{"id":13927,"date":"2018-07-10T12:42:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T16:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=13927"},"modified":"2018-07-10T12:42:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T16:42:37","slug":"ontarios-government-for-the-people-shares-top-legislative-priorities-for-upcoming-sitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/10\/ontarios-government-for-the-people-shares-top-legislative-priorities-for-upcoming-sitting\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario&#8217;s Government for the People Shares Top Legislative Priorities for Upcoming Sitting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upon the resumption of the legislature, the people of Ontario can expect to see urgent action to protect York University students from the ongoing labour dispute and repeal Ontario&#8217;s cap-and-trade carbon tax law from the books, Minister of Government and Consumer Services and Government House Leader Todd Smith announced today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have decided to recall the house because it is clear there are areas of public interest that require urgent attention,&#8221; said Smith. &#8220;The people of Ontario cannot afford to wait, and they won&#8217;t have to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Smith singled out three priority areas where the government intends to introduce urgent legislation that will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Protect the students at York University and their families<\/strong> by ensuring that the ongoing labour dispute is quickly and fairly resolved<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Strike Ontario&#8217;s cap-and-trade carbon tax law from the books<\/strong> so that a future government would not impose another cap-and-trade carbon tax under the law<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cancel the White Pines Wind Project,<\/strong> effective today, which received notice to proceed during the election period before the government had a chance to make any decision on the project for the benefit of the people of Prince Edward County<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;These three priorities send a clear and serious message about what you can expect from our government,&#8221; said Smith. &#8220;We are prepared to act. And we will always put the best interests of the people first.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon the resumption of the legislature, the people of Ontario can expect to see urgent action to protect York University students from the ongoing labour dispute and repeal Ontario&#8217;s cap-and-trade carbon tax law from the books, Minister of Government and Consumer Services and Government House Leader Todd Smith announced today. &#8220;We have decided to recall &#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":[1328],"class_list":["post-13927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial","tag-doug-ford"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 10:10:02","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\/13927","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=13927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13928,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13927\/revisions\/13928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}