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'You got to be freaking kidding me': Residents get property tax sticker shock amid Ontario town's mo
« on: July 11, 2025, 03:24:19 pm »

'You got to be freaking kidding me': Residents get property tax sticker shock amid Ontario town's money woes

CBC News
Jonathan Migneault
July 11, 2025



Alan and Dawn Gosnay moved to the northern Ontario township of Fauquier-Strickland late last year, attracted by the lower housing costs and an opportunity to live closer to their grandchildren.

"We saw the house and the town and that was it. We fell in love," Alan said. "It was great. The house is beautiful."

The couple settled into the community, which is east of Kapuskasing on Highway 11 and has a population of about 500, in December. But when the new year rolled around, he said, their property taxes went from around $2,300 a year to $5,600.

As a retiree on a fixed income, that came as a shock.

Then came more troubling news: At a community meeting on Tuesday, a township councillor said a 200 per cent property tax increase would be needed to balance Fauquier-Strickland's finances.

"And I'm thinking, 'Holy mackerel, you got to be freaking kidding me, right?' You just can't do that," Alan said.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/fauquier-strickland-financial-crisis-1.7582236
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Re: 'You got to be freaking kidding me': Residents get property tax sticker shock amid Ontario town'
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2025, 04:11:42 pm »
Fauq that shit.
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Re: 'You got to be freaking kidding me': Residents get property tax sticker shock amid Ontario town'
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2025, 04:15:33 pm »
But they have Free health care.
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Re: 'You got to be freaking kidding me': Residents get property tax sticker shock amid Ontario town'
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2025, 05:09:10 pm »
I'm paying $16,000 in property taxes this year ... for the children ... and that's AFTER all the Federal and State witholding from my paycheck.

If I was to buy this house today, I couldn't afford the mortgage.
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