More than 7,300 Alberta government bureaucrats received pay raises in 2020, according to documents obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation..And the number grows even larger when you look back at bureaucratic raises since 2015, when the province’s economy went south due to lower oil prices..“So far it’s clear that we’re not all in this together,” said Franco Terrazzano, the CTF’s Alberta Director, in a Wednesday statement..“It’s unacceptable that thousands of bureaucrats received pay hikes while families and businesses were locked down and Premier Jason Kenney needs to reduce these costs on struggling taxpayers.”.The Alberta government gave 7,384 bureaucrats pay increases in 2020, costing taxpayers $18.7 million, according to records the CTF obtained through a freedom of information request..Pay raises for provincial bureaucrats have cost taxpayers more than $245 million since 2015, when the economic downturn in Alberta began..The last broad Alberta government pay cut was a five per cent cut in 1994, according to a report by Secondstreet.org..“We can’t keep asking workers who lost their jobs or businesses to pay higher taxes so thousands of bureaucrats can collect bigger pay cheques,” said Terrazzano..“It’s time for government bureaucrats to share in the burden and take a cut.”.You can find the CTF documents here..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.,dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com,.Twitter.com/nobby7694
