Reevely: Monday's minimum-wage hike will be a test for Ontario's big parties

Ontario’s minimum wage rises to $14 an hour on Monday, kicking off an experiment that will help us test the major political parties before the election due in June.
It’s a 20 per cent pay increase for most people making bottom-end wages of $11.60 an hour now. The Liberals, whose policy it is, say it’s about fairness, distributing Ontario’s economic bounty a little more evenly. The New Democrats say it’s long overdue; the Progressive Conservatives say the Liberals ar