🇨🇦 Canadian politicians charge champagne rates for dollar-store results

Average provincial politician pay in Canada hit $115,378 last year, nearly double the U.S. state average of $58,241, as reported. Seventy per cent of provincial legislators here make over $100,000; only 18 per cent do south of the border. And what are Canadians buying with that premium package. Crumbling services, housing insanity, tax addiction, and legislatures packed with career managers reciting DEI sermons while sovereignty, productivity, and social cohesion bleed out.

The best part is the old elite excuse that higher pay attracts better talent. Right, because Ontario and Quebec are clearly bursting with genius after years of managed decline. Texas pays representatives just $10,331 and still posts GDP per capita of $88,517, richer than any Canadian province. New Mexico pays legislators nothing and is wealthier than eight of our 10 provinces. Canada’s governing class is a protected cartel: overpaid, underperforming, and permanently insulated from the damage their own policies inflict on the people footing the bill.

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