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TORONTO — Premier Kathleen Wynne says if the Liberals win the June 12 election they will keep the Drive Clean vehicle emissions test program, separating her party from the NDP and Progressive Conservatives — both of which are willing to cut it.

Speaking at a campaign event Friday in Toronto, the Liberal premier said her party would do whatever it could “to make sure the air is clean.” But the program has come under fire as nothing more than a tax grab.

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The Progressive Conservatives have said they would kill programs that “don’t offer good value,” such as Drive Clean, which critics say has outlived its usefulness.

“I think you’ll be amazed at how much government you’re never going to miss (and) top of my list: Drive Clean,” Tim Hudak said Friday.

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath has said she is open to looking at whether the program is delivering environmental benefits and if it’s not, she’s “not aversed to seeing it deep-sixed.”