Predictably these reforms to parliamentary pensions were driven by Conservative administrations (Harper federally, Harris in Ontario).

Liberals never showed the same concern for taxpayers' ability to fund these platinum pension plans nor for more equity between public and private sector pay, perks and pensions.

Harper gets marks for the most significant federal MP and PM pension reforms which, if he lives to his expected age, will cost him over $2 million in forgone pension as well as for being the first and probably the last PM in our history to demand that a senator pay back the most egregious of his ill gotten gains to the taxpayer/treasury.

His wing man on public sector compensation, Tony Clements, also deserves credit for his smaller reforms to public sector compensation in the face of savage union attacks.

These things will be reversed by the Liberals for whom enriching themselves and their supporters is Job One while deficits and equity for private workers barely register.