Category: News
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570 News Mike Farwell Show interviews John Waylett on Region’s above-inflation property taxation – June 2026
John Waylett is interviewed on the Mike Farwell show about his open letter to Waterloo Regional Government councillors and regional chair. He asks them to address the unsustainable year-after-ear above inflation property tax increases that are hurting the region’s most vulnerable. Click the link below and go to the 46:10 minute mark to listen. https://www.seekyoursounds.com/podcasts/the-mike-farwell-show/the-mike-farwell-show-june-1st-2026
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CambridgeToday letter – Property Taxpayers Alliance about property tax increases in Waterloo Region
This is an open letter from the Property Taxpayers Alliance (www.propertytaxpayer.ca) to Karen Redman and council asking them to reflect on the devastation caused by decades of above inflation property taxation in the region. With your six figure incomes, above inflation property tax increases are barely noticeable. You’ve become desensitized. But lower income homeowners, landlords,…
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John Waylett Interview – Ontario Landlords Watch
“Ontario Landlords Watch” has over 8900 followers. John Waylett, President of the Property Taxpayers Alliance of Ontario, was interviewed to discuss Ontario municipal property taxation issues important to both taxpayers and landlords alike. Why are Ontario municipal governments becoming so expensive and “Where is all OUR money going?”. Click the link and find out! [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hq5dCHZhxDw](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hq5dCHZhxDw)…
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Over-spending by Waterloo Region Governments ‘root cause’ for excessive taxation
Waterloo Region homeowners are being crushed by year-after-year above inflation property tax increases. I read councillor Craig’s article in CambridgeToday, providing three main reasons for excessive taxation in the Waterloo Region. He blamed everyone but the root cause – municipal government excessive spending. Saying the Region is underfunded by the province is highly questionable. The…
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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 (rowpta.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…