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Hon. Kinga Surma

  • MPP
  • Member of Provincial Parliament
  • Etobicoke Centre
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
  • Ontario
  • Lloydmanor Shopping Centre Unit 102 201 Lloyd Manor Rd. Etobicoke, ON M9B 6H6 Kinga.Surmaco@pc.ola.org
  • tel: 416-234-2800
  • fax: 416-234-2276
  • Kinga.Surma@pc.ola.org

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  • Apr/17/24 4:10:00 p.m.

In my remarks, I clearly identified the fact that should these institutions and their agencies want to sell or purchase real estate, they simply notify the minister responsible and/or seek an LGIC, which could include conditions as part of it.

We just want to know, if there is an agency or institution, when they are selling real estate. We want to know, because if there is some other purpose that government can use this real estate for—be it long-term care, be it affordable housing, be it providing additional space for ServiceOntario or anything else—then we may have that opportunity. But we wouldn’t know if we weren’t notified. That’s all this is doing. It’s just for us to have some insight on realty decisions moving forward.

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  • Mar/1/23 3:20:00 p.m.
  • Re: Bill 69 

Thank you very much to the member for the question. I think the easiest way that I can explain this—I’ll use different ministries as an example. Our government is often very proud of the fact that—how closely our ministries collaborate and work together in order to make decisions, rather than ministries making decisions in silos. Similar structure here: agencies reporting to ministries. Of course, our ministries work together, but in order to have a real, holistic ability to make decisions, to make recommendations, to find efficiencies, to optimize and modernize space, I think it would be extremely helpful to government to have it all in one place so that we can take a look at the picture and make decisions and recommendations to government.

If there are very technical questions that you have, I would be happy to honour the member and arrange for a briefing.

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