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Sign a petition to the Ontario Legislature

What is a petition?

Private members (i.e. those not in Cabinet) may petition the Ontario Legislature on topics within the jurisdiction of the Government of Ontario. As your MPP, I have used petitions to get action on some of the election commitments I made. Our western Misissauga community's petitions have helped get us a new GO Train station at Lisgar and a new wing to Credit Valley Hospital.

How to help Bob by signing and circulating a petition

1. Download the petition, and print one or more copies on your printer. Feel free to share or forward it to others;
2. Sign the petition, and ask others to sign the petition. Use only the downloaded copies of the petition. Don't worry about sending our office lots of individual sheets;
3. Mail the completed petition to Bob's Queen's Park office. Click for address
   Send only the original, signed petition. Please don't fax the petition, or send copies. The Clerk's table accepts only original, signed copies (no white-outs) of the petition;
4. Don't hang onto completed petitions and wait until you get more sheets. Please send us the completed petitions as you get them back;
5. Bob will read your petition in the Legislature, and if we know who sent it, we'll read your name into Hansard as well.

Petitions Bob is now reading in the Ontario Legislature

Let's get Ontario prescription drug prices lower!

Ontario patients, seniors and consumers pay far too much money for drugs. In many cases, we pay several times what U.S. consumers pay. How would you like the price of many of the drugs people need to drop by half? We can do it. Print and sign this petition. More info available on this web site.

Western Mississauga Ambulatory Surgery Centre

Some three-quarters of all surgery performed doesn't need to be done in a hospital operating room. Doing these minimally-invasive procedures in an off-site facility frees up hospital operating rooms for more complex cases and for those procedures that require pre-op, post-op or intensive care unit support. And we can reduce wait times. Download it, and ask your friends to sign it too.

Tax reform for a stronger Ontario

Ontario has proposed comprehensive tax reform measures that will cut your personal income taxes; double seniors' property tax credits; cut costs and taxes to businesses and put some $4.3 billion of your own money back in your pocket. Get these measures implemented. Sign this petition.

Support population-based social services funding in Peel Region

Peel Region has tripled its population in the past generation. We need help in getting funding for the social services we deliver to assist our 1.2 million people. Support population-based allocation of social services resources by downloading and completing this important petition.

Successful petitions delivered by Bob

Improve access to trades and professions in Ontario

Another success! Ontario's newcomers now have more help in converting their degrees, certifications and other credentials to their Ontario equivalents and getting on with their working lives. Bill 124, the Fair Access to Regulated Professions Act, 2006 will help by requiring Ontario's regulated professions to provide fair, timely, cost-effective and transparent procedures to assist those who were trained outside Ontario. The bill passed in December, 2006!

Capital improvements at Credit Valley Hospital

On August 22, 2005, Bob Delaney announced the Credit Valley Hospital had received the go-ahead to construct "A" and "H" blocks, two new wings of the hospital to enable it to cope with the needs of our community, and alleviate the waits in the emergency ward.

Ending Mandatory Retirement in the Province of Ontario

Bill 211, now before the Ontario Legislature, proposes an end to mandatory retirement, where it exists, in most circumstances in the Province of Ontario.

Ban smoking in Ontario's enclosed public places

The Government of Ontario has enacted Bill 164, to ban tobacco smoke in Ontario's enclosed public places. Ontario's municipalities have long asked the government to make the playing field level with regard to smoking legislation, and Bill 164 did just that.

The Lisgar GO Train Station

I don't need to read our Lisgar GO Train station petition any more, as the project is now under construction, and will be complete by mid-2007. But the petition did work. Read the text of Our community's successful petition to get the Lisgar GO Train Station

Access to Trades and Professions

The Government of Ontario's Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities has enacted numerous measures to help foreign-trained newcomers to Canada gain access to certification to re-start their careers in Canada. Bob's successful petition was read by numerous MPPs, and kept up the pressure on the Ministry to keep working on the issue and eventually enact Bill 124 to help those trained or experienced outside Canada to convert their qualifications to their Canadian equivalents.

Support for anaphylactic students

Bill 3 is a private members' bill by Brant MPP Dave Levac. It received third reading and passage by a 75-0 vote in the Legislature on May 16, 2005. Bob and his seatmate Kim Craitor (L, Niagara Falls) helped Dave have the Minister of Education require every school principal to have a school plan to deal with students susceptible to anaphylactic shock from exposure to such substances as peanuts. This is not an effort to ban, for example, such substances as peanuts from schools. It is focused on having principals gather and learn from experiences and best practices in other schools and to be ready to deal with such incidents if and when they happen in each school.