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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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  • Nov/29/22 4:40:00 p.m.

Thank you to the member for his question. If we can agree upon something being red tape, then we can support it. It’s a question of what, in fact, is red tape.

I have to say, this bill seems to be a bit of a channel change. I feel like I’m in a time warp, because when I was elected in 2018, similar to now, bills were coming up—motions and ideas by this government—that were controversial, to say the least. Sometimes I feel like it’s a bit of a government by tag line.

I know we’re going back to something that they love to talk about, red tape. If something truly is red tape, something that we can agree upon as red tape, we will support that, but it’s a question of if any given regulation is in fact red tape or not and who’s asking you to make the changes. Is it coming from a good place or something that we should be concerned about?

Is this a move in the right direction? I don’t believe so, and I think history and time will be the judge of the actions you made. Just in the same way that I’ve heard government members get up and judge the previous government before them, the Liberal government, people will be pointing fingers and you’re going to be wearing the bad decisions that you make today and in the days following.

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