The Ontario government will not abandon an ugly public battle with its federal Liberal counterparts for more cash for the province even if a spring election is called, Premier Dalton McGuinty vowed Wednesday.
"We will continue to campaign either during a federal election, before a federal election, or after a federal election," McGuinty told reporters on his way into a Liberal cabinet meeting.
"I look forward to achieving some kind of breakthrough with my federal Liberal cousins."
McGuinty has been waging a bitter battle to secure another $5 billion in federal funding this year to offset what Ontario says is a $23-billion gap between what the province sends to Ottawa each year and what it receives in federal transfers and programs.
But with the federal Liberals already reeling from explosive testimony at the Gomery inquiry into the sponsorship scandal, many feel McGuinty's media campaign is causing even more damage to the party, a charge he dismissed.
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