A grocery store owner in Fergus says she can't get over the response she got from Ontario's Labour Minister.
Jackie Fraser is one of the entrepreneurs behind Frabert's Fresh Produce, a family-operated small businesses that serves the community through selling locally-grown and produced food.
She recently wrote an open letter to Minister Kevin Flynn outlining her concerns about how Ontario's impending minimum wage hike will affect her bottom line.
Fraser said she's worried that it could wipe out her business.
The email response that landed in her inbox left her fuming.
Kevin Flynn's 2-page letter defends the plan to increase the minimum wage by roughly a third, to $15 dollars per hour.
He says the government must act to protect workers, and argues that a higher minimum wage will "lead to greater job satisfaction and productivity, less turnover and more spending power for lower income earners."
Its what's in the second-to-last paragraph that Fraser says she finds offensive.
Flynn's email proffers that most "decent, law-abiding Ontario businesses" will adjust to the new minimum wage without much trouble at all.
Fraser tells Moore in the Morning that if that's what the government truly thinks, then it isn't living up to its promise to listen to Ontario's small businesses.
Last week, Premier Kathleen Wynne promised measures aimed at softening the blow of a higher minimum wage to the businesses that most need it.
Right now, the minimum wage in Ontario is $11.40
By January 1st, 2019, it jumps to $15.