Premier Stephen McNeil and Ray Ivany

Ray Ivany: Mr. McNeil, who has also been speaking to audiences in Sydney and Cornwallis Park in recent days, told a receptive audience that his government will use the Ivany report as a blueprint for the provinces future and promised that his government would lead what he termed a cultural shift in Nova Scotia, according to The Chronicle Herald. SEE More coverage related to the Ivany commission In his first state of the province address to some 750 members of the Halifax Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, Premier Stephen McNeil made more than one reference to Ray Ivany and the report Mr. Ivany and his commissioners presented last week: Now or Never: An Urgent Call to Action for Nova Scotians . That new attitude, he said, includes opening up the province to new immigration and supporting all the provinces universities as they make connections between research and development and the private sector. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.