It’s also just essential for people with lower incomes. If we want to support people working to build our economy, giving everyone the ability to get to work at a reasonable and reliable rate is a good move.

It also makes Vancouver’s unaffordability slightly more manageable. People can’t afford to stock shelves downtown and also live there. Giving people a living wage is great, and if we can’t continue to do that, we should at least make it easier for everyone to live further away from where they work.