Gov. Gen. Julie Payette departs office, we learn, with a pension of about $150,000 a year, for life, for doing a job not very well, and for not very long.
She is 57 years old. It will sting, but do a little math. If she lives for another 30 years, that’s $4.5 million. With indexing, of course, it would be a great deal more than that, but the point is made: this is a lifetime of financial security for an appointment that did not last three-and-a-half years (investiture Oct. 2, 2017).
And there are other “expenses” she is entitled to claim in perpetuity because — and don’t be stupid now — former GGs can’t be expected to buy their own pens, paper and printers for the deluge of fan mail.
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