Martin Did It To Harris And Harris Was Vilified...

...by leftwing media like The Star and leftwing leeches for doing what needed to be done and sadly we don't have a Harris waiting in the wings this time.

Balancing budgets: Don’t do it on backs of cities
Thu Nov 18 2010


If history is any measure of what’s to come, Canada’s municipal leaders have good reason to worry about a possible new round of downloading by federal and provincial governments. In the 1990s, cities nationwide were saddled with downloaded costs as the upper levels of government balanced their books by slashing transfers and forcing more responsibilities onto communities. Now Queen’s Park and Ottawa are, again, struggling with multi-billion-dollar deficits.