EDMONTON – All members of Alberta’s Wildrose party are funnelling eight per cent of their salaries to charity.
Opposition Leader Danielle Smith says all 17 members of her caucus are accepting no more than $145,000 a year in pay.
That’s what MLAs were making before Premier Alison Redford’s Tories used their majority on a committee last year to increase pay by eight per cent to $156,000.
Get daily National news
Smith says no one in her party or on the government side deserves the money because no one campaigned on it in last year’s election.
The money collected each year is to go into a charitable foundation to help education, justice and health groups.
Wildrose MLAs has invited other politicians to join them, but the Tories say the $156,000 salary is less than what politicians were making before overall pay reforms were enacted under Redford.
Comments