Premier David Eby’s new cabinet is a big one. Despite winning ten fewer seats than former premier John Horgan, he has three more ministers than the previous leader.
On Tuesday, the day after the cabinet was sworn in, Conservative Leader John Rustad described the NDP as “a bloated government that is giving everybody that’s running for the NDP a top op.”
All the NDP MLAs will receive a new title and will begin with a base salary of just under $120,000 a year. All but one come with salary boosts, before they even start working.
BC Greens leader Sonia Furstenau doesn’t think that’s right.
“You know, you get the bonus after you’ve demonstrated that you’re very capable and hard working,” said Furstenau on Tuesday.
But each of Eby’s 27 cabinet ministers will receive a raise, with just under $60,000 for ministers, and $41,000 for the four junior ministers, plus nearly $18,000 a year for the 14 parliamentary secretaries.
“We …