Mr. Speaker, prosperity must reach every corner of our province and that includes communities in rural and Northern Ontario.

We will work with private-sector partners to expand natural gas and broadband networks to even more rural and remote communities.

We will finally develop the Ring of Fire. No more platitudes, no more delays.

Instead, our government will work directly with our First Nation partners in order to realize the long-awaited benefits.

We will also be moving forward with resource revenue sharing agreements to create a win-win situation for Northern towns and Indigenous communities, and mining, forestry and aggregates companies.

Mr. Speaker, our government has decided it will not stand in the way of any project that would transport oil from Western Canada to Ontario or Canada’s East Coast.

We are pleased to announce that Ontario will lead by example.

In order to further national interest, we will unilaterally relinquish our veto over new pipeline construction within our borders.

It’s time we all work together as part of one great nation and get those pipelines built!