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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
Right now, good salary, good pension and perks that come with Canadian public offices, are way too attractive to people without any meaningful skills, knowledge, talent and experience. And the apathy of Canadian voters towards elections , in general, is making it happen. This is hurting us all.
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Counterpoint, maybe the salaries and benefits are not high enough to attract many truly great candidates. I’ve known some people that would be phenomenal, but taking a 50% pay cut was just too much of a sacrifice. If you paid politicians double, yeah you might attract some of those low quality folks you describe, but I would bet in most cases that they would be beat by truly high caliber candidates it would help attract.
You kinda get what you pay for.