Hudak calls for judicial inquiry

Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak says it may take the threat of jail time to find out the truth behind the cancellation of two gas plants in Mississauga and Oakville.

Yesterday, the province’s Auditor General announced the decision to cancel the plants in Oakville and Mississauga will cost taxpayers $1.1 billion dollars.

At Queen’s Park this morning, Hudak said if he wins the next election, he’ll call a full judicial inquiry into the scandal. He said, “I want to see Kathleen Wynne and Dalton McGuinty on the stand before a judge to tell the truth about what happened, who called the shots, and what it cost taxpayers… And maybe it’s the threat of having to eat jail food, maybe it’s the threat of standing behind bars that’s actually going to get the truth… But only a judge can get the true answers, and make jail time the alternative for the Liberal cover-up.”

Premier Kathleen Wynne has apologized for the way the gas plants were handled, and promised new rules to give communities more of a say in where large energy projects are built.