It is now time for oral questions. I recognize the Leader of the Official Opposition. Thank you very much, Speaker. My first question is to the Deputy Premier. Is it the Government's plan to plow ahead with an election in Toronto, despite today's decision with Bill 5 still being appealed and the chaos around Toronto's election process certain to continue? Deputy Premier. To the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing. Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing. Thank you very much. Thank you, Speaker. To you, to the Leader of the Opposition, we're pleased that the Court of Appeal has granted this day. This will allow the City Clerk to go forward with a 25-word election that is aligned with federal and provincial boundaries. It's a very positive result for the people of Toronto, and I ask, through you, Speaker, to the Leader of the Opposition. Let's stop the political games. Let's move forward on a effective and efficient city council supplementary. Back to the Deputy Premier. This falls into the category of just because you can doesn't mean you should. After never mentioning it once on the campaign trail, the Premier decided to rewrite the rules for municipal elections that were already underway, throwing municipal elections into chaos and trampling people's basic rights. Now, many doubt at this point in time that free and fair elections can actually be conducted in the City of Toronto, and the courts have yet to give their final determination because now the appeal is state, but the government continues to plow ahead. Is that what constitutes success in Doug Ford's Ontario? Once again, I will ask the Leader of the Opposition to refer to the Premier as the Premier, not by his personal name. Response, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing. Again, Speaker, through you to the Leader of the Opposition, this is a very positive result for the citizens of Toronto. We can now, on October 22nd, make those important decisions, decisions that our government has talked about numerous times in this House, things like transit and infrastructure and housing. After October 22nd, we look forward to working with Toronto's next Mayor and Council and deliver on those priorities. Well, let's not forget that the appeal has not actually been decided. Many doubt that Toronto can now hold a fair election, or whether it will be legally valid. Canada has a history as a democracy of holding free and fair elections, but the Premier seems happy to rule the dice, proceed with an election and let the chips fall where they may. Is that the sort of history the Deputy Premier wants to make? Minister. Again, Speaker, through you to the Leader of the Opposition. The Court found, and I'm going to read some of the Court's decision. This is the Court's decision. We have concluded that there is a strong likelihood that application judge aired in law and that the Attorney General's appeal to this Court will succeed. It is not in the public interest to permit the impending election to proceed on the basis of a dubious ruling that invalidates legislation through you to the Leader of the Opposition. We are committed to working with the City of Toronto and the Perks Office to have a 25-person council after October 22nd that we can work with. Next question, Leader of the Opposition. Thanks, Mr. Speaker. My next question is also for the Deputy Premier. We know that the Premier has been obsessed with proving that he can do this. He's talked endlessly about his old enemies at his old job at City Hall. He literally barricaded himself inside the legislature in the dead of night while citizens were locked outside. He spent untold sums of fighting in the courts and clipping staff here at all hours, but the question has never been whether he could do it. It was whether he should do it. Did the Deputy Premier really get into public life to help the Premier execute his petty vendettas at all costs? I'm going to ask the member to withdraw. Withdraw, Speaker. Next question, or rather, response. I apologize. Minister of Municipal Affairs in the House. Minister of Municipal Affairs. Again, Speaker, through you to the Leader of the Opposition, she wants to talk about freedom of expression. I'm actually going to quote from the Court decision today where they mentioned that particular fact. Here's the quote. While the change brought about by Bill 5 is undoubtedly frustrating for candidates who started campaigning in May 2018, we are not persuaded that their frustration amounts to a substantial interference with their freedom of expression. Again, Speaker, we have made Bill 5, and now because of the decision today, it will finally allow us to move forward and provide that certainty that our government has always wanted for the October 22nd. A certainty where those 25 wars will cover those municipal councillors, just like they cover provincial politicians in this House or federal politicians. It's the same boundaries. It's going to provide that efficiency. Thank you. Speaker, we've all been sent here to do important work for families, and when we debate, we're supposed to ask the tough questions, whether the policy is effective, whether it will help people, whether it's a good idea. Unfortunately, the standard of this government seems to be can we get away with this? Ontario families are facing challenging times. Does the Deputy Premier think that that's good enough? Again, Speaker, through you to the Leader of the Opposition. I'm going to again quote the Court. The Court said the candidates were and are still free to say what they want to say to the voters. The inconvenience candidates will experience because of the change from 47 to 25 awards does not prevent or impede them from saying what they want to say about the issues arising in the election. Again, Speaker, I want to emphasize to the Leader of the Opposition, let's put aside these political games. Let's work together with that news. Start the clock. Final supplementary. Talks that somehow the Minister thinks Question Period is a political game, Speaker. It's actually our duty to hold the government to account. Families need shorter hospital well-trained, Speaker. They need safe schools and good jobs. They're looking to the government to focus on those priorities and deliver for them. Instead, they see a Premier focused on former enemies and ancient grudges who won't lift a finger to help a working mom on minimum wage, but will move heaven and earth to eliminate the political opponents at City Hall. The Deputy Premier and her fellow All Stars know that this has been a wasteful debate on bad policy. At what point will she and her fellow caucus members tell the Premier to get his priorities straight? Minister. Speaker, to the Leader of the Opposition, again, I'm going to keep reading her these quotes because she needs to understand the importance of what happened this morning. The Ontario Court of Appeals said, given our tentative conclusion that Bill 5 does not suffer from constitution infirmity, we have no hesitation in finding that the balance of convenience favors granting a stay. Speaker, we're here today, and I again commit to the clerk of the City of Toronto. We're going to work with you. We're going to work with you under this ruling this morning to have that 25-council election and to be able to, on October 22nd, I can work with that Mayor and Council on the important issues with Council. Thank you. Next question, the Leader of the Opposition. Thank you, Speaker. My next question is for the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, who needs to know that an appeal is still ongoing. It's just been stayed at this moment. Bill 5 was introduced by the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing on July 30th. But the Minister says that there are... Bill 5 was introduced by the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing on July 30th. But the Ministry says that there are no records of the Minister being told to draft the bill. But I'm guessing it didn't appear by magic. So did the All-Star Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing draft Bill 5? Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing. Again, Speaker, through you to the Leader of the Opposition. Again, this is just more political games from the Opposition who continually stands up for... I didn't do a freedom of information on the NDP to find out if they ever used the words efficient and effective local government. I think I know there'd be no responsive records to that either. Supplementary. I think Toronto Council wasn't in the throne speech. It wasn't in the PC platform. Not that there was even a PC platform. But someone told government lawyers to draft Bill 5. We asked through FOI whether the Minister was told to do it. And the response was that there was no record of the Minister being told to draft Bill 5. No description of what was to be done. No memo telling the Minister to cancel some regional chairs elections, but not other regional chairs elections. Was the All-Star Minister warming the bench while the bill was being drafted? Again, Speaker, I'm going to use very parliamentary language. I'm not going to talk about her campaign during the last election. I'm going to talk about what the Premier and many of us spoke about every day in the candidate, in the campaign. And that's about reducing the size and power. And the fact of the matter is, Speaker, she can say all she wants. But Bill 5 is going to provide that effective and efficient and streamlined council that on Election Day, the day after the election, we'll be there to work with our government on those important issues. And I'm going to give her a round of applause for the minister of the election. Member for Northumberland, Peterborough South. My question is for the Minister of the Environment. This morning, people across Ontario were elated to wake and receive news of relief at the pumps. On my commute in today, Mr. Speaker, from Northumberland, Peterborough South, I saw motorists lined up on County Road 2 at gas stations all across my riding, Mr. Speaker. They were lined up waiting to fuel, for their fuel. Mr. Speaker, proof isn't exactly what we've been saying. The people of Ontario can't afford paying additional premiums on gas. We all know that under the NDP, we would have been paying a lot more for gas. The people of Ontario, Mr. Speaker, they can't afford a carbon tax. We are tight, times are tight, Mr. Speaker. And the Premier promised relief is on the way. Can the Minister of the Environment please explain to the House how these changes reducing... Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Speaker, through you to the member from Northumberland, Peterborough South, thank you for that question. As the member said, this is something that Doug Ford has been speaking about. He's spoken in this legislature. Many of us in the governing party have talked about the fact that help was on the way and that one of the ways that help was on the way was removing the regressive job-killing cap-and-trade program. One of the first pieces of evidence we said of that would be a reduction in prices at the pump. And, Mr. Speaker, as has been reported in the media now, as all of us has witnessed with the line-ups at the pump, 4.6% reduction in gas prices because of eliminating cap-and-trade. That's action that this government promised a 5.7 cent reduction in diesel prices. That's what this government promised. It made promised cap, Mr. Speaker. The government would be helpful if he called the Premier Premier, not by his personal name. Supplementary. I'd like to thank the minister for his answer. They just don't get it, Mr. Speaker. Not everyone can hop on the TTC. Too many families told me during the election that our commute to take their kids to hockey, to take their kids to soccer, they couldn't afford gas prices. This Premier promise relief is on the way this Premier has delivered, Mr. Speaker. Seeing the line-up at the gas pumps this morning is a true testament to relief the family's need. You're out of touch, you just don't get it. Georgian College Business Professor Norm Smith recognized the work we've done and stated, we're seeing carbon taxes coming off and as a result, you can see gas prices coming down. Can the minister explain to this house what we are doing to ensure Ontarian is doing this government is doing more to ensure that we provide, stay true to our promise that relief is on the way and residents will receive relief in their gas prices? Mr. Speaker, I can understand the frustration in the NDP. I can understand it. They talked about the highest carbon tax in the world. We took action. This government, one of its first acts, was to repeal the regulation and that sent the message to the gas companies, sent the message to the natural gas companies that they could take the pressure off Ontarians. That's why we can now expect to see and we have seen 4.6% reductions in the price of gas, 5.7% reductions in diesel fuel. This will be part of the $260 for every family that we will see a reduction every year. We will start to see natural gas prices come down next month. Mr. Speaker, this is a government taking action. This is a government keeping its promises, money in people's pockets, promise made, promise cared. Thank you. Next question. Member for Toronto, Dan Ford. Thank you, Speaker. Speaker, my question to the Minister of the Infrastructure. There currently exists a $100 million grant program to fund expansion of natural gas into rural areas. Is the Minister cancelling this funding? Mr. infrastructure. Well, thank you very much to the member opposite for this very important question. I'd first like to begin by thanking all those MPPs in all parties here at the Legislature for attending the very successful opening day of the International Applauding Match in Pancro. Furthermore, I'm very proud to say that almost all of the government members, including most members of Cabinet in the Premier, attended the opening night reception and the parade yesterday. So thanks to all my colleagues on the government side. Mr. Speaker, we made a very important campaign commitment to open Ontario up for business and to lower energy costs. This afternoon, I'm pleased to say that it will be tabling the Access to Natural Gas Act. I look forward to talking more about this in the supplementary. Thank you, Speaker. I thought it was a straightforward question. I look forward to seeing if I get an answer in this part. The PC platform says this natural gas expansion program is based on, quote, enabling private sector participation. I don't know what this means since almost all natural gas in Ontario is already delivered by a single private monopoly. But the platform says there will be a $100 million savings, which tells me the natural gas expansion grant is being cancelled. And that means someone else will have to make up the difference. And I'm pretty sure that the private sector is not going to just give away $100 million. It isn't, quote, enabling the private sector participation. Just a fancy way for the minister to say he's cutting his grant program and increasing natural gas prices. Thank you very much again for this question. Mr. Speaker, we'll talk more this afternoon about our details in the Access to Natural Gas Act. But I'm proud to say that this government over the next number of years is going to provide natural gas to almost 80 communities across the province. In the next number of years, we're going to have almost 35,000 new additional natural gas customers across the province. Mr. Speaker, this is one of the greatest things that we can do to expand natural gas to rural and remote communities, to open Ontario up for business, and to lower energy costs for those people living in rural and northern communities in our province. I'd also like to remind the members opposite, Mr. Speaker, that switching to natural gas will save almost $2,500 per year per household. And starting on October 1st, we're going to reduce natural gas bills by $80 a year for families and $285. Let's start the clock. Next question, the member for Mississauga, Aaron Mills. Mr. Speaker, my question is to the minister of the environment. Ontario has made significant progress in reducing emissions, but, Speaker, the people of Ontario have made significant sacrifices to achieve these results. We have been taxed and taxed and taxed. The cap-and-trade carbon tax was just another example of that. It was a hidden tax that was buried in the buses of fuel at the mums. Eliminating this tax and lowering gas prices will put more money in the buckets of mums and dads. Eliminating this tax and lowering gas prices supporting our workers and small business owners in our big cities as well as our small towns. Speaker, this morning, drivers across Ontario woke up to a blizzard surprise. Some relief had arrived. And the minister of the environment updated the House on the progress we are making. Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks. Mr. Speaker, I thank the member from Mississaug-Aaron Mills for his question. He's quite right. Ontarians have made a significant contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The carbon footprint in this province is 30% lower than it was in 1990. But, Mr. Speaker, there is still more for us to do, and that's why we will bring forward a plan to this legislature, a plan that will reduce greenhouse gases and have a real plan. But in the meantime, in the meantime, Mr. Speaker, we are fulfilling our promise, a promise that was made to put money back in the pockets of Ontario families. A promise to get rid of the Regressive Job Killing Cap and Trade Program, a promise that is now being realized with that 4.6 cent per litre reduction that's been widely reported. Experts, people like Dan Matigue, a former Liberal MP who now reports on such things confirming that this is the result of this government's action. Money in the pockets, an environment plan that works, a promise made, a promise kept. Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the Minister for this answer, still to the Minister of the Environment. This morning, my connoisseurs in Mississauga Erin Mills, on their way to school or to work, were thrilled to see a long overdue drop in prices at the bottom. Our government promised to make life more affordable for Ontario. That help was finally on the way, after consulting with my connoisseurs during the campaign and over the summer. Our government had a clear mandate to get rid of the cap and trade carbon tax. They wanted to keep more of their own hard-earned money in their pockets and not the Liberal cap and trade slash fund. Lowering gas prices, reduced energy costs, cap and trade. Can the Minister of the Environment operate on why these initiatives are so important to Ontarians? Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for their question. This is so important because Ontarians have paid enough. There has been pressure on the average Ontario family for too many years, too many regulations that affect their lives, too much taxation that affects their lives, and that's why this plan is part of a bigger package when it comes to reducing hydro rates, to making natural gas more available and affordable, which we heard about today. When it comes to a whole series of initiatives, including eliminating the aggressive job-killing cap and trade program, to put money back in people's pockets. So while the opposition opposite carps about the fact that this government isn't making a difference for people of Ontario, we are. We are making a difference. We are putting money in their pockets. Four point cents per liter, five point seven for diesel, five for electricity, four point seven for fuel, five for diesel, five for fuel, five for electricity, five for fuel, five for diesel, five for fuel. I thank the member for their question. Mr. Speaker, the next question. Next question, member for Hamilton West They're looking for transparency, so I ask Minister, where is the report? Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and through you to the member opposite, and I want to congratulate the member for her new role as critic for not only the President of the Treasury Board, but my good friend, the Minister of Finance. Mr. Speaker, this government is committed to ensuring accountability and trust when it comes to the public finances. It's time to stop digging and figure out how big the hole is. This is why, Mr. Speaker, our government launched this independent financial commission of inquiry. And this inquiry is only a part of our commitment to the state of the province's finances. It will also contribute to the line-by-line review already underway. I also want to acknowledge the Minister of Finance who has led the charge on this commission of inquiry, and he will have all to say in the coming days to help restore accountability and trust in the debt and deficits of the government of Ontario that we inherited. Here, here. Thank you. Supplementary. So, thank you again to the President of the Treasury Board, but I was looking for an answer about the date. And given that the timeframe to conduct such a large-scale inquiry headed by the former BC Premier, who we know is known for his cut and privatized agenda, and the fact that we already have an independent officer of the legislature whose job it already is to audit government finances, so what does the government expect to learn from the report that it could not have learned from our Auditor General? To the Minister of Finance. Thank you very much. Thank you to the member from Hamilton, West Angcastra Dundas for the question. Our government has received the report of the Independent Financial Commission of Inquiry. We thank Commission Chair Gordon Campbell and members Michael Horgan and Dr. Al Rosen for their diligent work to examine the accounting practices of the previous government and meet the deadlines that we provided to them. We are reviewing the report to ensure the implications of the recommendations are considered in full and we will release the report in its entirety to the public as promised. The public will see the exact same report that we saw. We are committed, Speaker, to restoring accountability and trust in Ontario's finances. Member for Ottawa or Lyon. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm not sure if the Deputy Premier knows, but in the City of Toronto there are 388 boards, agency and commission that requires a city councillor to be able to conduct business. This includes standing committees, the 83 BIAs across the city, the boards and agency as well as intergovernmental organisations like the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. The 25 elected councillor will be required to sit on those boards and fulfill those duties. Does the Deputy Premier think that 25 councillors will be able to conduct business in an accountable manner? Deputy Premier. To the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing. Mr. Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing. Thanks very much, Speaker. And through you I want to thank the member for the question. The simple answer is yes. Supplementary. Well, Mr. Speaker, I'm very glad that the answer has been yes, but I'm going to raise another question at this point. So if this is the case, let's talk about what's happening today. The board meeting for the exhibition place that was scheduled for tomorrow has been cancelled because they don't have quorum, not enough city councillors are available. The ongoing labour dispute and exhibition place will not be dealt with and the lock house will not continue independently. They will be the way the new bill, Bill 5, the city could operate. Mr. Speaker, my question is this. Is the government trying to shut down the voice of the people of Toronto? Response. Why is she standing up for all the questions? Again, Speaker, through you to the member. Again, I want to say let's stop the political games. We had a decision just now. Bill 5, our goal has always been to provide efficient and effective government for the citizens of Toronto. We've stated very clearly, we believe that the 25 elected MPPs do a great job in representing those electoral boundaries, those constituencies, if you will. And again, despite the shouts from the opposite benches, I think it was very clear. The Court of Appeal concluded and I quote that there is a strong likelihood that the application judge aired in law and that the Attorney General's appeal to this court will succeed. Further Speaker, that the quote judgment under appeal was probably wrongly decided and that quote, it is not in the public interest to permit the impending election to proceed on the basis of a dubious ruling that invalidates the legislation. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Next question. Member for Simcoe North. I listen with excitement to his earlier answer about family seeing relief at the pumps with the price of fuel going down through the efforts of our government. However, not all are as excited. After all, the Opposition NDP campaign on a promise to keep the cap and trade carbon tax. Many of them even suggested the price of gas was not high enough. The NDP does not see high gas prices as a problem. In fact, they aspire for higher prices. In fact, the member for Ottawa Centre expressed his support through imposing a carbon tax that would increase the price of gas by 30 cents per litre. Since I can't ask him his opinion, my question is to the Minister of the Environment. What will he do to ensure members like that are never in a place to make these kinds of dangerous policy decisions? Mr Speaker, I thank the member for Simcoe North for her question. She works very hard for her constituents, as all members do. Mr Speaker, this government is going to keep its promises. That's how it's going to ensure that the kind of policies that we ran on, the kind of policies that Ontarians expect, like lower gas prices, are the policies that are preserved in Ontario. This morning, when Ontarians woke up, when drivers were going to work and when they lined up because they saw gas was cheaper, that didn't happen by accident. That happened because of a deliberate choice, a deliberate choice made by this government, by this Premier, to make a reduction by getting rid of the regressive jobs that have been going forward. And, Mr Speaker, as I've said, this is just the beginning. Natural gas prices will be dropping. The value for an average family will be $260 a year, Mr Speaker, and the opposition may not think that's a lot of money, but let me tell you, it is a lot of money. We can expect to see continued money back in people's pockets. We continue to see. Thank you. Mr Speaker, I'd like to thank the Minister for his answer. Again to the Minister of the Environment. Speaker, the opposition to NDP isn't the only ones who are upset by cheaper gas prices. The Trudeau Liberals also must not appreciate the fact that people of Ontario are finally seeing how much carbon taxes are actually costing them. The threat of the federal liberal carbon tax continues to hang over the heads of Ontario families. And the federal government is hand in hand with the NDP in their support for higher gas prices. They want both you to pay more for gas and for everything else. We promise we would fight the federal carbon tax with everything we've got. Can the Minister of the Environment update this House as to what he is doing to ensure these lower gas prices are here to stay? Minister. Mr Speaker, the member is correct. Not only does the opposition want higher gas prices, but the federal liberals have committed to imposing a carbon tax on Ontarians, a carbon tax that we ran against, a carbon tax that we said we would stand against. And so Mr Speaker, as I shared with the legislature earlier this week, last Friday we filed a statement of particulars with the Court of Appeal, a statement of particulars that outlines why we see that federal carbon tax as unconstitutional. And I asked the members opposite to consider whether they want to stand with us on behalf of Ontarians. Do they want to stand against the federal liberals or continue their push for higher gas prices? Where do you stand? For Scarborough, Southwest. Thank you, Speaker. My question is to the Minister of Education. Congratulations on your portfolio. I look forward to working with you. Mr Speaker, last month this Conservative government quietly eliminated the for-profit maximum threshold which had limited provincial funding for corporate and for-profit child care operators. Now the forward government has slashed almost 23 million dollars in funding that was supposed to go to low income families to assist with child care costs. In a memo sent to the child care stakeholders last month, the government stated that it had made these decisions, I quote, in response to feedback from partners. Mr Speaker, can the Minister tell us exactly who they consulted before deciding to cut child care subsidies for low income families? Who are these partners? Good question. Mr. Vegetation. Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. And I'm very pleased to stand in this House today and say that we made commitment to parents across Ontario. We promised to respect parents and we're delivering on that promise because, Speaker, we had a previous administration that was choosing who and where parents had to take their children for today care. In rural Ontario, in some instances, parents were having to drive 20 minutes out of their way to turn around and then head back to work. Speaker, it wasn't working. So what we're doing as a PC government is listening to parents across all of Ontario and enabling them to make choices that fit their family and prove to be effective and efficient. Thank you very much. Thank you for your response, but it's unfortunate and disappointing that clearly they didn't consult with any of the low income families. Studies have shown that not-for-profit, they may drown me with their distasteful, disgraceful ways, but they cannot drown the people of Ontario. Studies not-for-profit child care offers higher standards of care and better wages for workers. This is why child care advocates have urged the province to expand not-for-profit child care space. We know that the biggest issue in the child care sector is the lack of affordable, high-quality, safe child care spaces. By removing the for-profit threshold, this government is opening the doors to large-chain providers. By cutting millions of dollars in assistance for low-income families, they're making child care less affordable for those who need it. Ontario needs to move forward, not backward. So can the minister tell us who did the minister cut a deal with in favour of corporate for-profit child care providers? Minister of Education. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. And brilliant, truly. What we're doing is expanding daycare choices across Ontario, and we're respecting parents and their need to have choice in how they manage their family. The nanny state of the previous administration was proven not to work. And we're listening to the opposition to come out to my riding out of the bubble of Toronto and see how parents need choice. We cannot allow a continuation of parents to have to drive 25 kilometres out of their way just to turn around to get to work 40 kilometres from there. It's not efficient, it's not effective, and it's not good for Ontario families. I am very pleased to say, Premier Ford and the Ontario PC government are standing by parents, respecting parents, and we're giving them choice. Next question. The member for Flamboral Land Welfare. Question is to the Minister of Infrastructure and Minister, along with many of my colleagues. I can assure you I had a fabulous time at the International Parliament. I have the opportunity to thank the hundreds of volunteers who worked tirelessly to make it such a success. Now, yesterday the Premier's speech made reference to all that our government for the people is doing to assist small rural and northern communities. Would the Minister please elaborate on the legislation he will be introducing later today and how it will help people of rural Ontario. Very good. Minister, then first question. Well, thank you very much for that great question. I'd first like to thank the member for her kind words of hospitality regarding her enjoyment at the International Applying Match. Yesterday, I'm extremely grateful, as I said earlier today, Mr. Speaker, for the opportunity to showcase my riding of Lampton Kent Middlesex, the community of Pancor in the municipality of Chatham Kent, and to bring attention to the rural issues and the rural way of life for those families. Mr. Speaker, later today, I'm extremely honoured to introduce my first piece of legislation as the Minister of Infrastructure entitled the Access to Natural Gas Act. This legislation will propose to facilitate the expansion of access to natural gas by working with the Ontario Energy Board to develop regulations to expand the private sector's participation in community projects. Speaker, we told people and businesses in rural and northern Ontario that we intend to expand natural gas. Ontario is open for business. We're going to lower energy costs. Promises. Thank you. Start the clock. Mr. Speaker, to the Minister, earlier this morning you mentioned that this proposal will allow further expansion of natural gas driven by the private sector. Now, given that the Access to Natural Gas Act proposes to enable further expansion of natural gas projects driven by the private sector, I know that many of my colleagues and people from right across rural and northern communities are keen to hear more about how this program will impact the rural economy and agricultural competitiveness. My question is, how many communities will now be able to access natural gas and how does this program compare to the previous one? Good question. Minister. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As the Premier had mentioned at the Plying Match, our new program will allow for 78 communities and 33,000 households to have access to reliable, cost-effective and clean natural gas who previously would depend on electric heat, propane oil and diesel to heat their homes. This will help to make life more affordable for many families and will help to reduce costs for new and existing businesses in Ontario, helping to fulfill a key commitment that our government has made to the people of this province. For example, this program will help rural and agricultural communities by providing farmers with more opportunities to encourage modern technology to grow food and provide support for a booming greenhouse industry. This program will provide more communities with reliable access to clean natural gas in a cost-effective way to minimize the burden on the taxpayer. While the previous Liberal government limited private sector innovation and efficiencies, our government will listen to the real experts, the people of Ontario, and partner with... Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Minister of Children, Community and Social Services. Instead of talking about the issues that Ontarians expect their government to tackle, the Premier's top priority has been to interfere in Toronto's democratic elections. Why does the Minister believe Toronto's municipal election is a more urgent priority than reducing child poverty now that Toronto has become the child poverty capital of Canada? Minister of Children, Community and Social Services. Thanks very much, Speaker. I'm finally happy that this new democratic party is actually talking about something else other than a municipal election simply in the City of Toronto. The rest of us live in other place from a nation to change our social assistance program so we can help people get out of poverty and get into jobs where they can and give them more support when they can. But I can tell the member opposite that if she wants to actually help people that we have to build a compassionate society that's the best social safety net. The best way that we can ensure that we have a social program is getting people a job. But I'm delighted for once in the last couple of weeks that this new democratic party is actually talking about something other... Back to the Minister. Every day, poverty is deepening in Ontario. Toronto has become the child poverty capital of Canada. In some Toronto communities over half of all children are living in poverty. Every year, between 90 and 120 of Ontario's most vulnerable children die while under the province's care. This is unacceptable. These are the issues Ontarians expect their government to deal with. But instead, this government has a valuable time and resources to interfere in Toronto's municipal election. Minister, when is the government going to start taking action on the issues and not just cutting social assistance and actually taking action on the issues that actually matter to Ontarians rather than creating chaos? Yes. Minister, children, community and social service. Thanks, Speaker. We took action June 29th and I started immediately with briefings within my ministry to ensure that the one in seven people not just in the city of Toronto because I know for those members of Toronto you think this is all about yourselves but here's the situation right from Ottawa all the way to Canora we're standing up for the people that need our help the most and those one in seven people who are being trapped in a system of abuse and an encyclopedia kept them down is something that I couldn't stomach. That's why in the first few days we put the pause on what the previous government was doing but under compassionate grounds ensured that we had a 1.5% increase across the board on social assistance we set a 100-day target in order to put a new program in place which will be unveiled on November 8th but I will reiterate it's nice to finally see the opposition take something more into the Toronto Politicians Act to this floor. We can actually start talking about the important issues of the day. Start the clock. The member for Sarnia Lampton. My question is the Minister of Infrastructure Minister, when I went door-to-door in my writing one of the biggest concerns that I heard was the issue of skyrocketing hydro-race the fact that people were forced to choose between heating and eating it's a decision that no family or fixed income seniors should ever have to make I'm sure members on both sides of this house are keenly aware that for far too long the previous Liberal government supported by the NDP when it came to the well-being of people in this province especially when it came to energy poverty there were municipalities forced to open up heat banks in the dead of winter because there was no one could afford Ontario's hydro-race the highest rates I might say in North America Minister, in light of this proposed new legislation I'm looking forward to you bringing forward later today can you please tell us how this program intends to lower the cost of heating for people across this great problem Minister of infrastructure Well, thank you Mr. Speaker and I'd like to thank a member from Sarnia-Lampton for a great question I know the member from Sarnia-Lampton has long advocated in this legislation to expand natural grass right across rural and remote communities in Ontario Mr. Speaker, one of our five priorities as a government for the people is lowering hydro bills for the people of this province and that is exactly why we will achieve this through the Access to Natural Gas Act Our proposed legislation will enable the private sector to work with local municipal partners to expand access to reliable cost-effective and clean natural gas for rural, northern and First Nations communities at no cost to the taxpayer Mr. Speaker, this means that 78 communities and 33,000 households will have the ability to access critical energy infrastructure in our great province Supplementary Well, thank you Mr. Speaker and back to the Minister of Infrastructure That's great news Minister and I'm looking forward to the legislation later today but following through on this new legislative commitment truly represents our government for the people commitment to making promises and actually keeping them a concept that is foreign to the former Liberal government The expansion to 78 communities in northern Ontario will greatly assist in providing the much needed energy and financial relief as well as enabling our First Nations community access to cleaner and cheaper energy options Minister, can you tell us how much money does each household expect to save with this new legislation when it's passed? Thank you Mr. Speaker Minister Well Mr. Speaker again to the member of Sergeant Lampton, thanks for that question Mr. Speaker, our government understands that people are facing extremely high energy bills especially if they have to depend on electricity, oil or propane to heat their homes Having access to natural gas makes life more affordable and puts more money back in people's pockets Estimates suggest that by switching to natural gas residential customers and families can save between $800 and $2,500 per year This new initiative in conjunction with our government's commitment to stop cap and trade carbon tax will help put more money in the pockets of families and help provide them with much needed financial relief Our government is committed to the expansion of natural gas infrastructure and services in our province unlike the previous Liberal government who not only banned private sector participation in expanding natural gas but also tried to ban natural gas altogether in Ontario Lastly Mr. Speaker don't forget about the NDP and how they continuously advocate Thank you Next question Member for Waterloo Thank you very much Mr. Speaker My question is for the Deputy Premier In August alone, Ontario lost over 80,000 jobs and there was a troubling increase particularly in youth unemployment Ontario's youth unemployment rate increased last month and is persistently higher as in the country For young people in Niagara West in Durham in Waterloo in Scarborough this is incredibly alarming for youth in this province but instead this government has spent a majority of their time really fixated on Toronto City Council Why does the Deputy Premier believe Toronto's municipal election is more important than creating more jobs and opportunities in this province Deputy Premier To the Minister of Municipal Affairs in Housing I want to thank the member for the question It was very clear during the election that our government was committed to providing an efficient and effective level of government services We talked about reducing the size and cost of government almost every day during the campaign and as well we've put some of our promises into practice as was stated by the President of the Treasury Board and the Minister of Finance we've commissioned the Commission of Inquiry we began the line by line review but today it was particularly important because it really the decision today really validated what we want to council with the citizens of Toronto and I'm pleased to talk about that in a supplementary Thank you very much Mr. Speaker so far the only people who are getting more work in this province are the lawyers fighting this government I know that they can't count on this government for a fair wage but since becoming government there has been no action no plan, no strategy to create more jobs and opportunity for youth in fact they seem very content to double down on precarious part-time contract work particularly for youth in this province all that his priorities are their priorities but not the priorities of the people of this province and that the government is not willing to use their time or resources to help young people in this province reach their potential these are backward priorities Mr. Speaker the people of this province the youth of this province deserve better when is this government going to take action to help our young people build a good life here in the province of Ontario again Mr. Speaker I want to thank the member for the question you know I want to make it very clear about our government's priorities our premier and our minister of economic development job creation and trade are in Washington today to stand up for jobs they're standing up for jobs in the steel industry and automotive and agriculture the premier made it very clear yesterday the international plowing match and rural expo that our government is committed to ensuring that jobs will be created in this province and that's exactly why they're in Washington today standing up for jobs standing up for Ontario working with the federal government that's the difference between our government and your government class thank you very much next question the member for Chatham Kent Leamington thank you very much Mr. Speaker my question is for the minister of agriculture rural affairs yesterday we got to attend the 101st international plowing match in Pancord located in the municipality of Chatham Kent alongside many of our colleagues in the legislature under the previous government rural Ontario was often ignored meeting with so many farming families yesterday was a breath of fresh air and served as a reminder of the hard work done every day by farmers Mr. Speaker through the minister can the minister highlight for us why taking the time to attend the international plowing match was so important for our members and for rural Ontario well delivered minister of agriculture food and rural care thank you very much Mr. Speaker and also thank you to the member for the question and for his warm welcome to the writing of Chatham Kent Leamington yesterday as we attended the plowing match I also want to thank each and every member who took the time to attend and listen to the concerns of our farmers at the international plowing match yesterday as mentioned by the member rural Ontario was often an afterthought for far too long under the previous government by taking the time to meet with the farm families and people in rural Ontario yesterday we got to see some of the hard work that farmers do every day to contribute to our economy it's important for all MPPs to see the hard work and skill goes into growing and providing the best quality food working with our government farming communities will be able to prosper industries and businesses will be open ready to lead and create jobs again in Ontario supplementary thank you again Mr. Speaker and I want to thank the minister for his great response you know it was great to see so many friendly faces and hear from so many people who are supporting our premier and the actions of our government Mr. Speaker the Minister of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs has mentioned before in this legislature that our government is going to help ensure that rural Ontario along with the rest of the province is open for business yesterday the premier announced that we're going to help rural Ontario by expanding access to natural gas so can the minister tell us how natural gas expansion will help rural Ontario become more competitive and make life more affordable for that important question and how we can make life more affordable for Ontarians in order to be a leader of economic growth and job creation businesses need to be competitive under the previous government the private sector was stuck on the sidelines ready to make investments and take the burden off of our taxpayer by working with the private sector and expanding the ability to bring natural gas to rural and remote communities in Ontario we will put more money in people's pockets by reducing the cost of energy and bringing more jobs to the area our government is committed to working with the private sector to change the rural Ontario and to make rural Ontario competitive once again next question remember for Hamilton thank you speaker my question is to the deputy premier the premier we understand is on route to Washington he has said he stands shoulder to shoulder with his federal counterparts on NAFTA renegotiations however speaker Ontario still hasn't responded to the steel tariffs with thousands of jobs in Hamilton hanging in the balance what instructions has the government given to ministry trade officials to respond to the steel and aluminum tariffs deputy premier thank you very much for the question and yes our premier and the minister of economic development are in Washington today to speak with to protect our number one priority Ontario is open for business that means protecting our jobs creating new jobs, supporting businesses and increasing trade and one thing that the premier has noted on several occasions is that we're going to do our part to protect Ontario workers in the automotive steel and agricultural sectors and we're going to stand up to that and we're not going to give up supplementary thank you speaker back to the deputy premier on one hand we have a premier distracted with his own grievances who claims to stand shoulder to shoulder with the federal government in the current trade dispute on the other hand we have a premier who when asked repeatedly has said his support for the US president wouldn't waver and he supports him 100% this is the same president who threatens Ontario's livelihood and the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of Ontarians dependent on steel auto manufacturing which premier will we be seeing in Washington on the part of the premier he has said on many many occasions that he stands shoulder to shoulder with Ontario workers and Ontario businesses and he's going to make the point strongly along with the minister of economic development in Washington that we want to make sure that the automotive, steel and agricultural industries are supported they are the backbone of our economy and we need to stand up for them and make sure that the position of Ontario is understood in the United States which it isn't always understood that as tariffs are imposed by the United States on Ontario they don't understand the negative effect it's going to have on businesses in the United States there's up to 9 million jobs in question in the United States and that is a legitimate role for the premier to play and the minister of economic development to play to say that it goes both ways that we need to protect Ontario's jobs that concludes the time we have available for question period pursuant to standing order 38A the member for Orléans has given notice of her dissatisfaction with the answer to her question given by the minister of municipal affairs and housing concerning the reduction of municipal council point of order I know the member for Perry Sound, Muskoka Thank you Mr. Speaker I would like to welcome Perry Sound John Bocca here to Queen's Park today former chief of Wisconsin First Nation also a former Union of Ontario Indians grant you have ordered the member for Ottawa Orléans Thank you Mr. Speaker I would like to correct my record there's 388 boards and agency in the city but also I would like to recognize my page was here today we have a nice page in Orléans we have a new page from Orléans my name is Martin Lezuc thank you for being here Martin I call on the government the unanimous consent to put forward a motion without notice regarding a late show on northern indigenous education the government house leader is seeking the unanimous consent of the house to have a late show on northern and indigenous education did I get that right to move a motion related to it agreed second thank you I move that not with standing and order 38B the parliamentary assistant for indigenous affairs shall participate in place of the parliamentary assistant the Thank you very much speaker. I'd like to actually welcome all of the pages to Queen's Park that are here But a special little shout out to Victoria Werner McLeod the daughter of MPP McLeod and her husband Joe Be assured that we will be introducing the pages in the in the appropriate manner in due course as well There being no deferred votes this house stands in recess until 3 p.m


But in this video, we're going to go over how to do a difference of means test or a comparison of means for two samples So let's get to it So we're going to continue on using this percent deficit that we calculated in the last video and our Hypothesis test for these two samples and in the comparison means or difference of means test is going to be The null is going to be that the mean for gas minus the mean for wind is equal to Zero or in other words that these two means are equal the alternative here is that The mean for natural gas is less than that for wind Or in other words that different the difference between those two is less than zero The reason I set it up this way is because just by looking at this visualization that we developed in the last video Because natural gas is consistently below 0% deficit I Have the suspicion that its mean will be less than that for for wind So I set it up hypothesis based on that But let's go ahead and calculate our sample statistic here and we can confirm whether the the mean of the data conformed to that so so first let's pull out our wind sample and Recall that our data frame is is gen piv that we're working with here We've calculated percent deficit in gen piv. So we want to pull out that values from that variable here. So gen piv loc and anywhere where Gen piv As a fuel value that's equal to wind We want to pull out the associated percent percent deficit values, okay, that'll be our our wind sample same thing for Natural gas We'll just replace wind with gas So we'll just pull out those two samples and then our Sample difference is going to be our Samt gas dot mean so the mean of Samt gas Minus Samt gas Sorry Samt wind So here's our sample statistic is the difference between The mean of the gas percent deficit and the mean of the wind percent deficit Note that this order is important here. It's got to conform to what we'd have in the hypothesis test here It's really critical. Let's print some values here. So let's print our mean gas value is This Let's also print our mean wind value. This is just for inspection And then finally the difference between those we see that our our Average percent deficit for a gas sample is negative twenty eight percent The average percent deficit for a wind sample is negative fifteen point five percent. So indeed from the samples the Gas is less than the wind and so this would justify having the hypothesis set up this way And then the difference is indeed negative or less than zero So again justifying this this set up here But still the question remains is this negative twelve and a half percent? Is this statistically significantly below zero in other words? Is this completely out of the realm of possibilities? Even if the null hypothesis for true So that's what we want to test with the randomization distribution and that the resulting hypothesis test here So moving on to a randomization distribution We already have imported numpy previously, but let's do it again anyway Just for as a reminder that numpy is needed for this One thing that we're going to do here is we're going to copy the genpiv data frame Over to something called sim so we're going to make a new data frame sim That's just going to be an identical copy to genpiv The reason being is that we're going to be scrambling up some of the values there You don't want to mess up our original data for Again, just a reminder capital N will be a thousand as we'll consistently use Through these hypothesis tests although you could do more when you're doing this on your own Our sample size Is going to be the number of rows in Our in genpiv or in sim here So this is going to be the sample size of wind plus the sample size of gas This shape function gives the first the number of rows then the number of columns by putting the index here We're getting we're extracting the number of of rows from them And then as we did in the test for single means we want to store Our resulting statistics From the random randomization distribution into some variable. So we'll have x bar diff. This is just going to be an empty variable capital N 1000 blank spaces in it and as we go through this for loop We will Fill in those blanks So from our sim data set data frame What we're going to do is we're going to scramble up this percent deficit column So we're going to make a new percent deficit column or override the percent deficit column And we're going to use random choice to do the scrambling. So we saw random choice first in the hypothesis test for a single mean where we were drawing With replacement from that wind shift variable here, we're going to draw From our original percent deficit column And We want to use size equals n. So the same sample size that we have originally And here we don't want to do this with replacement So we're going to do replace equals false. The reason being is that If we go back up to our data frame Really, we just want to scramble up these values and reorder them in the same column And we don't want to repeat any values. We really just want to reallocate these values across the two groups Wind and natural gas And do that in a random sense. So some will stay within wind some will stay within natural gas But we're going to switch up the order and and potentially regroup some of them Because under our null condition if there isn't any difference between these two groups Then it wouldn't really matter what what group the observations follow. So that's the philosophy under that The null hypothesis here So once we do that scrambling, well, then we just need to execute Our calculation of the statistic again. So I'm going to copy and paste everything from From step one into here and really we just need to replace all these stamps with say sim for example So we'll have our simulated wind sample It's coming from sim so replacing Gen pivot with sim after you've scrambled up percent deficit here And then the difference will be The difference in these needs So the same steps that we had before in calculating the sample statistic from the data We'll use After we've done the randomization and scrambled up the This percent deficit column here, okay Now Oh, sorry, I should recall this x bar diff and we want to of course store this difference Okay So we can go ahead and run our randomization distribution And then visualize it.  I'm going to just copy and paste our visualization from our proportion test of a single proportion Bring it back down here. It's the same structure except We have a different we have different names of things but still our randomization distribution We want to turn into a data frame And our x intercept should be our sample statistic the sam diff here So we can go ahead and visualize that so Under our null condition if the null hypothesis is true if there really wasn't any difference between two groups We would see a difference of means a percent deficit that ranges from about negative 10 to about positive 10 So pretty big swing But nevertheless our actual sample statistic. So from our data what we observed in reality is Quite a bit less than that range falls outside of that range So what do you think our p value is? You're thinking zero. You've got it, but we can go ahead and calculate it here again, just replace our P hat with this x bar diff The series not the data frame our sam diff Replaces when p hat and the direction of this inequality Should be less than because that's our alternative hypothesis And we have zero here. So our concluding statement again, since The p value is very low 0.0 and less than The Significance Level of 0.05. That's a default value. We can reject The null hypothesis that There is no difference between The means of the two groups The two groups being a percent deficit of gas versus percent deficit Of wind Again, the critical language here is rejecting the null hypothesis because our p value is less than 0.05 But it's always good to contextualize that result in the actual problem. So what do you learn from rejecting all hypothesis? Well, we know Then that there actually is a difference between these two groups so there is evidence that natural gas under performed more more than wind Okay, so that's our test for a difference of means


Hi, I'm Danny Rojas, and I'm on the Product Partnerships team for Privacy Sandbox. I spent the last two plus years having conversations with folks in the ecosystem on how to prepare for a future without third-party cookies, leveraging technologies like in the Privacy Sandbox. I'm here to tell you what's going on with the three big ads APIs we've been working on for the Privacy Sandbox, Topics, Fledge, and the Attribution Reporting API. We generally expect that they will be used as building blocks to create advertising solutions, both in combination with each other, along with contextual and first-party data. But before I get into that, let me take a step back for a minute. What is an API anyways? There are viewers from a wide range of backgrounds, so let me take a minute to be clear about what I'm going to be discussing. These APIs are not products. These are new capabilities we're adding to the Chrome web browser, new additions to the JavaScript programming language. The web browser's job is to be a platform that people can build products on top of. Folks who will actually be building ad products are the same folks who have been building ad products today. Many of those ad products historically made use of third-party cookies. In a world without cookies, these ad products will need to rely on new tools, new APIs instead. If you want to hear how that's going, you can read case studies by RTB House in Criteo.  What's your call to action if these APIs may be being used by advertising technology companies? Talk to the ad tech companies you do work with and ask them if they're involved in privacy sandbox testing or if they have plans to be later this year. Until now, it's been reasonable to wait. Things have been changing a lot and keeping up with current developments is not an easy job. Now the time has come to figure out how to build with these tools. Speaking of that, let me give a quick view of timelines, where we've come and where we're headed. 2022 has been about early technical integration. Launching the APIs for technical testing and having the ad tech companies effectively kick the tires on the ads API proposals. For the first half of 2023, it'll be very much test and learn. We expect the testing to be focused on individual APIs to give directional utility learnings and will be increasing traffic exposed to these APIs to a sufficient level at a responsible pace. And we're looking forward to feedback in this timeframe to help understand how specific parameters of the API proposals influence the results. In the second half of 2023, we'll launch the APIs to all Chrome users, which will enable testing of the sandbox technologies at scale in combination and across the ecosystem. At this point, ad tech companies will have integrated these APIs into their solutions alongside the rest of privacy preserving capabilities that are available. With this, we'll gain meaningful insights into the results for marketers and publishers in a world without third party cookies. Looking further ahead, 2024 will be about preparation for a third party cookie deprecation. After launching the sandbox APIs later this year, there will be a full year to integrate the solutions and optimize the results. And of course, you can always go to privacysandbox.com for the latest on timelines. Now the first API, Topics. In a world without any cross site information at all, ad targeting choices could be based on contextual information about the surrounding webpage, media user information like their GEO or on same site user information. Topics adds a little bit of cross site user information into the mix. It provides a high level signal of a user's interest based on their recent browsing history. And what's its current status? Right now we're testing with live traffic and you can monitor the blink dev email alias for the current traffic levels. And at the most rudimentary level, data is flowing through the pipes. Cell side platforms are able to call the topics API and pass the resulting topics along to demand side platforms. And we've already heard some feedback about the mechanics of how the API works. For example, on pages with multiple third parties that all want to use the API. The current design involves some browser gymnastics involving iframes and post messages and we've heard it's cumbersome and sometimes slow. We're facing this by introducing a mechanism based on HTTP headers instead. Now, early in the first half of 2023, we're going to hear more on the directional utility learnings. And we actually started hearing this towards the end of 2022 from the earliest testers. For example, folks are evaluating the on device classifier, which Chrome uses to know the topics of the pages that a person visits in the browser. We're happy to hear that the classifier is pretty good. And of course there are suggestions on how to make it better, particularly by using information beyond just the domain of the site being browsed. And we're interested in further discussions from the taxonomy that the topics are drawn from. We also heard that the current way of picking the top topics for a person based on the number of pages about it means that the most popular topics like news or arts and entertainment are too prevalent and less useful as a result. We're evaluating better ways to surface topics so that we're likely to give information of a commercial interest. Oh, and I should say that I'm just mentioning a few highlights of feedback. And if you want to see more, our quarterly report to the UK CMA contains summaries of the feedback we're hearing on all of the privacy sandbox APIs. Now, in the later half of 2023, this is when we expect conversations about the powerful ways that information from the topics API can be most effectively used by the advertising ecosystem. For example, topics should be a valuable input to predictive ML models used in bidding alongside contextual and first party signals. Topics may also be useful alongside contextual signals for audience building use cases. That is in combination with the Fledge API, which we'll turn to next. Okay, on to Fledge. This is the thing that gets described as the privacy sandbox API for remarketing, but really Fledge is so much more than just the remarketing use case. Remarketing is an ads ecosystem product, and Fledge is a tool, and the tool is made for building custom audiences. And let me be clear up front, using Fledge is a much more difficult task than using topics. Inventing a way for the ecosystem to show ads to custom built audiences without being able to track the individual people in those audiences, that was a huge privacy challenge. Now, one big benefit that topics brings to the table is how easy it is to use. Nobody will say that about the Fledge API. And I'm telling you all this just so that you understand that when we say the current state is functionality testing, it really means something. I mean, the mere fact that it is possible to run an on-device auction with custom audiences from multiple buyers bidding against each other, it's a big deal. Our biggest feedback from this stage is a lot of discussion about latency, about the amount of time and resources that these auctions use. And we've already shipped a lot of control so that the party running these on-device ad auctions, the publisher or the self-side ad text that they choose to do the job for them, can limit that resource usage. And we're involved in a lot of discussions on how to get the most out of the resources that are available. And Chrome also announced support for the bidding and auction services, which provides optional tooling to potentially improve latency. Now, in the first half of this year, as people build out and test their implementations, we expect a lot of discussion of reporting. For example, the ways that developers who are used to performing bidding on their own servers, how they can get insight into what's happening when things are running in browsers instead. And by the second half of this year, as Fledge becomes available to all users, we look forward to much more attention on how the different parties on a single page interact with each other. This includes the dynamics of multiple buyers in a single auction and also the component auctions, the design of Fledge that allows publishers to have multiple SSPs competing against each other. Oh, and I do want to point out that we've been in some discussions about interesting ideas like publishers individually or in coalitions creating and selling their own audiences while retaining control over how those audiences are used. This is indeed something that Fledge could be used for, but this is an idea for an ad's product innovation. The platform changes we're making mean that it will become possible to let someone advertise to an audience without being able to take that audience and run away with it. But building a new business around this will be in the hands of interested ad tech companies, not browsers. Finally, I'll say just a few quick words about the attribution reporting API. This is, of course, built to serve an essential part of the ad's ecosystem. The ability for advertisers to tell that the advertising dollars that they spent were worth it. This API is multifaceted covering both event level and aggregated reporting. The early functional testing has been essential for understanding debugging use cases. Across the privacy sandbox work, but for attribution reporting in particular, for both in detailed error reporting and understanding of failures has been a key piece of feedback we've received and acted on. The early utility testing has highlighted some valuable use cases that were not covered in our first releases. For example, we heard from advertisers with multiple separate websites where ad clicks lead to landing pages that are on a different domain from the one where an eventual conversion happens. As we get more testers next year, we expect to hear about additional use cases like these that don't work like the textbook example. As we move to the integrated utility testing phase later this year, we also have plans to support attribution across web and app contexts, as part of integrating the Chrome and Android sides with the privacy sandbox. And while we have the first stage of integration that allows the use of attribution reporting from within Fledge, I'm sure we'll get refined as people begin testing the APIs together. So that's where the privacy sandbox ads APIs are today and where they're heading through the rest of 2023. As I hope you can see there's a lot going on here. None of this is going to happen quickly and we understand that. We've been through big transformations before. When the web transition from HTTP to HTTPS so that users could more safely browse websites, this took a while to get the industry on board. Many ad serving stacks didn't support HTTPS and there were concerns about perf issues and losing SEO. Chrome team took this feedback seriously and worked together with the industry and with the rest of Google to address concerns so that we can have a more secure web. Similarly, though at a much bigger scale, Privacy Sandbox is developing new technologies to ensure a more private web and app ecosystem. Change and adaptation are going to be necessary, but we can do this together. So what I want you to do is this. First, talk to your advertising partners. Ask them about their plans for durable privacy forward solutions. We hope that the tools that we're providing in Privacy Sandbox will be valuable contributions to those plans. And second, you willing to experiment? When those advertising partners come to you and say that the future is going to be a little bit different than the past, be open to it. We're going to accomplish the same goal, but maybe not in all the same ways and we're all going to need to be flexible to get there. Thank you.


Hi, my name is Leon Rowe currency trader and trading coach at trading 180 comm and welcome to this week's a plan demand Forex technical analysis if you're new welcome, and if you're returning welcome back And I hope that you had a great trading week last week. There was a lot of opportunity in the market, especially Buying the US dollar. So hope some of you out there managed to catch a few pips off of that And if you are new, there's some more education material and the links are in the description box below on the website and and some other stuff as well. So Please check that out. Don't forget to like subscribe and share If you like this content as well so looking at the Fundamentals getting into fundamental analysis and we know fundamental analysis is you know The reason and sentiment and risk off sentiment and risk on sentiment is why markets move. So this week ahead We have the minutes from the Fed and European central bank policy meetings and that would definitely be keenly watched as it's an indication of What the central banks are thinking in regards to their monetary policy Whether they're going to hike hold or more likely to cut rates and we're in the European central banks case It'll be more adding stimulus alongside US inflation rate. That's definitely going to be important Jolt's job openings and producer prices UK monthly GDP figures it's going to be important the UK is going to probably be struggling In the lead up to brexit as there's probably going to be no Real new investment things are slowing down anyway You know and you can see that in the data if you've been paying attention So UK monthly GDP figures and trade balance Germany industrial output and foreign trade That's important for europe china inflation and trade balance always important trade balance Is an indication of how well the country is doing as far as gross domestic products and china inflation is quite important as well Japan machinery orders Australia consumer and business morale investors will also react to Fed Chair pals and the and sorry semi annual monetary policy report so Some important data and just a little bit of a I guess a recap on what's happened from last week the Here's a here's a piece from market watch and says it's a hallucinatory. I think I said as you pronounce it hallucinatory. Yeah To expect a Half-point Fed rate cut now Right, but economists still expect a quarter point reduction. So why is that important interest rates an interest rate cut? will The aim of an interest rate cut is to cheapen the currency And to kind of maybe get ahead of any kind of economic slowdown so Due to the fact that we had a good non farms solid jobs report right And in the circle it says it removes any chance at the federal reserve will cut interest rates by half a point in next meeting But they will probably get caught. They'll probably Cut a quarter point, right? And you can see that in the actual fed watch tool cme fed watch tool Which is the probabilities of the frmc rate moves with the cme fed watch tool so I guess this gathers the data from the financial institutions and what you know where they're placing their their money in their bets There's a hundred percent chance of an ease even though this has changed. They changed on friday to a bit of a Small percentage of no change and it changed back to a hundred percent ease So there's a 95 if the market thinks that there's a 95.1 chance of a 25 So 0.25 a quarter point cut and a 4.9 nearly five percent chance of a 0.5 percent cut so a deeper cut is now probably off the table Depending on obviously data is data dependent. So the u.s. Dollar isn't out of the woods yet if they do get a positive CPI number Month for month cpi is on thursday Um, it's expected to be at zero if it comes in at maybe point one Again, or even point two if there's a there's an uptick inflation month for month and even on the core Then um, again, I think that the probabilities will definitely decrease Even more when it comes to a point five percent rate cut so with that being said and uh, um I guess fundamentals sentiment out of the way. Let's look at the technicals and starting off on the us dollar index And so from last week, um, we already know that the dollar strength in the Dow Jones dollar index is just a measure of uh, the US dollar strength against the major currencies like the euro yen and the pound as well as the Australian dollar and This week we've had some decent news. So any kind of, um positive price action What you would have been looking for as prices came down into this demand zone This demand zone as you started the week is looking for, um, you know, if you're looking for buy trades on the dollar any other dollar crosses then, um you know looking down into lower timeframes and uh Basically getting some sort of confluence with the dollar index as it's going higher You can pretty much look for buy trades on any of the dollar crosses. So looking into you know this week um, price did I don't think it actually touched that supply zone. They've nearly pinged off it. Um But if you are looking to potentially short The dollar will take advantage of maybe some sort of profit taking or maybe even some um, some negative news if the news comes out this week And inflation for example, isn't great or worse than expected then you could see something like this happen this week And then what you would do is you just go into any kind of uh, uh, us dollar Cross And then look for some sort of uh, uh, sell trade From a buy trade perspective what you're looking at is probably I'll do a demand zone from there Um And uh, if prices do come back down to here and start to put in some positive price action Then you'd be looking for buy trades on any of the dollar crosses As confluence if not, then you're looking at you know, this this level a bit further down here For any again, uh buy trades on any of the dollar crosses. So now moving on to the dollar yen dollar yen last week Pretty much we were in between this demand zone here prices started to turn up as you see Prices kind of reacted off it this week and then ended up putting back to this zone So there were some sell trade opportunities here into the week as price came up into the supply zone This level is now touched once this is the second time So as a supply zone or a demand zone touches the more times it touches the weaker it becomes So you have to if you're looking at shorting this you have to believe that the Japanese yen is actually a bargain at this price and the dollar is going to get you know weaker Is it for you to be you know shorting this at this supply zone Also, um, the yen would probably strengthen due to risk off So if we're looking at updating the chart the moment right now, you're looking at potential shorts But keep in mind that we have had good job numbers um non farms way beyond, uh The expected number. So, uh, it was very positive Um But you're looking for a short trades at that supply zone if you're looking at buy trades You'd have to really be looking at this area here before looking at getting long Again Just keep in mind as well about risk sentiment So if risk is off meaning that There's a you know the china trade wars with the us starts to come into focus um Or there's some sort of uh narrative regarding the global economic slowdown then The japanese yen is also going to strengthen and if you know get that in combination with some sort of negative dollar news Then this could be a decent short trade But personally i'll be looking for some long trades either into this demand zone here or down here Into uh, it's lower demand zone. It's 107 is a nice level to look for some long trades um Moving on to the dollar swiss And the dollar swiss Was a uh, again, lovely lovely buy trade right here prices came down to this nice accurate demand zone here and again dollar strength Brilliant bounced off of that and continue going higher. So there was at least A good maybe from you know the 97 to 99 200 pips within the past two weeks if anyone took advantage of that well done um And again, you've to buy really the swiss frank and in order to kind of short this area You would have to really believe that the swiss frank was going to get Stronger and the dollar was uh, I was going to get weaker, but um Decent move to the upside now. Let's see If there's anything needs to be really updated and I think we can probably start to update this These demand zones here I'll draw a demand zone there. There's one here as you made a higher high Higher highs higher lows. This isn't drop base rally rally base drop. Um, This is uh proof of value supply and demand trading um And if you want to know a bit more about that, uh, there's going to be a link in the top right hand side And I'll explain more about the uh proof of Value concept in that uh in that webinar So what we're looking for for buy trades for the dollar is a pullback Into this area Here would be the first opportunity before looking at long trades And again, you can just zoom down into the lower time frame before Looking at long trades and again if that one doesn't produce anything Um, as far as any kind of price action, then You're looking at this area here For any long trades First shorting opportunities for prices to really come up to here before looking at some short trades there So, um That's a decent level to look for some shorts But again, you'd have to really understand that risk office coming into the market and the dollar Has got some putting some negative sentiment or negative data around it So moving on to the dollar cad And the dollar cad has come down into his own The canadian dollar has actually been quite strong recently. I think it's one of the only Maybe outside of the pound British pound that is not actively looking to cut interest rates. They're on a holding cycle at the moment. They've They've I think they're exceeding their 2% inflation targets. So they're in no hurry to really, um Cut rates at the moment. So last week, I think this is probably one of the best performing currencies um Canadian dollar So even though you had some us dollar strength the canadian dollar still was quite strong. So Positive news came up, but we ended up sending off a little bit Down into this demands and we're at the yearly Lowes right is this range here at the uh, 2019 lows and we've kind of pierced that but I think it's still decent opportunity to look for some long trades We haven't had a pullback in uh in weeks and I don't want to say pullback. I'm talking about a decent pullback to at least Fair value in in a few weeks. So I think this is a decent area this demand zone from where we are now probably down into this um 1.30 level For a decent uh buy trade on the us dollar again depending on the data that comes out The dollar is still number one regardless of what um, you know, uh Happens in the in the short term overall. So looking at uh The actual chart on the dollar CAD. Let's See if there's anything that needs uh, really updating I guess I can get rid of that matter of fact um Daily time frame is made a lower low So we've got Actually a supply zone right there um So I think anything from now regarding Buy trades is decent Lower zone would probably be a slightly better Um price, but I think here is decent So anything from now and look for some buy trades if you believe that the dollar is undervalued here um If you believe that the canadian dollar is still going to get you know go a bit lower Then you'll be looking at any kind of sell trades From around this 1.31 level on the intraday time frame If not, then this is going to be your next level to look for Short trades to buy the canadian dollar over the us dollar so Some decent setup something coming up this week on this currency pair Um Yeah, I think that's about it Looking at the new zealand dollar us dollar now And This week we had prices come up in fact This zone Apologies, it was actually drawn wrong It's meant to draw it from here. You know, even I make mistakes Um Didn't see that that was actually the last bullish candle before prices made new lows. So in actuality The supply zone started from here So, uh, we did come up into this zone here Right here and then actually pinged off it um and Again the dollar strengthening this week had an effect So if you did take advantage of this, um, well done, but uh, luckily for me, um, you know, I didn't necessarily Stay you wrong in this one, but um, it really wasn't drawn correctly and I apologize for that so To correct this chart I have to draw this You can see where I didn't I didn't zoom in properly. I thought that was actually, uh, a Bearish close that was actually a bullish close there I realized during the week, um, that that was actually a bullish close there So it should have really been here for the supply and uh Remove that and now what we've got is some supply Up into here So if we do want to take advantage of Any supply now you'd be looking for price to come up into this zone here before looking at short trades Buying the us dollar if you're looking at buying the new zealand dollar again right now You're looking at buy trades and uh some buy price action Again on the lower time frames four hour one hour, um, or whatever is your Trading time frame if that level doesn't hold then you've got a couple of uh decent levels down here or Down at the very lows even though the very lows are touched once twice already to be very cautious when um Buying down here should probably be subject to some sort of manipulation as the level is quite obvious And traders will be looking at buying here. So you probably get something like a manipulation before Um, you know prices move to the upside if the new zealand dollar is a bargain and consider the bargain down at these areas here Moving on to the pound dollar and the pound dollar This was a nice trade um Took profit down here from up here price actually reached the uh the profit target Um and uh again continues to sell off on the friday. So that was a as a decent trade Um right now we'll be looking for any kind of pullbacks into some supply zones. So The pound I can't say the pound really strengthening any um great amount Because the uk if you're not aware um is going through a leadership contested with a conservative party Which is the ruling government right now and uh while The uk is leaderless and there's a lot of uh brexit fears um It is uh, it's not necessarily great for the uk at the moment even though they're doing decent from a um fundamentally Fundamental perspective, but I expect that fundamental um Uh Data to kind of shift to the um To the to the downside so We've got a few new levels created levels here this week This isn't normally how I would draw um any kind of demand to be fair But it's just I don't want to necessarily draw a wide zone Of demand in you know when you've got supply there So I'm gonna just basically draw it here as there is some demand here at the moment You've seen prices pierce through but not necessarily touch the second Demand zone down here. So I'm gonna keep it like this for now There's a little bit of demand here and let's see what happens this week if you do want to be a buyer now It's probably the time Other than that if you're looking at getting an um advantage taking the budget over the immediate short train You'll be looking at this area here Again, just zoom down into a lower time frame like for example The four hour and then you'll be looking for short trades around here. If not You can zoom Out and get involved Around here around this 1.27 You know the start start that supply zone around here before Looking at some short trades if the dollar starts to look, you know get weaker and if not, um, You know the higher zone 128 level around here will probably be the really decent area to look for short trades But for now, I think the the pound is definitely a sell Dollar being a buy trade and just look for really pull backs into these supply zones Unless something obviously drastic happens with the the dollar. I can't see the really the pound Becoming strong if the pound does start to rally it pretty be only really because of market manipulation Like I said in this uncertainty leading up to brexit Looking at the euro dollar now euro dollar this week There was a nice stop hunt This week and here it was stop hunt a lot of people a lot of traders would have been Long here placing their stop losses below this level and you can see this candle takes out all the stops right here I pointed out to The traders in the in the group About this this potential stop hunt this week and here it was It was an obvious very very obvious level And uh, we wanted to be buyers of the dollar anyway Nothing positive really coming out of europe None at all And if you were chasing price then you'd definitely be caught out here and uh, I have been saying that this week And uh, you can see what's pretty much happened Change Some of this Actually affect I'll put that up to the highs there And we've got a bit of supply Include that all that level there So this week being a buyer potentially of the dollar depending on what happens We'll put it maybe look for some sort of pullback into this zone before looking at short trades and um, if you're looking at buy trades pretty much anywhere from now this week You're looking at a buy trade within this demand zone prices may pull back again We've got cpi coming out for the us dollar. Um, and also monetary policy statements, um for the For europe and if not, then you'll be looking at if prices do manage to come all the way back up to this 1.1 38 level then this is going to be where You should be looking for short trades to get some long trades From the absolute low of the you know price for this year is going to be Down here and it's 1.111 level So, uh Again, this is several times once twice three times So could see them in you know price come down here and see a manipulation before going to the upside um But in my opinion the uh, the dollar is the buy and the euro is a sell Uh euro yen Euro yen this week Did pop up Got massive spike and then prices went to the downside A little bit of risk off, I guess Um, the euro pretty much sitting off came down into this demand zone, but didn't really hold Touched the top of that that demand zone there and started to move up slightly So, uh looking at that chart Oh Look back Um, here we are so we're going to delete this Area here What I'm going to do is just create a Another that there for now um So yeah, if you're looking for any kind of sell trades You'll be looking for price to come up into here and I do like this This area here this nice candle wick for supply, but again You have to believe that the Japanese yen is a bargain up here or that the uh risk is definitely off in the market before looking at You know some short trades here If you're looking at buying the euro This area right here This is this level has touched once already so twice is okay You know, it's one to one level is a is going to be put a better area and just just below Right, but when you start to again touch a few times That's when the there's really no more demand always demand The best time to buy um from demanded the first touch Right, so when prices created this demand zone moved up and prices came back down That's always the best time to uh buy not saying it's necessarily going to work out 100 But it's always the best opportunity to look for buy trades And same thing for example when prices created this supply zone here All this supply zone here. This would have been the first area first time prices come back into this zone nice Sell trade right there, which we did that to take advantage of this one as well um But for this week is pretty much where you are You're looking to need for a pullback into any of these lower end supply zones If you want to be a buyer of the euro You're looking at buy trades in that demand zone uh dollar And he always his dollar cutting rates this week um Got stopped out for break even on this trade and to short On this candlestick here and prices came back and before spiking me out um, and then non farms came out And uh prices continuing potentially to the downside it did touch this demand zone here Right, so there was a buying opportunity. You would have been a brave buyer really to buy right after an interest rate cut On the australian dollar But nevertheless prices did go higher taking out all the stops. This is where most traders would have been placing their stops clearly myself and you can see where you know Traders have been stopped out and then now Potentially we could be um, you know on the way to the short side an interesting article Um for a couple weeks ago was that black rock, which is I think they manage I think it was a six point something billion I think it is always a tree and I was keep keep getting the number mixed up, but they've managed a lot of uh Their their valued assets pretty much a Huge as a as a fund They are actually short the australian dollar and they see the australian dollar going down to At least zero point six five cents so If you're buying here at 70 cents, there's there's at least 500 pips if they're correct I'm looking at short trades On the australian dollar myself, but again, it's data dependent If the dollar continues to strengthen and the australian dollar continues to weaken, you know data-wise then this is going to look like a Very very decent trade and if the australian, you know rba Reserve bank australia continue to you know on their cutting cycle Then this could look like a very very decent trade all the way down pretty much if we're looking at it to around here the 65 cent level this demand zone here so Where does that leave us now if you're short Well done If you're not sure you have to probably be looking at you know any kind of pullback at the moment Or if prices continue to make lower highs lower lows so they make lower highs lower lows You're looking for pullback into the lower high. Yeah before Looking at a short trade that would be What you'd have to look for if you're looking for long trades again Buying right here is going to be where you'd be looking for In that demand zone right now this week if not it would have to be all the way down into the 68 50 60 40 zone um And finally the australian dollar japanese yen Uh this week we had again a bit of a spike up spike down interest rate cut And then prices have gone pretty much Uh bit sideways over the you know the thursday and the friday Risk is less off. There's always a risk off environment at the moment There are things going on global slowdown and things like that and the australian dollar Is is quite sensitive to risk sentiment as the In a risk on environment the australian dollar will do very well in a risk off environment The japanese yen will do you know quite well So it's always worth even if you don't trade this having a look at this currency pair to see Potential risk sentiment and you can see that there's been a bit of a pullback as well So risk hasn't necessarily been on the table or risk Risk off hasn't been on the table as much You know especially but donald trump as well and um And the chinese government and north korean government actually Seeing eye to eye on certain things or at least uh, you know come into some sort of um Um, I guess karma talks and less war rhetoric if you know, I mean The market has rallied When it comes to the australian dollar against the japanese yen up into the supply zone So there were shorting opportunities around here Let's go to the What was the yen So right now if you think that there's going to be more risk off involved then you're looking for really kind of pullbacks And then looking for short trades or even a short trade right now If you're looking for any kind of a long trade, we've got actually some Hidden demand right there Hidden demand So you'd be looking for By trades right here if not by trade in that zone there Put atop of that zone and then if not probably down into that 74 Round number is where you'll be looking for By trading again. That's with risk being on so you'll have to really kind of Think that the australian dollar is a bargain down here at the moment It's proven to be you know, this proof was the proof of value concepts Let the market prove where you know potential bargains are Yeah, and then when prices come down into this zone Look for you know potential bargain, you know prices again, depending on obviously the fundamentals and risk sentiment. So That's it for this week. I hope you found the analysis useful. Please like subscribe and comment share And if you have any questions, leave them in the Description box below and I'll get back to you as soon as I can Hope you all have a great trading week and take care