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Government Relations
ORHMA Successes

The Voice of Ontario’s Hospital Industry

Government Relations: Recent Accomplishments

•Influenced government to retain the minimum wage differential categories of student and liquor server. Continue to voice opposition
to immediate rise in the minimum wage to $10.

• Defeated the City of Toronto’s proposed 5% tax on liquor,
as a member of the anti-tax liquor industry coalition.

• ORHMA, as a founding and executive member of the Ontario
Business Coalition, garners a zero change in both the average
WSIB premium rate of $2.26 per $100 of insurable earnings
and $1.65 for the Restaurants group. Hotels and Motels group
kept only to a 1.1% increase at $2.68.

• Secured municipal win on Trans Fats which was adopted by the
Board of Health.

• Paramount in several industry-friendly liquor reforms adopted by government such as minimum pricing, licensing of hotel lobbies, fines versus suspensions, and allowing patrons’ sealed liquor in transit on licensed premises. ORHMA acknowledged by government on its hard work on, and contribution to, the Liquor Licence Act Review process.

• Successfully lobbied for a multi-million dollar investment in tourism marketing aimed at promoting Ontario as a premier four season travel destination to both domestic and foreign markets. Currently lobbying provincial government for investment of $60 million.

We continue to work with government on issues such as:

• Tourism investment
• Labour – Minimum Wage, Workforce Shortage, Workplace
  Safety & Insurance Board (WSIB) Rates
• QSR Drive-Throughs
• Waste Diversion
• Accessibility
• Environment
• Food Safety
• Taxation Powers
• GST/PST Harmonization


 


 

 



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