연방의원 및 판사들의 연봉이 금년에10%가 인상되였다고 하는데, 이는 일반 직장인들의 인상액 2.5% 의 4배에 달하는, 파격적인 조치이다. 이는,연방 정부의 소비절제 상한선인 2.25%이상의 연봉인상은 허용할수 없다는데 항의하여 돌아가면서 데모를 하고 있는 연방 정부 공무원들보다 훨씬 높게 책정된 것이다. 사법계통의 연봉을 연구하는 한 사설기관은 1100 명의 연방 판사들은 정부에서 전반적으로 제시해온 상향분의 2배 이상을 받아야 한다고 제시하고 있다. 308명의 연방의원들도,3년전에 자기네들이 통과시킨 법에 따라 자동적으로 연관되여, 제안된 인상분을 정부로 부터 받게된다고 한다. 이상 중략. 자기네 주머니를 먼저 챙기는 거짖말장이 정치인들은, 어느나라이고간에 똑 같음을 여기서도 본다. 허가난 도적들... NATIONAL POST Latest News MPs, judges given 10% pay hikes PM, Chief Justice to receive $310,000 Saturday, September 25, 2004 OTTAWA - Federal politicians and judges are set to get pay hikes of about 10% this year, or roughly quadruple the average 2.5% increase across Canada. It's also well above the raise on offer to striking federal workers, who are holding rotating walkouts to protest a proposed increase of 2.25% as part of the government's spending restraints. An independent commission on judicial salaries is recommending that 1,100 federally appointed judges receive raises that are about twice the amount that the government had offered to pay. The recommended gains, which are all but legally binding on the government paymasters, are automatically passed on to the 308 members of Parliament under a law MPs passed three years ago. The recommendations of the Judicial Compensation and Benefits Commission will be made public soon after Parliament convenes in early October. The increases would start at about $14,000. Paul Martin and Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, would gain the most. The raises would bump their salaries to about $310,000 this year. They would also receive cost-of-living increases in each of the next three years, as well as a unique yearly allowance that is currently about $2,000. The anticipated pay raises come on top of significant hikes for judges and MPs three years ago that reached more than 20%, once the cost-of-living raises and allowances were factored in. The vast majority of federal judges would earn in the range of $244,000, up from their current salary of $221,400. Federal MPs, whose salary is 50% of the Chief Justice's, would receive about $155,000, up from $141,000. Cabinet ministers, who earn $208,600, could expect about $21,000 more this year. The federal government had unsuccessfully urged the commission to approve a pay raise of no more than 4.5%, followed by annual cost-of-living raises and the $2,000 yearly allowance. The proposed package would have cost about $35-million for the judges alone. Judicial salaries are already "more than adequate," the government said, particularly in light of cost-control measures the Prime Minister announced last winter, which included restraint across the public sector. "What is an adequate judicial salary must be assessed in the context of the wide range of legitimate and competing demands on the public purse," the government said in a submission to the commission. The judges were seeking a raise of more than 17% in the first year alone, plus their legislated cost-of-living allowance. They contend hefty increases are needed to attract the best lawyers to the bench. The government rejects that premise, saying there are already 10 more applications than there are jobs for judges. The judges also say they are working harder than ever and their jobs are becoming more complicated and high profile, particularly at a time when governments are leaving more issues for the courts to decide, such as same-sex marriage. "Judicial decisions at all levels continue to be the focus of attention by the media and the public and judges are repeatedly called upon to adjudicate on sensitive and contentious matters," said a judges' submission to the commission.