Some Municipal Burden Lifted

The government says Ontario municipalities can expect them to take on more of the services downloaded onto cities and towns in the 1990s.

Municipal Affairs Minister Jim Watson told the Association of Municipalities of Ontario that by 2018 the province will take back almost $4 billion worth of programs that now fall onto the residential property tax bill.

Some of the services the province will assume include the delivery of social services, affordable housing and child care.