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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Why isn't the minimum wage indexed to inflation and adjusted automatically? You'd need to do some ground work to figure out the appropriate baseline minimum wage for each jurisdiction (it's going to be different in San Francisco vs. rural Mississippi), but after that it should change automatically each year instead of going 13+ years without adjustment.
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The argument is, is minimum wage federal jurisdiction? Should the federal government mandate a living wage? People forget that while the US has a minimum wage of $7.25, Canada doesn't even have one. It's all done at provincial level. I believe Manitoba has the lowest now at $11.
Canada is just fortunate that the provinces aren't too far apart so the feds don't have to get involved. 12 to 15 is not a stretch. If they had a discrepancy like the US does, from 7.25 to 20, the government would be under pressure to act.