Allegations?

"I'm not backing down! I'm flattered. Not too many people are sued by the premier for doing their job. It's a basic duty of a politician to ask questions."
"Last time I checked, this was a free country, and [Tim Hudak] and I were returned to Queen's Park to speak our minds and to ask questions on behalf of the people who elected us. People elect politicians to speak our minds. I make no apologies for that."
"It is very clear that the mastermind behind wiping all those hard drives was, up until these revelations became very public ... somebody who was under the employment of Kathleen Wynne. He had a contract right up until last Saturday."
Nepean-Carleton MPP Lisa MacLeod

Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak along with energy critic Lisa MacLeod address media at Queen Park on March 27, 2014. (Michael Peake/Toronto Sun)

Stop! spreading calumnious allegations without proof that Premier Wynne's administration is under police investigation relating to corrupt practices. That, she insists, was her immediate predecessor, a man entirely adept at saying one thing, doing another, posing as Ontario's salvationist avuncular good fella, overweeningly concerned for the welfare of all the citizens of this fair province. Dalton McGuinty was convinced he could do no wrong, and amazingly, he convinced voters time and again that he did no wrong.

And, because Conservative Leader Tim Hudak, fed up with his party's long wandering in the desertified wilderness of the opposition back benches at Queen's Park, smells an opportunity to unseat Premier Wynne's government to once again put it to the electorate whether they really, truly, want four-plus more years of corrupt administration, he is linking her personally with the gas-plant scandal. Ah, point out the media, she had resigned her cabinet post to run for the Liberal leadership.

And the backroom fiddling with a universal passport admitting entry to computer hard drives in the former premier's office to erase all evidence of emails relating to the $1-billion penalized gas plant cancellations was done without her knowledge. Nasty little details do exist, however, that she was co-chair of the 2011 election and must have known ... something was afoot, and it was only last Saturday when the IT specialist who had been tasked to erase those records was dismissed as a contractor from the Liberal payroll.

The breach of trust committed by former premier McGuinty's chief of staff David Livingston, extended to Peter Faist, commissioned to hack the office hard drives to cover up the costs of the gas plant cancellations, that spur-of-the-election decision that helped the Liberals retain seats in the ridings in question where the positioning of the gas plants was hugely unpopular. The McGuinty government's continued evasiveness about the wasted costs dissembled as long as they could.

The Thursday bombshell when a judge unsealed the sworn police statement in pursuit of a search warrant, alleged that the former premier's chief of staff David Livingtston breached the public's trust by having an outsider, without security clearance, and legally unauthorized gain access to 24 government computers to delete public records representing the smoking gun of responsibility for looting taxpayer funding of government projects.

That computer expert ushered into the scene to perform underhanded work to help further cover up government wrong-doing on the part of Dalton McGuinty remained on the payroll through a contract with the Liberal caucus until 2013, and to the Liberal party until last weekend, when it became too inconvenient to have it seen that the very man fingered by the police as an accomplice to illegal activities by the premier's chief of staff, could conceivably lead to incriminating the incumbent premier.

So, what else could the current premier do to distance herself from the scandal-that-will-not-die but to summarily have the contract torn up, and bid the man farewell. And then threaten to file a lawsuit over allegations by the opposition over what she knew, when she knew it, and why she's not going to the electorate to legitimize her premiership on the basis of her performance, piggy-backing on that of her predecessor?