{"id":11515,"date":"2018-03-30T12:08:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T16:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=11515"},"modified":"2018-03-30T12:11:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T16:11:11","slug":"mpp-france-gelinas-introduces-two-bills-in-memory-of-peter-kormos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/30\/mpp-france-gelinas-introduces-two-bills-in-memory-of-peter-kormos\/","title":{"rendered":"MPP France G\u00e9linas introduces two bills in memory of Peter Kormos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Mar 30, 2018 @ 12:08<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p>On March 29,\u00a0MPP France G\u00e9linas\u00a0introduced the\u00a0<em>Peter Kormos Memorial Act\u00a0<\/em>(Trillium Gift of Life Network Amendment) and\u00a0<em>An Act to amend the Labour Relations Act, 1995<\/em>\u00a0to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Kormos\u2019 passing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An ardent supporter of organ donation, Kormos made many speeches and introduced numerous pieces of legislation to expand organ collection in Ontario. The\u00a0<em>Peter Kormos Memorial Act\u00a0<\/em>(Trillium Gift of Life Network Amendment) would amend the Trillium Gift of Life Network Act to have\u00a0people opt out of organ donation rather than opt in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If a person,\u00a0or\u00a0their representative,\u00a0objects\u00a0to any organ donation, no donation will take place.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kormos famously stated,\u00a0&#8220;To date, it was considered an exceptional act to donate an organ. I put to you that it&#8217;s time in Ontario for it to be considered an exceptional act to deny an organ where it could save a life or extend a life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The second piece of legislation, an\u00a0<em>Act to amend the Labour Relations Act, 1995<\/em>\u00a0would prohibit the use of replacement workers during a strike or lockout, except in the case of emergencies. Kormos was known around Ontario as a champion for working class people. Replacement workers, sometimes called scab labour, undermine the collective bargaining rights of workers and lead to longer and more drawn out labour disputes. Kormos introduced the bill numerous times.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kormos, who was the MPP for Welland, passed away at his Welland home\u00a0on\u00a0March 30,\u00a02013. He was 60 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 30, 2018 @ 12:08 On March 29,\u00a0MPP France G\u00e9linas\u00a0introduced the\u00a0Peter Kormos Memorial Act\u00a0(Trillium Gift of Life Network Amendment) and\u00a0An Act to amend the Labour Relations Act, 1995\u00a0to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Kormos\u2019 passing. &nbsp; An ardent supporter of organ donation, Kormos made many speeches and introduced numerous pieces of legislation to expand organ &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1353,1354],"class_list":["post-11515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial","tag-peter-kormos","tag-peter-kormos-memorial-act"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 12:40:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11516,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11515\/revisions\/11516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}