There’s a clear divide between the people paying the bills and the government that’s racking up the bills.

Poll after poll shows Canadians are fed up with the automatic pay-raise culture in Ottawa.

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Year after year shows that politicians and bureaucrats feel entitled to more money simply because they’re on the taxpayer payroll.

Members of Parliament receive a pay raise on April 1 each year. This year’s raise will range from an extra $8,800 to $17,600. A backbench MP will take a $218,600 salary after the pay raise. A minister will collect $322,700 and the prime minister will take home $437,200.

Politicians are united in taking another raise. Normal working people are united against them.

Leger polling shows 80% of Canadians oppose the MP pay raise.

What other political issues result in 80% of people agreeing?

Yet just one MP is publicly standing with 80% of Canadians and is opposing the raise: Mike Dawson, a Conservative MP from New........

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