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Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is photographed in her office at the Ontario Legislature during a Globe and Mail interview on June 19, 2017.Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne says she will testify at the trial of two Liberals facing bribery charges under the Election Act.

The trial for Pat Sorbara, the premier's former deputy chief of staff, and Liberal fundraiser Gerry Lougheed, is set to begin in September.

The pair is accused of offering a would-be candidate a job or appointment to get him to step aside in a 2015 by-election in Sudbury, Ont., for Glenn Thibeault.

At the time, Thibeault was a New Democrat MP. He is now the energy minister.

Sorbara and Lougheed both deny the charges.

Health Minister Jane Philpott says a deal between the federal and Ontario governments with Nishnawbe Aski First Nation is a step toward the “transformation” of health-care in communities that have seen a cycle of suicide and crisis.

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