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Business lobby alarmist on Ontario minimum wage
In Ontario, KOW released a flawed analysis which claimed that the increases would lead to $23 billion in new business costs, place 185,000 jobs “at risk,” and cost each Ontario household $1,300 a year. The latter figure turned out to be a basic calculating error which would have been caught by most high school students.