Pan Am Games officials will be compelled to give up former CEO Ian Troop’s severance package, a senior Liberal source says.

The source, who asked not to be named, said the minority Liberal government will demand that the Toronto 2015 organizing committee give the information to the legislature’s standing committee on general government, which is examining the Pan Am Games.

Troop was fired over a week ago. He will be replaced by deputy health minister Saad Rafi, effective Jan. 6.

“The Liberals will put forward a motion in committee to request all the compensation and severance information for Troop,” the source said Monday, noting the committee, which is expected to resume hearings in February, has the power to demand it be turned over.

Tory critic MPP Rod Jackson (Barrie) questioned why the government is going that route.

“They are the governing party … they don’t need a committee to get them to produce it,” Jackson said.

NDP sports critic MPP Paul Miller (Hamilton East-Stoney Creek) said: “This is just more desperate posturing from a government who will say and do anything to keep this information under wraps.”

Even so, both parties are expected to support such a motion.

A senior Pan Am Games official told the Star last week that Troop’s severance was secret and might not be made available for more than a year.

Courtney Pratt, chair of the TO2015 human resources committee, said Troop’s severance will be included in the annual sunshine list of public servants making over $100,000, either this spring or the spring of 2015. That would likely be well after the next provincial and municipal elections.

“Implementation details are still being finalized and are a personal issue between Mr. Troop and TO2015. Compensation details will be included in the 2013 and/or 2014 annual salary disclosure for the sunshine list,” Pratt said in an email to the Star.

Troop, who made $390,000 a year, stood to get a 200-per-cent bonus if the games came in under budget.

He had been under fire over his expenses, all of which were causing a political headache for Premier Kathleen Wynne’s government.

After Troop was dismissed, he sent a letter to his TO2015 colleagues commending them for the job they have done so far getting ready for the games — the largest of its kind held in Canada.

It will cost taxpayers at least $2.5 billion to stage the Games, which will host 7,666 athletes competing in 51 sports at venues in 14 municipalities, among them Toronto, Hamilton, Milton, Ajax, Whitby, Oshawa, Caledon, St. Catharines and Welland.

“It’s been a tough few days. I am still reeling and trying to regroup. But let’s face it, this is a very tough thing to face,” Troop wrote in an email obtained by the Star.

“I want you all to know that I am so very proud of each and every one of you. We have lots to be very proud of. Never forget it.”

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Troop said he wished he could have been at the town hall meeting at which his departure was made official, “but I was not given that choice … but really, it would have been too painful for me anyway, and besides I would have been a puddle.”

TO2015 currently has about 300 employees and will need about another 150 as the games approach. Sixty-four are senior staff.