The Editor,
Re. "B.C. minimum wage to be tied to inflation" (www.tricitynews.com).
Twenty cents? Please tell me what you can buy for 20 cents.
You can't buy a stamp - you would have to work five hours to collect enough extra money to buy a stamp.
A chocolate bar at $1.60? You would have to work eight hours to take home enough extra cash for that.
If you want a one-zone adult ticket on SkyTrain, you would have to work 13 hours to collect enough extra money for that extravagance.
I went to the grocery store and selected one medium-sized carrot and 20 cents was not enough to buy it - but I could buy one stalk of celery.
So I would have to work only one hour to improve my standard of living one stalk of celery's worth.
Jane Shoemaker, Coquitlam
