the Minister of Energy, and the Deputy Premier have all just been contradicted by the Finance Minister. My question is, would they like to correct their record, or are they saying the Finance Minister wouldn't tell them what he was using the Hydro-1 money for? Oh, good touch. We have assets, we have ongoing operations of government, we're trying to maximize value, we've very clearly stipulated that the asset gain from Hydro-1, which is greater than even anticipated, is being reflected as a non-tax revenue as it must. These are basic accounting principles, Mr. Speaker. We've also went further and said that we're dedicating all of that gain into the Trillium Trust, which to dedicate those revenues to create even more by reinvesting in new infrastructure projects. That being, public transit, including those opportunities. Mr. Furrier, you're going to sound second time. It talks about roads and bridges and expansions to various communities that will benefit from the redeployment of these assets to create new value for Ontarians, and that's what we've done, and we've been very clear about that as the case. Furthermore, it also talks about the fact that we're paying less interest. It talks about the fact that we are collecting more revenues in other areas, and that is ultimately how we're getting to now, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Furrier, the flakes of snow haven't really even started to fly here in Toronto yet, but there's been a snow job going on for months over on that side of the house. Finance tells us one thing, but we get another here in the house. Even the Finance Minister couldn't quite explain how money could be going to the deficit when Ministers of the Crown repeatedly told the House it would be spent on infrastructure.  Withdraw, Mr. Speaker. Speaker, all the government has done here is temporarily plug a $1.1 billion hole. It's going to reappear again next year, just in time for them to sell more Hydro-1 shares. Will the acting Premier just admit that the money was never going to go to infrastructure, or is she just waiting for Ed Clark's latest memo, too? Good talk, Minister. Mr. Speaker, the only people that are double counting here are members of the opposition when they claim that the reserve is being used twice. Well, in fact, that's not the case, Mr. Speaker. Furthermore, we've been clear that non-tax revenue has to be reflected as revenue. That's exactly what we've done. Further, Ed, we said that we're going to invest it, and we are. Listen, Mr. Speaker, on pages 27 and 28, we offer just a small amount of those projects that are underway for the benefit of communities like the members own, so that we can greatly appreciate the value for our economy and for our families and our communities. By the way, let's be clear that Ontarians and Ontario still holds a substantive amount of Hydro-1, which is more valuable than it was before. And we made it very clear that no one person or company can own more than 10% of Hydro-1. We will still retain a greater degree of ownership, greater opportunities for revenue that's being sourced from a better company, and we're generating further revenue from reinvesting in our economy. Mr. Speaker, we stipulated that very clearly in our feds in that regard. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. My question is to the Acting Premier. In the last fiscal year, the government forced Ontario's electricity consumers to pay $956 million in debt retirement charges on their electricity bills. These charges were supposed to pay down the residual stranded debt left over from the old Ontario Hydro. But instead, last week, we found that these charges paid down only $400 million of the residual stranded debt. What did the government do with the remaining $556 million? So, Mr. Speaker, as the member opposite may know, there is stranded debt, that's the legacy debt that was left over from the dismantling of the old Ontario Hydro. And that conservative legacy left $20 billion in stranded debt. We've been paying that down regularly over time and it will continue even still, Mr. Speaker. Notwithstanding that, we've taken amount from the IPO that's being applied to the residual stranded debt. The other components of it goes to actually pay direct debt from the OEFC and we will continue to do that as we must and as we will. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, supplementary. Again, to the Acting Premier, Mr. Peter Kormos would have said horse feathers to that, Mr. Speaker. Rather than be upfront with Ontarians, this government is rewriting the laws just so that it can play accounting games. First, they change the law so that they can give IOUs instead of cash to the Ontario Electricity Financial Corporation to pay the hydro debt. Then, they rewrote the law so that they can put $2.2 billion in non-cash benefits into the Trillium Trust, so-called benefits that don't provide a single penny and actual spendable cash for infrastructure. Finally, they rewrote the law so that they continue collecting $600 million a year in debt retirement charges without putting it towards debt.  Why is the Liberal government taking money from the electricity rate pairs to play accounting games with its books for political purposes? So it's interesting, Mr. Speaker. The member opposite now does not cite the FAO and his explanation of residual stranded debt and the stranded debt. He very clearly outlines that the government of Ontario has been paying it down, that there is a great degree of uncertainty as to what will happen next. We have applied all of those debt retirement charges directly to residual stranded debt, and that's what's happening, Mr. Speaker. It has been going down, and as a result of what we've done more recently, we've been able to garner even more opportunity to pay down debt. We've paid down debt by another billion dollars. So we will continue to apply debt to the OEFC and the component of stranded debt as required. We'll continue to go down for the sources that we are applying, but we are very, very clear that the retirement charge for residential will be eliminated by this year and we're eliminating it for all industrial and businesses in 2018, nine months ahead of schedule so that they have certainty and further reductions in their costs overall. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry. This ministry has to balance the priorities of communities, industry and our natural heritage, which includes the important role of environmental stewardship. The forests in this province are important in the fight against global warming. We know that forests capture, convert and retain carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that significantly contributes to climate change. Ontario's forests have an important role to play when it comes to our fight against climate change as nearly 70% or 93 million hectares of our province are covered in forests. Mr. Speaker, could the minister please tell us what steps Ontario is taking to preserve our forests while balancing the need for wood products? Thank you. I want to thank the member from Kitchener Centre for the question. The stewardship of Ontario's forests is a core component of my ministry's responsibilities. Through legislation like the Crown Forest Sustainability Act, we require that forests are managed to meet the economic, social and environmental needs of present and future generations. Our province works with the forestry industry of the province's forests. We do so by setting annual limits on how much industry is allowed to harvest as well as ensuring that forestry on Crown Lands takes place within areas designated for managed forestry. Even within the managed forest speaker, 6 million hectares are protected areas where forestry cannot occur. And beyond the managed forest, we've protected an additional 225,000 square kilometres of Northern Ontario through the Far North Act. Speaker, we also protect Ontario's forest biodiversity increase in forest capacity to sequester greenhouse gases. The renewal of forest is a priority between 03 and 13 licensed holders have planted more than 1 billion trees. Thank you. I'd like to thank the minister for showing us how Ontario is working to preserve this very important resource while supporting an industry that directly and indirectly employs nearly 170,000 people in this province. While it is important to maintain the forest Ontario already has, I think most Ontarians would agree that meeting the challenges of climate change requires great leadership. Now, our newly announced climate change strategy sets a long-term vision for this province that calls for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to 80% below 1990 levels by the year 2050. Mr. Speaker, there are few initiatives that match that kind of ambition, both in long-term thinking and capacity to address greenhouse gases as trees do. Could the minister please share with the house his ministry strategy to explain forest coverage in Ontario and explain our global contribution in capturing current dioxide? Thank you. Mr. Speaker, again thanks to the member from Kitchener Centre. Our ministry is doing its part to contribute to the global efforts of our partnership with Forest Ontario and over 65 conservation agency partners across Ontario to deliver our government's 50 million trees program. This program will see the planting of 50 million trees and the establishment of new forests on suitable private, rural and urban lands across Ontario by 2025. By doing so, we anticipate being able to remove 6.6 million tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by 2050. We've planted a variety of settings across the province. Our goal is to plant 1 million trees in urban areas, working with municipalities and other partners. We've planted nearly 20 million trees since we started this program. With the continued support of our partners and Ontarians at large, we're on target to meet our goals. On a final note, I encourage Ontarians to look into helping us through one of those partners. The program offers subsidies. Yes, thank you, speaker. To the Minister of Transportation, last week we learned that since the scathing auditors reported into the Liberal government's substandard winter road maintenance contracts that risked the safety of Ontario motorists, four of those contracts have now failed. Since I asked earlier this month about the two contracts that had failed in Canora and Sudbury, there are now two more. One in the Ottawa area and now we hear whispers that they've walked away from the Niagara contract as well. Will the Minister now admit the performance-based substandard winter road contracting they settled us with in 2009 is a complete and utter failure and restore the pre-2009 former progressive conservative system of winter maintenance that ensured motor safety? Thanks, very much, speaker. I thank the member from Kitchener Conestographer's question. I know that he referenced the auditor's report from earlier this year on the winter maintenance file, as every member of this House knows, including that MPP, we accepted all eight of the recommendations that flowed from her report. He referenced the new contract that we have in the Canora area, speaker. That is a contract that was actually awarded to a company from British Columbia that has a long-standing and strong track record of delivering winter maintenance, year-round maintenance, in fact, speaker in British Columbia. We continue to work with all of our area maintenance contractors. I've had the chance to speak with all of them between last winter season and this winter season. People in this legislature have heard me say that we've added more equipment, speaker, both in the north and the south, that we've added more opportunities for anti-icing liquid. We'll continue to work on this file, speaker. I said this earlier just a few weeks ago. We expect that this winter season that our contractors will perform according to their contractual obligations. Thank you. Thank you, speaker. Back to the minister. I'm glad he brought that additional equipment up in his answer. Speaker, I'll remind him, in fact, of the auditor's finding that in one case the Liberal government's incurred an annual cost of $1.7 million for additional equipment, equipment that should have been there in the first place. The ministers said himself that taxpayers have purchased over 100 new pieces of equipment for highways both in the north and the south, just like you heard. The minister has now walked away from four contracts in the north and in the south. Will the minister tell us how much of that equipment was bought to support these four failed contracts? How much? Thank you. Speaker, I'm not quite sure exactly what the member of us is getting at with this supplementary question. He suggests on the one hand that we have a challenge in the winter maintenance program. He cites the auditor's report, then he criticizes us. I think, if I understood it correctly, for moving forward aggressively to make sure that we address for both the northern communities and southern Ontario communities and bring more resources to bear. Everybody in this chamber has heard me say this before. Our winter maintenance, winter highway maintenance action plan, which is now being deployed to support the development of equipment and material that we have on the highways right across the province, again both from the north and the south speaker. In addition, we have improved the Ontario 511 website. We have launched a track-by-plow program both in the Owens Sound and Simcoe areas and we anticipate further expansion of that program. We are increasing the use of anti-icing liquids before winter storm speaker and we continue to work with all of our area maintenance contractors to make sure that we have the resources to the people of Ontario. Speaker, my question is to the acting premier. Each and every resident of long-term care deserves to live in safety and dignity. But today, for too many seniors and vulnerable Ontarians, that's just not the case. We know that the government has failed to provide the behavioral supports that seniors with dementia need. As new democrats revealed earlier this month, there is an urgent and pressing need to tackle violence in long-term care homes. And when rights of patients are violated like the Thompson's, like the Cuthberts and like the carriers, families are left in the dark. Seniors, their families and frontline staff want to see action now. When will this liberal government actually step up and implement the coroner's recommendations to improve care for all Ontarians long-term care residents? Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Associate Minister of Health and Long-term Care. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And I thank the member opposite for her question. I also thank the coroner and his team for his report. There are many valuable recommendations in that report. And what I have committed to, Mr. Speaker, is I have asked my ministry to look at the recommendations that the coroner has come forward. In particular, the recommendation around striking a committee or a task force to look at resident-on-resident abuse in long-term care homes in the context that we already have a province-wide dementia strategy. So I've asked them to report back to me and let me know whether the existing dementia strategy is enough and will address the concerns raised by the coroner or do we need to strike another? I look forward to the recommendation. Thank you. Mr. Speaker. Again, Speaker, to the acting premier. The minister gives us the same old answer, but the families want to see action. The coroner's report on long-term care confirms what Ontarians have seen for years. They are simply not enough staff and not enough dedicated supports to ensure that every resident receives the care they need. This liberal government needs to take responsibility and fix the problems in long-term care, not by cutting services, but by investing in our public health care system. Will the acting premier commit today to tell Ontarians before the end of the year how this liberal government will respond to each and every recommendation from the coroner's report to improve long-term care and if not, why not? Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And I again appreciate the question and, Mr. Speaker, here are the facts. We have been investing in long-term care. We have increased by almost $2 billion since coming to office operating funding and 2% increase in 2015-16 for resident care needs. We've opened 10,000 new long-term care beds since taking office. 30,000 beds are being redeveloped on top of 13,000 which have already been redeveloped and we continue to invest in long-term care homes. Some more examples. We've hired 900 new nurses and personal support workers. The first 30 of 75 new nurse practitioners are being brought online, Mr. Speaker. Our government has made it mandatory for a home to notify the ministry immediately and contact the police when there's an alleged suspected or witnessed incident of abuse. We are committed to the safety and we look forward to working with all of our partners. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Minister of Energy. Minister, last Monday the government unanimously passed the ending coal for Cleaner Air Act 2015. With this important piece of legislation now in place we can now ensure that Ontario never return to the days of using dirty coal-fired plants to generate electricity for the province. This is a significant milestone for the province. I know that when Ontario phased out coal-fired generation it was not the only it was not only the single largest climate change initiative undertaken in North America but also provided significant health benefits to Ontarians. Mr. Speaker, true you to the Minister could you please update the House on the benefits of eliminating coal and our electricity mix? Mr. Speaker, I thank the member from Scarborough Rouge River for the question. We are proud that our government has passed the ending coal for Cleaner Air Act ensuring that Ontario never used dirty coal generation again. Getting off coal was the single largest climate change initiative in North America, saving approximately $4.4 billion a year and avoided health costs. Ontario has made significant progress in reducing emissions from the energy sector through the phasing out of coal-fired generation and shifting to non-emitting energy sources. I would like to recognize that the Ontario Lung Association is here with us today and they have been great advocates for the health benefits of Ontario's coal phase out. Getting off dirty coal allows for a better quality of life for people with asthma and less children suffering from air quality related illnesses. Thank you. Thank you minister. The ending coal for Cleaner Air Act 2015 clearly demonstrates Ontario's leadership in the fight against climate change. My constituents will be pleased to hear about our government's foresight and leadership in reducing electricity system emissions in Ontario. Minister, climate change is an issue that is not going to disappear and Ontario needs to remain a global leader going forward because if nobody takes action it will be impossible to avoid its catastrophic consequences. With the elimination of coal I understand that Ontario has become a leader in the generation of clean energy. Mr. Speaker, true you to the minister could you please provide the house with some examples of Ontario's clean energy generation. Thank you minister. Mr. Speaker, our government has committed and in fact remains committed to investing in a clean, modern and reliable electricity system that reduces greenhouse gas emissions and provides cleaner air for today and into the future. 90% of the power generated in Ontario during 2014 came from clean sources of energy such as water nuclear and non-hydro renewables including solar, wind and biomass. Ontario has approximately 15,200 megawatts of wind, solar, bioenergy and hydro electricity energy online. Ontario has firmly established itself as a North American leader in the development use and manufacturing of clean energy and now has the fastest growing clean tech sector in Canada with firms that employ 65,000 without creating $8 billion of annual revenue. Today Ontario has served the cleanest and most modern electricity systems creating a healthier population. Thank you. New question? The member from Nipissing. Thank you. Good morning my question is for the Deputy Premier. While I'm standing here in the legislature, hundreds of people are standing out in the cold on Memorial Drive in North Bay. They are rallying today to protest the cuts of 350 frontline healthcare workers at the North Bay Regional Health Centre over the past three years including 100 nurses who were fired. Healthcare professionals and patients in my riding are concerned that the quality of care we're getting in Nipissing is in jeopardy and it's creating turmoil in my community. Recently the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions stated that the Ontario Council needs an additional $23 million in funding per year just to meet the Canadian average for a similar facility. My question is will the Deputy Premier commit to restoring proper ongoing funding to the North Bay Hospital? Thank you. Mr. House. Mr. House will turn care. Well thank you Mr. Speaker and I appreciate the question and I want to start out by saying how the hospital, relatively new hospital built just a few days ago because with our investments and Mr. Speaker, did I say a few days ago? A few years ago. We're not that quick Mr. Speaker but I want to say that as a result of our funding increases which for North Bay Hospital it's almost unprecedented. In fact $100 million increase since 2003 that's an increase in funding to that hospital of 128% Mr. Speaker and as a result of those investments we're seeing the quality of care go up, we're seeing wait times go down dramatically in fact 9 out of 10 patients have seen wait times go down at that hospital including for example cataract surgery where the wait time has gone down by a dramatic 81% we know there's more work to do we know this hospital and the administration is working closely with their Linn to address any financial pressures but we're working closely to make sure there's great accomplishments. Back to the Deputy Premier yes it is a new hospital how do you explain closing 60 beds in this brand new hospital and the hospital cuts come at the same time the government has locked out 200 workers at Ontario Northland for more than 2 weeks now they're still hoping the Premier will act on their request to send the dispute to mediation or arbitration as I have stated many times in this legislature North Bay is a community in disarray the situation at our hospital could get even worse without immediate one time funding the hospital is seeking another 50 jobs will be lost in North Bay that would be devastating especially as the holidays approach what message from the government do you have this morning for the hundreds of people standing on Memorial Drive in North Bay looking for an answer Mr. Speaker my message would be thank God that party isn't in government after claiming that they would fire hundreds thousand people many of them health workers so what we're doing is still working closely with the Linn and with the hospital and I have to say when the member opposite talks about closing beds he should get his facts right because in fact many of those beds about 30 of them are actually beds for mental health patients and outcomes that those individuals those vulnerable people can actually be cared for better in the community so those residential supportive opportunities actually have been and are being created in the community so those beds and that support is actually being transferred out to where they can get better outcomes I would hope the member opposite would support that kind of good evidence thank you very much speaker my question is for the acting premier last week families in Oshawa learned that yet another 21 workers will be laid off because of this government's cuts to health care Ontario Shore Centre for Mental Health Sciences says it is quote increasingly challenging to grapple with the Liberals five year freeze on hospital funding the Liberals decision means that less care for patients is taking care of a place more worry for families speaker and lost paychecks and layoffs for dedicated workers today families in Whitby have a straightforward question and they deserve a straightforward answer will this Liberal government step up and stop the layoffs of 21 hospital workers in Whitby yes or no Minister of Health Minister of Health, long term care well thank you Mr. Speaker and again I'm proud of the hard work that those healthcare workers and other facilities in that area of Whitby the good work the important essential work that they do every day so Mr. Speaker we're making changes to our healthcare system I have to admit we're transforming it we're reforming it we're making those bold decisions including investing more money $250 million this year next year the year after new money in home and community care because we know that's where people want to be that's where we can care for them and provide the supports that they need to be cared for appropriately the outcomes are better so Mr. Speaker I do admit that sometimes that requires shifting resources around if we want to invest more in mental health services in the community that those funds we do continue to increase the healthcare budget year after year but we need to be prudent and we need to make responsible decisions and reflect science and evidence and good outcomes Mr. Speaker well Mr. Speaker I would suspect they would rather this government save their jobs than be proud of the work that they're now pulling out from underneath them Speaker 21 layoffs at the hospital in Whitby are just the latest cuts to hospitals on a long long list the Liberals are forcing 84 jobs in hospitals in Belleville and Trenton and at noon today families in North Bay as has already been mentioned will rally against the staggering 150 job cuts at their local hospital every one of those workers in our hospitals plays an important role Speaker they help provide care to patients in their most vulnerable moments but that doesn't seem to be a priority for this Liberal government Speaker when will the Liberals start listening to people in Whitby in Oshawa, North Bay, Toronto right across the province Speaker and stop cutting the hospital supports the hospital care that families rely on Thank you Mr. Speaker and you know this is part of a process where I know the opposition parties like to talk about the gross numbers they like to talk about what's being proposed as part of a plan to reduce one number of jobs in a particular health facility but often those jobs are empty to begin with their unfilled positions or their jobs that may be transferring to another part of the hospital to another program or maybe that a different type of health care professional of which we have 30 different types it may be that it's a job that's better held by a different kind of health care professional you need to release the first job in order to create the second but we're also making those important investments that are that Ontarians are asking for we are listening and they're telling us that they want more home and community care we are hiring people, nurses healthcare workers, PSWs in the home and community care system back 24,000 more nurses in Ontario all those nurses may not be in our hospital Mr. Speaker but they're in our community Thank you. Well thank you Mr. Speaker my question is for the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs. Last week the Premier the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and many ministers met with First Nation leaders here in the legislature I was privileged to present in one of those meetings this annual gathering of Aboriginal leaders is an important part of our government's to ensure our relationship is a modern and mutually beneficial one. I'm proud to be part of a government that's committed to building and maintaining good relationships with First Nation partners. Can the Minister please tell us more about last week's meeting with First Nations leadership Thank you. Minister of Aboriginal Affairs I'd like to thank the member for a new market Aurora for that question. Mr. Speaker earlier this year our government signed a historical political accord with the Government of Ontario. It provides a platform for First Nations in the province to work together on common priorities. Our government is committed to continuing to build positive relationships with First Nations allowing us to work with them in a spirit of mutual respect and collaboration to improve the quality of life in First Nation communities. Regular meetings with First Nation leadership are an important step towards achieving this progress. We will develop policies and initiatives that will lead to improved outcomes for First Nations. Last week's meetings extended over three days here at the legislature and at various offsite locations and they considered a whole host of topics of particular interest to First Nations and to this government. Thank you Speaker. Thank you. Well thank you Speaker. Thank you Minister. I'm proud that our government is building such close ties between Ontario and First Nations leadership. I understand that having the chiefs at the legislature provided an opportunity for them to meet with a record number of ministers 19 in total to discuss a wide range of issues such as remote infrastructure, justice poverty reduction and Aboriginal education. These are important issues Mr Speaker that profoundly impact First Nations communities and communities across the province. Can the minister explain some of the key issues discussed during last week's event? Thank you Minister. Meetings like this play an important part in maintaining the ongoing dialogue with First Nations and I'd like to thank my cabinet colleagues for taking the time to meet with First Nation leadership and to be a part of that dialogue. One of the major themes discussed last week was the environment with the Premier in Paris this week about climate change. It is important to acknowledge that it could have a very real impact on many First Nations communities who depend on our ecosystems for food supply and economic opportunities. Let me say this Speaker First Nations have an important role in the advice that they offer on climate change issues and that's why these dialogues are so important. Through cooperation and consultation with First Nations we can work to find solutions to the problems that benefit both Ontario, Canada and First Nations. Thank you Speaker. Thank you. New question? Member from Perth, Wellington. Thank you Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Minister of Health and Long Term Care. It concerns this government's lack of consultation before cutting family doctors and specifically the new graduate entry program or NGEP. I've given the minister a copy of the letter he received from the Department of Family Medicine at Stratford General Hospital and the President and CEO of the Heron Perth Healthcare Alliance and here's what they had to say about the government's changes. They will almost certainly spell the end of the involvement of family physicians at Stratford General Hospital. So I have to ask the minister can he see how seriously this would damage healthcare in communities like ours and how it concerns. Good question. Thank you. I really appreciate this question because I need to first of all stress that earlier this year we made some changes to incent our family doctors to join family health teams in the high needs parts of this province and I think all of us would support that laudable goal. However, we also saw that there are family doctors who have done their training in a family health team environment and maybe it's an opportunity for a variety of reasons to practice in a high needs area. So we created this program as an opportunity but I want to stress that it's 100% voluntary this program. It doesn't force any physician to do anything and in fact it's just specific to those areas which aren't high needs but it does point out a very important challenge that we face because many, many, many months ago and repeatedly we shared our ideas with the OMA Medical Association in great detail in terms of what we were thinking Mr. Speaker and throughout those many, many months and repeated efforts we did not get a single response, a single piece of advice, any advice for the OMA whatsoever. Supplementary. Speaker, the HPHA is very clear policies designed for large urban centers very often have unintended consequences in small and medium sized communities. We're told that in our local hospitals family physicians may no longer be able to care for inpatients because of this government's changes. We're told this could add millions of dollars to our hospitals budgets budgets that haven't seen an increase for four years. We need to know this minister is listening when it comes to the NGEP doctors and hospitals and small communities do not want it and did not ask for it. Good question. Mr. Speaker we created this program for new grads because we were listening and we were listening to medical students and new grads and family doctors but I want to emphasize that we repeatedly and for many, many months shared our proposal and it was simply a proposal at that stage since late last spring with the Ontario Medical Association they obviously didn't share with their membership so we were actually doing a program and we after a significant stakeholder consultation but without any input or advice whatsoever from the OMA, fortunately Mr. Speaker the Ontario Council of Family Practitioners were not going to be part of that silence and they came forward with a number of recommendations including specific recommendations that I'm confident are going to address the specific concern from the Huron Perth Health Minister. Thank you Mr. Speaker. My question is to the acting Premier. Acting Premier a recently released report on food bank usage in Ontario shows that since 2008 food bank usage has risen nearly 15% Speaker the numbers speak for themselves. 90% of food bank users are rental or social housing tenants 12% are senior citizens living in poverty 27% of single seniors are now living in poverty in Ontario. Will the acting Premier admit that her government is absolutely failing, vulnerable and impoverished Ontarians? Thank you. Acting Premier, Mr. responsible for poverty reduction. Thank you Speaker and our work on poverty reduction is strong, it is thoughtful and it is strong. Thank you Mr. Speaker. We acknowledge there is more to be done but we have started along a path that is showing real results for people. Take the example of a single mom with two little kids working full-time at a minimum wage job when we took office her income was less than $20,000 a year she was better off on social assistance than she was working full-time at a minimum individual has an income of close to $30,000 a remarkable increase in the well-being of that family we are focused on a number of measures we are measuring our progress Speaker and we have recently announced a new poverty reduction strategy that we are focused on eliminating chronic homelessness in 10 years. Thank you, supplementary. Speaker, we recently learned that 48.6% of food banks in Ontario are reporting an increase in use 34% of food bank users are children a third of people living in poverty are senior citizens those numbers are nothing to be proud of this government has had 12 years to act on poverty Speaker, vulnerable Ontarians are falling further and further behind will this government finally make fighting poverty a priority not in more years now that is exactly what is happening and I know that the member opposite has read that report from the Ontario Association of Food Banks as have I and many others on this side and we were very very pleased to see that this year there was a drop of about 4% a drop in visits to food bank Speaker that is not the only way to measure progress but that is a very encouraging statistic speaker as I say we have taken several steps and we now have a willing federal partner something we have not had for the past decade we have a federal partner who is making the commitment through the Canada Child Benefit that will exceed our target of reducing child poverty by 25% we always knew we couldn't do it alone we always knew that we needed support across governments and finally we have that support and that is our thank you time for question period has ended there are no deferred votes this house stands recess until 1pm this afternoon


You're right I took my socks off though. It's a hot one. I Went out there. I was wearing long pants socks these big like winter slippers. What am I doing? I came in here to put shorts on and get my sandals. It's hot out so my unscheduled week off is Here it's the first day. So sometime this week. We got to get this all covered up with drywall taped puttyed painted Which means we got to paint the rest of this as well. We may not get to everything, but We'll at least get this closed off, right? We can always we don't have to paint it We don't have to paint it right away. I would like to but there's also a few other things. I'd like to get done I'm just about to go out and sit on the porch for a little bit And then we're gonna start pumping water from our creek into the pond see if we can get that pond level to come up The pond is looking really good. It's nice and clear the aeration is really helping it a lot this year So we're gonna be at home for the next week heads up We will get back to trucking, but you can come hang out with me at home for a few days if you'd like Well, when I'm filming this it's Canada day. So happy Canada day wearing the appropriate shirt Got all the stuff for the pond on the back of the truck here Gonna do some trimming while I'm out there So, okay, so what I'm gonna do what I'm gonna attempt to do the amateur that I am This is a big steel post with some steel wire at the top here I'm gonna shove that down into the creek in and then I'm gonna hang the pump From this just so that it's not right on the bottom sucking up everything on the bottom Run the hose Into the pond. Let's see what happens. Oh And I'm excited. Let's see It's a hot day. Well, have I mentioned that yet? It's a hot day Was it it's 27 30 so it's probably in the 80s like 80 No close to 90 Fahrenheit That'll have summertime All right, so I brought those clippers down to clip these little trees to trim them up a little bit Set the drill properly talking about These little guys down there that guy there see how he's growing up more like a bush I want them to grow tall like a tree and it's hard to mow around these guys here So I gotta trim the bottom of them a little bit way up here the pond For WD. I don't even need it And the creek or the pond I mean looks so clear the aeration system is working so well I Show you it's a bit windy I hope the mic won't pick up all the wind the creek is pretty deep because we've been having quite a bit of rainfall this year So it's good lots of water.  Let's go down here Let's take a walk down to the beach shall we So I want to raise the level of this water probably to about here probably about another at least four feet there's a lot of Seaweed or whatever weed at the bottom of this here yet. Probably can't see it because of the reflection But look how clear that is It's wonderful So if we're lucky we might even get to go swimming later on today or tomorrow And this grass is really grown fast here. Look you barely see where the pump is over there It's all covered Got a trim around that yet That's a nice picture right there. Just take a picture of that look at that Chevy up on the hill. It's beautiful I don't know why I left you running girl Wasteful of me Here you rest your beautiful your beautiful chevveness. You just take a rest right there. Okay Enjoy the summer Okay, let's figure out if I can do this No idea what I'm doing. It's gonna be fun though I gotta learn somehow so it's like we got a little snake In the pond Shooting water in there. I'm just letting it dance around whatever. It's not hurting anything goes from here I was using this but I'm gonna try it out with just the extension cord for now if that doesn't work. I can always use this Generator right here and we got it Down there on the stick. You see it. That's the calmest water I could find I got it hanging so that is not touching the bottom I just wish the creek was deep enough so that I could trust that little floating to turn it off But I gotta sit here and watch it the creek shouldn't go any lower but It's not working as fast as I thought it might You know, it's the same thing with those aerators, you know, it's unless if I go and buy a big commercial system This is what I got to deal with Whatever we'll see it's supposed to be 3,500 gallons an hour It'll take several hours to raise this pond up even a little bit Well, see if it works. I mean We may have to go and buy a gas-powered commercial pump, right? Or a bigger pump anyway I'm an amateur what? Don't judge me Trying my best here The water's so clear and the water's so nice. I'd love to go swimming in there already. We just gotta get it a little deeper So we'll see what this does. We'll leave this here for a few hours and see what this does So apparently I burnt already Because I'm a canadian Both sides burnt What can you do you got to do it? You just got to jump in the deep end Just go out in the sun you get really burnt and then After that it turns into a nice tan and then you're good for the rest of the year.  Oh pretty sure what you're supposed to do is put on sunscreen and wear a hat and then blots of water And go out for 15 and 20 minute intervals every day. I did wear a hat chevy Protected my head. That's why my head's not burnt. You didn't wear any sunscreen. I don't need sunscreen. I'm a man Somebody please lecture him besides me What I say doesn't get through to him, but if his mom says it suddenly he listens Mom knows everything though. I'm not gonna deny that but I know just as much as very you just don't listen to me Then he and mom will probably say I never listen to her either You do sometimes Honestly, there's been there's been a couple of circumstances where like I'll give him advice for like a year straight a couple times And then his mom will come out and say the exact same thing like energy drinks I kept telling him speaking of this first one. I've seen you drink in a while This one's got the this one's a special one I preached at him for like two years straight and then his mom sends him an article and then he stops drinking them Really? Mama mama says mama say that's just top drink energy drinks Bobby Billy is Billy medicine my mama say bouche my mama say energy drinks all to the devil My mama say my mama say So we've been sitting here on the porch most of the day Uh, just enjoying canada day Is the flag right there. We're just watching her uh Flop around doing her canada day thing suddenly the winds died down, but it was pretty windy most of the day It was really nice. Mm-hmm It's been a hot day though We got the pump working at the pond so far the pond has raised two inches I think I'm gonna go down there and check on it again Of course you are Oh, I gotta check on it It's my project You gonna come help are you coming? No, I'll be right back Come on diesel Go check on the pond Come on bud. Come on. We're going down to the pond this way. Hey Come here Oh, I love the way these trees smell they have that smell of nature All right, so let's see. I put a marker Where the waterline was when I first started the pump. I still got it pumping water in. Yeah, it's still going Okay, so Oh, let's come up quite a bit All right, where this stick is here diesel careful Every that stick is there. That's where the waterline was a couple of hours ago Or yeah, put two hours ago. See that now the waterline is there So it's slow It's a slow process, but it is getting deeper Really want to go swimming What do you think diesel you want to go swimming? I once again have our house in a mess. It is drywall day Britt went off to work and I have been left with the task of one second. I got a sneeze I'm excited We're doing drywall So I already got these two outlet holes for those down there A lot of people would do the drywall horizontally like this. I'm going to do mine vertically Just because uh, I'm here by myself and it would be pretty difficult for me to lift up a whole piece of drywall and hold it there Even if I put in like little screws to rest it on that's how the drywall was before already That's the last people did it. That's just how I'm going to do it again I've cut off an inch Off the end here already because it is one inch short of eight feet to the roof Should fit in and now that I got those Holes cut out. I'm just going to cut the power to those those outlets there Poke them through there and let's see if we can get this First piece up and we're almost half done All right diesel you gonna help You gonna help man What are you doing?  She's probably that's probably her right now. She won't what you're doing You work in your house I'm fixing the house diesel I think look that way. It looks like you're making a big mess man It'll look good. I promise Promise And so what I've done I've cut the power and I've confirmed double check to make sure that there's no power We're going to these outlets here this light switch in that outlet. I've just Arranged them in a way that they can poke through these holes as I push the drywall into place Let's see what happens. Let's see what happens Okay, let's put you guys there All right wish me luck my very first ever drywall installation Number one and you're here with me Okay, we got a Okay So I totally messed the first one up made those holes too big So that's why I bought extras. You know me knowing me Figured I may as well have some extra sheets here just in case so here we go round two This is the most difficult one because this one's got the outlets, right? The rest won't be as difficult Let's try again There we go. That's better. All right Fits a little bit more of a gap at the top than I want it, but I can fix that with tape and putty Much more of a gap than I want it like I only took off an extra quarter inch And now it looks like I took off another inch at the top That's frustrating. I'm glad I don't do this for a living But then again if I did do this for a living I'd probably be a lot better at it I'll just stick to driving trucks. I guess There we go. I got it pinned up. Just got to put the rest of the screws in got two in there Holding it there. I was able to uh Leverage it up push it up just enough so that it's even with the roof there as close as I can get it Tape and putty will fill up the rest The lights and socket down there. It's perfect I think it turned out pretty good. Not bad for a first timer huh Not bad Very nice Now for the next one I'm gonna screw this one in totally first and get those plugs put in but That was the easy one I think we're making progress All the drywall is up All day For just this little section imagine if I did this no one would hire me if that was my job I still gotta putty it First coat and then do the second coat tomorrow what took a lot of the day Though it wasn't just the drywall. Uh, we also Installed this An outdoor plug so that we have Power in the back because there's no other outlets back here so once again We got to get this all mopped up last time I did this My camera didn't even like it that I was doing so much cleaning and it corrupted all of my files apparently remember that day All my files were prepped from that day so I'm not even gonna try this. I'm just gonna get this all cleaned up before brick gets home I've got about two hours. So I'll get this all cleaned up the floor is mopped then I can start mudding putty and whatever you want to call it taping the other stuff Well, at least I gained some experience now and I know what I'm doing What do you think Chevy? What do you think? Not bad Got the first layer of mud on there We've got to do a second layer eventually yet, but for now it's all closed up and almost ready for paint Almost ready. Well, that's it for today guys See you again tomorrow


Hey everybody, welcome back to Magical Orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a deck review. Hey today, we're going to look at the Black Market playing cards from Misery Develop Limited. These cards were printed from the Legends playing card company and they were artistically designed by Nikolai Arora. If you'd like to learn more about Misery Develop Limited, you can visit their website at mdtsed.com and MiseryMod.com. The Black Market playing cards was a Kickstarter project that was done by Misery Development Limited. Misery Development Limited also makes video games. They're the founders of the award-winning stalker, Misery Mod and the SEED visual novel game. That is where these decks come from. They are inspired from the SEED visual novel game and so fans of that will recognize a lot of these key features. This deck project was three unique limited decks. This black deck is called Zarovka. This is the veteran deck and this is the red bar deck and each deck was limited to a 1,000 deck release. We're going to look at the Zarovka playing cards.  That's the playing cards down here at the bottom and then there are some nonsensical numbers and a star. This side says Misery Development Limited. This side says premium poker playing cards and the bottom has an ad copy about the Legends playing card company. The back design also has a little bit of embossing there and carries that same detailed image over as a mirror to the back and that is pretty much it for the tuck-ins. Let's take a look at these cards. These cards are from the Legends playing card company and they are done on their emerald finish. The back design as you can see is a mirrored image of various colors, the black, the gray and that kind of gold. You have a really thin, micro thin border there, which is awesome, and then kind of a floral pattern in the corners and then in the center. The aim of this deck was to depict an exclusive and rare deck where all of the classic red suits were replaced with golden colors for both the hearts and the diamonds and then every single court has a very unique symbol that reflects the suits. And so while all the cards have a background frame, only the courts and aces have them in a decoration.  And your ace of spades is very simple. The words of the bottom underneath that pip say Misery Development Limited. Well, that is it for the Zerovka deck from the black market playing cards. As always recommend that you like this video just so other people can find it faster. We also recommend that you subscribe to this channel just to stay up to date on the latest in cards and card magic. Now, if you want to follow me on social media, you can. I'm at facebook.com slash magicwarthodoxy twitter.com slash magicwarthodoxy and instagram.com slash magic underscore orthodoxy.


Welcome to the last set news to get top stories in crypto and bring out a bite size pieces today What I want to talk about is I want to bring everybody down a little bit of a street as to where we Are right now and where are we are going as far as the metaverse and NFTs and to help me do that I got a special guest Dave digital Dave crazy for cryptos is back on the show to help us save this bull run Dave Let's do it again Let's do it. That's our job. That's our mission on this planet Yeah, so so if you don't know Dave over it He's got his own YouTube channel is a link in description crazy for cryptos got a website He's got a bunch of great information Dave was one of those guys who I found very early and introduced me to theta and I think there's some interesting things only over theta that we're gonna talk about today First of all Dave tell us why you thought theta was gonna be so big because when he first talked about I'm like I don't understand what he's talking about but now I get it but tell us how you found out Well, there's some deep roots about how I found out which I've talked about for you say actually maybe I'll talk about that real quick Yeah, I'll talk about I don't mind that at all. So there was What's his name? I forgot his name now crypto crow? I haven't heard about the crow in a long time Actually, I guess he's I mean he's a big time my youtuber still I believe but crypto crow talked about this coin called Theta's like I was crypto called Theta's it was looks really interesting about sharing Video like content delivery or whatever because there's the future is gonna be all video It's already 80% or it's gonna be 80% all video as this is really cool And then this is this work gets really weird is that there's a youtuber called Jason it for had a psychic on there And they show white dove and she's she said that theta is gonna be huge gonna be thousands of dollars and Now this is kind of weird stuff for a lot of people now when she said that I didn't know who she was I say, you know what? I think it just feels right. It feels right. So Crypto crow planted the seed Michelle white dove and Jay sniff gets credit for kind of bringing it to my kitchen again And I kind of aped in on it and bought a bunch of theta Then I after I did not I said I really started to dig into and I say I say I think this Data thing is really gonna be big because like I said, we're gonna be most of the content that we're that that's internet It's you know, 80% at least gonna be video Now Rob now we've got the metaverse thing going on which has been the buzzword for the last few months and Metaverse is basically it's the whole universe that you kind of lived in and maybe they're all gonna connect at one point. I don't know but What's gonna power that metaverse? It's gonna be theta because these are the edge nodes that basically everybody that's gonna be Mining theta or t-fuel actually mining t-fuel. They're gonna be sharing their bandwidth. So anybody that has unused bandwidth Can share it with a neighbor and they get rewarded in t-fuel, right? And see to me to me it only made sense because I saw that there's only so much Data centers that you can buy up only so many warehouses you can get you got to compete first like a compete with Amazon All the different things that they're buying up, too But when you have to get a data center to house your servers so you can run these These streams this HD this 4k and all the different things that they have it's very difficult very expensive Why wouldn't you just pay somebody their extra bandwidth? Use theta even Steve Chen co-founder YouTube goes. Yeah, I'm on I'm in on this as well So yeah, it makes sense to me and that's why we're trying to bring you guys down this street I did a video About a week or so ago and I talked about buying land in the sandbox metaverse for some pretty big games And when you take a look at what's going on there you have to understand that Everything that we do is still going to require bandwidth So if we have something like like with theta maybe that could power it and but that's not that's not the only part And then we're going to get into the theta drop in a little bit So Dave, what do you think about so far as far as like will theta power some parts of it? I?    I'm like, you know, I'm I'm a basic foundation infrastructure Backbone kind of guy. I like to buy the infrastructure and if you want to buy into the metaverse By theta and t-fuel. This is this is the the backbone. This is the infrastructure is gonna move everything around Okay, if you want to buy others, you know, sand and mana and these other cryptos. That's that's fine, too Or virtual land I just think that that data is gonna be I think it's undervalued at $6 $7 I guess about $6, but this is like what I've said before too, Rob It's a long I said it's a long time ago. This is before metaverse was like the big buzzword You know, it's all about sharing like the 4k video 8k video VR everything, you know VR AR, etc We're gonna need all this we're gonna get all this bandwidth to move it around to share it for it to work and And then this on metaverse came out. So well, this is actually Theta I think theta is gonna be The whole backbone to the whole thing because how else are we gonna be able to share all this bandwidth without using? You know bousin information Videos, etc from one computer to another the only way to do it is for everybody to not everybody But for thousands tens of thousands hundreds of thousands people probably eventually millions of people to be running a note on the computer So they actually they have their own little data center right in front of them Yeah, I mean only makes sense to me because it's it's gonna be a pretty heavy load So now we're gonna get into real quick about the some of the criteria for the metaverse part But today we're gonna talk about NFTs and as far as it relates to What's gonna be called a pineapple drop as far as theta so me and Dave we've got a different strategy to take a look at NFTs And when we take a look at this real quick, this is my criteria And I'm just going on the cheap end. I'll be honest with you But I see like for NFTs people to see the NFT as just some goofy artwork and that's all they see But if you look at it behind it like what is the utility? What does it do for you? How can you get in and actually make even more so when I take a look at it? I say well first of all, what's the community? Does it have more than a thousand people? That's pretty that's the minimum I think is it great more than ten thousand danger. I said twenty five thousand That's only for if you're on the discord groups because sometimes you have a bunch of bots But if you take a look at community as far as like real projects, we'll just take theta for example Hundreds of thousands right the utility the next thing I think about is what is this NFT? Do because if it just looks cool, that doesn't do anything for us, right? What's the launchpad? What's the reward the gamification? Is it is a casino? Does it give us special access and minting and things like that? And then lastly, this is where me and Dave differ floor price I'm trying to find the low end and Dave. I think is trying to find the blue chips So Dave real quick, how do we differ here as far as finding these NFTs? You know, I'm gonna be asked with a rob I think your strategy is Probably better than mine and this your strategies actually goes along with a lot of people that that try to maximize their NFT value They try to buy You know what they try to buy the mint price or try or when the first lot is gets launched up and see they buy it at these So your your criteria is about a point to ETH or point zero to ETH actually And I think actually I think that's a better strategy what I've done But I'm just you know what we all have different goals when I started learning about this NFT I've talked about it in my last YouTube video and I know there's hundreds of projects out there And I don't want to just focus, but I'm my knowledge about NFTs I'll admit it's just I'm in I'm in the infancy part of it about NFTs, you know, I know how to buy I've stated I mean I've got many many hours about NFTs, but I just know this project I think it's going to do really well continue to do this project called doodles and The creators behind doodles did the crypto kitty so they know something about NFTs So when I first talked about doodles in my private Patreon group, they were you know This shows the floor price of three point six seven eight ETH would just say for dollar dollar term There was fifty six hundred dollars at the floor price just a week ago, Rob now There's there's sixteen. I guess I'm able to do the math real quick sixteen seventeen thousand dollars. I guess a week later, so this is This is almost a three X we'll call it two point five X just in a week and probably because you know I did the video about it and I told the group about it as well But I really think if I didn't talk about it either I If I never talked about I think that I don't think the doodles has a chance of being what we call blue chip Or what people call blue chip Many this is like the board it could be the board eight yacht club That's a blue chip or crypto punks is probably the OG of blue chips, right? I Think you know I mean crypto punks have been around for a long time. I think it is the OG but yeah There's potential for doodles to to be at that You know hundreds a hundred thousand dollars Maybe you know if it's fifteen sixteen thousand dollars now in a year or two There's why wouldn't it be a hundred K for that not financial advice, you know it all depends on the roadmap and With the founders if they're gonna be up and up continue to be up and up people and whatever so there's many many factors But I like your strategy better if to maximize value Rob. Sorry to maximize value. I think you have a better strategy It's it's it's okay But I think if you're trying to go to that the next next level I think your type of strategy is like I want to find you blue chips that is gonna cost me 15,000 I'm gonna get in look I just bought virtual land for around that price at the sandbox I could go to another place and get something cheaper, but I think that this is like and It might be a better play it might be a faster play if you want to go on a low end You can do that. It just might take a little bit longer. That's all really it comes down to so that leads us to our to our next point Which if we're gonna talk about NFTs because again when people take a look at doodles are like that's just a goofy little drawing Why is it worth twenty thousand dollars or whatever else it is? You have to understand about the utility that it gives you and then what it gives you access to there was a great story about ETH rocks where people were buying aetherium rocks, which was just a picture of a jpeg for a hundred thousand dollars What does that give you well think of it like the golden ticket to Willie Wonka's chocolate factory? Once you get into this private club because if it's you and other people who have a hundred thousand dollars to throw around on jpegs They probably have a lot more money They probably have more insights and more background information So you're getting privy to all this information that nobody gets is allowed to I kind of feel like these expensive NFTs are Like the country clubs of yesteryear where all the rich people got together and go You know what you should do Pete you should get into this project because it's gonna be a million dollars or whatever else it is So Extrapolating that and moving forward. That's why we're talking today about secret pineapple society for theta So Dave I didn't know about this until we got on the call Tell us about what the heck this is going is going on with here pineapple society and what the utility is I Wish I knew what was going on with this. I just had a feeling you know, I'm on Twitter a lot I think you're on Twitter a lot too. I know you're Yeah, we're both on Twitter a lot. There's so much research to be found on Twitter. That's why I I'm on Twitter a lot I'll learn a lot I mean there's people out there way smarter than I am if I can pluck some knowledge out of some of these people get some ideas or whatever Then I can get a little bit smarter each time we get on there. I I saw speaking of theta Mitch Lou the theta CEO had the secret pineapple society will call SPS As his profile pic I said, okay This guy's really believes in it and and I kind of had a feeling so there's something seemed like there's something special about this So what it is I tweeted about this theta drop which happened six days ago approximately five six days ago And I tweeted about it. I never talked to anybody. I didn't talk to the theta team I didn't talk to the SPS people the developers. I just said hey, you know might want to pick those I said I had a good feeling my tweet. I said I have a good feeling about it. Okay Later on they reached out to me. They sent me a message through Twitter. So hey, would you well, if I can talk about this yet? Don't get in trouble they don't in trouble, but just no I want to let they do the reveal but What they said is that would you like for us to give away three pineapples to your patreon group? It's a group of you know, it's a pretty large group. I said, yeah, that's fine And so they're doing a drawing for the for the pineapples So they get they're gonna give away some of those pineapples But I said is there any information you can that you can share about what this actually does what the utility is so they gave me a list of things as you can go and share this now within your patreon group which I did and this This pineapple thing is kind of kind of what you're talking about the ETH rocks kind of like maybe it gets you in these Like a little exclusive clubs, you know, you're gonna rub elbows and that work or whatever But it seems like it's more than that because we this stuff that we pulled up earlier about their road map It looks like they got some things going on here, right?  I think we talked about this there was a CAA American artists the ones that have like the majority of the sports stars and A-list celebrities they actually signed a deal with a Person on Twitter who owns a ton of NFTs for the commercial use of their NFTs in Movies and series and things like that. So when you have this pineapple drop You can use it whatever commercial or thing that you want to if you so happen to have that Surprise airdrops members only streams members only apparel store. I think this was the most interesting to me as far as phase 3 Voting on future benefits like a Dow Entry to the Grove whatever the heck that is Staking for yield farming I think that's pretty big as far as like what's gonna happen with theta and then game integrations Maybe that's a play to earn type of play. So I think when you take all these things, there's your utility And that kind of hits my criteria Community is huge. I mean if we take a look at like theta TV, I mean they've got like, you know World poker series and things like that. It's a it's a huge Community and then of course, I mean they got the utilities there the floor price a little bit high for me and Talk to before I get on get ahead of myself. They've talked to us about the floor price Okay, so what happened is about six days ago. They launched 888 of the 88 88 pineapple So they launched about 10% Initially and people tried to get in and they tried to buy it and nobody could buy it because that 888 pieces sold in like, you know seconds or minutes $200 but now They're selling it. We'll call it $2,000 for clean math just under $2,000 is the floor price right now Yeah, 1949 now now here's something we need to keep in mind. There's a few things we need to keep in mind So in about a day or so they're gonna release the other 7800 SPS pineapples They're holding 200 for promotions or whatnot But so the there's 7800 that's gonna be released and we'll call it 90% of the supply is gonna be released in a couple days I think the floor price is definitely gonna drop initially, but it might go up again Who knows but Rob I'm gonna go down as the first person in history to have a price prediction for NFTs Let's just go ahead and save this video We can save it put in the archives but on the blockchain to be around for a hundred years as David It's the first person to give a price fix for NFTs. So I think that FT's made me get ahead of myself here I think this SPS NFTs will probably be worth about five grand as a floor price in about a year from now And this is also this is based on we already got a two that yeah $2,000 floor price just a week later. There's gonna be a 90% supply that's gonna be dropped So that's gonna depress the price a little bit, but I think if this Rob I think if this SPS if it picks up if the media picks it up, let's say like Coin desk if the mainstream picks it up, it's gonna go crazy But I think if once I think there's gonna be people talking about it, and I think this is gonna be hard to get so Yeah, so the floor price is $2,000 right now is gonna change a little bit So probably be a little bit less than that in a couple of days But here's something interesting though the highest price somebody's already bought one for $25,000, which I think is pretty cool Yeah, let's take a look here Where do I see price load a high? Yeah Yeah, let's go. They go high to low Doesn't matter. Let me just go down here 3,000 15,000 that's crazy. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, the last time I checked the the highest price was 25,000 then another one sold for $24,800 So I think that's pretty cool. It doesn't you know, it doesn't predict the future about where the price is gonna go I just have feeling that at a $200 investment could you know could could pan out in a year You know, you could you know be worth 5k, but let me just say this too Rob Is that let's say if somebody bought one for $200, let's say worst case in there Well, whatever who knows where it's gonna go Let's say if it only what it could only goes to $1,000 in a year that 5x is not too bad So yeah, so there is so there you go folks. There's two different ways to look at things There's there's there's my strategy. We're just kind of like go a little bit lower Day of strategy, which is go a little bit higher But I think in the end if you just take a look at the criteria and just you understand that NFTs aren't just some some goofy little things They're really like Kind of like your early access to the bigger things coming and I think the the bigger the company and the more they have already been Established I think the better off you'll be as far as blockchain goes now Facebook comes out with NFTs I'm not touching that with intent football. I'm just saying like if you can like a theta a little bit better more It's a better chances than if you got some other type of product We're just like I don't really know that one and that's just how I see things, but that's what we got Yeah, yeah, and let me just add Rob. I think you had a really really good excellent Observation about the ETH rocks again about making that kind of your like a country club kind of like a VIP pass We're rubbing shoulders rubbing elbows with people that you know Obviously have wealth if they're spending 100k or whatever it is on those rocks or board a yacht club You are going to be the networking is always the key thing I used to go to these marketing seminars when I was in my 20s and 30s I've got these marketing seminars and I would get some good information from these seminars But the real value was the networking, you know during the breaks before the meetings right before the seminar after The lunches the dinners that was the real value and maybe these NFTs like is I think I never thought about that The NFTs are like it's like a networking kind of thing So maybe the SPS is going to be like the the new hot networking kind of VIP secret society kind of thing And by the way, it's gonna say I'm not I wasn't asked nor paid to talk about any of these NFTs are another stuff We're not paid to do that So it's just we're just releasing content and talking about stuff that we kind of know about Yeah, and just just watch me and Dave's channel what we talk about a plot through our different products that are out there Some do great and some aren't gonna do so great. It just depends remember NFTs is Really to me. I think of it like I co 2.0 where a lot are gonna go to zero But in all honesty, there's some real gems out there and we're just trying to find the ones that could be so Dave That we've said it all I think today But any last words of any last words of wisdom for the the new investors out there For NFTs or what I mean in general just in just in general not it Yeah, let me just do this actually I want to I want to talk about NFTs again Because let me just kind of get a little back to her to send my group There's some people that are just they don't want to hear about it and this is they like you know focus on blockchain Which NFTs is blockchain focus on crypto. Okay, it's a little bit different It's such a this is such a groundbreaking thing. That's gonna be around, you know a decade from now everybody's gonna be I have possession of the NFT of some sort so I Believe that if you want to get started in NFT investing go to theta drop calm Just figure out a buy an NFT on there It can be like a five or $10 NFT doesn't matter Just get your feet wet and buy an NFT on theta drop or go to open seed. I owe and learn how to set up a metamask browser extension and Just play around with the buy the cheapest NFT on there and just buy one once you buy your first NFT You're gonna have you can have so much confidence about it You're gonna get your your feet wet and you're gonna be all you know You probably gonna add to your collection after that but once you the key is is to buy one and then once you do that You've got that experience. So that's that's my tips for that Makes sense. All right, so that's it for today. I know it's a little bit long what we talked about But great information. 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