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Originally Posted by Tacopuck
While I have never been a fan of any minimum wage I do understand the need for it from a political perspective.
What really bugs me is that its always some arbitrary number (ie $15/hr). If a minimum wage is going to be implemented it should be tied to some sort of cost of living metric and automatically updated on set intervals based on that metric and not just a nice round number that is great for picket boards and campaign slogans.
But alas politics....
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So $18.15? That's the living wage in Calgary. Imagine the blow-back from all the greedy people who don't want to pay $13...
http://livingwagecanada.ca/files/271...ief_062117.pdf