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Stephanie Bowman

  • MPP
  • Member of Provincial Parliament
  • Don Valley West
  • Ontario Liberal Party
  • Ontario
  • Suite 101 795 Eglinton Ave. E Toronto, ON M4G 4E4 sbowman.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org
  • tel: 416-425-6777
  • fax: 416-425-0350
  • sbowman.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org

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  • Mar/2/23 2:40:00 p.m.
  • Re: Bill 69 

Thank you to the member from London for the question.

I would say no, that is not good business practice, of course. I think that was a nice friendly question over here, so thank you.

Again, that’s the crux of some of our questions about this bill.

Certainly, the Auditor General had some strong recommendations for Infrastructure Ontario and how it does its procurement, how it manages its suppliers—and that their tenants are not getting the services they need on a timely basis or perhaps in a cost-efficient way.

I’m still trying to understand why this bill is specifically only focusing on one particular recommendation, which was number 10, where the Ministry of Infrastructure says they will undertake a review of the realty operating model and associated financial model in order to study and implement improvements to the management of government properties, and that they will work closely with Infrastructure Ontario and all ministry tenants to examine different options for effective service delivery and the management of government properties—so again, I would say that that is really what the focus should be, as opposed to a recommendation to immediately seize control over these properties.

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