MPs take six-figure send off
Don't feel too bad for politicians who lost the election because they’re still cashing in big time at your expense.
Defeated or retiring MPs will take about $5 million in annual pension payments from taxpayers. That totals about $187 million by the time they reach the age 90.
The former MPs who didn’t qualify for a pension (because they served for less than six year or are younger than 55) won’t be leaving empty handed.
The severance payment for a former backbencher is just shy of $105,000. There were three MPs who served for less than one year and will still collect a severance. The total severance payments for former MPs will cost taxpayers like you $6.6 million this year.
There are 13 MPs who will take more than $100,000 per year in pensions. The largest annual pension goes to Prince Edward Island’s Lawrence MacAulay, who will take $171,000 in pension payments every year.
If you thought that was bad, just wait until you hear about the golden parachute that is strapped to former prime minister Justin Trudeau.
Trudeau is collecting not one, but TWO pensions from you.
Combined, Trudeau’s two pensions will cost taxpayers $8.4 million, according to CTF estimates. His first pension will cost Canadians $141,000 per year, starting as soon as he turns 55. That first pension will cost taxpayers a total of $6.5 million if he lives to 90.
The second pension is a special bonus just for former prime ministers. It will kick in when Trudeau reaches 67 years old. He’ll be lining his pockets with an extra $73,000 per year, which shakes out to $1.9 million by the time he’s 90 years old.
That’s right. Even after leaving office Trudeau will continue to cost you millions of dollars over the coming years.
Trudeau is also getting a severance payment of $104,900.
So don’t feel too bad for the politicians who you fired during the last election.
Barbarians in the Garden City
What do helicopter trips, $57 sandwiches and thousand-dollar bar tabs all have in common?
Hint: B.C. Premier David Eby.
B.C.’s NDP government has been busy hammering taxpayers with spending scandal after spending scandal.
And your friends at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation have been even busier digging them all up.
First, we uncovered Eby’s top aide billing taxpayers for 36 separate helicopter trips between Vancouver and Victoria from January to August, 2024.
Then, we caught Eby throwing a party that cost taxpayers $118,000. Like all good parties (can you sense that sarcasm?), the bill included $57 sandwiches on top of a $99 three-course dinner and $21 “French 75” cocktails to wash it all down.
Yes, you read that right: $57 for sandwiches before the three-course dinner.
That wasn’t the only boozy dinner that the Eby government had on your dime. The B.C. Minister of Agriculture, Lana Popham, racked up a thousand-dollar bar tab at a “working meeting” with a mysterious and unnamed “film representatives from LA.”
The bill included 19 glasses of champagne and nine bottles of wine.
For some reason, Popham doesn’t want to tell you who the “film representatives” were, or what work happened at the boozy meeting, so most of that information was withheld in the documents we got back (don’t worry – we’re fighting to get that information).
But after 19 glasses of bubbly, we aren’t even sure if she remembers who was there.
VIDEO: Western Premiers vs Carney on carbon taxes!
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe ended the industrial carbon tax in his province and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she won’t raise the hidden carbon tax.
How far will Carney take this fight against Saskatchewan and Alberta?
CTF Federal Director Franco Terrazzano and Prairie Director Gage Haubrich discuss the growing resistance to Carney’s hidden carbon tax on businesses coming from western premiers in the video below.
Watch: taxpayer.us1.list-manage.com
Taxpayer reading list
If you’re looking for more reading on the issues, we’ve got you covered.
Liberals lied on the carbon tax, according to Statistics Canada data: taxpayer.us1.list-manage.com
Vancouver must rethink million-dollar sign: taxpayer.us1.list-manage.com
Taxpayers praise Ford for tax relief, but warn against runaway debt: taxpayer.us1.list-manage.com
Supreme Court shies away from affirming bedrock Charter principle: taxpayer.us1.list-manage.com
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