LILLEY: Ford to set out agenda as MPPs gather at Queen's Park for summer sitting
On Monday, Ontario’s 43rd Parliament will convene at Queen’s Park for a rare summer session following June’s election.
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On Monday, Ontario’s 43rd Parliament will convene at Queen’s Park for a rare summer session following June’s election.
Newly elected MPPs are closing the book on campaigning and starting to focus on what comes next. That includes specific projects, like two-way, all-day GO trains and a wastewater treatment plant in Erin, to hoping for a 'reset' in the work atmosphere at Queen's Park.
Just hours after easily winning the riding of Wellington-Halton Hills, Ted Arnott sent a four-page list of priorities to PC Leader Doug Ford and used the premier-elect's own election slogan to press him to "get it done." Those priorities include health care, municipal funding, local transportation projects and senior housing.
Voters in southwestern Ontario haven't changed the political map too drastically, but have sent some new faces to Queen's Park, including the province's only Independent MPP-elect.
Longtime MPP Ted Arnott, who for the last four years served as Speaker at Queen's Park, holds onto his seat for another term.