Dewey are you in the States? Minimum wage in Canada is $7.50/hour right now (or $7.25 - can't remember). Either IS a starvation wage around here.

Well, maybe not exactly starvation, but pretty desperate ....

With the exchange, $7.50 Cdn would equal about $5.50 US. So I do hope the American rates go up. After all, we'd just HAVE to follow suit up here ... and that would put Canada's at around $9.50/hour. Much more workable.