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Just call him Mike “show me the money” Duffy. I’ve lived long enough where these spending scandals are just so “old liberal” been there seen that. Here below is a different way to handle Official expenses.

Article 6.5 of the party’s provisional constitution states: All senior and junior Officers of the Party are appointed by order of the Executive. Executive Officers and terms of the Officers shall be set in a National officers bylaw.

The National officers’ bylaw would set the terms and compensations of the officers of the party. Under the draft I have written but not published the senior officers of the party are full time positions and receive the following benefits.

• A weekly salary of X times the base wage. The base wage is an amount of money set by the National executive and all compensations are a multiple of this amount. When you change it you change the financial benefits of everybody top to bottom.
• A monthly contribution to their RRSP of X times the base wage. This is their pension.
• The ability to submit to the National executive an OEA an Official Expense Appropriation. The National executive by a majority vote by secret ballot can reimburse the officer of 25% of the OEA, by a 60% vote 50% of the OEA, by a two-thirds majority vote 75%, and by a three-quarters majority vote the entire amount of the OEA. A motion in the National Assembly can overrule this decision. The officer who made the OEA or a member of the Assembly under its standing orders can make this motion. Any decision by the National Assembly is final. The party is under no obligation to reimburse any Official Expense Appropriation.

All senators should only have 2 compensations, a weekly salary, and the ability to submit to the senate an OEA for reimbursement of expenses incurred for official duties. It would be at the senate’s sole discretion to reimburse a senator’s OEA and to what amount. Each senator should submit an OEA for each month separated into reoccurring and non-reoccurring expenses.