Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil is shown on Oct. 9, 2013.PAUL DARROW/The Globe and Mail
Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil is scheduled to deliver a state of the province address today that is expected to focus on cost cutting.
The speech comes a day after McNeil suggested pay cuts may be necessary for the provincial politicians, picking up on an idea already adopted in New Brunswick.
McNeil says pay cuts will be part of deliberations leading up to a spring budget. However, he says civil servants will not see their wages reduced.
The government is in contract negotiations with several bargaining units, but the Premier says he is not looking at rollbacks.
Still, McNeil says he looking for "a wage pattern that I can afford to pay."