Letters, Jan. 29: Free-spending MLAs should get paid average B.C. wage
The feeling of entitlement begins for MLAs the moment they start receiving their $108,000 annual salary. By way of comparison, the average annual employment income in B.C., in 2015, was about $55,000.
Our politicians would be more sensitive and engaged with the high cost of housing and stagnant wage growth if they felt the pain too.
The latest scandal in the legislature should result in MLA remuneration being reduced to the average annual employment income in B.C.
In the future, if MLAs wan
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