TORONTO — The holiday season has kicked off with some extra oomph at Queen’s Park this year, with its pink palace decked out in more Christmas lights and decor than it’s used to, as the Speaker seeks to make the building more open and enticing to the public.

Outside the Ontario legislature — where there was little more than one large tree wrapped in festive lights in years past — hedges and tree trunks across the massive lawn are now lit, along with lighted decorations in the shape of reindeer and strings of lights lining the main entrance.

Inside, the grand staircase has long put on a grand show at Christmas, with twinkling trees, banisters wrapped in lights and poinsettias lining the steps.

This year, the holiday decor has expanded throughout the building, now including a large tree o

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