MPP Monique Taylor (Hamilton Mountain) joined the Ontario Autism Coalition (OAC) at Queen\u2019s Park this morning as they called for urgent solutions to address the skyrocketing waitlist for the Ontario Autism Program (OAP), which now has over 60,000 children waiting for core autism services.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2018, the Premier told families that they would never have to protest to get their child the resources they deserved,\u201d said Taylor. \u201cInstead of keeping that promise, we\u2019re now at a crisis point where over 60,000 children and their families are waiting for services. This government needs to start taking serious action \u2013 and a hard look in the mirror.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Taylor and the OAC are calling for tools and resources to provide support for children with autism, including sustainable funding for OAP, adequate supports in the classroom, and a renewed call to bring forward Taylor\u2019s Bill 74, which would provide a tool for families to find missing vulnerable persons.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe 2024 budget mentioned autism just once,\u201d said Taylor. \u201cIt\u2019s clear that these children and their families are not being prioritized by this government. Instead, they\u2019re being left behind. We can\u2019t allow this to keep happening.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MPP Monique Taylor (Hamilton Mountain) joined the Ontario Autism Coalition (OAC) at Queen\u2019s Park this morning as they called for urgent solutions to address the skyrocketing waitlist for the Ontario …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorials"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 12:23:38","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\/66729","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66730,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66729\/revisions\/66730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}