Farce - you need to be a little clearer.  $20 an hour (41.5K) in the GTA would probably be good.  Maybe in Northern ON it should be $13 an hour, where housing costs are much lower.  The fact that all businesses have to absorb and pass this along to the public, will not go unnoticed.

We now live in a global economy and as long as we continue to import products from China, then the minimum wage earner, will continue to shrink - less jobs and fewer hours.  Very few will actually benefit from this new "higher" wage.  It'll be eaten up by higher costs and fewer hours to cover the cost.

The only true beneficiaries of this, is the government's tax chest.

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