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• Your government invested $2.4 million to fund 347 more hip and knee replacement surgeries at the Credit Valley Hospital and Trillium Health Centre.

• Your government has improved access to doctors. Today, family physicians are seeing an additional 308, 000 Ontarians.

• Your government has shortened wait times for MRI and CT scan with the addition of 14 new MRI machines and 31 CT scans. This includes an MRI replacement machine at Trillium Health Centre, which will perform 7750 additional MRI exams.
• Your government has allocated $1.04 million each to Credit Valley Hospital and Trillium Health Centre to establish a Critical Care Response Team to help reduce wait times at hospital emergency departments.

• Your government is providing $5.6 million to the Peel Region to strengthen land ambulance services in the area as part of a plan to achieve 50:50 cost-sharing with municipalities by 2008.
• Your government is making health care more responsive to the needs of the Mississauga community with the introduction of two Family Health Teams.
• Your government is improving access to cancer care and reducing waiting times by investing $11.1 million in new and expanded integrated cancer programs at the Carlo Fidani Peel Regional Cancer Centre at the Credit Valley Hospital.
• Your government has increased funding towards a newly revamped student nutrition program which includes responding to local needs and providing healthier food to students.
• Your government has allocated $248,192 to the rent bank program in Peel Region, helping low-income tenants with short-term arrears stay in their homes.
• Your government is helping to promote literacy and lifelong learning in Mississauga with a grant of $10, 500 to the Mississauga First Nation Public Library.
• Your government has created close to 60,000 new spaces in Ontario colleges and universities. That’s equivalent to creating two new universities in Ontario.
• Your government is committed to funding more than $6.2 million in funding over the next five years towards universities, colleges and apprenticeships.
• Your government has increased financial aid for students by $192 million, with up to 32,000 students who needed help the most this year, received grants.
• Your government has introduced the No Wrong Door Pilot Project in Mississauga, a strategy that will direct people to appropriate government or community-based labour market and training services with a one-stop approach.
• Your government has reduced class sizes in kindergarten to Grade 3. As of 2006, about 27% of children in those grades are in smaller classes, and half are in classes of 20 or fewer students.
• Your government has delivered $51 million dollars for an enhanced anti-gun/gang strategy, including funding for a provincial ops centre to fight guns and gangs.
• Under the government’s Safer Communities – 1,000 Officers Partnership Program, the Peel Regional Police will be able to add an additional 97 police officers.
• Residents of Mississauga can count on enhanced community safety as your government awarded the Peel Regional Police $2.6 million to hire an additional 124 police officers under the Community Policing Partnership Program.