“Oh, you know, there will be people who are ticked off,” said NDP House leader Mike Farnworth, whose salary goes to $110,528 from $84,400, a 31-per-cent hike. “I mean I know that. Every time you talk about the issue, you will always get people who criticize and complain. That’s the nature of politics.”
So says the arrogant socialist politician from on high. And by “on high” I mean he might literally be high, since BC’s Liberals and the even more leftist socialists of the NDP gave themselves a big raise yesterday.
The socialist kahuna, Carole James, talked endlessly during her failure of an election campaign about “sitting down” with labor unions, “sitting down” with business, “sitting down” with environmentalists, and “sitting down” with most anybody or anything you can think of, in order to consult and discuss and reach consensus on every conceivable issue, but she chose not to “sit down with” a single sole, other than her comrades in government, nor even utter one public peep about paying herself many thousands extra in salary and benefits. Not even with the labor unions of BC, with whom she shares a bed, and which in fact own her party.
Apparently plain citizens aren’t worthy of her large socialist-fed posterior gracing a chair at a table shared with them.
B.C. politicians hike their own wages—and dash
VICTORIA—British Columbia’s MLAs gave themselves an early Christmas present Thursday, boosting their base salaries by 15 per cent, increasing special allowances and bringing back a lucrative pension plan they axed a decade ago.
After about 50 minutes of debate in the legislature, New Democratic Party and Liberal MLAs sheepishly—but unanimously—agreed to raise their base salary to $86,580, from the current $75,400.
It took them less than one minute to give the proposed bill its third reading. Most then scurried out of the house after the lightning-fast rubber-stamping, avoiding reporters.
“I’m happy to say there was consent and unanimous consent for it,” said Labour Minister Mike de Jong, whose salary as a cabinet minister will rise by more than $16,000 to $131,000.
[…] Premier Gordon Campbell will see his salary go to $146,320, from $120,400, a 21-per-cent raise.
NDP House leader Mike Farnworth added:
“But look, people are going to watch this and look at that and say, ‘There are the politicians giving themselves a raise—pretty self-serving.”
You don’t say.
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