OTTAWA - Members of Parliaments are set to edge further into the top one per cent of Canadian income-earners with a $4,600 pay hike April 1 that will take their minimum salaries to $155,400 annually. As of April 1, vice-chairs of House committees will receive an extra $5,600, chairs will get $11,000, House leaders will earn $38,600, and the prime minister will receive an additional $155,400.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/mps_pay
We continue to persistently hear from the City of Toronto and the TTC, there is no money but what about the money we give to the people who make the decisions and rapport away with reports over months and years without real community and Canadian feedback or participation?
THERE IS $$$$$.$$
Look at the amount that's given to them for their salaries; paid for "by the people". The TTC isn't really for transporting buses, & subway cars - it's for moving people around - many people say the newest Bus Station at Eglinton is better for buses but ten times worse for people, and the older station is still there and could be transformed into a Transithub by Trump International, and Metrolinx!
How are the people getting involved in relaying what they need and require from the TTC? Or is the TTC just being ignorant and don't want to create opportunities with involvement from people for solutions at no cost, and continue to ask for more money from us with little improvements that really make a difference!
They say there's always no money, yet they give themselves raises every year and if the TTC workers "don't get their raises" there's a strike......yet where is all this money coming from?
Why don't the people have a strike for not paying Income Tax, or demand to pay the bureaucracy less money to really get things done while we help them out?? We can also get the money we need from the Bank of Canada that we have access to by-law of 50%, not just 2%!!
David Miller could ask Dalton McGuinty to ask the Feds for money from the Bank of Canada at barely no interest, but they won't do that because they're not allowed to!!
But the "Laws" say we can have access to 50% of the money for infrastructure and programs for Canada from the Bank of Canada instead of paying interest on loans from Private Banks.
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=888TNRfNnoU
- Another reason why the subways should be in control of the Province!, with community participation!
At the North York City Centre Subway Station, the concourse has been half covered up with construction since it opened, and Torcom is the construction company building elevators down to the platform, but nobody really knows why half the concourse is blocked off and they give no sign of why the blockage's blocked off are getting bigger. What's up with that?
And the squealing noise from the rails between Union and King is so bad, ask anybody and half the people in each car need or want to plug their ears, why don't they fix or renew it? No money? Well if they really did care about the TTC and the people riding the TTC or where they're money came from they should really consider either handing the subways over to Metrolinx and let the Province control the Subway, OR start new projects to revamp, revitalize and remodernize the TTC using creative means with no money needed.
Our coalition is having one-night question and discussion events at a few high schools in Toronto for students and parents who want to further their interest in transportation and politics. Locations and dates coming soon!
Janice!
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