Der konservative Abgeordnete sagt, er lehne die für April geplante jährliche Gehaltserhöhung ab
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-mp-rejects-annual-pay-raise-9.7083330
Der konservative Abgeordnete sagt, er lehne die für April geplante jährliche Gehaltserhöhung ab
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-mp-rejects-annual-pay-raise-9.7083330
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>A Conservative MP says he is asking the House of Commons to freeze his salary before parliamentarians get their annual pay bump in April.
>New Brunswick MP Mike Dawson posted a letter on Facebook where he asks the clerk of the House to „make the necessary arrangements with the payroll and benefits administration“ to ensure that his salary doesn’t increase.
>“At a time when everyday Canadians are struggling to keep up with rising cost of living I cannot in good conscience accept the pay increase,“ Dawson wrote in his letter.
>“It’s frankly distasteful that parliamentarians are set to receive a raise while the working man (and woman) in this country hasn’t seen a decent raise in decades.“
>Parliamentarians of all stripes will receive a salary bump because of the annual increases written in the legislation governing politicians‘ pay. The precise number each year comes from tracking an index of wage settlements in the private sector, according to the House of Commons.
>Employment and Social Development Canada has yet to publish the final indexed rate for 2025, but Dawson indicated in his letter that he anticipates it would be roughly around $10,000.
>It’s not clear if Dawson can on his own reject the pay raise. CBC News has reached out to the House of Commons administration for clarification.
Politic stunt or not, more MPs should be doing this when we are being asked to make sacrifices and facing mounting debt and financial crisis.
The Harper government did that for all MPs when they were making their cuts. It’s not much in the grand scheme of things, but at least it shows politicians putting their money where their mouth is.
Why don’t Carney’s Liberals do the same? Carney talks about sacrifice, but sacrifices nothing himself.
I’m sure that 10,000 dollars will go far.
Unpopular opinion: MPs should be well paid and deserve a pay raise.
The “self-sacrifice” ploy is always dumb. Take the pay raise. But work to make sure the government provides pay raises to those they can (ie federal government = federal employees).
I don’t personally like my MP and have never voted for him but since he’s been elected he’s only taken the salary he started at. Everything else (he’s been a back bencher for a decade plus) he uses to buy AEDs for community centres, curling clubs libraries etc…
Virtue, consider yourself signalled.
Pay people for what they do. If you want good people you have to pay them. If you want corruption don’t pay the politicians and attract people that will feather their own nest through politics.
Good for him, sacrificing in solidarity with his fellow Canadians. Not sure why people are making this out to be a bad thing.
This is a good gesture but can come across as political theater. Putting forward a bill to end annual raises would be an even better way to make a point.
Our elected officials normalizing not getting raises will surely inspire the private sector to pay people more.
This kind of thing is such a lame virtue signalling move usually exclusively done by grifting conservatives.
Like how Donald Trump makes a big deal of not taking a salary and his supporters eating that up, and then just shamelessly raiding public coffers in a million different ways.
I’m not saying these two cases are the same…but come on man. Stop it with these bullshit news stories and just do the work.
He also has the option of donating to the federal finance department in the amount of his pay increase.
This is what makes people vote against their own interests.
If this was a Liberal MP, this sub would be praising them. Since h is not, he is just virtue signaling.
I agree that presenting a bill to stop pay raises would be better. Our MPs are among the highest paid on the world, have a crappy economy to show for it and barely actually work.
It would be nice if inflation matching raises were brought to all industries country wide imo. Especially seeing as corporate profits are ever increasing but virtually nothing filters down to the workers.
Make Politician pay the median pay for the riding they represent.
In 2024, salary of MPs was at $203,100.
Canadians should be appalled that they’re paying that much taxes and are getting basically no representation in return.
Challenge me all you want, but every Prime Minister has basically made it a PM centric parliament, not a continuants represented parliament.
Not a conservative voter but credit where credit is due, this is admirable to do.
Can you imagine having a raise every year. Thats a pipe dream for 90% of the work force
They should show they care and pass a $50k pay reduction in MP base salary to cut the costs of the Government.
Conservative MP wants it to be cheaper to bribe politicians, what a surprise.
This is called cutting off your nose to spite your face
How about corporations just increase how much they pay their workers instead of politicians grandstanding?
Might be more effective. I don’t know.
I can’t say I’m willing to applaud this guy giving up $466 a month after tax when his constituents enjoy one of the highest rates of unemployed in the province.
As a taxpayer, times are hard for a lot of us. They should be capped at 2% like most private sector jobs.