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Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
April 18, 2024 09:00AM
  • Apr/18/24 9:00:00 a.m.

Thank you, Speaker. No business.

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  • Apr/18/24 11:10:00 a.m.

Well, Speaker, I say this: I know the member’s riding very well. I used to live in the community, and I used to have to take the Scarborough 86 bus from my home to Kennedy station, and then Kennedy station—for my first job, which was as an intern at the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing.

Now, after 15 years of Liberals, do you know what people are still doing in that neck of the woods? They’re still taking the Scarborough 86 bus to Kennedy station, to get on a subway to get to work downtown. But do you know what’s going to stop for them? They’re going to have a subway now in Scarborough. Do you know why? Because we’re building that subway. Now, if they choose not to go to University of Toronto downtown, they can go to the expanded University of Toronto—where? In Scarborough. If they want to be a doctor, do you know where they can go get that education? In Scarborough. Do you know what they couldn’t do under 15 years of Liberals and Liberals in that riding? Anything, Mr. Speaker—because that’s what the Liberals did; they held Scarborough back.

We’re unleashing opportunity, and it’s good for Scarborough.

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  • Apr/18/24 11:30:00 a.m.

Point of order.

Mr. Speaker, obviously, we’re not going to entertain a substantive motion like that. If the Liberal Party would like to bring something on the floor, they have many opportunities to do that—as opposed to playing games, perhaps they would take their work seriously and bring something to the floor of this House. But I can assure the member that we will be voting against a motion that we have neither seen nor have been advised about what the contents of it are.

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