Donna Hansen to refuse MPP pay raise

NDP Candidate will donate MPP pay increase to

under funded organizations in riding

August 7,2007

Mitchell- Perth-Wellington provincial NDP candidate, Donna Hansen announced today that, should she become the MPP for Perth-Wellington, she will not be accepting the pay raise that the MPP’s voted themselves last Christmas. Ms. Hansen described the raise as an embarrassment, “when Mr. McGuinty rushes through a pay raise for himself in just 8 days but expects Ontario’s working poor to wait 3 years for a significant increase to the minimum wage, it is just shameful,” she said.

Ms. Hansen will do what the other NDP MPP’s have done and donate the difference in pay (approximately $22,000 a year) to organizations and charities in the riding that are struggling to fund their programs. “It will be a wonderful feeling to be able to help out worthy causes and programs in Perth-Wellington that, due to the last two governments, are in difficult financial situations,” said Donna Hansen.