Letter: B

• Babikian, A. (PC, Scarborough—Agincourt)

  • Members' statements
    • Armenian genocide anniversary, 84
  • Mental health and addictions services
    • Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment (HART) Hubs, 497
  • Mental health and addictions services - children and youth
    • youth wellness hubs, 496
  • Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5)
    • second reading, 293
  • Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
    • second reading, 117
  • Question period
    • Mental health and addiction services
      • presented, 496–497

• Bailey, R. (PC, Sarnia—Lambton)

  • Business - local
    • promotion of
      • Buy Ontario, Buy Canadian Day, 158
  • Business - small- and medium-sized
    • government strategy, 159
  • Energy generation
    • revitalization, power station
      • Sarnia-Lambton, 425
  • Energy policy
    • government strategy, 557–558
  • Health care
    • government strategy, 732
  • Health care - primary care
    • teaching clinics, 735
    • team-based, 596
  • Health care workers - recruitment and retention
    • by region
      • Sarnia—Lambton, 735
  • Health information
    • Electronic Health Record
      • patient access, 733–734
    • protection of privacy, 733–734
  • Medical Officers of Health
    • class orders by local medical officers
      • Chief Medical Officer approval, 733–735
  • Members' statements
    • Lambton Generating Station, 425
    • Pathways Health Centre for Children, 614
  • Mental health and addictions services
    • Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment (HART) Hubs, 419, 483
  • More Convenient Care Act, 2025 (Bill 11)
    • second reading, 483, 596
  • Nurse practitioners
    • by region
      • Sarnia—Lambton, 736
    • scope of practice
      • mandatory blood reporting, 733–734
  • Nurses
    • recruitment and retention, 735
  • Nurses - temporary agencies
    • accountability and oversight
      • fees, disclosure, 732–734
    • hiring
      • cost, 735
  • Ontario Health atHome
    • and French Language Services Act, 732
  • Question period
    • Economic development
      • presented, 158–159
    • Energy policies
      • presented, 557–558
    • Government accountability
      • responded to, 157
  • Safer Municipalities Act, 2025 (Bill 6)
    • second reading, 419, 422
  • Unhoused persons
    • encampments
      • impact, 423

• Begum, D. (NDP, Scarborough Southwest)

  • Health care
    • spending
      • per capita, 576
  • Hospitals - infrastructure
    • as nation-building, 576
  • Israel-Hamas war
    • impact on Palestinian territories, 486
  • Members' statements
    • Conflict in Middle East, 486
  • Opposition day motions
    • Hospital funding
      • responded to, 575–576
  • Petitions
    • Alzheimer's disease, 325
  • Question period
    • Public transit
      • presented, 321
  • Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) expansion - Scarborough subway extension
    • delays, 321

• Bell, J. (NDP, University—Rosedale)

  • Affordable housing
    • government strategy, 336
  • Agriculture industry
    • government strategy, 727
  • Agriculture industry - food processing
    • promotion of, 909
  • Agri-food industry
    • government strategy, 727
  • Budget 2025/2026
    • affordability, 724
    • pre-budget consultations, 724
      • Association of Municipalities of Ontario, 726–727
      • Fix Our Schools, 725–726
      • Ontario Council of Hospital Unions, 725
      • Ontario Federation of Agriculture, 727
      • Ontario Medical Association, 724–725
      • Ontario Public Transit Association, 727
  • Business - small- and medium-sized
    • government strategy, 336
  • Consumer protection
    • product labelling
      • domestic/international/interprovincial, 727, 908
  • Court administration - backlogs
    • and government funding, 534
    • government strategy, 373
    • impact, 533
    • stay of proceedings, 446
  • Economic development
    • government strategy, 724
  • Education
    • government funding, 621
  • Education funding
    • allocation per student, 493
    • general remarks, 336
  • Food security
    • children and youth, 485
  • Government accountability and oversight
    • special economic zones, 289
  • Government contracts
    • public procurement directives
      • restriction on United States businesses, 727
  • Health care
    • reports and recommendations, 724–725
  • Health care funding
    • general remarks, 336
  • Hospitals
    • government funding, 725
  • Hospitals - capacity and overcrowding
    • and long-term-care beds, 725
  • International trade - tariffs, United States
    • government strategy, 209
    • jobs, impact on
      • government strategy, 209
  • Intimate partner violence
    • government response
      • reports and recommendations, 534
  • Judges
    • independence of, 532
  • Judicial appointments
    • process
      • statements from stakeholders, 532
  • Justice system
    • government funding, 533
  • Members' statements
    • Food insecurity, 485
  • Municipal infrastructure
    • infrastructure deficit
      • and property taxes, 726
  • Opposition day motions
    • Taxation
      • responded to, 336–337
  • Petitions
    • Addiction services, 437
    • Education funding, 215
  • Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5)
    • second reading, 289, 297
  • Protect Ontario Through Safer Streets and Stronger Communities Act, 2025 (Bill 10)
    • second reading, 373, 446, 532–534
  • Question period
    • Manufacturing jobs
      • presented, 208–209
    • School boards
      • presented, 493, 620–621
  • School boards - funding by board
    • Toronto District School Board, 493
  • School facilities - maintenance and repair
    • backlog, 725–726
  • Social services
    • government funding, 724
  • Special economic zones
    • allocation
      • accountability and oversight, 297
    • and duty to consult, 724
  • Taxation
    • reduction
      • impact, 336
  • Throne speech debate
    • participation, 522
  • Toronto Catholic District School Board
    • financial report (Deloitte)
      • release of, 621
  • Transit infrastructure development
    • procurement policies
      • domestic vs. international, 727
  • Unhoused persons
    • government strategy, 726–727
    • research and statistics, 726
  • Unhoused persons - support programs and services
    • government funding, 726–727

• Bethlenfalvy, Hon. P. (PC, Pickering—Uxbridge)

  • Budget 2025/2026
    • government strategy, 804
  • Economic conditions
    • government strategy, 257
  • Employment
    • government strategy, 264
  • Government advertising
    • as economic policy, 906
    • partisan, 800
  • Government finances
    • government strategy, 909
  • International trade - tariffs, United States
    • government strategy, 209
    • reactions
      • budget measures, 804
  • Question period
    • Automotive industry
      • responded to, 257
    • Government accountability
      • responded to, 27
    • Labour dispute
      • responded to, 264–265
    • Manufacturing jobs
      • responded to, 209
    • Ontario economy
      • responded to, 266
    • Pension plans
      • responded to, 387–388
  • Taxation
    • reduction, 914

• Blais, S. (LIB, Orléans)

  • Court administration
    • allocation of funds, 397
  • Driving - impaired
    • prevention, 902
  • French-language debates
    • Débat sur le discours du trône
      • participation, 47
    • Jour de l'opposition
      • Financement des hôpitaux, 573
  • Judges
    • independence of, 261, 463, 474
  • Judicial appointments
    • Attorney General, role in, 456
    • other jurisdictions, 471
  • Members' statements
    • City of Ottawa, 20
  • Mental health and addictions
    • factors affecting, 416
  • New Democratic Party (NDP)
    • housing policy, 419
  • Ontario Place - lease of, redevelopment agreements
    • transparency and accountability, 30
  • Opposition day motions
    • Hospital funding
      • responded to, 573
    • Taxation
      • responded to, 331–332
  • Ottawa
    • municipal finances
      • provincial contribution, 20
  • Protect Ontario Through Safer Streets and Stronger Communities Act, 2025 (Bill 10)
    • second reading, 456, 463, 471, 474
  • Question period
    • Government accountability
      • presented, 30
    • Justice system
      • presented, 261
    • Taxation
      • presented, 319–320
    • Transportation infrastructure
      • presented, 560
  • Safer Municipalities Act, 2025 (Bill 6)
    • second reading, 410, 414–416, 418–420, 423
    • recommendations, third party, 416
  • Taxation
    • reduction, 319–320
      • lower- and middle-income households, 332, 914
  • Taxation Amendment Act (Promoting Leisure Activities for Youth), 2025 (Bill 20)
    • first reading, 628
  • Throne speech debate
    • participation, 46–48, 55, 361, 507
  • Transit - by region
    • Ottawa
      • LRT uploading, 560
  • Unhoused persons
    • encampments
      • alternatives, availability, 415
      • government response, 418
    • government funding, allocation, 423
    • government strategy, 410
    • research and statistics, 415
    • shelters
      • government strategy, 416
  • Unhoused persons - support programs and services
    • government funding, 415

• Bouma, W. (PC, Brantford—Brant)

  • Agriculture industry - food processing
    • appreciation for, 148–149
  • Cadets
    • appreciation for, 19
  • Firefighters and fire services
    • government funding
      • Fire Protection Grant, 776
  • Indigenous relations
    • government strategy, 280
  • Members' personal narratives, 183
  • Members' statements
    • Cadets, 19
    • Dutch liberation anniversary, 615
    • Ferrero Canada, 148–149
  • Military history
    • Dutch liberation anniversary, 615
  • Mining industry
    • opening a mine
      • approvals and processing time, 277
  • Mining industry - Indigenous communities
    • duty to consult, 277, 279
    • economy, impact on, 280
  • Petitions
    • Taxation, 163
  • Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5)
    • second reading, 275–280
  • Safer Municipalities Act, 2025 (Bill 6)
    • second reading, 402, 642, 646
  • Throne speech debate
    • participation, 168–169, 183
  • Unhoused persons
    • government strategy, 646
  • Unhoused persons - support programs and services
    • government funding, 642

• Bourgouin, G. (NDP, Mushkegowuk—James Bay)

  • Food prices
    • price gouging, 434
  • French-language debates
    • Débat sur le discours du trône
      • participation, 184–187, 356–358
    • Déclarations des députées et députés
      • Sécurité routière, 21
      • Services gouvernementaux, 615
    • Jour de l'opposition
      • Financement des hôpitaux, 573
    • Loi de 2025 pour plus de soins commodes, projet de loi 11
      • deuxième lecture, 588, 599–601
    • Loi de 2025 pour protéger l’Ontario en libérant son économie, projet de loi 5
      • deuxième lecture, 352
    • Période de questions
      • Protection du consommateur, 435
  • Health care
    • access
      • northern Ontario, 358
  • Health care funding
    • general remarks, 358
  • Highway 11
    • 2+1 system, 357
  • Highways and roads - safety
    • general remarks, 357
    • Highway 11/17, 31
    • northern Ontario, 21, 31
  • Members' statements
    • Government services, 615
    • Highway safety, 21
  • Mining industry
    • policy development
      • Indigenous consultation, 347
  • Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5)
    • consultations
      • with Indigenous communities, 346–348
    • second reading, 345–348
    • statements from stakeholders, 346
  • Question period
    • Consumer protection
      • presented, 434–435
    • Highway safety
      • presented, 31
  • Ring of Fire development
    • environmental assessments, comprehensive, 170
    • Indigenous consultation and consent, 170
  • Safer Municipalities Act, 2025 (Bill 6)
    • second reading, 642
  • Special economic zones
    • and duty to consult, 345, 347
  • Throne speech debate
    • participation, 170, 174, 357–358
  • Unhoused persons
    • encampments
      • alternatives, availability, 642

• Bowman, S. (LIB, Don Valley West)

  • Business - small- and medium-sized
    • closures, 328
    • and United States tariffs
      • government strategy, 115
    • US tariffs, impact on, 50
  • Business - taxation
    • small business tax rate
      • statements by stakeholders, 328–329
  • Canadian Free Trade Agreement
    • party-specific exemptions
      • removal, 109–110
      • and supply-managed industries, 113–114
  • Cutting Taxes on Small Businesses Act, 2025 (Bill 12)
    • first reading, 389
  • Employment
    • creation and loss, 155
    • rate of, 155, 328
    • rates
      • government strategy, 50
  • Government contracts
    • domestic procurement, 111–112
  • Government finances
    • fall economic statement (2024)
      • vs. budget document, 909
  • Health care
    • government strategy, 52
  • Highways and roads - construction and expansion
    • Highway 401 tunneling, 50–51
  • International trade - tariffs, United States
    • government strategy, 50
  • Interprovincial trade
    • barriers
      • impact, 112, 118
    • direct-to-consumer alcohol sales, 110
    • government strategy, 108
    • labour mobility, 110
      • and unions, 117
    • mutual recognition of goods and services
      • as deregulation, 111
  • Light Rail Transit (LRT) - Eglinton Crosstown
    • delays, 83
  • Members' statements
    • Eglinton Crosstown LRT, 83
  • News media
    • role of, 193
  • Ontario Place - lease of, redevelopment agreements
    • transparency and accountability, 28, 82
  • Opposition day motions
    • Taxation
      • responded to, 328–329
  • Petitions
    • Ontario Science Centre, 499
  • Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 (Bill 5)
    • second reading, 287
  • Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
    • second reading, 82, 108–118, 193
    • employment protections, 113
    • impact
      • evaluation strategy, 111
    • implementation
      • process, 112–113, 117
    • legal challenges, process, 113
    • stakeholder consultations, 116
  • Question period
    • Government accountability
      • presented, 28
    • Job creation
      • presented, 155, 556–557
    • Taxation
      • presented, 318
  • Special economic zones
    • allocation
      • accountability and oversight, 287
  • Taxation
    • reduction, 318
      • lower- and middle-income households, 328
  • Throne speech debate
    • participation, 49–51

• Brady, B.A. (Independent, Haldimand—Norfolk)

  • Land use planning - ministerial zoning orders (MZOs)
    • by site
      • Nanticoke Industrial Park, 210
  • Landfills
    • Dresden
      • Whitestone Fields, 712
  • Members' statements
    • Canada's Kindest Community Contest, 202
  • Members'/ministers' constituencies
    • Haldimand—Norfolk, 202
  • Ministerial Zoning Orders
    • public consultation, 712–713
  • Petitions
    • Health care, 563
    • Medical assistance in dying, 562
    • Taxation, 438
  • Question period
    • Land use planning
      • presented, 210

• Bresee, R. (PC, Hastings—Lennox and Addington)

  • Members'/ministers' personal narratives, 797

• Burch, J. (NDP, Niagara Centre)

  • Hospitals
    • parking fees, 386, 548–549
  • Hospitals - by region
    • Niagara
      • urgent care centre closures, 706
  • Hospitals - by site
    • Welland Hospital, 572–573
  • Hospitals - funding by site
    • Welland Hospital, 386
  • Hospitals - infrastructure
    • government strategy, 573
  • Interprovincial trade
    • labour mobility
      • and colleges, 81
  • Members' statements
    • Health care, 82–83
    • Hospital parking fees, 548–549
  • Municipal governance
    • bad-faith actors, removal of
      • criteria, 700
    • integrity commissioners
      • cost, 700
  • Opposition day motions
    • Hospital funding
      • responded to, 572–573
  • Protect Ontario Through Free Trade Within Canada Act, 2025 (Bill 2)
    • second reading, 81
  • Question period
    • Hospital parking fees
      • presented, 386
    • Hospital services
      • presented, 386