May 31, 2016 - QP Briefing

Your morning briefing

Your morning roundup of news and agenda items for Tuesday, May 31. ...

What was asked in question period

For Tuesday, May 31, 2016 ...

Fiscal watchdog howls over roadblocks to information requests

Financial Accountability Officer Stephen LeClair says there has been "political direction" on how to interpret a legal loophole that keeps government records from his grasp. ...

Thunder Bay, Lambton vie to test minimum income plan

While it’s early days yet, the Ministry of Community and Social Services confirmed it will be handling the implementation of the pilot project, in conjunction with the Treasury Board. ...

Environmental commissioner calls for fossil fuel cut

Left out of the discussion over the province's climate change action plan, Dianne Saxe forges ahead, calling for the end to fossil fuel subsidies and the setting of formal targets for cutting gasoline and natural gas use ...

Seen: Jack MacLaren returns

Jack MacLaren is back. The Progressive Conservative MPP for Carleton-Mississippi Mills returned to Queen's Park on May 31 from weeks-long sensitivity training after he made a crude and sexist joke about federal Libera ...

Column: Bad policy or not, autism file was badly managed

Deb Hutton says the government has faced a firestorm of negative publicity on what could have been a positive story about helping children - and if there has been a shining light in all of this, it's Children Services Mi ...

Happening: Political finance bill off to committee for summer hearings

The Liberal government’s bill aiming to limit the influence of corporate and union money on elections will spend the summer before a legislative committee. A motion laying out a series of hearings for Bill 201 passed ...

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