Ontario election: Ford and Crombie campaigns accuse one another of being expensive [Video]

Who would be the most expensive choice for premier?

That’s the question the Progressive Conservatives and Liberals are trying to answer for each other as the Ontario election campaign enters its final stretch.

For close to a year, the PCs have tried to frame Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie, who they see as their leader Doug Ford’s main rival, as an expensive choice to be premier with a history of being irresponsible with public money.

Soon after Crombie became leader, the party began buying ad spots trying to link Crombie to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and define her as expensive and out-of-touch.

It also used her mayoral record to claim she would be a costly premier.

“She even increased taxes as mayor. In this economy?” the voiceover in one commercial said. “Tax, tax, tax. Sounds expensive.”

In recent days, the PC war room has highlighted some of Crombie’s apparently more frivolous expense claims from her time as Mississauga mayor, saying “Ontario can’t afford” the …