Salary caps are coming to executives earning $100,000-plus in another 64 broader public sector agencies including TVO, the Liquor Control Board and the scandal-plagued ORNGE air ambulance service.

The net is widening as the Liberal government strengthens proposed accountability legislation, Treasury Board President Deb Matthews said Wednesday.

“Citizens of Ontario are entitled to know and want to know where their tax dollars are going and there’s a lot of concern about executive compensation,” she told reporters.

Matthews has been tasked by Premier Kathleen Wynne to squeeze the provincial payroll as the government scrambles to erase a $12.5 billion deficit as promised by 2018, when it faces re-election.

The LCBO and other agencies such as Metrolinx and eHealth Ontario will be added to the bill, known as the Public Sector and MPP Accountability and Transparency Act, when it goes to legislative committee for further study. The precise salary caps aren’t set yet.

Also on the list are Cancer Care Ontario, Legal Aid Ontario, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the Ontario Securities Commission, organ transplant agency Trillium Gift of Life Network and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, among dozens of others.

Executives from those organizations include Cancer Care chief executive Michael Sherar, who earned $496,734 last year plus taxable benefits of $46,685, LCBO president Bob Peter, who earned $422,481 and $17,844 in benefits, and TVO chief executive Lisa De Wilde, who earned $267,066 and $1,990 in taxable benefits.

New Democrat Leader Andrea Horwath has called for rules to ensure no public sector executive makes more than double the premier’s salary of about $210,000.

The embattled MaRS agency and the Pan Am Games are not included in the bill, which was originally written to cover hospitals, school boards, universities and colleges, Hydro One, the Independent Electricity System Operator, the Ontario Power Authority, Ontario Power Generation and community care access centres.

Progressive Conservatives said adding the 64 agencies doesn’t go far enough.

“The transparency and accountability, for example, does not extend to all broader public service. That’s a challenge,” said MPP Lisa MacLeod.

She and colleague John Yakabuski accused the government of “blatant hypocrisy” for boasting a spirit of openness while refusing to call former Dalton McGuinty senior aide Laura Miller and her computer-savvy partner Peter Faist to testify before MPPs investigating the cancellation of two gas plants.

“This is your opportunity to put some action in to those words, not hollow words,” Yakabuski thundered in the legislature.

Aside from establishing salary ranges and caps, the bill gives the government powers to collect information on benefits and bonuses and other goodies, Matthews said.

“We get the sunshine list but we don’t get all the details of what their compensation is,” she added, referring to the annual disclosure of all public sector workers earning more than $100,000.

“I think it’s important we get that information.”

Along with comparisons to other public sector organizations, those details will be used to set ranges of “appropriate compensation” at particular agencies and in specific sectors, such as health care or energy, Matthews said.

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She declined to comment on the prospects for pay reductions when salary ranges are set for jobs that include senior staff from chief executives to presidents, vice-presidents, directors, supervisory officers and others regardless of their titles.

“I’m not going to prejudge.”