Congrats :thumbsup:thumbsup

You have a extra few bux to spend on scarfs

No, the $0.75 increase won't do it on it's own. But small businesses are suffering death from 1000 cuts. The same mentality that leads to these knee-jerk minimum wage increases leads to other policies that are just as damaging to small business. There is a reason why youth unemployment is 20%+ in Ontario.

The price of electricity in Ontario has gone up by 50% in the last decade and is set to rise another 50% in the next 5 years. Ontario now has the most expensive electricity in North America. This is because of the same brain-dead simpletons introducing this new minimum wage.

And because the minimum wage will now be tied to inflation it will lead to more inflation, which leads to higher minimum wage, which leads to higher inflation....etc., etc.

What's interesting to me about these discussions is perspective.

In this particular discussion, we have two different perspectives. That of an employee and that of an employer. The two sides go back and forth, fighting this point, arguing that point. But the funny thing is only one of those sides has experience from both perspectives.

An employer was at one time an employee, and often a minimum wage employee. Whereas an employee was very rarely an employer.

One side, dual experience. One side, solo experience.

Something to think about.

i thought the price of electricity had gone up so much, because you guys deregulated and sold out to Direct Energy?

who should be, at this very moment, raping a lot of customers, specifically the elderly who don't have the energy to find out why their bills are being 'renewed' and signed up for the same services twice, on 'different payment plans'

but i am sure, it was the brain-dead simpletons who deregulated all that legislation as well, so point to you.

That's right, or better match our beer prices, which is like $1.20 - $2 on tap and $ 0.60 - $ 1 a bottle.

No wonder this country consumes the most beer per capita in the world!

I seriously think we are on to something here.

Joint Nobel Peace Prize?

No that's not it. It's now mostly because of the Green Energy Act.

beer is cheaper in quebec. ontario and some other provinces have retarded taxes on alcohol and only allow beer to be sold in their own beer stores. in quebec you actually have competition and gasp..sales.

Gay homosexual.

a good name

Every time in history that a minimum wage has been raised it has resulted in a stronger economy for all levels of earnings. Even the rich. So shut your objection holes you people waging war on the poor. Be smart and invest in durable goods.

But useless policy.

i suppose it might have been better spending the money on more oil subsidies

hey look:

http://www.directenergy.com/learning...o-deregulation

they're even keeping track for us :)

I concur,

Especially when taking into account the widespread of general ease and happiness between 8 - 12 pm - more beer could definitely solve a lot.

Especially considering all the problems the tea drinkers such as Vatican or Taliban cause to the world - even Jesus proved that water to wine was a miracle!

Well, Ontario has no real oil industry to speak of so I'm not sure where you're coming from with that.

But speaking of subsidies, under the Green Energy debacle the Ontario government pays people with solar panels $0.85/kwh for electricity that they then sell for around $0.12/kwh. Guess who pays for the difference?

And you are way off base with Direct Energy. They deal in natural gas supply not electricity. Natural gas is currently very cheap so I am not sure what you are getting at with the whole deregulation thing.

my understanding is a lot of the power generation is coal? now being promoted as the 'new clean source for energy'?

yes, it's called a subsidy.. if you wanted to get into taxpayer funded projects, we could look at all the major corporations in the province.

Are you sure they don't deal in electricity?

anyway, i am forced to agree in the restraints of time.. it's poor peoples fault, we should pay them nothing to save small business