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During question period Monday, the NDP\u2019s labour critic, Jamie West, said that by cancelling the minimum wage increase, Doug Ford is taking more than $2,000 a year out of the pocket of minimum wage earners.<\/p>\n
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West said that with that kind of financial strain being inflicted on workers, it\u2019s a shame that Doug Ford has been completely focused on his grudge-match against the City of Toronto during the September sitting of the legislature \u2013 including an all-night session in the early hours of Monday \u2013 and not the jobs and wages people need to build a better life.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe could be at Queen\u2019s Park to take action on increasing the minimum wage or creating better conditions for all Ontario workers.\u00a0 Instead, we are once again using our time and resources to debate a bill that violates Ontarians\u2019 rights and freedoms,\u201d said West, MPP for Sudbury.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhy is slashing Toronto city council a more important to this government than the wages and well-being of workers across the province? \u201c<\/p>\n
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Last week, Doug Ford\u2019s minister of\u00a0labour penned an op-ed boasting about her government\u2019s plans to freeze the minimum wage at $14 an hour, cancelling the upcoming increase and ripping $2,000 a year out of the hands of the lowest-wage workers in the province.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cHard working Ontarians should not have to continue to struggle in poverty because of a wage that has not kept pace with the cost of living,\u201d said West. \u201cFor Mr. Ford to cancel the promised minimum wage raise at all \u2013 and without a minute of debate or consultation \u2013 is wrong, and it\u2019s dragging Ontario backwards.\u201d<\/p>\n SOURCE – Jamie West, NDP Labour Critic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sep 17, 2018 @ 16:34 During question period Monday, the NDP\u2019s labour critic, Jamie West, said that by cancelling the minimum wage increase, Doug Ford is taking more than $2,000 a year out of the pocket of minimum wage earners. West said that with that kind of financial strain being inflicted on workers, it\u2019s …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[511],"class_list":["post-15514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorials","tag-ontario-minimum-wage"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 04:59:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15515,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15514\/revisions\/15515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}