A majority win for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals next Monday could “absolutely” negate the need for an Ontario pension plan, says Premier Kathleen Wynne.

That’s because Trudeau has promised to enrich the existing Canada Pension Plan, possibly making the proposed complementary Ontario Retirement Pension Plan redundant.

“If we have a partner in Justin Trudeau to sit down and work out what they’re looking at as an enhancement to CPP that was always my starting point,” Wynne said Tuesday as she campaigned in four ridings in Toronto, Oakville, and Burlington to help the federal Liberals.

“That was the solution. A couple of years ago, that’s what we were looking at. We were looking at finance ministers across the country who agreed that they’re needed to be a change to the Canada Pension Plan,” she said.

She noted two-thirds of Ontarians have no workplace pension.

Wynne’s provincial Liberals introduced the ORPP, which takes effect in 2017, after Conservative Leader Stephen Harper refused to improve CPP benefits, which pay out a maximum of about $12,000 annually.

Under the scheme, workers without a plan would have to contribute 1.9 per cent of their pay, which would be matched by their employers.

On the eve of launching the 11-week election campaign, Harper said Ottawa would not aid Queen’s Park by administering the new provincial plan, which he views as a “payroll tax.”

“Kathleen Wynne is mad that I won’t help her do that,” he said in August. “You’re bloody right. The Conservative government is not going to help bring in that kind of tax hike.”

But Trudeau, who is leading in most opinion polls, has repeatedly pledged to boost CPP and work with Wynne to bolster retirement security.

NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair has also vowed to improve the public pension plans.

“If we have a federal government that is willing to work with and bring premiers and bring provinces together as has happened in the past, then, absolutely, we want to work with that team,” said Wynne, flanked by Spadina-Fort York Liberal candidate Adam Vaughan at his Duncan Street campaign headquarters.

Vaughan said Trudeau, Wynne and Toronto Mayor John Tory are all singing from the same songbook on the need to invest in transportation infrastructure.

“It’s a once-in-lifetime opportunity of finally having a federal-provincial-city partnership that will move the city in the right direction all at once,” he said.

Earlier Tuesday, Wynne campaigned at a Yonge Street seniors’ home in the new riding of University-Rosedale with Liberal candidate Chrystia Freeland.

Freeland said voters are telling her they are tired of Harper’s “divisive relationship” with some provincial premiers.

“We see that reflected in his attacks on Kathleen Wynne; we see it in his attacks on (Alberta NDP Premier) Rachel Notley,” she said.

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“We need a prime minister who is about uniting the country and about having relationships inside the country and outside the country that are productive.”

Wynne, who has been active throughout the federal writ period, also campaigned Tuesday with Oakville-Burlington Liberal candidate Pam Damoff and Etobicoke-Lakeshore Liberal hopeful James Maloney.

The premier added she would be hitting the hustings more before Monday’s vote, and stressed the Liberals, not taxpayers, are bankrolling her political work.

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