Ontario residents should brace for $270 million in new fees, from a phone bill tax to more expensive driver and fishing licences and a “pay for stay” system in jails, Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak says.

The ideas, found in a draft Treasury Board document obtained by the Conservatives, were revealed Monday as Hudak accused the minority Liberals of trying to “fleece” taxpayers in a bid to erase an $11.7 billion deficit.

That eight-page paper also mentions “a reintroduction of photo radar speed cameras in high-risk areas” but that measure was the only one on the list that Finance Minister Charles Sousa ruled out.

“I can tell you unequivocally we will not bring in photo radar,” the treasurer told reporters after Hudak confronted him with the document in the legislature’s daily question period

“These are just recommendations that were brought forward,” added Sousa, whose government is already under fire from opposition parties and Ottawa for looking at $2 billion in annual tax increases to fund a $50 billion transit expansion in the Toronto and Hamilton areas.

Sousa initially said Hudak “wants to make things up” but later conceded the ideas in the document headlined “2013-14 nontax revenue (NTR) proposals” are simply “proposals.”

“We’ve made no commitments of the sort,” Sousa said.

Hudak, who plans to keep the pressure on the Liberals over the money-raising ideas at a news conference Tuesday, said they should look for ways to cut spending and given Ontarians a break instead of being “so hungry for taxes and fees.”

He was flabbergasted that Sousa accused him of imagining the fees.

“That’s your document,” he shot at the finance minister before referring to the whole list and asking, “Will you rule it out?”

Sousa later told reporters the options were prepared by bureaucrats for the government’s consideration.

“We’re not acting on any of the recommendations,” Sousa said. “What we’re doing is determining is what is to . . . go forward.”

With the federal government’s apparent lack of interest in spending more on transit, Sousa said the minority Liberal government is forced to consider all options to raise money, including a $20 surcharge on speeding tickets and a fishing licence increase.

“We have to find ways to fund these (transit) initiatives,” Sousa said. “At this point the federal government has only put up 4 per cent of the requirements that we need to invest in this infrastructure. (That’s) absolutely not enough.”

Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said his government has a $70-billion infrastructure fund that can be tapped in addition to millions already allotted for Toronto transit expansion.

He has warned the provincial government not to raise the 13 per cent HST to pay for the transit needs of the Greater Toronto Hamilton Area, and said he will not approve a regional HST hike for the GTHA.

The Treasury Board document also proposes more red light cameras, an “in-person service charge” at Service Ontario offices, increases in vehicle licence and permit fees, higher fees for fish and wildlife licences, a monthly surcharge of 75 cents on phone bills to help cover the cost of 911 services, new family court fees, a new cost-recovery rate for justice of the peace services, and Drive Clean fees.

The nontax revenue proposals were supplied to the opposition parties as part of the documents released to a legislative committee probing the scandal over cancelled power plants in Oakville and Mississauga before the 2011 election.

Some existing user fees could also be indexed to inflation as the government looks to a “full cost recovery” model for more services.

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The government has promised to eliminate the deficit by the 2017-18 fiscal year and is under pressure from bond-rating agencies to keep on track to that goal.

Tory finance critic Peter Shurman said the government is “addicted to spending” and has the “audacity to ask taxpayers to cough up more.”

When Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair mused about photo radar and expanded red light cameras as a source of revenue for his service earlier this year, then-transportation minister Bob Chiarelli, now minister of energy, ruled it out.

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