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Ontario MPPs return to Congress for start of new session

First time they have been sitting since the June election

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Peter Bethlenfalvy, Ontario's Minister of Finance delivers the provincial government's 2022 budget at the Queens Park Legislature, in Toronto, on Thursday, April 28, 2022.
Peter Bethlenfalvy, Ontario Treasurer, will present the provincial government's 2022 budget at the Queen's Park Assembly in Toronto on Thursday, April 28, 2022. Photo by Chris Young /The Canadian Press

Provincial politicians called the Ontario Legislature on Monday. Go back and start a new session.

It is the first time they have been sitting since the Progressive Conservatives won his second majority government in early June.

The first task is to elect a Speaker, and his two Tories are vying for the post. Ted Arnott, who has held that role for the last four years, and Nina Tangli, who has been a minor deputy minister. Reduce business and red tape.

A royal address outlining the government's new agenda will follow on Tuesday, followed by a budget proposal. The budget, largely unchanged since its introduction, was not passed in the spring before the election.

But reintroduction amid a medical staff crisis that saw emergency rooms across the state closed for hours or days at a time and inflation far higher than when they were first introduced It has been.

The Throne Speech is expected to address these changing circumstances, but it is unclear whether new measures will be added to address them.

} Nursing groups and opposition politicians have called on the government to repeal a law passed in 2019 capping wage increases for nurses and other public sector workers for three years as a way to alleviate the shortage.

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