By Bobbi Ann Brady, MPP Like all Ontarians, I am horrified, shocked, and saddened by the uptick in violent crime over the past year. My heart goes out to the survivors and families and friends of the victims. These terrible events have prompted the provincial government to ask the federal government for bail reform. I
By MPP Bobbi Ann Brady Tobacco is one of the most common illegally traded goods in the world. In Canada alone, about six billion contraband cigarettes are sold yearly. Sadly, Ontario is ground zero and has the second worst contraband tobacco problem in the Americas, with cigarette volumes on par with El Salvador. Ontario is
By MPP Bobbi Ann Brady Like my tea by the time I finished reading it, The Ontario Budget left me feeling lukewarm. Overall, I felt there was nothing dynamic in the Budget. The past three years have been difficult. But as my predecessor taught me, we have government for a reason. It’s government’s job to
By MPP Bobbi Ann Brady It surprises most that Ontario is the birthplace to North America’s petroleum industry, with its beginnings in Lambton County in 1858. Over the past 160-plus years, as many as 50,000 oil and gas wells have been drilled in the province. Many of the wells were drilled initially for commercial purposes
By MPP Bobbi Ann Brady I continually interact with constituents, and each person gives me their opinion of the Ontario government and the job I’m doing. Recently, I was invited to a town hall meeting in Port Dover to discuss our healthcare system. The discussion centred around Bill 60, Your Health Act (2023). Before I
By MPP Bobbi Ann Brady Ontario’s farm and arable land is finite, it’s non-renewable. In debate last Wednesday of my Private Member’s Bill – Bill 62 – I asked members of the Ontario Legislature to take pause and ponder this important fact. Once our productive land is paved over there’s no making more, there’s no
By MPP Bobbi Ann Brady Last Tuesday was the 17th anniversary of the Douglas Creek Estates’ land occupation in Caledonia. Seventeen years later, two governments later, nothing has changed except a second occupied site. There needs to be leadership or clarity regarding productive Indigenous relations on development matters. On the anniversary, I seized the opportunity
By MPP Bobbi Ann Brady On Tuesday, February 21st, I proudly introduced my first Private Members’ Bill (PMB). The PMB is entitled Bill 62, An Act to provide for the development of a farmland and arable land strategy and an advisory committee on farmland and arable land.” This legislation is close to my heart because it’s my
By MPP Bobbi Ann Brady Like my tea by the time I finished reading it, The Ontario Budget left me feeling lukewarm. Overall, I felt there was nothing dynamic in the Budget. The past three years have been difficult. But as my predecessor taught me, we have government for a reason. It’s government’s job to
By MPP Bobbi Ann Brady Depending on how you look at the most recent report of Ontario’s Financial Accountability Officer (FAO), there’s bad news and perhaps good. Keep in mind the mandate of the FAO is to provide an independent analysis of the province’s finances and trends in Ontario’s economy. The FAO was legislated in