MLAs get bigger pay increases than government employees

VICTORIA — Provincial politicians are getting larger pay raises this year than nurses, social workers and hundreds of thousands of public servants who signed new contracts with a government that argued it didn’t have the money to pay them higher salaries.
MLA salaries increased 2.7 per cent on April 1, to $111,025.
Meanwhile, more than 200,000 public-sector employees will only see a wage increase of two per cent this year, as part of new collective agreements signed with an NDP gover