Ms. Lisa MacLeod: My question is to the Premier. At one time, Premier McGuinty focused on giving parents more time with their families through a new civic holiday in February.

Today, Premier McGuinty has a "more intelligent understanding" of family time. He's busy telling moms and dads to gather their kids down in the laundry room and do a couple of loads of laundry together on Saturdays.

Premier, how did you get so out of touch with Ontario families?

Hon. Dalton McGuinty: I want to remind my honourable colleague and all members of the Legislature of the good news we put out on Friday. We have closed another four coal plants in the province of Ontario. That's the equivalent of taking two million cars off our roads.

I know that the members of the opposition will be very, very interested in what the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment had to say in this regard. They said that coal-fired plants in Ontario "kill nearly 250 Ontarians and make 120,000 ill each year. They emit cancer-causing chemicals such as arsenic, brain poisons such as lead and mercury, and sulphur dioxide...."

So I know that my honourable colleague will want to join us as we continue to work as hard as we can to shut down coal-fired generation in the province of Ontario, the single largest North American initiative-

The Speaker (Hon. Steve Peters): Thank you. Supplementary?

Ms. Lisa MacLeod: The Premier is out of touch; he's out of gas. Had he joined me in Metcalfe this weekend for the 154th annual agricultural fair, he would have heard from people who can't afford his increase in hydro bills. He would have heard from them that they think his trying to tell them to do laundry on Saturdays instead of-spending their time is wrong-headed.

When the Premier used to promise to use technology to improve learning conditions, he meant that "parents will be able to access up-to-date information on class sizes in their school, and across Ontario, through a new class size website." Today he wants teachers and students to text each other with their BlackBerrys in the classroom.

Premier, are your new priorities part of your "more intelligent understanding" because you're bored or because you're out of touch?

Hon. Dalton McGuinty: My honourable colleague is doing a lot of jumping around, but I think we should stay focused on one subject, and I want to return to the issue of electricity.

As my honourable colleague knows very well, because that party, when in government, sat on its hands, did not build significant new generation, did not add significantly to new transmission-their plan was essentially to put in place diesel-fired generators in our urban cores-we were left with the predicament that we inherited. So we're making tremendous efforts to invest in new generation and new transmission. We're creating a modern, reliable electricity system. More than that, in the interests of parents-mothers in particular, whom we hear from by the score-we are cleaning up the quality of our air.

I would have thought that the member opposite would find it in her heart at some point in time to say, "Yes, we need to work harder as a society to clean up the quality of the air that our children are breathing." That's why we shut down four more coal-

The Speaker (Hon. Steve Peters): Thank you. Final supplementary.

Ms. Lisa MacLeod: There's one thing he is cleaning out, and that's people's wallets. You're taking their money; they can't afford you anymore.

In 2003, Premier McGuinty told Ontario families that he would use technology to improve health care, government services and democratic institutions. That meant eHealth, a one-stop portal through ServiceOntario and looking at voting online. All of those initiatives have failed, so the Premier has moved on to new priorities. Now he's trying to get Justin Bieber to follow him on Twitter.

The question: Does Premier McGuinty think his new priority, in trying to catch Bieber fever, is more important than his old ones, or is it just time for a change?

Hon. Dalton McGuinty: My honourable colleague is thrashing about frantically, and it's not something that you really want to watch very closely.

I want to remind my honourable colleague about something else we're doing today. Today, we're opening the world's largest solar farm in Sarnia, Ontario, and I'm very pleased that the MPP for Sarnia-Lambton will be attending that announcement, in full support of those new jobs and the clean air that this is going to help create for the province of Ontario.

I'm also very pleased that the MPP for Haldimand-Norfolk attended our green energy hub announcement, which had been championed so capably by the member for Brant.

I know that there is, at heart, a desire to move ahead with our electricity-