In yet another example of the social democratic scourge of evidence-based decision-making, Alberta’s New Democratic Party Government is bringing in legislation that will result in the people who run government-financed agencies, boards and commissions being paid based on what they’re actually supposed to do.
Even worse, Bill 19, the Reform of Agencies, Boards and Commissions Compensation Act introduced in the Legislature Wednesday by Finance Minister Joe Ceci, will allow the government and people of Alberta to know how much these people are actually being paid right now!
By bringing in a pay grid for government-appointed “ABC” executives and making public information public, the government of Premier Rachel Notley will lay waste to a grand Tory tradition of paying off cronies and supporters with generous patronage and boondoggles, and then keeping the cost secret from the people who had to pick up the tab.
Mr. Ceci also indicated that as a general rule his government is opposed to “performance bonuses” as opposed to appropriate compensation for executives that reflects the actual work they were appointed to do. “The former system had so few accountability measurements or mechanisms that there was really no effective way to measure savings,” Mr. Ceci told the CBC.
It would be unfair to say Alberta’s many boards, commissions and agencies existed only to provide a comfortably lavish dotage to PC hacks, although they certainly often served that function.
There are said to be at least 27 executives making more than $200,000 a year to do whatever it is they do who will be immediately impacted by Bill 19. And when one examines the NDP plan for dealing with this Tory legacy, it becomes clear there are quite possibly many more.
These agencies, boards and commissions also served such purposes as insulating past Tory governments from criticism for decisions and problems that were in fact government policies and allowing industries against all common sense to set public rules to regulate their own activities.
Once Bill 19 is passed and a consultant hired by the government gets finished systematizing the top executives’ salaries this summer, Mr. Ceci indicated, the act will allow the government to take a look at lower-level executives employed by these groups.
The second phase of the review, scheduled to be completed by the end of this year, will look at another 146 agencies that are not governed by the act. A third and final phase – which is supposed to be completed some time next year – will focus on the boards of governors of post-secondary institution. Like the half dozen agricultural advisory groups eliminated by the NDP, post-secondary boards make up another rich vein of Tory patronage, and in some cases outright obstruction of the elected government’s policies.
No wonder Alberta’s conservatives furious at those crazy Dippers!
NDP moves to rein in Tory patronage and boondoggles in Alberta's ABC Sector | rabble.ca
Even worse, Bill 19, the Reform of Agencies, Boards and Commissions Compensation Act introduced in the Legislature Wednesday by Finance Minister Joe Ceci, will allow the government and people of Alberta to know how much these people are actually being paid right now!
By bringing in a pay grid for government-appointed “ABC” executives and making public information public, the government of Premier Rachel Notley will lay waste to a grand Tory tradition of paying off cronies and supporters with generous patronage and boondoggles, and then keeping the cost secret from the people who had to pick up the tab.
Mr. Ceci also indicated that as a general rule his government is opposed to “performance bonuses” as opposed to appropriate compensation for executives that reflects the actual work they were appointed to do. “The former system had so few accountability measurements or mechanisms that there was really no effective way to measure savings,” Mr. Ceci told the CBC.
It would be unfair to say Alberta’s many boards, commissions and agencies existed only to provide a comfortably lavish dotage to PC hacks, although they certainly often served that function.
There are said to be at least 27 executives making more than $200,000 a year to do whatever it is they do who will be immediately impacted by Bill 19. And when one examines the NDP plan for dealing with this Tory legacy, it becomes clear there are quite possibly many more.
These agencies, boards and commissions also served such purposes as insulating past Tory governments from criticism for decisions and problems that were in fact government policies and allowing industries against all common sense to set public rules to regulate their own activities.
Once Bill 19 is passed and a consultant hired by the government gets finished systematizing the top executives’ salaries this summer, Mr. Ceci indicated, the act will allow the government to take a look at lower-level executives employed by these groups.
The second phase of the review, scheduled to be completed by the end of this year, will look at another 146 agencies that are not governed by the act. A third and final phase – which is supposed to be completed some time next year – will focus on the boards of governors of post-secondary institution. Like the half dozen agricultural advisory groups eliminated by the NDP, post-secondary boards make up another rich vein of Tory patronage, and in some cases outright obstruction of the elected government’s policies.
No wonder Alberta’s conservatives furious at those crazy Dippers!
NDP moves to rein in Tory patronage and boondoggles in Alberta's ABC Sector | rabble.ca
