Years later, of course-10 years, to be precise-I had the opportunity to go back just this year to see Isabelle Copeland of Harrington Staffing in Ottawa. What a tremendous honour it was for me to go there, look at her and say, "Thank you. I've now become your MPP."

It's that type of opportunity in Ontario that we must foster. By adding more burdens on small and medium-sized staffing companies, we may put them out of business. I don't mean "we" as in the official opposition; I mean "we" in this Legislature, which is dominated and controlled by the Liberal Party.

We heard several concerns from Isabelle and her colleagues about what this bill, if not modified and amended properly, would do to her agency and other agencies like hers. My colleague Bob Bailey and the official opposition moved to delete section 74.4 from the bill because we believe that this section creates an implied so-called continuance of employment while not on assignment, which in turn constructs an inconsistency between employers' obligations and the reality of the employment context. Ontario is the only jurisdiction in Canada that has this rule. At a time when we need able-bodied young men and women in the workforce, we cannot close these temporary agencies down.