Have They No Shame?
Apparently not.
Almost doubling the salaries of deputy ministers in the BC government seems a reasonable and appropriate action for Mr. Campbell.
Except that he tried to sneak this offense in under the cover of the opening of the Beijing Olympics.
Well, it isn't reasonable or appropriate to most of us.
Most glaring of all is the listed salary of one Leslie du Toit. She is the deputy children's minister. Her salary last year - and now about to climb considerably - is $234, 180.
This is a ministry that is utterly dysfunctional.
It is a department that is outright dangerous in its disregard for suffering children.
This is the ministry that, using the most sophist benchmarks unimaginable, is eager to cut off support for children who may have an IQ of 71 and therefore be way too smart for support.
Jim Sinclair points out that we have the lowest minimum wage in the country and that number has been on ice for over seven years.
Mike Farnworth says, "I don't know what planet the premier's living on, but it's not the one that the rest of us are. At a time when we're being hit by carbon gas-tax increases, high ferry cost increases, higher fuel increases, tolls on bridges, increased housing costs -- the premier's deputy gets an $105,000 increase? I'm supremely ticked off."
