Doug Ford Shut Down Queen’s Park for 21 Weeks. Time to remind him who he works for.

Doug Ford Shut Down Queen’s Park for 21 Weeks. Time to remind him who he works for.

On June 2, after sitting for just 30 days, the Ford government closed the Ontario legislature until October 27: a 21-week break that runs nearly to Halloween. When a government spends less and less time answering questions, it isn’t governing. It’s avoiding accountability.

In those 30 sitting days, Doug Ford found time to try to buy a private jet, rewrite Ontario’s Freedom of Information laws, return the private jet, and cut OSAP grants for students. Meanwhile, Green MPPs Mike Schreiner and Aislinn Clancy used every one of those days to bring forward real plans to tackle student debt and homelessness and stand up for affordable housing, renters’ rights, and clean water. All of it now sits frozen until November.

While Doug Ford spends the next five months jet-setting across North America, help us remind him what kind of Ontario we want to build—one where we:

Build affordable homes: Build deeply affordable non-profit, co-op, and supportive housing near transit while protecting renters from bad-faith evictions and legalizing the missing middle
Protect farmland and water: Stop sprawl and safeguard our farms, forests and wetlands to protect local food security and community water needs
Fund public healthcare and education: Raise wages for frontline workers, fund education and eliminate the school repair backlog to fix our starving public systems
Lower energy bills: End fossil fuel dependence and lower household costs by investing in clean, made-in-Ontario wind, solar, and storage.

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On June 2, 2026, your government adjourned the Ontario legislature for 21 weeks after sitting for only 30 days this session. You have said this extended break is to avoid interfering with the fall municipal elections. Ontarians are not convinced. In the limited time the House did sit, your government moved to purchase a private jet, rewrote Ontario’s Freedom of Information laws, and cut OSAP grants for students, while doing nothing to make life easier and more affordable for everyday Ontarians. A government that spends less and less time in the legislature is a government insulating itself from accountability. We call on your government to: - Build affordable homes: Build deeply affordable non-profit, co-op, and supportive housing near transit while protecting renters from bad-faith evictions and legalizing the missing middle - Protect farmland and water: Stop sprawl and safeguard our farms, forests and wetlands to protect local food security and community water needs - Fund public healthcare and education: Raise wages for frontline workers, fund education and eliminate the school repair backlog to fix our starving public systems - Lower energy bills: End fossil fuel dependence and lower household costs by investing in clean, made-in-Ontario wind, solar, and storage. Ontarians elected you to serve them in the legislature, not to avoid it. We are calling for a government that shows up and answers to the people it serves.

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