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Member of Provincial Parliament

Tom Rakocevic

  • MPP
  • Member of Provincial Parliament
  • Humber River—Black Creek
  • New Democratic Party of Ontario
  • Ontario
  • Unit 38 2300 Finch Ave. W North York, ON M9M 2Y3 TRakocevic-CO@ndp.on.ca
  • tel: 416-743-7272
  • fax: 416-743-3292
  • TRakocevic-QP@ndp.on.ca

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Context: Assembly - Sep/26/23
Mr. Tom Rakocevic
  • Sep/26/23 5:00:00 p.m.
  • Re: Bill 79 

I want to thank the member for her presentation. Schedule 5—and there are other schedules in this bill—talks about raising fines. You know, a government likes to look tough when they’re punishing those who are misbehaving, and one of the ways in which, of course, they like to say that is by raising fines.

When they’ve done studies on the matter, they find that to discourage bad behaviour, to discourage the breaking of rules, it’s not so much the level of a fine but the chances of getting caught that discourages, but we have a government that has shown in many different areas that they’ve reduced inspections as a result of their activities and the decisions that they make. What are your thoughts on that matter?
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