Ford said he would cancel the Liberals' $15 minimum wage and freeze it at $14
ParaphraseFord has said that he would halt the plan, freezing minimum wage at $14, out of concern for businesses' bottom lines and the possibility of job cuts.
Doug Ford, · PC campaign (as reported by Global News)
What happened · Nov 21, 2018
Bill 47 (royal assent November 21, 2018) cancelled the January 1, 2019 increase to $15 and froze the minimum wage at $14 until October 2020.
Bill 47, the Making Ontario Open for Business Act, 2018, received royal assent on November 21, 2018. It eliminated the scheduled January 1, 2019 increase to $15, held the minimum wage at $14 until inflation indexing began October 1, 2020, and repealed the Liberal Bill 148 guarantee of two paid sick days. The Financial Accountability Office found in April 2019 that the $15 wage would have given 1.3 million workers an average $810 after tax, versus about 1.0 million people getting an average $409 from the replacement LIFT tax credit, which only 38 per cent of minimum-wage earners qualified for, and that the credit plus the cancelled increase would worsen the provincial budget balance by $1.9 billion from 2018-19 to 2022-23. The government later raised the minimum wage to $15 effective January 1, 2022, three years after the Liberal date.