Hello, everyone. I am Federico. I am the UX designer from the Moodle Community team. Can you go next slide, please? For this sprint, we're working in the Moodle Academy 4.0 upgrade. This will happen in the Monday, 19 of December. And for this upgrade, we're adding the new team. We wrote the same design because we're kind of imitating a lot of the behaviors that Moodle Academy currently has. So there's not a huge jump. But we're deciding on which things we want to make small improvements, which things we want to have more or less the same experience than before. But also, we add a lot of new functionalities from 4.0, from Workplace 4.0. We also have, for example, one of the functionalities that we're imitating from the current Moodle Academy site is like the blog stroller on the homepage is opened by default. So because we have important information there, for example, like the call to action to the Moodle Mood or upcoming events blog, that is really important also. And we are planning the 4.0, the 4.1 upgrade for January. We're estimating that it's going to happen in January. Can we go next slide, please? Also, another functionality that we're working inside of the upgrade is the Book Sticking Navigation. This is one of the things, one of the characteristics that we're imitating from the current Moodle Academy site. And I'm going to share very quickly so we can see how it works. Okay, should be working now. Yeah, okay. So this is the navigation instead of, for example, a Book Activity. In this case, we're in the course introduction to Moodle, and we can navigate with the arrows because there's one of the aspects that we're working in the Moodle Academy site is in terms of accessibility. So in this aspect, when we add text, it's not as accessible as an icon in this case. So this, if we, for example, I can navigate front and also back, and also it stays sticky. So there's no duplicates on top and on the bottom for the next or previous buttons. And if we go to the current Moodle Academy site, we can see that these are the arrows that currently we have on the page, on the website. So this is what we wanted to implement this functionality on the Book Activity. Okay, I can start sharing.  Thanks. Also for the, we were working in the Moodle Mood videos. Now they are released. You have them in the Moodle Academy, in the Moodle Mood global course inside Moodle Academy, but also you have them in the YouTube playlist of Moodle. And these are the links so you can access to it. Next slide please. Also, we're working in one of the functionalities. The new functionalities inside of Moodle Academy is that we're going to add different events. We're going to add multiple language events, for example, Spanish and other languages. So we're going to have much more events that we will kind of feature in Moodle Academy. So we wanted to create this filter functionality inside of the upcoming events block. This is just the first draft of a prototype. So we are keep working on this idea because it is important because right now we don't have that many events, but in the future we will. So we're working on this small functionality and we have a Figma prototype, but it's basically the same that shows in the gift and the ticket. And we go next slide please. And also in this, we have some text there from the last slide, but in this spring we're also working in the Protopersonas workshop because in terms of research, there is work happening in my side as a UX designer. We're working in this spring we made like a workshop that is one hour and one hour long and working with the team to define who are the users that are using our product and defining specific characteristics about them, but these are just assumptions. So I will work on this with this base making conclusions from this workshop to start doing research with current real users of Moodle Academy. So this is one of the first steps on exploring the user behavior inside of the website. Next slide please. Now I'm going to hand the work to Oli. Hi everyone. I'm Oli. I'm the community engagement lead for Moodle.org and community sites. And so this sprint was our first print where we were actually using points and estimations. So bear with us. So we had 30 issues in the sprint, which was 112 points according to what we planned. A lot of those were carried over from the last sprint. 18 of these issues were completed as of yesterday. Turns out one's been reopened today. So six issues were in progress, not seven, and six issues not started. So the ones in progress are actually things that will be completed in sprint 1.3. I've added the velocity chart there just to show how much the team has worked through those points and has delivered these sprints. So we started with a high number of points and it's been worked and delivered small increments especially for the URI improvements on a weekly basis released to Moodle.org and related sites. Just next slide. So the sprint goals were to update Moodle.org design based on community feedback. We've delivered those stories, the sprint for that. There will be more next sprint. Another one was to obtain stakeholders feedback for the plugins directories. We started working on designing workshop for that, but it hasn't been done so that's something that will carry on next sprint. And therefore the goals for this overall epic will be a little bit delayed, but that's fine. We have workshop running this week and then another couple in January hopefully. To summarize the site registration issues. So I had a meeting with Marie about that on Monday and we've got a plan going forward. So the next step will go into the next sprint in terms of trying to encourage people to register their Moodle sites. To propose a new setup for the MUAHQ community interaction. So the setup has not been proposed, but I've run 10 interviews with MUAHQ community members which have summarized and I will present to them next week so that we'll move to the next sprint effectively. Another couple of things that aren't on the sprint goals, but that we have done in terms of support work for the Moodle community site this sprint were to work on the custom design theme for Moodle.org that was already launched in October and apply that in staging to translation site and stats site so that those sites have got 4.1 ready as well and that will all go on next sprint hopefully being released in terms of the new look and feel that matches Moodle.org. So it's just trying to make everything consistent. We also had user docs updated for the 4.1 so all the user docs and admin are being worked on as well. In English and also the German 4.1 is ready. We have updated as well the community sections to match the 4.1 release but also in the process plan for releases for the next year as well in the calendar etc. So there's a lot of planning that's gone in and then if you want to go to the next slide I'm going to try and hopefully so I'm sorry I don't have any screenshots and I'm going to have to share and take over this because we had a technical issue and I can't present and I'm not the best person to present you this but I will go here and just do a quick very quick and look over the UI changes that we have made. I can't see everything because a lot of things were changed to mobile and tablets but there have been changes to align the top graphic to sit under the login and there were extra gaps in there. We've made changes to the footer so that's now available in different views. So a lot of work has gone into mobile and tablet improvement for the view as well in the UI and we've got in the footer two new links one to the site policy and an accessibility statement that has been created and linked in there as well. There has been improvement in the forums in the post spacing and in the Get Involved page as well which we improve as we go to match the front page in terms of spacing but also, if I can show, it's not quite loading. So the iconography has been made consistent and updated as well as the spacing in between the different cards there and also there's been an improvement of the consistency of how the events area cards, the community events, sorry, works and if I stop sharing and go back to the slideshow, hopefully, then the one last thing that I can say that we've improved this time is that the metadata for the Get Involved page has been added as well. So a lot of changes that are not as kind of visible to like as dramatic but based on the community feedback and a lot of small changes and that will carry on in the next print so hopefully we'll finish all the changes that have been suggested for this increment. One thing that hasn't been done or was done but is not satisfactory is the update on the hyperlinks and we're working on this. So we had made up hyperlinks at the moment they bold because of the contrast wasn't sufficient with the different color contrasts before. We have an update to Accessivity Review due but we will also work on this to make sure everybody is able to access. Thank you.


Jim, you are in the carbon reduction business, I guess we could say. Give the viewers, the watchers out there who never heard of Dinosert or maybe who, you know, it's not Dinosaur, it's Dinosert, give the people out there who've never heard. What do you do? What's your technology or what's the magic that you bring to the market? For sure. Thank you, Byron. I mean, we are, we're not a new company. We've been 20 years in research development to get this thing to the point where it was commercialized and we're making sales. Now we're selling around the world, but what we have is very unique. It's a type of electrolysis system that is put onto an internal combustion engine, primarily diesel engines, to enhance the burn. We're not a fuel, we are a catalyst. But by doing this, we improve the fuel economy on an average 10 to 15%. More importantly is the reduction in the carbon footprint. We reduced the toxin gases within the internal combustion engine, north of 50% clear across the board. And this is done right at the source, right at the combustion, it's not a filtration. And you know, so by doing that, we've had this tested and certified globally to do this. And more importantly now, you know, this has been proven out into the industries and we are now getting repeat orders. And certainly, you know, they're driven by the fuel economy, the improved fuel economy because of the cost of diesel is so high. But everybody is also very, very conscientious these days of the importance to reduce the carbon footprint. Okay. So you manufacture a box that we can bolt onto a diesel engine, is that a fair way to describe it? That's right. Simple way, but fair. Yeah. I mean, we have multiple size units. I mean, our first target to market was Class 8 trucks or transport trucks, probably the toughest market to penetrate, but we have now successfully done that. But we have now gone from that, we've got multiple size units where we are now in a large mining industry. Just recently announced six of the 10 largest mining companies in the world that have run pilot projects and are now getting repeat orders, you know, where they are adopting our technology on these larger moving units, on these large power generators and things like that also.  So is your technology designed to eliminate, you know, soot and nitrogen oxides as well as the CO2 emissions, reduce, not eliminate, but reduce the number? Reduces it all, Myron, and that's a great question.  We reduce that north of 50%. All the toxic gases were reduced north of 50%. The NOx is actually reduced up to 88%. And the important thing to understand is, like I said, this is right at the combustion. This is not filtration.  Okay, very good. Now, you mentioned mining equipment as an investor, Intel person and as a geologist. I've been around a few mines.  Do you reduce the fuel burn? I mean, is that one of the selling points to the mining company is that we can, we'll clean up your emissions and we'll improve your efficiency? Absolutely. On an average, we're reducing the fuel economy, or we're improving the fuel economy north of 10%. You know, anywhere, I mean, we've talked from 6% to 19%, but certainly in those big trucks, everyone that we've seen, they're in the 10% plus percent range just in the improved fuel economy. Now, if you are cleaning up the soot and the goop that comes out of the combustion, are you also just sort of improving the efficiency of the engine in terms of oil, life, lubricant, other lubricants, wear and tear on the, on the whole torque system? Does that help? Yes, great question. And you certainly look at it.   Soot content in the oil is what breaks down the oil. We have had it tested where, you know, a typical on a class A transport truck, the typical oil change, they're looking at 8% plus soot content. With our unit on it, it's coming back at less than 1% soot content. So that reduces the wear in the engine.  We reduced that, you know, by, you know, an average 30 to 40% use because of the reduced NOx or NOx, that because the computer determines the NOx and based on that, it determines how much death fluid is used. Well, a couple other things. So you've talked about the big 18 wheelers on the highway.    We certainly are. And we certainly see that it is, you know, as a big Avenue locomotive. Watch the news in the near future. I think there'll be something talking about the locomotive industry. We talk about the big shipping, you know, that is we're not in the big ships yet. We've been in some of the smaller ones, but, you know, certainly we get into the big cargo ships or the big container ships. Interesting stat, you know, 40 year ago, there was stats came out that one container ship puts out the equivalent of 100 million cars per year in pollution. We're so worried about cars. And that is an area that has been, I mean, now they're starting to come under scrutiny and stuff like that. But certainly, you know, we look at those areas. That is certainly an area where we feel very strongly that we can make a real difference and in both field economy and the reduced emissions.  I take it you have patents all around. You've built a moat around your castle, so to speak. Can you address that issue? Absolutely, we actually have to date. We've got 21 patents now in six different families. We have spent a lot of time, a lot of money and a lot of effort to make sure that our technologies were strongly patented. I would say also one of the most recent and strongest patents we have. We've got a worldwide patent on the means and methods of monitoring and monetizing carbon credits within internal combustion engines where we see that is certainly the big part of our future also. Well, does this put you into not just the business of selling magic boxes that people bolt onto their engine, but in terms of monitoring data from those boxes back in central central control, a mothership where you're you're literally tracking you know, this truck, that truck, this mining equipment, that generator as it rolls down the road or whatever. So you have I don't want to say this. This is kind of like Microsoft selling a software license. Is that am I being over my overstating it? Or is that no, no, that's a very fair assumption. And yes, we have what we have called the hydrolytica, which is trademarked. Our hydrolytica is the software collection or it's really it's like a fleet management system on steroids. It gives you all the data that a fleet management system would, but it also measures the improved fuel economy and measures the reduction in carbon footprint or greenhouse gases. And this is done on a minute by minute, you know, day by day. And this is hard data. There's no human intervention. This is our hydrolytic, you know, adapts to the computer of an engine where all this data is is extracted and so we now have a data center here because as we're moving into the carbon credit world, that data is critical. OK, so you you you manufacture a hard product that you sell. You gather the information back from the product and help fleet management and you're in the carbon management carbon credit business and and and I guess what are you going to do this afternoon? Is the sort of the next question? It's your one stop shopping for quite a few things. You we could talk about this all day, but obviously our listeners and viewers have other things to do. But you have a website, you have information on your website. You have, you know, when to contact if people have questions, Dynastert, D-Y-N-A-C-E-R-T. You trade in the Toronto Exchange and in the OTC markets in the USA. And so the last word, Jim. Not the last word, I would say, I mean, you know, we know that COP 27 just finished and certainly the biggest focus over there was climate change and, you know, we are so busy or the world's so busy talking about climate change and what we're going to do in the future, which is very important. I mean, it's very important to us. But the reality is Dynastert has a technology right now today that can make such a substantial difference on us saying it's the end all. It's not it's not the end result. But, you know, certainly it is such a massive bridge to that. You know, we're right now by doing this, you know, we can reduce the emissions so significantly and at the same time improve the fuel economy and we'll know prices of fuel or have gone to the roof. Absolutely.  Jim Payne Dynastert, thank you so much for being with us and for the Intel or for the investor Intel viewers out there. Thank you so much for watching. This this this company is worth watching. OK, watch it. OK, thank you.


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It is now time for Question Period, the leader of the Majesty's Loyal Opposition. Thank you. My question is for the Premier. Premier, your government spent over $250 million of taxpayers' money on the Social Assistance Management System, or SAMS. The system was supposed to improve the delivery of social assistance for recipients of Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Support Program. The Minister of Community and Social Services, in fact, said during a November 4, 2014 meeting of the Estimates Committee that she felt fairly confident that the new system will have a pretty seamless rollout. Premier, we don't need another e-health. So will your government recall the Estimates Committee so we can hear directly from witnesses and frontline workers to get to the bottom and to help you get out of this another liberal scandal? I appreciate the question from the member opposite. I want to step back and say that the reason that this new system is being implemented, Mr Speaker, is that there was an outdated computer system in place. This new system is designed ultimately to allow for better service to clients, Mr Speaker, to make sure that frontline workers will be able to spend more time with clients. That clients will have 24-hour a day, 7-day a week access to online information and more information about their cases. The reality is that there was a glitch. I understand that. There are 500,000 checks that go out every month, Mr Speaker. There was a problem with a portion of those. My understanding is that less than 1% now, a little over 100 checks still need to be dealt with, but that 99% of the error has been correct. Before we get going, I'm going to ask for the stop of the injections into this conversation. Supplementary. The Premier and Premier, the government continues to demonstrate an inability to manage Ontario's best interests. Your minister signed off on this expensive new system, a $250 million system that was flawed from the beginning and you were forewarned. A letter written by Opsu President Jackie Thomas in July to your minister, responsible, stated, quote, unless improvements are made to SAMS, the launch in late fall will be rife with problems, delays and poor service. Premier Ontario's most vulnerable rely on these payments. I don't believe you and I don't think anyone believes that 99% of the problems is fixed at this point. So what is your government going to do to make sure these people aren't left behind and that they have their money for Christmas? And I would welcome Smokey Thomas to the legislature today. He's here and I'm sure that he shares with me a desire to make sure that clients of the system get the very best service possible. The system that was in place was outdated, Mr. Speaker. There was an overpayment error. It was caught immediately, Mr. Speaker. Within 24 hours, about 99% of the payments were stopped or they were retracted immediately. There's about 1%, a little over 100 situations that still need to be dealt with, Mr. Speaker. But I'm sure the leader of the opposition is not saying that there should never be change. I'm sure he's not saying that we should never update a system and make sure that case workers would have more time with clients. Because that is what we are doing. We are in the business of improving service to the people of Ontario, Mr. Speaker, making sure that people get better service. And along the way, when there is a situation like this, we act quickly to rectify it. And that is what has happened in this situation, Mr. Speaker. Final supplementary? Yes. Premier, you only acted after the fact. Mr. Thomas warned you back in July, the president of the opposition. He told you his members were telling him that there would be major problems with the rollout. He was exactly right. So why didn't you heed his warnings? Why did you buy an expensive program that doesn't appear to work from the get-go? And why are you moving forward defending this when it's just going to turn out to be another liberal scandal? How much is this liberal scandal going to cost us? Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And I'm pleased to have the opportunity to set the record straight on the error that occurred last week. I think it's worth knowing that SAMS is a technology that uses the Curem case management software, the same platform that is used in many jurisdictions globally, now owned by IBM. We have a contract with them to assist us through the transition of going live with SAMS. As the premier has stated, clearly this is a new system that is replacing a totally outdated computer system. It will bring our services into the 21st century. We have spent the last many months training the users on SAMS. Both some 11,000 users, both in municipal, O.W. offices as well as ODSP offices. Extremely extensive training. We thank the workers for all their hard work, but clearly the opposition is trying to make a mountain of very small molehill. Thank you. New question leader of the opposition. It's also for the premier. Premier, last week your health minister bowed to public outrage and provided the Erie St. Clair Community Care Access Center with an additional $1 million towards their deficit. Premier, there are 14 CCACs in Ontario. Throughout the province, CCACs are being forced to claw back health care services because of budgetary pressures. Earlier this year, my colleague, the member for Dufferin Caledon, brought to your attention the fact that the Central West CCAC would have to cut the number of new patients it could accept. That is, despite the fact that since 2010, the amount of patients needing the CCAC services has nearly doubled. Premier, is your health minister going to provide new funding for all CCACs? Well, Mr. Speaker, and I know that the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care will want to speak to this in the supplementary, but the fact is we're investing more than $4.3 billion in the community sector, Mr. Speaker, and we've increased that funding by $270 million this year, Mr. Speaker, in 2014-15. So we continue to invest more in the community sector, Mr. Speaker, and as I have said many times in this House, we are in a transition. There is no doubt about that. We are changing the way we deliver health services in Ontario. People want care in their homes, they want care in the community, and we are moving to a system that provides much more of that care in the community, Mr. Speaker. But we have to continue to work with the CCACs, work with the community or agencies, Mr. Speaker, to make sure that people get the care that they need when they need it. To that end, we continue to invest and increase funding to that sector. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Premier of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, QP, says there's been a 33% spike in the demand for home care. We can expect this trend to continue as our population ages. QP says the Southwest Community Care Access Centre, and the NDP obviously think this is funny, which increases patients in a large geographical area from London to Grey Bruce, is resorting to cutting care for some ill patients denying care to others altogether. Premier, do you believe the $250 million you squandered on the failed SAMS computer system could have been better used to help people who need care through our CCACs? Mr. Speaker, Mr. Health. Mr. Health, the long-term care. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and I appreciate the question. Mr. Speaker, we're investing $1.4 billion this year in home and community care across the province. That's an increase of more than $250 million from last year, but I want to talk about what we're particularly proud of. We've got a team that's being led right now by Gail Donner, and those in the home and community sector see this woman for the experience that she's gotten, the leadership that she's providing to help us look at our home and community sector as we continue to transform as a province and transform our healthcare system. We've been focusing, Mr. Speaker, with everyone in this legislature knows over the past several years on our acute care facilities. Now we're beginning to turn our attention in a very substantive way to home and community care. We know there are improvements that need to be made. We know that we need to make sure that we're providing the highest quality of care to people where they need it as close to home as possible. We're working on that, and with Gail Donner's leadership, I expect to report back in January. I'm sure that we're going to have solid recommendations to help us get back into the future. Thank you. Final supplementary. Premier, our CCACs have their backs against the wall. The reason they're not receiving adequate funding is because the government has dug a deep fiscal hole. Over a decade of liberal mismanagement means we're spending millions on servicing debt interest payments and waste. That money should be invested toward safeguarding frontline healthcare and providing for patients in need. Premier, your health minister even vowed to quote, personally address any issues with specific clients who say they are not getting the care they needed. And to quote, while we're hearing dozens of stories by the day, hundreds by the week. So Premier, have you asked your minister to directly report to you about these individual cases? And if so, how many house calls has a good doctor made? Minister? Well, Mr. Speaker, I'd be happy to make a few house calls if that is going to lead us down that important path of them continuing to improve our healthcare system. But I want the same thing that I did privately with the NDP last week. I want to do publicly not just with the Conservatives but with the NDP to actually implore them. If they have specific examples and I suspect if they have specific The member from Essex come to order. The member from Dufferin-Kelliden come to order. The member from Essex, second time. In fact, with my colleagues on this side of the legislature as well. It's an important part of my job. It's a responsibility as a minister of health and as a healthcare professional I take very, very seriously. So I would ask them if they are aware through their constituency offices or elsewhere, if they're aware of specific individuals whose health is being compromised because of what they perceive or a real or actual change in the support that they're providing at home in the community. I would ask them to bring those specific cases to my attention and I commit to working with them to resolve them. Thank you, Speaker. My question is for the Premier. Nearly a million people rely on social assistance to put food on the table and a roof over their head speaker. But the Liberals new software program is causing chaos for clients and staff. How could the Premier sign off on a quarter billion dollar lemon, frankly, having been warned in advance that it could turn into a nightmare for our province's most vulnerable speaker? Thank you, Premier. Well, Mr. Speaker, and I will answer this question again. The fact is there was an outdated system in place that needed to be upgraded, Mr. Speaker. We needed to improve the service to the people of the province who rely on social assistance. And we needed to have in place a system that was going to allow front line workers to have more time with their clients, case workers having more time with their clients. So that's what this system is about, Mr. Speaker. 500,000 checks go out every month. There was an error earlier in the month, Mr. Speaker, earlier this week. It was immediately caught. Within 24 hours, 99% of the payments were stopped or they were retracted, Mr. Speaker. Ministry officials are working to make sure that that final 1% of the cases gets dealt with. Thank you, supplementary. Speaker, folks on social assistance trust the government to get things right, but the Liberals rolled out a program full of bugs causing a 20 million dollar glitch. Payments are being lost, checks are being delayed, people are suffering and staff are at their wits, Mr. Speaker. Can the Premier tell me how many Ontarians faced empty checks this past weekend and what the government did to help them? The first question that I asked at my staff this morning was whether people who were relying on these checks did get their money. And my understanding is that they did, that there are still about 100 or so checks that need to be rectified. Not that people didn't get checks, but that the amounts need to be clarified, Mr. Speaker. So to my understanding, to the best of my ability, I asked this question and my understanding people did get their money and there were about 1% of the situations where there still needs to be some change, Mr. Speaker. But the fact is the ministry acted immediately and 99% of the cases were dealt with and all of that, Mr. Speaker, speaks to how important it is obviously that we be vigilant, but it does not suggest that there should never be change. It does not suggest that we shouldn't update systems. It does not suggest that we shouldn't put in place a system that allows case workers to spend more time with their clients. The Liberals Quarter billion dollar app is full of bugs and it's causing havoc for people on social assistance. The most vulnerable people deserve better than trial and error, Speaker. They deserve a social assistance program that actually works for them. How can the Premier allow the most vulnerable Ontarians to pay for the Liberals Thank you. You know those are broad sweeping generalizations that bear little or no resemblance to what's actually going on. The ministry trained 11,000 users to make sure that they knew what was required with the new system, Mr. Speaker. And in addition to that, because there was this error, there are now staff being deployed to go to offices to make sure that those final problems get worked out. So the fact is we made a change. Yeah. I am very, very clear, Mr. Speaker, that it was necessary to make a change to put a better system in place. And when there was an error, there was an immediate reaction and there continues to be a reaction, Mr. Speaker, that gives support to those frontline workers to make sure that people have the money that they need. And that, you know, that was my concern this morning was to make sure that people who were counting on those checks got them and that has happened, Mr. Speaker. My next question is also for the Premier. Will the Premier tell the parents of children in youth detention centres, mental health facilities, schools for the severely disabled, some of the most vulnerable kids in Ontario why she's preventing the child advocate from protecting the rights of their children? So Mr. Speaker, what I would say to the leader of the third party and to all of those people who are paying very close attention to advocacy and accountability in this province is that we are expanding the authority of the child advocate, Mr. Speaker. We are increasing the powers and in fact the measures that are contained in Bill 8 were ones that the child advocate was very positive about when we first brought them in, Mr. Speaker. My understanding is that the current requests are things that go beyond the mandate of the child advocate, but we've expanded the authority of the child advocate and we have done that in the bill, Mr. Speaker, and as that bill works through the legislature the child advocate will have more authority, not less authority, Mr. Speaker, and that is as it should be. Premier seems more interested in talking about accountability than she does about doing anything about it. Experts call Bill 8 troubling. Experts, Speaker, are calling Bill 8 troubling. They say it falls seriously short. Experts like the child advocate, Patience Canada and the Ontario Association of Children's Aid Society have some serious concerns about the gaps that are currently existing in Bill 8. So why isn't the Premier interested in what the experts have to say on transparency and accountability, Speaker? I'm sure of Children's Aid Services is going to want to comment on the final supplementary, but we have worked with many experts, Mr. Speaker, including the experts that the leader of the third party is talking about. We actively consulted with the child advocate as we drafted Bill 8, Mr. Speaker, and we appreciate the feedback that we got from him in his office. We've accepted amendments that the advocate brought forward. We've accepted amendments to the bill that we consulted with him about, Mr. Speaker. Now, the fact is Bill 8 expands the powers of the child advocate, Mr. Speaker. The NDP voted against our plans. I understand plans to vote against our legislation, but the fact is that we are expanding the authority of the child advocate. We are increasing his powers, Mr. Speaker, and we are creating advocacy and accountability in the healthcare system that didn't exist before, Mr. Speaker. So I hope that the third party would be able to work with us on that. Well, Speaker, the liberal so-called transparency bill seems to be more about slapping a nice name on a Stephen Harper type omnibus bill than it is about increasing transparency in our province, Speaker. When something as basic as addressing aboriginal children and youth being cared for. The member from Eglinton Lawrence might himself be withdrawn. Please finish. When something as basic, Speaker, as addressing aboriginal children and youth being cared for by children's aid societies is left out, people wonder what the heck is going on. Why is the Premier shutting out the advice of people like the child advocate? Thank you, Speaker. We are definitely not shutting out the advice of the provincial advocate. We have met with the advocate Speaker a number of times and the reason we're expanding powers we're recommending expansion of his investigatory powers to children's aid society because it's a natural fit. Children don't have a natural voice. We thought it's a perfect fit for the advocate oversee children's aid societies and we know there's been a general call for that. I want to also assure the member of the third party and everybody in this house that for every other ministry program under the Ministry of Children Youth Services, the Ombudsman has investigatory power, Speaker. I mentioned last week in the house that he does have powers to investigate things like youth justice facilities. We are extending the powers for children's aid society. We feel the advocate is well positioned for that given his background and he'll do a great job in the interest of children. Thank you. Please, a new question to the member from Eglinton. The minister of education. Bill 10 will likely pass this week after limited and sparse public debate and public consultation. Given the minister's personal commitment to Bill 10 and her desire, can she provide a detailed assessment of how many child care spaces have been impacted by her plan? In other words, can she tell us how many fewer child care spaces there will be in Ontario as a result of her bill? Thank you. Yes. Actually, the good news in child care is if you look at the number of spaces that have been created over the last several years not only have we created 130,000 since 2003, if you look at each of the last several years we've created on average 18,000 a year. We have no reason to think that that's going to change. We will see any slowdown in the creation of high quality spaces for our children. So we would anticipate that in fact we'll see in the next several years over 70,000 new spaces created. In particular, if the licensed child home operators take the advantage of the opportunities we could see 6,000 more spaces just in private home child care. Supplementary. In addition, this was the same minister over a year and a half ago who told me that reopening contracts didn't cost $500 million yet the auditor last week just did tell us that. The ministry knows the range to last child care spaces will be 140,000 child care spaces as a result of what the coalition of independent child care providers suggested, up to 180,000 if we follow the ombudsman's numbers. Bill 10 is not about safety. We should be talking about hiring more inspectors if that were the case or ensuring we had stronger enforcements and regulations or creating an independent registry but we're not. Instead we're talking about eliminating spaces, changing pedagogy of Montessori and private religious schools and eliminating parental choice. So I ask the minister finally and once and for all, in the name of transparency will she tell this assembly how many child care spaces her government is going to eliminate? Thank you. I would mention some of those safety factors because speaker I'd like to tell you what the Tories proposed to do to Bill 10 with their amendments. For example, they were going to limit the scope of child care to children under 10 years of age which would have had the effect of removing subsidies from a number of very needy children. That was what they were going to do. They were despite the evidence from Yellowwood actually going to increase the number of children above and beyond what we put in Bill 10 who are allowed in private home child care center despite all the problems we've had. They were going to remove the new administrative penalties from the bill. That's what actually allows us to go in and find people and they were going to limit the protection orders where you get to actually close places down. They were going to. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. My question is to the minister of finance. Mr. Speaker, this government claims to be a government based on transparency and accountability. I hope we'll see that in the answer to this question. According to the fall economic statement in early November of this year, the first annual automobile insurance transparency and accountability expert report was delivered to the minister of finance. Now the whole point of this report was to let the public know why premiums were staying so high despite the fact that we had draconian benefit cutbacks in 2010 and subsequent years that reduced the cost for insurance companies. But despite promising over a week ago and I quote this to make the public make this report public momentarily, the government has refused to release it. What's in this report that the government does not want the 8 million dollars of Ontario to know about? Thank you Mr. Speaker. Yes, last year our government took leadership in launching the auto insurance cost and reduction rate strategy. Something that I thought that member opposite would have been supportive of, given that it would have initiated the ability for us to reduce the cost of claims enabling us to reduce the cost of premiums. And we are doing so obviously now without their support. We did commission a report. A report that would have been available to us much sooner of course had we not had an unwanted election again prompted by that party. So we will continue to do our work. We'll have the report out in due course. We're reviewing it now Mr. Speaker. Thank you. Mr. Speaker, the minister of finance weeks ago said this report would be out momentarily. Where is the report? The fact is you said you would release this report momentarily and you haven't. New Democrats have long argued that the insurance company has already pocketed billions of dollars of savings but none of those savings have been passed on to drivers. That's why we called for a 15% premium cutback. We're the ones who championed this cause for the people of Ontario. We voted against a bill that stripped the right to sue from people of Ontario. They stripped the right for people to stand up to insurance companies and we probably do too. Our question though very directly to the minister of finance is why would you release this transparency report? Why are you delaying and what's in this report that you don't want people to know about? So what the people should know Mr. Speaker is the history that's gone to get to where we are now and the constant obstacles that have been that we had to deal with primarily from the third party in many circumstances. Since 2003 we introduced the auto insurance rate stabilization. In 2005 we introduced regulations to prohibit auto insurance from using certain information such as credit scoring. In 2008 we completed our first five year review of the auto insurance system. In 2010 we provided new reforms for increased consumer choices to make stabilized rates. In 2011 we created the auto insurance anti-task force. In 2012 we strengthened fiscal authority to deal with unfair practices. In 2013 we made a commitment to reduce auto insurance rates by 50%. We introduced legislation this week so that we can get this underway and it was voted against by that member, by that party Mr. Speaker. Our report is in hand. Mr. Speaker, two questions. The member from Burlington. Thank you very much Mr. Speaker. I have a question for the premier. It's an international organization of the Francophonie. It's an organization that's made of five member states and also associate members. Starting as a small group of northern French speaking countries the Francophonie has since evolved into a global organization whose numerous branches cooperate with its member states in the fields of culture, science, economy, justice and peace. Speaker as a Canadian I'm proud of our rich French heritage and our participation with the Francophonie. Premier yesterday Canadians heard the news that former Governor General Miquel Jean has been chosen as Secretary General of the Francophonie. The first women and the first Canadian to lead this vital organization. Madame Premier, what is your reaction concerning that historical news? Thank you. I'm going to congratulate Madame Miquel Jean. The new Secretary General of the Organization International de Francophonie as the first woman and the first Canadian to hold this position Madame Jean is breaking down barriers. Our Francophone community is a part of our history as Ontarians and Canadians in our past and in our future. The nomination of Mrs. Jean reflects this. So we are extremely proud for our Canadian. We are going to support Mrs. Jean and we have an international Francophonie that's going to show that we'll have more women and more young people and also the North and the South will be united. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Thank you Madame Premier. It's certainly a good news. Francophonie is not just an organization for international groups. Mr. Speaker, does the Premier in a role can tell us what is the role of Francophonie on the international scale? Thank you. The International Association de Francophonie is an organization that gathers together millions of people and it has made an excellent choice and we participated actively in the recent summit and I am very proud to congratulate my compatriot Michael John for her recent election and it is an honour for Madame Jean who was a candidate in spite of the obstacles to her candidacy and she will gather together the people of the Francophonie. The position of Secretary-General of the Francophonie is this is the first time that is a woman and a Canadian who is at the head of the organization. Thank you Mr. Speaker. My question is to the Minister of Infrastructure Minister, your sheer incompetence running the Government portfolio was having deep consequences for the people of Ontario. You wasted over 400 million on a building that was supposed to be dedicated to medical research. Instead you've invested that money into a comfy glass palace for your bureaucrats rather than frontline services. Simply put that money could have been invested in just about anything else and it would have been money better spent. Minister, do you not agree that the money you've blown on Mars should have been invested into improving our essential services? Thank you. Mr. Speaker, infrastructure, we've got to get it all over. Thank you Mr. Speaker. We struggle with this every time. We might have to shorten it eventually. I think it's very clear that what the member talks about is a loan not a grant a loan that is fully secured on a property that's worth more than what's been dedicated by the province. We've put forward over 700 documents Mr. Speaker that verify and confirm that. Now what we're looking for Mr. Speaker is advice from Michael Nobrega and Carol Stevenson on what's the best best pass forward on a project Mr. Speaker that had some challenges during the recession and Mr. Speaker we're looking for more advice. I'm not sure why the member continues to try to use question period just to hurl insults at us. We should take a look at what we've done and what we're trying to do to ensure that this project moves forward on a positive way. I've heard your excuses for many months now and nobody believes you and especially your fairy tale happy ending especially not a constituent of mine Jim Buchanan Jim Buchanan was told that even though he desperately needs a knee replacement there's no money left at the hospital. The quota for knee replacements has been reached. Let me repeat that again. Well a constituent of mine is told there is no money for a needed surgery. You and your government has blown millions on a glass palace for your bureaucrats. This sadly isn't a surprise anymore just a disturbing reality and trend of your government's terrible mismanagement. Minister I would not agree that the 400 million you've blown on Mars should have been better spent providing essential access to surgeries like knee replacements for Jim Buchanan and many others. Mr. Speaker we all feel a very strong amount of support for the Minister of Health's work that he's doing to ensure that we continue to invest more and more in health care and I think the Minister would tell you if I had referred the question to him that wait times are down for knee replacements across this province. As a result Mr. Speaker the efforts we've made for the member Mr. Speaker to compare a totally repayable secured loan with somehow Mr. Speaker money that's been spent either indicates that the member doesn't understand this issue after all the time we spent. Mr. Speaker he's trying to make his constituent think something that's simply incorrect Mr. Speaker the fact is what we've invested in Phase 2 with Mars is a loan that's fully repayable, fully secured. We will move forward on a positive basis on this issue and the member ought to start working constructively with us on this instead of inaccurate things like that. New question the member from Mr. Speaker my question for the Minister of Health and long-term care the ability to communicate is very important with residents in homes for the elderly. They should be able to communicate in their own language but Francophon were not able to communicate in their language they had to call on their children to interpret for them and transfer for them and this is not the only time that there's a case of Francophon not being able to receive care in their own language. How can it be that the ministry cannot answer a call in French in 2014? The member opposite it's important when we talk about French language services in this province it's an imperative that all of us and particularly us on the government side do everything we can in a responsible way to provide those services and I'm not sure if the reference was specifically to 9-1-1 and I know Mr. Speaker that the member opposite has already made myself and the Attorney General aware of some legitimate concerns concerning translation services and the ability for a citizen of this province to converse particularly as you can imagine in 9-1-1 situation in the language of their voice we are working on solving that particular issue but there's also no doubt and we've talked, I've talked with the member opposite about other issues where we need to continue to strengthen we need to make sure that we need our responsibility and it's our responsibility that I take very seriously that we provide French language services throughout the healthcare system for the people that need it during those times. Thank you. Supplementary. Thank you very much. A few years ago when the government subcontracted a service there was an exemption from the need to provide service in French and it's happened over and over again the government said that there is no longer any exception and starting in July 2014 government health services were subject to the law on services in French but it would seem that there are still exemptions the government said to the commissioner that if there is a health service subcontracted there is no need to be in conformity with the law. This situation has been called a serious threat and this is very right why does the minister call for so little commitment from the subcontracting services and why are they exempted for the requirement to provide a French language service. Minister responsible for the affairs. Yes, the member from Nickelbelt has a very good question. Services offered by the government and subcontracted to another organization must provide service in French. This has been a gap and we're improving the situation we've modified the measures in questions and any organization offering services for the government must provide services in French and however with regard to this particular question there is a time a transition period during which the subcontractors will have to adapt to the new situation I would like to congratulate the minister of health for his work to improve a French language service. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the minister responsible for seniors affairs. Seniors are our lifeline to the past and our future. They play an active and important role in our province's communities and economy. Ontario is home to approximately 2 million people over the age of 65. Mr. Speaker, in my own writing of Halton, seniors are a thriving, active and incredibly engaged group in our community. However, as we all know, there are challenges that our seniors face as they grow old. Mr. Speaker, I recently joined the minister for an important funding announcement for province-wide elderly person centres including one in my own writing. These centres promote the safety, well-being and health of seniors in Ontario. Mr. Speaker, can the minister please tell us about EPCs and why they are an important investment for our seniors? Mr. Speaker, thank you very much and I want to thank the member from Halton for a very thoughtful question. Mr. Speaker, investing into the elderly person centres is only one of the main ways helping our seniors stay active, engaged and connected in their own community. Mr. Speaker, indeed I'm very pleased to inform you and the environmental legislature that Ontario is investing over $11.5 million supporting 265 elderly person centres located throughout our province. Mr. Speaker, this is what I call investment at work for our seniors. Investment to improve the quality of life of our seniors, to live a healthy and more meaningful and fulfilling life. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Thank you Mr. Speaker and I would like to thank the minister for his response. Mr. Speaker, I recently had the pleasure of attending a coffee house social at the local Milton Senior Centre which is receiving over $54,000 this year. Mr. Speaker, this centre is incredibly important to the well-being of seniors in Halton. Each time I visit I am delighted to see firsthand the difference elderly person centres funding is making in my community. Mr. Speaker, the Milton Senior Centre has something for everyone. There are fitness classes, computer classes, arts and crafts and so much more. Mr. Speaker, can the minister please elaborate on how funding for EPC is a key component of Ontario's Action Plan for Seniors. Thank you minister. Thank you Mr. Speaker, again I want to thank the member from Halton for the question. The EPC it's only one indeed of the major components of the Ontario Action Plan for Senior Speaker. Out of the 265 elderly person centres more than 60% are run by non-profit organisation and some 40% are run by local municipalities. Speaker, indeed I visited the centre in Milton and I have to say that you are getting $54,000 in assisting them with the programs and if you really want to see our investment for seniors that's working you have to visit this particular centre in Milton which is called the Coffee House Social. Speaker, seniors enthusiastically bursting with activities, fitness classes for every level of mobility, one-on-one computer classes, arts, crafts and music. This is what I call speaker, this is what's all about caring and investing for our seniors. I thank you Speaker there's more to come. Thank you very much Mr. Speaker Earlier today my leader, the member from Simcoe shared with us how he said a quarter of a billion dollars in four years is spent with a new system that's supposed to support those most needy in our society. We also learn that this system is wrought with bugs and exploitable weaknesses. We also learn that the minister knew about the computer problems all along but ignored... Sorry, I did not get who the question was too. To the Minister of Community and Social Services, Speaker. We also learn that the minister knew about the computer problems all along but ignored staff's warning who summed up the computer situation in one simple word, chaos. In fact, not only were they ignored but in estimates on November 4th the minister and I quote said I feel fairly confident that the new system will have a pretty seamless roll out next week. Fairly confident and pretty seamless doesn't seem to equate to the reality of today Mr. Speaker. Minister, it's your word against the front line. Who is telling the truth? Thank you very much Mr. Speaker and thank you to the member for Bruce Grayo and Sound to allow me the opportunity to reiterate what the Premier said so very clearly earlier in question period. This new computer system is state of the art. It is a very large and involved system clearly. It has taken many, many months of training of many staff to get into good working order. But I want to assure the member opposite that the concerns that were raised earlier in the summer by the presidents of QP and OPSU were taken extremely seriously by officials in my ministry and that's why we accelerated some of the training that was provided. Again, some 11,000 users were trained in some 257 offices. There is no chaos whatsoever. Individuals receive the final number we'll be getting them today. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Thank you Minister State of the Art, I think Sam should sadly be another money scandal coming at us. The minister was working out glitches until the billion dollar scandal surface. The fact is your government has a track record of a sleep at the switch oversight. In the case, this specific case of oversight mistaken payments were sent to 6,000 social service recipients to a tune of at least $300,000. Minister, we want to restrike the Standing Committee on Estimates so we can recall witnesses and get to the bottom of this and we hope you'll actually adhere to this this time so we can ensure that this does not turn into another e-health boondog. Minister will you support the striking of the Standing Committee on Estimates so we can get to the truth? Let's hear from the employee. Well again to set the record straight, the new system processed both the Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program monthly payments to some 570,000 individuals totally successfully. As the Premier has stated earlier there were a small number of overpayments. Those on direct deposit some 90, 85% of individuals received their payments through direct deposit. Those were changed and the correct amount deposited within 24 hours. Of the few remaining who do receive paper checks, they are being issued new checks today. We are down to contacting some 119 people as of 1030 this morning. We have coped with this very small glitch in an extremely effective way and I'd like to in fact thank all the front line workers that were so diligent. Thank you, my question is for the Premier. In Sudbury there are 30 ton mining trucks that are constantly driving along the south boulevard a main shopping street because it's the only way that the trucks can travel between the mine site and the smelter. Sudbury officials want to extend Maly Drive so that the slurry trucks don't have to mix with shoppers and resident speakers. People of Sudbury have set aside millions of dollars for this top priority project. The government has repeatedly promised to fund the project. It was right there in their budget but so far not a single dollar has flowed. Once again we have a promise but no action. So when will the provincial government actually keep its promise to the people of Sudbury and fund the project? Thank you Premier. Minister of Economic Development and Infrastructure Minister of Economic Development and Infrastructure The leader of the third party would be aware that before the election we brought forward a budget that committed to moving forward on this project. She didn't support that. She made us go through an election so we brought forward the budget again so she had a second chance to support this project Mr. Speaker and she failed to do that because in the second budget we brought forward the project was clearly identified as a government priority as we recognize it was a priority for the community of Sudbury. Now you're getting up Mr. Speaker to tell us you support the project. Thank you for your support but Mr. Speaker we've got it in hand. It's a commitment we made in the budget. It's a commitment we will fulfill and we're looking forward to moving on it as soon as we can. Well thank you Speaker. Do you all that talk and still no action? The people of Sudbury have been waiting for it to be extended. They've waited long enough Speaker. Minister of Aboriginal Affairs come to order. The Minister of the Environment and Climate Change come to order. Please finish. The people of Sudbury have set aside their share of the project money. It's time for the government to pay its share. Will this government stop playing games, stop talking a good game and actually ante up the funding for the extension of Mealy Drive in Sudbury? Thank you Mr. Mr. Speaker I guess I want to know which budget you want me to refer to. The one that you rejected and sent us to an election on or the one that we passed with our majority here in this house that you oppose. Both of them Mr. Speaker referred to Mealy Drive as a commitment of 26.7 million for the first phase of expansion for Mealy Drive. Those of the project will be moving on the project Mr. Speaker. And I'm looking forward very soon Mr. Speaker to moving on it. We are in discussions with the federal government with regard to federal funding. It could be part of that Mr. Speaker. It may not be. It all depends. We've just received information after asking since March from the federal government with regard to the details of the federal program and we expect Mr. Speaker to be able to move forward soon. Thank you Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Minister of Transportation. Often in this house we speak about transit in the GTA. I know there are many investments being made here whether it's Eglinton Crosstown, UP Express or Go Transit. The problem Mr. Speaker is that there are those who say our government is only investing in Toronto Transit. Sending that those types of key investments aren't being made in other parts of the province. In my community of Ottawa South people care very much about their transit and transportation. They rely on OC Transport to get to work, school, doctors appointments, all those things people do in their daily lives. Mr. Speaker, my community wants to know that our government is committed to investing in transit all across the province including Ottawa South. Can the Minister please tell members of this house what the government is doing to invest in transit and transportation in other parts of Ontario. Thank you Minister of Transportation. Thank you very much. I appreciate the question because of course Mr. Speaker I've heard some of the same concerns and I know that Ontarians want to know that our government is investing right across the province not just here in the GTA. Speaker as you know we have a bold $29 billion 10 year plan called Moving Ontario Forward which will invest in transit and transportation infrastructure right across the province and we've already delivered in other ways. Using the members region in particular speaker our government is investing in the Ottawa LRT. We've invested $600 million in that project. This is the single largest investment ever made to that city's public transit system from the provincial government. But we're also investing in local transit all over Ontario Speaker by providing municipalities with permanent gas tax funding to support their transit road. Speaker whether it's Moving Ontario Forward or gas tax funding we are committed to building all of Ontario up. Thank you Mr. Speaker and thank the minister for his response. It's good to know that our government is committed to making transit investments count in Ottawa. The Ottawa LRT is a great project that will help commuters get moving across the city. Mr. Speaker the minister mentioned that our government is supporting local transit systems through gas tax funding. I know that Ottawa received over 33 million in gas tax funding this year to support public transit. Mr. Speaker could the minister please discuss more about the gas tax program and how it can help those living in our communities. Thank you minister. Thanks very much Speaker. I want to thank that member again for that outstanding question. Just a number of days ago I was happy to announce the amount of gas tax funding being provided to municipalities this year to support their local transit. The member mentioned that Ottawa is receiving over 33 million in gas tax funding but I want to highlight the fact that over 321 million dollars is being provided to communities all over Ontario. This means that municipalities whether it's Ottawa, Waterloo, Windsor or Sudbury Speaker will be able to continue investing in their local transit systems. Through the 2013 budget our government made 2 cents on every liter of gas a permanent source of funding for municipalities. This funding demonstrates that our government is committed to improving public transit all over Ontario and we'll continue to work with our municipal partners to make sure that wherever they are Speaker that we continue to make those investments that matter to Ontarians. Thanks very much Speaker. Minister of Health in responding to my leader's question earlier today you said you would quote personally address any issues with specific clients who say they are not getting the care they need. Minister I have a letter from you from last week saying you cannot intervene in matters concerning the provision of CCAC home care. So which is it you can address specific issues or you can't? Well Mr Speaker the member opposite knows that I'm happy to sit down any time with any member of this legislature and speak about individual cases that if they feel that that individual is not receiving the support that they require that's part of my job it's responsibility that I take very seriously so I'm happy to if there are specific instances with the member opposite I'm more than happy to sit down with her and see what we can do now obviously Mr Speaker from time to time reassessments are made of individuals in home care sometimes those individuals require more care based on the assessment and sometimes they require a little bit less so those are some of the changes that naturally occur within a home care system that we're continuing to fund and but Mr Speaker I certainly would offer I would encourage the member opposite to sit down with me discuss particulars thank you supplementary minister then you better block off a week because I deal with the CCAC questions all the time in the constituency office and we need to know when we write you that you're actually going to do something about it CCAC is funded 100% by your ministry our constituents need to know when they need home care it will be there will you commit to review the decision by Central West CCAC to ensure their budget is being used for frontline care and when MPP's write you on behalf of our constituents you will not dismiss us out of hand well you know Mr Speaker the members on all side of this legislature know those who have come forward and worked with me in a cooperative fashion on individual cases whether it's to do with home care or any situation with regards to health care they know that I work as hard as I can constructively party politics does not get into this in any fashion Mr Speaker and so I would again encourage the member to sit down with me and talk about the particulars but the reality the truth is Mr Speaker we are investing 4 billion plus dollars in home and community care we're doing the best that we can with our local lens the lens that of course are the objects the party the official opposition would have gotten rid of in the first place and the lens with our CCACs to make sure that we're providing the care to those who need it most now we obviously as with all that we do with with government we are we have budgets but the budget for our CCACs Mr Speaker is going up as we continue to move care closer to where people live thank you new question the member from topical north my question is for the Minister of Agriculture and the Minister of Agriculture and we are going to continue to feed cities and we in the government recognize that they are an integral part of our 34 billion dollar agri-food industry but if this already important industrial sector is going to continue to grow to flourish and to compete globally more needs to be done in partnership by both government and industry in October 2013 the premier challenged Ontario's agri-food industry to double its growth rate and create more than 120,000 this challenge is an opportunity to demonstrate how this sector makes an important and essential contribution to our economy and our quality of life minister can you update this house citing your own remarks industry leaders at the premier's annual agri-food summit what is the status of the challenge thank you thanks very much Mr Speaker and I want to thank the member from our topical court for a very thoughtful question this morning just last week the premier and I had the opportunity to participate in the ninth premier's agri-food summit along with many members from outside the house our government fully supports growth investment and innovation opportunities in the province agri-food sector I just want to give you a bit of an update since the premier issued the challenge last year Ontario has created 17,000 new jobs in the agri-food sector in Ontario and increased our exports by $1 billion there is always more to do our critical path to growth requires government and industry to play a role that's why we're working with our industry partners to establish a growth measurement system to help identify opportunities for measures progress to the new growth steering committee it will bring together industry and government leaders and experts to identify opportunities to help the industry meet the growth challenge thank you supplementary minister the numbers commitment and energy all demonstrate a formidable political will speaker it's apparent that in the year since the premier's agri-food challenge was issued the agri-food sector has done remarkable things building on the success of last year the new growth steering committee will assist in driving the agri-food industry's growth and create jobs right across the province nevertheless minister many Ontarians across the province are concerned about red tape what it means for Ontario farmers and how it might potentially stand in the way of the premier's challenge this is especially so in the light of the government's recent decision around neonicotinoids I repeat neonicotinoids which are a class of neurologically active insecticides similar in chemical structure to good old nicotine minister what is our response to people who claim that government is increasing regulation at time when we are tasked with growing the agri-food industry well Mr. Speaker I really want to thank the member from Etobicoke North and its great interest in the agricultural sector in the province of Ontario and I know all of us are always very concerned about regulatory burdens and what impact I might have on Ontario farmers as you know there's many people on Ontario today that are concerned about what the challenge we faced to reduce the use of neonix which we announced last week I want to be very clear and this is what premier Quinn said at the agri-food last week it's not about some kind of agenda that would lead to more regulatory burden for Ontario's farmers we are committed to addressing the challenges of producers as we develop and implement new controls we also remain committed to work with our farmers in Ontario with our very successful open for business form to reduce red tape for agricultural sector we've had many more successes on that front and we want to achieve more addressing red tape big environmental stewards and growing the industry together Mr. Speaker very important to us Mr. Speaker my question to the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister you require all affordable housing corporations in Ontario to purchase services through the Housing Services Corporation which of course is your appointed corporation the problem is that this organization funds their operating expenses including almost $6.5 million in salary by charging social service housing organizations a premium on the services such as natural gas and insurance we've heard from multiple municipalities that they would save money by purchasing directly in some cases millions of dollars that could go into affordable housing they asked you if they could opt out so why are you forcing them to give money to the Housing Corporation and not let them buy it at the best price thank you well Mr. Speaker I'm only aware of one municipality that's asked for the option to opt out and we took a serious look at that and discovered that the economies of scale for all the other municipalities would be so discouragingly hurt by that that the decision was taken not to do that we've communicated that with the municipality that made that request and that's at the moment our position unless and until we get other information that may cause us to rethink it I appreciate the member from Hamilton East Tony Creek for his activities today and the fact that he's wearing his hat I'd like to give him permission to wear it for the whole day I'll stand to recess until 1 p.m. this afternoon


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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you so much for coming over to the morning session. This is going to be an interesting morning because we got two sessions going on with us on this stage. First of all, we're going to begin with an introduction from my friend Jennifer about a wonderful framework coming from the World Economic Forum on Inclusive Growth and Development and after that, we're going to have a strong panel talking about invigorating and also rebalancing the world economy from an Asian perspective. But first of all, may I introduce Jennifer and also this specific report. The report is called Introducing a new framework for inclusive growth and development. It is looking at the world economic growth and also the social inclusiveness and many other factors that would influencing our world economy. And I was informed that this is the very first time that World Economic Forum has ever done any report related to this specific topic. Jennifer said earlier, right before coming on to the stage, that she was very passionate about this report and really eager to share with you all of this information. So Jennifer Blank is the chief economist and also member of the Executive Committee for the World Economic Forum. And Jennifer, the floor is yours. Thank you, Tian. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you a short presentation. It should take about 10 minutes. And what I'll do is I'll explain a little bit why it is that we wanted to do a report of its type. As Tian said, this is the first time that we're coming out with such a report. It was released just a few days ago. I'll talk a little bit about the methodology that goes into it, how we're thinking about inclusive growth, and then some of the results that are particularly interesting. Now, just to begin, why is it that we wanted to do a report on what we're calling inclusive growth? Well, if you look around the world, and as you see on the screen, there has been rising inequality in recent years. And this shows over the last few decades that there has been a rise in inequality in OECD countries. And indeed, if you look at other many emerging market economies, you'll see quite the same story. At the same time, there have been a number of institutions and organizations, such as the IMF and the OECD and others, that have been quantifying how this rising inequality is actually eroding at growth. So showing the extent to which this is bad for growth. In parallel, the World Economic Forum carries out a report every year on global risks, where we look at the interlinkages between risks. And here we've been highlighting for some time the fact that rising income inequality is of great concern, because it's highly related to a number of risks that we're very worried about. Socioeconomic risks in particular. Obviously, there's unemployment and underemployment, but if you see that big line, it's really going to profound social instability. I mean, this is really rocking at the foundations, potentially. And we are seeing this in some parts of the world today. So what do we mean by inclusive growth? The way I think about it is two overlapping circles, sort of like a Venn diagram. And if you think about those things that are driving growth and those things that are driving social inclusion. And by that, I mean that everybody's participating in the process. What we are interested in is that area in between. And we find that there are many drivers, many policies, many things that you can do that are actually useful for driving both economic growth and social inclusion. And I will show you in a moment some of those things, what I'm talking about. I think I would also like to make the point that it is very important for the World Economic Forum to be coming out with a report like this at this time, because this really brings us back to our roots. For those of you who have kind of followed the World Economic Forum for a long time, you know that Professor Schwab came up with this whole idea of stakeholder theory. And that was really the foundation on which we were built. And this is the idea that all stakeholders should be participating in the economic process. And that's really the idea behind this report. Now, this is really a very simple way of looking at the methodology behind the report. What we have here is a leaf, we're calling it a leaf. And the leaf is made up of seven different pillars, different drivers, as I said, of inclusive growth. And each of these are in turn made up of other factors, so sort of sub-pillars. And there are 15 in all. And let me just very quickly go through what are the things that we're looking at, because I have some sort of, you know, very short titles there. We're looking at things that you might think of when you think about inclusive growth. Things like fiscal transfers and redistribution, very important. We also look at education and skills. And there we're looking not just at the quantity or the quality of education, which are both important, but also the equity of outcomes based on socioeconomic background. You know, our young people penalize because they come from poorer families. So those things are perhaps, you know, some of the aspects that you might think of in general. But we look at five other areas that are really important. And let me go from left to right on the screen. We look at employment and wages. So really gainful employment, safe employment as well as wages and the extent to which they are reasonable and rising. We look at asset building and entrepreneurship, important for inclusive growth because you can create your own jobs. Financial intermediation and particular how access to finance allows for real economy investment. Again, very good for both growth and social inclusion. Corruption, really, really one of the most insidious things, if you think, in terms of eroding both at growth and at social inclusion, in terms of allowing those with power to take advantage of those without. Also rents, the extent to which the concentration of the economy is held in few hands. And finally, basic services and infrastructure. And there we're looking at all kinds of infrastructure, transport infrastructure, obviously also, you know, technological linkages, but also really health infrastructure. Again, clearly, very important for the growth process, for healthy people and also for inclusion. Now, we cover 112 countries in the report covering all these different indicators. One thing that is important to note is it's a little different than the global competitiveness report, which is a sister report to this one that the forum has been coming out with for a long time. We don't wrap this up into one overall ranking. Why is this? Because this is new and we're not sure how to weight all these things. Is employment and wages more important than education? You know, our basic service is more important than tackling corruption. We don't know what the relative weighting is. So right now what we do is we come up with, you know, basically a rating for each one of these individual areas, the 15 sub-areas. So you can compare yourself to your peers. And then we look at countries within four different income groups. Why do we separate them into income groups? Because we want to know based on what countries have at their disposal in terms of resources, how well they're doing. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to go through three different countries that are at different income levels and just to get a flavor of how you might start looking at this report and using it. The last thing I'd say just before we look at the first one, which will be the United States, is that we use a coloring system a little like you're seeing here, which is like a traffic light system. Green is good, yellow not so good, red bad. To get a sense of how countries are faring vis-a-vis their peers in their own income group. So the first one we're going to look at is the United States. This is obviously a high income advanced economy. And what do we see here? We see one green piece of the belief and where is that? That's an asset building and entrepreneurship. Now the US is the world's innovation powerhouse and this is obviously not surprising. It has an excellent environment for business creation and this is clearly coming out in the report. However, if you see most of the other areas show the US falling behind when you think about inclusive growth. And I'm not going to go into all the areas, but in particular what we're seeing is that in the area of employment, although there's relatively low unemployment now it's been coming down, wages remain actually quite low for a large part of the population. And at the same time, this is not being made up for with the social safety net. This is paired and obviously very strongly related to the fact that there's been rising inequality in the US. In fact, it's reached rates not seen since the 1920s. And this is something that's actually really dampening consumption, which is a big problem in a country like the US where consumption is such a big part of GDP. So really efforts needed in this area. The second country I'll look at is China. I would be remiss if I were sitting in China and I did not talk about China. There's a few interesting things to see here. Now this is an upper middle income country, as are most of the BRICs except for India. And we see number one, that we're missing the part of the diagram for education and that's because we're missing some of the education data there. But we're hoping that we'll be able to collect it in the future. However, you can see a lot from the screen. You see first of all that in fact compared to other countries at the same level of economic development and resources that it's had quite a dynamic environment for the creation of businesses. This is linked then to quite a good environment for employment. If you look at the employment area now, that's because there's quite a high labor participation rate in China, quite low unemployment rates, although you do have to keep in mind and Tian and I were just talking about that recently that wages do remain quite low. Now in terms of areas for improvements, in particular, we'd point out the importance of developing more basic services and infrastructure throughout the country, which is something that will continue to be important, particularly in the health area. We're finding that there are some weaknesses also partially related to the environment. Obviously corruption will continue to be an area of focus. And finally, I'd say very importantly, continuing to build out the social safety net to more of the population, which would be an important way of decreasing savings actually and increasing consumption as the country tries to rebalance its economy. Finally, just quickly look at Tunisia. I thought Tunisia might be an interesting lower middle income example because this is where the Arab Spring was sparked, so to speak. And it's another quite interesting story. For its level of income, actually Tunisia does relatively well in terms of providing basic services and infrastructure particularly related to health. It's also doing what it can in terms of taxation and redistribution to those most in need. However, not surprising, the biggest issue is really the area of employment and labor compensation. Tunisia is a country where you have very high levels of unemployment, particularly youth unemployment, and many people are forced to work in the informal sector. So again, this is basically what had led in the beginning to a lot of the unrest that we saw there. And so really job creation and employment creation will be critical there. I'll just finish with a few key learnings from the report that we found from kind of going through the results and just in general from the process. I think first it's very important to keep in mind that the current debate has really been quite narrow. And what we're trying to do here is to show as we've seen that there are really many factors that can drive both economic growth and social inclusion together. So related to this, the second point is that it's possible to be both pro-equity and pro-growth at the same time, and not only because of the logic that we've just gone through, but if you look at the results of this report compared to those of the global competitiveness report, we see actually that many of the countries that do well in a lot of the areas here also do very well in terms of the drivers of productivity and competitiveness. The third, and I think we've seen this a bit, but you can see it more if you look at the report, is that promoting social inclusion is not just under the purview of rich countries. This is not just a rich country luxury. We see that many countries are actually doing very well and punching above their weight in a number of areas, and so all countries can really work on this. And finally, another thing that's really important to note is that all countries have room for improvement. Even those that do very well, the Nordics, for example, many of the Nordics, they do not score above average across all the areas and few come even close. So I think just to make the point that all countries really have a work to do in this area to make their growth process more inclusive, and I'll just end by saying that we're bringing this to the fore, this whole piece of work, in the hopes that it will provide some useful fodder for discussion in order to really make progress in these areas. Thank you very much, Jennifer. We learn a lot. Very interesting work, certainly inspiring. I'm sure going to be helpful also for our later rounds of discussion. But very quick, Q&A, if I can, with you, because there are certain points I really need to have you clarify it before we go. First of all, why these five factors and also the 15 areas you're looking at, how they're being chosen quickly? Okay, actually, there's seven areas. Seven areas. You know, what we did, obviously, there always has to be some subjectivity in this, but what we did was we scanned what's being done. We talked to many, many people, many experts, and came up with what we think is a good beta version. I mean, let's be clear. This is the first draft, and we're very open to comments. But, you know, you have to start somewhere, and we felt that this kind of gave a good sense of those areas where people can really kind of understand that they're both good for growth and for social inclusion. Okay, second point. Something I find that when it comes to the area, seven areas mentioned, they could be contradictory within themselves. I mean, first of all, when it comes to United States employment, also compensation. Sometimes employment rate could be high, but the compensation could be low. I mean, this sounds, when you put them together, are they really fitting together? Secondly, about China, for example, when you talk about corruption, I think there was one thing. Were you talking about the level of corruption and how rampant the corruption is, or are you talking about the degree as to the measures and the actions to curb corruption? Yeah, so we're mostly looking at inputs here. And on the first one, I think point really well taken. When you present this in 10 minutes and you have to sum it up, I think that you do end up having things like corruption and rents, which are a little difficult to explain. Why did we put them together? But that's why actually, if you go and look at the report, it's very useful to look at all 15. If you look at corruption, we're more looking at, sorry, at the outputs, the extent to which you're actually seeing payoffs and bribes and things like that. But we do know that a lot is going on here and around the world, and we're hoping that that will actually mitigate some of those negative outcomes. And actually, statistical numbers are very important to you guys, if you really want to compel an important report. Okay, final question. Why is this important for us? We have seen inclusive growth reports coming from other international organizations and think tanks, why is this different? Why is it going to be useful for us? I think probably because given that we are an inter, I say a multi-stakeholder organization, I usually try not to say that, but we bring together business, government, civil society, and all actors. We're able to get a lot of people around the table to really talk about this. And finally, I just say, because we're the world economic form and we're not an intergovernmental organization, sometimes we can come out with things that are a little closer to rankings than some other of our very favorite partner institutions on the project. And I would like to just thank the OECD, the IMF, the World Bank, and the ILO for all the excellent input that they've given to us in this project. And once again, numbers and statistics are always important for a wonderful report. Thank you so much, Jennifer Blank. Thank you. Sharon Lee does this wonderful report. Thank you. We learn a lot.