province all 83,000 of you teachers occasional teachers designated early

childhood educators our educational support professionals and our

professional support personnel you're amazing you do a fantastic phenomenal

job day in and day out across this province in classrooms and work sites on

behalf of your students and students in this province you need to hold your head

high no matter what you hear from today forward based on everything that's

happening just know that you are the heart and soul of publicly funded

education in this province we have a world-renowned world-class publicly

funded education system in Ontario why because of you each and every one of you

we continue to be focused and we'll do everything we can at the central

bargaining table to get an agreement that's fair and reasonable for students

in this province and you are members if we don't see that fair and reasonable

agreement materialized if we don't see the supports and the investments that we

need that my friends we have to do whatever it takes to ensure that that

happens at that central bargaining table