Taxpaying families, concerned about stagnating incomes, increasing deficits and skyrocketing debt might wonder just how serious government is about spending control when it engages in this type of trickery
The April Fools' day MLA salary freeze was nothing more than an exercise in Tom Foolery. And a good one too, because people were almost fooled. When Premier Campbell announced in January that MLA salaries would be frozen for 2010 and 2011 as of April 1st, he tried to create the illusion of restraint during difficult economic times.
