"The push" for $15.00 an hour is because I costs more than a million dollars, now, to buy a truly modest bungalow in most of the GTA and $25.00 an hour is still not enough to afford to rent a 300 square foot apartment. It's a lot cheaper to live in the boondocks but this is where most of the jobs are. $14.00 an hour is enough for live-in-mom's basement without a car and no hope of accumulating the savings to do more in any of the Eastern cities. You MAY pull it off in Montreal because the rents are a lot lower but not a here in Ontario. It is just not possible to exist here on $14 an hour ...or $15 for that matter.
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According to StatsCanada Regina is taking the most immigrants.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/171025/t001b-eng.htm
The GTA is adding a million immigrants a decade and has done so for three plus decades prior.
I doubt that Regina is growing quite that fast.
GTA - 6.1% of immigrants
Regina - 7%
Its in the stats.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/regina-saskatoon-youngest-fastest-growing-cities-1.5076929
6.7% of an entity that is 50 times the size of Regina is arather larger number.
Sure hope that your wife does your tax returns for you.
It's 50/50 odds in SK that your small town cafe has Punjabi or Chinese buffet on Sunday.
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No Chinese buffets left around there. Lots of Sushi joints No Punjabis in this part of the GTA. An East Indian restaurant or two but not Punjabi. or Hallal. We have lots of Thai right now but I doubt that they live in Oakville.
So the unemployment rate is higher than you believe because the market would be paying up to attract employees otherwise.
Or are they service industry jobs on the most part?
Immigration is driving housing prices in the GTA beyond reach for most people. Supply/Demand ...
Oh no no. That's speculation driving prices up. Look to building permit issuance of the years. Have permits jumped or plummeted?
That the real real estate indicator.
GTA has yet to recover from 2014.
GTA building permits plummet 43.5 per cent in August
By SUSAN PIGG BUSINESS REPORTER
Tues., Oct. 7, 2014
You don't get much of a worker for $15.00 an hour. You get an employee who will flee at the first opportunity. If your factory operation puts cotton wads in Aspirin bottles, that may be good enough for you but those jobs have all gone to low wage Asian places, anyway. What is left for us in the Western World has a much higher custom element in it and more highly engineered products (our local Ford plant produces the most complex builds in the Ford lineup for export all over the world). You don't get much of a knowledge worker for peanuts. You get a coffee pourer at Timmy's. That kind of Service Sector employment generates relatively little wealth.
Keeping people down shrinks the economy.
$40 hr barely covers it on the island anymore. The idle rich from elsewhere have pushed up house prices so much local kids can not afford to live here unless they inherit a house. ANd then the taxes will soon force them out because of the inflated value.
That's the same here and it is a very bad trend ... that hasn't reached the interior of the country, as of yet. Hourly wage labour is substance only around here under $25 an hour and employers have so little commitment to their employees that the real cheapskate operations run on Temp labour. Temps have zero rights in the work place and they can be let go for no good reason.
Those are the $15.00/hour people.
Rob Ford was lobbied by fast food franchisees into keeping wages below $15, as if burger sales and margins were going to plunge if you have to pay five people an extra $0.35 an hour in your Mickey Dees. Your overhead just increased by $14 per day.
It's patent nonsense.
The Liberal hag you kept voting is what caused the high cost of of living in Ont