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 …
QUEEN’S PARK — Mike Schreiner released the following statement in response to news that the government wants to include the creation of student residences toward its goal of building 1.5 million homes.
“The lengths this government will go to in order to distract from its rock-bottom housing record are outrageous.
Instead of stepping up …
WILMOT – Yesterday, MPP Mike Schreiner and MPP Aislinn Clancy joined farmers and community members in Wilmot Township calling on Waterloo Region to preserve the 770 acres of prime farmland between Nafziger Road, Bleams Road and Wilmot Centre Road that are slated to be rezoned for an undisclosed purpose.
“A threat to farmland anywhere is a threat to farmland everywhere,” said Clancy.
“We …