Paul CalandraMinister of Education (EN)

Interventions récentes

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1. Question Period — Education funding

   Madam Speaker, of course that is not true. We’ve increased special education funding significantly in the province of Ontario by over $3.85 billion. Each and every year, we’ve increased special education funding. But as…

   2026-05-28·Legislative Assembly·Dossier officiel ↗

2. Question Period — Education funding

   One of the challenges the NDP seems to always have is understanding that when you grow an economy, you have more money to spend in education, and you have more money to spend in health care. We understand that the NDP d…

   2026-05-28·Legislative Assembly·Dossier officiel ↗

3. Question Period — Special-needs students

   To the member opposite: It will take a little bit more than that to be successful in your leadership. This is a member who has not talked about special education the entire time—colleagues, this is literally only the th…

   2026-05-27·Legislative Assembly·Dossier officiel ↗

4. Question Period — Curriculum

   I know that this member worked for the Durham District School Board, so I guess if the experience at the board that he was working for is that kids were wandering the hallways and not doing work, it speaks more to his ex…

   2026-05-27·Legislative Assembly·Dossier officiel ↗

5. Question Period — Special-needs students

   We’ve done just that—an over $3.85-billion increase to special education since we got here. But this comes from a Liberal Party that spent a billion dollars to try to save two seats, right? That’s this Liberal Party. I…

   2026-05-27·Legislative Assembly·Dossier officiel ↗

6. Question Period — Curriculum

   What the member failed to also mention is that close to 50,000 students have continued to take online courses because it provides them a valuable opportunity to take courses, in many instances, that they would not have o…

   2026-05-27·Legislative Assembly·Dossier officiel ↗

7. Question Period — Education funding

   The member mentions the model schools. Of course, the challenge we’re having and the TDSB was having with some of the model schools was that enrolment was absolutely cratering in these model schools—there were simply not…

   2026-05-27·Legislative Assembly·Dossier officiel ↗

8. Question Period — Curriculum

   Dumb things down? And this is coming from a member—there was no financial literacy when the Liberals were in charge of the education system. The civics course has been modernized to ensure that our kids have every oppor…

   2026-05-27·Legislative Assembly·Dossier officiel ↗

9. Question Period — Special-needs students

   I guess it’s Liberal leadership day today, colleagues. I guess that’s what we’re going to see. Do you know what, Madam Speaker? Here’s the difference between Conservatives and Liberals: We see a problem, and we’re fixin…

   2026-05-27·Legislative Assembly·Dossier officiel ↗

10. Question Period — School boards / Conseils scolaires

    Again, I think that question itself speaks to the difference between Conservatives and Liberals. What the member is asking me to do is restore funding to trustees so that they can go to conferences and they can go to oth…

    2026-05-27·Legislative Assembly·Dossier officiel ↗