We'll never know what Ontario's economy and job market would look like had the minimum wage hike not happened. HuffPost CanadaSo the minimum wage hike doesn't seem to have had much noticeable impact on overall job growth. Still, we can see that Ontario's outsized wage hike did not have an outsized impact on hiring in industries that are reliant on minimum wage workers. In an era of sluggish wage growth, there is no explanation for this other than increases to the minimum wage. The verdictThe data suggests that Ontario's minimum wage hike had very little effect on the overall provincial job market.

Source: Huffington Post February 09, 2019 19:52 UTC