I spoke to the other one too but this is kind of in the same concept, I guess, is that my issue is that we have people that are making minimum wage in society and currently, at this point, they don't get a CPI increase although I would like to see that. I know that we are looking at changing that. But at this point -- and the other thing is that some Members have more than one constituent assistant, Madam Chair. Some of them have two, one in their riding and one here in the capital is what I've noticed as well. So I think in the spirit of fairness to Members that may have more than one or two people in lower income bracket, then I'd have to vote against this. But I do want to stress to all MLAs that your constituent assistants are valuable; they're doing hard work; and so again, I would recommend that all of them get -- you consider increases to them on a regular basis. But I can't support it on the principle that we don't allow that for all people. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Caroline Cochrane on Committee Motion 282-19(2): Tabled Document 582-19(2): Report on the 2021 Review of Members' Compensation and Benefits - Northwest Territories - Budgets for Constituency Assistants, Carried
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Committee Motion 282-19(2): Tabled Document 582-19(2): Report on the 2021 Review of Members' Compensation and Benefits - Northwest Territories - Budgets for Constituency Assistants, Carried
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