Is British columbia actually gonna raise minimum wage to $10?

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Is British columbia actually gonna raise minimum wage to $10?

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The president of the B.C. Federation of Labour has called on the provincial government to raise the minimum wage, saying the province's lowest paid workers are getting left behind.

Jim Sinclair said the current minimum wage of $8 an hour should be increased to $10, and the $6 training wage should be scrapped.

He said there are too many working people in B.C. living in poverty.



"Statistics from the government point out [that] 96,000 people get the minimum wage and a full 20,000 more people get below the minimum wage, between six and eight dollars an hour."

Sinclair added that while British Columbia is doing well economically, it has the second highest number of people working for minimum wage in the country, ranking behind only Newfoundland.