News and Updates
(Queen’s Park) – Today, the Ontario Progressive Conservative Caucus motion calling on the government to restore funding for Intensive Behavioural Intervention (IBI) therapy for children over the age of 5 was voted down by the Liberal government. During Question Period, 9 members of the PC Caucus urged
Read more →(Queen’s Park) – Today, MPP Sylvia Jones again questioned the Minister of Children and Youth Services for her decision to cut-off children over the age from receiving IBI therapy, after the government’s own experts have spoken out against the decision. “Experts continue to voice their opposition to
Read more →Ceremony of Remembrance for Ontario’s Police Officers By: Sylvia Jones, MPP Dufferin-Caledon On May 1st I had the opportunity to attend the 17th Annual Ceremony of Remembrance at Queen’s Park alongside my Leader MPP Patrick Brown and my colleague MPP Rick Nicholls who is the critic for
Read more →(Queen’s Park) – Today, Sylvia Jones MPP Dufferin-Caledon again called on the Minister of Children and Youth Services to reverse her decision to remove children over the age of 5 from receiving IBI therapy, until she develops a coordinated provincial Autism strategy. Yesterday, Ontario’s Provincial Advocate for
Read more →(Queen’s Park) – Today, Sylvia Jones MPP Dufferin-Caledon questioned the Minister of Education regarding changes made in the Child Care and Early Years Act that would prevent children under the age of four from attending summer camp. “The government has decided that children entering the school system
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