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The government was being sincere when it told the legislature several times last fall that all the relevant documents requested by a legislative committee had been released, said Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli.

“We took the initiative when we found out about these documents to release them of our own volition,” said Chiarelli.

“That should be evidence of our willingness to be open and transparent, that when we found out there were more documents they were immediately made public.”

The Tories and NDP have said for months they were convinced the Liberals were still hiding documents on the cancellations of the energy projects in Mississauga and Oakville, which cost taxpayers at least $230 million.

Premier Kathleen Wynne said she was notified about the newly found documents late Wednesday.

“This is an ongoing process and it’s very complicated,” Wynne told the legislature.

“It’s disappointing that we didn’t know about it, but we want all of that information to be out in the public.”

The NDP accused the Liberals of deliberately trying to cover up the documents.

“This has been an ongoing process of obfuscation of the facts by this government, that’s what the ongoing process has been,” said a fired-up Horwath.

There is still no sign of any documents related to the gas plants from the premier’s office or the ministry of energy, even though more than 56,000 pages have already been released, said the Conservatives.

“If they’re going to give us 600 (new) pages when we have 3,000 that are whited out that I presented in this house, we know they’re not telling us the full story again,” said Fedeli. “It’s absolutely sickening.”