Torontonians speak out against Mulcair’s minimum wage mirage

August 6, 2015

TORONTO – Torontonians aren’t reacting well to Thomas Mulcair’s misleading “national minimum wage” mirage. The NDP pretends it is offering a national $15 minimum wage, but in reality, it would affect less than one percent of workers.

Toronto workers told media yesterday the NDP is “definitely misleading”:

“Waitress Katie Evans also described the NDP ad as misleading. She thought it meant people like her would be getting a salary boost.”

“‘I’m an NDP supporter, [but] they need to make it clear what they are advocating,’ said Naomi Garber. ‘I would have thought it was a minimum wage, which meant that anybody who gives a wage has to pay a minimum of $15 an hour. I would have been wrong.’”

“A young man soliciting funds at the corner of the street for a charitable group said he was ‘pretty pissed’ that his impression of the ad wasn’t accurate.”

“Food truck worker Patrick McCormack said he thought the NDP’s $15/hr proposal meant that ‘that if you are working a job, regardless of what it is, you would be getting paid $15 an hour for that job.’ The NDP plan applies only to federally regulated industries not to service workers like himself. ‘I would say it [the NDP ad] is probably a little bit unfair. I don’t think it is the coolest thing ever,’ he said.”

“Gary Wright thought the NDP’s ad meant the party would be bumping up the minimum wage to $15 an hour across the country. ‘It is definitely misleading…’”

(Huffington Post, August 5, 2015)

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