Tag: News
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Group calling out local governments for overspending, growing taxes
By Josh Piercey, CityNews Kitchener, Posted Aug 22, 2025 03:01:00 PM Last Updated Aug 22, 2025 04:50:09 PM. The Property Taxpayers Alliance is seeking greater accountability from local governments, which, in their opinion, are overspending and lacking transparency. “Our municipalities don’t have a revenue problem, they have a spending problem,” said John Waylett, founder of the Property Taxpayers…
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Municipalities should be focused on efficiency
Posted August 14, 2025 in the Waterloo Record I’m writing on behalf of the Property Taxpayers Alliance, regarding municipalities that want the right to raise even more money using local income taxation, not just property taxation. This move would add to the decline in Canadian productivity and our standards of living. Rather than spending more,…
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Cambridge budget survey called biased by taxpayers group
‘For a survey to have any meaning whatsoever, and have statistical significance, it must be conducted independently, ask relevant questions, and provide context,’ says a CambridgeToday.ca reader’. I am writing on behalf of the Property Taxpayers Alliance regarding the recent City of Cambridge request for budget feedback about how you want them to spend your…
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Homeowners being ‘crushed’ by ever increasing property taxes
CambridgeToday received the following letter about city spending. Hespeler reader criticizes what he sees as unnecessary infrastructure upgrades and calls for greater transparency in how public money is spent The Property Taxpayers Alliance (propertytaxpayer.ca) is not surprised to see how many times Coun. Scott Hamilton is quoted these days in articles about the need for…
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LETTER: Kudos to council for cutting Fashion History Museum funds
CambridgeToday received the following letter about the Fashion History Museum. I am writing on behalf of the Property Taxpayers Alliance to applaud council’s decision to end the misuse of property taxpayer dollars subsidizing the Hespeler Fashion History Museum. The pouring of our hard-earned property tax dollars into sinkholes such as this needs to stop. There is a…
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Woolwich Council Incapable of Good Fiscal Management
Letter to the Editor of the Woolwich Observer by Hardy Willms, Conestogo A three-ring circus of incompetence. That’s the only way you can describe Region of Waterloo’s Woolwich Township council after the that last budget process. It’s hard to know where to begin with this group. Firstly, you never, and I mean never, start a…