“Six months ago, we were the realists saying, ‘You’re going to have to deal with the unions,’” PC finance critic Peter Shurman said on Tuesday after Mr. McGuinty addressed a downtown Toronto business audience. “We were the ones calling for a province-wide public-sector wage freeze in November,” Mr. Shurman added. “Now, it seems, [the Premier] is coming ever closer to that.”

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If McGuinty is sincere about freezing wages, he should support Hudak’s wage-freeze legislation, Shurman said.  “I think that if they’re serious about wanting to legislate a wage freeze in the broader public sector, then they have to demonstrate so by getting together with us and engaging in reasonable debate,” he said.  “Collaboration is not a one-way thing.”

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Tory finance critic Peter Shurman said the Liberal government should get serious about a freeze by supporting Hudak’s bill.  “It’s not a question of sitting down and playing nicely with the unions, he’s tried that. In fact, he’s been a little bit too nice for all of those years,” the Thornhill MPP told reporters after McGuinty addressed the Ontario Economic Summit.

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