The House of Commons says it had no choice but to increase the salary of a New Brunswick MP, whether he wanted the raise or not. Miramichi-Grand Lake Conservative MP Mike Dawson filed an application for judicial review in Federal Court in June, trying to stop Parliament from awarding him the $8,800 raise. Under federal legislation, MP pay is indexed to a formula based on private-sector salary hikes. “We seem to be all right to put somebody on the moon, but we can’t stop a pay raise,” he said. The first-term MP has been donating his raise to charity but said he should be allowed to object to it altogether.