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Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne says her government intends to take unprecedented control of the salaries, benefits and pensions of public sector executives, including those at Ontario Power Generation deemed excessively generous by the the auditor-general.

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The opposition parties pounced Wednesday on the report, saying the Liberal government allowed salaries and benefits to soar out of control at OPG for the past decade, especially for executives at the government-owned utility.

Wynne promised the Liberals will introduce legislation next year that would give the government new powers to control pay levels for public sector executives. She says no government has had the authority the Liberals will put in place to control compensation packages.

“I’m deeply concerned about what seems to be the culture in that organization,” the Premier said at Queen’s Park. “We have a need for the government to have more control over compensation packages and we will be introducing legislation in order to put those controls in place.”