{"id":101114,"date":"2017-05-31T07:45:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T11:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/?p=101114\/"},"modified":"2017-05-31T07:47:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T11:47:02","slug":"15-minimum-wage-ontario-sheer-lunacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/15-minimum-wage-ontario-sheer-lunacy\/","title":{"rendered":"$15 Minimum Wage in Ontario: Sheer Lunacy On Our Doorstep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the Ontario Liberal government followed Alberta&#8217;s lead and announced that the minimum wage would increase from <strong>$11.40 to $14 next year<\/strong> and thereafter, <strong>to $15 per hour in 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This means a <strong>23% increase<\/strong> in the minimum wage by next year and <strong>31% by 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to <strong>Kathleen Wynne<\/strong>, Premier of Ontario, this measure will <em>&#8220;make certain that our workers are treated fairly&#8221;<\/em> in a transforming workplace environment.<\/p>\n<p>It is rather easy to anticipate that this emotional decision, not evidence-based at all, will have an extremely negative impact on Ontario&#8217;s economy and, first of all, on the very people it wants to help, i.e. those with little or no skills and work experience.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For this is what Ms. Wynne has just announced: <strong>it will soon be prohibited to employ anyone in Ontario at less than $17 an hour<\/strong> (when the benefits are taken into account).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This suggests that anyone in Ontario is worth<strong> at least $17 an hour! Really? Even someone who has never worked in his entire life?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In reality, thousands of young people without experience as well as welfare recipients and the unemployed <strong>must work<\/strong> to gain experience and become more employable.<\/p>\n<p>Many in this cohort would be willing to work for less in order to gain experience, but that won&#8217;t be possible anymore: this window is closing fast.<\/p>\n<p>Retailers who use minimum wage workers will not be able to absorb these exorbitant costs. They will have no choice but to cut jobs or automate.<\/p>\n<p>And how will more unemployment and fewer services benefit Ontarians?<\/p>\n<p>This is basically the fourth absolutely atrocious measure that Ms. Wynne adopts to the detriment of Ontario&#8217;s convenience stores:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One of the <strong>harshest tobacco regulations in the world <\/strong>with sky high taxes;<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>worst record when it comes to fighting\u00a0contraband tobacco<\/strong>, which remains extremely high in Ontario;<\/li>\n<li>A liberalization of the sale of beer and wines grocery that <strong>specifically excludes convenience stores<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li>And now that big\u00a0<strong>increase in the minimum wage in the country<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>In short, Mrs. Wynne <strong>harms the revenues<\/strong> of the convenience stores, leaves those who <strong>steal their market<\/strong> pretty much alone, prevents c-stores from <strong>taking advantage of alternative revenue sources<\/strong> (by giving them to their competitors) and <strong>exorbitantly increases<\/strong> their costs. No, but what does she expect?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is she taking the c-store industry personal at some point? That seems to be the case. Then what have we done to her?<\/p>\n<p>With these four strikes, Wynne certainly deserves the honorary title of the worst provincial Premier in Canada for the convenience store industry.<\/p>\n<p>All that remains is to hope that her ill-inspired ideas, devoid of any good common sense, <strong>will remain on her side of the Outaouais River.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Quebec convenience stores owners must suddenly feel very lucky to have Mr. Carlos Leitao as their Finance Minister, who has just announced more modest increases <strong>(16% instead of 31% and more)<\/strong> by 2020!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_101111\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101111\" style=\"width: 221px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101111\" src=\"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/saintleitao.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/saintleitao.png 221w, https:\/\/depquebec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/saintleitao-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>St. Leitao:\u00a0<\/strong>Pray for us, humble and miserable c-stores owners, who ask only to be given the ability to earn our daily bread by the sweat of our brows.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Vancouver Observer &amp; La Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the Ontario Liberal government followed Alberta&#8217;s lead and announced that the minimum wage would increase from $11.40 to $14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":101119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1752,223],"tags":[752,1362,1364,313,1257,750],"class_list":["post-101114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manpower","category-newsdep","tag-kathleen-wynne","tag-kathleen-wynne-en","tag-liberal-en","tag-minimum-wage-1","tag-ontario-en","tag-ontario"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.3 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is doing pretty much everything she can and more to harm the convenience store industry: but what the heck have we done to her?\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"DepQu\u00e9bec\"\/>\n\t<meta name=\"google-site-verification\" content=\"a01nBEJWlVTzo2m8KmHaQocy2HgSa2TdVm3pTgYkh50\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"msvalidate.01\" content=\"9ea4a622be7c4124b4e47c8426b0d030\" \/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/15-minimum-wage-ontario-sheer-lunacy\/\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 5.0.3\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"DepQu\u00e9bec\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Min. 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