About Us

Next year the people of Halifax will be asked to perform their civic duty by going to the polls and electing a mayor and council. We are a group of concerned citizens with a common interest. We believe the people of Halifax deserve a mayor and council that will stand in our corner.

Mayor Mike Savage, along with a group of councillors voted this year to approve an exclusive tax cut for Irving Shipbuilding Inc., while at the same time, approving a property tax increase for ratepayers across the Halifax region.

We believe raising taxes to pay for an Irving tax break is unacceptable. The people of Halifax deserve a mayor with a track record of holding the line on taxes.

For that reason, we support the candidacy of Peter Kelly for mayor.

We also support an effort to replace every councillor that voted in favour of the Irving tax break.

In 2011, the federal government awarded Irving Shipbuilding a $25-billion contract to build 21 combat ships.

The following year, the province of Nova Scotia announced it would provide Irving with $304 million in loans, including up to $260 million in a forgivable loan for shipyard upgrades, and an additional $44-million repayable loan for human resources, technology and industrial development in marine shipbuilding.

Last year, Irving paid the city of Halifax about $1.6 million in property taxes. With the new deal supported by Mayor Savage and council – that number has been slashed - with Halifax ratepayers now on the hook to cover a retroactive $1 million refund to Irving.

In May of 2015, Mayor Mike Savage, along with a majority of council voted in favour of an exclusive tax break for Irving that will see the city retroactively refund Irving $997,340 to reflect what their assessment would have been if such an arrangement had been in place during 2014-15.

“This is a good deal for the city. That’s all I care about,” Mayor Mike Savage said outside city hall chambers on May 12.

We disagree. Please join our effort to elect a mayor and council that will hold the line on taxes and vote against tax breaks for wealthy business owners.

Councillors Jennifer Watts, Stephen Adams, Brad Johns, and Matt Whitman all voted against the deal.

  • Mofhrm

    Can’t you find someone else if you don’t like the current lot.
    We need to move forward not backwards.

  • ABH

    You’ve GOT to be joking.

    Give your collective heads a shake.

  • GCracka

    Can he please go get a real job and leave us alone? NO MORE KELLY. We need new leaders, thank you.

  • ???

    Who set this site up? One of Peter Kelly’s relatives. How short memories are. Peter Kelly was a terrible mayor who stifled all development and progress in the city by pandering to special interest groups. Not to mention his shady, if not criminal, actions as the executor. Alberta was a good place for him to go and a better place for him to stay. Wake up!

  • Bubbie

    I am not particularly a huge Kelly fan but Savage has got to go. I didn’t like that back room deals Kelly did for concerts and what went on with WTC and what he did with a Power of Attorney was really bad. Given that he admitted to his mistakes and has the experience of being Mayor. I believe he should be given a second chance. Savage is a big business Liberal junkie that is selling out this city to big business. He is a god in the eyes of the Halifax Camber of Commerce. You can tell he is out of touch with the common person by taking $10,000.00 month from campaign funds to, in his words, support his lifestyle. Other candidates had to give up as much as $8,000.00 in salary for running for office. Savage used the excuse that he did not break any rules but he couldn’t break any rules if there were no rules to be broken. He amassed the largest war chest of $325,000.00 in the history for anyone running for Halifax Mayor. He has $72,000.00 left over from that campaign in a trust fund ready to go for the next election and now wants to bring in rules to prevent anyone running for mayor to receive funds from developers. I have always felt no one should accept donations from big business or developers but Savage would be first out of the gate with his campaign by using funds whose source was from big business people. He is a snake. Kelly would get my vote seeing he is the lesser of two evils but would like to see a fresh face. Someone that would have the people at heart.