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Mar 31, 2007 04:30 AM
Rob Ferguson
and Robert Benzie
Queen's Park Bureau
More people earn $100,000 and up in Ontario's public sector – including workers in governments, hospitals, schools and police forces – than live in the bustling tourist mecca of Stratford.
Figures released yesterday show about 34,000 workers made it to the club last year, a staggering surge of 24 per cent from 2005.
The low end of the list published under the Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act highlights hundreds of cops with overtime, school board plumbers, TTC drivers and teachers cracking the symbolic $100,000 mark.
But that's chump change compared with the high end of the list. A salary of $1.56 million went to ousted Hydro One chief executive Tom Parkinson – excluding his golden parachute worth more than twice that.
His counterpart James Hankinson at Ontario Power Generation made $1.48 million – up from $593,010 the year before.
Several hospital chief execs in Toronto pulled in salaries between $500,000 and $700,000, such as Jeffrey Lozon of St. Michael's Hospital at $688,085 and Mary Jo Haddad of the Hospital for Sick Children at $563,061.
"There's a real problem with the high-priced CEOs," said New Democrat MPP Peter Kormos (Niagara Centre), insisting some paycheques are "out of touch" and that no public servant should become a millionaire on the public dime.
"It's something taxpayers should be responding to in a very angry way."
Hydro One and OPG took up a big chunk of the list – first put out under former premier Mike Harris a decade ago – with more than 7,000 workers in the $100,000-plus club.
Concerned at the optics of this, OPG officials put out 15-page fact sheet earlier this week, noting the company has improved its financial performance and reliability and many of its jobs are high-tech or involve overtime during power failures.
Some observers suggest the $100,000 threshold has become outdated, given that the Bank of Canada's inflation calculator shows that amount in 1996 is now worth $125,000.
But politicians of all stripes at Queen's Park have resisted raising the bar.Progressive Conservative MPP Christine Elliott (Whitby-Ajax) said the $100,000 club has swelled by 65 per cent since Premier Dalton McGuinty was elected in 2003.
"I don't think that Ontarians feel that they're getting value for their money out of that. We don't have any problem with people earning what they're supposed to earn for their performance ... and the service that they provide to Ontarians," she told reporters. "But I think most Ontarians would feel that we're not seeing better performance and service."
Saving electricity was as lucrative as making it.
Peter Love, chief energy conservation officer of the Ontario Power Authority, earned $305,856 last year.
One power couple on the list pulled in three-quarters of a million dollars, with University of Toronto president Dr. David Naylor earning $374,220 and his wife Ilse Treurnicht, chief executive of the MaRS Discovery District, making $376,463.
Employees in a slew of different jobs are making good coin, such as the executive chef of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre at $184,186, a Toronto District School Board plumber at $111,658 and a glazier at the board who earned $104,817.
For shaking up government agencies, André Marin earned $192,565 last year as Ontario's ombudsman, just under half as much as the man who until a week ago was in charge of his latest target, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation.
Lottery chief executive Duncan Brown, who stepped down ahead of Marin's scathing report this week, made $364,825 in 2006. A total of 140 company staffers also made the list.
More than 2,000 City of Toronto officials made the list, including city manager Shirley Hoy, who earned $297,278. Behind Hoy was ex-TTC chief general manager Rick Ducharme at $296,036 and Toronto police chief Bill Blair at $261,305.更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
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Mar 31, 2007 04:30 AM
Rob Ferguson
and Robert Benzie
Queen's Park Bureau
More people earn $100,000 and up in Ontario's public sector – including workers in governments, hospitals, schools and police forces – than live in the bustling tourist mecca of Stratford.
Figures released yesterday show about 34,000 workers made it to the club last year, a staggering surge of 24 per cent from 2005.
The low end of the list published under the Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act highlights hundreds of cops with overtime, school board plumbers, TTC drivers and teachers cracking the symbolic $100,000 mark.
But that's chump change compared with the high end of the list. A salary of $1.56 million went to ousted Hydro One chief executive Tom Parkinson – excluding his golden parachute worth more than twice that.
His counterpart James Hankinson at Ontario Power Generation made $1.48 million – up from $593,010 the year before.
Several hospital chief execs in Toronto pulled in salaries between $500,000 and $700,000, such as Jeffrey Lozon of St. Michael's Hospital at $688,085 and Mary Jo Haddad of the Hospital for Sick Children at $563,061.
"There's a real problem with the high-priced CEOs," said New Democrat MPP Peter Kormos (Niagara Centre), insisting some paycheques are "out of touch" and that no public servant should become a millionaire on the public dime.
"It's something taxpayers should be responding to in a very angry way."
Hydro One and OPG took up a big chunk of the list – first put out under former premier Mike Harris a decade ago – with more than 7,000 workers in the $100,000-plus club.
Concerned at the optics of this, OPG officials put out 15-page fact sheet earlier this week, noting the company has improved its financial performance and reliability and many of its jobs are high-tech or involve overtime during power failures.
Some observers suggest the $100,000 threshold has become outdated, given that the Bank of Canada's inflation calculator shows that amount in 1996 is now worth $125,000.
But politicians of all stripes at Queen's Park have resisted raising the bar.Progressive Conservative MPP Christine Elliott (Whitby-Ajax) said the $100,000 club has swelled by 65 per cent since Premier Dalton McGuinty was elected in 2003.
"I don't think that Ontarians feel that they're getting value for their money out of that. We don't have any problem with people earning what they're supposed to earn for their performance ... and the service that they provide to Ontarians," she told reporters. "But I think most Ontarians would feel that we're not seeing better performance and service."
Saving electricity was as lucrative as making it.
Peter Love, chief energy conservation officer of the Ontario Power Authority, earned $305,856 last year.
One power couple on the list pulled in three-quarters of a million dollars, with University of Toronto president Dr. David Naylor earning $374,220 and his wife Ilse Treurnicht, chief executive of the MaRS Discovery District, making $376,463.
Employees in a slew of different jobs are making good coin, such as the executive chef of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre at $184,186, a Toronto District School Board plumber at $111,658 and a glazier at the board who earned $104,817.
For shaking up government agencies, André Marin earned $192,565 last year as Ontario's ombudsman, just under half as much as the man who until a week ago was in charge of his latest target, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation.
Lottery chief executive Duncan Brown, who stepped down ahead of Marin's scathing report this week, made $364,825 in 2006. A total of 140 company staffers also made the list.
More than 2,000 City of Toronto officials made the list, including city manager Shirley Hoy, who earned $297,278. Behind Hoy was ex-TTC chief general manager Rick Ducharme at $296,036 and Toronto police chief Bill Blair at $261,305.更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net