Harper stands to collect pension of more than $100,000 per year

[canada-man]

OTTAWA — Almost all the remaining MPs from the old Reform Party -- including Stephen Harper -- stand to collect over $100,000 a year in pension benefits once they retire.

Eleven of the original group of 52 Reformers, who captured public attention with their stand against "gold-plated" pensions for members of Parliament, are still sitting in the House of Commons.

And they may find their old pension promises coming back to haunt them as the Harper government turns its attention to eliminating the federal deficit.

http://www.cp24.com/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100221/100221_harper_pension/20100221/?hub=CP24Home

 

[toughb]

OTTAWA — Almost all the remaining MPs from the old Reform Party -- including Stephen Harper -- stand to collect over $100,000 a year in pension benefits once they retire.

Eleven of the original group of 52 Reformers, who captured public attention with their stand against "gold-plated" pensions for members of Parliament, are still sitting in the House of Commons.

And they may find their old pension promises coming back to haunt them as the Harper government turns its attention to eliminating the federal deficit.

http://www.cp24.com/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100221/100221_harper_pension/20100221/?hub=CP24Home

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If I may add the pension is indexed.

Toughb for Prime Minister - sounds good to me.

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[y2kmark]

SAome reason this is a surprise?

Tatooed on EVERY politician's ass - "Do as I say, not as I do"

 

[sleazure]

If we didn't give the b*****ds a generous incentive to quit, some of them would never go away.

Why is divorce so fucking expensive? Because it's so fucking worth it.

 

[train]

Better Harper than Gilles Duceppe or Jack Layton

 

[oldjones]

Can anyone quote Layton or Duceppe saying MPs' pensions were "obscene" as Harper once did? Before he qualified for one. Only the Reformers, like Steve and Stockwell campaigned on ending that "monstrosity". But instead of doing anything like keep that promise, Harpo's sending Stockwell out to threaten to cut servants' pensions.

But never their own. No surprise coming from the guy who said he'd be the most accountable, never run deficits, make it impossible for PMs to call elections for partisan advantage …

 

[fuji]

Harper has repeatedly said one thing and then done another.

 

[train]

Can anyone quote Layton or Duceppe saying MPs' pensions were "obscene" as Harper once did?…

Funny one......Gilles and Jack live to suck on the public teat without contributing anything of value. Never have , never will.

 

[train]

Can anyone quote Layton or Duceppe saying MPs' pensions were "obscene" as Harper once did?…

Funny one......Gilles and Jack live to suck on the public teat without contributing anything of value or being in a position of responsibility. Never have , never will.

 

[fuji]

Train, do you not see the hypocrisy? Add this to all that blather about accountable government, about transparency, and all those other things where Harper did the opposite--he's made government less accountable, less transparent, and now he's going to cash in the pension he campaigned against.

 

[oldjones]

Funny one......Gilles and Jack live to suck on the public teat without contributing anything of value or being in a position of responsibility. Never have , never will.

Posting it twice doesn't make it a comment on the topic.

 

[danmand]

Come on, guys, pensions for pariamentarians and the prime minister is not the problem.

 

[oldjones]

And it sure isn't a solution to anything.

But pols who identify other peoples far less generous pensions as the problem, when they've more than adequately feathered their own nests—quite contrary to what they promised—they are the problem.

 

[WoodPeckr]

Harpo has a pretty nice Liberal pension eh....

 

[oldjones]

And in spite of all his blather before he was elected, he seems in no hurry to give it up. For once let me praise Bomber Harris, who made the same promises. But he kept them.

Of course the real issue is not greedy, lying pols. They were ever thus.

It's blaming real workers for their hard-won plan's generosity, and pretending that unjustly denying their contracted and already earned benefits might somehow correct the structural deficits that head in the sand tax-cutting have stuck us with. All the while hanging onto an MPs' plan so rich and generous that Harpo and his clowns campaigned for decades on promises to end it.

Betcha' Preston woulda dumped it Day One. But he knew something about integrity.

 

[Hangman]

So far as I know, neither Duceppe, Layton or Harper are actually collecting pensions, as they are still Members of Parliament. So this is a bit of a moot point. For all you know, Harper will no apply for his and neve collect it. Unlikely, perhaps, but I think there's lots to call the guy out on for things he HAS done, not things he hasn't done yet.

 

[james t kirk]

The guy is the freaking Prime Minister of Canada.

BFD if he collects 100k a year pension, that's nothing compared to what Industry fat cats make.

 

[fuji]

The guy is the freaking Prime Minister of Canada.

BFD if he collects 100k a year pension, that's nothing compared to what Industry fat cats make.

I would agree, except that Harper is on record personally saying that such pensions are "obscene" and pledged to eliminate them if elected.

It seems to me that he has changed his tune since then and now feels entitled to his entitlements. If back then instead of calling MP's pensions "obscene" he had said MP's deserve to be well paid so we attract the best then he would not be such a douchebag.

 

[desperado]

Why does everybody like the o;d Reform election promises so much now. Yhey didn't get much support for thier message then!

 

[markvee]

Preston Manning promised to turn the opposition residence into a Bingo Hall, but then he moved into it.

Jean Chrétien promised to scrap the GST tax, but then he ignored his earlier promise.

Is it surprising the people who can set their own pay and benefits lie to get the job?

And the majority at the ballot box goes along with the lies because the majority thinks it is a somewhat smaller net beneficiary of government enforced wealth transfer with such goodies as government enforced universal healthcare.

The game of democracy goes on so long as there is a productive minority with no voice to pay for it all with its looted labor and its looted savings.