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Firing back at a salvo of criticisms from the federal Tories, on Sunday Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne hinted that Ottawa stay away from her pitch for a made-in-Ontario pension system.

At a press conference on Friday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper called the proposed Ontario pension plan a tax “hike,” saying that Ontarians would be better served by voluntary retirement saving plans.

Speaking in Toronto on Sunday, Ms. Wynne said she had a “stark difference” of opinion with the Prime Minister, and claimed the plan was about the security of retirees rather than “politics.”

Mr. Harper was not the only federal politician to take a swipe at Ms. Wynne Mere hours after the Friday dissolution of the Ontario legislature.

Speaking to CBC on Friday, finance minister Joe Oliver called the Liberal’s pre-election budget the “route to economic decline.”

In response, during an interview with CBC Radio’s The House on Saturday, Ms. Wynne accused the Conservatives of “harming Ontario” and pined for a more amenable “federal partner.”

She said that if Harper doesn’t want to co-operate on her idea for a made-in-Ontario plan then he should “move out of the way” and not interfere with it.

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While Ms. Wynne has previously criticized Ottawa for not expanding the Canada Pension Plan, open opposition to the federal Tories emerged as an early campaign plank of the Ontario Liberals.

At the same Friday speech announcing the legislature’s dissolution, Ms. Wynne said that “the interests of the people of Ontario are at odds with the policies of Stephen Harper’s government.”