A golf course job or $157,731 a year?

[murphyj87]

MONTREAL - Nineteen-year-old Pierre-Luc Dusseault planned to work a summer job at a golf course if his foray into federal politics didn't work out.

He can forget the links.

The teenage longshot is now headed to Ottawa as the youngest member to ever sit in Canada's federal Parliament, joining dozens of other New Democrats in Quebec who scored unlikely victories on Monday night.

Instead of working his way around the green fairways, he will learn his way around the green parquet of the House of Commons as the new MP for Sherbrooke. His new starting salary is $157,731.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/pierre-luc-dusseault-becomes-canadas-youngest-ever-mp-at-the-age-of-19-121168254.html

[Suich]

1. Wow!

Combined with this: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=190x33107
I don't know what to think!

:hi:

[murphyj87]

2. It seems to me.....

It seems to me that it shows how desperate Québecers were to get rid of the Bloc Québecois and/or elect NDP members.

[MedicalAdmin]

3. I think it's a good thing.

A regular dude ran and won. He'll serve and he'll move on. Just like in a, what do you call it, er, democracy...

Could someone not jowned by the uber wealthy and even get elected in the USA?

[lame54]

4. not to mention the free golf