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The committee will demand answers about where the money went — “a lot of the Liberals got rich, really, really rich” off the backs of Ontario taxpayers, he said.

The government has already picked out its members on the committee, Ford said.

“I tell you, what a team we picked, too. Boy, I’d be worried to go in front of them,” he said, to laughs from his fellow PC MPPs. “They’re a tough group.”

Supporters at the premier’s weekend FordFest could be heard shouting: “Lock her up, lock her up.”

His language was inflammatory and Ford’s claims that Liberal insiders got rich was unsubstantiated and “completely false,” Wynne countered.

“I am completely clear and sure that we revealed everything about what we were doing in the financial realm,” she said.

Wynne added she was disappointed that Ford didn’t shut down the crowd’s chant, an echo of what happened to candidate Hillary Clinton when she ran against President Donald Trump.

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“It’s just vile and it is unbecoming of a premier in the province in my opinion.,” she said.

Six Tory MPPs and three NDP MPPs will sit on the committee, and Wynne argued there should be at least one Liberal MPP on the committee.

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said Ford would be one of the few people in Ontario who didn’t know that the Liberals were “playing games” with the deficit, and accused him of plotting cuts to compensate for his own planned tax cuts.

Ford’s allegations flow from a report of a Financial Commission of Inquiry, initiated by the Tories, that found the previous government left behind a $15-billion deficit.