Ontario politicians make annual pilgrimage to International Plowing Match [Video]

Ontario politicians are set to make their annual pilgrimage to the International Plowing Match Tuesday.

The expo will be held in Lindsay, Ont., this year and is a yearly celebration of rural and agricultural life.

With the spectre of a possible early election – Premier Doug Ford has not ruled one out – the event gives politicians the chance to mingle with members of those communities.

Ford will give a speech at the opening ceremonies and will participate in a parade.

He is also set to hop on a tractor along with the leaders of the other political parties in a challenge to see who can plow the straightest furrow.

Ford received a cool reception last year after the explosion of the Greenbelt land-opening scandal, a move farmers opposed because it would have meant developing prime agricultural land.