This is a very important petition.

“Extend Access to Post-Adoption Birth Information.

“To the Legislative Assembly of Ontario:

“Whereas current legislation does not provide access to post-adoption birth information ... to next of kin if an adult adopted person or a natural/birth parent is deceased;

“Whereas this barrier to accessing post-adoption birth information separates immediate family members and prohibits the children of deceased adopted people from gaining knowledge of their identity and possible Indigenous heritage;

“We, the undersigned, petition the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to extend access to post-adoption” information “to next of kin, and/or extended next of kin, if an adult adopted person or a natural/birth parent is deceased.”

I fully support this petition. I will sign it and pass it to page Bhavna to deliver to the table.

The member was talking about—I’m sure many of us have experienced being servers in restaurants and attendants, customer service in gas stations etc. We all know that those are very important things.

The government, under schedule 2, is talking about educating workers on how employers can’t withhold, deduct or require money to be returned in situations where a customer doesn’t pay for their meal at a restaurant or someone doesn’t pay for their gas. But the government member fails to acknowledge that under part V, the wages section, section 13, of the ESA, it’s already there. That law is already there. The problem is, it’s not being enforced.

Will you commit to actually enforcing schedule 2 so that workers are actually treated fairly? Because it doesn’t make sense that this bill—you’re promoting workers, but you’re not enforcing the law so it could actually work for workers, that piece of legislation and schedule 2.