QUEEN’S PARK — MPP for Guelph Mike Schreiner released the following statement in response to news that Canada’s 2024 wildfire season is expected to be worse than last year’s.
“It’s hard to imagine a forest fire season worse than last year’s, when 700 fires raged across Ontario’s north and destroyed over a million …
QUEEN’S PARK — MPP Clancy and MPP Schreiner released the following statement in response to news that just 20 corporate landlords filed over half of the applications for above-guideline rent increases (AGIs) in the first eight months of 2022.
“The overuse of AGIs in Ontario is costing people their homes.
With increasing frequency, renters …
QUEEN’S PARK — MPP Clancy and MPP Schreiner released the following statement to mark Equal Pay Day.
“Every year, we mark Equal Pay Day to call attention to the fact that women in Ontario earn just 87 cents for every dollar earned by men. In the case of racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQ+ and disabled …
QUEEN’S PARK — MPP for Guelph Mike Schreiner released the following statement in response to news that the government may not meet its long-term care direct care target due to staffing shortages.
“Every single sector of our healthcare system has been hemorrhaging nurses for years now as frontline workers leave the public sector …
QUEEN’S PARK — MPP for Guelph Mike Schreiner released the following statement in response to an Ontario Healthcare Coalition report showing that dozens of patients who received privately funded cataract surgeries were pressured to pay more for extra services.
“The Premier promised that Ontarians would never have to use their credit cards to …
QUEEN’S PARK — MPP Schreiner and MPP Clancy released the following statement in response to news that the federal government has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ontario on the proposed Highway 413.
“Despite this disappointing news, we will keep fighting to stop Highway 413 and put forward real housing solutions that protect …
QUEEN’S PARK — MPP Aislinn Clancy and MPP Mike Schreiner released the following statement in response to news that the latest GO Transit expansion will not include all-day, two-way service on the Kitchener Line.
“How is it that out of the hundreds of trips being added to the weekly GO schedule, none of …
QUEEN’S PARK — Mike Schreiner released the following statement in response to the government’s proposed housing legislation.
“With this bill, the government is effectively admitting defeat after five years of housing failures.
Instead of taking big and bold leadership to build more homes that people can afford, they’re tinkering around the edges and shifting …
QUEEN’S PARK — Mike Schreiner released the following statement in response to the publication of an FAO report showing that Ontario’s 2022-23 spending per capita was the lowest of all provinces.
“This is not a government that cares about everyday Ontarians.
Despite having one of the highest budget deficits on record, the Ford government …
QUEEN’S PARK — Today, MPP Aislinn Clancy and MPP Mike Schreiner were joined by tenants from the Kitchener riding to call on the government to pass Clancy’s private members’ bill, the Keeping People Housed Act.
Kitchener tenants Karolina Kruk and Leonard Shushan, both of whom have been fighting bad-faith evictions from their apartments …