On April 1, Canadian MPs and the prime minister will get a raise, and a new poll shows 80 percent of Canadians are opposed to it.
A backbench MP now receives an annual salary of $189,500, according to the Leger poll commissioned by the Canadian Taxpayer Federation (CTF). Such an MP is due to receive a raise of $5,100 annually, the fourth raise since the onset of the pandemic. The three previous MP raises totalled $10,600.
The prime minister is set to receive a raise of $10,200, said the CTF in a March 27 release, citing published contract data.
Carbon tax and alcohol tax are also supposed to rise on April 1, notes CTF director Franco Terrazzano. “MPs are taking higher pay the same day they take more money from Canadians and that’s wrong,” he said in the release….