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As veteran politicos like to say, you can almost smell the campaign bus fumes outside the legislature.

Premier Kathleen Wynnes minority Liberal government gave itself a glowing report card Monday, capping an Easter weekend that began with the release of TV ads of her slamming Progressive Conservative rival Tim Hudak for an anti-worker agenda and NDP Andrea Horwath for a lack of vision on transit funding.

Topping the list of Liberal achievements, sent out as a news release Monday afternoon, was a plan for a made-in-Ontario pension plan that the Conservatives noted is some time away from being enacted, if at all.

This is electioneering on the dime of the taxpayer, charged Conservative MPP Vic Fedeli (Nipissing), his partys finance critic.

With the province counting down to a May 1 budget that, if defeated, would spark a spring election, all parties are increasingly on a war footing in case buses are needed to haul Wynne, Hudak, Horwath and reporters around the province.

Everyone is cycling up, said one veteran Liberal.

The NDP, meanwhile, denied an online report Monday that its hierarchy has decided to topple the government over a police investigation into former premier Dalton McGuintys last chief of staff and the alleged deletion of documents in the $1.1 billion gas plants scandal.

New Democrats are focused on getting results for people, said NDP house leader Gilles Bisson, who maintained his party wants to see the details of Wynnes fiscal blueprint before making a call.

The claim that a decision of some kind has been made about the future of Ontarios minority government is a complete fabrication.

Just the same, candidates from all parties are opening campaign offices, nomination meetings are being held and strategies mapped out, with the NDP planning a get-out-the-vote seminar for activists later this week in Toronto. The Tories have 99 candidates nominated out of 107 ridings, while the NDP have 58 and the Liberals 59.

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Ontario Liberals progress report just electioneering, Tories say