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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
Not really too relevant to the Alberta election but Global ran a story on payments to politicians when they leave. In particular they were reporting on Len Webber who stepped down from his position as an MLA to run for the federal conservatives. When he left he accepted over $300,000 as a transition allowance based on his 10 years of service.
Seems really excessive and his decision has pretty poor optics and his stance is basically that he deserves it and doesn't feel his decision to accept the money is wrong in any sense. The report also mentions other politic figures who accepted partial payments or flat out refused to accept a transition payment.
http://globalnews.ca/video/2501113/r...tion-allowance |
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Originally Posted by transplant99
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Those payments are nothing compared to what it was before though. To her credit, Alison Redford put a stop to the ridiculous transition allowances that used to take place. When my MLA quit in 2008 she walked away with over half a million dollars.
Its hard because I do think that they should get something in the sense that they serve for 4 years or more, and in some cases they lose their job rather suddenly. Like if you run for re-election and lose unexpectedly then its not like you could've been out applying for work or anything like that, because you expect to win re-election and have been doing your job as an MLA for the past however many years. So to think that they get something like a years salary is probably fair depending on years of service and things like that. Some of the old guard who retired when transition allowances were still there though made a ridiculous amount in my opinion.