Canada Politicians Pay Scale

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March 4, 2010Political salaries revealed: Are we paying too much?
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Fred Chartrand.The Canadian Press
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced in his recent throne speech that the government will table legislation to freeze the pay of the prime minister, cabinet ministers, MPs and senators. What will this actually mean in dollar terms? Probably not much. According to the Canadian Press, the 1.5 per cent wage increase that the 308 MPs and 105 senators received last year amounted to a total burden on governemnt of about $1 million. A one-year wage freeze is not likely to put much of a dent in the deficit or the pockets of our representatives, especially considering how much federal salaries have increased in the past 10 years. Here's a look at the basics of federal salaries, and a comparison to what they were in 2000 (calculations do not include non-taxable expense allowances, pensions or travel allowances).

Canadians freezed politicians wages, not give them 8.8% increase, and they still think its too high. Sinkies have been suckered by the PAP.

 

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Canadian PM Harper's pay.



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Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper gestures before the Speech from the Throne in the Senate chamber on Parliament Hill in Ottawa March 3, 2010.
Total take-home pay: $315,462

Salary: $157,731
Basic Sessional Indemnity: $157,731
2000 total take-home pay: $142,300
* Source: Parliament of Canada

 

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Finance Minister Jim Flaherty tries on new shoes at a store in his home riding in Whitby, Ont.
Total take-home pay: $233,247

Salary: $75,516
Basic Sessional Indemnity: $157,731
2000 total take-home pay: $117,500

 

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Backbench MPs



Tom Hanson/The Canadian Press
Liberal backbencher Todd Russell rises to vote against the federal budget in the House of Commons, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on March 4, 2008.
Total take-home pay: $157,731
2000 total take-home pay: $68,200

 

[Brightkid]

I can understand that the entire Canadian cabinet is corrupted, accordingly to our MIWs' reasoning.

 

[makapaaa]

And who are more corrupt - Canadian ministers or FAPee Traitor Minitoots?

 

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I can understand that the entire Canadian cabinet is corrupted, accordingly to our MIWs' reasoning.

Yes that's right.LOL. By PAP's own statements, the canadians must have the most corrupted politicians in the world, since their pay is so low. I smell a slander lawsuit agianst the PAP by the Liberal Party. Harper versus Gay Loong. One is going to get fucked in the arse, and the other one likes it like that.