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Coun. Ann Iwanchuk compared municipal politicians to Cinderella during a debate last week on restoring councillors’ right to claim tickets to community events as an acceptable expense.

Presumably, Iwanchuk meant Cinderella prior to her fairy godmother’s intervention, when she was oppressed by her ugly stepsisters and toiled in obscurity. That seems a little inappropriate.

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Regardless, to continue the awkward analogy, Saskatoon city council’s compensation package hardly resembles a pumpkin. Other municipal politicians can only wish they had a fairy godmother to grant them the same benefits.

Saskatoon’s municipal politicians not only want to attend the ball, like Cinderella, they want taxpayers to pay for their tickets.

Saskatoon city councillors are already the highest paid part-time councillors in the country at $54,646 a year. That’s more than part-time councillors are paid in larger or similar-sized cities like London, Ont. ($32,969.76 in 2013), Kitchener ($49,652 in 2014), Windsor ($28,770.48 in 2015) and Regina ($36,81.81 in 2016).