premise: This is a shameful process that allows those among us who are more fortunate to literally laugh at low wage earners, at the people who dutifully pay their taxes, because of all sorts of manoeuvres that the auditor general has condemned here in Canada, even if attempts were made to prevent him from speaking out in the finance committee, as I saw with my own eyes.
hypothesis: Low-wage earners around the world are a myth.
reason: This statement is so incorrect that one doesn't even need the text to justify it.