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Stephen Blais

  • MPP
  • Member of Provincial Parliament
  • Orléans
  • Ontario Liberal Party
  • Ontario
  • Unit 204 4473 Innes Rd. Orleans, ON K4A 1A7 sblais.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org
  • tel: 613-834-8679
  • fax: 613-834-7647
  • sblais.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org

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  • May/17/23 5:10:00 p.m.
  • Re: Bill 85 

When the derecho hit Ottawa and devastated communities right across the city, when it knocked out hydro to tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people across our city, the community was devastated. And then, a couple of days later, the Premier came—

Interruption.

When the Premier came to Orléans after the derecho to visit the fire station, there was great hope that there would be investment from the province to help farmers recover, to help Hydro Ottawa pay for the tens of millions of dollars they spent cleaning up from the storm. Unfortunately, while there was a lot of talk and there were a lot of photos to try to help their Conservative candidate win in the Orléans riding, none of those promises were backed up in real life. There is not a single dollar to help the city of Ottawa or Hydro Ottawa from the derecho as part of this budget.

In fact, the biggest critic of the current industrial policy to help the automotive industry here in Ontario, Madam Speaker, is the leader of the Conservative Party; he’s the biggest critic of the plan to invest in Ontario’s auto sector—

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