I thank the members for their attention. It is now time for question period. The member from Renton, Tennessee, Kenra. Thank you very much, Speaker. My question is for the Premier. Premier, the electricity system in Ontario is in a mess. You've wasted $2 billion on smart meters, $1.1 billion – that's $2 billion on smart meters, $1.1 billion on cancelled gas plants, and rates of skyrocket by more than $1,000 a year for the average homeowner since you took office.  Now you're planning to sell a majority stake in Hydro One – 60% in fact. To raise money you can't come up with otherwise. But don't worry, Mr. Speaker. The Premier says rates might not go up, because the Ontario Energy Board is there to protect consumers. The same energy board that just approved a rate increase of over $68 a year. Premier, why should ratepayers believe you're lying that the OEB will limit increases when yesterday they did the exact opposite? Let me just address the part of the question, and I know that we will speak to the rates in the supplementary. But, Mr. Speaker, let me just be clear that the reason that we have undertaken the review of assets in this province, Mr. Speaker, the reason that Ed Clark and Ms. Cannon were asked to look at the assets that were built by and owned by the people of Ontario, Mr. Speaker, and have served the people of Ontario very well, is that we need to build new assets, Mr. Speaker. We need to build new infrastructure that will serve us in the current environment and in the future, Mr. Speaker. If we don't do that, if we don't make those investments, then we actually hobble the ability of this province to be able to grow. We hobble the ability of communities to be able to thrive. And we restrict the attraction of Ontario, Mr. Speaker, to businesses from other places. So we must make these investments in infrastructure, Mr. Speaker. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Back to the Premier. I don't think I'm the only Ontarian that's skeptical of your plan. After all, you never campaigned on it, and you never held public consultation. You just did it. There's not even a cost-benefit analysis of the majority sale.  Premier, you and I both know you don't care about what the rate here pays, just as long as you get your money. A simple question, Premier. Would you still have sold the majority stake in Hydro 1 if you'd balanced the budget? I will continue to say because it is the truth. What I care about is absolutely that we have an affordable and reliable supply of energy, Mr. Speaker, which, quite frankly, when we came into office in 2003, the Hydro system... Stop the clock, please. I'm absolutely ready to bring people to order, and I'll do so quickly. Very little interruption for question and lots of interruption for answer. Absolutely no reliability in the electricity system when we came into office, Mr. Speaker. There were blackouts and brownouts. I can remember knocking on doors in 2003, Mr. Speaker, and the number one issue was people not knowing whether their power supply was... Stop the clock. Leader of the opposition will come to order. Member from Nippie and Carleton will come to order. Thank you. Carry on, please. There was no confidence in the electricity system, Mr. Speaker. There were brownouts and blackouts across the province, and it was absolutely imperative that when we came into office that we rebuild the system, that we do the upgrading that was necessary, Mr. Speaker. We've done that upgrading, and as the member opposite knows, Mr. Speaker, there is a cost associated with that. He also knows that the Ontario Energy Board sets rates, Mr. Speaker, and will set rates at... Thank you. Final supplementary. Premier, it's obvious that what's happened here is you promised a lot more than you can deliver. You drove the province into the ground for 12 years, and now the only way out is on the back of rate pairs. You continue to say that the OEB will regulate prices and that they won't go up, but every bit of evidence confirms the complete opposite. Ontarians have your word on one hand, and the energy boards latest increase on the other. So, Premier, as the PC caucuses, fifth and final ask, will you commit to reducing energy prices so that all businesses, all rate pairs and businesses no longer have to pay some of the highest energy costs in North America? Thank you. Thank you, Premier. The Conservatives wanted to sell it all. Mr. Speaker, let's be clear about the Ontario Energy Board. Mr. Speaker, rate applications will be through the Ontario Energy Board. Some of the history, Mr. Speaker, is in 2010, Hydro One asked for a rate increase for distribution, received a 9% reduction, Mr. Speaker. In 2012, Hydro One asked for a rate increase for transmission, received a 3% reduction, Mr. Speaker, when Ontario Power Generation applied for a 6.2% rate increase in 2011. Mr. Speaker, the OEB denied this request and lowered rates by 0.8%, Mr. Speaker. There is a history of the OEB refusing requests for rate increases, because they can... Remember, from Renfrew, Nipissing, Pembroke, we'll come to order. And now I will also remind you that I am not impressed when I hear people use anything else other than their writing or their title when speaking at all. New question. The Leader of Her Majesty's Royal Office. Thank you for my questions for the Premier. Ed Clark's report on the sale of Hydro One offers a handful of recommendations, the first being, and I quote, the province should proceed immediately with the sale or merger of its interest in Hydro One Brampton, to or with Enter Source Corporation, Power Stream, and Horizon. End of quote. The report, Mr. Speaker, simply speculates that the government would receive $607 million for the sale. It offers no evidence on how the sale price was calculated. We are simply being asked to take the Premier and Mr. Clark's word for it. Premier, will you call for the Auditor General to help to review the Hydro One Brampton deal so Ontarians will have some assurance that they're receiving the best value? Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. And I know that the Minister of Energy is going to want to comment on the specifics, but let me again, Mr. Speaker, remind the party opposite and their interim leader that what we are doing here is we have made a decision and we ran on this decision, Mr. Speaker. It was in our budget to invest in infrastructure and as part of that, Mr. Speaker, to review the assets that were owned by the people of this province to make sure that we were optimizing the value of those assets so that we could invest in the world and the bridges. In every riding across this province, Mr. Speaker, because there's not a community, there's not a region of this province that doesn't need investment in roads, in bridges, in public transit, Mr. Speaker. So, because of the neglect of government after government, Mr. Speaker, because of the work that was not done before 2003, Mr. Speaker, we need to continue to make those investments if we are going to be competitive in the 21st century. That's the commitment I made, Mr. Speaker, and that's the commitment that we're following through on. You see that, please? Thank you. Supplementary. Mr. Speaker, there's not a very good answer for one of the biggest asset sales in the history of the province. Mr. Speaker, this government's financial mismanagement has been embarrassing. Billions of taxpayers' dollars wasted every time you take a turn. For a Premier who came in preaching openness and transparency, something about this Hydro-1 Brampton sale simply does not add up. Mr. Speaker, why should the people of Ontario believe that a pre-arranged sale, organized in secret by the Premier's back room, why should the people of Ontario believe that this is the best deal for an asset that they own? Premier, if you intend on selling Hydro-1 Brampton, will you put it on the open market to ensure Ontarians get fair value for the company that they own? Mr. Speaker, the Premier set up the asset sale with very, very experienced people, a mixture of people from different backgrounds, different parties, different philosophies, but headed up by Mr. Ed Clark. Mr. Speaker, they created a revolving door of advisors coming in, consultants coming in, Mr. Speaker, to explore all of the elements of the recommendations that they were making, Mr. Speaker. At the end of the day, Mr. Speaker, the selling price was close to twice as much as Hydro-1 had paid for it, a very, very significant uplift in value, Mr. Speaker, which represents a very good investment of a previous government to do that, Mr. Speaker. The reality is, Mr. Speaker, we had seven municipalities, seven mayors, and seven councils. We expect who have supported this, Mr. Speaker, because it improves the further rate payer and it improves the revenue for all of those cities, Mr. Speaker, including Markham and Barry and many others. Final supplementary. Well, back to the Premier. Premier, we simply don't accept that your back room political dealings and pre-arranged sales is the best value for this public asset. You were wrong when you said the cost of cancelling gas plants was $40 million when it really was $1.1 billion. You were wrong when you said the Green Energy Act would cost Hydro customers about the price of a cup of coffee when the real cost is $1,100 per year. But the last 12 years of fiscal mismanagement in this province, no one, no one accepts that your deal is the best deal for this public asset. And why should they accept your word for it? Your word simply is no good when it comes to these transactions. Premier, the people of Ontario deserve all the information respecting the value and sale of Hydro One Brampton, again an asset that they own. Why won't you allow the auditor general to do the sale before it goes through? Minister of Energy. Mr. Speaker, the merger we're looking at is not a 407 deal, Mr. Speaker. It's not a deal where we sell off to somebody and let them make profit out of it, Mr. Speaker, and let them totally 100% control, Mr. Speaker. That's what they did with 407. Mr. Speaker, we have created here... It could be with you. Finish, please. Mr. Speaker, we have created here a utility of one million customers, which rivals Toronto Hydro, Mr. Speaker, the second largest in the province. Mr. Speaker, there were seven municipalities involved, seven utilities, which came together to create this consolidation, Mr. Speaker. It's good for the rate payer. It's good for the shareholders, all of the councils, and every single mayor of seven cities endorsed it, Mr. Speaker. Thank you. New question for the leader of the firm party. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Premier. The Premier is planning to privatize Hydro One. She said she was going to govern from something... Deputy Health Leader. ...she called the Activist Centre. It turns out that the Activist Centre is so far to the right that even the Tories are saying that the Premier's privatization plan for Ontario, Mr. Speaker, for the Premier to insist she's leading a progressive government when she's right of the Conservatives. And the Premier explained exactly how it is, Mr. Speaker, that she lost her way so terribly. Minister of Tourism's Sport, come to order. Premier. And as I said, I understand why the leader of the third party wants to go through a recalibrating exercise for herself, to relocate herself on the political continuum, Mr. Speaker, because who knows where she was in the election? Who knows what she stands for? What we stand for, Mr. Speaker, is making practical decisions that are in the best interest of this province. And right now, Mr. Speaker, across this province, we need to invest in infrastructure. There is no doubt. I have sat with groups of mayor, after groups of mayor, whether it's in the north, whether it's in the greater Toronto Hamilton area, Mr. Speaker, whether it's large urban mayors or whether it's rural mayors, Mr. Speaker, and they have said to me unanimously that they need investment in infrastructure. That is a necessity. And so, Mr. Speaker, that's what we're doing. We ran on that, Mr. Speaker. We said that we were going to invest in roads and bridges and transit, and that's what we're going to do, Mr. Speaker. Thank you. Mr. Speaker. Can you see it, please? Can you see it, please? Final supplementary. No, Mr. Speaker, this is my second. Supplementary. The Premier is creating a brand new beer ombudsman so that people can complain if their beer is flat, but she's pushing the Ontario ombudsman out of Hydro One. The Premier has a pretty serious problem with her priorities here, Mr. Speaker. Why does she think that the people of Ontario deserve less oversight with their electricity system? Well, Mr. Speaker, as I have been, it was very much a concern of mine and ours that there be oversight, that there be control, that the province have a 40% share, Mr. Speaker, and have the controls in terms of regulation and price control that are in place now, and that we continue those. But, Mr. Speaker, let me just speak to the ideological bent that the leader of the third party is on right now, and just give her some feedback from some of the people who actually think this is a good idea. First of all, let me quote from the Power Workers Union. The Power Workers Union, understand? And this is Don McKinnon, the President of the Power Workers Union, and I quote, the Power Workers Union welcomes and supports the decision by government to keep Hydro One whole in an IPO process that would, in partnership with government, broaden the ownership structure in Hydro One. This will position the company to grow and provide further high-skill quality jobs for Ontario. Thank you. Mr. Speaker, the Premier is spending months and months exhaustive amounts of time to study whether she wants to sell 12 packs of beer in the LCBO in 10 stores. On the other hand, she doesn't need any time at all, no time whatsoever to decide to sell off Hydro One to Bay Street, a plan that will mean higher electricity bills for every single Ontarian. Now, that's on top of the $70, of course, that was announced as an increase yesterday by Ontario Energy Board. This plan is wrong, Speaker. The Premier's priorities are wrong, Speaker. The Premier has lost her way, and my question is, will she pull the plug on this wrong-headed privatisation plan? Thank you. So again, Mr. Speaker, I understand that the leader of the third party is trying to find her way. I would suggest that supporting a plan that would invest in transit infrastructure roads and bridge across the province might be a way to help her back to her way, Mr. Speaker. And I will also remind her that the Ontario Energy Board, which sets prices now, will set prices after this deal is in place, Mr. Speaker. But I also want to just again remind the member office that this is also about creating jobs. Joseph Manzanelli, who's the Vice President of Central and Eastern Canada Regional Manager of Leuna International, Mr. Speaker, the Building Trades, he says, and I quote, the wind liberal government is to be commended for today's announcement implementing sweeping changes in our province which will greatly benefit all Ontarians. The $4 billion these changes will introduce for investment in infrastructure projects. The largest infrastructure investment in Ontario's history is welcome news to Leuna and our members. Job creation is one of the key components of this initiative, and we welcome the much needed infrastructure and the thousands of jobs that will be created for our members for years to come. I quote. Mr. Speaker, I hope the Premier told Joe that the $4 billion won't even get half of the downtown relief line built. My question is for the Premier, Speaker. The Premier says that a privatised Hydro-1 won't be under the Ombudsman's... Thank you. Question, please. Premier says that a privatised Hydro-1 won't be under the Ombudsman's oversight. Can the Premier guarantee Ontarians that the CEO of the new private Hydro-company will still be appearing on the sunshine list, Speaker? Thank you. Mr. Speaker, you know that the member opposite might have been interested in the transit that can be built as a result of these announcements in Hamilton, for example, Mr. Speaker. In the GTA writ large, Mr. Speaker, I would have thought that she would have been quite interested in the needs of the constituents around the Greater Toronto and Hamilton area, but apparently not, Mr. Speaker. Look, Mr. Speaker, we are building the NDP basically is saying don't build. Don't build this province up. Don't invest in the infrastructure that's needed. Don't create 20,000 jobs, Mr. Speaker, a year. Don't do that.  Don't look at practical solutions. And when I talk about the activist centre, Mr. Speaker, that's what I mean. Looking for the answers to the problems that are presenting themselves today. Not looking back 100 years and deciding today what we should do based on 100 years ago. That's not what we're... Minister of Aboriginal Affairs will come to order and very close to being asked to withdraw. I'm not amused. Supplementary. Mr. Speaker says that a privatised Hydro One won't be under the scrutiny of the Ombudsman under Ombudsman oversight. She's not telling us whether or not the CEO and other executives are going to be subject to the sunshine list. Can the Premier guarantee Ontarians that the Freedom of Information Act will still apply to the new privatised Hydro company? Mr. Speaker, just a couple of facts that I'm sure the leader of the third party is aware of but has neglected to mention. There will be a new Hydro One Ombudsman. She knows that, I think, Mr. Speaker. And she also knows that there's a different set of accountability measures for publicly traded companies. The CEO's salary will be disclosed according to OSC rules. So she knows that, Mr. Speaker. But I think the bottom line here is that the leader of the third party has no faith in the private sector. In fact, she made a statement to that effect, Mr. Speaker. She said that she has no faith in the private sector and that is a fundamental difference between us. I believe and we believe that it's important that government partner with the private sector. That the private sector, Mr. Speaker, has done an enormous amount of good. And I was at an event just on the weekend that was a prime example of a private public partnership where a community centre is going to be built in conjunction with the City of Toronto working with the private sector. The NDP was there. They were very... Thank you. Final supplementary. A watchdog at Hydro One. The Ombudsman who looks after the interests of the public speaker. But the Premier wants to pull his teeth. We currently have transparency through the sunshine list at Hydro One. But the Premier wants to pull the shades on that speaker. We currently have accountability through freedom of information at Hydro One. But the Premier wants to slam the door on that accountability. The Premier's plan will limit access to information. It will limit transparency. It will limit accountability. It will drive rates sky high. The Premier's plan is wrong, Speaker. Why can't she see that? When did she lose her way, Speaker? Well, Mr Speaker, let me just say again that I made a commitment to the people of Ontario that we would invest in them, that we would invest in the infrastructure that is needed in their community to create the conditions to bring business to this province and create jobs, Mr Speaker. And that's what this is about. What the NDP is saying is that we shouldn't make those investments. We shouldn't create those jobs. And we shouldn't look for solutions, Mr Speaker. And the leader of the NDP said on April 16th, she said, and I quote, I don't have any faith whatsoever in the private sector, unquote. That's quite a statement, Mr Speaker. Given that sector, Mr Speaker, we rely on the private sector to create jobs, to innovate, to draw investment to the province, Mr Speaker. And she chooses not to have any desire or any understanding that we need to work with the private sector if we're going to thrive. Thank you. New question? A member from Sinclair. Mr. Sinclair, I'm glad you brought it. I heard all that. Minister, today is the second day that 24,000 students in Durham don't have classes to attend. Poor kids. Yesterday, you said you were mystified, you were perplexed, and you weren't sure why the board was striking. Well, Minister, you can be perplexed and mystified no longer. The reason the board is striking and the reason for a second day that 24,000 students are out of the classroom, the reason is 12 years of liberal, fiscal mismanagement. Minister Sudbury, OSSTF and Sudbury could strike on April the 27th, and we've just found out that OSSTF peel just announced that they may strike on May the 4th. This isn't a local issue anymore. The buck stops with the liberal government and with you, Minister. Minister, how many more boards need to strike before you realize why they walked away from negotiations? Minister of Education. Yes, thank you very much. And obviously, we're very concerned about the students who are missing classes and that we understand that students and parents are teaching back in the classroom. The kids want to get back in the classroom, which is actually great that students are telling us that they want to get back into their studies. But I think it is important to understand that the way that the Collective Bargaining Act is structured is that some issues are discussed at a provincial level. The central table includes the crown, so yes, I am responsible for being at that table and the trustee association and the provincial union. And that central table continues to have talks. Talks are going on at the central table. Unfortunately, it's some of the local tables where talks are broken down. Thank you. Submission. Back to the Minister, Mr. Speaker. You said yesterday you hadn't heard a coherent explanation as to why Durham is striking. Mr. Speaker, the member from Guelph is the Minister of Education. If she hasn't heard a coherent explanation or been given a proper briefing, I hope she spends time today interviewing new staff. But I suppose I could savor the trouble. The strike in Durham is because of your 12 years of liberal fiscal mismanagement. You can't negotiate fairly and you're backtracking on election promises. Minister, will you stop blaming... Will you stop blaming... Stop the clock please. Order. Please. Thanks, Mr. Speaker. Minister, will you stop blaming the local boards and take responsibility before more boards strike in this province? Minister? I would quibble... Thank you. Minister? Because I think it's important that we don't get into a situation of assigning blame here or a blame there or a blame there. What's important is that at both levels we have talks. We do have talks going on because the only way to reach an agreement is if we're talking. We are negotiating at the central table where I do have responsibility and we understand that we must arrive at a negotiating agreement. But we also know that at the local level we need the local parties and I point out that these are the people whose last platform was to... Thank you. New question. The member from Toronto Dentwork. Thank you, Speaker, to the Premier. Yesterday Ontarians learned that they will be paying another $70 a year on their hydro bill to pay for liberal waste and mismanagement of the hydro system. But instead of trying to make things better and using our strategic energy assets like Hydro One to help people conserve, to help them get their bills under control, the Liberals are privatizing Hydro One and handing control over to Bay Street. Privatization is going to drive up hydro bills just like it's always done. The OEB just approved another rate increase starting May 1st. Can the Premier tell Ontarians how much more she expects rates to go up under her privatization plan? Mr. Premier. Minister of Energy. Mr. Speaker, in December 2013 we issued a long-term energy plan, Mr. Speaker. There was one page in that that had particular attention from the opposition and others, Mr. Speaker. That was our projected rate increases over the next four or five years, Mr. Speaker. Well, the reality is, Mr. Speaker, we've been reducing the costs in the sector and the announcement of a rate increase yesterday is less than what was predicted, Mr. Speaker, because we're getting a better handling on the sector. We're reducing our costs in the sector, Mr. Speaker, and we're making efforts towards the rate payer in many other ways as well, Mr. Speaker. And I'll deal with that in a supplementary. Thank you. Supplementary. Thank you, Speaker. And again, back to the Premier. Ontarians have bills almost twice as high as people get in Manitoba and Quebec where their public utilities are owned by the people. We are watching our rates go up faster and what you put in place will only make it worse. The Premier hasn't learned the lesson that public hydro is more affordable. Her privatization plan is going to be bad for conservation, bad for innovation, bad for jobs, bad for business, bad for the people of Ontario. Premier, this is a lousy plan. When are you going to pull the plug on privatization? Mr. Speaker, we can expect a lot of rhetoric coming from the opposition parties, Mr. Speaker. The reality is that the electricity prices in Ontario, Mr. Speaker, are lower than three other provinces, Mr. Speaker. Carry on, please. They're lower than three other provinces, Mr. Speaker. Yes, Manitoba and Quebec is lower than us because they have legacy hydro projects, Mr. Speaker, that enable that. In Canada, we're in the middle of the pack, Mr. Speaker. And we hear them also say that we've got the highest rates in North America. They should look at Detroit, they should look at New York, they should look at Boston, Mr. Speaker, where it's 18, 19, 20 cents per kilowatt hour, Mr. Speaker. We are lowering the pressures on price, Mr. Speaker. We are lowering that as well, Mr. Speaker, by doing what we're doing with Hydro One, Mr. Speaker. It'll be more efficient, Mr. Speaker, in the long run. The rate payers will be protected. Our plan is working. Mr. Speaker, we have a question from Glen Gary Prescott Russell. Thank you very much, Speaker. My question is to the Minister of Transportation. It's always a privilege for me, Speaker, to bring to this House issues that are of interest to my constituents in Glen Gary Prescott Russell. And one of those issues that I regularly hear about is whether it's through meetings or talking to the mayors and councillors is connecting links. Speaker, there's two connecting links in my writing of Glen Gary Prescott and Russell. There's one in the township of Champlain and one in the town of Hawkesbury. And since the Connecting Links program ended in 2012, many in my community have felt the financial pressure of keeping these roads in good working order and condition. Speaker, through you. Could the Minister please tell the members of this House what our government is doing to help municipalities with their connecting links? Thank you very much, Speaker. I want to begin by thanking the member from Glen Gary Prescott Russell for the question but also for his incredibly strong advocacy for his community. The member is 100% correct, Speaker. We have continued to hear from Ontario municipalities about the need for additional funding for their connecting links. Municipalities have told us that making connecting links projects eligible under the Ontario Community Infrastructure Fund has not been sufficient. So we listened, the Premier listened, our government listened, and we have been committed to working with municipalities to address this issue. That's why I was extremely happy to be in Sault Ste. Marie yesterday with the Minister of Government Services and the Minister of Northern Development and Mines to formally announce that the province is committing $15 million annually to a new connecting links project. This announcement, Speaker, is only one part of our government's plan to unlock the value of certain public assets which will provide approximately $4 billion to build near transit and other priority infrastructure projects. Thank you. Supplementary. Thank you very much, Speaker. For that very comprehensive response and the great announcement that you did make yesterday. Speaker, there's 352 connecting links in Ontario and 70 bridges and 77 municipalities across the province. As I indicated earlier, two of these connecting links are found in my community and my writing of Glen Gary Prescott and Russell. But I've also heard other members in this house, Speaker, talk about connecting links within their writings, often discussing the difficulties their local municipalities are having keeping these roads in good shape. I'm very pleased to hear more about the funding being offered through the new connecting links program. Speaker, through you, can the minister tell the members of this house when Ontario municipalities can expect to start receiving funding from the new connecting links program? Thank you, Minister. Thanks very much, Speaker. And again, I thank that member for his question. As I mentioned previously, this new program is only one part of our government's plan to unlock the value of certain public assets, making more funding available for transit projects like connecting links through our Moving Ontario Forward Plan. This means that what was announced in April 2014 as a nearly $29 billion investment in Moving Ontario Forward is now a $31.5 billion commitment over the next 10 years. Through the Moving Ontario Forward Plan, Speaker, connecting links funding is expected to begin in the spring of 2016. But, Speaker, we want to make sure that we get this program right, which is why we'll continue to consult with municipalities to ensure that we look forward to continuing to work with our municipal partners on this incredibly important project. Thanks very much, Speaker. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Premier. Premier, Ontario's Ombudsman's ongoing probe into Hydro One's billing fiasco is now the largest ever undertaken by his office, with more than 10,500 public complaints and an average of 10 new complaints each day still. Residents of my riding have experienced a hand with hundreds of customers, including small businesses, who have gone months without a bill, only to be advised that they owe thousands and will be disconnected if they don't pay in full. Now, with your plan to sell off a majority stake in Hydro One, it will leave its customers without access to the Ontario Ombudsman's oversight. Premier, is your government trying to run away from the accountability of the Ombudsman's oversight and another critical report on the energy file? Let me just say that, in fact, we believe that Hydro One can be a much better run company. In the work that Ed Clark and his group did, Mr. Speaker, they came to that conclusion and they believe that broadening the ownership in Hydro One, Mr. Speaker, and realizing the benefit of that, reinvesting in infrastructure, that that will be good for the people of Ontario on a number of fronts, Mr. Speaker, and a more efficient company. But Mr. Speaker, I also want to say that the announcement that was just referenced in terms of connecting links is part of this. I know that members opposite, particularly in the opposition, claim to have the concerns of people in small communities and rural communities at heart. They should be very, very supportive of a Connecting Links program, Mr. Speaker, because the members who come to the Good Roads Conference and to Roma, talk about over and over again the need for infrastructure investment in Connecting Links, and that's exactly what we're doing, Mr. Speaker. Well, Premier, you have increased the Ontario Ombudsman oversight with Bill 8 only to turn around and take it away from Hydro One. Just last week you announced that a beer ombudsman would be created to watch over beer sales. Premier, families in Ontario are more concerned with their lights being on than their Bud Light being cold. So even though one can't really happen without the other, we have seen this before with other scandals like orange and the gas plants where oversight has been created after the fact. Premier, will you help protect the customers of Ontario's largest electricity provider by allowing proper oversight by the Ontario Ombudsman? Minister Managing. Mr. Speaker, the Hydro One transformation is going to take a number of months. In the meantime, there's plenty of time for the ombudsman to report. But Mr. Speaker, with respect to the work that the ombudsman has been doing, yes, he's received over 10,000 complaints, Mr. Speaker. They're generated out of a new billing system. There are about 3,300 complaints that have been referred to Hydro One for resolution, Mr. Speaker. To date, Hydro One has successfully resolved 99% of the billing complaints it received from the ombudsman, Mr. Speaker.  Right now, Mr. Speaker, the level of complaints is less than what normally have happened over the course of the last 5, 7 or 10 years, Mr. Speaker. Thank you. No question. A member from Winslow. Premier, yesterday the Minister of Education stated that she was perplexed about the current labour dispute in Ontario's education sector. Speaker, what I find truly perplexing is that the Liberal Government, the Premier, is considering removing limit on class sizes. The signature education policy of her predecessor, Dalton McGinty and forcing students and teachers into larger classes. Speaker, can the Premier please explain to Ontarians why the Liberal Government is flip-flopping on class sizes and throwing our schools into chaos? Premier? Minister of Education? Minister of Education? Yes, thank you very much and let me just repeat what I said previously is that there the legislation is very clear. When you have a central negotiations we're talking about money issues that have to do with money, with finances, with provincial policy those are the issues that are being negotiated at the central table and there could theoretically be a central strike on central issues. When you have a local strike and this is clearly a local strike in Durham it is by definition under the law a strike on local issues. That would be issues like transfer and surplus. We believe that the only way you solve this problem is to negotiate and that's what exactly what we're doing at the central table where we sit. Thank you. Supplementary. I think the Minister of Education clearly doesn't know negotiations are a given a take not just taking. Again to the Premier, Speaker just yesterday the Minister of Education claimed that she hadn't heard a coherent explanation of what local issues prompted education workers to walk out in Durham and that she is mystified by their actions. Maybe if the Premier and Minister actually consulted Ontario families and education workers before slashing education funding and forcing the closure of neighbourhood schools they wouldn't be so mystified as to why Ontarians are so upset. Speaker, when will this Government finally admit that their policies of education cuts and forced school closures are failing Ontarians? Minister? As I said the only way to solve a problem The only way to solve a labour problem is to negotiate. We are committed to negotiating a collective agreement and that's why as we speak people are sitting negotiating to arrive at a central agreement. That is the role that we will continue to play because we are committed to achieving a central negotiated collective agreement. With respect to funding I'm sorry that the NDP doesn't think that a 56% increase in funding qualifies as an increase. They seem to think a 56% increase is a cut. I'm afraid I don't understand NDP math. Thank you Mr President Thank you Mr Speaker My question is for the Ministry of Social Services Announce a significant investment in the developmental services sector in those individuals living with developmental disabilities However as you are aware there is pressure on options for people suffering with behaviour cognitive development problem outside their home. Each later select committee on developmental disabilities there are some well known concerns regarding the access the residential service. Moreover the auditor general released a report last year that noted the number of people waiting for residential support. Mr Speaker will the minister explain what the government do to resolve this problem? Thank you Mr President Thank you Mr Speaker and also thank you the NPP for Allian The services offered to these people is as problem in Ontario especially services in institutions New residential supports since budget 2014 moving toward our commitment of 1400 new urgent residential supports over 4 years We are working with community partners in order to create a broader set of housing options for individuals with developmental disabilities I had the opportunity to meet with my ministry's developmental services housing task force last week and discussed their progress so far to call for proposals on innovative housing solutions I very much appreciate the work done by the housing task force to work with them Thank you Mr President Thank you Thank you Minister I appreciate that this government wants community partners to play an active part in finding the best solutions Minister in the 2014 budget your ministry committed to timelines to eliminate existing wait lists for people waiting for direct funding assistance as you know direct funding through special services at home for children until 18 and passports for adults provides funding for individual and families that can be used towards particular programming at agencies of their choice Through these direct funding programs this government is helping to support individual choice and encourage developmental services and their families Mr President Mr Speaker will the minister share with MPPs all the progress down in terms of financing in terms of funding to end the wait lists now have new direct funding to purchase supports and services that is 8,000 more children and 6,000 more adults in the 2014 budget I visited many places across the province including Ottawa and have witnessed firsthand the need of those with developmental disabilities and the support that our frontline workers and agencies are providing As the member said for the person having intellectual deficiency this direct funding provides services to live more independently and contribute to their community and help their family and we want family of Ontario to be a more inclusive place for this category of people Mr Speaker my question is to the minister of natural resources and forestry minister I've been asking for the release of the special purpose accounts for over three years now legislation in this house must be tabled yearly the SBA account is generated from the fees collected from the hunters and anglers of this province and supposedly to be reinvested in resource management your government insists the SBA fund is decreasing however we cannot verify that assertion but you refuse to table the documents hunters and anglers are facing increased fees new service fees and seniors may now have to purchase a fishing license minister will you show some transparency and table the documents today Mr Speaker thank you very much and I thank the member for the question I do believe at least two of the reports have been tabled that the particular member is referencing I'll double check but I'm pretty sure two of them have been tabled there's one yet to come so I've been happy to make that offer of information that he's been looking for for some time available to him so far to the fees that the member continues to raise in this house there was a significant consultation that was undertaken one or two years ago through that process there were a variety of suggestions that came in through the consultation on what we needed to do to continue to keep the SBA whole many of those recommendations were dismissed the member keeps flying the attitude about a seniors license fee coming in I've very publicly stated on a number of occasions that was suggested through the consultation I've never contemplated doing I've said that in here before say it in here again so the member perhaps in his next supplementary or in the future won't feel the need to reference a seniors licensing issue on the SBA in this particular legislation thank you back to the minister minister I will continue to talk about that because we don't believe you in this side of the house minister you're introducing new fees including the price of licenses in this province and you're still behind in tabling the documents to this legislature I find it really interesting that the Out of Doors magazine is able to have information on this current SBA fund there are a few on the edge here I find it interesting the Out of Doors magazine has information to the SBA fund that has yet to be tabled in this legislature so minister I find that quite disrespectful to this chamber as a whole are you trying to manipulate the public by releasing snippets of incomplete information or you obviously you obviously do have reports prepared why won't you release them in totality what are you hiding from the people of Ontario the SBA account has approximately a hundred million dollars a year in it 66 million of that comes from the licensing and fees that come into the ministry so it's a dedicated account that goes towards Fish and Wildlife Management in the province of Ontario and by way of example in the Alemer district which I think is the member's riding plan spending is $873,000 on fish and wildlife management projects and $520,000 on enforcement in the 14-15 year all from the SBA as well out of the SBA we have been flying moose aerial inventories in the province of Ontario goes both ways member from Alvin Middlesex London you asked carry on almost every wildlife management unit in the province of Ontario has now been flown over the course of the last two or three years to determine what the moose population numbers are we're taking the SBA money we're using it for what it was intended to do it's creating the basis upon which we can make reliable decisions on behalf of fishermen and hunters in the province thank you very much Mr. Speaker my question is to the premier a new study by two York University professors confirms what new democrats have been saying all along auto insurance companies are making record profits while Ontario families are paying the highest auto insurance premiums in the country in 2013 alone Ontarians were overcharged for auto insurance by an estimated 840 million dollars this is absolutely unacceptable the Liberal government has the ability to reduce premiums however time and time again what they're doing instead is giving more and more profits to insurance companies they're breaking their promise the Liberal government had said clearly they promised to reduce auto insurance by 15% but instead they haven't delivered half of that this is again another broken promise enough is enough will this government in the upcoming budget continue to fall in through on their promise thank you Mr. Speaker congratulations on being deputy we need you to support the resolutions of the work we're doing to lower auto insurance rates going forward to get back to what you did before and that was delay what was necessary to bring these rates down we postponed the number of legislation that was required that delay has as a result delayed the opportunity for us to lower still the cost and as a result Mr. Speaker work that has been done is now transforming into lower cost that is now we're halfway there we need to get all the way there with some legislation I stand you sit you have sight supplement thank you very much Mr. Speaker what we did is we didn't support that's enough the deputy house leader is warned carry on thank you very much Mr. Speaker new data from the financial service commission of Ontario shows very clearly that the Liberal government are dragging their feet to support drivers in Ontario we had to move so quickly to put more profits in the pockets of insurance companies the government has said reducing auto insurance is a part of their economic plan for Ontarians and that rates are coming down but when we speak to people we know that the rates are coming down people are instead seeing the rates go up how is it possible this government has been allowing insurance companies individual ones to increase their rates instead of bringing those down two years ago this government made a promise when will we see real action on this file when will we see the government actually commit to reducing auto insurance by 15% Mr. Finance Mr. Speaker auto insurance rates must go down by cutting costs and as a result we have taken actions to reduce the cost of claims it is true Ontario cost of claims are far higher than they are in other provinces of Canada some of them require some tough decisions so we hope that the NDP will support some of the legislation some of the work we are doing to find ways to reduce costs we also know that there are a number of companies now that have reduced their rates by more than 15% already and we know that at working together with a competitive market that exists we can further some of those reductions but we need support from the NDP on this Mr. Speaker I am looking at you I am hoping that they will look at you as well recognizing that together we can get it done this budget will enable us to do that I look to them to support it Thank you Mr. Speaker and my question this morning is for the Minister of Northern Development and Mines our government recognizes that the wealth of natural resources found in northern Ontario are vital to our northern economy forest harvesting and milling as well as mineral production and processing are an incredibly important part of my community of Sudbury and continue to be pathways to prosperity for all northerners Mr. Speaker in 2014 the total number of direct jobs in mineral production was 26,000 with an additional 50,000 jobs associated with manufacturing and processing and the forestry sector currently provides over 170,000 direct and indirect jobs in over 260 communities so Mr. Speaker can the Minister please share the details of the recent northern industry electricity rate program and how it will continue to ensure this climate and protect jobs in northern Ontario Thank you Minister I appreciate the question from the MPP in Sudbury and we know the best way to protect jobs for northerners is to ensure that northern Ontario remains a destination where major mining, forestry and the manufacturing companies choose to do business and that certainly was one of the reasons why we were so pleased to introduce the Northern Industrial Electricity Rate Program and Mr. Speaker designed to assist northern Ontario's major industrial electricity consumers to reduce their electricity costs create and sustain jobs maintaining global competitiveness and Mr. Speaker that's why I was so excited two weeks ago alongside my colleagues the Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry, Minister of Government and Consumer Services and the MPP for Sudbury to announce an ongoing $120 million commitment to investment in the northern industrial electricity rate program Thank you Mr. Speaker We have heard loud and clear the program's opposition Ontario is an attractive destination for investment Supplementary Thank you Mr. Speaker and I'd like to thank the Minister for that response and we know the cost and supply of electricity is a major consideration for companies when they choose where to operate and this program continues to receive positive feedback across the north We heard the President at the Federation of Northern Ontario Municipality State that this support is maintaining global competitiveness and helping sustain local jobs and the Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association has also expressed that this is great news for industry So Mr. Speaker can the Minister outline what are the benefits to companies operating under the northern industrial electricity rate program Thank you Mr. Speaker Thank you again to the members of the question This program is part of premium wins in our government's commitment to support the north and build a very strong economy across the province and we just heard about the connecting link program and the $50 million commitment by the Minister of Transportation another piece of that commitment and since launching the industrial electricity rate program in 2010 we have demonstrated that it can reduce industrial electricity rates on average up to 25% and industry is certainly telling us the same thing we started our know resident chorus product CAO President said that the program is the cornerstone of the electricity program in northern Ontario Gold Carps, Bill Gaskon said it reduces our cost significantly on our site Mark Boasano of Glencore said that the northern industrial electricity rate program is one of the puzzle pieces to determine the company's future We are very proud of this program Mr. Speaker Thank you Thank you very much My question is to the Premier Premier for over two years the Standing Committee on the Legislative Assembly has been reviewing and debating electronic petitions The mandate is simple not whether we should change the role of petitions just simply whether we should allow online petitions in this house and yet for two years despite countless research presentations by the clerk as well as by expert witnesses the government committee members have ragged the puck last week at committee the member for Scarborough Rouge River gave us our greatest insight why the government won't move forward he said and I quote the worst thing governments can do is to give people hope is your government preventing electronic petitions in this legislative assembly because you fear that they give people hope Thank you very much Speaker and I appreciate the question I think we all know very clearly that if this government stands for accountability and transparency the amount of work we have done to the state to ensure that government is more open more accountable and transparent to the people of Ontario is exemplary not to mention the work that the Member from Lanark will come to order carry on not to mention the work that the open government panel has done in regards to opening the government making sure that there's more information that's available to Ontarians to open data it all speaks to ensuring that people have more information available the committee is looking into the matter and we respect their deliberation in this matter It's like the House Leader likes to write the puck as well Premier we've heard from expert witnesses that all three caucuses have the ability to implement electronic petitions immediately that's because members from all three caucuses already use electronic petitions we have the opportunity to finally take a step forward to modernize this legislature Premier, will you commit to this House that your government will move forward and not write the puck and allow electronic petitions or do you really share the member for Scarborough Rouge Rivers opinion that the worst thing government can do is to give people hope I know Jim Bradley Well Speaker my understanding is that there has been only one deputation thus far and that so-called expert is a staff person of the member opposite who's asking the question I don't think that really qualifies him as an expert on e-petition Speaker, we task members of the committee to do important work on behalf of this legislature and of their constituents this is an important issue this government is very much open to ensuring the government is open that there is more data that is available and if the electronic petition is something that the committee wants to explore we should let them do their work to hear from experts to look at other jurisdictions as to what the mechanism would be I think we should not be second guessing or doubting the members of the committee for the important work they do in the committee Speaker and I thank them for the work they have been doing on this very important issue thank you the member from Niagara Falls my question is to the Premier Mr. Speaker prior to the election the Premier promised Ontarians that within 10 years she would deliver train service every 15 minutes on all goal lines she promised Kitchener, Guelph and Brampton that they would see all day two-way service every 15 minutes within five years the government drastically cut these transit plans instead of 15 minute service people in Barrie and Newmarket will get 60 minute service instead of all day two-way service every 15 minutes Kitchener, Guelph and Brampton will get peak hour peak direction service every 30 minutes this government promised funding for rapid transit projects in Hamilton and Durham for Toronto relief line for the young subway extension and on and on and on Mr. Speaker Premier Minister of Transportation, sorry Thanks very much Speaker it's not often in this house that I have the opportunity to stand and speak so proudly with a setup like that from that particular member Speaker last Friday in Barrie I was very proud to stand alongside the Premier as she announced that over the next decade this government will invest 13.5 billion dollars in transforming the go what we talked about that day means that there will be more than a doubling of peak service and quadrupling of off-peak service compared to where we stand today reduced journey times for some cross-region transit trips across this network and a much wider range of travel options right across the GTHA and Speaker just this morning I stood alongside so many members and caucus colleagues from Peel Region to announce the province's commitment to build the 1.6 billion dollar here Ontario main LRT Get on board Order please we have a deferred vote on the motion of second reading of bill 57 an act to create a framework for pool registered pension plans and to make consequential amendments to other acts calling the members this will be a five minute bill Would all members please take their seats All members please take their seats Thank you On March 25th, Mr. Susan moves second reading of bill 57 All those in favor please rise one at a time be recognized by the clerk Mr. Susan Mr. Schurelli Ms. Matthews Mr. Hoskins Ms. Sandals Mr. Dugas Mr. McCharles Mr. Quinter Mr. Cole Mr. McMeek Mr. Mori Mr. Coteau Mr. Flynn Mr. Zimmer Mr. Delaney Mr. Balfour Mr. Crack Mr. Hunter Mr. Sergio Mr. Del Ducat Mr. Frasier Mr. Anderson Mr. Baker Ms. Hogarth Ms. Kuala Ms. Molly Ms. Martin Mr. McMan Mr. Milch Mr. Pots Mr. Rinaldi Mr. Tebow Mr. Monroe Mr. Hardiman Mr. McCloud Mr. Wilson Mr. Fidele Mr. Yacobusky Mr. Clark Mr. Dunlaw Mr. Jones Mr. Thompson Mr. Barrett Mr. Scott Mr. Yurek Mr. Hillyard Mr. Walker Mr. Smith Mr. Nichols Mr. Marteau Mr. Pettipies Mr. Vantog Mr. DeNovo Mr. Tabbos Mr. Miller Hamilton Mr. Stony Creek Mr. Sattler Mr. Armstrong Mr. Jellinaw Mr. Forester Mr. Hatfield Mr. Gretzky Mr. Gates 77, the NAZR 17 The eyes being 77 in the NAZR 17 I declare the motion carried. Pursuant to the order of the House dated April 16, the bill is ordered referred to the Standing Committee on Social Policy. Point of order from the member from Leeds-Grenville. Speaker, point of order. In response to the member for Lanark Frontenac, Lenox and Addington, the government house leader I believe impugned motive against an expert witness. It should be our three parties' choice who are expert witnesses. The government house leaders should not impugn anyone the side will come and appear before I commit. I appreciate the member's point of order and it is only a point of order when another member is impugned. There are no deferred votes. This house stands resized until 3 p.m. this afternoon.


For me, this is near perfect because it's always gonna help my stomach. It's always gonna push things along and it's also not going to hurt it. Hey, what's up guys, it's Josh here. So today I wanna do a little review on this super cleanse. Now it's technically a colon cleanse and it's not to be confused with super colon cleanse which I've reviewed on this channel. It is super cleanse. That's also a colon cleanse. My favorite colon cleanse is the inner cleanse. It's fantastic. The only problem that I have is that it's very expensive. It's like $45 for 60 pills. I use colon cleanse products kind of sparingly. I never really take a full cleanse but I'll take little bits as I need them. Maybe one if I need some help, two if I need a lot of help but I try not to take them every single day. I've been kind of going on a journey trying all the other colon cleanses and I came across this one and I gotta say this is probably the most gentle yet effective colon cleanse that I've ever come across. One thing I like about this product is that it seems to help digestion a little bit. If your stomach's a little agitated taking this it actually might make it feel a little bit better and calm your stomach down a little bit. But if you had to say a traditional colon cleanse and your stomach was already hurting it's probably gonna hurt more and then you're gonna have evacuation and then you'll feel better. So I like this product because it does work but it also feels like it helps my stomach at the same time. And that's kind of what they say here. I don't know if you could read that but it says nourish, stimulate and cleanse the colon. So it has a lot of stuff in here to help digestion help your stomach and also be a colon cleanse at the same time. As far as the ingredients in here they actually use a lot of ingredients that I have not seen in a lot of other colon cleanses and pretty much the only stimulant laxative they use is this Cascara Sagrada powder and the other ones sometimes they use Buckthorn almost all the time they use Sena Leaf. So it's kind of nice to have a product that doesn't feature Sena Leaf because all the other ones do. And so that way I'm never taking Sena all the time if I wanna take this I can kind of give myself a break from the Sena which is good for my body being able to do everything on its own and the Sena will probably work better when I go back to it. I've seen fennel powder in a lot of other colon cleanses same with licorice. Ginger powder is really good for constipation but they don't usually put it in a lot of other mixes. Irish moss, that's something that I think is only in this one. Slippery elm powder, I have seen that in a lot of other colon cleanses. Same with Barbary powder. Cayenne fruit, definitely they use that in Inno Clans and they use that in Zupu as well. And then they have this Chlorella powder and I think they had Benzenite Clay in Inno Clans.  The main digestive enzyme here I don't know how to pronounce it. Lactobalus, acidophilus, something like that. So they got that in here and then you have marshmallow powder. I haven't really seen that in a lot of other colon cleanses. Red raspberry, I haven't seen in a lot of other colon cleanses. Triphila powder, I haven't seen. I can't pronounce the last two but the last two I haven't seen as well. I do want to note real quick that when I was looking up the ingredients here I found this exact same product and all the ingredients were different. So at some point there seems to be some sort of reformulation so I'll try to put the supplement facts on screen that correlate with my bottle. The ingredients in here that I have not seen before I decided to Google all of them on their own so that they helped with digestion and constipation. I didn't Google the ingredient plus constipation. I just Googled the ingredient and then benefits and one of the benefits was that it relieved constipation. So you're having a lot of unique herbs in here that I haven't seen in other blends that also do help with constipation. Probably some other things in the body as well but also with constipation. I really like this product because it's very smooth and easy to use. Doesn't cause a lot of pain. It seems like it's doing a lot of extra stuff to heal your stomach as well as cleanse it at the same time. Things that I don't like is these are heat press pills and not capsules. So in order to get a tablet in tablet form you have to super heat it. If there is some delicate ingredients in here like digestive enzymes you're pretty much gonna annihilate the digestive enzymes because you have to super heat the pill. If there's any delicate anything in here it's pretty much gonna be destroyed right away because it was heat pressed. They have to put a lot of extra stuff in it to make it heat pressed as well. Like it has soy lecithin in here which I don't like and a couple other stuff. So it's got like these extra ingredients and you probably wouldn't have to put those extra ingredients in here if it was in capsule form. I'm not really sure the dosage here maybe they're put in very small amounts but you have some extra stuff in here that you don't need. Like I like to avoid soy at all costs. It says to start off with one tablet every other day and then it says to work up to like a max of three tablets twice a day I think. Yeah, don't exceed three tablets twice a day. So the maximum serving here is six tablets a day. It is a little bit slower if I had like an emergency where I needed to flush right now. This wouldn't be my go-to but this is good paired with other cold and cleanses. This is good to just take all the time. Like I'm somebody who has constant little bits of constipation issues. For me, this is near perfect because it's always gonna help my stomach. It's always gonna push things along and it's also not going to hurt it. My go-to dosage has been about three to four pills. And again, I would say give this about three, four, five days to really start working. If you do take it, it's probably going to have some effect right away. I've noticed for it to really have the effect, you have to take a couple over a few days but this product is perfect for healing your stomach. It's something again for me who takes this stuff all the time. It's pretty much as perfect as you could possibly get because it's cheap, it's helping my stomach, it's not rough. It just kind of covers all the bases. I could take a lot of it, I could take a little of it and I'm gonna get some effect. So anyways guys, I really like this stuff. Inno-cleans is still my favorite but it is so expensive. This is probably the one that I'm gonna be using the most besides Inno-cleans just because of all the reasons I just stated. Very cheap, very easy on the stomach, effective. Actually it feels like it's making my stomach better. Anyways guys, let me know what you think of this product. Let me know what you think of this video. We're on the road of 50,000 subscribers and I couldn't do without any of you guys. I hope you guys are the best. Have a great day out here. Hopefully, have a great day at home. See you all in the next video. Peace.


Thank you, we this has been a nice progression because we started at the the national level We've moved down to through Ashwin through this sort of multi-level now We're going local here with this making red benefits relevant for local people So We are focused on what we're calling these subnational red initiatives These include both programs and projects at the local level government run NGO run private sector run kind of a diversity of initiatives and Since about two thousand seven hundreds of these have emerged and then they've evolved and then evolved again and They're really interesting because they provide on the ground evidence for how local could people could actually benefit or lose lose out from red So we're working at in six countries Peru, Brazil, Cameroon, Tanzania, Vietnam and Indonesia at 23 sites in 190 villages and Have interviewed over 4,500 households This is a this is a huge Huge labor of love as you can imagine and not only did we interview all of these households in about 2010 2011 But then we went back this year and Visited them all again and asked them all about their land use and livelihoods and perceptions of of these red initiatives So this fits nicely with with Sven and Ashwin and others have talked about that this idea of Disentangling red interventions, so you've got the incentives the carrots that don't just include sort of what we might imagine is the Classic payments for environmental services, but you've got other kinds of subsidies Technical assistance certification schemes Disincentives which are you know these taxes and regulatory measures really the monitoring and evaluate Enforcement that's the sticks you've got the sticks the carrots and then these enabling conditions, which are some called the red readiness You know the tenure regularization the environmental education the the preparation for some of these other instruments and So we I don't know why that that value is like that, but anyway You know Ashwin was saying yeah, there's a mix on the ground of these things But we actually counted them at these sites and there are about 467 different kinds of interventions going on 52% of those were carrots 18% were were sticks and then these these other rest which I don't know what that value is somebody else can do the math Those are the enabling conditions So somebody in the global landscape forum this weekend said we have a carrot's problem and this graph which we maybe we don't in terms of Numbers we don't have a carrot's problem But interestingly is that of these incentives only 18% are actually conditional on sustainable land use behaviors and Actually, so the 9% of the total pie are conditional. What does that mean? It means that? They're not necessarily going to have the carbon and and land use outcomes that were initially intended So we looked at this from two angles the benefit sharing Discourse I guess the first Thinking of that engaging local people in red for greater relevance and design of benefits and this goes this follows nicely from Ashwin's public consultation And so we asked our local people aware of red initiatives and do they participate in design and implementation? Again, this was at the onset of these these initiatives, so it's important to qualify that but a few years ago only 22% or so of the households interviewed had heard of red and About one third had heard of the local red initiative with the primary source being the implementing organizations And most of those in all of the countries really linked those initiatives to forest protection That's what they felt. This is about Importantly was at the the onset of the the initiative, but there were already activities happening, so It's we say that the part the knowledge was low We're giving the implementers the benefit of the doubt to not raise expectations at that point But interestingly and Larson's just finalizing a paper that actually shows between between women's Groups and mixed groups the women's groups were much less knowledgeable than the men's groups either the mixed groups even at this early stage, so There are some the interesting issues to explore Of those who knew about the red initiatives of those third only about 27% had participated in some way in the early designer implementation and Most of this was passive or consultative going to a meeting and learning about what was going to be done in the community But not necessarily having a say about what was going to be done and then we asked what their hopes and worries were for red and The H is the hopes the W is the worries and if you go along the horizontal access there You can see obviously that most Local concerns were focused on income and welfare, so we hope that this initiative will improve our incomes We worry that it's going to it hurt our livelihoods these kinds of responses We hope that this initiative will protect our help protect our forests We worry that it won't be strong enough to exclude the oil palm companies or the timber companies that are causing Causing the problem you kind of go down the line here So then and then we're also asking that's the participation part But then we're also asking or saying that it's important to understand local livelihoods for better targeted interventions So we're asking can red interventions actually promote social benefits while minimizing burdens at the local level and here we looked at some of these local land use practices and livelihoods and We saw that you know nearly half of the households in the sample Had cleared at these at the red sites had cleared at least one parcel for us in the lat in the two years prior to the survey Most of that clearing was done for agriculture If we look at household income shares at these same sites The majority of it the blue is income share from crops The gray is from livestock and the green is from forest Well in most countries, it's the crop and livestock income that makes up the bulk of the cash and subsistence income locally With the exception of Peru where there's a the Brazil not site that Ashwin showed and a timber site in Ucayali Those forest products are very important What what this means is that if you're going to promote forest conservation if you're going to Apply disincentive sticks and say people can no longer clear for sweat in agriculture Which is a pretty common intervention at these sites there is a risk of of burdens and and and actually harming local livelihoods as opposed to promoting benefits But we did see that there is alignment between red interventions and local livelihoods So these are kind of the same same types of figures, but in a different form So the purple is the share of income from livestock Which at the two the two Brazil sites here of the sample livestock is very key Followed by the red red pie slice, which is crops And and actually the interventions that the implementers are promoting there are very much focused on livestock Sustainable milk production best practices for cattle ranching. So they are aligned actually with local livelihoods likewise in Peru And Madre de Dios where Brazil nuts are really really important share of income They're actually focusing on this Brazil nut processing plant in Ucayali where it's small-scale timber production They're bolstering FSC certification and trying to to open new markets for for that But livelihood portfolios are heterogeneous. This is the show. It's a proponent sorry principle component ordination and essentially what it's showing in a nutshell is that The red circles the one on the bottom there is this from Indonesia And it's essentially showing the bigger size of that circle there means More heterogeneity between communities within the same site And then you can see in Brazil the smaller circle shows that the the communities in that site are actually more More homogeneous in terms of their livelihood portfolios. This is important because we often find implementing organizations that say oh, we're going to Promote fish farming at this site so that people stop going into the forest to hunt. We're going and and they're sort of uniform One-size-fits-all type interventions that may have very different implications among different kinds of communities that have different livelihood portfolios and Then you look within the community and it gets even crazier, of course, and we know that communities are heterogeneous But it's it's pretty interesting to look at some of these measures I mean this top graph basically shows two communities in Cameroon The bigger polygon shows that households are very diverse in their livelihood strategies And the one in the middle shows that the actually they're a little bit more homogeneous but if you would just take an average of income or The kind of portfolios that I just showed they might look quite similar So so there are some interesting things that you know Proponents cannot explore these things, but they do need to recognize the heterogeneity to be able to promote equitable benefit sharing So in conclusion we did find sort of generally low levels of early local participation in subnational red initiatives Forest clearing and reliance on agriculture are the most important characteristics of local livelihoods at these sites Highlighting the importance of complimenting Disincentives or sticks with incentives carrots Livelihood heterogeneity makes it challenging to promote equitable red benefit sharing at the local level and really the importance of involving local people in developing an Effective and equitable mix of red interventions. It's again links to what us and was saying You know there was a I went to a community meeting at this site in Brazil and the people were saying please don't pay us $50 to stop doing agriculture Instead, can you just give us a cooler for our so that we can actually freeze our fruit and sell it later on? I mean these people know what will incentivize them. They know what they want And so but we just actually need to listen to them to try and understand how best to design these these initiatives. Thank you


Folks, welcome to Top Stocks for the new trading week. We're going to go over five symbols this week. The first chart up will be Align Technology Symbol, ALGN. The next will be IDEX Pharmaceuticals Stock Symbol, IDXX. The third symbol will be the Invesco Agriculture Fund, ticker symbol DBA. We'll also talk about Rent-A-Center, ticker symbol RCII. And we'll leave off with Shake Shack Symbol, S-H-A-K. Now what we're going to talk about with these symbols today are going to be the charts, the technicals. And we'll answer the question at the back half of the video, do I believe that each of these symbols is either A, an investment, meaning a trade to be held for greater than a couple of months or is it simply a swing trade, a trade to be held for several days to several weeks? And to kick things off, I'm going to talk about performance. How do we do last week? How do our portfolio as a whole do last week? What did we book profits in and what did we lighten up on? But before we go to that, let's talk about this evening, Sunday Night Futures Live, 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Use the link below to get a 15-minute alert. All you need to do is enter your email address. We hate spam too, you'll not be spammed. If you're already on our email list, do not enter your email address again. Again, 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, live. Click that notification bell as well. Subscribe and share with a friend, leave a comment. So let's kick things off with performance last week. How did we do? Well, we had a very, very good week last week and this is our performance page on our website. Now the first thing that's going to pop out to you is rocket mortgage. There was a loss there of 14%. Keep in mind that these are opening positions, meaning we did not have a very large position. We tested the waters, it wasn't working out. Therefore, we lightened up on half of our position. We're still long of rocket mortgage. We're looking to build but only when we see signs of strength on the charts. Right now it's still floundering a bit but we remain optimistic. The next chart up was US Steel. We traded US Steel. As a matter of fact, this is the second time we had book profits on US Steel. We opened up a position on July the 14th of this year. We booked profits on the 18th of September. Our entry price was $7.36. Our exit price was $8.98 for 22 spot, 0% gain on that trade. We exited because the shares became overbought. We knew there was going to be a pullback. Then we re-entered on the 22nd of September. After the shares did pullback, our average basis cost was $7.47 about a dime more than where we had our initial opening position back in July. And as the shares rallied last week, we decided because we were overweight this position, we decided to take half of our profits off the table. We sold at $8.56 for a 17 spot, 26% profit. We also booked profits last week on our utilities trade. We opened up the position on August the 20th, 2020. We booked profits on the 6th of October for a little over 9.5% gain. Now these are not all of our positions. The rest of our positions did quite well. You'll note that we did book another profit last week of the GDXJ, a little over a 7% gain. We're still long of the GDXJ and we will be looking to rebuild on strength or at a support level where we believe that we'll be re-entering the trade at a strong risk reward entry point. So that was our performance last week, a very good week. Despite the fact you saw rocket mortgage down 14%, small opening position. We cut our losses, moved to the sidelines. Now we're looking to rebuild. These two positions here, US Steel and GDXJ, not so much the UTSL, but these two positions were much larger positions than rocket mortgage. So net net, a very strong week last week. Let's get to the charts of the symbols that we're watching for the new trading week. We'll be using TrendSpider. TrendSpider is the next generation in charting software using automated technical analysis and artificial intelligence to help you automate your technical analysis by a click of a button as I'm going to do here using the trend lines on a monthly basis, click of a button and there you have it folks. It's as simple as that. Now we're gonna begin aligned technologies off. Oh, by the way, there's a link below 35% discount code off of TrendSpider. Back to aligned technologies. We're gonna use a multi-time frame approach beginning with a monthly chart, drilling down to a weekly chart. And again, with members, go to the members area to see the week ahead commentary where we review the health of the overall markets. How do we close last week? What's our strategy for the new trading week? And how do we plan on entering the symbols I'm about to go over? What our stop-loss point will be as listed on the watch list page, target prices and stop-loss points. So go check it out. Align technology monthly chart. Okay, so we use the automated trend lines, click of a button. You can see that we broke out here the month of June 2020 and it's been off to the races ever since. This month so far, we don't have a new monthly high but we are well off the lows of the month. The indicators are still very strong. Stochastic's moving up higher. RSI breaking out, flattening out a little bit but still early in the month. Weekly chart, now on a weekly basis, you can see that we're consolidating very nicely. And if we throw up our automated trend lines with a click of a button, here we can see what we're dealing with. We have resistance immediately above. So what I would wanna do here is one of two things or a mixture of both. One, I would wanna set an alert for a breakout above this upper band of resistance and not just a intra-period, meaning an intra-week breakout. I wanna see it close above this resistance level on at least a daily timeframe. Not flirt with it, then fail. And you may see I have written here long entry open or add. What do I mean by that? Well, ideally we get a pullback to a support level which we'll talk about in a moment. But what if that doesn't happen and the shares continue to move higher? Well, I wanna get notified if and when we do breakout and above this upper band of resistance and then we'll begin to watch it a bit more closely to ensure that we close out either the day or ideally even better the week above this resistance level because you always take the risk of if you buy it prior to a close above resistance of the shares fading on you and basically giving you a head fake breakout and you wanna avoid that. Now, at what price point would I ideally like to get involved with aligned technologies? There are several but I'll share with you the one that is really the Pimp Mac Daddy of them all and that's right down here. Right at 287.91 or 288 to round it up. Right where you have this volume shelf that would be a very attractive risk reward entry point for me. Why? It's because I know vis-a-vis these volume buy price bars and from what the chart is telling me is that we have a lot of support below that price point. So from a risk reward perspective very, very attractive. So what we'll do here is create an alert and we'll keep this active for 10 days. The reason is that it's a lot to ask for for these shares to pull back to that support level. Now the market volatility of late has been significant. We have an election coming up which is only gonna rile the markets up even more than what we've seen.   Now our stochastic on a weekly basis, very strong RSI, very strong. So my conclusion of as to whether or not a line technologies is an investment or a swing trade, I think it's both. Let's go back to the monthly chart because on a monthly basis this is the macro breakout. And we are within striking distance of putting in new all-time highs. If we do that, well that means that there's no overhead supply above, no sellers looking to get made whole. So I think that on a breakout above where we have this alert set and we retest that support level next month, I think that it can be considered an investment but it can also be considered a swing trade especially if we pull back, weekly chart again, if we pull back and this alert fires off here, that's a great risk-reward entry point and then I would look to trade it up to where we have our alert set at the upper band of resistance. I would look to book profits into that resistance level, then wait and see if we break out or do we fail yet again. So that's how I would trade a line technologies.  Now let's talk about seasonality. Is this time of year favorable to opening up a new trade or adding to a position or holding a position in a line technology? Let's figure it out. Now with seasonality on Trendspider, we can go back 19 years on a monthly basis or if you were so inclined, you could drill down to the week of the year. We are right here, the 42nd week of the year or you could drill down to the day of the year. It's crazy, really great data. Or for that matter, the hour of the day, amazing. But for our style of trade, we're gonna stay high level, monthly chart and you can see that for a line technologies, this is a seasonally favorable period of time being up 60% of the time and even getting better in November being up 74% of the time, going back 19 years, that's a lot of data. Now let's talk about analysts and their opinions and I really don't care about their opinions per se. What I care about are the numbers of sells and holds versus buys. Why does that matter? Well, if you have a whole bunch of sells and holds on the stock, the worst that they could do is reiterate their position and nobody really cares. The best that they could do is raise their guidance to a buy or an overweight. And you can see that there's an equal number of analysts on this with a bias mostly to the seller hold side. And I view that as a positive because that can only influence positive headlines moving forward if and when they move off of their current rating and move to a buy. Now yes, you have an equivalent number of analysts out there with a buy rating so that could be a negative as well but as long as these shares keep moving up, nobody wants to look bad, especially on Wall Street. So despite what their conviction is with regard to their fundamental analysis, they will toss their souls to the devil. If the shares keep moving up higher, they will change their opinion and move to a buy rating. So aligned technology is looking good from a longer term perspective. The next chart up is IDEX Laboratories, ticker symbol IDXX, monthly chart first. Now at first glance here, we appear to be in a consolidation range and we are in a consolidation range. There is one concern about this chart on a monthly timeframe and that's this. Let's use the automated trend lines. We have resistance not too far above. So from a risk-award perspective, we're gonna have to be a little bit more strategic or tactical with entering this position and I don't believe that a monthly chart is the chart to use to help time a trade. So let's drill down to a weekly view. This is a bit better. But what I wanna do is I wanna overlay on this weekly chart, I wanna overlay and this is what I mean when I say multi-time frame analysis. This is an arrow in your quiver. I don't know of another piece of charting software that has this. You can overlay monthly support and resistance on a weekly chart using TrendSpider. And there you have it. Think about if you did not have this data in dashed line is monthly resistance on a weekly chart. And what this chart is telling me, while it looks good at this price point right here at 418 per share, warning Will Robinson, beware there is resistance above. So do I wanna be a buyer into this resistance level? No, what I wanna do is I wanna set my alert and I wanna know when we break through and close above, more importantly close above that resistance level. And we're gonna keep this active because we're using a monthly resistance level, we'll keep it active for the remainder of the month or close to it. Now, might there be a entry point on a pullback on a daily chart? Yes, there could quite very well be. And I'll be reviewing that and discussing with members on market wrap tomorrow on Monday after the close. But at current, I'm looking for a breakout above monthly resistance and I think our price target is a lot higher. We're looking at over $500 per share on IDEX laboratories. Stochastics, very strong, RSI, very strong, higher lows, moving on to seasonality, data going back 19 years. The month of October is up usually 60% over that timeframe, 53%. So a slight bias to the upside in the month of November and about the same in December. Now, January is the month to own IDEX along with April and July. So having this data at your disposal allows you to be far more strategic in your trading approach and it helps you minimize risk so you're maximizing reward. This is what we focus on. We have four analysts covering IDEX all with buy ratings and you can see here, it's funny. All of these guys, Credit Suisse, Stiefel Nicholas, Bank of America, they just upgraded the shares over the summer. Where were they back here in April? Where were they back here in December of 18? They're not using charts. They weren't watching the money flow. Were they, they would have captured this bullish reversal bar, a bullish engulfing bar and they would have known you need to get long but these guys are staring at spreadsheets. They need to be staring at charts and leaving off with the daily chart of IDEX. Do I believe that it's an investment or a swing trade to the long side? Definitely bullish on the name. I think that we have a very short-term swing trade up to that upper band of resistance on a monthly timeframe. Let's overlay that again on the daily chart. I think there's a very strong chance that we rally up to 415 per share but remember that is stiff resistance up there. So short-term it's a swing trade on a close above 415 per share. It then becomes an investment. Moving on to the DB Agriculture Fund symbol DBA. This is in my book, a must-own position and I'll share with you upfront before we do our technical analysis. This is a buy, an investment. Why? Because folks, we have a tremendous amount of Federal Reserve debt monetization. In short, we're financing this country on a credit card and it's not going to end well. It has never ended well in the history of the globe. Empires have fallen by doing that and yet history repeats itself yet again. What is the very definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over again and expecting a different outcome. That is what we are doing right now. And how will failure of government manifest itself in the future? It'll manifest itself in the collapse of the US dollar and hyperinflation. What must you own during hyperinflation? You need to own goods. Anything that you drop on your foot and hurts, you should buy. You need to own food stops, consumer staples and this fund gets you to where you want to be. Now, this is a monthly chart and I've been talking about this for quite a while now. We've just been looking for the setup and I think we're very close at hand. Now, several months ago, I drew this line manually. Here, that's me. But when you overlay the automated trend lines, if you're not familiar with technical analysis and I use this to validate my accuracy, you can see that I was fairly spot on. I caught the earlier breakout, but Trendspider caught the secondary breakout. Now, what we're looking for is a continuation move higher because the DBA ag fund has been a long-term bear market and it is still in a bear market and it won't be in a bull market until we get a higher low and then a higher high. So this is still technically a speculative investment. So you wanna stay small with opening positions and then add on strength. Add when the market tells you that you're right. Test, test, test. So the monthly chart, a clear breakout on a monthly basis and I think that we could easily rally on a monthly timeframe up to this primary upper band of resistance at around at current $16 and 25 cents per share weekly chart. Now on a weekly chart, we are very close to a breakout as measured by this consolidation here on the candlesticks and is measured by this volume shelf. There's been a lot of history here at this price. And so what we know is, is that should we break out and above this resistance level, well then it's gonna be game on with a continuation breakout on the DBA. Let's overlay our automated trend lines on a weekly timeframe. And you can see that we had broken out here the week of August the 24th and we've been consolidating ever since. This is very bullish stuff. Moving on to seasonality, data going back 14 years, the month of October, very strong, the month of November, very weak. So be careful. We're almost through half of October, November a very volatile month, December not much better until we get to April. So a seasonally poor period of time after October. So this leads me to believe that this may be a short term swing trade for the month of October. But if I wanna make it a longer term investment I may wanna look, I'm not sure if they sell options on this, but as a longer term investment I may wanna sell covered calls against the position going out several months and on strike. That way I have a hedge on the position but I don't lose all that much upside potential during a seasonally challenging period of time. So I would go out on those calls several months. Members will talk about that when the time comes. There is no analyst coverage because it is a fund. The next chart up is renter center. This is one where we discussed entering a position last week, however here is that it got away from us and I didn't wanna go chasing it but I still like it. You can see I have an alert that was triggered last week but I opted to be a bit cautious and not chase it. Do I regret it? No, because that's served me well over the course of time by not getting emotional about a stock. So what we'll be looking for now is a pullback and a retest of this breakout point. Unless they find a support level on a weekly timeframe or in a daily timeframe that is more favorable to me. Now keep in mind that we like renter center because people are moving. They are leaving the cities and when they leave the cities they wanna sell their property. Well, they need to stage that property. When they move into a new home, maybe they wanna rent furniture for a while while they're fixing up their home. So thus far this month we have broken out above prior highs, new monthly highs. We are not at all time highs and we do have overhead resistance above. Let's overlay the automated trend lines and there you have it. Click of a button. We know that right around here at around $35, $36 per share there is resistance. Now moving on to a weekly chart, you could see that last week we had a breakout week, beautiful. I would be interested in purchasing shares on a pullback and a retest of weekly support which is also the monthly breakout point. We'll create an alert year, touch or bounce, leave a little bit of sensitivity and it is a long entry point. Moving on to seasonality, data going back 19 years, the month of November very, very strong as is evidenced by the share price this month and December is very strong as well. Drops down in January but picks back up in February. So another situation where you decide to become an investor in the shares, you could look to sell January covered calls at a higher strike price.  Stick with your game plan. Identify a resistance level at which you want to exit the trade and then exit appropriately. Stick with your game plan. Let's overlay some weekly trend lines. You can see that we have resistance above at around $36 per share. We're in ascending wedge formation. So where I would be also interested in adding to my position is on a breakout above this upper band of resistance. I want to build on strength. If the market's telling me my initial inclination was accurate, meaning the share price is moving higher after my initial purchase. Well, why not buy more if it's able to overcome an obstacle at resistance? We'll keep that active for the next week and it's set and forget it. Here's our lower band of support. I want to know when we hit the support level Trendspider will send me out a text and an email notifying me of this support level getting hit or if we managed to break out above this upper band of resistance. Until one of those alerts gets fired off I'm not even going to look at this chart again. It's a rules-based approach. Minimize risk, maximize reward. Analyst ratings, is there a headline opportunity here? Not much. We have a couple of small firms with holds on it. Maybe they'll go to a buy. And if anything, I'm a little bit concerned with analysts here. Steeple has been on point. They reiterated their buy rating back in April after initiating back in November of 2019 as a share price accelerates. If earnings do not follow be careful because they can move to a sell rating or a hold rating and basically the same. So no contrarian indicators here that would have me more bullish due to analysts focusing too much on balance sheets rather than focusing in on where the money's flowing using stock charts. Shake Shack, this is another one I covered last week on best stock charts for the coming week and it broke out. It popped up higher last week and we're gonna use the same strategy with Shake Shack as I just laid out with Rent the Center. We will not chase the shares. We know where their support right at this breakout point at 69.24. Let's overlay support and resistance levels on a monthly basis using automated trend lines. Really nice. Not much in terms of overhead supply above. That's always good stuff. Now, are we without resistance? No, there was resistance right where we closed last week. Let's drill down to a weekly timeframe, right at 72.49. And there you have it. Weekly timeframe, you could see. This is the value of using multi-time frame analysis. Understand where the stock has been to identify where it might be going. So with the knowledge now of knowing that I have resistance immediately above will I be buying on Monday? No, I wanna see the shares come to me. We're gonna set up our alert. So I wanna know when we touch or bounce support, which happens to also be the breakout point and should be a very strong support level. I've noted that it's a weekly timeframe. The reason why I note that it's a weekly timeframe is because it's more significant than a daily support level. There's a lot more history there. It's a long entry. We'll keep it active for five days. We're good to go. I wanna know when we hit that support level and or if we break out. Now I'm gonna use a four hour alert and I'll tell you why in a moment. This only fires off twice per day. The reason why that we're using a four hour timeframe to get alerted and not a 10 minute, meaning it crosses above let's say 72.91 and alert fires off. I really don't care if it happens at 9.30 AM, 10 AM, noon, two o'clock, I don't care. What I care about is are we poised to close above it? You could also set this up as an hourly alert. So you're alerted at the 3PM timeframe that Shake Shack has broken out and above and upper band of resistance and you watch at that final hour of trade. Then those final minutes, if you just barely above resistance, wait, wait for the final minutes of trade to ensure that you don't have some big hedge fund dumping a ton of shares in the final minutes of trade, taking it down below that support level. You're not going to feel good about yourself. You never want to see your opening position fade into the close. It's happening to me all too often. You want to use the final hour of trade as the point at which you open up or add to new trades unless your momentum trading stocks that are under huge accumulation, they're owned by the street, meaning a lot honey, hot money chasing them, but you should be using a trailing stop loss order on those trades. So Shake Shack, at current it's a swing trade only. Might it become a longer term investment? Yeah, but we need to break out an above 72.49 for that to be the case. Moving on to seasonality, November, one of the top months of the year for Shake Shack as evidenced by the chart. But keep in mind that December is by far the weakest month of the year for Shake Shack. It recovers in January. So this also reinforces my opinion that at current this is only a swing trade. I'd want to look to make this an investment in December where I get a good risk reward entry point. And I also have the knowledge that for the first two quarters of 2021 it's a seasonally favorable period of time. Analyst ratings, I love this. You may be saying, what is this guy talking about? You only have seven analysts with a buy rating. And then you have 35 analysts with a hold or a sell rating both, which are pretty much the same. Why do I like this? Look at all of these banks, these well-dressed, suspender wearing, slick back salesman. They're about to get made the fool of. We're about to break out. And they're sitting here with sells and holds. What are they gonna be forced to do? They're gonna be forced to move to a buy rating. This is the wind at your back. A lot of potential positive headlines coming out on Shake Shack. Folks, I'm gonna ask you to please hit that like button and join us tonight, Sunday Night Futures Live, 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Use the link below, enter your email address to get notified 15 minutes prior to us going live. 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