Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian has recovered some of the deleted Liberal emails related to the controversial $585-million gas plant cancellations.

“I was dismayed to learn that my office had been misinformed by Ministry of Government Services staff regarding the existence of records that would have been relevant to the special investigation report that I had released on June 5,” Cavoukian said in a statement Wednesday.

“I am appalled that we were provided with incorrect information during the course of my investigation, that was misleading,” she said, adding there will be a special addendum to her searing 35-page report on the missing messages.

Government Services Minister John Milloy said in a statement that “ministry staff are still in the process of identifying and producing the records and will provide them to the committee as soon as possible.”

Progressive Conservative MPP Vic Fedeli (Nipissing) said the government’s chief information officer apparently discovered emails that Craig MacLennan, a former chief of staff to past energy ministers Brad Duguid and Chris Bentley, had deleted.

“These documents were previously hidden from us as part of a batch the Liberals had said were ‘unrecoverable,’ ” said Fedeli, adding he suspects the Ontario Provincial Police investigation into the affair sparked some action.

“It’s too much of a coincidence for me to accept,” he told reporters emphasizing that “it’s good news that we’re going to get the data that we have said exists all along.”

MacLennan’s emails will likely be made public Monday. So far, some 130,000 related documents have been released.

Five weeks ago, Cavoukian issued her report looking into why some key Liberal political staff had no records regarding the controversial closures of plants in Mississauga and Oakville before the 2011 election.

The report fingered MacLennan, and David Livingston, former premier Dalton McGuinty’s last chief of staff, for failing to keep records.

Cavoukian’s review came after MacLennan testified to the legislative committee that he liked “to keep a clean inbox” and he didn’t “know how to archive anything.”

The privacy commissioner concluded the “routine deletion of emails (was) an attempt by staff in the former minister’s office to avoid transparency and accountability.”

NDP MPP Peter Tabuns (Toronto Danforth), whose complaint triggered Cavoukian’s report, said the latest revelation prove the Grits “can’t sweep this scandal under the carpet.”

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“Once again the Liberal government is being forced to release documents that supposedly didn’t exist,” Tabuns said in a statement.

“The Liberals chose to put their own partisan interests ahead of the people of Ontario, and then they decided to try and hide the evidence.”