Topaz Posted April 3, 2012 Author Report Posted April 3, 2012 Did any of you know that the PM, whom ever they be, gets additional $100,000. in bonus when they turn 65?? The Liberals want it gone and the NDP want another department separate from government to look after the wages, pensions etc. I like both ideas. Quote
Newfoundlander Posted April 3, 2012 Report Posted April 3, 2012 the NDP want another department separate from government to look after the wages, pensions etc. I like both ideas. More bureaucracy is exactly what we need. Quote
Smallc Posted April 3, 2012 Report Posted April 3, 2012 Did any of you know that the PM, whom ever they be, gets additional $100,000. in bonus when they turn 65?? So? Quote
jbg Posted April 3, 2012 Report Posted April 3, 2012 So? Well maybe Harper will still be serving in 2023. Who knows? Quote Free speech: "You can say what you want, but I don't have to lend you my megaphone." Always remember that when you are in the right you can afford to keep your temper, and when you are in the wrong you cannot afford to lose it. - J.J. Reynolds. Will the steps anyone is proposing to fight "climate change" reduce a single temperature, by a single degree, at a single location? The mantra of "world opinion" or the views of the "international community" betrays flabby and weak reasoning (link).
Smallc Posted April 3, 2012 Report Posted April 3, 2012 Well maybe Harper will still be serving in 2023. Who knows? Well, he's the PM of Canada. It's actually a rather special position. Quote
jbg Posted April 3, 2012 Report Posted April 3, 2012 Well, he's the PM of Canada. It's actually a rather special position. And the MP from Calgary Southwest as well. Quote Free speech: "You can say what you want, but I don't have to lend you my megaphone." Always remember that when you are in the right you can afford to keep your temper, and when you are in the wrong you cannot afford to lose it. - J.J. Reynolds. Will the steps anyone is proposing to fight "climate change" reduce a single temperature, by a single degree, at a single location? The mantra of "world opinion" or the views of the "international community" betrays flabby and weak reasoning (link).
fellowtraveller Posted April 3, 2012 Report Posted April 3, 2012 Gordon Campbell Taxed the middleclass to death.. That party is going to get the kick it deserves... Agreed. I'm rooting for the NDP. Every time the NDP gets elected, skilled unemployed workers flee the province in search of a crust of bread as the economy shrinks. We can use them in Alberta, they are welcome here. Quote The government should do something.
Topaz Posted April 3, 2012 Author Report Posted April 3, 2012 The Commons are having their debates on the budget and the NDP have been talking about the last 48 hours and they are getting e-mails from Canadians from ALL parties and some conservatives have said they won't vote Tory in the next election. The NDP also pointed out how many job losses are going to hit Canadians by province. All are being hit, but Ontario and Quebec have the largest hits. Ontario have 26,155 gone by the budget and 18,000 in the private sector, mostly around Toronto. We all think its just the Fed workers being hit but its trickling down to the private sector also. Quote
Topaz Posted April 3, 2012 Author Report Posted April 3, 2012 The Tories idea of going from 65 to 67 for OAS, and that other countries were doing it, well, the NDP pointed out that yes, some yesterday were doing that but they were going from 60 or 62 TO 65 not 67. So again, the Tories telling half truths. Quote
bleeding heart Posted April 3, 2012 Report Posted April 3, 2012 (edited) Agreed. I'm rooting for the NDP. Every time the NDP gets elected, skilled unemployed workers flee the province in search of a crust of bread as the economy shrinks. Like the massive numbers of Newfoundlanders who work elsewhere, thanks to their succession of NDP governme....oops. Ok, that's an exception. Here in NB, our finances are approaching catastrophic levels, and that can all be blamed on the NDP...er, wait.... Edited April 3, 2012 by bleeding heart Quote “There is a limit to how much we can constantly say no to the political masters in Washington. All we had was Afghanistan to wave. On every other file we were offside. Eventually we came onside on Haiti, so we got another arrow in our quiver." --Bill Graham, Former Canadian Foreign Minister, 2007
Newfoundlander Posted April 3, 2012 Report Posted April 3, 2012 Like the massive numbers of Newfoundlanders who work elsewhere, thanks to their succession of NDP governme....oops. Ok, that's an exception. Here in NB, our finances are approaching catastrophic levels, and that can all be blamed on the NDP...er, wait.... Seeing outmigration in Newfoundland and Labrador has stopped your point pretty much sucks. Quote
capricorn Posted April 4, 2012 Report Posted April 4, 2012 Did any of you know that the PM, whom ever they be, gets additional $100,000. You mean the PM allowance that Bob Rae blamed Mulroney for? In what they’re calling an “honest mistake,” the Liberals apologized on Tuesday for accusing former prime minister Brian Mulroney of bringing in a generous retirement allowance for prime ministers that was actually implemented under Lester Pearson in 1963 and revised by Pierre Trudeau’s government 11 years later.In a media scrum on Friday, Liberal interim leader Bob Rae suggested section 48 of the Members of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act, which provides the prime minister with an allowance equal to two-thirds of his or her salary at age 65, was brought in by Mulroney’s Progressive Conservative government just as Mulroney was leaving office. “There’s a separate allowance for the prime minister, for a retiring prime minister that was brought in in 1992 for some particular reason. I don’t know why that would be,” Rae said Friday. He repeated the assertion on Monday. --- The original provision containing the PM’s retirement allowance was approved on Aug. 2, 1963, under Liberal prime minister Lester Pearson. The last significant amendment — to lower the age at which the allowance kicks in from 70 to 65 — was instituted in 1974 under prime minister Pierre Trudeau, another Liberal. http://www.ipolitics.ca/2012/04/04/liberals-apologize-pms-retirement-allowance-instituted-under-pearson-not-mulroney/ Quote "We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs." Will Rogers
bleeding heart Posted April 8, 2012 Report Posted April 8, 2012 (edited) Seeing outmigration in Newfoundland and Labrador has stopped your point pretty much sucks. Only sucks if, when it was occurring (and it was occurring big-time, as you are doubtless aware), the Nfld Government was made up of those job-chasin' Ndpers. Since that wasn't the case, my point remains exactly correct. Similarly, I'd hazard a guess that those fleeing dismal job-prospects in NB for richer pastures haven't been impoverished by the New Brunswick NDP. But rather by the rotating Liberal/PC axis. Edited April 8, 2012 by bleeding heart Quote “There is a limit to how much we can constantly say no to the political masters in Washington. All we had was Afghanistan to wave. On every other file we were offside. Eventually we came onside on Haiti, so we got another arrow in our quiver." --Bill Graham, Former Canadian Foreign Minister, 2007
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