Fixing the Balance: A Taxpayer Manifesto for Prince George
Right now, City Hall is treating your tax dollars like an open credit card, and they’ve rigged the system to make sure you can’t say no.
The recent push to borrow $30 million through the Alternative Approval Process (AAP) for basic facility maintenance is the perfect example. The city intentionally uses a slanted, paper-heavy process designed to engineer voter silence. They force you to hunt down, print, and manually submit physical forms just to object.
In 2026, there is absolutely no excuse for this. We can easily modernize this system by allowing secure online voting. By validating residents instantly through the BC Services Card or property tax verification forms, we can ensure a fair, accessible, and secure way for Prince George taxpayers to have their voices heard without the bureaucratic hurdles.
We are being asked to fund massive loans for predictable, routine upkeep like roof repairs and equipment replacement that should have been standard lines in the annual budget all along. Publicly-owned assets leased to private operators should be generating enough revenue to pay for their own lifecycle costs. Instead, we are stuck on a double sliding scale: facility agreements slide, administration pushes the debt onto future generations, and the taxpayers get stuck with the bill.
A single voice at City Hall cannot fix this. It takes a majority block to stop the rubber-stamping. We need independent leaders who will commit to three non-negotiable principles:
- True Democracy & Digital Reform: Replacing outdated paper AAP hurdles with secure, online voter validation via the BC Services Card.
- Forensic Auditing: Reopening the books to see exactly where facility revenues are going and renegotiating broken operator contracts.
- Operational Reform: Streamlining development services, permitting, and building inspections so our city can actually grow.
If a unified team of independent, financially responsible leaders stepped up to fight for these exact rules, would you vote to give them the majority?
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