Our BC MLA’s won’t be getting a pay boost this year.
All parties supported a motion at the legislature’s management committee to forego this year’s increase.
MLA’s pay is tied to inflation, and would have risen 2.6 per cent.
It’s the third time in three years they’ve turned aside a raise.
The base pay for our elected provincial representatives is more than 119-thousand dollars, with top ups for committee chairs, party leaders, cabinet ministers, and the premier.
Even though his party voted in favour of the salary freeze, Conservative Leader (and Nechako Lakes MLA) John Rustad doesn’t think MLAs are being paid enough.
He’s told the Globe and Mail ”when you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.”
– with files from Vista Radio news wire
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