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Quote: TORONTO. The number of public-sector employees in Ontario earning more than $100,000 shot up another 11% last year, a jump that puts the total number of high-earning civil servants at 71,478. Tom Mitchell, the head of Ontario Power Generation topped the list with a salary of $1.325-million. David Johnston, now Canada's Governor-General, was paid $1.057-million in salary and bonus as president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo. Toronto's representatives on the list include police chief Bill Blair, who has faced intense criticism for his handling of the G20 and its aftermath. He earned a salary of $325,940. Toronto's city manager, Joe Pennachetti, made $313,934 last year and enjoyed more than $14,000 in taxable benefits. That's more than triple the earnings of Mayor Rob Ford, who was also on the list with a salary of $104,066. The information is disclosed annually under the province's Public Sector Salary Disclosure law -an initiative established in 1996 as a transparency measure to guard against runaway public-sector salaries. Although no Toronto city councillors were listed, two of their executive assistants topped the $100,000 mark. Numerous councillors from neighbouring Vaughan, Markham, Burlington, Richmond Hill and Oakville were also on the list, along with hundreds of Toronto Police Service and Toronto Transit Commission staff. The TTC's chief general manager, Gary Webster, pulled in $281,931 plus taxable benefits exceeding $13,000. Overall, the number of people on the so-called "sunshine list" have risen by roughly 225% since 2004, the first full year of Liberal rule. Over that same time, Dalton McGuinty's salary has risen 46% to $208,974 from $143,226. A public-sector pay freeze, meanwhile, called for in the 2010 provincial budget never materialized, as settlements inched up 1.8% on average according to the finance minister. Conservative MPP Christine Elliott criticized the government for what Tories describe as profligate public-sector spending. "In seven years, Premier McGuinty has doubled the debt, tripled the sunshine list and turned Ontario into a have-not province," she said in the legislature at Queen's Park. "Why do you treat spending restraint like a PR scheme, Premier?" Adjusted to today's dollars, the original threshold would be about $132,000, officials said, and would wipe out three quarters of the names on the list. Nevertheless, Mr. McGuinty said he has no intentions of raising the entry level. "We're not changing the threshold," he told reporters. "It's already been set. We're not going to tinker with that." About 1.2 million people are employed in Ontario's public sector.

Quote: Tom Mitchell, the head of Ontario Power Generation topped the list with a salary of $1.325-million.

Quote: David Johnston, now Canada's Governor-General, was paid $1.057-million in salary and bonus as president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo.

Quote: Toronto's representatives on the list include police chief Bill Blair, who has faced intense criticism for his handling of the G20 and its aftermath. He earned a salary of $325,940.

Quote: Over that same time, Dalton McGuinty's salary has risen 46% to $208,974 from $143,226.