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While controversy over severance payments made inside Premier Alison Redford’s office takes a new turn, the Tory government has now promised to soon publish a “sunshine list” that will detail all salaries and severance made to its senior officials. The premier’s former chief of staff, Stephen Carter, confirmed on Friday that he received $130,000 in severance after leaving the job in 2012, which was the information previously contested by the government to be kept private from freedom of information.
The announcement came after the premier mentioned late Thursday that the province is planning to shape a policy by this year’s end that expands “proactive disclosure” of salary and severance payments for senior public servants. The government’s associate minister in charge of accountability and transparency, Don Scott, mentioned in a statement issued on Friday that Alberta will provide a detailed list of the relevant information, although specific details are still being determined. He alleged that “many other jurisdictions in Canada already have what I describe as a sunshine list. We want to make sure the model makes sense for Alberta.” Scott alleged that he’s considering different methods by which the government can release the information, out of which he favours the most to put the information online in a searchable database.
Majority of other provinces, including British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Ontario, are already publishing the so-called sunshine lists. A member of Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Derek Fildebrandt, stated that “we’ve looked extensively at other models in other provinces and frankly, no one has really got it right.”
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