Hudak's municipal downloading scheme would stick Ontario families with a $500 million bill

The OYL had a very successful "Remember the 90's" campaign launch party last night, and Tim Hudak at the Association of Municipalities of Ontario meeting this week showed that he was ready to take Ontario families back to the 90's by cancelling the Dalton McGuinty plan to upload services back to the provincial level after Harris-Hudak downloading during the 90's.

Hudak won't honour the deal Dalton McGuinty signed with Ontario municipalities, and would stick families with a $500 million dollar bill to be payed for with property tax hikes. This would hit Ontario families in urban, suburban, and rural areas.

This is what they are saying in Barrie: "Ontario's mayors and other municipal leaders are right to be concerned...Local leaders need to listen very carefully to what Hudak is saying, because it could come back to bite them at budget time in the coming years"
http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3271960

This is what they are saying in Toronto: "Hudak's bad deal for cities"
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/1044425--hudak-s-bad-deal-for-cities#.TlZF8glNz_V.twitter

This is what the mayor of Sault Ste. Marie said: "The [Conservative] downloaded services have never been revenue neutral."
http://www.saultstar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3272701

This is what outgoing AMO president (and Conservative supporter) Peter Hume said: The first and most obvious is uploading of $1.5 billion in annual social service and court security costs by 2018. This is fundamental. Municipalities need to know that the 2008 agreement to upload these costs will be honoured, year after year, as scheduled.
http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2011/08/24/humes-farewell-speech-as-amo-president/

This is what Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion (who knows a thing or two about running municipal government) said: Mayor Hazel McCallion was hoping [Hudak] would promise to keep taking social service costs off the municipal property tax.
When Hudak failed to make that commitment — saying he can't make such promises in the midst of economic uncertainty — she was disappointed...A disappointed McCallion said Hudak's position was all too obvious. "He was very clear. He is going to stop it, " she said.
http://www.mississauga.com/news/article/1069751--tory-leader-disappoints-mayors

This is what Ottawa mayor Jim Watson said: "If Mr. Hudak wins the election and reneges on that promise it will not only set back relations to the days when we had to deal with downloading but it will also mean a serious financial challenge for all 440 municipalities in Ontario"
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2011/08/24/ottawa-hudak-watson.html