{"id":28483,"date":"2014-10-11T03:30:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T19:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=28483"},"modified":"2014-10-11T02:10:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T18:10:09","slug":"manitoba-politician-says-hell-donate-controversial-severance-to-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/11\/manitoba-politician-says-hell-donate-controversial-severance-to-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba politician says he\u2019ll donate controversial severance to charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_160891166.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28484\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_160891166.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_160891166\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_160891166.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_160891166-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_160891166-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WINNIPEG\u2014A member of Parliament who received a severance package when he left provincial politics says he has decided to donate it all to charity.<\/p>\n<p>Larry Maguire received a full year\u2019s pay when he quit the Manitoba legislature last year to run in a federal byelection.<\/p>\n<p>The move was criticized by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, which said politicians should not get severance pay if they quit their jobs voluntarily.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on his Facebook page, Maguire says he will donate all of his after-tax severance to charities in southwestern Manitoba.<\/p>\n<p>Maguire\u2019s payout was in the media earlier this week, but he says he has always felt people in his situation don\u2019t deserve severance pay.<\/p>\n<p>Most provinces offer such pay to politicians who quit or retire, although the amounts vary widely between jurisdictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG\u2014A member of Parliament who received a severance package when he left provincial politics says he has decided to donate &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":28484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}