Ontario workplace injury board cuts rates, saving businesses $160 million
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Lines that landed: Question Period for October 23
We follow Question Period daily so you don’t have to. Conservatives hammered the government over record food bank visits and the Parliamentary Budget Officer’s warning on debt, while the finance minister answered that they voted against every affordability measure. The Bloc fought cuts to interpreters, and agriculture research, the tanker ban and vaccine injury compensation also came up. These are the lines that landed. “I’ll be honest with you, Madam Speaker, I haven’t been speaking to the IMF, but you know who I have been speaking to? The food bank in Newcastle that has seen a 3,000% increase in usage since 2015.”
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