FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Oct. 18, 2016 QUEEN’S PARK – Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett raised questions about Bill 37, Protecting Students Act, 2016 during debate in the Ontario Legislature, Monday. This legislation was first introduced several years ago and is again being debated at second reading. Barrett said people are concerned about the safety of … Continue reading “Barrett raises questions about Protecting Students Act”
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 7, 2026 QUEEN’S PARK – From milk and honey to grains, fruit and vegetables, Ontario agriculture has the resources to produce just about anything according to Toby Barrett, Haldimand-Norfolk MPP and Opposition Agriculture Critic. Barrett likened Ontario’s Agriculture Week to the opening lines of John Keat’s poem, To … Continue reading “Ontario can grow just about anything”
By MPP Toby Barrett Our area’s section of Provincial Highway 3 has quite a history – originally following different settler trails. For much of its length, it follows the Talbot Trail – originally a corduroy road built by Col. Thomas Talbot to join Niagara with Amherstburg in the 1820s. Corduroy road refers to the practice … Continue reading “Ontario’s one hundred years of highways”
By MPP Toby Barrett Skyrocketing electricity prices in Ontario have reached the point of crisis. Since this government first took office, households in Ontario are now paying on average $1,000 more a year on their electricity bills. Out-of-control hydro costs have created unprecedented levels of energy poverty, and significantly reduced business investment and the jobs … Continue reading “Ontario now has a full-blown electricity crisis”
Barrett uses local example to highlight out-of-control electricity prices
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sept. 28, 2016 QUEEN’S PARK – Haldimand-Norfolk MPP used a local example in the Legislature yesterday to highlight how electricity costs are out of control in Ontario. Haldimand County resident Walter Mueller Jr. is one of those who “does everything right” when it comes to energy conservation in his … Continue reading “Barrett uses local example to highlight out-of-control electricity prices”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sept. 27, 2016 QUEEN’S PARK – Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett, during legislative debate, highlighted new terminology has been added to the English language. “There seems to be a new expression in the province of Ontario: energy poverty,” Barrett said in the Ontario Legislature on Monday during debate of the Ontario … Continue reading “Barrett addresses energy poverty during debate”
By MPP Toby Barrett Like many in Haldimand and Norfolk, I heat with electricity. We installed a forced-air furnace back when government was encouraging all of us to ‘Live Better Electrically’. How things have changed. I am now forced to put up 20 cords of wood just to get through the winter –natural gas is … Continue reading “Are you afraid to open your electricity bill?”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sept. 23, 2016 QUEEN’S PARK – Toby Barrett, Haldimand-Norfolk MPP and Critic to the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, spoke in favour of a Private Member’s Bill to allow more certified pest advisors to provide advice on neonic-treated seed. To comply with the new seed treatment rules proposed in … Continue reading “Barrett supports bill to revamp neonic rules”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 12, 2016 QUEEN’S PARK – In an attempt to hit “reset” on her government’s record, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne today offered up a package of electricity rebates. “In typical style, the Premier has chosen to remedy 13 years of failed decision-making with a Throne Speech that makes for soundbites,” said … Continue reading “Wynne’s Throne Speech too little, too late”