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PRESENTATION BY ANDREA KHANJIN, MPP FOR BARRIE INNISFIL AND DOUG DOWNEY, MPP FOR BARRIE, SPRINGWATER AND ORO-MEDONTE CONCERNING AN UPDATE ON PROVINCIAL MATTERS
Andrea Khanjin, Member of Provincial Parliament for Barrie and Innisfil and Doug Downey, Member of Provincial Parliament for Barrie, Springwater and Oro-Medonte provided an address to Barrie City Council.
MPP Khanjin and MPP Downey provided the following highlights concerning the Provincial Government’s 2019 funding contributions:
• The Arts Council, Celebrate Ontario and the Ontario Trillium Foundation Funding;
• The Project Safe Horizons, the Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere Program (RIDE) and the Community Safety and Policing Grant;
• Audit and Accountability Fund;
• Transit Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program (ICIP);
• GO and Northland Transit;
• Seniors and Age-Friendly Planning;
• E-Intake Pilot Program, modernizing provincial courtroom procedures;
• Lake Simcoe Protection Act update;
• Local Health Care Funding;
• IOOF Long-Term Care Beds;
• Mental Health and Addictions Funding;
• Ministerial Zoning Orders;
• Ontario’s Housing Supply Action Plan;
• Education Funding;
• Small Business Tax Reduction;
• Low Income Family Tax Credit (LIFT);
• CARE Tax Credit;
• Job statistics since June, 2018; and
• A summary on what’s next for the MPP’s.
Members of Council asked a number of questions to MPP Khanjin and MPP Downey and received responses.