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“Let me be clear, we will be voting against this budget. It is time to go to the people and have them make a decision.”

Horwath cited the gas plant scandal as evidence that she can’t support a government that the public doesn’t trust.

Hudak’s Progressive Conservatives had long said they would vote against the budget to force an election.

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Hudak touted his “million jobs plan” Friday and said he was “laser focused” on getting more Ontarians work.

“If you are looking for someone who is running a popularity contest by promising funding on all kinds of projects but they don’t the cheques to cash in, then vote for the NDP or Liberal leader,” Hudak said Friday. “But if you want someone with a turnaround plan to get Ontario working again, look at me, look at my team.”

Premier Wynne delivered a budget Thursday that included $130.4-billion in spending for a deficit of $12.5 billion. The budget promised $29 billion over 10 years for public transit and infrastructure and a new Ontario Retirement Pension Plan for people without a workplace pension.

The budget included higher taxes on cigarettes and on those making more than $150,000 a year.

Wynne told CP24 Friday she was “proud to take this budget to the people.”

“I’m disappointed that [Horwath] wouldn’t have a meeting with me. I think there’s a lot in this budget that needs to be implemented in this province,” she told Belleville radio station CJBQ.

“But I’ve said all along … if we didn’t have a partner in the legislature, then we would take this budget to the people of the province, and we will do that.”

Horwath said she was tired of Wynne’s broken promises.

“How can Kathleen Wynne promise to build a ship when she hasn’t even built a raft?” Horwath said. “We don’t have any confidence whatsoever in their ability to come through on those promises.”

Wynne does not need to wait for her budget to be defeated, as she can ask Ontario Lieutenant Governor David Onley to dissolve the legislature and call an election.

The NDP have propped up the minority Liberals over the last two budgets.