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Originally Posted by Slava
I've read the stuff about her aides being overpaid, and I just think that these are pretty close to the going cost for top people. I know that the wages look bad compared to the "average salary", but in truth these aren't just average employees (or at least they shouldn't be).
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I would argue that her chief of staff getting paid more then the American Presidents Chief of Staff is a overpayment.
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Originally Posted by Slava
Why shouldn't we compare this to the private sector? Its a cost of running business and these people could presumably go find work there, and likely came from there as well? Her Chief of Staff was a partner at a major law firm before taking that role. I doubt he would consider that for say $75k a year to keep in line with the average employee.
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Maybe not, but based on the above, maybe Redford should have let him stay as a partner at a law firm because we can certainly argue that his handling of Redford especially on the travel side makes him look like a bungling incompetent. And if we were going to treat this like a private sector then you would consider massive layoffs to be a applicable scenario due to the difficulties with the two book budget.
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That story about the suite is ridiculous. I thought that I read that today is "garbage day" and basically the party was going to bring out everything. Then in a few weeks the candidates will all start to declare and when they do they will all be the "anti-Redford" and all be appalled at what has gone on. By the time 2016 rolls around the coffers will be full again and the electorate will have long since forgotten the transgressions under the "previous regime".
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you're right it is ridiculous that the Premier of the Province is basically having a presidential palace built. She isn't the Prime Minister of Canada, From what I understand she gets a housing allowance, not a residence. So was her housing allowance paying for this penthouse suite, or was she going to live there rent free and still claim the allowance?
I doubt that people are going to forget this and they shouldn't, this is a unprecedented level of graff and entitlement.
I would also expect that there are going to be other scandals dug up on other members of the ruling party.