Hello All,

As usual I am enjoying discussions on the listserve. The food ideas are interesting. I have spent the better part of my career working with people and families who have little or no money for food, or sporadic access to sufficient funds for food. From this location, discussions of food fat content and creative high protein combinations of grains and legumes are, well, in another world. 

Let's start with decent wages and see what happens to education, meaningful employment, and food 'preferences'.  

Here is some Background Information on Member of Parliament Peggy Nash’s Bill C-375: Re-Establishing the Minimum Wage. See contact info at bottom. Apologies for cross-postings. This info may have already been circulated.


Bill C-375 An Act to Amend the Canadian Labour Code (minimum wage)
This Bill ensures that the minimum wage in Canada is not less than ten dollars per hour

Peggy's bill will re-establish a federal minimum wage at $10 an hour, to demonstrate federal leadership for a fair, living wage, and be a useful tool in persuading provinces to raise their minimum wages. 

The wage would apply to federal employees, representing about 10% of the Canadian workforce, in inter-provincial and international transportation, banking, telecommunications and federal Crown corporations, as well as some First Nations activities. 

Important facts

•	Federal minimum wage was eliminated in 1996 under the Liberal government. 

•	The CLC has found that a single person working full-time in Canada needs an hourly rate of at least $10 an hour to reach a poverty-line income.

•	Minimum wage workers are primarily adults and women, and not teenagers. 

•	The 2006 government backed Arthurs’ Report: A Federal Labour Standards Review, also supports a national minimum wage. 

•	Research institutes; the Canadian Council on Social Development, and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) have studied the issue and support a $10 minimum wage. 

•	The CCPA also found that Minimum wages disproportionately benefit low-income families and can mean the difference between low-income, and poverty. A minimum wage level should meet standards where, in a just society, individuals working full-time, full-year would not find themselves in poverty. 

•	Increasing the minimum wage will not decrease the number of jobs available. There is significant evidence to show that increases in the minimum wage have been followed by increases in employment.  

For more information and facts about minimum wage, visit www.peggynash.ca , www.libbydaives.ca, the CLC at www.clc-ctc.ca, The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives at www.policyalternatives.ca, or the Canadian Council on Social Development at www.ccsd.ca. The Canada Federal Labour Standards Review can be found at www.fls-ntf.gc.ca.




Dr. Elizabeth McGibbon, PhD, RN
Associate Professor
School of Nursing, Faculty of Science
Marguerite Hall 
St. Francis Xavier University
PO Box 5000, Antigonish, NS
CANADA
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