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Michael Jack, CAO, City of Winnipeg, speaks during the announcement at Siloam Mission Wednesday morning. The City of Winnipeg and End Homelessness Winnipeg-Reaching Home announced $265,000 in funding to support expanded \u201cpop-up\u201d shelter capacity this winter, ensuring Winnipeggers experiencing homelessness have a warm place to stay overnight. The pop-up shelter will be housed at Siloam Mission, with staffing from Siloam Mission, 1JustCity, Main Street Project, and Sunshine House. See Joyanne Pursaga story 231115 – Wednesday, November 15, 2023.<\/p>\n
In 2025, after Jack was appointed deputy minister at a starting salary of $184,554, he also received $164,007 in compensation from the City of Winnipeg, although he did not work for the city that year.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo Winnipegger gets to quit a job and keep collecting taxpayer-funded paycheques for a year and a half,\u201d Gage Haubrich of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation said Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt adds insult to injury that he continued to be paid by Winnipeg taxpayers while getting a salary from provincial taxpayers at the same time. That\u2019s double dipping,\u201d Haubrich said.<\/p>\n
Winnipeg Mayor Scott Gillingham owes taxpayers an explanation for why hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars were sent to an employee who quit, Haubrich said from his office in Saskatoon.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy was Jack being paid after quitting? And why was he being paid by taxpayers twice at the same time?\u201d<\/p>\n
The mayor\u2019s office deferred comment to the city\u2019s corporate communications department.<\/p>\n
The acting manager of corporate communications for the city said she couldn\u2019t discuss the specifics of an individual\u2019s compensation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can tell you the figure reported for each employee may include any combination of salary and taxable benefits, overtime, retroactive pay adjustments, retirement allowance, sick pay cash out, vacation pay cash out, back pay and severance pay,\u201d Julie Dooley said in an email.<\/p>\n
The city\u2019s annual compensation disclosure reports note that the amounts do not include payments made or benefits accrued in relation to pension plans.<\/p>\n
Haubrich maintained the city is not being accountable for how it spends taxpayer money.<\/p>\n
\u201cTaxpayers need a real explanation and the city needs to give it \u2014 not whatever this sorry excuse for an explanation is.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Provincial Public Sector Compensation Disclosure Act stipulates that every year Manitoba municipalities publish a complete list of all employees and members of the governing body who received compensation of $85,000 or more in the previous fiscal year.<\/p>\n
Jack, who was appointed Manitoba\u2019s deputy minister of business, mining, trade and job creation on Nov. 13, 2024, did not respond to an email request for comment Friday.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s not alone in receiving a big payout after resigning as Winnipeg\u2019s CAO.<\/p>\n
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In 2014, Phil Sheegl was the city\u2019s highest paid employee, even though he\u2019d quit in 2013.<\/p>\n
He resigned as the police headquarters construction scandal emerged in which an audit determined the over-budget project was mismanaged. The following year, Sheegl received $250,000 in compensation, the public disclosure shows.<\/p>\n
In a 2022 civil court proceeding launched by the city, Sheegl was found to have accepted a $327,000 bribe from a contractor. After losing an appeal, Sheegl was ordered to return the $250,000 in severance he was paid by the city plus interest, $100,000 in punitive damages and court costs at both the lower and appeal levels, totalling about $1.1 million.<\/p>\n
In February 2015, acting CAO Deepak Joshi resigned and received $567,339 in compensation from the city, even though he\u2019d only worked two months that year. His compensation in 2014 was $246,000.<\/p>\n
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Carol Sanders Carol Sanders is a reporter at the Free Press legislature bureau. The former general assignment reporter and copy editor joined the paper in 1997. Read more about Carol<\/a>.<\/p>\n Every piece of reporting Carol produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print \u2014 part of the Free Press\u2018s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press\u2019s history and mandate<\/a>, and learn how our newsroom operates<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n
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