The big picture: Mayor Pascal De Bellefeuille used record-breaking 2025 financial results to boast about “healthy finances“—but those exact funds could have shielded residents from crushing tax hikes in 2026.
By the numbers:
$8.4M operating surplus: The Ville and Agglomeration generated a combined $8.4M operating surplus for tax purposes in 2025.
The missed opportunity:
Double standard: The Mayor took care to mention that the record surplus was due to exceptional welcome tax revenues (droits de mutation). Yet, he missed an opportunity to use that exact same principle to cap tax increases for residents who faced exceptional spikes in their property valuations.
Financial leverage: The town possessed the ideal 2025 financial cushion to implement a temporary cap, thereby absorbing the shock of the MRC’s new assessment roll.
The direct impact: Adopting the cap proposed by Les Amis would have prevented 46% of residential property owners from seeing their 2026 tax bill jump by more than 11.34%, exposing the flaw behind the 2.3% to 3.2% average increase claimed by the Mayor.
The bottom line: Instead of using 2025 cash windfalls to shield local families and retirees, the town chose to retain the cash—forcing nearly half the community to pay the price of unpredictable overtaxation in 2026.
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