I can't believe this government is giving even more of our tax dollars to reward political cronies with no public accountability, at the same time they're fighting in court to deny the use of tax dollars for the most basic supports for individuals with developmental disabilities. And I assume this is once again a bipartisan decision?

(And I can't believe I'm the only taxpayer who's appalled, so I'll put the silence down to timing on a slow, hot summer weekend.)

I could support the increase of funding for constituency services if there was a hope in hell of the funding actually being used to serve constituents' interests. Like thousands of other concerned family members, I've spent years trying to bring successive governments' and MLAs' attention to the mishandling of services for and mistreatment of those constituents who are least able to speak for themselves. It's crystal clear to me that no amount of constituency office funding will ever change a thing as long as the political will is nonexistent.

I guess the fact that there are no postings on this one reveals that either peoelp are in agrrement with the gov't move on political staff salries ..... or they dont care

MA s salries previously toppped out a ridiculously low 70 K . These are senior and important jobs and if the gov't wants to a good job of attracting and retaining (which it wasnt doing much of either) it realized that the rate woudl have to go up

They wont really make more than MLAs , the avg salary will top out about 85 k. MLAs when you add up thier "extras" for sitting on cttees etc , make more than this

Furthermore , Communications Directors already make more than MLAs so whats the big deal if MAs do ?

Lastly , its not a question of MAs overpaid its that MLAs are drastically underpaid . If we want to get good peoel in office we have to compensate them fairly. At 75 K they are making (much) less thatn the tradespeoke that they repsresent !

Nice to hear that all the "good" people are now making more than $75K, because the average salary for most of us "regular" constituents out here who are paying their salaries is still well under $40K.

...and if you're unfortunate enough to have an IQ of 71, it's $0K (and that's "zero" K, not "okay").

I am also very concerned at the lack of postings regarding this story. It's very frustrating to fight like hell for public sector wages that reflect the importance of the tasks performed and then watch a government claim that wage increases are necessary to recruit and retain good people. Apparently it is not that important to recruit and retain the best people in health care or education, only in politics. Why are we few the only ones outraged? Is it possible that everyone is so used to hearing this tune that they don't pay attention anymore? It's enough to turn one into a cynic!