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A Progressive Conservative MPP charges Premier Kathleen Wynnes Liberals are trying to silence him for releasing confidential documents revealing Ontarios finances are in a shambles.

Vic Fedeli told reporters Thursday at Queens Park that the Grits must be hiding something big since they are coming after him for publicizing internal government paperwork.

On Monday, the Nipissing MPP disclosed that the Liberals deficit reduction targets could not be met without raising taxes to make up for a revenue shortfall.

He then crowed about information contained in newly discovered, confidential documents in the legislature on Tuesday.

But in doing so, Government House Leader John Milloy said Fedeli is in breach of an agreement by all three parties not to disclose the documents and hes urged Speaker Dave Levac to censure him.

Thats because the legislative committee probing the Liberals gas-plants-relocation debacle was given hundreds of thousands of pages of internal documents, some of which contain commercially sensitive information.

All three political parties agreed not to publicly disclose such papers because it could undermine the governments negotiating position.

This disclosure . . . was a flagrant and intentional breach of a . . . motion of the standing committee on estimates which required that certain commercially sensitive and privileged documents be kept confidential, Milloy told the house.

The release of confidential committee documents to the public without authorization from the committee, I believe, represents a serious breach and must attract strong sanction to defer future breaches.

Fedeli said the Liberals are being heavy-handed about publicly available documents because he exposed a $4.5-billion budget hole.

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Tory MPP says Liberals trying to silence him for exposing budget shortfall