Ad Attack

The Ontario government is rejecting Opposition calls to pay back the 700-thousand dollars that was spent on a government advertising campaign that promoted its controversial plan to harmonize sales taxes.

Premier Dalton McGuinty says they didn't sneak in the ads last spring by putting them online - the only loophole in a provincial law that guards against partisan government advertising.

McGuinty defended the online ads, saying his government is just doing everything it can to get the word out.