Reformer Scott pledges end to Ottawa gravy train The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 10, 1993 - A7 What they get HERE’S A just a_ brief Tundown on monétary al- lowances and services for Members of Parliament. store on Parliament Hill, it charges a 50 cent premimum for ¢ach item sok. gins this veel for Mike Scart " MWe. called the House of telephone calls throughout * There’s a silary of That's to discourage Par- Reform’s election victor here Commons, which in my mind continental North America. $64,400 a year. Eleven per © liament Hill employees was sworn in as Skeena’s new denotes that we're representing Scott said he can understand cent of that is deducted for — from using it Member of Parliament at a the common people of Canada,” that some MPs mnight require the the parliamentary pension * MPs have office ex- BEOP Air Canada tickets for official plan. penses in Ottawa paid for by ceremony yesterday in Ottawa. ” Scott is‘one of 52 Reform MPs —24-are from B.C,.—. elected - Oct. 25.0n Preston Manning’s Scot said. “Yet the services and privileges extended to an MP ate - anything but common.’ Dismantling many of those business but doubied if they are needed for MPs who live close to Oltawa: "J think if these are required, * MPs also gel a tax-free allowance for expenses. For Reform MP- Mike. Scott, that’s $21,300 a year. the federal government, ‘They do receive a budget for an office ar offices. in their ridings and to hire em- platform of. iisca resiraint and —_—perks, and the pension plan, will there should be some sort of scale * MPs get a maximum ployees. Binwe're very in that all the be one of Scott’s main priorities. institutcd,’’ said Scott. $6,000 a year for travel For Scott, that amount will : But. he may not have much Scott sald a book called A Capi- cosis. That’s paid out, for be $178,000 a year. media attention in this country is _ going to be focused on us,’’ Scott said-last week. “They are going to be wailing for us to get out of ; line as.MPs,”’ “He predicted Reformers will be- ‘have: cautiously until they find their feet on Pariiament Hill. _. *€As a now. political party on the ‘scetie’ we are vulnerable,’’ he said, ‘It will be encumbent an all “MPs to consider their words care- fully when they speak.” Throughout the campaign Scott “ Tepealed -his opposition to the many perks for MPs and senators, and promised he would not ac- cept an MPs’ pension package. ~ Before leaving for Ottawa he spoke with contempt of the perks choice yet when it comes to pen- sions. The current plan Involves an anlomatic deduction to the pension plan of 11 per cent of an MP’s $64,400 annual salary. Scott says visitors to Ottawa wont catch him getting sub- sidized hairculs or meals on the laxpayers’ nickel. 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Ironically the man he replaced, NDPer Jim Fulton, is quoted several times in the book criticiz- ing Parliament’s waste and abuse. 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