Edmonton – Edmonton-St. Albert MP Brent Rathgeber quit the Conservative caucus on Wednesday night to become an Independent over what he calls the Harper government’s “lack of transparency.”
“I have reluctantly come to the inescapable conclusion that the government’s lack of support for my (private member’s) transparency bill is tantamount to a lack of support for transparency and open government generally,” he said.
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If passed, the bill would have raised the transparency bar for federal civil servants salary disclosure to be set at $188,000. But the committee reviewing the legislation instead decided to raise the threshold to more than $400,000.
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