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Doly Begum

  • MPP
  • Member of Provincial Parliament
  • Scarborough Southwest
  • New Democratic Party of Ontario
  • Ontario
  • Unit 5 3110 Kingston Rd. Scarborough, ON M1M 1P2 DBegum-CO@ndp.on.ca
  • tel: 416-261-9525
  • fax: 416-261-0381
  • DBegum-QP@ndp.on.ca

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  • Mar/30/23 3:00:00 p.m.

I listened to both of the members speak about the budget, and my question is to the member from Lanark–Frontenac–Kingston because he spoke specifically about the investments that the government is making and how proud he is.

One of the things that took place last night was the TDSB board meeting, and they made some really difficult decisions. They made a lot of difficult decisions which will really show the cumulative cuts over the last 20 years and the impact of that to our students and their learning.

So I want to ask the member, why has the government underspent, specifically, $47 million in your previous budget, and now, while projecting for the education funding—and seeing the amount of violence and need for learning within our schools, why isn’t your government spending more on education than before?

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  • Mar/30/23 1:40:00 p.m.

I listened to both the member from Durham and the member from Richmond Hill asking for support for this legislation, and one of the things I’m really concerned about, Speaker, is the crisis in our housing across this province. Not only can’t people rent, but people are seeing the high mortgage payments and the increasing property taxes. We’re seeing this is going to happen in Toronto, as well.

How do you justify the cut by your government of $124.4 million in this budget to municipal affairs?

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