TORONTO - Premier Kathleen Wynne says if the Progressive Conservatives want her to drop a lawsuit against two of their members, all they have to do is apologize.
Wynne launched a suit last April against then PC leader Tim Hudak and MPP Lisa MacLeod for saying she oversaw and possibly ordered the destruction of documents on cancelled gas plants.
MacLeod says Wynne filed the suit to quash legitimate opposition criticism, and accuses the Liberals of killing legislation the very next day that would have allowed her and Hudak to challenge the lawsuit.
Wynne says the bill was changed because courts don't like retroactive changes to laws, adding she was willing to drop the lawsuit if MacLeod and Hudak retracted their statements and apologized.
The premier says she filed the suit because the Tory accusations, which she calls completely untrue, were made on the eve of last year's election, which saw the Liberals easily defeat the Conservatives to win a fourth term in office.
MacLeod says it looks like Wynne killed her own bill to block strategic lawsuits against public participation for her own political gain, and accuses the premier of acting above the law.
