Fresh from winning a majority mandate, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne says she wants to get back to work as soon as possible.
The legislature will be back July 2 and the governing Liberals will re-introduce the same budget that triggered the election, Wynne said Friday.
"I'm very eager to move to implement the plan that we brought forward, the plan to invest in this province and to build it up, to invest in the talent and skills of our people and the transportation and transit infrastructure that we know we need," she said.
Wynne said the all-party legislative committee examining the costly cancellation of two gas plants will continue its work.
But all standing committees will be reconstituted with a new mandate and the opposition parties will no longer be able to control them.
Wynne suggested she won't drop her $2-million lawsuit against Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak for claiming she may have covered up the deletion of documents about the gas plants, which has come under a criminal investigation.
The Tories lost 10 seats in Thursday's election, prompting Hudak to announce he'll resign as leader as soon as the party chooses a replacement.
Wynne pulled the party to the left of the political spectrum as premier by putting public services ahead of wrestling down Ontario's massive deficit, although she is still promising to balance the books by 2017-18.
The budget aims to stimulate the economy with big spending, proposing $29 billion for public transit, roads and bridges over a decade, billions more to lure businesses to Ontario and keep them there, and better wages for workers in health care and education.
It allowed her to woo NDP supporters in the election campaign who feared a slash-and-burn Tory government, while also exploiting the Conservative plan to cut 100,000 public sector jobs to balance the budget as an economic apocalypse only she could stop.
