George PirieMinister of Northern Economic Development and Growth

Interventions récentes

Un extrait de chaque intervention en chambre — lisez le texte intégral au dossier officiel.

1. Introduction of Visitors

   Members, I would like to welcome Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities president David Ploudre, mayor of Kapuskasing; past president Danny Whalen of Temiskaming Shores; and Timmins councillor Lorne Feldman. Welco…

   2026-06-01·Legislative Assembly·Dossier officiel ↗

2. Orders of the Day — Building Billy Bishop Airport Act, 2026 / Loi de 2026 sur la construction de l’aéroport Billy Bishop

   My colleague right here knows it very well—distances are important. If you think about the distance from Thunder Bay to Cochrane, that’s a distance that’s equal to Windsor to the Quebec border. It takes a long time to g…

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

3. Orders of the Day — Building Billy Bishop Airport Act, 2026 / Loi de 2026 sur la construction de l’aéroport Billy Bishop

   What we’re talking about is the future. We’re talking about an expanded Billy Bishop airport that will service more people than they’ve ever served before. And the quicker you get from Sudbury and downtown Toronto, the…

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

4. Orders of the Day — Building Billy Bishop Airport Act, 2026 / Loi de 2026 sur la construction de l’aéroport Billy Bishop

   Mr. Speaker, I don’t think we’ve seen any figures about the cost or the time. This bill isn’t about that. This bill is about the future, as I’ve said over and over and over again. It’s a future that’s going to provide m…

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

5. Orders of the Day — Building Billy Bishop Airport Act, 2026 / Loi de 2026 sur la construction de l’aéroport Billy Bishop

   It certainly is, because an expanded Billy Bishop will mean one thing: speed—travelling faster between downtown Toronto into a place like Timmins. When you’re travelling on turbo planes, it takes about an hour and 20 mi…

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

6. Orders of the Day — Building Billy Bishop Airport Act, 2026 / Loi de 2026 sur la construction de l’aéroport Billy Bishop

   I think the Prime Minister supports growth. I think the Prime Minister supports diversification from the dependency on the US markets. Billy Bishop is all about that. It’s all about the future, about bringing people toge…

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

7. Orders of the Day — Building Billy Bishop Airport Act, 2026 / Loi de 2026 sur la construction de l’aéroport Billy Bishop

   Mr. Speaker, it’s one word: service. Getting people from their communities to downtown Toronto—I’ll tell you what it meant to me, to be able to get off a flight into downtown Toronto and actually be right in the business…

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

8. Orders of the Day — Building Billy Bishop Airport Act, 2026 / Loi de 2026 sur la construction de l’aéroport Billy Bishop

   It’s my honour to rise in the House today to speak in support of Bill 110, the Building Billy Bishop Airport Act. Ontario, if it was a sole domain, would have one of the globe’s largest economies. Ontario is the economi…

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

9. Question Period — Northern Ontario development

   Thank you for the question from our member from Algoma–Manitoulin. Northern Ontario’s economy is booming, and it’s booming because of our policies—whether it be tile drainage, critical minerals or, in fact, the junior e…

   2026-05-04·Legislative Assembly·Dossier officiel ↗

10. Question Period — Northern Ontario development

    Speaker, the member is right that unlike previous governments, our government understands the unique needs of northern Ontario communities. As the mayor of Iroquois Falls has noted, programs like NORDS recognize the uni…

    2026-05-04·Legislative Assembly·Dossier officiel ↗