THE SENATE

This page is for those citizens who are concerned that their senators might be overabundant, overpaid and inefficient. Where does $50 million a year go?

Pigs are such loving, intelligent little persons, who are treated abysmally by humans, that it is a shame to compare them to senators.

Here's what Canada's prime oinkers get:

THE SALARY - A basic $70,000.00 per year and an extra $150.00 for every day they show up in the senate. This is an incentive for them to actually be there, rather than retiring to Mexico on the generous salary and expense account.

THE JOB - The Senate meets on average for 100 days a year. Senators are allowed to miss 21 days without losing any salary.

THE EXTRAS - * Research Grants (for what?) $30,000.00 per year. *0ffice Budget $20,000.00 per year. * Tax Free Expense Allowance $10,000.00. * Free Business Class flights for Senators and their families, as many as 52 return-trip flights a year. * Free telephone calls and facsimilies, and also free postage, at home as well as office. * Free Gym privileges, private equipment and instructors. *Subsidized (that means REALLY CHEAP!) haircuts, dry cleaning, furniture, limousine rides.

WHAT YOU CAN DO - Write! Write! Write! to every newspaper and politician. Get Canada's Senators off the elite welfare roll! It is a disgrace to Canada that we could hire ten people who actually want to work for the same price our Senators get in salary and perks. Our Senate should be cut to one-tenth its size so it would be a fair representation of population as well as less costly. Canada might be better off if it were abolished altogether.

PHONE A SENATOR - (toll-free) 1-800-267-7362 Some recommended reading: January, 1995 - The Reader's Digest -"Club Senate". Also, "On The Take" by Stevie Cameron, a book which describes the crime, corruption and greed in the Mulroney years.