Municipal Taxpayer Advocacy Group has become the voice for taxpayers.
Launched in October 2010, the Municipal Taxpayer Advocacy Group (MTAG) was created in order to work with mayors and councilors across Canada to adopt best practices in financial management. Our first project is the sky rocketing hydro rates, the lack of a national waste to energy program that will eliminate the need for landfills and the impact of provincial decisions on property taxes. More on MTAG

Ottawa Tax Payer Advocacy Group

Comments by Community Leaders on OTAG Pierre Poilievre, MP, "applauded OTAG as a counter-balance to special interest groups which, he said, apply pressure on governments to spend more money on programs." Federal Infrastructure Minister John Baird was on hand to deliver a short speech…"Any time you cut taxes and let people keep more of their hard-earned tax dollars, that's a good day".

Ottawa Citizen columnist Randall Denley “OTAG played a particularly important role. Once OTAG focused its tax-restraint message and started talking about freezing departmental budgets and no new money for additional programs, it found a political sweet spot. Mayor-elect Jim Watson picked up the no-new-money (any new project or service has to be paid for by an equivalent cut in an administration costs or an existing service) approach and outgoing Mayor Larry O'Brien championed the departmental budget freeze. Taxes will always be important in any municipal election, but OTAG kept the issue to the forefront and shaped the debate by offering achievable solutions to limit increases.“