{"id":30048,"date":"2022-07-19T13:07:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T16:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=30048"},"modified":"2022-07-19T13:07:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T16:07:29","slug":"liberals-support-governments-decision-on-nixing-mla-raise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=30048","title":{"rendered":"Liberals support government&#8217;s decision on nixing MLA raise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;127&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;93&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>From a release from Leader Zach Churchill<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HALIFAX:<\/strong> The Liberals will support the government&#8217;s decision to block a recommended pay increase from an independent panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following is a statement issued by Liberal leader Zach Churchill:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In response to the report on MLA indemnity and salaries, our Liberal caucus supports the government\u2019s decision to block a pay increase for MLAs in the midst of a historic cost-of-living crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;34&#8243;]<br \/>&#8220;The Houston government\u2019s silence in the cost-of-living crisis has been deafening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Premier has been quick to spring into action to block a potential pay raise for MLAs, but has sat idle for months as Nova Scotians struggle to pay their bills. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;As one of the highest paid premiers in the country, we will be bringing forward an amendment for the Premier to take a decrease in pay, as proposed by the independent panel,&#8221; said Churchill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;6&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;92&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;127&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;93&#8243;] From a release from Leader Zach Churchill HALIFAX: The Liberals will support the government&#8217;s decision to block a recommended pay increase from an independent panel. The following is a statement issued by Liberal leader Zach Churchill: &#8220;In response to the report on MLA indemnity and salaries, our Liberal caucus supports the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[94,3951,1587],"class_list":["post-30048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-liberals","tag-mla-pay","tag-zach-churchill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}