TORONTO — Premier Dalton McGuinty is firing back at opposition critics over the HST, accusing them of distorting the truth about the single sales tax to scare people.

After repeatedly being called a liar by Progressive Conservative critics, McGuinty blasted the Opposition over the harmonized sales tax, saying they have no plan to move Ontario’s economy forward.

McGuinty says the Opposition won’t promise to undo the move to a single, 13 per cent sales tax, and is fear mongering.

He says all they’re offering now is “myths and fictions” to induce fear among Ontarians.

The Conservatives have been ringing the division bells at the legislature in an attempt to force the government to hold public hearings on the HST, which kicks in next July.

They walked out en masse from Monday’s question period and vow to keep using whatever tactics they can to slow the government’s HST legislation.