‘Not helpful’

Dear Editor:

RE: ‘Nature hates a vacuum,’ May 14.

Wayne Baker suggests that the Ford government eliminate at least 90% of all Sunshine List positions.

The list was implemented in 1996, and the $100,000 then is equivalent to $200,000 today. Therefore, the entries on the list should be eliminated by raising the threshold to at least $200,000, and preferably $250,000.

Further inflation-based indexing should be applied every year.

Suggesting the firing of tens of thousands of people simply because they make a decent wage is not helpful.

And to be clear I have never been on the list – and won’t be as I am retired.

Dushan Divjak,
Elora