Bill 249 explained in plain English
We're All in This Together Act (Cutting MPP Salaries to CERB Equivalent), 2021
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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The We're All in This Together Act (Cutting MPP Salaries to CERB Equivalent), 2021, temporarily reduces Ontario MPP salaries to $500 per week until most COVID-19 emergency orders are revoked.
This bill, titled the We're All in This Together Act (Cutting MPP Salaries to CERB Equivalent), 2021, temporarily reduces the salaries of Members of the Provincial Parliament (MPPs) in Ontario. The reduction is set to $500 per week. This change will remain in effect until all emergency orders related to the COVID-19 pandemic are lifted, with the exception of orders concerning hospitals and long-term care homes. The bill also specifies that no salary will be paid under Section 3 of the Executive Council Act during this period. The Act came into force on the day it received Royal Assent.
- Amends the Legislative Assembly Act to set the salary of every MPP at $500 per week.
- Amends the Executive Council Act to prevent MPPs from receiving salary under that Act.
- Specifies that these salary changes will last until all COVID-19 related emergency orders, except those for hospitals and long-term care homes, are revoked.
- States that the Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario (MPPs)
- MPPs will receive a salary of $500 per week.
- MPPs will not receive salary under Section 3 of the Executive Council Act during the specified period.
- The Act came into force on the day it received Royal Assent.
- The salary for MPPs is reduced to $500 per week.
- The exact date when all COVID-19 emergency orders (except those for hospitals and long-term care homes) will be revoked is not specified, meaning the duration of the salary reduction is not fixed.
Adds a new section (62.1) to reduce the salary of every MPP to $500 per week during a specified period.
Source: Section 1
Adds a new subsection (6) that prevents members of the Assembly from receiving salary under this Act during a specified period.
Source: Section 2
Its emergency orders are referenced as a condition for ending the salary reduction for MPPs.
Source: Section 1, Section 2
Its emergency orders are referenced as a condition for ending the salary reduction for MPPs.
Source: Section 1, Section 2
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