{"id":11599,"date":"2014-05-23T01:30:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T17:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=11599"},"modified":"2014-05-23T01:30:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T17:30:46","slug":"tory-leader-tim-hudak-pledges-judicial-probe-of-1b-gas-plant-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/23\/tory-leader-tim-hudak-pledges-judicial-probe-of-1b-gas-plant-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Tory Leader Tim Hudak pledges judicial probe of $1B gas plant scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11601\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11601\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tim-hudak1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11601\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tim-hudak1.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Hudak, leader of the Progressive Conservativ Party. rmnoa357 \/ Shutterstock\" width=\"1000\" height=\"736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tim-hudak1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tim-hudak1-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Hudak, leader of the Progressive Conservativ Party. rmnoa357 \/ Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8212; Tim Hudak is bringing the federal Liberal sponsorship scandal into the Ontario election campaign as he continues to call for a judicial inquiry into the gas plants scandal.<\/p>\n<p>The Progressive Conservative leader says a judicial inquiry is needed to get to the bottom of two gas plant cancellations before the last provincial election at a cost of up to $1.1-billion.<\/p>\n<p>He says it would send a &#8220;powerful signal&#8221; to politicians of all political stripes that they can&#8217;t get away with the misuse of tax dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Hudak cited the Gomery commission into the federal Adscam scandal as a model for what he plans.<\/p>\n<p>He says Justice John Gomery got answers on behalf of taxpayers, criminal charges were laid and the inquiry sent a powerful signal that the abuse of taxpayer dollars to reward Liberal insiders won&#8217;t be tolerated.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial Liberals have pointed out that various Tory politicians opposed a public inquiry into the gas plant cancellations as too expensive, preferring instead to go with a probe by a legislative committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8212; Tim Hudak is bringing the federal Liberal sponsorship scandal into the Ontario election campaign as he continues to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[3897,3036],"class_list":["post-11599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","tag-gas-plant-scandal","tag-tim-hudak","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}