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Alberta MLAs unanimously voted to slash their own pay by five per cent — and cut the premier’s by 10 per cent — in a fiery committee meeting in Edmonton Tuesday.

But a motion by the NDP that politicians’ pay cuts “not be used as rationale to justify any measures to rollback compensation of Alberta’s public sector workers” was roundly rejected by UCP committee members.

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The wage cut stems back to the election, when now-Premier Jason Kenney promised MLAs would take an “immediate” salary reduction should the UCP win power.

Kenney said during the election a five percent pay cut was “a strong sign of how this new generation of leadership is ready to put the province first.”

“This is leadership by example,” he said at the time.

Even with the cut — which sees base salaries decrease by $6,365 — Alberta MLAs remain the highest-paid in Canada.

They will now take home $120,931 each, compared with the next-highest provincial political pay packets in Ontario, where MPPs earn $116,550.