Tax Payers Alliance asking Minister Municipal Affairs to address the growing property tax affordability crisis in Ontario

By Pepper Parr

September 26^th, 2026

BURLINGTON, ON

Ontario has an organization called the Property Tax Alliance (PTA)

When they learned that the Alberta government had tasked its municipalities with limiting property tax increases, they jumped on that bandwagon and went after the Ontario Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs, asking that it do the same thing in Ontario.

The PTA is asking its members to write or contact the Hon. Rob Flack, your MPP and your municipal Councillors.

Ask them to follow Alberta’s lead and get Ontario municipal property tax increases back down in line with inflation (using annual inflation as a proxy for the growth in incomes). Tell them to address the growing property tax affordability crisis in Ontario.

Tell them you want much greater efficiency and effectiveness in your municipal government’s operations.

Tell them to dramatically reduce the ever-growing lists of costly discretionary and nice-to-have municipal services. They need to get back to basics.

Our municipalities don’t have revenue problems – they have spending problems.

The number at the top of the 2026 Budget change column – 5.86% is how much taxes will be increased over what the 2025 tax rate was.

Ontario homeowners can’t afford the runaway costs of their municipal governments. Defaults and arrears are rising. Ontario municipalities have no competition. They are abject monopolies with absolute pricing power and no accountability. This is a recipe for disaster!

Burlington has had its property taxes increase by more than 40% during the term of office of the current city Council.

The disaster for Burlington has already taken place.  Mayor Meed Ward is telling constituents that the tax increase for 2026 will be 5.8% – and that it could be higher.