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Burnaby Green mayoral candidate Joe Keithley on Wednesday called on Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan to vote to reverse last month’s Metro Vancouver board decision to give pay raises and provide a retroactive retirement allowance to its directors.

The second vote, spurred by a public outcry over the pay hike plans, is planned for the end of this month.

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Corrigan has defended the pay hike, saying he believes that wages for local politicians have been kept artificially low.

A vote on March 23 gave Metro Vancouver’s 40 board directors a 15-per-cent pay raise and a 10.2-per-cent lump-sum retirement allowance based on their earnings retroactive to 2007.

Keithley, a professional musician, said he would take a 20-per-cent pay cut if elected mayor of Burnaby.

“You have to lead by example,” said Keithley, who has run several times provincially for the Green party, including in the 2017 election where he finished third behind NDP and Liberal candidates in Burnaby-Lougheed.