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Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne echoed the same tune in introducing a $15 an hour minimum wage, among several labour reforms.
“Millions of workers in Ontario are finding it almost impossible to support their families on a minimum wage that just doesn’t go far enough. It’s time this rate reflected the reality of people’s lives,” said Wynne.
“Raising the minimum wage is about creating a fairer, more equal society where everyone gets to share in our province’s economic growth.”
Along the way on that Highway to Hades, the very people that a $15 an hour minimum wage is supposed to be helping may actually be thrown under the bus by politicians seeking to gain their favour.
TOO MUCH, TOO FAST
As golf course owners and operators are well aware, wages are usually the biggest cost for businesses and despite proclam- ations that a province’s economy is humming along, as Wynne stated when she announced her province’s increase, such a blanket comment doesn’t apply to all, especially smaller businesses.
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