{"id":21646,"date":"2014-06-19T13:08:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T17:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21646"},"modified":"2014-06-19T13:31:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T17:31:05","slug":"the-anglican-church-of-canada-reckons-earning-11-per-hour-is-an-offence-against-human-dignity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-anglican-church-of-canada-reckons-earning-11-per-hour-is-an-offence-against-human-dignity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anglican Church of Canada reckons earning $11 per hour is an offence against human dignity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2014, Ontario\u2019s minimum wage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/ontario-raises-minimum-wage-to-11-an-hour-1.2516659\" target=\"_blank\">rose to $11 per hour<\/a>. Unsurprisingly, the Anglican Commissariat of Canada is not happy about this. According to Rev. Maggie Helwig, Proverbs 22:2 has it wrong: people derive their dignity not from the fact that God made them in his image but from how much money they earn. Earning $14 per hour is what is needed to maintain human dignity. The exact demarcation point where indignity ends and dignity begins remains a mystery, although I suspect it will always be a little higher than the current minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-21649\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/rev-maggie-helwig.jpg\" alt=\"rev-maggie-helwig\" width=\"166\" height=\"226\" \/>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/pressreleases\/14\/06\/m4641629\/media-advisory-diverse-community-delegation-of-faith-leaders-health-pro\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is an offense against human dignity when people can work full-time year round yet still live in poverty,&#8221; says Maggie Helwig from the Anglican Church of Canada. &#8220;As communities of faith, we expect Kathleen Wynne to fulfill her promise to create good jobs and leave no one behind by raising the minimum wage to $14.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am quite sure that Rev. Helwig owns numerous electronic gadgets made by Chinese workers <a href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/24\/the-ieconomy-how-much-do-foxconn-workers-make\/\" target=\"_blank\">earning $1.50 an hour<\/a>; I wonder what she thinks about that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2014, Ontario\u2019s minimum wage rose to $11 per hour. Unsurprisingly, the Anglican Commissariat of Canada is not happy about this. According to Rev. Maggie Helwig, Proverbs 22:2 has it wrong: people derive their dignity not from the fact &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-anglican-church-of-canada-reckons-earning-11-per-hour-is-an-offence-against-human-dignity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2032,1438],"class_list":["post-21646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}