OP-ED: Alberta was right to kill the minimum wage bill
"Bill 201 would have repeated the Notley-era minimum wage policy that led to declines in youth employment."
Author: Marco Navarro-Genie
When the Alberta NDP’s minimum wage proposal died at second reading last November, the party leadership predictably cried foul, accusing the government of voting “against workers.”
But the evidence from California’s recent experience and Alberta’s own 2015 to 2018 experiment supports the government’s position: minimum wage mandates destroy the jobs they claim to protect, and they hurt young workers most of all.
