{"id":17936,"date":"2014-07-03T18:46:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T10:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=17936"},"modified":"2014-07-03T17:50:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T09:50:27","slug":"liberal-throne-speech-to-focus-on-jobs-public-transit-and-retirement-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/03\/liberal-throne-speech-to-focus-on-jobs-public-transit-and-retirement-income\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal throne speech to focus on jobs, public transit and retirement income"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17937\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17937\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/6964550182_52f2605568_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17937\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/6964550182_52f2605568_b.jpg\" alt=\"Hon. Kathleen Wynne. Photo from Ontario Chamber of Commerce \/ Flickr.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/6964550182_52f2605568_b.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/6964550182_52f2605568_b-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hon. Kathleen Wynne. Photo from Ontario Chamber of Commerce \/ Flickr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO\u2014The Liberal government will focus on job creation, public transit and retirement income in a speech from the throne today that opens a rare summer session of the Ontario legislature.<\/p>\n<p>Government house leader Yasir Naqvi says by winning a majority in the June 12 election, the Liberals got a mandate from the people to implement the plan they campaigned on.<\/p>\n<p>That plan, based on the May 1 budget that triggered the election, includes $29 billion for public transit and infrastructure projects, $2.5 billion for companies that create new jobs and a skills training program.<\/p>\n<p>Naqvi says voters sent a clear message that they want the government to move forward on issues like the creation of a provincial pension plan for people without a workplace pension.<\/p>\n<p>The throne speech will also outline a plan by Premier Kathleen Wynne to lead an Ontario trade mission to China.<\/p>\n<p>The Opposition says the Liberals were given a mandate from voters to implement a very specific plan, so they don\u2019t expect any surprises in the throne speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe election results are still very fresh in everyone\u2019s minds and I think people are still digesting on our side what those results mean, and I think that has given Ms. Wynne a mandate,\u201d said Progressive Conservative MPP Lisa MacLeod.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not to say that there won\u2019t be opportunities for us to critique her policies, but I think we know very much the position she\u2019s in and where she wants to take the province.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO\u2014The Liberal government will focus on job creation, public transit and retirement income in a speech from the throne today &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":17937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}