And in other News…
Bears shit in the woods, the grass is green and the sky is blue.
Ontario MPPs have decided to give themselves a 25% raise.
Oh, the poor provincial politicians are starving because they cannot afford that new luxury trip now that the lobbyists are being forced to curb their briberies in light of the Federal Accountability Act, which only embraced 31 of the 52 recommendations originally proposed by the federal Tories in the last federal election. The other 21 recommendations were ditched because the Conservatives wanted loopholes so they could continue to govern with their heads shoved twenty leagues up their collective tight ass.
The humanity of it all! The provincial politicians are only earning 60% of their federal cousins, while the civil infrastructure crumbles around us, the TTC goes to hell and schools are forced to cut programs and not run deficits in order to give students a fighting chance.
McGuinty says it’s not fair that Ontario politicians make only 60 per cent of what their federal cousins, so he’s bumping that up to 75 per cent.
It’s just so unfair that the MPPs are earning about ~$88,000 per annum… that must be real hard on the families not being able to afford more than one vacation per year, what with inflation and all.
This is the same government, dominated by Conservatives under John Tory and Liberals under Dalton McQuinty that have refused to raise minimum wage to $10/h, instead of leaving it at the mere paltry, laughable sum of $8.15/h, which for a full time job doesn’t even put a person past the official line of poverty for Canada.
Of course, not all Ontario MPPs are self-serving bottom-scum suckers…
New Democrat Peter Kormos vows to donate his $22,000 raise to charity to remind voters what the Liberals and Tories gave themselves for Christmas 2006.
Raises ‘right thing to do,’ premier says
EDIT: Since I wrote this entry this morning, there is now a follow up, in which the Premier Dalton McQuintyof Ontario flaunts his disregard for the voters by saying he won’t apologise for the 25% pay raise that the Ontario MPPs gave themselves, and doesn’t appear to care that it looks like a Christmas present that the MPPs have given themselves.
McGuinty said it didn’t matter that the move looks like a Christmas present from politicians to themselves.
“There is never a right time to do this. That’s why we have this 40 per cent gap (with MPs).”
McGuinty delivered an impromptu five-minute defence of his latest about-face today, pointing to much higher salaries for MPs, like his brother David McGuinty, who represents the same Ottawa riding as the premier.
“My brother, God bless his soul, as a backbencher in Opposition, he’s making more than my cabinet ministers,” McGuinty said. “That difference is not sustainable.”
What’s the matter? Suffering from irreversible small penis syndrome any?
Want further proof that Liberals are worthy of being labelled amoral bottom suckers?
“Right now as a cabinet minister, I’m making less than the mayor of Windsor,” said Energy Minister Dwight Duncan.
Or how about….
Democratic Renewal Minister Marie Bountrogianni also made no apologies.
“There are many that believe our work is more important on a day-to-day basis than our federal counterparts,” she said.
Well, what about all the people earning minimum wage? How are you going to explain your pay raise to them? Why do the politicians have the authority to give themselves such a pay raise, while creating mounds of bureaucratic paper work and red tape for those looking for a day’s fair pay.
The only financially moral party is the provincial NDP under Howard Hampton (at least for the province of Ontario).
The Conservatives support the 25 per cent pay hike, but the New Democrats were fuming today about a move they called repugnant and unjustifiable, and at least two members vowed to donate their $22,000 raise to charity.
McGuinty: No apologies for 25% raise
Stumble It!
December 13th, 2006 at 1:11 pm
Go NDP!!! Hopefully this proposed raise will be quashed.
December 13th, 2006 at 1:13 pm
This was passed. This is a complaint about the lack of respect for the voters that this raise shows.