{"id":476,"date":"2007-05-29T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jameswbreckenridge.ca\/breckenridge\/?p=476"},"modified":"2008-10-26T00:17:10","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T07:17:10","slug":"mlas-should-go-on-strike-to-see-if-we-would-miss-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameswbreckenridge.ca\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"MLAs should go on strike to see if we would miss them."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 130%; font-family: trebuchet ms;\"><em>by Regina Dalton<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Our local MLA Mike de Jong was on TV recently, calling NDP leader Carole James \u2018hypocritical\u2019 for her stand on the Liberals\u2019 salary and pension bill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">The report also showed de Jong\u2019s leader, Gordon Campbell, decrying \u2018gold-plated pensions\u2019 when he was opposition leader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">De Jong is a tad perplexed since James has cleverly managed to put the spotlight back where it belongs \u2013 on the greedy and hypocritical Liberals themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Why can\u2019t MLAs be like all other self-respecting workers and go on strike until we, as taxpayers, come up with a reasonable rate of increase for them?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Then we could find out whether we would actually miss them or not.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Regina Dalton Our local MLA Mike de Jong was on TV recently, calling NDP leader Carole James \u2018hypocritical\u2019 for her stand on the Liberals\u2019 salary and pension bill. The report also showed de Jong\u2019s leader, Gordon Campbell, decrying \u2018gold-plated pensions\u2019 when he was opposition leader. De Jong is a tad perplexed since James has cleverly managed to put the spotlight back where it belongs \u2013 on the greedy and hypocritical Liberals themselves. Why can\u2019t MLAs be like all other self-respecting workers and go on strike until we, as taxpayers, come up with a reasonable rate of increase for them? Then we could find out whether we would actually miss them or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MLAs should go on strike to see if we would miss them. - James W. 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