Please note, that the jump to $14/hour will take place less than 6 months before the next election in 2018.

That will result in a significant uplift in taxes collected by the government, from both employees and their employers, before the full effects of a 30% shock to business costs are felt.

In turn, the Wynne government will use this short term uplift to both overstate the health of the Ontario economy in the spring budget as well as handing out other pre-election goodies.

The real devastation will occur after Wynne is safely back in power having bought votes across broad swaths of the population, from lower income workers, to guaranteed income recipients, to the usual cabal of public sector employees.  

Time to learn Greek?