Liberals Decide to Repay $11,000 Spent to Wipe Computers

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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The Liberals have decided to repay $11,000 billed to taxpayers for their infamous controversial scrubbing of computer hard drives in the office of former premier Dalton McGuinty. First mention of the payment was made last week in an Ontario Provincial Police search warrant application as part of an investigation into deleted documents in the $1.1 billion gas plants scandal.

Premier Kathleen Wayne has always tried to distance her current Liberal administration from McGuinty’s, which ended in February 2013. Her office mentioned in an official statement that the Liberal party’s executive council have decided “to ensure no tax dollars are expended for work performed in the office of the former premier in relation to matters currently under investigation by Ontario Provincial Police.” Including HST, the total will come to $11,017,50. Furthermore, the statement said that “although it would be inappropriate to prejudge the outcome of the ongoing investigation, in light of this new information the premier has concluded that tax dollars should not have been expended for the work performed.”

Whereas on the other hand, multiple opposition parties have responded to the repayment, saying it links the Wynne’s administration to the “cover-up” of deleted gas plant documents. A member of the legislative committee probing the scandal over the plants in Mississauga and Oakville, Progressive Conservative MPP John Yakabuski, alleged that “in no way, shape or form does this absolve them.” It was added that “the fact they’re repaying this money from Liberal coffers proves this was a political action.”