Throne speech touched on several key issues, including health care, transportation and increases to ODSP support payments.
A new session of the Ontario legislature has kicked off.
Premier Doug Ford's speech was delivered today by Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Dowdeswell.
The speech touched on health care issues within the province, but didn't offer any new solutions to staffing shortages that have forced temporary emergency room closures throughout Ontario.
The speech did say the PC party is working with stakeholders to create ideas to solve the problem.
The speech also touts what Ford has done in health care since being elected Premier in 2018, including investments in home and community care, plans to build 30,000 new long-term care beds and introducing a grant to attract health care professionals to rural and remote areas.
"While these historic investments have helped to support the province's health system through the most challenging period in modern history, there's no question it, like health systems across Canada, continues to experience significant pressures, including an exhausted workforce and increasingly stressed emergency departments," Dowdeswell said.
On the topic of transportation, the speech touched on twinning the Garden City Skyway bridge on the QEW over the Welland Canal as well as increased GO Train service in Niagara, Bowmanville, London and northeastern Ontario.
The speech also noted rising interest rates brought on by high inflation, and warned Ontario and the rest of the country should prepare for an economic slowdown.
The government also promised to boost disability support payments by five percent and tie future increases to inflation.
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