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The New Democrats want it to start at $12 and rise gradually to $15 by 2019. The party will put forward the idea on Tuesday for a vote in the House of Commons. $12 an hour is still a poverty wage, and going by the rate of inflation, $15 by 2019 hardly seems progressive. Why not start at $15 in 2015 (the branding of which sells itself, by the way), and then index the minimum wage to inflation, and legislate 5-year reviews to ensure that the minimum wage always exceeds the adjusted-for-inflation poverty line by 10%? Yet another missed opportunity by the NDP.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 13:02:58 +0000

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