Doug Ford speaks to the media in the kitchen of Bill and Linda Reid in Reeces Corners, Ont. on Wednesday, May 30, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Geoff Robins

TORONTO— On the last day of advance voting the Progressive Conservatives quietly released their platform online without a full costing.

There was no technical briefing, it was released after Doug Ford’s media availability on Wednesday morning and it comes with no explanation for how the promises add up.

The platform puts price tags with each of its promises, but doesn’t always go into detail on what year promises will start, how the cash will be divided and doesn’t include any third party vetting.

In contrast, the NDP had former parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page vet its platform. Page also vetted the Tories’ previous platform under then leader Patrick Brown.

[READ MORE: What the Tories are promising in their uncosted platform]

Contrary to repeated claims from Ford that full costing will be released “by the end of this campaign,” the party suggested that what they released on Wednesday is all of it.

“The plan for the people of Ontario is all there — as we’ve said all along we’ve been making announcements on our plan everyday, this is the compilation of all of them in one place,” spokesperson Melissa Lantsman said in a statement.

However in some cases total costs are still missing. For example, the key plank of the Progressive Conservatives’ plan to “end hallway health care” is the promise to build 15,000 new long-term care beds. The party’s new platform says it will cost $62,000 per bed once they’re operational; but it doesn’t release a total cost, which would vary depending on which year the promise is rolled out.

The NDP have pegged the cost of the same promise at $2.1 billion over five years. In Leamington, Ont. NDP Leader Andrea Horwath told reporters the Tories’ version of a platform is “not good enough.”

She accused Ford of not being “upfront with people about all of the other things that he’s got up his sleeve.”

The Liberals have created a website to fill the gap left by the Tories’ uncosted platform. Wynne told reporters the plan released by the Progressive Conservatives is “not coherent.”

“If I were to interpret,” she said, “they’re not quite sure how to talk about the fact that all of the things that Doug Ford has said would add up to a $40 billion hole. They have no idea how they would find that and they certainly have no idea how they would do the things that he says he’s going to do and build transit and keep our education and health care systems growing.”

Former Progressive Conservative cabinet minister Brad Clark called Ford out on Twitter for not releasing a platform, saying “the lack of a platform is impacting voter intentions.”

Dear @fordnation , You have promised your candidates and the public a costed election platform. It is not enough to ask people to vote against the LIBs and NDP. While your candidates will not speak out in public, I will. The lack of a platform is impacting voter intentions. — Brad Clark (@clark_bv) May 30, 2018

Since Sunday’s debate, Ford has been repeatedly pressed to release a plan.

On Monday when asked specifically “will there be a fully costed plan with a path to balance,” Ford said “yes.”

Asked when it will be released, he said “we’re going to have a fully costed plan,” adding “we won’t balance the first year or the second year but the third and fourth year we look forward to balancing the books and making sure that we’re prosperous in this province.”

Ford has previously said that he will find four per cent in “efficiencies” in order to balance the books but the plan doesn’t spell out whether that number still holds given the billions in spending promises and tax cuts. Last week, economists told iPolitics it’s not clear how the party would meet its promise to balance the budget.

Mike Moffatt with the progressive think tank Canada 2020 says that concern still stands given the plan released today by the Progressive Conservatives.

He said the information released leaves voters “in the dark” and does not explain how much the party plans to find in efficiencies. The Progressive Conservatives, he said, are on track to run “the largest deficits.”

The retired economist who outlined the roadmap for Ontario to get out of deficit in 2012 called out all three parties for their spending promises in an article in Maclean’s. In the case of the Tories, Don Drummond told the CBC the plan to find savings without cutting civil service jobs doesn’t add up.

Tim Abray, a teaching fellow at Queen’s University, called the decision not to release a fully costed platform “brash” and “bold.”

“It’s incredibly brash because I think that it will be possible for them to sell to some people that this is what a platform is,” he said. “I think people who are already signed on to the Ford Nation idea will see this as a form of grassroots political involvement.”

“The problem I’ve got with it is that it deviates from a fairly longstanding tradition” of delivering a costed platform during elections, Abray said. “It is definitely not a costed platform, which is what people have been asking for, and I would dare say I think it’s what people were expecting.”

Still, Abray said he’s “not convinced that this is going to hurt them with the average voter.”

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