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Hi everyone. I'm Brian Gurney. I'm a senior software engineer for Red Hat, primarily working on block storage things like VDO, virtual data optimizer, and now Stratas, a volume managed file system package. During all that storage work I have to do a lot of block storage examination and diagnosis. First, how many people know what a block storage device is? Okay, pretty good. Most people. Yeah. So block storage device is a device that's accessed by certain sectors or blocks instead of a bit wise fashion. So it's hard disk drives, solid state drives, heaven forbid, tape drives, probably not. Yeah, there's hard disk drives can have random access more than tape drives can, and solid state drives are solid state because they don't have to move mechanical arms or anything. And so they have better random access performance. So what do block devices do? And so the main goal of any storage is to be able to write something down and then read it later. If it fails at that job, it's not really long term storage or long term memory. And so the main types of accesses to block devices are classically reads and writes, and then later on disk cards, which are a special class for things like thin provision devices that provision more space above than they are actually providing below, and also devices with some sort of a translation layer between what it presents and what's on the device. Flash drives, NAND based solid state drives, 3d crosspoint, like those kinds of drives. When you send, when the initiator sends a discard command, discard request, that tells the device, you can free what is underneath that device now or what is underneath that block now, because the initiator no longer needs it. So then it can do unprovisioning of that block, it can do garbage collection behind the scenes. For a solid state drives, this is very important for performance reasons. And so, but most applications don't directly access the individual block numbers of a block device. They would have to keep a database of what data goes into what block, whether it can fit into a 512 by block or it needs more of them, all of that kind of stuff. And then you get into things like fragmentation and the size of that such a many database. So most of the time, you have higher level applications than the kernel that create some kind of abstraction to store things on a block device. The most common one is file systems, ext, XFS, the fat and Windows hide and TFS, things like that, where you can create a file in a folder in a more human readable, less complex to think about a hierarchy where you can store data, not have to worry about how many blocks it goes in, let the file system take care of that. Similarly, object stores provide a way to say this blob of data that is this arbitrary size has this ID, and then store it there. And then the object storage driver will return and say, okay. And logical volume manager is where you don't have to worry about provisioning things ahead of time. You can actually transparently add devices to extend the logical volume and not have to do the migration of data off the old thing where you had to have both old and new devices connected to one system and then manually shuttle data from one to another to make things a lot easier to manage storage devices. So a basic level programs access blog devices via reader write operations, which I have here shown by this simple DD command to write a zero block to device NVMe zero and one block size 4096 count one. I always forget whether it's secret skip zero in this case. So it's directly writing a block and the file system keeps a metadata index of files and their block locations. And there are programs where you can actually find out where what are the blocks that actually contain this file. And for ext, that's the file frag dash v command. And so you can see block logical offset zero to 4095 is in this case, this file is 16 megabytes. And so that's it's in four kilobytes 4096 blocks 4096 bytes. I like how it says that there. It says how big the block is. And so you can see it's on physical offset<PHONE_NUMBER>695. And so the file system takes care of that. But if you had something like a driver reporting that there's some kind of problem with one of those blocks, you may be interested in that, and you have to find out how to get from here to there. And XFS has a similar way where you could say those block ranges, those allocation groups. But then you get into a case where you have some kind of driver reporting an error block 11677694. Well, what happened? That's the classical question in system administration or diagnosing bugs. And sometimes you need to get to the lowest level to find out what's happening with block 12647, whatever. And so in the block layer in Linux, the way to do that is called block tracing. And there's two basic programs that are called BLK trace and BLK parse, usually just say block trace and block parse. And so here's the basics of a block trace. This is the text output from block parse. The block trace command runs a command on the data on the block device and outputs data files. And so block parse will output these columns. And this is a little bit of an eye chart. But the basic columns are which device is it in this case, eight zero. And we can see dev SDA by major minor. What CPU did it happen on? This machine has 24 CPUs in this example. So and there's a sequence number per CPU. So then it's monotonically increasing for the individual CPU. What time did it happen in seconds and nanoseconds? And nanoseconds are important for very, very fast devices like non vile tile and V dim devices because they can have latency that approaches hundreds of nanoseconds or under the tens of microseconds. So that extra precision is really necessary right now. And also you could see a process ID of who did it. Some kind of action of what happened. These comments are actually in the source code for block trace. What happened? Who did it on what CPU did it happen? And so the main core of a block trace is the action and what is called RWBS. And so was there was a read write or a discard and the action is what stage was that request in? And then there's extended information which for or the sector location the sector plus offset is standard information. So that will indicate the sector and the offset in the length. So the offset from zero, zero would be the lowest block. And then plus 64 would be 64 sectors long. So that would be 32 kilobytes I believe. Yes. So 32 kilobytes for each of these requests. This happens to be a write, a synchronous write. You can tell it from WS. I love the decoder car for all those in slides that are coming up. But as for running block trace itself, the basic process for it, which you'll have to have root access, if you need to, if the following command fails, run mount dash t debug fs debug fs slash six says kernel debug. And then after that you run the block trace command with dash D device on the specific block device you're measuring. If it's a partition, then measure the root block device because you'll want to track what those remap operations are from a partition to the block device or from a logical volume or device mapper device, a bio based device to the actual block device. And then once that's saved parse the binary block trace files by running block parse dash I, there will be one file for each CPU in the system. So if you have 128 CPUs, there will be 128 files. The size of them may vary because some CPUs will get more requests than others. But in the block press command only specify the first one, it'll find the rest that have the same common file name. It'll be zero one two three four up to 23 in the case of my test system. So that decoder card for all of those actions. These are the most relevant actions for how a request happens. So when a request happens, whether it's a reader or a write, if it's on a partition or a device above the device, there'll be a remap event that will say from what origin sector and offset did it come from and then what map origin sector is it mapping to. If there's multiple of them, there'll be a chain of them perhaps to say if it's a logical volume on top of a partition on top of a device. And then after if after any potential remaps, the request is queued. There is a get request structure quest allocated. These are all things before the request is inserted into the queue into the any it could be multi queues for the Linux kernel five own after is definitely multi queue and then the earlier ones before it depends on the device type. So the request is inserted into the queue dispatched or achieved to the driver and then completed. That's the one where you know that I owe completed and you'll see a status code as to whether that request succeeded or failed. And for bio based devices, you'll see less of these events a QC. So this progression of actions is usually what you want to see for the for a single request a QG IDC. It makes it easier to memorize sort of that progression of actions because that's a standard progression of looking at a at a block trace. So I have some quick real world examples of see. So that's what a short relatively short block trace looks like. And so you'll see multiple events happening. And you may see some events in between happening. Yes, you'll see a QG IDC for 22403 200. Keep in mind, you may see other sectors, other sector locations it deleted in between because there may be multiple requests happening at one specific time. And you may have to search for things. You may have gigabytes of trace data. You'll want to find one specific event so that you can use for you can use tools like grep to search for a specific block address. So the RWBS category, those are the operation flags. Classically, it was read write barriers sync. But after kernel 2637, long ago now, because we're up to five to now, the block barriers are replaced with flush and Fua, which flush allows the entire device to be flushed. And for all rights before to be satisfied, Fua is force unit access. That means that is a specific request can request to write directly to the device, not go through any cash. This is commonly used by file system to directly write metadata and be sure that it's getting written directly to the media, not being cash just in case there's a crash in between so it can write as soon as it can to the medium. And those get higher priority than regular rights. And those take more and more strenuous to do than regular rights because they can't really go through the cash. But most of the time critical because they want you want to be written on as soon as you can. So afterwards, the order in which you see the events are if it's a flush that F will be at the beginning, and then it will be one of either discard, write or read. And if it's neither of those, then you'll see a capital N, but that's only for driver plugging and unplugging. And then after the read, write or discard, you'll see force unit access F read ahead a synchronous S or metadata M. Metadata is a very new flag that's within the last two years, I think, forget the exact version it's in, but that's newer, newer than the other three. And so the caveats of block trace, as I said, it's possible for multiple IOs to be performed on one storage device at any time. So be ready to pipe the output of block power to less or pipe it to a text file, search through it, rep through it. I had a test where I was doing a 16 gigabyte block trace file. And that's quite a lot to do. You definitely want to pipe that to some file before reading through it. And high volume tracer in runs should save on some kind of separate storage that is ideally not the test device and fast enough to handle the IO. The demands are not that bad. But when you block trace, there'll be a report at the end that'll say how many events it drops. And if that's on zero, then you need to need to either get a faster device or adjust the buffer settings of block trace, which are relatively easy. And one other caveat in the block trace, you'll see that the timer starts on the first event. The first event says zero for the timer. And that's, that is not the time that you started block trace. That is actually the time of the first IO. So that's actually that can be good or bad depending on what you want the the time index to be. Most of the time you want the time index to be the first IO, but if you want it to be synchronized to a specific time that you may have to coordinate that and adjust relative, find out when the actual request is being submitted. So, so the remaps, the A records for the the block trace, you'll actually see a remaps can occur from either a partition, which you'll see from some sub device. And in this case, it's a SCSI 8-2 dev SCI 8-2. You'll see right here there's a record for 8-2 sector 221903800. And so if you look from the top to the bottom, you'll see the sector progressions from top to bottom. And you can actually see that a record for 3800. That's actually for the device below, not for 80. But you can trace from top to bottom for the actual record. But the partition, or in this case the device mapper, the LVM logical volume 25030, that block number is what you'll want to look at for your application using that specific device. So keep in mind the device stack, whether you have a partition and then a logical volume on that partition, and write down the major and minor devices for each device. And so while writing data, the scheduler can actually merge IO together to make one larger IO for, say, an IO bound device to get better performance. And so the most common IO operation is a back merge, where you have, say, a write to block 57520. Lots of numbers there. But say you have like block 0 and then block 8 and then block 16, the scheduler can actually merge the one back with the other one, like there's two 4 kilobyte writes to create an 8 kilobyte write. And then if there's another write that's coming in, it can merge that one adjacent to it to make a longer sequential write. And so you'll see a progression of AQG, AQM, AQM on and on, AQM, AQM, and then it inserted into the queue and then eventually completed. And you'll see a larger sector count at the end. So in this example, it's 11 4 kilobyte write requests being merged into one 88 sector request 45,056 bytes. And so if you see, you will not see a one to one correlation between the A and Q events and the completion because the schedule is merging them together. And there's another other behavior that can happen is called splits. So this happens if there's a device that has an optimal IO size that's non zero, say it's four kilobytes, the scheduler will have to split that IO into multiple parts. And you'll see an x record for that with a start in an end sector number at the end separated by a slash. And so each of those will have an individual completion record. I have the first one here. There are other ones afterwards. And so IO errors, this is actually very interesting because since the completion event has an IO error code at the end, you can find what a device fails. So in this simple test, we have a device called SCSI debug, which has an option x zero x two to enable failures on a specific sector. And so that created a device dev SDB, which then I created a command to write 46 56 the the sector that fails is zero x one two three four for 10 sectors. And so when it tries to write it, DD reports the error, no data available. And you can see it here. It says 65 475, which would be minus 61. And if you look in the error, no dot h header, you can see 61 no data available, no data. So during a trace, if you have a completion trace event that's non zero for the status code, that may indicate that there was an error somewhere. But usually you're coming from the other way around where you'll see your application report some kind of error, like usually you'll be EIO IO error, you know, data for this specific driver. And so then you can find that specific event when it happened. And there's an extra option in see, I didn't list the command here, it's dash T block parts dash T, which will let you track IO latency. And after the sector offset plus length, in this case, zero plus eight, there's an extra field in parentheses, that is the latency and nanoseconds between each of the stages. The for the i record, it's delta since G, we get requests for the D record dispatch, it's the delta since the insertion into Q. And for C, it's the completion latency since being dispatched into the Q. So you can see here 32,000 microseconds or 32,000 nanoseconds, 32.8 microseconds. And this is a three three cross point NVMe solid state drive, which I expect to have that kind of latency, very low latency. And you can actually take this data, and you can graph it. So if you filter on just those C records, and then look at the first ones, you can see these fields with parentheses, and then filter it out with some more, there it is, TR, AUK, and then I'm listing the first five ones. You can create an XY graph with the time of the trace, and then the latency of the IO. And then save it into a text file, and then import it into a graphing program, and then create a latency graph like this. So this is not just some average or percentile, like 99th percentile. You can actually see patterns here, where you can see bursts of latency on specific runs. Then you can see the latency go down. You can see time intervals on the drive of the specific IO pattern. That could actually indicate things like a drive's microcontroller behavior, or if you see some strange periodic latency behavior, or a strange 99th percentile high latency reading in FIO, that might be related to some kind of time-related pattern. And this makes it a lot easier to look at thousands or millions of data points. And there's another program called IO Watcher, which can create a graph or a video of IO activity from block trace data. And so it gives reads and writes, locations of reads and writes, throughput, and latency. And I have an example here. So this is a IO Watcher run of a video volume that's writing to specific areas. And during this activity, you can actually see writes in blue. And right here is the first sector of the device, sector zero, which then chases the right and then goes up one line in a raster fashion, all the way to the end of the device at the top right. So the right activity we can see here, we have the UDS index writing sequentially. We have data slabs writing here. There is a, see, that's the slab summary of the slab summary. Slab journal reference counts. Slab journal, yes. That's the tiny, the smaller slab journal. Each of the slabs, I believe, in this video volume is two gigabytes, the default setting. And then at the very top is a circular log called the recovery journal. And so when this is played, you can see behind here the block map is writing in what looks like a checkerboard pattern. That's actually a radix tree that's spaced out by a certain interval. And it's filling with a sequential write. And then those same blocks are being written by a random overwrite. You can see a large burst of activity across a very large area. And I know this ahead of time, that's actually something called the block map period where it's updating the entire block map. So you can look at large scale patterns. This would have required, I forget how big this trace file was, but it probably would have been millions of trace events. And instead of trying to correlate those numbers in text as they are, you can visually represent them in a compressed time. And you can start to associate patterns, look at things like QDef and throughput. And Iowatcher actually has, I want to try and contribute to Iowatcher to fix a few bugs here and there. There was actually one of these videos, I think it might have been, it wasn't this one, but it was one about the same size. It was a 16 gigabytes set of block trace data. It originally took 12 hours to build, to build a video. It uses Aug Theora and SVGA, part of SVG, PNG to SVG, to create the graphs. It's multiple SVG graphs that are then rasterized and then put into an Aug Theora video. And it originally took 12 hours to compile, but then after a bug fix, it was put to 10 minutes. It was because of various changes in the block trace data. I believe it was, it doesn't count Q events, but these are the kinds of scale issues that happen with building the video when there are so many events that occur. So that's Iowatcher. It's a very interesting tool. It was originally, there's an older one called Seek Watcher that was Python. This one, Iowatcher is C++, I believe. I believe it's Chris Mason who built it originally. So there's other block trace related programs that come along in the block trace repository and in the block trace package. Btrace is performing live tracing for block devices. It's a shortcut to running block trace to standard out, and then running block parse using standard in. There's some caveats to doing that. You can live trace, but I would not recommend doing it for heavy, heavy loads, because there may be some time discontinuities or dropped events because of instead of buffering to a storage device for the test files, you're putting to standard out and then standard in. There may be issues. Most of the time, you'll want to trace, you don't really, the priority is more to have the log data stable than it is to see it live. So you can try Btrace, but I recommend using regular block trace to a file for most testing purposes. And then there's some other utilities, verify block parse for verifying the time ordering about from block parse, which is not necessarily guaranteed for some runs. Most of the time, I believe for file output, it's consistent. I've encountered some areas where it's not for graphing. That's why I usually use the time value in the events to graph. And then there's some programs called BT record and replay where you can actually replay the IO activity as captured by block trace. I get to try and use us some time. They're not going to have the data because block trace preserves the time, what time type of operation and the sector offset, but it doesn't know what the data is. That would take far too much data space to save what the data was in the block. And BTT, let's do analyze block IO traces produced by block trace for various statistics. It's another accessory program. So in summary, block trace and block parse are the lowest level programs for block devices to find out what's going on. And it's expressed in a relatively easy to parse text format. It looks very intimidating, but it's very, very greppable. You can use grepset and octoprocess, the basic text events, you can export it to other formats, you can export it to graphing programs. There are other programs that can do filtering and there's a new patch to block parse that can filter by events internally in the program. So you don't have to do grepset and octoprocess. And large amounts can be analyzed. It all depends on how much space do you have, how much time processing time, but it's relatively easy. So any questions? Yes. So the question was, in relation to performance, is this sort of system level or so it's this is the lowest level you can analyze at what is going on at each individual sector. It may be looking at a microscope at the tree instead of looking at the forest. So there may be other tools where you'll want to look at if it's a general performance problem. You may want to try and look at block trace if it's happening on specific sectors. That's actually happened before with a case that I have once where a customer had multiple devices concatenated in an LVM logical volume and they were wondering why the part at the end was slow. And they knew that the first device was slower device, but that actually turned out that that device was at the end. And we could see that with block trace would have seen it with the latency times there. Though there was another tool called DM stats for device mapper stats where you can actually look at specific regions and get a histogram of the latency or the throughput for that specific region and not the entire device. So you'll want to use a specific tool based on what granularity you're looking at and block trace is the lowest granularity. It's bisector. And then to get those to aggregate those stats you'll need to do take averages of those numbers which other existing tools do. But then in this case if you're looking at specific IO from specific programs or IO specific regions or flush or foo sort of activity, then you'll want to you'll want to catch those flags and watch that specific behavior. So it all depends. You'll know the contexts. You'll have a good hint at the context as far as how what level of detail you want to check. Like it was for the whole device and you could use IO stat for that kind of thing. But then if you could simulate the IO with FIO and then use its histogram reading for that, or you could use DM stats if it's a device mapper device and then you can have histograms printed out by that. So I hope that helps. Any other questions?


It is now time for Earl questions. I recognize the leader of his Majesty's loyal opposition Well speaker this question is for the Premier Recently through freedom of information requests the NDP has obtained nearly 4,000 pages of records from the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing that discussed the Premier's infamous green belt grab The documents include emails that were forwarded to Ryan Amato the former chief of staff to the former Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing One thing that kept coming up in these documents speaker are several uses of the phrase G asterix or G star So my question to the Premier is does the Premier have any idea what that means or why it would be used in internal communications with Mr. Amato and the Minister's office Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker appreciate the question for the member opposite look I think I've addressed that on multiple occasions as the Integrity Commissioner speaker But what we're continuing to focus on is ensuring that we put in place the conditions that will help more homes be built across the province of Ontario Look we inherited a situation in the province of Ontario where the previous liberal government supported by the NDP frankly have put Obstacle after obstacle in the way of getting homes built those obstacles have led us to a housing crisis Which we have been Relentless in trying to get resolved now, Mr. Speaker during the time of the liberals You saw housing starts either decrease or or be level leveled below what was required Since we have come to office since we started removing those obstacles You're seeing year after year not only the highest level of purpose-built rental housing Ever in Ontario's history, but you're also seeing that housing starts have averaged up each and every year So we're going to continue to remove the obstacles that were put in the in the way By the previous liberal government and we're going to continue to build more homes for the people the province of Ontario The supplementary question No, no, I don't think it has been addressed actually And well speaker while this this g star g asterix or whatever could be a cute shorthand it carries a lot of significance here Because when we compared the original emails with those forwarded to mr. Amato, it was very obvious that g star meant green belt It means that a search though of mr. Amato's account using the term green belt Wasn't going to return those particular emails It means that replacing the word green belt with g star Is evidence of an intent to conceal like someone was trying to cover their tracks So my question back to the premier Was anyone directed to avoid or conceal references to the green belt in their written communications? So they could avoid being captured in a freedom of information request Very much be very luck as I just said the integrity commissioner has Issued a report on that and I think I've answered the question on numerous occasions But at the same time speaker it doesn't change the fact that we are faced with the situation in the province of ontario And frankly across the country in very many respects where we need to get more homes built We need to put in place the conditions that will see more homes built Especially in the province of ontario. Look, we inherited an absolute mess Not just a mess that led to a housing crisis a budgetary mess We must we inherited a mess that saw manufacturing leave the province of ontario and record levels It is no secret that when this government took office We want to remove those barriers and those barriers that we have been lifting have seen record Job creation across the province of ontario So more people setting up businesses in the province of ontario billions of dollars worth of economic investment Hundreds of thousands of people coming to this province for the hope and opportunity That this government has allowed to flourish across the province means more homes need to be built We'll remove the obstacles that the liberals put in the way and we'll get the job done The final supplementary So speaker In addition to g-star the government adopted the term special project to refer to the green belt grab The term is used at least 80 times just in the foy records that we've We've acquired Mr. Amato and patrick sackfield who i will remind folks watching is the premier's current chief of staff Exchanged multiple emails referring to this quote special project Including between their personal accounts According to the integrity commissioners report mr. Amato identified mr. Sackville as the quote decision maker in the premier's office for this project So i'm going back to the premier again hoping for an answer Did anyone in the premier's office direct others to avoid email or use code words when discussing the special project Of carving up the green belt and when is the premier going to be disclosing this to the rcmp? Thank you very much again speaker look as i said the integrity commissioner has Has issued a report i think i've answered the question on on numerous occasions But getting back to the the the facts as they stand in the province of ontario We inherited a situation in 2018 that saw ontario not only in a housing crisis, but in an economic crisis We were faced with a situation where we needed to balance the budget. We needed to reduce taxes We needed to Eliminate red tape that was stifling growth across the province of ontario now housing affordability isn't just about removing obstacles Mr. Speaker i can remove all the obstacles I can remove all the obstacles that i want mr. Speaker, but housing affordability also has to do with people's ability to order And the high interest rate high inflation policies of the federal government Are removing too many people from the ability to buy their first home from the ability to rent that home and mr Speaker on april first You will see again even more costs at the feet of the people of the province of ontario with another increase in the carbon tax The one housing affordability will remove obstacles help us keep taxes down so more people can afford those homes The next question and again the leader of the opposition You think you can hide but you cannot hide from this You cannot hide from this So speaker back to the premier the reason this is important is because it is part of a growing mountain of evidence That the government has deliberately tried to cover up the details of its eight billion dollar green belt grab last year The auditor general uncovered evidence that government officials had inappropriately used personal email accounts and devices when discussing the green belt grab today's foi Shows more of the same between mr. Amato and mr. Sackville in the premier's office So back to the premier again Is it standard operating procedure to have staff use personal devices and accounts when discussing the special project? known internally as g-star Minister mr. Fullfair is in housing thank you as I said and I uh, you know The integrity commissioners issued report the auditor general has issued a report This government has acted on a public policy a decision that was not supported by the people order But what we are doing, mr. Speaker what we have been doing since day one is focusing on rebuilding the province of ontario That was left amassed by the previous liberal government Supported by the ndp. We had the highest overregulated economy In canada And now mr. Speaker we have removed those obstacles We removed the unnecessary red tape and regulation and the minister of economic development job creation and trade has attracted over 28 billion dollars worth of investment to the province of ontario where before Manufacturers were leaving ontario Now they are coming back and fighting to be part of this economy mr. Speaker that is what we are accomplishing Where before our students were failing in school now they are not only leading canada They are leading the world. We're putting more money back in the order of the people of the province of ontario But unfortunately the high inflation high spending high debt policies of the federal liberal government have led to a crisis That is seeing interest rates putting too many people out of the ability to buy their first home And before hamilton mountain will come to order The supplementary question Speaker the stench of this scandal has seeped into everything this government touches That's the truth speaker the information and privacy commissioner has already warned the government I'll remind them about deleting emails and concealing information through the use of personal emails and personal devices After we uncovered that government officials were already doing that Deleting emails related to this massive government policy Using personal accounts or not Is contravention of the law So when the liberals did that Someone went to jail Someone went to jail So back to the premier. Why did your staff delete emails related to the green belt graph? Remind the leader of the opposition that uh when the liberals broke the law It was the ndp that kept them in power Which has led to the economic catastrophe As the province of ontario in 2018 mr. Speaker now We have moved on so many fronts to restore Ontario as the engine of canadian of the canadian economy Look, we're doing things that puts more money back in order for the people of ontario Look at what the minister associate minister of transportation has been able to accomplish with respect to one fair Now they talked about it a lot But it was never they were never able to get it done this government got it done That's about 1600 dollars in the pockets of the people uh of ontario Mr. Speaker, we are able to build subways You know why because we're focused on getting results for the people of the province of ontario Now they announced it a million times They kept announcing and announcing and announcing getting nothing done We're building hospitals in long-term response parts of the province that have never had them before mr. Speaker We are restoring ontario as the best place to live work invest and raise a family not only in canada But the entire world speaker Liberals went to jail because we found them out. That's right, you know And people people in ontario shouldn't have to use a code breaker to know what their government is up to right? so We know it wasn't just emails, right The premier has admitted to using his personal phone for government business. He says it all the time Every day and yet he refuses Refuses to share his phone records. Why? What is he hiding? brown envelopes coded messages Burner phone speaker at every turn it looks like the premier's office took deliberate steps To cover their tracks We're going to get to the bottom of it speaker We sure will or the rcmp will because this government is under criminal investigation But they could come clean right now And they might help themselves Speaker i want to ask the premier again When will he finally own up to his role in this scheme or do we have to wait for the rcmp? I thank you very much mr. Speaker like i think the leader of the opposition has to stop watching netflix Uh, uh, because you know what the people of the province of ontario focused on Member for hamilton mountain will come to order results for their children when they go to school This minister of education has not only delivered peace in our schools, but he's delivering a better quality of education and seen our students Imagine if our students not only leading canada, but leading north america. They're no longer discovering math They're learning math because of this minister of education Well at the same time this minister of long-term care is the most successful minister of long-term care bringing long-term care To parts of this province that have never had it before You know why mr. Speaker, you know why because when the liberals supported by the ndp were in power They built only six opposition come to order There are more long-term care beds being built in my own writing Then there were across the entire province under the liberals we're building roads the 4 13 in brampton You know why because it means more jobs and opportunity for the people of brampton Thank you speaker and my questions to the minister of transportation When the 407 was built there was a plan for it to be paid by 20 27 And then we would own it instead the conservatives sold it for a song the tolls have gone up about 300 And the 407 etr owns us the 99 year lease was highway robbery Actually people resent that the 407 tolls are out of control people want To get where they want to go and this government could save people time Make the 401 safer and improve the flow of goods We propose a solution to help and this government voted against it So my question is why isn't the government willing to talk about the 407 and toll relief Mr. Speaker once again, we know what this is all about. It's about their campaign to stop highway 4 13 And we will not listen to them The people of the province elected us to build highway 4 13 In fact, they lost three members over being on the wrong side of that. Mr. Speaker Everything that this government has done under the leadership of premier fort has been put more money back into the Hardworking families of this province whether it's 10 cents a leader on gas tax, mr. Speaker whether it's removing tolls on 4 12 4 18 Which that member? Voted order when this premier put that forward mr. Speaker or whether it's removing 125 dollars Valtag fees from each car or truck that an individual owns in this province mr. Speaker and on top of that We are fighting against the 23 increase of the carbon tax that's coming on april 1st I hope that member also raises her voice to the federal members that she knows and her counterparts to make sure We keep more money in the pockets of hardworking families in ontario Thank you speaker the 407 is an existing highway We are barely using and I introduced my private members bill to remove tolls from the 4 12 and the 4 18 and the government Took four years to make it happen I'm suggesting we remove 407 truck tolls renegotiate the contract to better serve commuters But we'd like to be able to do it faster. Please no one wants to wait another four years So let's take the tolls off the trucks get the trucks off the 401 and make traffic better for everyone Let's renegotiate the 407 etr contract Everyone knows traffic congestion is already brutal, but we could do this now So my question is when will this conservative government be willing to do something about the 407 Mr. Speaker every single step this government has taken has been around building infrastructure in this province Whether that's our commitment to build highway 4 13 or invest 27 billion dollars in roads and highways across this province But do you know what mr. Speaker whether it's the liberals or ndp They don't believe in building roads or highways mr. Speaker in fact They're doubling down on comments from the federal environment minister who said there's no need to invest in any more roads or highways in canada Mr. Speaker my message to the both the liberals and ndp is get out of the bubble Come to cities like brampton come to cities like mississauga travel the streets and roads of all across this province whether it's in northern ontario southern ontario and listen to the drivers We need to build more infrastructure. We need to build the bradford bypass We need to build the highway 4 13 And as we do that we're going to continue to fight against punishing policies like the carbon tax Which are about to go by 23 on april first mr. Speaker We will continue to fight for hard-working families in this province and put more money back into their pockets The next question the member for new market aurora. Thank you speaker My question is for the minister of finance The carbon tax drives up the price of everything from filling up our cars and heating our homes in the winter It hurts our economy and punishes the hard-working people and businesses of our province Speaker at a time of high interest rates and high cost of living Ontarians need more financial relief Not another tax While our government has been speaking up against this punitive tax since day one The opposition ndp and independent liberals continue to ignore its harmful impacts Speaker ontarians deserve better from their elected officials Speaker can the minister tell this house what our government is doing to protect ontario families and From the high cost the liberal carbon tax has on gas Well, thank you, uh, speaker and thank you to the hard-working member from new market aurora for that great question No, mr. Speaker the independent liberals must think that money grows on trees Because their continued support for a carbon tax on ontarians makes no sense And somehow they continue to reject our great members motions to eliminate the carbon tax and save businesses And consumers money when shopping for the goods they need to live in Instead our government is standing up for the hard-working people of ontario day in and day out By stepping in cutting the gas tax and providing savings for people's and businesses across this province I look forward to that member and the independent liberals and the queen of the carbon tax Order against a new carbon tax and for a new bill now get it done act 2024 Leans come to order supplementary question Thank you speaker and thank you to the minister for that response Speaker we hear it from everyone the carbon tax is simply not worth the cost Across ontario Households are struggling to make ends meet and businesses continue to face economic Uncertainty due to ongoing global supply chain challenges. They need support Not a tax that will cause unnecessary harm We know that the independent liberals refuse to stand up for their constituents And call on their federal counterparts to end the carbon tax Speaker our government will continue to lead by example and fight the carbon tax while keeping costs down for ontarians Speaker can the minister please explain how our government is supporting ontario businesses and families Minister from ants Thank you, mr. Speaker and to the great member for that question You know mr. Speaker for too long governments here and in ottawa have left ontarians behind Workers families and businesses have had enough and that's why they elected our government and our plan to get it done That's why our government. It's our government who's building infrastructure Who's building more and more in ontario and keeping costs down? Mr. Speaker, it's our government who is standing up to protect ontarians from any party or government making life unaffordable And it is this government who will continue to build ontario into the best place to heat your home Fill up your tank and buy your groceries. We're getting it done. Mr. Speaker The next question the member for london west. Thank you very much. Speaker my question is to the premier Speaker last week the federal immigration minister said that comments about the international student cap Made by the minister of colleges and universities were quote complete garbage Now we may never know what really happened between those two ministers But we do know that the cap was announced on january 22nd and it's now march 6th Meanwhile the application process for international students in this province is at a complete standstill Until the government makes a decision on how the cap will be allocated And how access station letters will be issued speaker How much longer do ontario colleges and universities have to wait? And to apply the minister of colleges and universities, thank you, mr. Speaker i'm surprised to hear the the ndp Defending justin shrewdo frankly and yes, I have expressed my dissatisfaction with the lack of consultation by the federal government But don't just just listen to me In fact, the bc premier who is an ndp premier My message for minister miller would be to work with the province on this a federal dictated cap could have profound And negative impacts From the ndp bc housing minister minister cologne The concern i have is they need to talk to the provinces on how they are going to do this Saying they're going to put a cap on might sound good and get them through a media cycle But these are people we are talking about new brunswick post-secondary education minister holder The cap is going to have a major challenge It's going to throw a major wrench into the whole recruitment side of things this year Penalized for their good work when it comes to recruiting enough students needs to help address the local labor market needs In fact the minister the federal minister did absolutely no consultation with any of the provinces and yes We are all dissatisfied with the result Thank you, speaker the cap is now in place this government should be trying to figure out how to move forward Speaker well, ontario drags its feet international students who want to study here are applying elsewhere to bc Where they have figured out a process or kebek or the uk or australia Every day that goes by without an announcement just increases the financial uncertainty and chaos for ontario colleges and universities Can the minister at least tell this house how the cap will be allocated? Will the government take into account the track record of individual institutions and their approval rates for international study visas And in the supports they provide to international students Thank you, mr. Speaker and thank you to the member for that question and we have been working directly with OUAC and OCAS who are the systems that are in place for colleges and universities for the attestation letter So we will be providing our response shortly But myself and many members of this house and I've spoke with the minister of small businesses The impact that we're going to see on our local economies and again not just from me But let's the I have a quote from the cfib president dan kelly The recent changes will have impact many small businesses who are grappling with labor shortages Particularly those in small and rural communities While it's understandable what government wants to put some limits in place It needs to be to move more carefully and consider implications for the whole economy the niger chamber of commerce Hugo chesshire if there is a sudden drop in the number of graduating students in these professions in these trains And then years down the line as that gap works down into the labor market There'll be another labor shortage to come there just won't be enough students Mr. Speaker, we will be looking forward to our response coming shortly. Thank you The next question the member for Perth well into Thank you speaker My question is to the great minister of energy The federal carbon tax is raising prices on everything from energy bills Groceries into everyday essentials And that's why this premier and our government fought this punitive tax all the way to the supreme court Our government will always fight for the taxpayer in ontario speaker Last fall the federal government chose to merely suspend the carbon tax on home heating oil A source of higher emissions utilized only by 2.5 percent of ontarians But the speaker the tax on natural gas which i use in 70 percent of ontarians use Is going to go up speaker It's unfair that the federal liberals and provincial liberals don't call their colleagues in ottawa are ignoring the burdens being placed on on most ontarians Speaker can the minister please tell this house why the federal government's selective exemption on the carbon tax is unfair Assistant and member for kitchens south husker, and I thank the member for his uh his very passionate question I know that he has a dedicated representative of his constituents Many of which include rural communities and farmers who are particularly impacted by this devastating tax We have heard time and time again in this house Just how damaging this is for greenhouse growers for small businesses for farmers for families and for the federal government To continue ignoring our pleas for a break to access tax Speaker there really is no answer for it. This is the most damaging thing that ontarians are currently facing And the fact that it's going up even higher is unconscionable. Thank you speaker Supplementary question Thank you speaker, and thank you to our great parliamentary assistant for their response Speaker home heating is not a luxury. It is a necessity in ontario However, many ontarians cannot afford to pick and choose What heating fuel they can use whether it's home heating oil or natural gas or other forms of gas like propane And they were here last week great propane members and businesses in my riding speaker Ontarians should not be unfairly forced to pay additional cost to stay warm during the winter months And it's unfortunate that the only party in this legislature that is focused on providing real relief to ontarians Is this party on this side in the missing middle over there speaker While the liberals and entity are content with the carbon tax going up on april 1st as you can hear speaker in this place Our government continues to keep us down for the people of ontario Can the parliamentary assistant please share the steps our government is taking to provide more affordability For home heating as a federal carbon tax skyrocket Parliamentary assistant Well, thank you, mr. Speaker, and I guess it takes two parliamentary assistants to be just as great as the minister So but I'd like to thank the member for that additional question Our government continues to make investments aim at keeping energy costs affordable for families In the past year alone. We announced the enhancement of the ontario electricity rebate ensuring stability and predictability in electricity bill That's going to save an average also more than 300 this year alone, mr. Speaker But that's not going to help if the opposition and federal government keep pushing a painful carbon tax We urge the federal government to join efforts in terminating the carbon tax on home heating for ontarians Just like they have done for a majority of people in atlantic canada It is imperative for the federal government to act promptly winter isn't over yet, sir And uh, folks are still paying for the electricity bill For the premier speaker paying for blood and plasma donations is banned in ontario But incredibly this government is allowing a spanish company to open a center in hamilton that will pay for plasma ontario's voluntary blood donations acts prohibits payment for blood This is a law which the minister herself or of health herself voted in favor of so my question to the premier Will you stand by and allow a for-profit plasma industry or will you enforce the law? The deputy premier and minister of health Um, I think it's important to remind the member opposite and everyone ontario continues to monitor health Canada's regulatory approach to drugs for rare diseases and how it can impact our communities Some of the changes outlined Mean that we have seen health canada and the canadian blood services Make some partnerships with others to ensure that we have critical plasma supply in the province of ontario There is no doubt that plasma supply need increases It is a critical part of what we need to do every time there are operations in the province of ontario Canada blood services has made some partnerships and we will watch to ensure that they follow all ontario regulatory pieces Supplementary question member for hamilton now that sounds like a no to enforcing the law Speaker back to the premier Almost 10 years ago to the day the headline of pay for plasma centers is back in the news Greifall this private for-profit company from spain has pinpointed it down to postal codes with the highest unemployment rates And the lowest income in the province They plan to set up a shop and pray on our most vulnerable by use of way of an exemption loop hole In a community where many are unhoused waiting in long food bank lines and struggling day to day to make ends meet Speaker does the premier think it's appropriate that people will be selling their blood to survive Canada blood services is a national not-for-profit charitable organization and is the only national manufacturer of biological products In canada We know that blood donations have unfortunately decreased in the last decade And canada blood services has worked a partnership With another supplier and all medical operators in ontario As always are required to comply with those ontario laws Look, we will monitor what canada blood services is doing But I do not want to lose fat and lose sight of the fact that donations of blood donations of plasma donations of organs are a critical part of our healthcare system And that voluntary piece is some of the work that canada blood services does. Thank you speaker The hamilton members that come to order The next question the member for orleads Thank you very much. Mr. Speaker my questions for the premier The premier says he wants judges who will be tougher During bail hearings and on this we can agree and that's why we worked with the government last year on bail reform But the premier also says he wants to abolish the independent judicial system in exchange for a politicized one with like-minded Judges one that's used and abused south of the border So he's appointed biased Unqualified political insiders notably his former deputy chief of staff to lead the panel that makes judicial recommendations But the problem with politicizing the judicial system, mr. Speaker is that the premier's former deputy chief of staff Is also a paid gun lobbyist for colt So mr. Speaker, how can we expect judges to get tougher on gun crime when the guy recommending them for the job? Is the guy who sells the guns? Mr. Speaker, I think the member opposite has a reading comprehension Issue mr. Speaker because that is not what we have been saying mr. Speaker at all at all Now here's the thing mr. Speaker They continue to raise the same issue over and over because they don't want to talk about things Like the fact that the carbon tax is going up, mr. Speaker The only state of position of the liberal party on the carbon tax Is that it's good for people the member in the back's laughing, but she said it's good for people That was that was doubled down mr. Speaker by the NDP who said get over it, mr. Speaker Well, I'll tell you something mr. Speaker. There is some hope There is some hope they have a new leader and the new leader has never heard of the issue Order, so here's what she needs to know The carbon tax will have 23% on april the first and that should be job one mr. Speaker The supplementary question I'd like to thank the premier for that answer Next thing you know mr. Speaker. They're going to appoint a tobacco lobbyist to lead smoke-free ontario Look, look gun crime is no gun crime is no laughing matter police in ontario reported 4,791 violent gun crimes in 2022 That's 1000 more That's 1000 more than the previous year mr. Speaker Homicide by gun crime is at an all-time high The premier has nice catchphrases the premier has nice catchphrases like stop the crime and get tough on bail reform But he's asked the guy who sells the guns for advice Mr. Speaker, there is a violent gun crime in ontario every two hours How can we believe the premier's tough on crime stance when he's asked the guy who sells the guns to appoint the judges? Here we go again, mr. Speaker not doubling down tripling down quadrupling down quintupling down And i'm i'm proud of it. I'm proud to go out there and tell the people That has seen violence in their homes violence on the streets violence in our subways That we're going to get judges that are actually going to keep these criminals are in jail There isn't a person around the Toronto gta hasn't faced some sort of climb A gun to their heads in their homes hand over the keys kicking the doors Only to see mr. Speaker these Okay, I I I must Be able to hear the member who has the floor in this case. It's the premier I'm going to ask the member for a lot of us out the member for orleans to come to order I'm going to ask the minister of municipal affairs and housing to come to order If if this persists, I will start warning members. Do you hear me? Let's start the clock the premier has the floor Only to see these violent criminals mr. Speaker get out on bail and guess what they do the next day They're out on bail after our police officers put their lives on the line to arrest them They're back kicking in the doors again putting guns to people's heads stealing the cars Running trying to run over our police officers, but the liberals and ndp. They think that's fine Let's stay the status quo. I'll tell you one thing We aren't staying the status quo. We're going to get judges that are tough on The house will come to order The premier will come to order Member for Ottawa south will come to order Start the clock the next question The member for Ajax. Thank you. Speaker is waiting to exhale Speaker my question is for the minister of transportation The rise and cost of fuel is greatly impacted individuals and families in every corner of the province including mine Unfortunately at a time when ontarians are already struggling with rising inflation costs The federal liberals continue to rise to raise the carbon tax Speaker i've heard from logistics and distribution companies in my riding Who have been very vocal about the impact of the carbon tax on their bottom line and the truckers in their industry It is unacceptable that the federal government continues to punish truckers that drive ontarius economy forward with this regressive tax Speaker can the minister please tell the house how the carbon tax is horrid on ontario's trucking industry Minister of transportation Mr. Speaker, thank you to the member for Ajax for that question We know that the federal environment minister is completely out of touch with the realities of canadiens and especially ontarians Mr. Speaker We have called on him I have personally called on him to come drive on the 427 the 401 the 410 to see for himself The challenges our truckers and drivers are having across this province but ministers Mr. Speaker the minister he both spends more time flying around the world and airplanes trying to meet with Elites across the world rather than actually meeting with truckers that are driving every single day on our roads across this province to put food on the shelves to put Groceries on the shelves across this province They shouldn't have to worry about the rise of the cast of gas Mr. Speaker as they do their job by stating their husband for 15 to 20 000 dollars a current cost on a trucker A long-haul trucker On the current carbon tax today, that's about to go up by 23 on april 1st And I hope the members of office that join us in calling on the federal government to stop the carbon tax The supplementary question Thank you to the minister for that response We're all indebted to the dedicated workers in the trucking industry Who deliver essential goods that ontarius families and businesses rely on But speaker it is unfortunate that the impact of the carbon tax on the trucking industry Ultimately affects the consumers and the drivers We all force to pay for the additional costs to fuel that attracts transport the essential items for our everyday living That's not fair speaker our government hears these concerns day after day And that is why we will not stop until this tax is scrapped Speaker can the ministers please explain further why the carbon tax must be eliminated to protect ontario's trucking industry The minister of transportation Thank you very much. Mr. Speaker that member is absolutely right that tax is not fair It punishes families it punishes truckers mr. Speaker as I said 10 to 15 to $20,000 a year for long haul Truckers on the cost of the carbon tax We know that it's going up 23 on april 1st and that's going to impact truckers But it's also going to impact drivers and families all across ontario, mr. Speaker As this government has committed to putting more money back into the pockets of families across this province The federal carbon tax will increase by 23 percent. Mr. Speaker that is unacceptable We're always looking at ways to make sure we put more money back into your pockets Whether it's reducing the gas tax by 10 cents, whether it's making sure we reduce or get eliminate the the valve tag $120 saving per car or truck for families across this province We're going to continue to urge both the liberals and ndp to call on their federal counterparts and stop The carbon tax on april 1st Thank you the next question the member for university rose You speaker my question is to the premier Ontario can now find landlords that illegally evict up to $250,000, but it never does A toronto star analysis found that the rental housing enforcement unit and the landlord tenant board Issues very small fines to guilty landlords Finds the landlord can quickly recoup by hiking the rent on the next tenant My question is to the premier will this government start enforcing its own illegal eviction laws Attorney general thank you, mr. Speaker I'm wondering if the member is asking if we will pierce the independence of the landlord tenant board adjudicators, mr. Speaker You know mr. Speaker. I'm not sure. I'm hearing an inconsistency. I'm not quite sure what direction they want us to take In terms of independence of of adjudicators and the enforcement of orders, mr. Speaker For us to reach in and make the adjudicators do something now that would be a question mr Speaker and that would be something that we would have to discuss so mr. Speaker I'd like clarification if I could in the second question Back to the premier it is the government's job to enforce its own laws stop trying to pass the buck Protection laws are useless if they're not enforced. We have presented practical solutions to this government to help renters stay housed We have introduced amendments in committee. We have introduced bills in this legislature When will this government start taking effective action and do its job? And start enforcing its illegal eviction laws The attorney general And a lot of those laws go to court mr. Speaker and the judges make decisions about the laws Are they asking us to make adjudicators do things? Because just because we passed a law that we have the right to reach across that line and make adjudicators do things mr Speaker entirely inconsistent with the previous questions mr. Speaker now We are investing in the landlord tenant board. We have doubled the number of adjudicators. We've added more staff We've had more hearings than we've had intake mr. Speaker We are making sure that they're properly resourced and people are having a place to to have their hearings now Mr. Speaker, but tenants also need a place to live and if you take missis saga as an example where they only built 12 housing starts Last in the last term and the development charges are up 27 percent. Mr. Speaker Now that's a problem because there's no matter whether you have a hearing you wouldn't have a place to live mr. Speaker Thank you the next question the member for halderman norfolk Thank you. Speaker. My question is to the premier once again this morning There's been a lot of talk about like-minded appointments But while this house has had their eyes set on judicial appointments I've had mine set on the ontario land tribunal Just before christmas. I hit refresh on the public appointments secretary page and exactly as I had suspected The appointment of the former mayor of halderman county can hew it to the ontario land tribunal Keep in mind This is a tribunal meant to protect public good Speaker, I respectfully ask if the premier can articulate what skills in qualifications One must possess to be considered an appointee to the ol t Thank you, mr. Speaker, and i'm proud of the members that have been appointed to the to the ontario land tribunal It's a very important tribunal mr. Speaker, and you'll recall that we we combine five other tribunals to make the system More streamlined mr. Speaker the the individuals who apply through an open process They are evaluated by the chair of the tribunal mr. Speaker and recommendations come forward for appointment And I I don't want to speak on behalf of the chair who does the the interviews and does the recruitment because that's a hands-off process As you would expect it to be mr. Speaker But I can tell you any mayor of any municipality in this product Likely has some exposure to In terms of committee of adjustments and otherwise so through you mr. Speaker back to the member What disqualifies that member mr. Speaker? Order the supplementary question Thank you, speaker, and I'll answer that question because the member opposite said it's a very important tribunal So I'd expect the prime qualification would be to uphold the mandate of the ol t But interestingly enough in february 2022 Mr. Hewitt called on this government to dissolve the ontario land tribunal because it was slowing Development he then proposed a city of 40,000 at the nanny coke industrial park And then the premier appointed him the pc candidate and hauled them in norfolk But it gets worse A developer friend of the premier's plans to build a seasonal cottage development on agricultural land at low banks in haldeman county And just days before that developer is to appear before council He coincidentally cancels and says he'll take his chances at the ol t It's difficult not to conclude that the tribunal has been hijacked the hamilton spectator reported in 2022 That the ol t rules and favors of developers 97 of the time speaker through you to the premier Is the ol t in place to protect the public good or is it in place to accelerate development and feather the nest of Developers and friends of this government The attorney general it's gonna reply. Mr. Speaker. Thank you, mr. Speaker and and I do appreciate the question You know the excellent adjudicators that we have at the ol t and our other tribunals mr. Speaker You know, we're talking about somebody with an accomplished public career, mr. Speaker And and you know, we can go down the rabbit hole on any given on any given Scenario, but the important thing is this mr. Speaker We're getting the job done by having hearings that are fair equitable and timely mr. Speaker We have 1.5 million homes to build mr. Speaker And we want to make sure that Matters are moving through that tribunal and if you want to accuse us of meddling Because we're getting homes built mr. Speaker I will tell you there are rules and professionals in place to help get the job done and we will get those homes built mr. Speaker The opposition come to order Order The next question the member for susanne marie Thank you, mr. Speaker my question is for the minister of indigenous affairs and northern development The carbon tax is essentially a tax on everything speaker It's on your groceries your gasoline your home heating and every other day-to-day essential For over a year now speaker the chiefs of ontario have been calling on the federal government to consult with them on the impact That this harmful tax is having on all of their communities Due to the federal government's failure to address the first nations concerns the chiefs of ontario filed For a judicial review into the application of the carbon tax in indigenous communities They have called this tax anti reconcilatory and anti reconciliatory and discriminatory Speaker can the minister please tell the house How this carbon tax is disproportionately impacting northern ontario communities Mr. Northern development and minister of indigenous affairs He did so with good reason. Mr. Speaker. I want to thank the honorable member For his question. We heard earlier this morning about a prime minister who backed up his words with policies Commitment and change so I got to take a prime minister at his word when he says we're walking the road of reconciliation In quotes and then says with respect to cost indigenous communities on affordability and supports you think he would do something Silence mr. Speaker the calls from first nations communities across the province But particularly from communities in the isolated parts of northern ontario who look at seven dollar loaves of wonderbread Mr. Speaker with a built-in cost for transportation of those goods has put the carbon tax front row Centre mr. Speaker and what did the federal government do? Well, they have pledged 0.7 Of total charge price to first nations communities ontario. We don't know where this is and how It will materialize mr. Speaker, but it's a small sliver a fraction of the costs at first nations communities are paying as a result of the carbon tax That's a supplementary question Thank you again now speaker and thank you to the minister for his response The carbon tax is making everything more expensive for ontarians Especially those of us in northern ontario And in unlike other parts of the province the north has very unique barriers when it comes to fuel cost speaker Instead of helping northern ontario foster economic growth And to reach our full potential the federal government is bringing one tax hike after another After another after another It is clear that neither the liberals nor the under NDP understand respect or care About the financial hardship that many individuals and families are going through Northern and indigenous communities should not be paying the price of this harmful and regressive tax Speaker can the minister please explain further Why the carbon tax has such detrimental effects on northern ontario and especially First nation communities Mr. Northern development Mr. Speaker for anybody who's visited or spent time in the isolated community should gain a deep appreciation For the costs that are associated with shipping goods Into those communities why our government took the extraordinary step to reduce the taxes off of Airline services that we're offering Shipping of goods and services to those communities mr. Speaker and in light of a difficult Winter road season mr. Speaker all season roads have become the topic mr. Speaker And since it'll be a little while before electric vehicles provide part of that transportation solution Not only communities on diesel but communities who need Transport this winter and winter is moving forward You think the federal government would remove the tar the carbon tax as a starting point And join the federal government in our discussions around all seasons roads response figure again radio silence This government is laser focused on challenging the federal government to reduce costs for our northern communities And it starts with scrapping the tax mr Next question remember for park dale high park. Thank you speaker my questions to the premier Small businesses have not fully recovered from the pandemic They are still struggling with inflation and economic uncertainty The government's website encourages small businesses to sign up for the digital mainstream grant program But this conservative government told the toronto association of business improvement area members That the funding for the program will be cancelled in three weeks Why is the government abandoning small businesses yet again? The associate minister for small business Thank you speaker. I want to thank the member opposite for the question The digital mainstream program was a phenomenal program Although brought in prior to the pandemic throughout the pandemic was key to helping many of our businesses Actually over 82,000 businesses get an online president about 24,000 businesses Star or expand their e-commerce journey over two years, but you know what's really exciting premier Sorry, speaker is the sudden concern for our small businesses by the members opposite So speaker we are talking to our stakeholders. We're engaging with them constantly But let me talk about some of the other wonderful support spots to our businesses the Digital competence center it connects companies with innovative digital solutions and helps SMEs Across all sectors implement new digital technologies the canada digital adoption program Thank you. Thank you The supplementary question the member for trauma center Yes, thank you very much speaker and back to the premier as someone who's owned several small businesses I know firsthand how hard it is to get a small business off the ground I launched my businesses before today's challenges of every fast technology change and costly inflation hikes Sonya scarf a small business owner my writing told me the digital mainstream program helps small businesses like ours Offset costs and build an online presence. This program is an extremely valuable asset to small businesses I can only praise their work now is not the time for the premier to pull the plug on digital mainstream funding And it's never time to abandon small businesses in Ontario Yes or no Will the premier reverse course listen to small business owners and maintain funding to keep the lights on for the digital mainstream program Thank you speaker and again to the member opposite for the question First I'd like to remind all members in this house that it was the opposition members that voted against the funding for the digital Main Street program But no surprise because they really really do not understand their small businesses But you know what what would have helped small businesses? Recently was where the federal government provided absolutely no reprieve for the c-below reprimands when I asked them to I asked everyone in this house to contact their federal members They did nothing state silent another area that could really help our small businesses Was if they pick up the phone talk to their federal cousins and ask them to swap the carbon tax because it hurts every single business And individual federal cousins and carbon crumbies liberals over there Silent they will do nothing pick up the phone. You can do that the next question remember for richmond hill Thank you speaker. My question is for the solicitor general We all know that carbon tax is making more expensive for ontario families and businesses Not only is it increasing the cost of goods, but it's also driving up costs of fuel and gasoline for everyone in our province What's more public safety services across the province are being impacted by the carbon tax as well Speaker our police services need more support and resources to protect our communities Not additional fuel costs because of the carbon tax Speaker can the solicitor general, please explain the negative effects of carbon tax on tax and on law enforcement and public safety agencies across ontario And to respond to solicitor general Well, thank you, mr. Speaker, and I want to thank my colleague for the question Ontarians have told us very clearly public safety means everything to them. And you know what mr. Speaker It's a top priority for our government led by premier for The carbon tax has significantly increased the cost of public safety And in a few weeks as we know the federal government will do it again and raise the carbon tax by 23 percent And it's affecting our firefighters and our police officers our special constables and our first responders People that are there to fight crime Every day thousands of vehicles are on the road that help keep our province safe And the police budgets have to cover the carbon tax on these cars that get fueled My message is simple the liberals across the way can call their friends in ottawa and say this is not fair Scrapped attack Thank you speaker and thank you to the solicitor general for the response It is concerning to hear that the carbon tax is affecting public safety efforts in ontario We with the media reports about the crime and legal illegal activities in many areas of our province Residents in my community of regimen hill are concerned about the financial impact of the carbon tax on the day-to-day work of our frontline police workers They are worried about how the carbon tax is placing on the strain of policing services As well as on the budget Speaker Our government must ensure police officers receive support as they carry out their duties Could the solicitor general provide further details about the government's initiatives to strengthen ontario's public safety in light of the carbon tax And the solicitor general Well, thank you, mr. Speaker And when people are being confronted by having their doors kicked in and their car stolen When people are being confronted by violent and repeat offenders on our streets We need more boots on the ground as soon as possible And when we look at what the carbon tax is doing for police service budgets The opp alone has spent almost four million dollars on carbon tax Four million dollars could have put 40 new boots on the ground and that's just the opp And when I look around this chamber and I think of the first nations police services and the other municipal police services across the province How many more boots on the ground could we have the carbon tax is regressive? It hits us everywhere It's hitting us on public safety. The liberals across the way can do the right thing Pick up the phone tell them cause the tax it is affecting our public safety Last year the minister of natural resources started this spring With a shortage of 50 crews to tackle forest fires Lacking preparedness and seeking help from across canada and mexico My question is simple Given the extreme lack of snow condition this year How many wildfire ranger crews do we need to be prepared for wildfires this season? And how many do we have as of right now? The minister of natural resources and forestry Oh, thank you, mr. Speaker and I'm glad the member opposite asked the question because recruitment is open right now for more Fire Rangers in Ontario. We've got many many great returning crews from last year We know that we'll have new recruits this year to supplement a Crew of those in the air those on the ground fighting fires keeping community safe keeping infrastructure safe Small communities all throughout the north indigenous communities incredibly important And i'm very very glad that the member is supporting recruitment and retention of our firefighters We want more to come into the fold So i'd encourage everybody to make sure that you're letting people know that recruitment is open right now And everyone is welcome to apply Thank you that concludes our question period for this morning


Hi y'all she was seven. Okay, I know I look crazy, but I've been experimenting with some crazy eyeliner, and I'm just I feel like doing a video so This video is gonna be about flipping the script. Okay ladies a lot of people have been asking me How do you ask your man for money? How do you? Get money out of a man. How do you get them to pay for stuff because they're not trying to pay for stuff these days? I'm like well You got a trick people these days. Okay, and it's it's sad, but this is what it's come to Men do not want to act like gentlemen anymore men do not want to play the provider role anymore because they have been taught that You're not supposed to do that and By nature women are receivers men are givers. Okay, so When something goes wrong in nature, what do they do? They experiment and they do run tests and they say hey Why is this going wrong? We need to fix it and a lot of times they'll take you know Insects or animals and they'll put them in a different environment under different circumstances To see if they'll revert back to the way that they were supposed to be naturally and so a lot of times I got a trickle. Okay the environment and certain things Change them for some reason. Okay, and In order to get them back to doing what they're supposed to be doing by nature Sometimes you got a trick of them and put them in a certain situation. So let's do it So if you don't want to pay on a date, don't bring your purse. Okay, don't bring your wallet First of all, they're gonna think you're bringing a purse, but they don't know there's a wallet in there So when you get to wherever you need to go you order whatever And they ask you to split the bill. Oh, I'm so sorry. I left my wallet at home. Oh my god.   Your friend down the street hurt. She's not even as cute as you but her boyfriend is giving her money like You deserve some too, right? So let's get let's let's get into it. How do you get money from a man? Okay?   I owe my mom a hundred dollars. She's just bugging me I'm stressed. I don't feel like doing that. I'm not in the mood. I'm not horny I'm I gotta go get another jobs because I have to pay her back a hundred dollars a month because I bought something from her and It ain't true. Okay, but this I get your nail and hair money or whatever I'm just so stressed out. I'm thinking about going to wait tables at one of the little men's gentlemen's club Because they said that they make a lot of tips and only have to work one night a week So he's gonna be like, thanks. Let me working with strippers Just to get a hundred dollars to pay her mom back every month. No, let me go in. I got you I'll give it to you because first of all, if you Say I have to go get a second job at strip club as a waitress That's how all strippers start off, right as a waitress Especially if you have a body to do that kind of stuff.  You don't have to do that I'll give you the hundred dollars. Okay. I said, well, this is every month. So I'm gonna, you know I'm gonna need that extra help every month. Are you sure? Like pretend like you don't even want him to give you the money Like, no, baby. It's okay. I'll go get that job. You know what those men in there? They're drunk They're horny.  They got money So I don't want make them feel like less than the man and He'll give you that money be like, you know, I don't want to take your money I can take their money, you know, I can make lots of money on these You know rich old horny men who are just handing it out. So now that puts you in an environment I'm in an environment where you can meet a rich Man or a man with more money than them Who's just gonna throw tips at you for bringing them a drink, right? And who might even flirt with you because you know You never know.  She must not be with any type of you know decent man because she's coming to me for money So it's gonna make him feel bad. So he's gonna give you the money. Okay. It's mind games Now if he just says no, I broke I can't afford I can't afford to take care of myself That's when you got to go to plan B and get a side dude just to give you money. Okay And this I know this is politically incorrect, but that's just how things work.  Okay all the time And when a woman can play a game the same game, but even better With a man and she gets over on him Have the time actually more than half 90% of the time they never find out Okay, 90% of the time they don't think it's a game They won't even question you because women are so talented at putting so much detail into the game They just believe it. Okay, and half the time whatever the problem is it's not even a problem Okay, it's a way to get what you want. It's called manipulation. Okay, and I'm not saying that you know I'm not ashamed to say manipulation works because everyone knows manipulation works Okay, if your morals are so high and so above this and this event Why are you with a broke guy? And why are you complaining about it? It should only be about love So if you have a problem with manipulation and tricking guys, but you want money from a guy. This is this and that But you're not willing to do to get what it takes by tricking him because you know He's not gonna give it to you any other way. Then you don't really want that money Okay I'll tell y'all story. Let me see about time. Yeah, so When I first started dating the guy that I married I said look I was very blunt because I was like, you know I have nothing to lose like I I've been single for a while. I don't have nothing to lose I'm just gonna put it all on the table.  I gotta be your girlfriend Okay, so he said okay, I can deal with that and he really wanted it. Okay, so he waited for it He he said, okay, we could we can be a couple. So I said, okay After three months, I'm like, look, I can't be involved with somebody I can't be in a relationship with some especially a guy who is You know very financially stable and you know has a lot of money to spare you have a nice car You have a nice place you make a lot of money I can't be with somebody who's gonna make me go out there and work in nine to five up under some other man all day When you can afford to take care of me, I can't do it.  Okay, they're real So I told him about that.  Take me on a weekend trips everywhere. I work. They want to do this. So I that's why I'm not comfortable working and dating at the same time if I'm gonna work I can't date because there's so many, you know guys at the places that I work who are very interested in me, okay, and You know, they take things personally Especially from women this is before sexual harassment was real big Especially for women if you say no if you decline them all the time to go out to lunch and you know do things with them They'll take it personally and then you won't get the same treatment. You won't this you won't get that and if they're If they're not corporate owned there is no policy in place, you know To you know to stop the sexual harassment and if you know if you're young you you can't afford to go hire a lawyer Da-da-da-da. So it's like look, I can't date and work at the same time. You need to handle this. So He did he's like you're right. I know a lot of my friends who own businesses that are in that business and they're very You know, they're very Roofless, I know exactly what you mean.   Okay I know this is probably like, oh my god, she's living in fantasy land. What where does she work? Y'all forget I was young back then, okay And the people that I worked for were older.  Uh, I'm I'm not sexually aroused anymore because I am so stressed about money. Okay, um You know, I'm thinking about going to work at night And a cocktail bar as a waitress.  She's gonna leave me Why I'm supposed to be with her. She's out working in a club with skipy clothes.  I'm not gonna do my hair and put my bonnet on I don't need no more makeup. Just give me some lip gloss. Okay, let's go No, that stuff costs money and when women pay for all those things when they're single Believe me, they're getting They're getting reimbursed with dates with drinks with gifts and stuff like that They're not just spending that money and if you are you're doing it the wrong way. Okay So I'm just gonna put that out there. I know a lot of women are gonna disagree A lot of men are gonna chime in and be like, what about look, you know what? If you can't give me a hundred dollars when I ask you for it, do you really love me? Like honestly, do you really love me? If I say, baby, I need a hundred dollars If you say no, then how am I supposed to believe that you truly Truly love me. Okay, you'll die for me. You'll do this for me, but you won't give me a hundred dollars That don't make no sense. Okay It just don't you know, you can say you'll die for me, but when it comes down to it Is that true? If you won't even give me a hundred dollars, I don't believe that Put your money where your mouth is, you know So anyway I know I'm looking crazy, but I had to get this video If y'all have any questions or if y'all have anything to add to it Y'all know what to do put in the comments I don't regret anything. I say I believe 100 and manipulation and mentalism and tricking men because Women are the receivers men are the givers if they don't want to give naturally and they have to be deceived and tricked into it Well, oh well, we're just you know trying to get them back into where they're supposed to be naturally That is our job as women of the earth Is to get nature back in order. Okay. I'll see y'all later. Bye


Hey, this is Jennifer Gonzalez for Cult of Pedagogy. Today, I'm going to demonstrate a tool for you that is called Paper Lea. Paper Lea allows you to curate a collection of online resources that all share a similar topic and produce your own online newspaper that displays them. Okay, so I'm on the Paper Lea website right now. It's just paper.li. To create account, it's very simple. You just need an email address. So I've done that already. I've logged in and then I get it to their home screen. Just click on create paper. Okay, so I am the first thing I need to do is give the paper a title and I am going to assume that I'm a science student and I've been tasked with creating a paper on controversies surrounding genetics. So I will put genetic issues. Click next. First thing I have to do is start searching for content. So I'm going to enter a few keywords. I'll put genetics and they are going to give me a lot of choices of things that I can choose to follow. So I'll put genetics update. Choose a few of these things. I'll choose a few RSS feeds and maybe a YouTube channel or two and I will search, let's see, stem cell and maybe GMOs. Because those are controversial also. Just a couple of things. And once I've selected some sources, I click create my paper and this is what I get. So my next step is to just edit it and make sure that everything is really the way I want it. The first thing I'm going to do, I'll click on edit. I'll go into settings. I'm going to click on content. Because when I clicked all of those sources, they just put them in the exact order that I selected them. So I can actually slide certain things up. Like I'll probably slide this GMO journal up higher so that it's given more priority. Maybe do the stem cell one a little higher. You can prioritize, which means that things get pulled in in that order. You can also select the paper sections. Some of the sections that they give you by default are not at all related to the stuff you're going to be looking for. So I'm going to select which ones I want to keep. I'm going to get rid of trending hashtags because sometimes that filters in weird stuff. I'm going to get rid of arts and entertainment. I don't think that's relevant in business and we'll get rid of a few other sections. Once you've done that, then you'll want to click fetch new content because that will clean it up a little bit. So now I've got basically a draft of my paper and if I am a student, I'm going to get graded on making sure that I have got everything only relevant to my content. I'm going to have to go in and edit some and pull out stuff that doesn't really have any connection. So suppose I really want this to be my main story. I would just grab it here, pull it over here, and then that becomes the lead story. So you can drag things around. You can delete things that have no relevance to your topic. Right now everything on here seems to be pretty, it seems to be pretty much focused just on the GMO stuff. So if I wanted to add more things, then I would just go back in and change the content in my settings the way I just did. And if I wanted to delete some things, suppose I decided that this video right here was not relevant, I would just click it and it would disappear. So anybody who creates one of these can really edit them to make them purely about the content that they're looking for. Once the student has decided that their paper is ready to share, they would simply highlight the URL, copy it, and then paste that into an email or wherever you would like them to share the URL. And so this is a great way of teaching your students how to curate content. It would be a great way to create a classroom newspaper or a school newspaper. And so I just wanted to show you that tool and I hope you have fun with it.


I want to welcome everyone to Sagra Park as we welcome these amazing, distinguished guests to Columbia South Carolina to help us deal with what we know is indeed the greatest public health threat in the last 100 years. Here we have had an amazing local effort led by so many of you in this space right now. We want to thank you for your incredible leadership, the work we've been doing together. We found out that the misinformation that's flowing around this time makes this pandemic different than the one before. All the people who are on one of four trying to get over the Spanish flu. No one question we're in a mess. I've been doing my research. I ran across pictures of a Georgia Tech game. A Georgia Tech football game in 1918. Everybody in the police. We're here next. In 1918. Here we are with all the enlightenment we've had for the last 100 years. We've got people questioning science. For those of you who talk about the intersection of housing and health, because that's where the sanitation system is at this time. About a year and a half ago, they told everybody that we need to call the state home. Remember that? Remember what I said? What happened? You didn't have a phone. They asked us to teach our children virtually. You didn't have ICU in there. Or if you didn't have broadband, or the devices that we needed. So we had children moving as children. We lost the entire year of education. More than 300,000 people in this community were able to have a very long way. 330,000 people. In 40 out of 46 counties, you cannot get a two-bedroom car. Just make the minimum wage. This state has regulations that just have every other state in the United States. Even before. So this is really what has dealt us another blow. But we are resilient people. We are resilient people. We are inspired. That's what I just asked. It's a lot of work we have to come back to South Carolina because you're thinking like that. That's a mission. That's what I'm trying to do. That's what I'm trying to do.