Only an aggregate total of $16M in salary and supplier expenses is shown, despite calls for more transparency.
Almost 27% of taxpayers’ money the B.C. Legislative Assembly spent in 2021 on salaries and suppliers was hidden in the institution’s annual report.
The list also shows payments totalling $33,017,841 to suppliers for goods and services, as well as other provincial and federal departments for taxes and pensions. There is an unknown number of suppliers who were paid $24,999 or less last year, for a total of $3,696,443. “There is no reason why the Legislative Assembly should not, in respect of its administrative functions, be subject to the same transparency and accountability rules as the more than 2,900 public bodies across the province,” McEvoy said in April 7 testimony to the committee. Clerk Kate Ryan-Lloyd was the highest-paid employee last year, at $284,504, followed by law clerk and parliamentary counsel Suzie Seo at $225,860 and executive financial officer Hilary Woodward, at $206,780.
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