Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s words came back to bite him Monday.

Opposition MPPs took a decade-old quote of McGuinty’s and used it against him before they walked out of the Legislature en masse during Question Period.

Progressive Conservative politicians are angry about the government’s refusal to hold public hearings on the bill to create the 13 per cent harmonized sales tax, or HST.

Before walking out, each Tory MPP presented McGuinty with his own words: “public hearings; those two words go together nicely if you believe in true democracy.”

Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak calls the HST a greedy tax grab and is calling on his party members to employ any tactic possible to force the Liberals to hold public hearings before the tax takes effect in July.

“This government has become trapped in a bubble of special interests and completely cut itself off from the vulnerable Ontario families who will be hurt the most by the HST," Hudak said in a statement Monday.

"We cannot, in good conscience, legitimize their attempt to escape accountability”

The government is expected to extend the fall session into late December in order to pass the HST bill in time to offer personal and corporate tax cuts for Jan. 1, 2010.