TORONTO — Premier Doug Ford says he will recall the legislature for a rare summer sitting in less than two weeks.

Heading into his first cabinet meeting on Friday afternoon, Ford told reporters MPPs would be back in the house in the “week of” July 9.

After the meeting newly appointed Government House Leader Todd Smith said the house would return on July 11 to elect a speaker and on July 12 for the speech from the throne. The regular sitting will start the following Monday on July 16.

The new government was sworn in Friday morning with a 21-member cabinet (including Ford). His top ministers are deputy premier and health minister, Christine Elliott, and Finance Minister Vic Fedeli.

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Ford didn’t speak to reporters on his way out of cabinet but has previously said that ending cap-and-trade would be his government’s first order of business. He has also said that resolving the longstanding York University strike is a priority and he hasn’t ruled out legislating the staff back to work.

Smith said he expects the house will sit for “two or three weeks” but he wouldn’t get into the details about what bills would be brought forward.

“Cap-and-trade is going to be right at the top of the agenda, there’s no question about that,” Smith said.

Fedeli was one of the few ministers who didn’t dodge reporters on the way out of the meeting. He said it was an “excellent” session but wouldn’t get into the details of what was discussed.

He repeated Ford’s promise that the Progressive Conservative government will move “quickly” on cap-and-trade. Attorney General Caroline Mulroney has been tasked with fighting Ottawa’s promise to impose a carbon tax when Ontario scraps cap-and-trade — she ignored reporter questions on her way out of cabinet.

Fedeli said the government hasn’t yet decided who will conduct the external audit of the province’s books but said news on that front would come shortly.

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