Sunshine List Released

Sunday, 30 March 2014 06:35

Oxford Progressive Conservative MPP Ernie Hardeman is using the Ministry of Finance's latest edition of the sunshine list as ammunition in a call to expand a public sector wage freeze.

The so-called sunshine list of public sector workers earning $100,000 or more was released on Friday.

The 2014 Ontario Ministry of Finance's public sector salary disclosure list grew by 9,384 names, from 88,412 in 2012 to 97,796 in 2013 — an 11 per cent increase.

Oxford Progressive Conservative MPP Ernie Hardeman is using the latest sunshine list to push the party line on widening a public sector wage freeze.

In a news release, Hardeman points to the fact that there are more than 9,000 additional public sector employees making more than $100,000 this year as evidence that changes are required.

“This is why we want to amend the wage freeze bill to include government employees as well as MPPs," Hardeman is quoted as saying in the release.

The 2013 sunshine list contains the names of nurses, doctors, firefighters and police offiers alongside higher earning executives that roam the boardrooms of Ontario's public sector employers. The disclosure of public salaries above $100,000 came into effect in 1996.

Notable Oxford area executives and directors listed

Oxford MPP Ernie Hardeman earned $137,943.40
Woodstock Hospital Chief Executive Officer Natasa Veljovic earned $246,417.68
Woodstock Hospital Chief Operating Officer Perry Lang earned $180,876.64
Tillsonburg District Memorial Hospital Integrated President and Chief Executive Officer Crystal Houze earned $197,995.69
Tillsonburg District Memorial Hospital, Integrated Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Frank Deutsch earned $138,310.33
Alexandra Hospital Integrated Vice President and Chief Nursing Executive Lisa Gardner earned $115,794.37
London District Catholic School Board Superintendent of Education Tamara Nugent earned $177,489.00
London District Catholic School Board Superintendent of Education John Mombourquette earned $169,465.92
London District Catholic School Board Superintendent of Education Edward Dedecker earned $153,832.90
Thames Valley District School Board Director of Education Laura Elliott earned $194,709.32
Thames Valley District School Board Director of Education William Tucker earned $198,558.72
County of Oxford Chief Admininstrative Officer Peter Crockett earned $201,926.82
City of Woodstock Chief Administrative Officer David Creery earned $164,107.18
City of Woodstock Director of Administrative Services Patrice Hilderley earned $132,039.17
Town of Tillsonburg Chief Administrative Officer David Calder earned $140,308.60
Town of Ingersol Chief Administrative Officer Darell Parker earned $115,559.25