Marco Patrone, Author at QP Briefing

Options being weighed over apparent flop of OESP

On news that only 34,000 households out of 500,000 eligible have applied for the Ontario Electricity Support Program, Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli admits "we would have hoped that the take-up would have been larger." ...

What was asked in Question Period

For Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015 ...

Ontario gets good marks for hospital wait times

Both the Fraser Institute and the Wait Time Alliance ranked Ontario among the best in the country for wait times, but there are also reports of hundreds of delayed surgeries in the London area. ...

What was asked in Question Period

For Tuesday Dec. 8, 2015 ...

Engineers say government misled them over promised change to labour law

Professional Engineers Ontario say that in 2010, the Liberal government committed to dropping a labour law exception but reversed course under pressure from business groups. ...

MacCharles to meet with Children’s Aid Societies next week

Minister for children and youth services to instruct CASs to 'develop a quality improvement plan regarding a number of issues associated with the auditor general’s report.' ...

What was asked in question period

PC Leader Patrick Brown asked deputy premier Deb Matthews if she thinks it is acceptable to hand out $1 billion in economic development grants without proper accountability. Brown asked Minister of Economic Develo ...

Taxpayers might be on hook for legal costs over toxic sites

The AG report points out that getting money out of private operators could be impossible 'if a contaminated site's owner is insolvent or if the business in question is no longer operating' ...

Minister to act over lack of background checks by Children’s Aid Societies

MacCharles insists she's considering strong action. 'As you know CASs are independent legal entities however it is my job to provide oversight and I do have a number of tools at my disposal and I'm considering all of the ...

Duguid rejects allegations of ‘cronyism’ over economic development grants

Economic Development Minister says AG's review did not look at new Jobs and Prosperity Fund introduced in January of this year, which he said 'has a very robust decision-making process' ...

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