Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak says Ontario needs to get off the "welfare rolls" of equalization payments from the federal government.
In an interview on CBC Radio's The House, host Evan Solomon asked Hudak if he would stand up to Ottawa on transfer payments.
"I think we should get off the welfare rolls," Hudak said.
"I know that the premier's goal is to get more and more equalization payments because we're a 'have-not' province — I think it's embarrassing."
So, during the good old days prior to the Harper regime Tim Hudak was embarrassed that Ontario, as a have Province, provided equalization payments to the have not Provinces.
So now that his "god of economic destruction" Stephen Harper has become Canada's first dictator Hudak is embarrassed by what rightfully belongs to Ontario.
Equalization payments redistribute federal tax revenues to some provinces to off-set differences in revenue and maintain a balanced level of services. Ontario was for many years a net contributor to the equalization payments system, but growing resource revenues in several provinces and the downturn in Ontario's economy have seen Ontario on the receiving end of transfers in recent years.
Standing up to Ottawa and Prime Minister Stephen Harper has become a theme in the early days of the Ontario election.
Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne has said that Ontario needs a partner in the federal government and needs "a premier who is willing to stand up to Stephen Harper."
Part of the spat is over transfer payments to the province, which are being reduced by $641 million this year according to the provincial government, because of a change to the formula announced in February's federal budget.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-votes-2014/tim-hudak-compares-equalization-payments-to-welfare-1.2637655
Tim Hudak lives in his own Amusement Park
Ontario is NOT Disneyland
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