Will Wynne wait for budget vote?

With the Progressive Conservatives and NDP vowing to vote against the budget, the Liberal government appears poised to fall on what amounts to a confidence vote in the legislature.

Wynne could decide not to wait for the budget votes — there will actually be two — and could ask the lieutenant governor to dissolve the legislature and call an election.

Several large labour groups, including Unifor and the Ontario Federation of Labour, urged the NDP to pass the budget and avoid an election, but public-sector unions complained the fiscal plan puts jobs at risk.