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Is 13 too young to work? A Saskatchewan proposal has reignited debate around kids and labour

Look at the joy on these young faces! Coal dust is invigorating! No school just 60 hour weeks hanging out with your chums! It don’t get no better!

Saskatchewan residents are due to vote in a general election later this year and a business group in the province hopes the next government will lower the province’s “absolute minimum” working age to 13 years old.

In a set of pre-election policy recommendations, the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce highlights challenges from a “labour shortage” in the province and suggests the existing age of 14 is too high.

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