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“The issue of the relocation of the gas plants, questions which I have answered many, many, many times here and in front of committee — I’ve been in front of committee twice — I just want to say that we have provided all the information that the committee has asked for,” Wynne told the legislature. “We have changed the rules and made it clear what the rules are in terms of retention of documents.”

The opposition parties hammered away at Wynne over the police probe into the deleted emails on the decisions to cancel the gas plants prior to the 2011 election, which the auditor general estimated would cost Ontario taxpayers up to $1.1-billion.

We’re at the point where it takes a team of OPP officers with crowbars just to pry these secrets out of your scandal-plagued government

“The premier’s role, from signing the cabinet document (to cancel the Oakville plant) to her decisions as (Liberal) campaign chair, has finally caught up with her and the trail of bread crumbs led the OPP right to the premier’s door,” said Conservative Rob Leone. “We’re at the point where it takes a team of OPP officers with crowbars just to pry these secrets out of your scandal-plagued government.”

Legislative hearings into the gas plants have lasted more than a year and heard from 77 witnesses over 117 hours, said Wynne. If the opposition parties really want an election, all they have to do is defeat the government’s budget this spring, she added.

“We will do our utmost to bring a budget to the house and to get that budget passed, but if that does not happen, then we know that we’re into a general election,” said Wynne. “But the reality is that on the issue of the relocation of the gas plants, I just want to be clear, we have provided 311,000 pages of documents, 30,000 from the premier’s office.”