About Edmonton Municipal Party

Empowering citizens who have GRIT in Edmonton. Get involved. Join our movement.

Our mission, to boldly go where no politicians have dared go before.

1,000+

Concerned citizens

Predict the future

Tired of infill and density ruining your neighhourhood? Exorbitant spending on public transit, particularly, LRT, tearing up Edmonton and complicating your commute or impacting your business? Continual tax increases for programs that you pay for but don’t want or use? Glib politicians making vague proclamations? The aim of EMP is to bring together citizens in Ward 1, Ward 6 and Ward 8.

emp policies

• Reversal of blanket zoning for infill and density

• Curtailment of future LRT expansion and concomitant property tax escalation for small businesses and home owners

• Reduction of property taxes by 10% for home owners and small businesses in 2026 and freeze on property taxes for the subsequent three years

emp initiatives

• Budget for fire service increased by 50%

• Budget for police service increased by 50%

• Budgets for other core services remain unchanged or get boosted

Be the future

Join EMP to shape Edmonton's future through local governance and community engagement

Infill and LRT for migrants

The once watchdog media in Canada has become a lapdog funded to not make any connection amongst the poorly screened, if at all, migrants pouring into Canada and the infill in our neighbourhoods for the migrants and our buckling healthcare overrun by migrants and the LRT for the migrants to ride. Middle class Canadians are having their homes bulldozed and property taxes raised to infill neighbourhoods with rental housing for migrants. White Rock in Metro Vancouver is no different from Cloverdale in Edmonton or the host of other Canadian neighbourhoods being runed with infill and density for the migrants pouring into Canada. Migrants tearing down Canada are being misrepresented as immigrants building up Canada. Growth with migrants results in conflict. Japan gets this.

Both the costly LRT and rentals are paid for by you through increased property taxes but are not for you and are for migrants receiving welfare to ride on the LRT passing near the rental units in your neighborhood. Join the EMP movement and show your support for EMP protecting Edmontonians from infill and LRT for migrants by printing off and sharing our flyer with friends and family.

"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." - Thomas Jefferson

"The society that separates it's scholars from it's soldiers will have it's fighting done by fools and it's thinking done by cowards" - Thucydides an Athenian general quoted after the Peloponnesian war

“They’re trying to take our voices and make our choices so we scream loud” - Bebe Rexha

No migrants. No Growth. No Conflict.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Edmonton Municipal Party?

EMP is a group of citizens concerned about the direction of Edmonton. Infill and supportive housing threatening established neighbourhoods, in particular.

How to become a member?

Interested individuals can join via the contact page on our website.

What are EMP's policies?

Our policies include reversing blanket zoning for infill, curtailing LRT expansion, and reducing or freezing property taxes.

One of the priorities for EMP is to cut taxes by 10% for property owners. Won’t programs and services suffer?

Core programs are maintained or have their funding increased. Only superfluous programs are impacted, and the overall budget for the city includes a 10% contingency to shore up these programs if necessary. When taxpayers want to restore any impacted programs and raise taxes, they’ll be restored.

Edmonton is in the midst of a housing affordability “crisis”. Isn’t infill required to add homes and make Edmonton more affordable?

Infill isn’t about building affordable homes. Infill is about the conversion of homes owned by people into short or long term rental units owned by landlords and is making homes for families to buy more scarce and more expensive to buy. Supportive housing and below market rental units are being subsidized by home owners and businesses paying property taxes to grow the population of Edmonton and the pool of renters for landlords who don’t even live in Canada in some cases. When the infill isn’t for rental units, it elevates the cost of home ownership by tearing down a good $400K home in Forest Heights in Ward 6, for example, to build two skinny homes selling at $800K each and depletes the number of affordable homes on the market for families to own.

Traffic is getting worse and worse. Don’t we need LRT to reduce road congestion?

Traffic on the roads is mainly from commercial vehicles which LRT can't remove. Unlike transit buses which can be added or parked to suit demand and manage operating costs, LRT has massive fixed capital and financing costs (interest payments) whether LRT is being used at capacity or barely used at all and has resulted in Edmonton’s massive debt starving the police and fire budgets and raising property taxes in Edmonton for home owners and businesses. The LRT and buses feeding LRT serve maybe 5% of the population in Edmonton but cost Edmontonians either nearly the same or more than police and fire (serving everyone) combined. Some LRT from downtown Edmonton to U of A or NAIT has steady demand and might be justified but LRT everywhere else doesn’t and results in unnecessary and avoidable conflict in Edmonton looking at 30 years of construction and turmoil for transit orientated development which is an euphemism used to describe infill for unwanted supportive housing in neighbourhoods and LRT raising property taxes.

The wards are not being referred to by their indigenous names. Are you not being disrespectful?

The ward numbers used instead are neutral and non-partisan. They don't proselytize the wards and are easy to pronounce and remember.