The Ford government wrapped its shortened legislative session on Thursday by shaving five weeks off the spring sitting and setting off on a 14-week winter break.

Politicians only returned to Queen’s Park in late October and will now head back to their ridings until the last week of March next year. They’d originally been scheduled to return after Family Day.

During the recent, shortened sitting, the government passed 12 pieces of legislation, most of which bypassed committee hearings, had debate reduced and sped past the traditional process.

That brief sitting came after a 19-week summer break, which the government extended by cancelling all sitting days in September and most in October.

Ontario Liberal MPP John Fraser called the approach to shortening sitting “crazy,” while Green Pa

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