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<\/p>\n Au contraire<\/em>: \u00a0Their contract said they were ‘terminated’, which required that they be paid a severance package of $205,000 and $171,000 respectively.\u00a0 This is on top of their already inflated salaries, which they never lost for one second, and, barring societal collapse, never will lose.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Even the mayor of Peterborough, Daryl Bennet, is up in arms, claiming that residents of the city are disgusted with their greed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Yes, on paper they are legally due the money; but in a moral sense?\u00a0 Why should these public servants, every cent of whose salary is funded by hard-working, home-owning taxpayers, be paid twice?\u00a0 Even the president of the University of Western Ontario, who took a double salary of close to $1 million for foregoing his ‘sabbatical’, paid the money back after an outcry from the staff and student body (hmm…I am somewhat surprised to see that Western, after awarding ‘Dr.’ Henry Morgentaler an honorary Ph.D., on top of all their other nefarious deeds, still has some moral indignation, at least when it comes to money).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I don’t really care if these venal cops keep their money.\u00a0 In the big picture, ’tis but a drop in the bucket of the amount we waste on police and the myriad-other public services in this province and country (how ‘safe and secure’ do we have to be?). \u00a0Consider the case a few years ago of the millions of dollars in ‘mismanagement’ of the Ornge Emergency services<\/a> under Chris Mazza, then the highest-paid public employee in history.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"police](\"http:\/\/johnpaulmeenan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/police-chiefs-peterborough-300x225.jpg\")
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