Legislature

Have a good one.

So next up is Scott Holber, County Legislature, 11th District.

Scott.

Scott Holber.

I'm currently an Orchard Park town councilman, identity supervisor.

I'm going to hand out a card to you guys in a little bit that tells you a little bit about myself so I won't get too deep into it.

But I'm a lifelong South Towns resident, been in Orchard Park since 1976, running for Erie County Legislature District 11, which includes Orchard Park, Hamburg, Boston, Eden, Evans, Grant, Barnum, part of the Wanda, So a very big district, North Collins and Collins as well.

So big district, a lot of miles traveled, a lot of doors visited, hearing a lot of things about what folks need and very similar to, you know, understanding this group today is talking, hearing, listening.

Colleges and University Minister Nolan Quinn came under calls for his dismissal Tuesday following a five-month break by Alan S. Hale, published October 27, 2026, updated 18 hours ago.

Nolan Quinn, Ontario's Minister of Colleges and Universities, speaks in the Legislature on Tuesday, October 27, as MPPs returned to Queen's Park after a 21-week break.

Ontario's Colleges and Universities Minister is facing calls to resign or be fired over his decision to cut off financial aid to students at privately operated career colleges.

MPPs returned to the Legislature Tuesday after a five-month break, meeting for the first time since all payments to the private colleges under the Ontario Student Assistant Program were abruptly suspended this month.

That move by the government left many students unable to finish their programs and plunged the industry into what some have warned could become a financial crisis.

In the legislature, Colleges and Universities Minister Nolan Quinn and Premier Doug Ford defended the suspension of aid, while opposition parties accused them of abandoning students and ignoring years of warnings about potential fraud by some schools.

...reports the party that was in power for nine years now finds itself without a leader and bracing for the next four years in opposition.

After a devastating loss in a snap election, movers pack out documents from the West Annex of the Legislature, home to the Premier's office.

For those of you wondering what that sound is, it's a tote with wheels on it going down one of the staircases.

New Democrats across the province are feeling quite rough about Saturday's election results.

Yeah, I mean, that's a great question, Scott.

And, you know, when I looked at the legislative priorities, I think they all speak to so much of what our language of faith speaks to.

And in some ways, sad that That we have to address these issues in 2026 2027 When when it felt like we had made so many moves forward That we're now having to in some ways reprioritize or even re explore some of the ways in which these Legislative priorities have taken a backspace public education gun violence health care women's rights immigration, let's be honest, the way in which our immigrants are being treated in our country, and then using our sacred text to justify it just makes no sense to me.

So it's kind of sad that we're even having to re-examine these legislative priorities when I had hoped or perhaps we'd had hoped that the country may have moved far forward and we could be talking about other things that really...

Really really are important as well.

Top of the morning to you.

Okay, is it a good morning to be in the NDP? Because they're meeting at the Legislature.

They've got to find a new leader, right?

They're meeting upstairs this morning, today, tomorrow.

Whereas if you actually make some progress on the education side and grow the economy, those programs become less important, not more.

Yeah, and I posted, along with this story at Heirs of Enchantment, a link to the report from the LFC, Despite Benefits, Poverty Persists, which is a generous way the Legislative Finance Committee has to say that we're spending an awful lot of money on these welfare programs and haven't seen a great deal of improvement in the the areas.

This is a December 11th, 2023 report.

So worth checking out if you haven't already seen that one.

So the quote is from Lente.

Hull's plan, of course, eliminating the income tax, would not benefit the lowest income earners the most.

When we talk about eliminating the personal income tax, it seems to me that based on the numbers that were presented by the Legislative Finance Committee, that those that were millionaires, those at the upper echelon of income earners in the state, were to benefit the most.

And my response to Lente would be a couple things.

He can go ahead, like I said, and do the enterprise fund and hand out money, but he can't get a sales tax exemption, a legislative exemption.

Legislature led by Republicans got on board with that and they should not have.

We have got to stop doing this nonsense.

It is so shocking how many Republicans in the legislature will do things like wind energy tax credits, wind energy subsidies, things that don't make sense.