Sky-high property assessments are whacking homeowners across Ontario – especially seniors and people on fixed incomes.

Dalton McGuinty says he’s seized with the issue. He’s seized all right. Seized like a rusty engine.

New Democrats stand up for homeowners. We believe homeowners deserve a fair, predictable, stable property assessments – not the astonishingly inaccurate, bullying, manipulative, self-serving and cutthroat system condemned by Ontario’s Ombudsman – that ends up forcing people out of their homes.

Dalton McGuinty promised positive change. Instead of progress, we’re seeing the same old approach – passing the buck on the issue until after the next provincial election – setting homeowners up for a huge shock from a ticking tax bomb.

New Democrats have a fresh idea – the Freeze Till Sale property assessment model. The new model - put forward by the NDP's Task Force on Assessment and Property Tax - would freeze the assessed value of your home at its purchase price for as long as you own your home. It would replace the McGuinty Liberals' unfair, arbitrary and punishing property assessment system - and make property assessment fair, predictable and easier to understand.

Show your support for fair property assessment. Work with us on positive solutions that make a real difference -- and join the NDP in the fight for working families.

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