This issue has not been mentioned during the campaign. To my
knowledge neither party has said they will make changes to New Brunswick's unique law that lets the Premier of this little province get two paycheques and be the highest paid Premier in the country.
There is a mention of a law by the liberals, but whether it will deal with this particular problem is not known.
Why I am bringing this up is that on various blogs there has been a
lot of erroneous information.
In fact, this view was even made by the editor of one of the province's major newspapers.
The view is that the 'second' salary is not paid for by New Brunswick Taxpayers but by 'donaters' to the party.
Although the media maintained that these donaters are 'public
knowledge' I have not been able to discover them.
This view is WRONG.
Every New Brunswick political party gets part of its funding from the New Brunswick government according to its representation.
So Public Accounts show that in 2005 the Conservative Party
recieved over $300,000 in funding from the government, while the
liberals recieved short of $300,000.
Clearly the 'extra' $70,000 comes from New Brunswick taxpayers. It
is possible that the conservative party has the salary earmarked from
sources that come from donations, that is not known, but the amount that taxpayers contribute easily covers this.
It is unfortunate that this issue was not part of the campaign.
Just a little less greed on the part of the Premier or Premier-elect would perhaps have people a little more charitably inclined towards either party.
4 comments:
Shame on Bernard Lord. That is why he thinks ratepayers can afford higher hydro rates. He does not even know that average NBers do not have $200,000.00 a year income plus unlimited travels, at taxpayer’s expense, and other perks
Shawn Graham has gone on record as saying he would not accept a salary from the Liberal Party.
Do you see the difference? I see the difference.
your photos are all grainy. Or is it my computer??
I don't know of many CEOs who would make $200K and still have a job with his track record.
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