Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have some questions today for the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment. I would like to ask the
Minister to give us a bit of an update on minimum wage. It was a year ago on April 1st , and it wasn’t a
joke, but we had our second planned increase to minimum wage. It took effect on that day. A year prior to that, at the time of the first increase in February of 2010, the Minister told us that he was considering ways to implement future minimum wage increases. At the time of the second increase, the Minister advised that there was work that needed to be done. He was going to be doing consultations and evaluations.
I’d like to first off ask the Minister whether or not any of that work, the consultations and the evaluation of the increases to minimum wage, has been done at this point. Thank you.