Provincial Election On The Horizon?

Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives plan to move a
motion of non-confidence in the minority Liberal government over the cancelled gas plants in Oakville and Mississauga.
The Canadian Press has learned the Tories have already started the legal proceedings for the non-confidence motion, which they hope to introduce before the Liberals present the provincial budget.
A senior party source says the basis for the motion is “the
Liberals continued attempts to mislead the public and cover up the true costs” of their political decisions to cancel the gas plants.
The auditor general reported last week that the cost of halting the Mississauga project in mid construction just days before the 2011 election was $275 million, $85 million more than the Liberals had been claiming.
The Conservatives say they can’t see how the New Democrats could not vote for the non-confidence motion given how they too have condemned the Liberals for the “expensive” political decisions to scrap the power plants.
Until now, the NDP has voted to keep the minority government in power, and has been negotiating with the Liberals on just what it wants included in the budget.