Cabinet aides yesterday confirmed New Democrats and Liberals held closed door meetings to rewrite the Elections Act. One revision guaranteed parliamentary pensions for dozens of MPs.
https://www.blacklocks.ca/confirm-secret-talks-on-c-65/
Allen Sutherland, assistant cabinet secretary, confirmed only New Democrat and Liberal MPs and staff attended secret meetings on drafts of Bill C-65 An Act To Amend The Canada Elections Act prior to its introduction last March 20.
Clause 5.2 of the bill would change the statutory date of the next election currently fixed for Monday, October 20 to October 27, a measure that would benefit 28 Liberal and New Democrat MPs.
Fell One Day Short
Legislators require a minimum six years’ service to qualify for pension benefits currently averaging $77,900 a year under the Members Of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act. Two-term MPs first elected in 2019 do not qualify until Tuesday, October 21, 2025, a day after the fixed election date.
Let me know when Carla Beck comments.
There was a time when MPs didn’t even get paid.
That was back when people who ran for office were of high quality and independently wealthy. Now, they’re mostly of low quality and getting wealthy off the backs of taxpayers. The idea that we can only attract quality people into public life by paying them more than their worth is demonstrated daily by the incompetence found in all parties. We need to return to the days where an elitist sense of duty dictated who governed us, not a stepping stone to career advancement.
heck ya back in the days with tuberculosis rampant because the uber wealthy saw no utility in a healthy populace and kept every farthing they could wring out of the human mules.
tradeoffs. there are such things as win-win outcomes buuuuuut too much resembles prisoners dilemma. and oddly 100% winds up choice 4 they both betray.
I dont consider them MP’s… because they are thieving gangsters and Canadians are their slaves, for life.
Cannot think of another political jurisdiction that is more corrupt than Turdholeland.
And now you know why Singh has been propping up the Libranos.
“We’ve already established what you are, we’re just haggling over the price.”
A rented whore?
Yep
I guess being a rented whore was the leased he could do…
I don’t know what’s more disgusting trough feeding bastards, or the sheep that put up with it . And this is a direct quote ” I’m successful I just ignore it.” I heard it from a person I found out was a public school teacher later in the conversation a couple of weekends ago.
And I think it’s the mindset of many Canadians (especially professionals ) of all political stripes.
Until more professionals and “successful” people find their balls nothing is going to change .
“Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is a virtue.
Fleas are interested in dogs.”
PJ O’Rourke
I thought there was a rule that any changes to remuneration, pay, benefits could only apply after another election, or was that just a Mike Harris – Ontario thing? Either way, the rule should be the law of the land and Canada is a joke.
Ha, doesn’t get much more blatant than that.
Canadians will NEVER learn. I doubt it would shock me very much if Trudeau and Singh get back in next year.
BCers just voted commie NDP again
LOL
sorry but you f’ing deserve this Canaduh. if Conservatives had been in office longer with their self sufficiency central to the ideology l strongly suspect salaries for instance would be lower.
but Canaduh doesnt want that. Canaduh demands to be fleeced royally.
If the cons were in power we’d be getting reamed 1/8” less; but we’d still be getting reamed. There ain’t no politician or bureaucrat that ever left Ottawa without a snoot full from the trough.
Some of the worst of the Libs will get the Golden Handshake by extending the election 1 day:
Anita Anand, Steven Guilbeault, Han Dong, Ryan Turnbull, Adam van Koeverden
https://www.westernstandard.news/news/parliamentary-pensions-liberals-ndp-held-secret-talks-to-rewrite-elections-act/59117
Sometimes when I’m doing a small water heater job at a government worker’s house, I’ll quote them $900 and then when I give the home owner the bill, I’ll just write in $1100 and not say anything, it’s alright, they always pay.
Canadians are like that. They’re easy.
ha ha ha betcha my brother the dyslexic plumber more business sense in his baby finger, once tore work out of a job when the homeowner decided to nitpick and gyp him.
wouldnt pay agreed amount so out came the pipe cutter. under pressure.
sympathetic cop agreed the pipe was still his, had rights of salvage.
no one tried it on him again.
The real bucks for these grifters come after. Consulting contracts, either direct from ministries or to private businesses. Seats on crown corporation boards, of which there are dozens, and a double dip pension to boot. If they are too useless to consult or appoint (NDP or Green, usually) they can always wriggle on to boards of private corporations to a add some supposed notoriety.
So we have to wait ’til next October to get rid of these shifters?
One would have thought that they already knew about this; what competence.
Unless Mark wants a seat at the table.
The next government can change it and revoke those pensions. No reason not to make it retroactive and make them pay.back what they have received.
Trudeau has proved that government is not limited by past laws.
Yes!!!
Liberals and NDP are going to change the law to enrich themselves.
When Poilievre gets in he should change the law to tax back 100% of these special pensions.
It’s just a law, why can’t it be written and acted on?
Because the courts would over-rule it.
agreed the entire justice system in Canada including the Supreme Court is corrupt and owned by the liberal party
If the COns win the next election ( doubtful) they should get rid of the whole thieving scheme of MP pensions completely.
Why the hell should we be paying for creeps like Sheila Copps so she can live in Costa Rica the rest of her miserable thieving life ?
This is theft.
In our system it doesn’t matter who gets elected other than the Prime Minister.
Not a one of them has the power to do a blessed thing without the PM’s blessing.
This pension theft was mentioned 6 months ago.
Bought and paid for media never said a word about it.
Until the system gets changed we will keep getting what we got.
The only hope is for some of the liberal members to decide this country may still have a chance to survive and either walk across the floor or just vote against the government in a confidence motion.
Unlike the American President, Canada’s PM has no check on his power. The Governor-General is now only a ceremonial position that rubber stamps everything put in front of it, the Senate is full of party hacks enjoying their government funded golden handshake and would never think of acting against the hand that feeds it, and Parliament blows a lot of hot air but the backbenchers are just trained seals that bark and clap on cue.
Until such a time comes when this situation is fixed, nothing else will ever change no matter what party is in power.
good luck with there is not one liberal M.P. with a backbone
Because the courts would over-rule it.
If the concern is about Diwali, they could nove the election up by a week, rather than postponing it by a week.
But that isn’t the concern at all.
Watched some of the back and forth in committee. Libs are claiming they had to change the date to accommodate the Daliwal festival of lights. When pointing out the fact of the pension dates, the Libs called BS. One woman Lib, claimed the Con MP’s were in the same boat and would lose their pension too. Only if they were to lose their seat that is.
Mark Gerritson, Lib MP accused the Con MP ( cant remember name) of seeing a conspiracy and/or scandal in everything the Lib/dips do. Well, if there wasn’t we wouldn’t be seeing one weekly…. would we?