The C-F-I-B's Provincial Affairs Director Andrea Bourgeois tells CHSJ News a new report entitled "Minimum Wage........Reframing the Debate" shows raising the minimum wage hurts the very people such an increase is intended to help. The report claims raising the minimum wage by ten per cent could cost as many as 7 thousand jobs in the province.
Bourgeois says the C-F-I-B has suggested low income earners not pay any tax at all which is the case in B-C. That idea has been resisted by the provioncial government in New Brunswick.
