Now that provincial byelections are over, there is a big question going around the Legislature this week: will Premier Doug Ford change his front bench?
Sources in the know say Ford could change his front bench at any time, given there are four weeks left until the summer break. This means that if he shuffles his cabinet now, the new ministers would have plenty of time to get used to their jobs and learn their new portfolios before the fall session.
“If they are to make any changes, now would typically be they would make them. They give their ministers the summer to settle, they can do all the briefings, figure out ‘who is who in the zoo’ in terms of bureaucrats just settling slower,” a source close to the PCs said.