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The Canadian Press Published Saturday, May 10, 2014 7:45AM EDT Last Updated Saturday, May 10, 2014 1:17PM EDT

TORONTO -- Premier Kathleen Wynne took a day off from campaigning Saturday, but the Liberals were far from silent, rolling out a new attack ad and a one-two punch to their opponents.

The ad takes aim at NDP Leader Andrea Horwath, noting proposals for transit and social programs that were in the Liberal budget that Horwath said she would not support.

"We were all mystified last Friday by Andrea Horwath and the NDP's decision not to support our budget," Finance Minister Charles Sousa said Saturday. "It simply doesn't make sense."

The budget included left-wing-friendly promises for a provincial pension plan, levies to raise billions of dollars for public transit, roads and bridges, billions more for corporate grants, a minimum wage hike and higher taxes for individuals earning more than $150,000.

But Horwath said she had lost confidence in Wynne and the province's minority Liberal government and couldn't prop up a government that has been the focus of scandal after scandal.

Horwath's announcement that the NDP would not be voting for the budget sent Wynne to the lieutenant governor to ask him to dissolve the legislature and call an election.

Sousa said at a press conference Saturday that Horwath's decision raised the prospect of a "radical" Progressive Conservative government led by Tim Hudak.

He spoke of the "terrible choice made by Andrea Horwath and the alternative, which is more of a scare, and that would be Tim Hudak."

"The Hudak PC's agenda for cuts and labour wars gets more radical and more dangerous by the day," Sousa said.

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OTTAWA -- Who's the hardest working federal opposition leader, Tom Mulcair or Justin Trudeau?

The two are engaged in a pre-election skirmish over that question, offering a glimpse of the pitched battle to come between New Democrats and Liberals next year, when each leader will attempt to persuade voters that he is more deserving than the other to replace Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

And it's no frivolous question. It's the same one late NDP leader Jack Layton raised to devastating effect during the 2011 election campaign, helping to sink the Liberals and vault his party into official Opposition status for the first time in history.

During the televised English-language debate, Layton pointed out that then Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff had missed 70 per cent of the votes in the House of Commons, the worst record of any MP.

"If you want to be prime minister, you'd better learn how to be a member of Parliament first," Layton admonished Ignatieff. "You know, most Canadians, if they don't show up for work, they don't get a promotion."

Voters evidently agreed. They fired Ignatieff and demoted his party, which was relegated to a third-place rump.

Since Trudeau took the helm a year ago, the Liberals have bounced back into the lead in most opinion polls while Mulcair's NDP has sunk back to its more traditional third-place slot. Trudeau has accomplished that feat primarily by playing to his strength -- his ability to connect with people, who more often than not, behave in his presence like gushing adolescent groupies meeting a rock star.

That's meant plenty of travel across the country. And that's opened him up to the same charge of being an absentee MP that finished off Ignatieff.

In an apparent attempt to head off a reprise of that unhappy experience, the Liberal party this week sent out a fundraising email which proclaimed "The Real Hard Work (doesn't always happen in Ottawa)." It came on the heels of a Quebec television network report revealing that Trudeau has shown up just 41 per cent of the time for question period in the Commons so far this year, slightly ahead of Harper but well behind Mulcair's 66 per cent.

The email boasted that Trudeau has attended 520 events in 105 cities in the 387 days he's been leader of the Liberal party. "And he's spent: 141 days on the road in 115 ridings and 35 townhalls."

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