MLA pay raise mocks residents, readers argue
Vancouver Island News Group
May 25, 2007
Letters - by Sue Stroud, Brentwood Bay

The premier of this province is mocking us. He thinks it's OK to award himself a 54 per cent raise while families struggle to find housing, child care and food on the pathetic $8 minimum wage that British Columbia seems to find acceptable.

He is mocking the legislature by placing the Official Opposition, democratically elected by the citizens, in an impossible situation. They will be blamed for their choices and he and his band of thieves will be rewarded with yet another term in office, yet another chance to pillage the province.

Our province, with massive numbers of seniors and children living in poverty (the highest in Canada on both counts!) continues wheel barrowing money merrily down the Olympic garden path because those who are enriching themselves with cost overruns simply don't care. And really why should they?

As citizens, we don't demand an accounting for any of these things. We don't phone, fax and write the premier or his wealthy friends to say we want things done differently, we just sit idly by and complain.

Then when the next election comes we make our mark based on the biggest tax cut promise. I guess we are reaping what we have sowed.