The author puts the hardships faced by retailers a little too gently in my opinion (i.e. "constraints"). Fairly recently, larger retailers such as BCBG Max Azria, Express, HMV, Jean Machine, Tip Top Tailors, Future Shop, Danier and Lulu Lemon have committed to closing down significant parts of their operations in Canada due to tough business conditions. Sears, Hundson's Bay and Best Buy are struggling severely against the big e-commerce players.

Now factor in the ill-conceived minimum wage policy, and let's see how the rest of the remaining retailers respond to 20%-30% increase in wages. I suspect you will see massive spike in youth unemployment, massive cutback in hours, and termination of employees.

Those who are defending this will now see hard working people go from earning $11.40 to unemployed, or working less hours. Great job, Wynne. In your efforts to pander to the uninformed, you have hurt the people you were attempting to help.