Dear Editor:
RE: 2021 ‘Sunshine List’ includes 106 local municipal employees, March 31.
Am I the only taxpayer that thinks the “Sunshine List” is utterly useless and a waste of taxpayers’ money?
I did a search for how much it costs to tabulate it and I couldn’t find the answer. Apparently, the purpose of the list is to provide accountability and transparency, requiring “organizations that receive public funding from the Province of Ontario to disclose annually the names, positions, salaries and total taxable benefits of employees paid $100,000 or more in a calendar year.”
Okay. So now what? How many of these people, since 2014, have been shamed into requesting a pay cut? The results of my search didn’t reveal anyone! I believe they just laugh when they see their names listed and keep taking whatever raise they are offered.
The people that deserve a $100,000 income are senior frontline law enforcement officers, firefighters and health care workers. They also should not be on this useless list!
It’s time to inform our MPPs to tell our premier to do away with this waste of money once and for all.
Mike Benson,
New Dundee