Councillor Cam MacKay believes St. Albert councillors are paid at least $4,000 a year less than the average city politician. He is also surprised at the amount of work a councillor is expected to do for a part-time job.
I am surprised at the naiveté of MacKay. Should he not have learned the ins and outs of council business before he decided to run for office? Surely he attended regular council meetings, spoke to incumbent and retiring councillors and city staff and then developed a good understanding of what this job entails before running for office?
Now that he is sitting around the decision-making table, perhaps MacKay has realized that it is easy to run on a platform of cost cutting measures, but less easy when actually faced with decisions related to said costs.
Valerie Spink, St. Albert
