EDMONTON — Alberta Opposition Leader Rachel Notley says the United Conservative Party government, particularly former finance minister Travis Toews, must bear…
Notley said Wednesday she isn’t passing judgment on whether the payout to Dr. Deena Hinshaw is merited.
The CBC, gleaning information from the government’s sunshine salary list, reported Monday that Hinshaw received a bonus of almost $228,000 for COVID-19 work in 2021 — the highest such cash benefit payout to any provincial civil servant since the list went public six years ago.Article contentUnions, including the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees have, like Notley, lambasted the payout as a travesty given the concurrent government steps to reduce pay and jobs in front-line health care.
The payout has reopened public divisions and debate over Hinshaw and the government’s handling of the pandemic and the health restrictions it imposed to combat the spread of the illness.Article content “ ‘we’re all in this together’ didn’t mean what we thought it did,” Smith wrote on Twitter Monday. “Albertans are rightly stunned and outraged they gave Dr. Hinshaw a $228K COVID bonus.”Article content
Sky Palace referred to Kenney, Toews and others, being caught on camera having drinks and ignoring gathering rules while on the balcony of the Federal Building, near the legislature, during COVID-19.
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