Now watch Pat Bell increase the price of a burger & fries.

The min. wage needed to be increased but we all end up paying for the increase in higher prices…. and everything remains status quo.

It’s not only Pat Bell increasing these prices, but most businesses.

Increasing minimum wage is no guarantee we will all pay more for anything, but lowering corporate taxes will guarantee we all pay more taxes to make up the difference in revenue government require to operate.

We have the freedom to not shop at places who raise their prices, but we do not have the freedom to get out of paying a larger share of taxes when government decides trickle down economics is the way to go.

With all the tax savings corporations and business have received from the liberal government over the past few years, they can afford to eat the cost of a minimum wage hike, and if increasing minimum wage negatively affects business so badly, they should be treating minimum wage earners like gold, because they are the capstone their business model rests on.

You know what puzzles me? Communism doesn’t work because human greed makes it impossible to work, but when it comes to free market capitalism, people believe that giving corporations completely concerned with accumulating wealth massive tax breaks, human greed will shut off and they’ll pay it forward to the public in the form of increasing local jobs, and not simply collect increased profit and invest in the cheaper markets with less regulation in other parts of the world.

Wealth redistribution for the benefit of the richest people = a healthy free market. Wealth redistribution for the most vulnerable in the world = class warfare, if you drink the free market kool-aid that is.

Christy gives low wage earners a couple of peanuts… wopeee paid with our HST.

It’s not guaranteed that a raise in minimum wage increases prices at businesses. We pay our employees more than minimum wage so this increase doesn’t affect our business in that sense. I guess it is possible that the minimum wage increase could affect our suppliers, who would in turn increase their prices. That remains to be seen for us. For the time being, it’s business as usual.

As well as every other business that pays minimum wage. Maybe some will even get laid off. I guess it’s a Catch 22 they need to increase the minimum wage but it has to come from somewhere!

Seems to me it took them 9 years to get the minimum wage increased, and to get rid of the $6.00 Training wage that they brought in. So whats to celebrate.

I guess you could say better late than never, however not increasing the wage for 9 years is the real story.

I don’t know about the impacts to business, because they’re all affected differently, but this is the kind of thing the NDP and guys like Jim Sinclair have been clamouring for.

But it appears some still want to gripe.

Your right JohnnyBelt, we all should be celebrating and like you JohnnyBelt we should thank the guys who fought the fight in the NDP and Jim Sinclair.

Just like you JohnnyBelt no gripe here either.

Have you people not noticed how prices have dropped dramatically since the Lieberals brought in the HST. I mean the Libs would not lie to us would they? An increase in the minimum wage will just eat up a portion of the saving from the liberal HST.

@ Pojeb_sa: your nick is cool!!!