Crowley: Minimum wage hike will harm vulnerable workers

My very first job – other than delivering newspapers – was as a busboy at The Old Spaghetti Factory in Vancouver’s Gastown. The hourly minimum wage was $1.50.
Had someone asked me then if the government should force the restaurant to pay me more, I would have been all for it. After all, who among us believes we get paid enough for what we do?
But what I learned later in life is that the price of things (including the price of an hour of my labour, which is what wages are) is no