Speaker, through you to the Premier: Every year, workers in Ontario are hospitalized because of heat stress. Some of them die.
Last year, you carried out a consultation on new heat stress regulations and you didn’t increase protection for any workers. This year promises to be another summer of climate-driven record heat. You can increase protection for workers right now. Will you do it?
The member from Mushkegowuk–James Bay—that was a good critique of the bill before us, but I noticed this bill doesn’t have the things that would make a huge difference in workers’ lives. As we all know, unionizing is one of the most critical things you can do to improve the lot of working people in this province, but there is no card-based certification. There is no mention of first-contract support. There is no anti-scab legislation.
Could you speak to the lack of these critical elements that would allow workers to unionize and actually exercise power to defend themselves in the workplace?