Letter: H

• Hamilton

  • Board of Health
    • Jones, S., 476

• Health care

  • access
    • barriers to
      • Cerjanec, 685
      • Gates, 682
      • Shamji, 660
    • government strategy
      • Gallagher Murphy, 599, 682
    • northern Ontario
      • Bourgouin, 358
      • Scott, C., 665–666
    • remote and fly-in communities
      • Gates, 358
    • rural Ontario
      • Gates, 599
      • McKenney, 834
      • Thompson, 832
  • capital projects
    • Cerjanec, 1353
    • Coe, 688
    • Jones, S., 1353
    • Sarkaria, 787–788
    • Saunderson, 834
  • culturally and linguistically appropriate care
    • Cerjanec, 685
  • delivery models
    • public vs. private
      • Bell, 814–815
      • Cerjanec, 685–686
      • Fife, 668
      • Gates, 680, 683
      • Kernaghan, 673
      • McCrimmon, 673
      • Pasma, 685
      • Sattler, 683
      • Vaugeois, 738
  • emergency
    • government funding
      • Jones, S., 709–710
      • Shamji, 709–710
  • employer health tax
    • notices of assessment
      • Cooper, 790
  • general remarks
    • Jones, S., 1350
    • Watt, 1350
  • government strategy
    • Bailey, 732
    • Bethlenfalvy, 475
    • Bowman, 52
    • Fairclough, 180
    • Scott, L., 675
    • Thompson, 784, 832, 834
    • Vaugeois, 741
    • Watt, 180
    • West, 600
  • government's duty to provide
    • Jones, S., 547–548
    • Shamji, 547–548
  • hallway healthcare. see Hospital services - emergency-capacity and overcrowding
  • medical records
    • access
      • Fraser, 770–771
      • Jones, S., 770–771
  • nature as
    • Clark, 62
    • Fairclough, 62
  • privatization
    • Cerjanec, 686
    • Sattler, 666–667, 686
  • referrals
    • Fairclough, 612
    • Lennox, 606, 612
  • by region
    • Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock
      • Scott, L., 676–677
    • Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston
      • Jordan, 751
  • reports and recommendations
    • Bell, 724–725
  • spending
    • per capita
      • Begum, 576
  • statistics
    • Jordan, 748
  • uninsured
    • Glover, 612
    • Lennox, 608, 612

• Health care funding

  • Canada Health Transfer (federal)
    • Bethlenfalvy, 784
  • economic impact
    • Fife, 669
  • general remarks
    • Bell, 336

• Health care - funding

  • general remarks
    • Bell, 814

• Health care funding

  • general remarks
    • Bourgouin, 358

• Health care - funding

  • general remarks
    • Cerjanec, 686
    • Jordan, 747–748
    • Scott, L., 675
    • Thompson, 832
  • one-time vs. ongoing
    • Hsu, 168
  • per capita
    • Gretzky, 835

• Health care funding

  • per person
    • Gates, 681

• Health care - funding

  • public vs. private
    • Bell, 814
    • Gretzky, 835

• Health care - government funding

  • stakeholder statements
    • Burch, 1204–1205

• Health Care is Not for Sale Act (Addressing Unfair Fees Charged to Patients), 2025 (Bill 7)

  • first reading
    • Gélinas, 213

• Health care - northern Ontario

  • central command centre
    • Stiles, 705–706

• Health care - primary care

  • access
    • Cerjanec, 684
    • Tsao, 1117
    • West, 363
    • impact on health care system
      • Gates, 680
    • impact on patient health
      • Fife, 669–670
      • Shamji, 656–657
    • northern Ontario
      • Rae, 666
      • Scott, C., 666
  • access to, by region
    • Sioux Lookout
      • Mamakwa, 483
  • French-language
    • Collard, 737
  • general remarks
    • Scott, C., 665
    • Scott, L., 675
    • Shamji, 659
  • government funding
    • Hazell, 31–32
    • Jones, S., 475–476
    • Scott, L., 675
    • call for proposals
      • Jones, S., 476
      • Jordan, 748
  • government strategy
    • Anand, 548
    • Blais, 828
    • Cerjanec, 684
    • Coe, 687
    • Darouze, 723
    • Fairclough, 730
    • Fife, 668
    • Fraser, 728
    • Gallagher Murphy, 683
    • Gates, 587
    • Gélinas, 587
    • Hsu, 719
    • Jones, S., 31–32, 539–541
    • Jordan, 545
    • Leardi, 548
    • McCrimmon, 673
    • McKenney, 664
    • Scott, L., 676
    • Shamji, 659, 664
    • stakeholder statements
      • Jordan, 545–546
  • interdisciplinary teams
    • government funding
      • Gélinas, 609–610
    • recruitment and retention
      • Gélinas, 609
  • objectives
    • Jones, S., 540
    • Lennox, 604
  • Philpott, Dr. Jane
    • Jones, S., 540
  • Primary Care Action Plan
    • Bethlenfalvy, 783
    • Jordan, 748
    • Scott, C., 665, 667
    • Scott, L., 676
    • Shamji, 826
    • accountability and transparency
      • Jones, S., 540
    • high-priority postal codes, selection
      • Shamji, 659
  • rostering
    • change over time
      • Fairclough, 731
    • and complex health issues
      • Fife, 671
    • data transparency
      • McKenney, 671
    • goals
      • McKenney, 688
      • Shamji, 659
  • statements from stakeholders
    • Bell, 814
  • statistics
    • Bell, 814
    • Shamji, 66
    • Shaw, 751
  • teaching clinics
    • Bailey, 735
    • Coe, 687
    • Racinsky, 678, 686
    • Scott, L., 676, 678
    • Smith, L., 735
    • government funding
      • Gallagher Murphy, 673–674
    • statements from stakeholders
      • Coe, 687
  • team-based
    • Anand, 663
    • Bailey, 596
    • Bell, 814
    • Coe, 687–688
    • Fife, 665, 669
    • Jones, S., 1117
    • Lennox, 603–604
    • McCrimmon, 674
    • Scott, C., 666
    • Scott, L., 676
    • Shamji, 596, 656, 665
    • access
      • Fife, 670
    • access, regional
      • McCrimmon, 673
    • and allied health care professionals
      • Shamji, 659–660
    • government funding
      • Coe, 687–688
      • McCrimmon, 673
      • Rae, 685
      • Shamji, 665

• Health care services

  • fees for OHIP services
    • Shamji, 658
    • government strategy
      • Fraser, 45, 620
  • French-language services
    • government strategy
      • Collard, 736–737

• Health care services - by region

  • Hamilton Centre
    • Shelter Health Network
      • Lennox, 59
    • social determinants of health programs
      • Gélinas, 59

• Health care system

  • boards of health
    • Hamilton
      • Gélinas, 579–580
      • Jones, S., 476
      • Jordan, 749
      • Leardi, 482
    • responsibilities
      • Gélinas, 580
  • and Canada Health Act principles
    • Coe, 687
    • Shamji, 658, 660
    • inclusion
      • Fife, 671
  • emergency rooms
    • closures
      • Jones, S., 705
      • Stiles, 705
  • government strategy
    • Gélinas, 611–612
    • Gretzky, 674
    • Leardi, 91
    • Pasma, 38
  • priorities
    • Shamji, 574–575
  • privatization
    • Gates, 680
    • Gélinas, 91
  • public opinion
    • Gélinas, 579
  • statistics
    • Shamji, 656, 658–659

• Health care workers

  • appreciation
    • Coe, 687
    • Thanigasalam, 476
  • compensation
    • wage parity
      • Kernaghan, 470
  • education and training
    • Jones, S., 541–542

• Health care - workers

  • education and training
    • programs
      • Allsopp, 568

• Health care workers

  • education and training
    • recruitment and retention, impact on
      • Saunderson, 547
  • recruitment and retention
    • Coe, 688
    • Jones, S., 476
    • Scott, L., 675–677
    • Smith, L., 738
    • statistics
      • Gallagher Murphy, 598
  • scope of practice, expansion
    • Jones, S., 476
  • shortage
    • Tsao, 1117
  • temporary staff agencies
    • Jones, S., 476
  • wages
    • recruitment and retention, impact on
      • Lennox, 547

• Health care workers - recruitment and retention

  • compensation
    • Cerjanec, 685
    • Shamji, 826
  • employment
    • temporary agencies
      • Shamji, 658
  • general remarks
    • Bethlenfalvy, 784
  • government strategy
    • Cerjanec, 835
    • Jones, S., 1117
    • Jordan, 748
  • internationally trained
    • credential recognition
      • Cerjanec, 684
  • by region
    • Sarnia—Lambton
      • Bailey, 735
  • statistics
    • Jordan, 748
  • working conditions
    • Cerjanec, 684

• Health care workers - recruitment and retention - international

  • immigration process
    • Stevens, 1352

• Health Connect Ontario

  • Health811 service
    • Jones, S., 477
  • wait-list
    • transparency
      • Shamji, 661

• Health information

  • access fees
    • Pasma, 671
  • digital health identifiers
    • Gallagher Murphy, 598–599
    • Jones, S., 477
  • Electronic Health Record
    • Jones, S., 477
    • patient access
      • Armstrong, 595
      • Bailey, 733–734
      • Fairclough, 592–593, 595
      • Gallagher Murphy, 598–600
      • Gélinas, 587
      • Jones, S., 477–478
      • Jordan, 749
      • Leardi, 482
      • Vaugeois, 740
      • Vickers, 587
  • government strategy
    • McCrimmon, 672
  • protection of privacy
    • Anand, 600
    • Bailey, 733–734
    • Collard, 737
    • Fraser, 746
    • Gélinas, 585, 741
    • Jones, S., 478, 484
    • McCrimmon, 673
    • Shamji, 660
    • Vaugeois, 740–741
    • Wai, 484
    • access tracking
      • Vaugeois, 740
    • data brokerage
      • Fraser, 742–743, 745
      • Shaw, 745, 752
      • Smyth, 746
    • de-identification
      • Fraser, 741–743
      • Leardi, 741
      • Vaugeois, 741, 745
    • government liability
      • Shaw, 752
    • Information and Privacy Commissioner, recommendations
      • Fairclough, 593
      • Fraser, 743–745
      • Gélinas, 585
      • Vaugeois, 740–742
    • Ontario Health
      • Gélinas, 586, 594
      • Vaugeois, 740
    • Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004
      • Fraser, 744
      • Leardi, 745

• Highway 11

  • 2+1 system
    • Bourgouin, 357
  • closures
    • Vanthof, 718–719

• Highway 407

  • tolls, removal of
    • Bethlenfalvy, 783
    • Cerjanec, 148
    • Smith, Dave, 792

• Highway 413

  • general remarks
    • Darouze, 723
  • government strategy
    • Grewal, 773
    • Gualtieri, 773

• Highways and roads

  • 2+1 system
    • Bourgouin, 835
  • northern Ontario
    • Bourgouin, 834–835
    • Sarkaria, 1281
    • Vanthof, 42–43
  • tolls
    • government strategy
      • Bresee, 1212–1213
      • Coe, 1212–1213
  • traffic congestion
    • Anand, 320
    • economic impact
      • Anand, 320
    • government strategy
      • Grewal, 90–91, 320–321, 773
      • Gualtieri, 90, 772
      • Pierre, 383–384
      • Sandhu, 977
      • Sarkaria, 384, 788
      • Surma, 488

• Highways and roads - construction and expansion

  • government strategy
    • Gretzky, 264
    • Rosenberg, 264
  • highway 17/trans-Canada
    • Vanthof, 376
  • highway 401 tunneling
    • Bowman, 50–51
    • as nation-building project
      • French, 1211
  • Highway 401 tunneling
    • Bell, 813–814
    • Sarkaria, 788
  • highway 401 tunnelling
    • Stiles, 379–380
  • Highway 413
    • Grewal, 977
    • Sandhu, 977

• Highways and roads - infrastructure development

  • northern Ontario
    • Vanthof, 719

• Highways and roads - safety

  • general remarks
    • Bourgouin, 357
    • Vaugeois, 426
    • Vickers, 1108

• Highways and roads safety

  • government strategy
    • Vanthof, 43

• Highways and roads - safety

  • Highway 11/17
    • Bourgouin, 31, 1281
    • Sarkaria, 31
  • northern Ontario
    • Bourgouin, 21, 31
    • Sarkaria, 31
  • Trans-Canada Highway
    • northern Ontario
      • Vanthof, 718

• Home and community care

  • government strategy
    • Gélinas, 42
  • maximum allowance
    • Tabuns, 211

• Home and community care - staff

  • compensation
    • for travel
      • Gélinas, 581
  • recruitment and retention
    • Gélinas, 581
  • shortage
    • impact on patient-staff continuity
      • Gélinas, 582

• Homelessness Ends with Housing Act, 2025 (Bill 28)

  • first reading
    • Clancy, 915

• Hospital services

  • cost per stay
    • Fairclough, 730
  • department closures
    • Shaw, 751

• Hospital services - emergency

  • availability
    • Shaw, 751
  • capacity and overcrowding
    • Cerjanec, 571
    • Gates, 679–680, 839
    • Lennox, 565–566
  • care models, programs
    • Jones, S., 1353
    • Scott, L., 677
  • government strategy
    • Scott, C., 667
  • wait-time
    • Cerjanec, 1352
    • Gates, 681
    • Shaw, 751

• Hospitals

  • agency nurses, use of
    • cost
      • Gates, 680
  • government funding
    • Bell, 725
  • parking fees
    • Burch, 386, 548–549, 1116–1117
    • Jones, S., 386, 1117

• Hospitals - budgets

  • deficits
    • Shaw, 751

• Hospitals - by region

  • Niagara
    • urgent care centre closures
      • Burch, 706
      • Jones, S., 706
      • Stevens, 706

• Hospitals - by site

  • Douglas Memorial Hospital
    • urgent care centre closure
      • Gates, 703, 706
  • Douglas Memorial hospital (Fort Erie)
    • hours
      • Gates, 667, 679, 681, 837
  • Haliburton Highlands Heath Services (HHHS) - Minden
    • emergency room closure
      • Glover, 702
  • Health Sciences North
    • Gélinas, 572
  • Joseph Brant Hospital
    • mental health unit
      • Pierre, 765
  • Michael Garron Hospital
    • McMahon, 572
  • Niagara Health - Niagara-on-the-Lake
    • closure
      • Gates, 837
  • Welland Hospital
    • Burch, 572–573

• Hospitals - capacity and overcrowding

  • EMS offload delays
    • Gallagher Murphy, 682
    • Gates, 681–682
  • government strategy
    • Jones, S., 435–436
    • Watt, 435
  • and long-term-care beds
    • Bell, 725

• Hospitals - capacity and overcrowding by site

  • Queensway Carleton Hospital
    • Watt, 435

• Hospitals - construction and expansion by site

  • Queensway Carlton Hospital
    • government funding
      • Jones, S., 556
      • Pasma, 556

• Hospitals - funding

  • other jurisdictions
    • Fairclough, 730

• Hospitals - funding by site

  • Welland Hospital
    • Burch, 386
    • Jones, S., 386

• Hospitals - infrastructure

  • government funding
    • Fife, 710
    • Jones, S., 710, 769
  • government strategy
    • Allsopp, 567–569
    • Burch, 573
    • Cerjanec, 571–572
    • Leardi, 577–578
    • Mamakwa, 573
    • McKenney, 576
    • Pasma, 573–574
    • Stevens, 576
    • Watt, 566–567
    • West, 577
  • as nation-building
    • Begum, 576
    • Fairclough, 565
    • Fife, 577, 711
    • Gilmour, 570
    • Glover, 570–571
    • Jones, S., 552
    • Shamji, 574
    • Stiles, 552, 563–565, 578
    • Watt, 566–567

• Hospitals - staff

  • per capita
    • Gates, 681

• Housing

  • affordability
    • Flack, 757, 764
    • government strategy
      • Flack, 765
  • government funding
    • municipalities
      • Hsu, 385
    • vulnerable populations
      • Clancy, 775
  • government strategy
    • Flack, 210–211
    • Racinsky, 210
  • modular and factory built
    • Flack, 385
    • Hsu, 385
  • municipal partnerships
    • Flack, 211
    • Racinsky, 211
  • vulnerable groups
    • Wong-Tam, 1227–1228

• Housing Affordability Task Force

  • recommendations
    • McKenney, 401

• Housing - affordable

  • government strategy
    • Flack, 776–777
    • Tsao, 776–777

• Housing - by region

  • Gogama
    • public housing, surplus
      • Gélinas, 40–41

• Housing development

  • construction starts
    • Fife, 27
    • Flack, 27
    • McKenney, 89
    • projections
      • Shamji, 827
  • government funding
    • Fife, 27–28
    • Stiles, 488
    • Surma, 488
  • government strategy
    • Flack, 89, 710, 756
    • Gilmour, 124–125
    • Piccini, 28
    • Saunderson, 642–643
    • Scott, C., 806
    • Shamji, 1203–1204
    • Smith, Dave, 710
    • Smith, L., 806
    • Smyth, 1203
    • Tabuns, 124

• Housing development - approvals and permits

  • construction standards
    • Flack, 1281–1282
    • green standards
      • McMahon, 1281–1282
    • municipal authority
      • Flack, 756
      • Saunderson, 762
  • general remarks
    • Smith, G., 758
  • minor variances
    • committees of adjustments, exemption
      • Flack, 756
  • new materials and products
    • Flack, 756, 764
    • Racinsky, 764
    • Saunderson, 761
  • required studies, limitation of
    • Flack, 756
    • Saunderson, 763
    • Smith, G., 760

• Housing development - construction

  • methods
    • modular housing
      • Shamji, 827

• Housing development - government funding

  • unhoused persons
    • Collard, 772
    • Flack, 772

• Housing development - infrastructure

  • government funding
    • Flack, 757
    • Saunderson, 761
    • Thompson, 832
  • government strategy
    • Flack, 756–757
  • municipal role
    • Saunderson, 763

• Housing development - municipal charges

  • development charges
    • Flack, 756
    • Saunderson, 762
    • Smith, G., 759
    • accountability and transparency
      • Saunderson, 762–763
    • by-law development
      • Flack, 756–757
    • credit flexibility
      • Saunderson, 762
    • deferral until occupancy
      • Flack, 756
      • Saunderson, 762
    • framework, standardization
      • Saunderson, 762
    • rates paid, variability
      • Saunderson, 762
  • development charges, exemptions and discounts
    • Flack, 756
    • affordability, homebuyers
      • Watt, 765
    • impact
      • Saunderson, 762
      • Smith, G., 759–760
    • long-term care homes
      • Flack, 756, 764
      • Saunderson, 762

• Housing policy

  • upzoning
    • mid-density
      • McKenney, 764
      • Smith, G., 764

• Housing supply

  • format diversity
    • Smith, G., 760
  • government strategy
    • Bell, 817–818
    • Flack, 257–258
    • Ford, 257–258
    • Saunderson, 761, 763
  • impact on housing costs
    • McCrimmon, 647–648
  • property values
    • McKenney, 763–764

• Housing supply - population growth projections

  • general remarks
    • Flack, 755
    • Saunderson, 761

• Human trafficking

  • coerced debts, protection from
    • Anand, 536
  • prevention
    • Ciriello, 1229
    • Collard, 1228
    • hotels and short-term rentals
      • Downey, 268

• Human trafficking - law enforcement

  • intelligence gathering
    • hotels and related businesses
      • Anand, 536
      • Dowie, 538

• Human trafficking - sex trafficking

  • children and youth
    • Ontario Sex Offender Registry
      • Anand, 536

• Hydroelectricity industry

  • government strategy
    • Smith, Dave, 793