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A final committee report on Ontario’s gas plant cancellations landed with a thud Tuesday as the legislature resumed its spring sitting; with the majority Liberals hoping it’s arrival will finally squash the scandal that’s dogged the party since 2011.

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The report itself is mostly an end cap to a lengthy set of hearings that already played in the media, and is far from the final word on an ordeal the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) continue to investigate. In a province where people pay too little attention to provincial politics, and the Liberals were returned to majority despite the swirling controversy, it’s unlikely to alter much.

Yet, the opposition parties are calling it a whitewash, filing long dissents to the official committee report. Why? Because the governing Liberals have controlled the committee behind the report since they won the June election.

But how did we get here? Where the OPP are investigating, but the formal word of the Ontario legislature is a shrug?