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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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Thank you very much, Speaker. I also want to take a moment to thank my colleague and friend from Toronto Centre for her very informative remarks, because I know she cares deeply about transit across this city and this province and has done a lot of work as a councillor before to make sure that we have transit that is integrated and serves the people.

One of the things that we’ve always had difficulty with, Speaker, which provincial governments repeatedly failed, was providing the operating funding. The answer that she was just giving—I think there was more to carry forward on that topic as well. Because we have seen governments fail to provide the operational funding necessary for the TTC, and look at where we are right now. I’m in Scarborough; we have a horrible system where people need to wait for 45 minutes to an hour sometimes to get on the bus.

So I would like to hear from the member about what she thinks could have been in this bill, but also, in terms of schedule 2, how this will actually deteriorate when it comes to the services that we need in our transit system.

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