After the election, several Conservative MPPs said they had not known about Hudak's "Million Job Plan" ahead of time and criticized Hudak for not consulting his caucus about the election platform he was running on. Hudak announced he would resign as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party after losing to Kathleen Wynne's Liberals, which secured a majority government, but said he will continue as an MPP. Hudak did not take a position in the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet named by his interim successor, Jim Wilson. Backbench MPP In October 2015, Hudak tabled a private member's bill that would legalize ridesharing companies such as Uber, property rental services such as Airbnb, and parking-sharing services such as Rover at the provincial level and with provincial regulatory standards. Hudak announced on August 9, 2016, that he would be resigning his seat in the Ontario legislature, effective September 16, 2016, to become the Chief Executive Officer of the Ontario Real Estate Association. Political views Numerous pundits have labelled Hudak as a blue Tory who is on the right-wing of the PC Party of Ontario, though Hudak has called himself a "purple Tory". He has proposed income splitting for young couples and families, and campaigned to scrap the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, replacing it with a courts-based system of settling complaints. Hudak's wife, Deb Hutton, was a senior adviser to Mike Harris, and he is seen by some as the new standard-bearer for the Mike Harris Common Sense Revolution. When he was running for the PC leadership in 2009, Hudak told the Association for Reformed Political Action that he is anti-abortion and had signed petitions calling for the defunding of abortions. However, on July 18, 2011, during the lead-up to the October 6 provincial election, Hudak stated that he "may have" signed petitions calling for an end to abortion funding. He refused to answer follow-up questions from media regarding his views on abortion, but promised that he would not reopen the abortion debate if elected premier. In December 2012, Hudak announced that if he were to form government he would allow beer, wine and spirits to be sold at corner stores throughout the province. Hudak said he would sell part of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario or some of its stores to the private sector and is open to the idea of a full sell-off of the LCBO. Although the McGuinty government had