[Newsbot]

Title: Alberta Energy Regulator spent more than $14,000 flying boss to weekly meetings
Category: Provincial Politics
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2018-11-09 07:52:33
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

So, if this guy decides to move out of the province after he was hired, why is it our responsibility to fly him back and forth for work?

The entitlement is strong with this one!

[BartSimpson]

$1:

According to the regulator's financial statements for the year ended March 31, 2018, Ellis is paid a base salary of $525,000. Total compensation is stated as $728,000, including cash and non-cash benefits.

Must be nice to be a member of Canada's nobility.

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

$1:

According to the regulator's financial statements for the year ended March 31, 2018, Ellis is paid a base salary of $525,000. Total compensation is stated as $728,000, including cash and non-cash benefits.

Must be nice to be a member of Canada's nobility.

$1:

But a spokeswoman for the NDP government said it was disappointing to learn such expenses had been approved, adding the government has worked to rein in salaries and perks at provincial agencies, boards and commissions.

"We'll continue to make sure dollars are well spent at government agencies and will be directing the AER not to allow this arrangement in the future," Kate Toogood said in an email.

I'll bet it was.

The Premier doesn't sign off on bureaucrat's expenses, it's up to the Ministry what they spend on. But you can be she's going to have a word to the Misister of ERCB or AUB, whichever this clown is under; and he'll be told he can live wherever he wants, but he has to make his own way to meetings. His choice how he gets his ass to Calgary.

[Thanos]

Isn't this the sort of thing we just have to pay for in order to get the "best and the brightest", or so we're usually told?

[DrCaleb]

Thanos Thanos:

Isn't this the sort of thing we just have to pay for in order to get the "best and the brightest", or so we're usually told?

That's what we are told. What they never say is how we get the people who give more shits for the province than they do for themselves.