Gord Steeves (CHRISD.CA FILE)
Mayoral candidate Gord Steeves took his Tuesday news conference to the steps of frontrunner Judy Wasylycia-Leis‘s campaign office to tout a tax freeze.
The former city councillor said if elected he would implement a property tax freeze, saying his former NDP MP opponent would increase taxes by 12 percent.
“When I was on council, we froze property taxes, yet more that doubled our spending for infrastructure,” Steeves said. “We did it in an intelligent way which did not hurt ordinary citizens. I will not raise your property taxes as mayor.”
Steeves said when Wasylycia-Leis was an NDP cabinet minister in 1987, her government levied the single-largest tax increase in Manitoba history — raising taxes 37 percent in one year.
— Staff
