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The Review - Wednesday, November 21,1990 — A29

Voters vexed with government

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Disillusioned residents pulled
no punches Nov. 13 at a meeting
geuth Saanich-Gulf Islands (NDP)
MP Lynn Hunter, complaining
about the Goods and Services Tax,
government pensions, the senate
and the deficit.

Hunter agreed with the 30-plus
residents who attended the meet-
ing in the Brentwood Cultural
Centre, saying recent government
decisions in Ottawa have tarnished

a deen of all politicians.
esidents complained about
"senators voting themselves a $150
per day bonus for attending senate
meetings and about the indexed

$ pensions which take effect after an

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MP retires following six years’ of
Service.
Hunter said she had spoken in
_the New Democratic party caucus
®eavainst the pensions.

“Tt’s ordinary Canadians who ~

are paying for that.”

She said the pensions are based
on the assumption that serving on
government makes a person less
employable once they are no lon-
ger in government.

She felt the experience she is
getting as an MP is making her
more employable and suggested
the pensions should not take effect
until age 60 or 65.

Issues like the pensions are
contributing to the public’s dis-
trust of politicians, Hunter noted.

Other residents questioned the
Conservative appointments to the
Senate, which residents saw as a
ploy to increase the Conservative

majority in the Senate so the

Goods and Services Tax would be
passed.

Hunter said the senate appoint-
ments are being challenged in
court.

“The use and manipulation of
the Senate for the Goods and
Services Tax is just incredible,”
she added.

The pensions, proposed legisla-
tion to give parliamentarians spe-
cial protection against legal action
and the special health care pro-
vided to government members are

_ all outrageous, one speaker said.

“Members of Parliament have
voted themselves into a position of
being an elite class,” he added.

Another speaker noted govern-
ment members were voting them-

“selves expensive benefits while

Canada is still facing a massive
deficit.

Hunter said some of the mood in
Ottawa is created by the attitude
expressed by the Prime Minister.

“He’s a Street fighter and that’s
the kind of tone he sets,” she said,

/ adding that she was surprised to

find herself heckling the Prime
Minister in parliament. But she

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felt his attitude prompted outraged
response.

Changes which would give goy-
emment members special protec-
tion against investigation will not
have to come before parliament
before being implemented, Hunter
said.

The changes are seen as part of
the internal operations of the
House of Commons and do not
require government vote, she
explained.

Hunter said her view of govern-
ment has changed since she was
elected in November 1988.

The goverment is not respon-

sive to the people, so making any
change in Ottawa will take a long
time, Hunter said.

She recalled sitting on a joint

' environmental committee which

came out with a report recom-
mending environmental change.

None of the recommendations
in the report have ever been imple-
mented, although the report was
endorsed by the government mem-
bers of the committee.

“I went down there thinking I’m
going to change the world —
dammit,” she said.

“Tt will take longer than I
expected.”

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