It has been 100 days of the Doug Ford government.

Since June 29, the Ontario Progressive Conservatives have begun and in some cases ticked off a large number of to-dos from their election platform.

Plus a few unexpected check marks, like ordering the size of Toronto Council cut nearly in half at threat and invoking the notwithstanding clause of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms when an activist judge got in the way.

Buck a beer is back.

Cap and trade and its pricey impact on gasoline and natural gas prices, Hydro One CEO Mayo Schmidt aka “six million dollar man,” sex ed curriculum, Green Energy Act, York University strike, discovery math, Drive Clean – going or gone.

Ontario’s real deficit figure has been revealed at $15 billion, and the Conservatives have already begun cinching in spending to try to bring that figure down to zero in their mandate.

There’s been $90 million for hospital beds and a commitment to expand natural gas to rural communities.

A torrid pace from a government that promised during the election campaign to “fix” Ontario’s broken government and public services.

The PCs have taken to chanting “promises made, promises kept” in the legislature.

Government House Leader Todd Smith said the pace was deliberate, partly driven by urgency as in ending the York University impasse which had dragged out to become the longest post-secondary strike in the country’s history.

The Justin Trudeau government’s Oct. 17 date for legalization of recreational cannabis also forced the government to move quickly, he said.

“We had a lot of balls in the air, no question about it, and getting down to work as quickly as we did led to some challenges but I’m really proud of the record we have so far,” Smith said.

“We’ve completed an awful lot of things; we’ve fulfilled many of our campaign promises. I wouldn’t call it chaos, but I would call it a very, very busy schedule.”

The opposition are calling it chaos – a time of protests and lawsuits.

NDP MPP Sara Singh said the government needs to take the right time for reflection and feedback to ensure it’s making the right decision.

Cap and trade, the sex-ed curriculum and the Ontario Basic Income pilot were all pulled before any replacement programs were ready, she said.

“At this point, as a member of the official opposition, it’s been very difficult to say that this government has done anything quite right,” Singh said. “I’m still trying to be hopeful. I’m still looking for ways to be able to work across the aisle and collaborate with the government. There’s always hope.”

Liberal MPP Michael Coteau said it has been a rocky start for the Tories but that’s to be expected in transitions, but added he would like to see them start acting more like government and less like the “angry” opposition.

“The changes that have taken place over the last 100 days, the intention to get rid of (labour) Bill 148, the cancellation of a lot of the programs, the unknown around the anti-racism directorate, the cancelling of cap and trade — I think there’s around 40 things we’ve counted so far that have been cancelled under the Conservative government,” he said.

Ford’s decision to work with Prime Minister Trudeau to help broker a replacement to NAFTA was a positive move, he said.

Coteau broke with his Liberal colleagues and the NDP to support the Ford government’s cannabis bill because he thinks the free market approach to selling it makes sense, although he would like to see more school board and municipal control over where private pot stores are located.

Voters sent the Tories to Queen’s Park to get fix problems and that’s what they’re doing, Smith said.

All cabinet ministers are working hard, and he expects the government to go flat-out until Christmas with his major task trying to squeeze all the new legislation into a tight parliamentary schedule.

The climate change plan, the fall economic statement, a review of supervised injection sites and a new blueprint to deliver social services in a more modern and efficient way are all on deck.

The government’s major priority is work that Economic Development Minister Jim Wilson is undertaking, meeting with business representatives across the province to help develop red tape reduction legislation, he said.

“One of the big promises that the Premier made during the election campaign was ensuring that Ontario was open for business,” Smith said.

“That’s going to be so instrumental in getting Ontario’s economy really rolling and returning Ontario to being the economic engine in Canada again.”

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