MPPs' postponed return to sitting will allow them to attend September's International Plowing Match while still preserving committees' reviews of the government's 2023-24 spending plans
The Ontario legislature's spring sitting was completed on Thursday, with the governing Progressive Conservatives moving just before it wrapped up to push back its resumption in the fall by two weeks.
Their postponed return makes room in their schedules for the International Plowing Match and Rural Expo. For MPPs, the plowing match serves as an opportunity to flex their rugged and rural bona fides, including by competing against one another to see who can plow the straightest furrow. Although the chamber won't return until Sept. 25, MPPs on certain committees are still scheduled to meet during the week of Sept. 11 to finish up their review of the government's 2023-24 spending plans for some ministries. Opposition MPPs can consider this a victory, as these committee meetings offer them a rare opportunity to question government ministers for a few minutes at a time in a less theatrical setting than question period tends to give.
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