Like abortion Canada never had a wage-fixing law.
Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, a Liberal MP from Toronto, woke up on his birthday in 2020 and wrote out an email on his phone.
Two days earlier, on June 13, 2020, Canada’s top three grocery chains simultaneously cancelled their $2-per-hour “hero pay” bonuses for front-line workers — the store clerks and warehouse staff who continued showing up to keep supermarkets running despite lockdowns, uncertainty, and widespread absenteeism in the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is a rare occasion when I have praise for the LPC but then they rarely earn it. The people who inspired this law are Grocery Chain execs, from the same conglomerates that literally colluded to steal bread from the mouths of children.
Don’t forget that these are the same folks screaming for mass immigration because it seems their low wage wage slaves have disappeared.
The mystery of the million missing workers — and what it means to our economy
“The pandemic appears to have caused, or accelerated, some structural changes within the Canadian labour market that are resulting in high vacancy levels — particularly for low-paying occupations,” wrote the economists.
“Aging demographics, particularly among those with below university education, and immigration driven by new university graduates, have contributed to this trend. The result has been a greater proportion of people working in higher-paying sectors, and labour shortages in many lower wage occupations.”
Why that hasn’t yet translated into the boost of productivity you would expect is another mystery.
The economists said part of the problem could be that sectors in which vacancy rates are high need the staff in lower paying jobs to reach maximum efficiency. A lack of baggage handlers, for example, would severely impede the operation of an airport.
