$15 minimum wage

Everything in Ontario will cost an arm /leg

Well.... I'm not absolutely against it, but it depends on how it gets implemented... If you aren't paying your workers a living wage, they have to rely on social assistance, so the government is really padding your bottom line with that assistance. Something's gotta give.

Well, companies will automate whether there is high minimum wage or not. Eventually, technology gets cheap enough to replace labour at any price. So, while that was a nice PR move by McPukes, it doesn't change the fact that they would have gone that route anyway. I'm not sure what the end solution will be, but we can't keep going the way we have been in the last few decades. Back in the 70's, you could buy a home (within a decade), buy a car and feed a family on a single, lower than average wage. Nowadays you couldn't even make 35 year mortgage payments on an outhouse in an area where you can get a job, with it.

So, 2 very important questions to ask are:
1) What led to those developments?
2) What do we do about it?

Cutting off the corporate welfare by imposing a higher minimum wage, thus having fewer working poor relying on government funding is a band-aid, but it's a start.

Governments arent here to solve any problems, instead just to give the general public the illusion that they are solving it.