DID YOU KNOW?

This is what happening in our Grande Prairie City Hall

$18.5M+ Unlocked Every Year — Without Raising Taxes

Grande Prairie is sitting on massive untapped gains. The numbers aren’t my opinion, they’re straight from the City’s own budget, provincial dashboards, and audited reports:

• $450K/year in small-business fee savings by cutting pointless red tape.

• $4.5M/year freed just by reducing permit delays (City’s own SLA benchmarks prove it can be done).

• $6M/year back to residents through mandatory surplus reinvestment (legal safeguard: 75% supermajority to repeal).

• $5M/year protected by ensuring our Highway 40 & 43 trade corridors stay open and flowing.

• $3M/year recirculated into the local economy by mandating fair access to municipal contracts.

That’s $18.45M/year in direct, conservative gains, before even counting long-term growth in real estate, business migration, and investor confidence.

Source-backed: City of GP 2025 Budget, 2024 Annual Report, Alberta Regional Dashboard, Alberta Transportation, CFIB Red Tape Report 2025.

Ask yourself: why hasn’t this been done already?

High Property Taxes, Poor Returns

A Critical Look at Tax Burden vs. Asset Performance in Grande Prairie, Alberta

This exhibit reveals a stark contradiction at the heart of Grande Prairie’s municipal governance: residents face some of the highest property taxes in Alberta, second only to Wetaskiwin

while receiving one of the lowest returns on assets (ROA) among comparable municipalities.

Property Tax Overview:

- Property Tax Rate: 1.27% (2nd highest in Alberta)

- Annual Tax on $250,000 home: $3,170

- Annual Tax on $500,000 home: $6,340

- Annual Tax on $750,000 home: $9,511

Return on Assets (ROA):

- Grande Prairie ranks near the bottom in asset performance, meaning taxpayer money is not being efficiently reinvested to generate public value or economic return.

Key Implications:

- Residents pay more than nearly anyone else in Alberta.

- Public assets deliver lower returns than comparable cities.

- Infrastructure and services lag despite high taxation.

- Governance appears more extractive than service-oriented.

This is not just a budgetary issue—it’s a structural failure of fiscal responsibility and public trust. High taxes should reflect high value. In Grande Prairie, they do not.