NDP would demand MLAs cut salaries, pensions | CBC.ca
Posted by ac on August 4th, 2010
“New Democratic Party Leader Roger Duguay held a news conference Wednesday promoting what he called the “20/50″ bill.
The proposed bill would reduce MLA salaries by 20 per cent and restrict a number of their pension benefits.
It would eliminate supplementary pension allowances, eliminate bonus pensions paid to cabinet ministers and party leaders, and drastically reduce severance pay when MLAs quit or are not re-elected.”
-The NBNDP releases an attack ad featuring a photoshopped image of David Alward with fries stuffed in his mouth, and calling for reductions in pay and pensions for MLAs.
August 5th, 2010 at 9:05 am
This campaign is an embarrassment.
August 5th, 2010 at 10:30 am
It is a little. I agree. The New Democrats should be above that kind of sophomoric propaganda.
August 5th, 2010 at 10:55 am
P.S. It’s not an attack ad, this is an attack ad: http://www.nbliberalparty.com and there’s nothing embarrassing about cutting the pay of the bosses’ party and giving that money back to the people.
August 5th, 2010 at 11:17 am
Wow. That is a major attack ad. Who is responsible for that.
But the NDP one is still an attack ad. And the position is certainly not embarrassing, it is the resort to the cheap gag and personal attack. The NDP would not want one of its candidates in the same type of ad, would it?
The New Democrats are most respected by Canadians when because they take the political high road, and usually don’t condescend to this kind of tactic.
But hey, whatever you think will win you the election…
August 5th, 2010 at 11:29 am
Read the bill. We’re pledging not the accept this pension and salary increase. If that’s not high road, I don’t know what is.
August 5th, 2010 at 2:47 pm
You are confusing the issue.(On purpose?) There is nothing wrong with the position, nor have I said as much. Try to focus on what I am saying: The American-style attack ad is going to earn the NDP some black marks from people. It was beneath the party that I have come to know. Let’s hope this ethical lapse can at least translate into some net gain in votes. But that still does not make it right.
August 6th, 2010 at 9:11 am
Since when is it unethical to point out something that Alward has done in the past as a member of the Legislature?
Shockingly, the TJ has it right in today’s paper “… the NDP poster isn’t a personal attack. Yes, the NDP targeted him specifically but not in a personal way. The poster is a criticism of a position Mr. Alward took, namely to join with all other elected MLAs in New Brunswick in 2008 to vote through increases in MLAs’ pay and pensions.”