Originally Posted by SilentKnight

That's a 24% jump over last year.

While the province's working poor struggle on $8.75 an hour.

Premier Dalton McGuinty says its no big deal.

McGuinty makes $203,439 a year.

Minimum wage just jumped from $8/hr. to a whopping $8.75/hr. This amounts to $4,000 less than the low-income cutoff as defined by the government.