Within hours of her victory on Saturday evening, Ontario premier-designate Kathleen Wynne was the target of two new Progressive Conservative attack ads that labelled her “another McGuinty Liberal Ontario can’t afford.”

“The Ontario Liberals have a replacement, but as McGuinty’s right hand, Kathleen Wynne has an expensive record of failure. Over half a million people are still unemployed or on welfare,” one radio ad begins.

The attack was at odds with what Wynne told reporters was a short but pleasant opening conversation with PC leader Tim Hudak on Saturday night.

“Tim and I have always had a pretty collegial interaction with each other,” she said. “It was a good opening conversation and I’m going to take that at face value. And I will sit down with him and hope that we can find a way to have a conversation on the things that we can agree on.”

Wynne added she expects to speak with NDP leader Andrea Horwath on Sunday, and connect with Hudak again on Monday.

“That will be the beginning of that conversation and our understanding of how we’re going to be able to move back into the legislature and work together, because the rancor and the viciousness of the legislature can’t continue.”

But PC and NDP critics who made their way to Wynne’s Sunday morning press conference were decidedly more skeptical about the government’s future.

“The past is not going to go away,” said Victor Fedeli, the PC energy critic, listing off the scandals that have plagued the Ontario Liberals over the last year.

“The fact of the matter is she sat at the cabinet table during these missteps.”

The PCs argued she must focus on the debt crisis, while the NDP highlighted the need to tackle poverty.

The New Democrats are seen as Wynne’s best shot at winning additional support at Queen’s Park. The party’s house leader, Gilles Bisson, told reporters the ball is in Wynne’s court.

“The only votes that can bring a government done in Ontario is a throne speech or a budget. Guess what, Mrs. Wynne will write both of those documents,” he said. “So Mrs. Wynne is going to have to decide how quickly she wants an election by moderating what she puts into the budget.”

“It will not be New Democrats, it will not be Conservatives who bring this government down. It’ll be Mrs. Wynne herself.”

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