Ontario wont recall legislature until mid-April amid tariff fight [Video]

Ontario Premier Doug Ford will not recall the legislature for more than a month, his office has confirmed, but plans to swear in his cabinet ministers in just over a week’s time as a tariff fight with the U.S. continues.

Ford dissolved the legislature at the end of January to call a snap winter election, which his party won with a majority of 80 seats. The NDP formed Opposition with 27.

The premier said he needed to call the election to receive a bigger mandate than he had before to fight tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump and potentially spend tens of billions stimulating the economy.

Since the election — where Ford won three seats fewer than in 2022 — he has resisted calls from the opposition to recall the legislature to scrutinize his tariff response plans and said he “doesn’t need” the house to be back to respond.

Both the …