Retired college presidents still in the $100K Club

Even though they retired from their respective positions in 2013, former Cambrian College president Sylvia Barnard and former Collège Boréal president Denis Hubert-Dutrisac both received substantial salaries from the colleges last year.

This information was revealed through the Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, colloquially known as the Sunshine List, which mandates the publication of the salaries of civil servants who earn more than $100,000 a year.

Barnard, who retired in June 2013, is listed as Cambrian's “president emeritus” on the Sunshine List, and made $221,397 in 2014.

Hubert-Dutrisac, who retired a few months after Barnard in September 2013, earned $209,424 in 2014.

Cambrian College officials were not immediately available to explain why Barnard received this salary.

However, Collège Boréal senior communications adviser Jacqueline Gauthier said Hubert-Dutrisac was still paid last year because of the way his contract was written.

“Apparently the contract for the previous president included in it an administrative leave,” she said.

“So the last period he's not in function, but he's on paid leave. So there's an overlap between the new president and the old president for a period of time.”

Gauthier said this kind of perk is sometimes written into senior managers' contracts because of the amount of overtime they put in.
She was uncertain how long Hubert-Dutrisac continued to be paid after he retired, but said she'd look into it.

The salaries paid to the two former presidents in 2014 was less than what they received in 2013. Barnard was paid $268,129 in 2013 and Hubert-Dutrisac $241,454.

The salary for Cambrian's new president, Bill Best, who joined the college in August 2014, is not listed on the Sunshine List.

The highest salary paid out by Cambrian last year was to vice-president, academic Sonia Del Missier, who earned $231,213.
Collège Boréal's new president, Pierre Riopel, who began his new role in September 2013, earned $192,407.

Sudbury's highest-paid education sector worker in 2014 was Northern Ontario School of Medicine dean Dr. Roger Strasser, who earned $358,585. That's a decrease from his 2013 salary of $382,553.

NOSM's associate dean of community engagement, David Marsh, earned $248,007 last year.

At Laurentian University, president Dominic Giroux earned $299,115 in 2014, which is up from his 2013 salary of $260,027. The university's vice-president, academic Robert Kerr earned $220,295 last year.

In terms of the school boards, Conseil scolaire catholique du Nouvel-Ontario director of education Lyse-Anne Papineau earned $244,662 last year, Rainbow District School Board director of education Norm Blaseg earned $185,222 and Conseil scolaire public du Grand Nord de l'Ontario director of education Marc Gauthier earned $155,667.

Former Sudbury Catholic District School Board director of education Catherine McCullough, who retired in July 2014, earned $102,220 last year. Her successor, Joanne Bénard, is not listed on the Sunshine List under the school board.

Laurentian led the education sector for the number of employees earning $100,000 or more, with 385. There were also 41 Northern Ontario School of Medicine employees who met this income threshold.

Cambrian had 136 on the Sunshine List and Boréal 73.

Added together, the city's four school boards had 308 people on the list — Rainbow 105, CSCNO 108, CSPGNO 49 and Sudbury Catholic 46.

For the province's full public salary disclosure list click here.