Nova Scotia’s legislature will reconvene next week to stop the implementation of a pay bump for its members that would raise annual salaries above $100,000, Premier Tim Houston said Tuesday.
In a statement, the premier said, “when inflation is at a 40-year high, gas prices are at historic levels and many hard-working Nova Scotians are struggling to make ends meet, it is not the time to increase the pay of MLAs.”
Houston was responding to an independent panel that recommended a 12.6 percent pay raise for members of the legislature, which would bring their annual base salaries to $100,481 from $89,235. The panel was composed of a Dalhousie University professor and two Halifax-based lawyers….