It's pretty easy to dig into the details of the new Unified Development Ordinance 24-7 by checking out columbiasc.gov forward slash zoning. But we thought it might be helpful to highlight a few of the resources available there. We're using a desktop computer, so our navigation appears at the top of the screen. Please note, if you're using a mobile device, the navigation will probably appear at the bottom of the web page. The About Zoning page serves as a great directory for the resources available and provides easy to follow instructions to access different zoning-related services, like how to request a zoning verification letter or administrative adjustments. It also contains direct links to zoning topics and different land use boards and commissions that work with the Unified Development Ordinance and zoning regulations. If you've looked at columbias or another city's code of ordinances before, chances are you've accessed them through Municode, which is a website that hosts many local regulations nationwide. While the city still uses Municode to house the city's ordinances, due to the highly visual nature of the Unified Development Ordinance, Municode will simply provide a link back to the UDO PDF on the zoning page. So this page, and the link to PDF, is the place to go to access the current regulations. Since the UDO is a large document, it is also helpful to note that there are some excerpts on the page here as well, which may take you straight to what you're interested in, whether it's a list of what uses are permitted in a zoning district, what a home occupation entails, or what rules apply to eating establishments specifically. Information about each base zoning district and zoning overlay districts are provided on the Districts and Overlays sub-page, where hyperlinks will take you directly to an excerpt of the UDO that covers each zoning district. You can look after zoning by using the city's Geographic Information Systems, GIS City Information Viewer, and will cover the ins and outs of doing that in a subsequent video. Remember, if you want to access the design or preservation guidelines referenced in the zoning overlay district descriptions, you can do that by navigating to Planning and Preservation up top, or at the bottom if you're on a mobile device, and accessing either the design districts or historic districts. While all building permits require zoning permits, not all zoning permits require building permits. Confused? Things like fences and walls, signs, or small accessory structures may not require a building permit and inspection, but that doesn't mean that they don't have to adhere to certain standards within the UDO. You can find the applications for these types of zoning permits, as well as a link to the online portal on the Zoning Permits sub-page. Applications, agendas, and other information are updated regularly on our website, so please make sure you're clearing your cash and checking for the most up-to-date documents when you're submitting an application or checking out the UDO or Board and Commission agendas. And don't forget, if you have questions about what requires a zoning permit or anything else zoning related, you can reach out to the Zoning Division during normal business hours at<PHONE_NUMBER> or via email at zoningatcolumbiasc.gov.


Hey, everybody, everybody see all right cool. There's a lot of little things on here and if you miss those you miss the whole talk I'm kidding So I'm doing real quick. I make things. I like crochet. I like well got a knitter up here. That's awesome Talk to you later about that. I love karaoke. So if anybody knows a karaoke bar that's open tonight in Asheville, let me know And we'll do go do that for the party But the slides for this and everything else I do we're out on my website mcdwayne.com Which is 2016 theme and modified beautiful beautiful theme on Twitter. I love Twitter mc. Dwayne out there as well You're sensing a theme there, but I'm also here from behalf of pantheon, but I don't have the time to talk about them We're out there in the hallway come talk to us. We love you Real quick. I just want to know who's in the room just in a sense of like who saw this on the schedule I'm like I'm coming in the room for that talk Wow, that's a good number. That's more than I expected for a lightning talk session Who here is a full-time developer? What you do is develop awesome. You're gonna get a lot out of this talk Who here is a designer? Awesome, you're gonna get a lot out of the stock. Who's a content editor or writer? Okay, that's actually what we're with this talk for so everybody else bear with me But this is a true story this is this is I was doing a project management thing inside of pantheon and having a bad time connected to YouTube apparently and I would have these Spreadsheets but had the document that laid out exactly the way I like to lay out a document and Then I pasted it into Gutenberg and it looked like this I was like what the okay, that's not what I wrote because what I originally wrote was This which you know, it's it's indented. It's you know laid out with numbers there and you know Ordered lists. I like numbered ordered lists and then just it didn't know what to do with any of that and That's just tragic because there's this is a solved problem Because in my research for this someone said that it's much more eloquently than I ever could What I need is a universal format that just allows my content to be transported I want to write once and transport everywhere and Turns out I'm the only person that wanted this because we've had marked down for quite a few years now And that's what this talk is all about So if you go to Wikipedia, it says this and nothing wrong there.  Well, hopefully by the end we'll we'll suss that out Maybe these guys I think it's important to stop and remember that all of the stuff We talk about wasn't made by like Them or another it's made by us. We're the open-source community everyone's in here You never touch code in your life welcome You were part of the movement that is open source and these guys said to each other Hey, there's got to be a better way to do this thing. We're doing that's that's invent a structure that will let us Transform this notation into beautiful exceed xhtml or just html began the right Aaron went on to Be credited as founder of reddit The guy on the left John Gruber is still doing well, but there's no other stuff with his life And this is it. This is pretty much the rest of this talk We're gonna explain what the heck you're looking at here on the right hand of my screen right side of the screen up here That's markdown. That is the notation. So if you already got this and you know what I'm talking about You can go get coffee earlier or whatever you want Otherwise, we're gonna like pretty much walk through this and explain how it got to be the thing on the right and then talk a little about Gutenberg which is Definitely associated with this so markdown is already everywhere. It's on sites like as far as you know like github Who here goes ever seen a reading me page on github. They're like wow that is not styled at all Yeah, there's a lot of github reading me pages like that whoever sees of get me a github reading me page is like that is gorgeous I Honestly like the WPC li one speaking of WPC li and if you go look at the code on this thing What you see Well, if I look at the raw Make it a little bit bigger Well, we got this mix of these weird terminologies and html because For a lot of intents and purposes. Oh No worries. I guess I'm off a little bit there. Okay. Good to know I think I didn't justify all the stuff to the right all right Or to the left But yeah to the browser it doesn't really care Depending on what system you're using but if you look at like a system that will interpret markdown It's the same thing as interpreting html stack exchange They have that little thing over there on the right that says How to use the how to use markdown for their site? Because this is a little bit different than what we saw here They'll be a little different than what we see here and read it and it'll be a little bit different than what we see in Gutenberg Welcome back to those That's because markdown is not a language. It's not like PHP. It's not like JavaScript There's no official body that says this is markdown Use it this way or don't It's an idea that a couple guys generated and said what did be cool if we had the shorthand notation And yes, you can go to daring fireball that net which is where all of the original code is that Gruber and Aaron came up with that said how do you extend it and what this you could do with this formulation? But important thing to realize if you get into this and like hey, this doesn't work here the same way it does over here It might not how they interpreted that might be a little bit different So know where you're writing to know how they're interpreting all of this But it's everywhere on the internet once you start once you see markdown you can't unsee it and it's just how to How to write HTML really really fast including if you're using this thing called Gutenberg because Matt Mullamig was asked what's your favorite part of the upcoming Gutenberg release? This is back at word camp Europe last year and he said the fact you can copy paste markdown Like you didn't think about it. That was like the first thing he said because that's how powerful this is But why is this really powerful? Well, we'll get to that But that's actually get to what I told you we're gonna do and that's more than markdown So if you have a computer in front of you prepare to take some notes because that will be your cheat sheet You'll never have to look up another cheat sheet ever again if you're writing things down actually you have a beautiful setup there Is that transfer? To elect anything electronically or you got to manually? Okay, just a paper notebook paper. No book is actually brilliant You can write you you can write you can write markdown in up on paper This is one of the beautiful things about it But if you want to like a fancy text editor that will like do what I did in that previous slide where I wrote my Markdown on one side, and then I got the output on the other side All these work and there's no one winner here And if you're like, I don't want to download nothing go to Dillinger.io and see if it works today But stack edit.io is the same thing Is there just online versions of this or you can just go type in one half of the screen the other half screen produces This beautiful HTML you can actually copy paste anywhere Or you can just write wherever you got like I write a lot in texture angler. Yes outdated takes texture angler I love it because the way it works. In fact, this is the blog I'm take I'm writing right now for this camp including all my notes And I'm just throwing markdown as I go and it's already going to transform for me when I'm done Before we go any farther before I lose anyone else Does everyone know what these things are because this is this unfamiliar and there is no shame What so ever in the world to say I'm not sure what that is what this HTML thing is anybody You know that's cool, man, because you got to start somewhere the internet's written in this thing called HTML hypertext market language and These are the common elements. So if you see something with like it's bigger at the top that's probably because they used a header and like italics and bold and These are little symbols that if you look at the code and spec'd element It'll show you like how the page was built and what those things actually mean if you don't know HTML go learn it Code Academy has a brilliant free class a lot of things have free classes and it will make you a much better No matter what you're doing. It'll make you much better web Professional to know HTML deeply because at the end of the day, that's all it is the JavaScript and PHP are just rendering HTML elements at the end of the day That's all it really is headers So this is how we actually do it now that you've gotten your editor up and running or a piece of paper in front of you So headers starting out with my favorite piece um one Astrix or not asterisk one hashtag equals an h1 two hashtags equals an h2 three hashtags equals a Four yeah for exactly or it with h1s and h2s There's this weird underline thing that works in some markdown editors and not others But it's the same idea Why? Why are headers important anybody hierarchy, but why is that important? Accessibility that's the answer. I love the best Which what SEO sure that I would rush rather is focus on accessibility and if we get SEO as a byproduct That's amazing. I've been the other way around But yeah, your pages should be laid out semantically h1 should be followed by h2s We should be followed by h3s and so on and so forth Make it easy for a screen reader to pick up and see what your page is if you ever want to be horrified Go to pet like something you wrote two years ago and then turn on a screen reader Horrifying But I'll make it better developer if you do that. Do you want to put italics on something throw an underscore on either side? Oh, I forgot to mention the one earlier that I don't have a slide for Who here uses slack? Yeah, you that accepts markdown. So all of this stuff. I'm showing you here is how you can stylize slack messages Their version of it again learn what they how they actually implemented it like they all of their underscore in their Not our score. I love their a strike through as well, but I don't have a slide for that Bold won't make something bold throw two asterisks on both sides. That's it. That's the entire how you make something bold so if you like opening brackets and typing B, you know do that but You could also like bold italic things just combine them and in all my testing I've never been able to tell the difference between putting the Asterisks on the outside of the underscore or the inside as long as they're both there and it like it properly closes itself. You're fine This is actually the most practical one I have that I use a lot is ordered lists and unordered lists I like lists. It's easy to organize information Who has ever tried to in Gutenberg create a nested list three items deep? Did you succeed? No, I don't know there's a way to succeed with that Tab messes everything up shift tab causes other problems with my machine. I Don't know if it's just my machine. It's just that's how I test on How you do this and and markdown is if you want an unordered list asterisks the thing asterisks the next thing asterisks the next thing if you want to do a nest in there tab over one and keep doing the same thing you want to Nest one more in there another tab over you want to nest in further another tab over if you want to nest again another tab over You can nest infinitely deep with ordered lists. Not that that's a great idea, but you can Ordered list is just numbers one dot two dot three dot whoever many you got same exact principle works now this one You can't like change up the styling. You're just making an ordered list You're not trying to say okay if it's three nested in and we're using Roman numerals But you'll have an ordered list that you can throw styling on later Depending on what your actual presentation layers is gonna do but creating the ordered lists very quick one two three Links who likes opening their angular brackets and saying a href and then filling in the rest It's kind of fun, but no it's it's not Open close square open close parentheses and that is how links work back here is The link for where we went last night with speaker dinner archetype brewing That's the link and that is the words that is a link that will transform into a magical link when I don't have to touch a href ever again You can also do this other really cool thing that works kind of like footnoting So you can say link or text and another square bracket beside it to put a link to where that link will actually end up going You can do this with numbers. It doesn't matter what text you put in there I just had link for a word But any text like the number one then down at the bottom in a square bracket You have a one colon and then the address and So you can create documents that have hundreds of links But you're managing all those links at the bottom of the document not actually going through the document itself Like in reading within parallel paragraphs comes in handy in certain situations Images this is actually one of my favorite pieces because it forces alt text It doesn't force you to fill in the blank, but it's screen like it's obvious you missed it You just do the exact same formula that you do for a link it's just throw a bang in front the exclamation mark and Gives you a link to an image that an image unfurls and that first square bracket That's your alt text That's it So has anyone like completely lost is this like anybody? No, this is HTML if you don't know HTML. Yep. If you don't know HTML sure I get it that says you have to learn that basic because this is a shorthand for that But otherwise like block quotes anybody actually use block quotes in their day-to-day Like a handful of people I find it useful occasionally, but just it's a Greater than or that's less than it's a closed closed angle bracket Code oh, this is the best in slack Throw back ticks back ticks is right above your tilde are on the same keys the tilde underneath the tilde So don't hit shift when you hit tilde and you get a back tick wrap a single tip back tick on either side of your Text and that becomes code Put three back ticks in a row on a line and then starting to line anything you put between that and the next three Number row back ticks become a code block Very very easy to do and in slack this will save you a lot of headache say alright This variable so start throwing back ticks around variable names or snippets of code or file names And it'll pop out on the screen and it'll be a little easier to communicate There's a lot more But it depends on what you are using and what you're trying to do and what that particular Implementation wanted you to do if you go to daring fireball and look like the extensions. They've built There is full like graphing a text-based graphing tools They've built in with like very simple lines and like drawing underscores under underscores in the right order you can make these beautiful diagrams They just like magically make themselves by just putting a couple lines together Logically that very easily and human readable at underline all this it should be human readable There's where we get to Gutenberg So Gutenberg accepts copy paste markdown and it just transforms it on right. That's how I make my blog And also Gutenberg has this wonderful feature that I have loved ever since I first touched it that if you feed it Naked URL that it knows what to do with it just does the thing it's supposed to do and form a block around it So I don't go in and I never have ever actually hit Make a new Gutenberg block for YouTube or Twitter and then through in the URL I just feed it a naked URL and it's like I know what to do with this. Okay, and it's good Which means I can take this Very simple just a bunch of text on a screen and turn it into this Which is a demo post-ab I think this is all on my site if you go look at any of my site Post on my site. This is how they were almost all created. I want to speed through this very last part, but I Keep saying it's copy paste and it is and if you like copy-pasting things go for it. It's awesome. I Don't like copy paste because it's manual When I first gave this talk they advertised it this way because I had told them in a conversation like I do it Because I have to log in my WordPress site anymore and they advertise that so I'd like write the rest of the slides to justify that But it's true. I don't log in my WP admin ever again because I love the WP CLI it lets me do everything I need to do almost everything I need to do like 99% of it because it can do this This is mind-blowingly Amazing and I'm not sure why everyone not doesn't use this to push content around WP CLI lets you move content around from point A to point B. It doesn't matter what point A and point B are Which means if you want to like update content on a server that they're actually taking orders You can build new content off of a staging server without ever touching the database directly do it the proper WordPress way That's very safe, and you'll never blow up your database So I started doing this and I built a proof of concept around this And this is actually how I make my posts is this is I could this is the actual WP CLI command how to make this This post happen pretty complicated. So I built a tool to help me do that It leverages the WP markdown plugin So it will actually transform on right when you push things in instead of copy pasting it will just say all right I accept this file in and I will just transform it in a markdown for you And I love that and I test along the way So this is stupid really complicated enough time to like get into it here But I actually write everything locally like here Store it on github throw it against the dev server Be hat tested on the dev server to make sure everything worked the way I thought it would if that all passes I ship it to my test server then I have visual regression tests to make sure nothing broke upon transport from server to test And if that all works, I push it to production and that sounds overly complicated to publish a blog. You're probably right But this saves me hours a month I'm not kidding like this saves me about an hour every time I post a blog because I make a lot of mistakes And be hat catching my mistakes is way easier to fix let me fix in them by hand But that's all based on this idea of markdown if I didn't have this hyper transportable way to do a thing None of this would be possible And once you start seeing it, it's like regex you will see it everywhere You'll it's just everywhere in the code It's everywhere in mark and in github and you can go to my github and get the code for the thing I just talked about if you really want to post it now This is an example proof of concept, but feel free to use it if you want. I'm not supporting you The truth and there's the rest of those things and there's a lot There's a ton of cheat sheets and tutorials out there find what works for you But seriously it'll take you 20 minutes if you just sit down and like I'm gonna learn this and then you'll never go back It's so much faster great this way. So thanks everybody


from Hollywood, the makers of Hallmark reading cards bring you Linda Darnell in Kathleen Norris's great novel, Mother, on the Hallmark Playhouse. Each week Hallmark will bring you Hollywood's greatest stars in outstanding stories chosen by one of the world's best-known authors. They distinguish novelist Mr. James Hilton. Gentlemen, this is James Hilton. Tonight on our Hallmark Playhouse we present a story which has not only proved extremely popular since its first publication, but is particularly appropriate to the anniversary we celebrate this coming Sunday. Kathleen Norris's novel, Mother, as its title informs us about as simply as a title can, is a warm-hearted glorification of that human relationship which is so close to us all the around, but which on the second Sunday in May each year we bring, as it were, into special focus. There are few writers who do this sort of thing better than Kathleen Norris, who wrote many, many popular novels, of which the one we've chosen for tonight seems to have been the best seller of them all. We're additionally lucky tonight to have as our star that delightful Hollywood actress Linda Darnell. And now Frank Goss, haven't you a word about Hallmark? There are Hallmark cards for every memorable occasion on your calendar, for birthdays, anniversaries, holidays. Yes, for every occasion that calls for remembrance, for a friendly greeting, a word of good cheer, an expression of sympathy. There is a Hallmark card that says just what you want to say, the way you want to say it, and that identifying Hallmark on the back, that says you cared enough to send the very best. A house starring Linda Darnell in Kathleen Norris's novel, Mother. The house was old and the stairs groaned and wheezed with the complaints of the old. The furniture was cheap, blown shabby with the years, and the smell of cooking clung to it. The seven Padgett children and their father and mother lived in the house. Margaret was the oldest. She hated the house, had hated it for quite a long time. Well, you sit here by me, Becky, until the children need for school. Then you and I'll give the baby a bath. Rain.  That doesn't sound like you.   Margaret, I've never felt poor. How could I sit at our dinner table and feel poor? With your father sitting there, and seven young faces smiling back at me. You haven't felt poor. Mother, other women have time to take care of their hands and their hair, to fix up and have people into tea and to go to beauty parlors. Well, those aren't the women with seven children, are they, Margaret? No, you bet those aren't the women with seven children. I'd rather have my children. Margaret, you're going to be late. Mother, is my hair up and straight? Turn around. Oh, no, here, let me fix it, dear. It's a little crooked, Julie. Oh, good heavens, there's a school, but I've got to run. You're going home to lunch in this rain? No, I don't think so, Emily. I thought I'd just fix some tea here in the teacher's room. I think I'll join you. My class certainly acted up today. I guess it's the weather. If you're making a racket this noon, I think... Oh, she's crying. Children! She's not that sweet. Be still, everyone of you. Be still. She's badly sweet. She ran right in front of the car. I wasn't going very fast. She won't let anyone near her. Shh, shh, Dorothy, Dorothy, don't cry like that. Now look, put your arms around my neck. That's a good girl.   Dorothy, you're not hurt. We must get a doctor. Will she run over? No, she does fell against the car. Well, my mother always says that no child can cry. It's badly hurt, but we'll have a doctor come over to be sure. Children, children, I want you all to go back to your classrooms. Dorothy's had a bad scare, but she's going to be all right. And I want you to see how quiet you can be. Emily, may my class go in with yours for a while? Of course, Margaret. Children, children, four in line now. Yes, ma'am. Four in line. That's not hurt. I know, Dorothy, but you're all right now.  Yes, Margaret. And we'll go inside and wait for the doctor. May I come with you? Of course. I'm heavy. I'm Miss Padger. Yes, you are, Dorothy. We'll go right in the principal's office. She isn't here today. This is the door. Would you mind opening it? No, of course not. No, Dorothy. Now, dear, we'll just put you here in this big chair. That was hurt. Yes, we know, Dorothy. Oh, if you'll sit down, Mrs. Mrs. Carbold. Mrs. Carbold? You say that as though you know the name. Well, I imagine that everyone who reads the society section of a newspaper must know your name. I was driving to Western to visit some friends upstate. What is your name, my dear? Margaret Padgett. Well, Margaret, you've managed this whole situation very capably just now.  Do you like teaching, Miss Padgett? No. Not really. You don't. But why don't you come to New York and do something else? I'm afraid that's easier said than done. I don't know anyone in New York. Well, I'm sure you're far too clever and good-looking to waste your life down here. I'll tell you, Miss Padgett, my personal secretary is leaving me to get married. You care for the position we might be able to come to an agreement? If I'd care for it? I have two small daughters. You could help them with their studies when they're home from school. Other than that, it would be secretarial work. I'd accept you to travel with me wherever I went. Of course. Oh, it sounds like a dream. Oh, come in. Hello, Margaret. Oh, come in, Dr. Popp. Oh, Mrs. Carbone. May I present our doctor, Dr. Popp. How do you do, Dr. Popp? I do. Well, Dorothy, what happened to you? I got hurt. Well, now let's have a look at you. Stand up. Mrs. Carbone, if you think I do... Well, put it on a trial basis. But I'm sure you will. Well, then as soon as I can make arrangements here, I'd love to have a position. I can come home often over the weekends, mother, and just think I won't have any living expenses. I can send much more money home. Well, you'll have a fine house now and all the things you've been wanting. Someday you will have a fine house too, mother. Someday when we're all grown up, the Tweeness will be able to give you everything you've ever wanted. I'm afraid you'll never be able to give me then what I have now. But you don't have anything now. That's the trouble. Margaret, don't be too impressed by wealth and position, dear. They're nice to have, but they aren't everything. We've got position, mother. What your people and dad's people were from the best families in this part of the country. But Margaret, you can't get by in this world on the strength of what your grandparents were. You have to rise or fall on the strength of what you are. Oh, Margaret, you worry me sometimes, so... I'll be all right, mother. I hope so, dear. I hope so. You're from my suite at Mrs. Carville's. I have a large bedroom, a sitting room with a fireplace, and a bath all to myself. Everyone is very nice to me. And I love it here. Oh, incidentally, was it father's uncle who was a judge in Quincy? I was talking to Mrs. Carville about it last night. It goes so fast here that sometimes it's hard to keep track of them. We're sailing for Europe next week. The children are to be put in school in Switzerland. And Mrs. Carville and I are going to spend the summer in Italy. Can you imagine? Italy. Italy? Gee, that's a long way from us, isn't it, mother? Yes, son. Italy is a long way, dear mother-in-law. I'm riding to you in an Italian garden. I wish you could see it. Just beyond the garden walls, the cliffs slide down to a blue Italian sea, and now and then you can hear the voices of the fishermen. We've been here a month now, and I've met someone. His name is John Tennyson. He's an American professor over here on a lecture tour. He's tall, and he has brown eyes, and a kind of a smile that makes you forget what he's saying. Margaret. Oh, he's coming now. More later. Love, Margaret. Just a short letter home. Am I interrupting? Oh, of course not. Sit down. Someday I'm going to meet that family of yours. Well, they live quite a ways from New York, in a little town called Weston. Weston? Do you know the town? I've been through there a million times. My aunt Pamela lives about 30 miles away. She raised me, you know. I want her to meet you.  Pamela, I'd love to meet her. The sun's going down. Have you got time now for a walk down to the shore? Plenty of time. Well, come on. Margaret! Is something wrong, Mrs. Carver? Victoria, the school just phone me. She's ill. I'm going to get her and fly home immediately. I hope it isn't anything serious. Well, the school says it isn't, but I'm going to get her home to her own doctor. Will you find out about the planes, Margaret? Oh, yes, of course. I'll go with you. Perhaps I can help. I'm going down to the village to pick up some things I ordered. I won't be long. I'm going to see the Americans quickly, doesn't it? Someone sticks a pin in it, and there it goes. I'd hoped we were going to be here all summer. So did I. I'm going to miss Italy.  But I'll find you as soon as I get back. I'm coming to Western and meet that family of yours. But I'll be at Bar Harbor with Mrs. Carver. Then I'll pick you up and drive you to Western. Why are you so anxious to meet my family, John? Because at last I've met you. James Hilton will return to present the second act of Kathleen Norris' novel, Mother, starring Linda Darnell. In the 17th century, the brilliant philosopher Pascal told of a common experience in this simple but enduring sentence. Kind words produce their own images in men's souls. What was true in Pascal's 17th century is certainly no less true today. We all know how a kind word can affect our moods, can lighten sadness, double our gladness, or make a happy occasion happier still. Those who make hallmark greeting cards appreciate this effective power of words, appreciate it so well that the words in a hallmark card accurately reflect your own feelings. And the same skill that perfects the choice of words in a hallmark card perfects it in every detail of design, color, and craftsmanship. You'll find this true, for example, in the wide and varied selection of hallmark cards for Mother's Day this coming Sunday. And if you've put it off so far, you'll want to stop in tomorrow at the Friendly Store where you'll buy your hallmark cards for your Mother's Day remembrance. Now, through the courtesy of RKO Radio Pictures Incorporated, producers of Adventure and Baltimore, starring Robert Young, Shirley Temple, and John Egar, the hallmark playhouse brings you the second act of Kathleen Norris' famous novel, Mother, starring Linda Darnell. Mrs. Carbold flew home with the children. Victoria recovered almost at once, but it was late August before Margaret managed things so that she could get home for a visit. She didn't tell anyone she was coming, and the front part of the house was empty when she walked in, except for the flies that had come into the holes in the front screen. She looked around hopelessly. The springs were still broken in the sofa. The piano was still littered with books and magazines. Everything was just the same. She found her mother in the kitchen. My baby! My girl, Margaret! What are you doing here? Why didn't you let us know? Oh, how good it is to see you! Hello, Mother, darling. Why didn't you tell us you were coming? Oh, I wanted to surprise you. Mother, where's Margaret? Margaret! Oh, Margaret, when did you get here? Just a few minutes ago. Oh, you look wonderful. Gee, I'm glad to see you. Here, this wire is for you. Oh, it must be from Mrs. Carbold. I hope she doesn't want you to come right back. No, it's from John. John? John Tennyson, remember? I wrote you about him. He says he's just back in the States, and Mrs. Carbold wrote him that I was here, and he wants to drive over tomorrow for the day. Well, that's lovely. I bought a roast of beef, isn't that fortunate? Oh, I don't think I'd better let him come, Mother. I mean, there's so many of us, and there's such confusion on Sundays. I'll warn that some other time might be better. Oh, he's more than welcome, Margaret. Mother, can't you see? Margaret doesn't want him to come here. Oh. Well, whatever you think is best, Margaret, maybe it would be more pleasant for him later in the year. In October, perhaps, when the leaves turn white, I'll warn right away. Very much, Dad. I'm sorry, Mother couldn't come, Mother. Mother always feels she has to fuss with us for the Sunday dinner. So there's a hot day. Yes, it's another scorcher. Look, Chad and Becker out in the sprinkler in their bathing suits. I'd like to join them myself. Margaret, who's that man on the front porch? There is someone sitting there, isn't there? Oh, no. I said I'm alive. Careful, don't catch a dress on the gate. I'd like to see you. I didn't get any answer to my wire, so I assumed it was all right to come. Oh, Juliet, may I present Mr. Tennyson? Hello, Mr. Tennyson. How do you do? Father, Mr. Tennyson. My father, John. Oh, are you a young man? How do you do, sir?  Pass your plate. Mrs. Tennyson, would you buy passing-heads plate? Oh, of course not. No, sir, the old man isn't needed these days. Most of you young fellas are starting out at putting in the same money I'm getting after 25 years. John isn't in a bank, Father. Well, he deploys to any profession. Was that a box of candy you brought? Rebecca, Rebecca. I don't want to have to ask you to leave the table. I was just inquiring. Yes, as a matter of fact, it is a box of candy. Candy? Oh, we're going to open it. Ted. I'm so sorry, John. They really know better. We don't get much candy. Ted. We don't. You know how it is, Mr. Tennyson. To children, sometimes it seems like a long time between candy. I suppose it does. I'll get the ice cream. That's the idea, Mother. That'll be a nice treat. You know, Mother can make ice cream so much cheaper than you can buy it, and there's no comparison in the flavor. In the summer we buy cheaper meat, and then we can have ice cream more often. You appreciate the ice cream when you get it, don't you, son? You bet. Aren't you gonna open the candy? Now, Rebecca, I don't want to hear any more about that candy. Mother, please excuse me for a moment. I've got a headache. If only you hadn't come down here today. If only you'd gotten my wire. I didn't want you to come down here, the dust and the heat and the flies and the kids. But you wanted to know about my background. Now you know. What are you talking about? I'm talking about you and what you think. Do you want to know what I was thinking? I was thinking that life at Mrs. Carbolts must seem very dull and uninspired after all you've had here in Weston. After all, I've had here... A wonderful, mellow old house like that that's been lived in. A warm, friendly family. You can say that after that lunch? I hope your family didn't think I was an awful dope. I hardly opened my mouth, but I was having such fun listening to those kids. Oh, but they... they behaved so badly. Well, you can't expect them to behave instinctively like adults. You know, that only comes with time.  Look, the sun is going down. What does it remind you of? A garden in Italy. Yes. You know, I thought it was... because it was Italy that the garden seemed so particularly beautiful. But it's the same way today. I think it's the most beautiful day I've seen in my whole life. All afternoon, I've been trying to make up a speech, but I haven't gotten very far with it. And now the day's almost gone. And all I can do is tell you, Margaret, I love you. Will you marry me? I saw John to the train walking and thinking. It was so nice tonight. I thought I'd sit out here for a while. Mother, one said about you. John said that you were one of the most beautiful women he'd ever seen. Well, can't sit there. You know, Mother, I'm afraid I've never felt much about it until tonight, but he's right. You are beautiful. You don't need beauty parlors or fancy clothes. It shines right through you. My dear. My dear. And when I think of all you've given up for us. Margaret, I didn't give up anything for you. Every woman chooses some means of expression, whether it's music or painting or all business. I found my expression in my children. My own sense of joy and accomplishment has come in watching all of you grow up. In doing what I could to help you find yourselves. In loving you. Oh, Mother, I hope I can be all that to my children. Is this funny how you can change overnight? I don't want any of the things now I wanted yesterday. There weren't any roots to the things I wanted yesterday. You're going to marry Charles? Yes. Yes, in June or July when he completes his lecture tour. And, Mother, I'm not going back to Mrs. Carbould. I want to come back here and take my class again. I want to be close to the family and I want to be close to you. Oh, my child. My child. I want to learn the things you know about living. And I want so much for people to say of me. She is her mother's daughter. Welcome home, my daughter. Welcome home. Alton and Linda Darnell return. I'd like to remind you that this coming Sunday is Mother's Day, a day in which we should not fail to tell our mothers how much they mean to us. So don't let the day go by without telling your mother what's in your heart and mind, whether she's near or far away. And you'll find your feelings perfectly expressed in a hallmark card. You might delight her, for example, with the unique new hallmark card that opens up into a golden crown. It carries these words. Do just exactly as you please. Have everything your way. And here's a crown that you can wear for you, our queen, today. There are hallmark cards that will be just right. Whatever you desire. Cards of lovely color and beautiful design with words of affection and sincerity and heartfelt love. So stop in tomorrow or Saturday at the friendly store where you buy your hallmark cards. You can make your gift to Mother doubly memorable by tucking your hallmark card inside. You know she will cherish your remembrance. Here again is James Hilton. Thank you, Linda Darnell. One of the rewards of giving a fine performance must be knowing that it has pleased so many people. Tonight, Miss Darnell, you have earned that reward. You've not only pleased us very much, but I know you've pleased millions of others all around the country. Thank you, Mr. Hilton. And thanks to Werner Felton, who so beautifully played Mother. You know it is rewarding to know that you've pleased an audience. And for the same reasoning, your hallmark playhouse must have won a lot of friends, like your hallmark cards. We certainly hope so, because the hallmark tradition is founded on friendship. And we think we shall hold to that tradition again next week when we shall present James Thurber's great baseball story and look it up, starring William Crawley. And the following week, Sir Arthur Pinero's The Enchanted Cottage, starring Richard Widmark. And following that, Kenyon Nicholson's play The Barker, starring Charles Bickford. Our hallmark playhouse is every Thursday. Our director-producer is D. Engelbach. Our music is composed and conducted by Lynn Murray, and our script tonight was adapted by Jean Holloway. Until next Thursday then, this is James Hilton saying good night. Linda Darnell and Mr. Hilton, may I remind you and all of our listeners that Sunday is Mother's Day, there's a fine selection of appropriate Mother's Day cards for every taste and every budget. Now on display at the friendly store where you buy your hallmark cards. Look for hallmark cards that are so lonely in stores that have been carefully selected to give you expert and friendly service. Remember, hallmark cards when you will carry enough to send the very best. Linda Darnell appeared through the courtesy of a century fox producers of It Happens Every Spring. This is Frank Goss saying good night to you all and inviting you next Thursday and every Thursday to tune in one half hour earlier and listen to the adventures of KC, crime photographer, followed by the hallmark playhouse. This will be a broadcasting system. This is KMBC, Kansas City, Missouri.


It is now time for Question Period, the leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition. Mr. Speaker, my question is for the acting Premier. Today I was saddened to read about the passing of Sharon Shomblay. She recently lost her battle with cancer. And as the London Free Press put it, her death came after long bureaucratic delays in approving a potentially life-saving bone marrow transport in Buffalo, New York. This is after Ontario did not have the capacity to meet the demand for transplants. As Ms. Shomblay's daughter said, it was a matter of a week and she would have had a fighting shot. Mr. Speaker, Ms. Shomblay deserved that fighting shot. It's too late for Ms. Shomblay, but will this government promise that not one more life will be lost because of bureaucratic red tape and delays waiting for transplants? Thank you. Well, first of all, Mr. Speaker, let me express my sincere condolences to the family of Ms. Shomblay. It's, Mr. Speaker, totally unacceptable to me that patients in this province should have to wait unacceptably long times for life-saving procedures such as stem cell transplants. And it was regrettably because of situations like the one experienced by this family that I was alerted to some of the challenges that we have in this province with regards to stem cell transplants. And we, of course, announced additional funding in our budget to increase the capacity. We have already made some progress in reducing wait times. We've invested up to $100 million for out-of-country care. I know that this is too late for this family and this remarkable individual, Mr. Speaker. Thank you. Supplementary? Mr. Speaker, back to the acting premier. The government may say it's unacceptable, but this just happened. It just happened. This is your health ministry. This is your government's responsibility. I learned that by the time the Buffalo transplant was approved by government officials and final tests were done, Ms. Shomblay's cancer, which was in remission, had returned, meaning the transplant was canceled. It was decided the transplant was necessary, but it took 130 days to have the transplant approved. 130 days for a medically necessary transplant. Mr. Speaker, here is the question that Ms. Shomblay's daughter asked. And she asked to the London media, and I'm going to raise it here today to the government. She asked, you wouldn't make somebody with a gunshot wound wait for surgery. Why are people waiting for transplants? Why does Ontario not have the capacity to treat its own patients? Thank you. So, Mr. Speaker, as I mentioned, we're investing an additional $30 million in increasing the capacity across the province. We're strengthening the network, the three sites across this province in Hamilton and Toronto and Ottawa that provide that support. A $100 million fund for out-of-country. We've recently, in fact, changed the guidelines where those even in who have relapsed with their cancer will be eligible for both in-province and out-of-province care. We're funding for a caretaker, rather a caregiver, Mr. Speaker, out-of-country to be provided alongside the transplant support. We've increased our funding for stem cell transplants in this province allogenic by some 600% over the last number of years. The capacity at locations like Mount Sinai has gone up by 25% in the last year. We're making other changes to make sure that this life-saving procedure is available, Mr. Speaker. Final supplementary. Mr. Speaker, back to the acting Premier. This happened in your city. Mr. Speaker, this happened in London. It's happening across Ontario. And the government can say all their talking points they like. It's not good enough. This happened in Ontario. And Ms. Chamblet's daughter Amanda said things need to change. The status quo doesn't work in Ontario. Mr. Speaker, things absolutely have to change. And saying what you did 15 years ago or 10 years ago or five years ago isn't good enough. A life was at risk here. We don't need focus groups. We don't need panels or more bureaucracy. We need investment in patients. We need action before one more life is lost. So Mr. Speaker, what will the government do to ensure another family doesn't have to go through what the Chamblet family had to endure? Thank you. Well, Mr. Speaker, it is because I see this as unacceptable that we have acted. We acted in the budget with the $30 million. We're adding a fourth site for stem cell transplant here in Toronto at Sunnybrook Hospital, Mr. Speaker. We are changing the rules surrounding out-of-country care as well and the options available for individuals on wait lists in this province. But the Leader of the Opposition needs to acknowledge and know as well that this is a procedure that over recent years has become available and an option for many, many more people than previously it would have been available for. That's not an excuse for inaction, Mr. Speaker. I've created a task force of clinical experts to do everything humanly possible to continue to reduce those wait times to make sure that out-of-country is a viable option and provide the services that individuals in this province do deserve, Mr. Speaker. Thank you. New question? The Leader of the Opposition. Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Acting Premier. Because this government has been signing contracts for power that we don't need, Ontario has lost over $3.5 billion in power to other jurisdictions. We are subsidizing New York and Michigan who gladly take our power for pennies on the dollar. When did Ontario's energy minister become the Economic Development Minister for New York State? When did the Premier become the Economic Development Minister for Michigan? Because that's the effect of this government's disastrous energy crises. Why should Ontario's businesses and families be subsidizing our competition in New York and Michigan? Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the question from the Leader of the Opposition. Of course that party was in power for a number of years, Mr. Speaker. And the Minister of Energy... Order. Minister. Speaker, and the Minister of Energy of the Day was the... The member from the PM... Minister? I have a list in my head and I'm going to go through it. If you want to keep adding your name, carry on. The member from Simcoe Gray come to order. The member from Carlton come to order. The member from the Leeds Grant will come to order and the Deputy House Leader come to order. Minister? And in December 11, 2001, the then Minister of Energy said with respect to import, export of power, any power we sell to the U.S. to go back to Manitoba or power they sell to us is surplus power. It's opportunity power. It is pure profit in terms of its power that otherwise... I'm going to be insistent and if it continues to happen, if I hear members' names other than their writing or their title, I'll start putting you on the list. It stops. Raise the level of respect, please. You have one wrap-up sentence. Mr. Speaker, there's a trade in electricity among jurisdictions. The ISO will confirm that last year we made a net profit of $350 million. Thank you, Minister of Tourism, Culture, and Sport. Come to order. Oh, and if you'd like to try it again, you'll get sent a second time. Supplementary. Mr. Speaker, again to the acting Premier, and although it's humorous to hear the Minister of Energy try to explain why he is subsidizing businesses in New York and Michigan at the expense of Ontario, the reality is the Premier is in Timmons today. And the Premier in Timmons is going to get an earful from municipal leaders who passed a resolution saying that this government's energy policies are disastrous on Northern Ontario. There is no doubt she is hearing story after story about how out-of-control hydro rates have hurt businesses and families in North Ontario. Mr. Speaker, I'm sure she will hear many people tell her how they were in disbelief, utter disbelief, when the Minister of Finance had the dossier to say that hydro rates were going down. Mr. Speaker, will the government be making an announcement today in Timmons that hydro rates will be some relief for struggling Northern communities, or is today's trip simply another photo op? Mr. Speaker, the level of understanding of the electricity sector by the leader of the opposition leads a lot to be desired, Mr. Speaker. Little does he know, Mr. Speaker, that for industrial rates... Finish, please. Mr. Speaker, little does he know that the electricity rates for industrial customers in Northern Ontario are among the lowest in North America, Mr. Speaker. In fact, the rates are among the lowest... I'll do this all day. The member from the Pean-Carlton Second Time, leader of the opposition. Thank you. Mr. Speaker, I was in Timmons several weeks ago to announce a program under the IEI program where the benefit went to two mining companies, Mr. Speaker, where they saved millions of dollars by participating in the IEI program. And, Mr. Speaker, the CEO of one of those was very, very congratulatory to our energy policies in Northern Ontario, Mr. Speaker. Thank you. Final supplementary, the member from Latter-Foreign Athletics in Erickton. Again, to the Minister of Energy. I know it's highly unlikely the minister will answer my question, but I do expect his response to be truthful and honest. As a constituent of mine, the coast lakes have a cottage which is unused in the winter. Yet, on April 3rd, 7th, and 13th this year, they received three different hydro bills. One was for $112 for no power. One was for $116 for no power used. Both were estimates. However, their final bill was their actual bill, and they used 20 cents of electricity, but the total cost had now jumped to $137. Three different bills, three different costs. Speaker, will the minister tell us which other province charges $137 to deliver 20 cents of electricity and takes three pines to get it right? Before I turn to the minister, the minister of natural resources and forestry will come to order. I have a good memory. Finish, please. Mr. Speaker. The member from Renford and Nipissing Pembroke come to order. You can count all you want. I can jump to a warning. I can jump to naming, too. It's my call, not yours. Minister Speaker, I will be the first to acknowledge that out of 4.6 million customers, Mr. Speaker, who are on the smart meters and who are metered and received bills in that manner, Mr. Speaker. There will be some cases, Mr. Speaker, where there are errors. But the member should know, Mr. Speaker, that Hydro One has a dedicated telephone line for members of provincial parliament to call with specific questions where they have bills that appear to be not in accordance with what you might expect, Mr. Speaker. We also have a new ombudsman, Mr. Speaker, who is available. But most important, Mr. Speaker, the customer complaint service has improved dramatically at Hydro One, Mr. Speaker. The stats will show you 90% of them. New question. The member from Ramelechor, multiple. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. My question is to the Acting Premier. As we all know, Ontario is growing. There are nearly 14 million people that call Ontario home. And in fact, there's 100,000 more people that live in Ontario today than the same time last year. Peel is a perfect example of growth. We have record growth in Peel. However, funding across Ontario is not keeping up with inflation, nor is it keeping up with population growth. So, will the government do the right thing and ensure that hospital funding keeps up with both population growth as well as inflation? Thank you, Deputy Premier. Minister of Health, long-term care. Well, Mr. Speaker, I think the third party knows by now that we've increased our health care budget, Mr. Speaker, by approximately 2% this year in the recently passed budget. And of that, nearly a third, $345 million. In fact, the member from Renfrew, just I've said it obviously enough times that it has sunk in that more than 2% investment in our hospitals on the operating side, which is quite separate, of course, from the capital investments that $12 billion of the next 10 years, the $50 million of additional monies that we put into the renovations and the maintenance that are required by our hospitals each and every year. But $345 million, a 2.1% increase in the line item, which will do a lot of things for hospitals, not just base funding, but also continue to reduce those wait times, those wait times that we're among the best in Canada for. Dr. Montrini. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Listen, communities across Ontario are growing, and funding isn't keeping up with that growth. On top of that, costs they face are growing up, from medication to hydro bills. Those are growing up with inflation, and funding is not keeping up with that. When costs go up and funding doesn't, that's a cut. The government can deny it all they want, but the people see it when they go to hospitals and see that they're waiting longer for services. They see it when they're seeing services cut out of their communities. The government can deny it all they want, but, Mr. Speaker, can they take the first step towards fixing this problem and admit that they're cutting services, they're cutting hospital services in Ontario? Yes, sir. Well, Mr. Speaker, we aren't cutting services, unlike the NDP when they were in government, who closed 24% of all the acute hospital beds in the province, and closing 13% of all the mental health beds. We're not doing that. We are maintaining and in fact improving services, and in fact the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, or ISIS, reviewed what has resulted because of our funding changes, our focus on quality, our health system funding reform, and they found indeed that the number of patients being seen have increased, but they're seeing the same or improved outcomes. They're seeing that their readmission rates are remaining the same, but they're seeing importantly that things like urinary tract infections, pressure source, falls and pneumonia, those important things that can happen in hospitals, and in fact we've seen improvements since the rates of those important indicators are going down, Mr. Speaker. Thank you. Final supplementary. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. There's something very strange going on with the Liberals and I think it requires a translator, so I'm going to try to do my best part to translate for them. So optimizing an asset translates to selling off an asset. Open and transparent government, that's another good one, that actually translates to making legislation in secret and deleting government records. The newest one though is the best one, transformation in healthcare actually translates to firing nurses and cutting services in healthcare. So that's the codebook, that's a translation for the actual things that are going on. Will the government think that their plan for hospitals in Ontario just means less care for patients? Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Well, talk about SPIN, Mr. Speaker. So the budget for the William Osler Hospital in Brampton this year is going up by an additional $8.2 million, Mr. Speaker. And a little bit further to the West Hamilton Health Sciences, their budget is going up by $10.4 million. And all across the province, Mr. Speaker, as a result of a budget which they voted against, which resulted in a billion more dollars being spent on healthcare and a third of that being spent specifically on our hospital operating budgets, they voted against that, but we're beginning to see the impact, the positive impact and they don't have to again believe the government when we say the facts about 3,000 more nurses employed this year rather last year, an additional almost 8,000 nurses employed in our hospital sector over the last five years. That's the College of Nurses of Ontario that are stating that fact, Mr. Speaker. Thank you. New question? Member from Brambley, Gordon Malkin. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. This question is to the Acting Premier again. So the Minister brought up healthcare in London. Let's talk about London. St. Joseph Healthcare in London saw its budget cut by $8.5 million. Over the last four years, because of inflation, the costs have gone up by $7 million a year. So that means over four years, they've had to cut $36.5 million from hospital care in London. Wow. Next year, they're going to face a $17 million gap in funding. They're being forced to cut 60 positions and 12 beds. That announcement came after the Liberal budget. Will the government stop cutting health services in London and across the province? Thank you. Mr. Speaker, I'm proud of the work that is being done in London, including at the London Health Sciences Centre. The member from London has just reminded me of St. Joseph as well. So London Health Sciences will be seeing this year an increase of $8.5 million to their budget. And St. Joseph this year will see an increase in their operating budget of $2.3 million. So perhaps the member opposite needs to actually go and talk to the administration of that hospital and talk to the CFOs to have an understanding of how we're continuing to invest in our hospitals, whether that's for reducing the wait times in important facilities like the London Health Sciences or at St. Joseph. The funding to London has increased since we have come into office, Mr. Speaker. London Health Sciences a 69% increase in their budget since 2003. Well, that's very interesting, Mr. Speaker. We've spoken to and we've heard from London Health Sciences weeks after the Liberal budget, London Health Sciences said they would have to cut $20 million from their budget. So that just doesn't add up. This is in the hometown of the Deputy Premier. The Deputy Premier, the head of the Treasury Board who makes the funding decision in Ontario is cutting hospital care in London. It's being cut at London Health Sciences. It's being cut at St. Joseph's.  Will the government stop cutting health care and health services in London and across Ontario? Thank you. Well, $1 billion more into our health care system and the third party voted against that increase. $345 million more in our hospitals and the NDP party voted against that. And of course, in their last election campaign, Mr. Speaker, they actually wanted to cut an additional $600 million from health care and education. And Mr. Speaker, I just can't understand how on a platform like that, when we know that would have resulted in thousands of cuts, in drastic draconian cuts to health care across this province, it really would have taken us back to the mid-1990s when they closed all those hospital beds, when they fired 3,000 registered nurses, Mr. Speaker, when they closed the mental health beds, when they cut funding to hospitals and cut funding to health care. We don't want to go back to that era, Mr. Speaker. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I don't think the people of Ontario appreciate when we talk about cuts that are impacted them today, talking about what happened 25 years ago. But it's fine. If you think that's going to help, if you think that's going to help your case, so be it. The government's cuts have real impacts. People in London are being treated in hospital conference rooms. People have had to sleep on the ER floor. When hospital funding doesn't keep up, this is what happens. Will the government acknowledge that they're cutting services, that they're cutting health care in this province and admit first of all to this cut and then stop doing this and then stop cutting health care services in our province? Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We are so deeply committed to improving the quality of health care for Ontarians and the outcomes, the positive outcomes that they've come to expect out of the health care system. We're number one in almost every single indicator for wait times, the shortest wait times across the country, Mr. Speaker. We have accommodated an increasing population, but we're still seeing those positive outcomes, the reductions in readmission rates, the reductions in the infections and things like falls and pneumonia, those important elements to a patient's experience in the hospital environment, those are decreasing. The outcomes are what we should be focused on and on so many measures across the province, we're seeing improvements. We're seeing reductions in the average length of stay for both medical and surgical admissions. We're seeing that partly because we're moving more care out into the community, into home care, into community care, and people, quite frankly, would prefer to have it. Any questions? Mr. Speaker, my question is to the minister of the environment this morning. A few weeks ago at his economic club speech, the minister continued to make uninformed comments about Ontario's future. He stated that he wants to remove natural gas from all Ontario homes and businesses, even though it will help reduce skyrocketing and hydrate for those customers. The industry and constituents are wondering if the minister truly thinks there's no place for natural gas in Ontario's homes and businesses. Mr. Speaker, why does the minister want to cancel plans to expand natural gas access to Ontario? Thanks, Mr. Speaker. As the member knows, I am sure 35% of our missions come from transportation from vehicles, 20% of our missions come from buildings, and that's entirely natural gas, Mr. Speaker. So we are working with Enbridge, with Union Gas, with the sector, the geothermal sector, to improve the efficiency and where we have better and more affordable technologies for Ontario's switch those out. I met with Al Monaco, the president of Enbridge, for over an hour. They are very engaged in recognizing that home heating in the future is going to have to come from sources other than natural gas. But natural gas is very important to rural Ontario for many industrial and commercial farm uses and we have no intention of abandoning or reducing those investments, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. He did mention about the greenhouse gases and so he could pick up my bill on the bill 76 on the reduction of greenhouse gases if he wanted to. Mr. Speaker, the premier put natural gas expansion in the mandate letters for the ministers of economic development and also energy. She put up 230 million grants and loans for natural gas expansion in her budget. But the minister of the environment seems to not agree that natural gas should be in homes or businesses in southwestern Ontario, or all of Ontario as far as that goes. Mr. Speaker, will the minister tell us who is wrong? Him or the premier? Mr. Speaker, this is a commitment that I and all of my colleagues in government support and we do not see any contradiction at all between reducing greenhouse gas emissions. And a matter of fact, the member knows to be because you and I have spoken personally about this and I very much support your bill. Several occasions offered my personal support. So I am surprised to hear that you would character the many conversations that you and I have had personally about supporting your bill as somehow a lack of support. I'm not sure what you thought the content of that conversation was about. The third time addressed the chair. I apologize, Mr. Speaker. So this isn't a mutually exclusive thing. In Toronto where I live, my building and others in my neighborhood don't need to be running on natural gas. So those of us in the city can do things that folks in western Ontario can't do. And when you have an all of Ontario Ontario first approach, you allow us to solve these problems. I don't need to drive a mini-vent. Thank you. Some of my friends in the suburbs. Thank you. New question. The member from Hamilton Mountain. Thank you, Speaker. My question is to the Deputy Premier. Organizations like Quick Start who were first supportive of the new autism plan have now come out sounding the alarms. From the media release a quote, Quick Start does not support the removal of any child from intensive therapy weightless. These children and their parents have been waiting for intensive therapy and they should receive it. End quote. It's looking more and more like the only people not in opposition to this plan are the Liberals. Experts, teachers, schools, parents, advocacy organizations, the provincial advocate, newspaper editorial boards and children themselves. Deputy Premier, will you do the right thing? Will you ensure that kids over five are not removed from the IBI waitlist? Thank you. Mr. Children and your services. Thank you, Speaker. I think there are some things we can agree on in all of our conversations this side of the house or opposite in meeting with the autism parent groups, the autism coalition on TABA, the behavior analyst group, parents and so on and yes, the youth themselves. This is very important. I think everyone agrees on some things and they are as follow speaker that it's unacceptable to leave these children on waitlist for years. It's unacceptable for them not to be in service and that's exactly why we're investing $333 million on top of the $190 million a year for this program and creating 16,000 new spaces speaker. It is important. We listen to all the voices. The Premier has been doing that. I've been doing it. Many members of this house have been doing that and we appreciate the impact. I look forward to successful implementation where all families feel well supported and individual children's needs are met. Supplementary. To the Deputy Premier, families are tired of hearing from the Premier and the Minister saying that this new plan or that it's either this new plan or kids are going to be forced to wait on the waitlist. That's simply not true. This is about priorities. With a proper investment, this government could give all kids access to the intensive services they need. It's time to make this about children and not just about waitlist. It's time for this government to do the right thing. Municipalities have started passing resolutions urging this government to do the right thing and not force children over five off the IBI list. Will the Deputy Premier listen? Will she do the right thing? Please, don't remove these kids from the therapy that they so desperately need. Thank you. I think another thing we can agree on it is the clinicians and the doctors and the experts that make decisions about the right kind of treatment for each individual child. So, children who are currently receiving IBI will continue to receive IBI. They will be assessed at their six month window as they always are and at that point the experts decide, the clinicians decide on the intensity of the services going forward. So, depending on where that child is in the spectrum they will get the intensity of the service they need. They may need to continue on IBI for a while. They may transition to the new expanded program speaker but the decision is guided by experts and those families can and will be supported by the service providers and my minister. Thank you. New question. The member from each of these nice try. Well, thank you speaker. My question is to the minister of research and innovation. So, speaker, investing in research excellence and supporting an innovative knowledge-based economy are key activities to supporting discoveries that bring tangible benefits to Ontarians and position Ontario as a leader in research commercialization and merely surviving in this competitive global economies the priority we place on knowledge, creativity and innovation and how we bring these innovations to market. And I know the residents of beaches East York would appreciate hearing more about what this government is doing to support research and innovation Ontario. So, speaker, would the minister please inform the members of the House and cite recent examples that demonstrate how Ontario is supporting the many opportunities in this area of technology and entrepreneurship bringing Ontario into the 21st century. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to thank the member from beaches East York for that question. Mr. Speaker, this government has and always will be dedicated to making sure that our province of Ontario is a global leader in research and innovation. On Monday, Premier Bennett spoke at the annual discovery conference in Toronto and I had the opportunity to address about 3,000 delegates coming from all over Ontario on Tuesday. Mr. Speaker, our government knows that if you want to commercialize good ideas we need to offer a flexible network support to our start-up companies and through innovation continuum. And that's what we are doing, Mr. Speaker, through the world-class post-secondary education system, through support to organizations like the Ontario Centre of Excellence and by instilling culture of innovation at all levels of our economy. Mr. Speaker, I'm very proud of the Ontario Centre of Excellence. They have put our province of Ontario and the city of Toronto on the map. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Well, thank you, Speaker, and thank you to the Minister of Research Innovation for that answer and for the great work Speaker that he is doing to foster innovation in Ontario. And I know that Ontario continues to support good jobs and the emergencies. That's enough. Finish, please. And I know that Ontario continues to support good job-based economy. And, for example, Speaker, we are now the top performing province in Canada when it comes to innovation, commercialization, and we are fifth globally. We feature an increasingly robust risk capital market that is such a critical part of growing early-stage companies into high-growth export-oriented firms. And we already are second to the Silicon Valley in the number of information and communications technology jobs and companies. Speaker, the people of beaches of Ontario continue to do cutting-edge strategic programs. So, with the Minister addressing some of the most recent programs, our government has introduced to achieve this goal. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Again, I want to thank the member for that question. Mr. Speaker, I want to assure the House that despite our progress in various fronts in research and innovation and commercialization of research, we know that there is so much work to do to take advantage of the economy. Mr. Speaker, we just launched a $400 million business growth initiative as part of our 2016 budget. That will help our small disruptive companies scale up and grow, accelerate our investments to start innovation-driven economy, and modernize our regulatory system to make it smarter and to cut needless red tape. Mr. Speaker, our green investment funds in the amount of $325 million down payment on the promises cap and trade program thanks to the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, which will help us tackle climate change and support good jobs and grow our economy. Mr. Speaker, our government is committed to helping our innovation. Thank you. New question? The member from here on this. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are in such a hurry to take more money out of the pockets of Ontario businesses and taxpayers that they haven't even considered the economic impact of the reckless cap and tax scheme. For nearly a year, Speaker, the Ontario Chamber of Commerce has been pleading with the government to release its economic analysis. But the Minister refuses to disclose any details whatsoever. The only information we have is from a candid moment with the Minister last month when he said the cap and tax scheme is and I quote, going to cost the private sector. Speaker, will the Minister listen to the Ontario Chamber of Commerce and reveal how much this scheme is going to cost business? Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. In the business sector, we will see billions of dollars going into every single heavy industrial sector. We have been working with Mr. Allen today. We have already started investing. We have a great program well supported by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce and the Canadian manufacturers and exporters called the Smart Green Program which is already funded in which they are taking a leadership role in preparing industry and small business for a low-carbon economy. We have been meeting and consulting for two years almost on a weekly basis with business and industry. Mr. O'Day puts in his letter our questions that need to be answered and they will be answered in the action plan in a few weeks and he raises the issue of offsets. As you know, as members know, we have a joint procurement right now with Quebec, setting the Quebec on terms of offset protocol of which Mr. O'Day and others will be very involved in writing, Mr. Speaker. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Again to the Minister, it's ridiculous to think the Minister has no clue how much the Liberals reckless cap and tax scheme is going to cost Ontario businesses. What's worse, Speaker, is the Minister routinely admits this tax scheme will lead to even more job losses. Of course, once again, he won't say how much. But Ontario businesses they want to know the truth and that truth is this tax scheme will hurt our economy and that's why the Ontario Chamber of Commerce has called for the government to pause button. Speaker, in the interest of protecting our economy, will the Minister agree to the request made by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce to delay the start date for the cap and trade program until 2018? Very good. Thank you. Thank you, Minister. Thanks, Mr. Speaker. Further delays or delays period would mean Ontario businesses would be much higher, Mr. Speaker. But let's just pause for a second because what is the opposition proposing, Mr. Speaker? They are suggesting to us as the government that it should be revenue neutral which would mean that there would be absolutely zero programs and zero funding to manage a transition to a low carbon economy. There would also be capital outflow because we would not be able to leverage private sector dollars yet they have no answer to it. And the most troubling part of their position is that they want to delink and not link with California and Quebec which means that the price of carbon per ton in Ontario would be astronomical and explosive and unaffordable for business, Mr. Speaker. And they have no numbers backing up any of these but we have been giving lots of numbers and when the action plan comes out in a few weeks, a little patience you'll see all of the modeling we need to see on this Mr. Speaker and we will continue to work. Mr. Odette and our friends there. Thank you. New question the member from Toronto Danforth. Thank you, Speaker. Speaker through you to the Deputy Premier. The NDP has long supported a cap and trade program that is fair, effective, transparent. But unfortunately, government members repeatedly voted down NDP amendments to strengthen their cap and trade bill including the Financial Accountability Officer access to the documents that would verify the effectiveness of the government's climate change initiatives. The member from Beaches East York then tabled a much weaker amendment telling us, quote, from our discussions with the Financial Accountability Office, this is what they are looking for. On Tuesday the FAO said the member from Beaches East York had misrepresented his opinion. It was not what they were looking for. Why is the government misrepresenting transparency of its cap and trade bill? I'm going to ask the member to withdraw because you can't say indirectly what you're implying directly. So I'm going to ask him to withdraw. Withdraw. Question, Minister of Deputy Premier. To the Minister of Environment and Climate Change. Thank you very much. I do just want to preface my remarks by the incredibly constructive discussion that the member for Toronto Danforth has taken in this and I really want to commend him and commend his party for their leadership. Mr. Speaker we actually Mr. Speaker Sorry. Stop the clock. The member from Huron-Burge Second Time and you might get the warning if you're wanting just that. I'll give it to you. Right away. Finish please. I can't remember that. I share the concern you have and this is a legal constitutional cabinet confidentiality Mr. Speaker. There are restrictions on access to government and we have this often with table officers in the parliament and we're working. My deputy is working quite carefully right now very closely with the parliamentary budget officer looking at different pathways we can within the legal advice we've gotten from ministry and from the general's office on the limitations of access and the points of access. It is not a concern that's lost on us. We are continuing to work with him but we are constrained by some legal opinions we have which we're trying to resolve. Member from Lanark come to order. Supplementary. Speaker the government promised that cap and trade funds would be spent transparently and effectively. This was something the Ontario Chamber of Commerce amongst others asked for but then the NDP amendment that would ensure this for example we don't know if cap and trade funds will be spent only on new programs to reduce greenhouse gases the government voted against an NDP amendment that would have made sure of this as it is the government can basically spend the cap and trade money on virtually anything it wants including deficit reduction. Will the government keep its own transparency promises starting by giving the FAO access to all the documents that he requests. Thank you. Thanks Mr. Speaker. I want to assure the member that I will work to ensure that within the legal constraints and the rules that govern this legislature and cabinet as much information as is humanly possible to get to him. I totally agree with the principle you're saying. We did Mr. Speaker government motion including amendment that would inform the public of which entities have received free allowances and how they were received which was asked for at committee. We agreed with an NDP motion changing the reporting to every year from every five years which aligns with the fact that I have to submit an expenditure plan and investment plan every single year and will report every single year. A report on the minister's evaluation to treasury board be included in the annual report and given to the FAO and another motion at committee sets a time requirement for the release of the annual report on the greenhouse gas reduction accounts. I mentioned last time I spoke the number of other measures. We already have the higher standard of transparency. I agree with the member's objective. I will work with him to Thank you. No questions. Member from Durham. Thank you Mr. Speaker. My question is to the minister of energy. In my riding I hear from constituents up to a last Saturday on the work of this government and the energy file. The constituents of Durham know how critical a clean reliable energy system is to Ontario being a great place to live and work. And wherever I go I am proud to speak about the achievements we have made on our energy file. I tell constituents about 4.4 billion in health and environmental costs we're avoiding each year by completely changing the use of coal generation in Ontario. I speak about the smart investment in the nuclear industry and how this clean safe energy source has brought significant economic benefits. Mr. Minister could you please tell the house what feedback you have received on the recent investment our government has made. Mr. Speaker I thank the member for the question there's a lot of good news that needs to be shared about energy in Ontario speaker announced this past December and January Ontario power generation and Bruce power will be refurbishing the nuclear reactors at Darlington and Bruce securing 10,000 megawatts of affordable reliable and emissions free power speaker. The conservative critic the member from Renfrew Nipissing agrees Mr. Speaker he said and I'm quoting the recent agreement between Ontario and Bruce power to enable the refurbishment of the remaining six reactors at Bruce certainly appears to be a good one the refurbishment agreement ensures we will have a stable supply of reliable emissions free power for the next 60 years and rate payers will benefit from the refurbishment because it will result in the province continuing to use nuclear as a source reliable cost effective and emissions free source electricity speaker. Thank you minister Mr. Darlington nuclear generating station is in the great riding of Durham the economic and job creation benefits are also well celebrated by my constituents. Darlington's nuclear refurbishment project will contribute 15 billion to Ontario's gross domestic product and create up to 11,800 new jobs annually and the Bruce refurbishment project will generate 23,000 jobs and generate 6.3 million in annual economic benefits in communities throughout our great province. But minister there have been concerns raised on the cost of these refurbishment. To quote the member from Renfrew Nippersen Pembroke and I quote even though the PC caucus supports the refurbishment plans for the Darlington nuclear generating station we hope the wind government has done due diligence to mitigate any cost overruns that affect and tear taxpayers. Minister could you please explain what precautions are in place to ensure these projects meet the Thank you to reassure the member from Renfrew. The nuclear refurbishment contracts are designed to protect the interests of Ontarians. The Darlington refurbishment schedule will only proceed after the successful completion of the first of four units. We have built appropriate off-ramp speakers should operators be unable to deliver the projects on schedule. An enlisted and independent oversight advisors. Also the Bruce power contracts ensures Bruce power. I'll pick you off one at a time the member from Neppesing second Prince Edward Hastings second time. Never too late to get named. Mr. Speaker it's never too late for the opposition to hear good news. Also the Bruce power contract ensures Bruce power assumes full execution for any potential costs or delays. Speaker Ontario has more than 180 companies across the province directly linked to the nuclear supply chain benefiting all Ontarians and nuclear will remain. New question. Thank you Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Minister of Environment and Climate Change. There's a wind energy project that is under appeal in the city of Corthill Lakes near Bethany. After going through a time consuming and expensive process with the environmental review tribunal, now the Snowy Ridge project's footprints is growing larger than what was already approved by the tribunal and the Ministry of the Environment. This expansion however did not have any information. The modification report is 165 pages and the late expansion raises questions as to whether the company was working in good faith with the ministry and the tribunal. So Mr. Speaker does the minister believe it is appropriate for the government to approve a project that puts out inaccurate and incomplete information. Just say no. Thank you Mr. Speaker. As I said to my friend from Sardinia Lampton who I've been working with and on his private members bill, I would be very happy to meet with you to go through it. Talk about it and figure it out. I have to be very clear here as some of the members opposite, no Mr. Speaker, I play a different role because these decisions are appealable to the environmental review tribunal and then some of them are appealable to me. So I have to I'm limited in what I can say because of my role in the adjudication process, Mr. Speaker. So the important I'm very concerned about what the members raised. If she talks to some of her colleagues she'll know that in similar situations I worked with them through this. I will make my ministry available. I will review it and I will also make sure that her constituents know of their appeal options. Thank you. I appreciate what the minister said. There was a letter sent on April 25th. They were not granted.   You have to acknowledge the expansion of the snowing bridge project. Work in the Oak Ridges Marine. I don't want you to miss that. It's work in the Oak Ridges Marine. The PC government took steps to protect that environmentally sensitive marine. We did. But you are disregarding this. Completely disregarding. You're welcoming expansive and sky high wind turbines. The projectors collector's line will also go through compensation habitat for species at risk and cause potential irreversible damage on surrounding wildlife. Why, Mr. Speaker, is the minister allowing industrial wind projects in protected areas of Oak Ridges Marine? Mr. Speaker, in the one minute that I have to answer, it's hard to address the complexity, but I do want to just note that the member from here on Bruce, her heckles suggesting what I do would actually break the law. And if she's going to be the environment critic, she should understand the basic environmental review tribunal process. But what I can do, Mr. Speaker, what I can do, Mr. Speaker, is I can work with the member. Finish, please. What I can do is I can take some time, and maybe I should include my critic in the briefing on what the rules and rights are for citizens, how the environmental tribunal works and what they can do. And I very sincerely think that we have to protect the interests of citizens and communities in this. And if we can turn aside parts of politics, I will work with you on that, and I appreciate you raising an issue of such great concern to constituents. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Minister of Health and Long-time Term Care. Winnebago Area Health Authority which relies on the province and the northeast lens for more than half of its budget, because the province has a direct responsibility to ensure that healthcare services are accessible to the First Nations people living along the James B. Coles. Speaker, did you know that there are only six mental health worker for the entire Coles and that none of them serve children under the age of 18? It has been 30 days since the Ottawa Piscat declared a state of mental health emergency. When did the minister of health first learn that no mental health services were available to youth under the age of 18 and why didn't he see fit to fill this gap in services? Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and I appreciate the question particularly about the situation in Ottawa Piscat because I think as the legislature knows immediately upon hearing about that crisis, that mental health crisis involving children and youth in the community, the Government of Ontario acted and committed $2 million for an emergency medical assistance team which was comprised among others of mental health workers appropriate for children and youth as well as clinical experts, clinicians that would work in the local hospital responding to that emergency and in fact they were deployed within 24 hours of us making that commitment to be able to provide both on a proactive basis to work with the community and provide the support to children and youth who are experiencing this crisis but also to provide relief to those hospital frontline healthcare workers who clearly have been burdened by this crisis to provide them with some relief and replace them with frontline workers who could provide that necessary mental health support. Thank you, Speaker. The First Nations people up the coast need long-term commitment from this provincial government and they want this today, Speaker. There are other health services gap that the province should fill not wait. There are positions left vacant to balance the hospital's budget should step up, not wait. There are plans for layoffs at hospitals up the coast the government should step up, stop those layoffs not wait. We have a crisis speaker and time is of essence. Will the minister make this commitment today to improve the healthcare services of the good people of Ottawa, Piscat and everybody else up the Charmed Speaker. Well, of course, Mr. Speaker and I was pleased in fact to talk with the local chief chief Shashish and the member for Timmins James Bay was present for that conference call as well as the federal minister or rather MP Charlie Angus and we talked about the not simply the initial 30 days of the emergency medical assistance team that we would be renewing that mandate and the emergency medical assistance team would remain for an additional 30 days to be able to provide that support but also they're working with the community and ourselves and with Waha and the other partners and with the Ministry of Children and Services to develop that long-term plan to make sure that we're making the right investments that the right personnel are on the ground and it was very appreciative that we were able to have all levels of government talking about that issue and we're of course working in very close coordination with our federal partners as well and also with Waha I have to point out that we provided them with an additional $4 million in January $4 million last year as well to help them with some of those pressures that they're facing Mr. Speaker. Thank you a new question. The member from York Southwestern. Thank you Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Minister of Housing. Earlier this week the Minister announced the province's response to input from the public and to the 87 recommendations outlined in the report from the Coordinated Land Use Planning Review Advisory Planner chaired by former Mayor of Toronto David Cromby. The substantial review that the Ministry continues to shepherd and the considerable diligent work done by the panel included 17 town halls across the Greater Golden Horseshoe area and the consideration of over 19,300 submissions. The goal of the review as mandated by the Premier has been to improve alignment across provincial plans and transit investments and to support planning and development decisions that will create more complete communities across the province. Speaker through you will the Minister tell us about the themes of the province's proposed changes to the plans and shape how we use land in the Greater Golden Horseshoe Minister Paul Harrison Well Mr. Speaker I want to thank the member from York Southwest and for her very good question the Greater Golden Horseshoe as you know is Canada's fastest growing urban region and the province's economic engine. The carefully considered changes we are proposing will ensure smart growth in the region this means promoting compact vibrant communities that support jobs and public transit and reward us with an expanded green belt these changes are designed to keep goods and people moving in the region efficiently protect suitable lands for new and expanding businesses make sure farms continue to flourish reduce the negative impacts of climate change and further enhance the protection of natural areas together Speaker these are major steps in boosting our economy furthering smart sustainable living and protecting our environment. Thank you Mr. Speaker I appreciate the Minister's answer Mr. Speaker confronting these challenges in how we shape communities in this province is an historic step for Ontario these changes demonstrate that the government remains committed to growing the green belt and is putting an end to urban sprawl in the Greater Golden Horseshoe. Mr. Speaker since its inception this review has always been grounded in engagement with Ontarians who clearly have a passion for the future of their communities. The stage of the process is no different Ontarians will now have a further opportunity to weigh in on these proposed plans and to continue to have their voices heard. Mr. Speaker through you can the Minister share with the House what the next steps in the review process will be? Minister Sure can Mr. Speaker I'm delighted to do so after the great work that the Honourable David Cromby and his team did coming in with 87 recommendations and I did what I thought was the impossible to come in with absolute consensus so we're going through a second stage of consultation there'll be public open houses that will be held across the Greater Golden Horseshoe we'll also be taking input through the environmental registry and our ministry website. Mr. Speaker it's important we all work together to get things right and we're going to ensure that that happens I'm very proud Mr. Speaker in fact we should all be proud of the work our government has done to grow our award-winning green belt curb urban sprawl and create complete communities for us all to live work and raise our families in. Great stuff Mr. Speaker Just before we dismiss I just want to take a moment to offer a reminder to the House there seems to be some misunderstanding of speaking to the chair you do not speak to the member on either side you're speaking to the chair so whoever's in the chair is receiving your question and receiving your answer it doesn't matter if you're looking at me but it's helpful to remember it by looking at the chair and you can put the question to the person opposite and you can put the answer to the person opposite without being a conversation back and forth I'm going to ask you to keep that in mind the second thing I want to bring to your attention is I've asked for this for plenty of times I've asked for it almost affronts what I'm asking you to do so I'm almost taking it personal as the speaker when I ask you not to use their names and even in the heckling it's happening more and more and I'm asking for it to stop so I'm going to ask this time to simply say the members title or the members writing they would be extremely helpful in debate and inside of the decorum in this House there are no deferred votes this about sorry point of order the deputy premier point of order speaker I know that everyone in the House would want to join me in congratulating the London Knights on winning the OHL championship and wishing them the very very best as they move on to win the Memorial Cup I thank you for that opening for the deputy house leader for a point of order point of order Mr. Speaker some of us will descend from that we were the cabinet is now divided you can see those of us from the Niagara region those of us from the Niagara region do not join the congratulation we do congratulate the Niagara ice dogs on their fine performance throughout the playoffs alright that would definitely get us started with each of our writing so I'm just going to say there are no deferred votes this House stands recess until 1pm this afternoon