In BC, the minimum wage was frozen at $8 an hour for ten years, with a $6 an hour training wage.

In 2011 the BC Liberals were embarrassed into raising it, and eradicating the $6 an hour rate. (Yeah, six bucks an hour for any employee, any age, for their first 500 hours in the work force.  And if you thought some employers churned their staff to keep on paying $6, you would be right).

Business cried out that massive jobs would be lost.

What happened?

Nothing.  Studies indicated there were no massive job losses.

In fact so many jobs went begging that many business sectors lobbied the Feds to bring in workers from overseas...but that is another story.