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“You’re sorry you got caught,” PC energy critic Vic Fedeli said to Wynne in the legislature.

“Premier, Ontarians want more than a hollow apology. They want a refund. Will you order the Liberal party to pay the money back?”

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath was also critical of the premier’s apology.

“It is a day late and a buck short,” Horwath told Wynne.

“The money has already been wasted and the scandal has already happened, and now we need to make sure that it never happens again.”

It’s surprising that Wynne didn’t offer the apology in the legislature, added Horwath.

“I think it would have gone a lot further had she actually done that here in the chamber with the MPPs, (apologized) to the people of Ontario in their house,” she said.

Wynne couldn’t say what finally triggered her decision to apologize, but said she realized people wanted to hear her take responsibility for the gas plant decisions.

“I was hearing that there still needed to be my voice taking that extra piece of responsibility to apologize for the mistakes that we made, because we had said that there were mistakes that had been made,” she said.

“I was hearing that call for an apology.”

The opposition parties accuse the Liberals of intentionally misleading the public about the true cost of cancelling the gas plants.

In addition to demanding a judicial inquiry into the gas plants, the Conservatives’ are also trying to get the legislature to debate a non-confidence motion in the minority Liberal government.