SALARIES OF CANADIAN MINISTERS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2, 11 January 1900, Page 10

SALARIES OF CANADIAN MINISTERS.

In connection with a statement made recently that the salaries of the ministers of Federated Australia would be on a princely scale, the Catholic Press gives those paid in Canada : — ' Dominion Ministers have salaries of £1400 per annum, except the Premier, who geta an extra £200. The senators are appointed for life by the Crown. They are eighty-one in number, and are paid sessional allowances and railway fares The House of Commons consists of 213 members, elected for five years, and each member receives £200 as a sessional allowance, with travelling expenses to and from Ottawa ; but he forfeits £1 12s for every day's absence beyond a certain limit fixed for each session. Ministers of the Ontario Government receive a salary of £800, except the Premier, who gets £1400, and members are paid £120 each session. In Quebec the Premier sets £1000, Ministers £800, and members, both of the Legislative Council and Asße"mbly, £1(50. The Premier of Nova Scotia is paid £800, Ministers £640, and members of both Chambers £100. New Brunswick allows £420, £310, and £60 respectively. The scale for Manitoba ia practically the same as for Nova Scotia ; British Columbia is the same as Quebec, except that members of the Legislature get £ 1 20 instead of £160. Prince Elward Island allows a modest £260 for all Ministers, and £35 for members, while the North-West Territories' representatives enjoy £100 per session.