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Opposition members in Alberta’s legislature grilled Redford government after they retracted an employee contract information on Alberta’s new salary disclosure list soon after it was populated on Friday. Opposition party members openly accused the Redford government of violating its own created new policy to evade disclosure of embarrassing information from the public.
In a statement issued by Wildrose MLA, Rob Anderson, he pointed out that the government removed the 2012 contract of the premier’s communications director, Stefan Baranski, only an hour after the list was posted since it revealed that Baranski received up to $1,800 a month in taxpayer-paid air travel on top of his $13,800 monthly salary. Anderson questions “how can we trust the sunshine list?” and highlighted “how do we trust that we’re getting all the information out there? Every time there is something embarrassing to this government they seem to find a way to either hide it through some loophole in the legislation or, in this case, they just ignore the legislation and take it off the website.”
Premier’s spokesperson, Neala Barton, explained that Baranski’s contract was removed from the database because “it was posted in error.” She alleged that the website was only meant to enlist most recent contracts of senior officials earning more than $100,000, whereas Baranski earned below that threshold criteria in 2012. Also it was stressed that Baranski wasn’t hired until Aug. 20 and he also added via Twitter that he worked less than four months in that calendar year.
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