Some provinces are ending time changes. What about Ontario?

Northwestern Ontario's clocks are staying put year-round. On November 1st, the rest of the province will turn back time by one hour. But Doug Ford's government wants all of the clocks to unite as one. No more of this spring forward and fall back. But here's why that's tricky. In 2020, the Time Amendment Act was passed in Ontario, which would strike down all of this. Divisive clock changing, but the law won't come into effect unless Quebec and New York do the same thing so that all three jurisdictions stay aligned when it comes to trade the stock market and broadcasting. I think that's kind of smart. I mean, there's no first mover advantage to changing time before everybody else does. It just means you sort of sow a bit more confusion in your own area. So waiting to ensure that your major trading partners are also changing. To kind of mitigate some of the scheduling challenges. Seems wise to me. So what's happening with these trading partners? Well, Quebec is turning back the clocks this weekend, but the recently elected Parti Quebecois wants to abolish the time change and has promised to table a bill in the coming months. New York already has legislation in motion. Senate Bill S-3380 was sponsored by Republican Senator Joe Griffo in 2025 and would establish daylight saving time as the standard time throughout the year. But for anything to happen statewide, it needs national buy-in first. The Congress. Under the Uniform Time Act, has ultimate determination to tell us what time we can be on, because you can't have 50 states doing 50 different things. Now we have the U.S. House of Representatives that have passed it, and the Senate has not taken any action at this point in time. So unless the two chambers of the U.S. Congress can get on the same page, New York is stuck switching clocks, and Ontario won't do it either. And round and round we go. We're going to wait and see if New York makes the move. Dale Monekdak, CBC News, Toronto.