NDP leader Jim Dinn has written the premier asking for his stance on increases to the minimum wage.

Dinn says wages are expected to increase on April 1st, but there has been no confirmation from the PC government on that front.

Dinn wants those details, as well as a plan from the PCs on how the plan will eventually rise to a “living wage.”

He says the minimum wage rose to $16 an hour last year

But he argues that is well short of what is needed according to information from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, which indicates the wage should be somewhere in the mid 20s.

Dinn is calling on Wakeham to publicly state his stance on the minimum wage, noting that it was absent from the PC election platform.