In Canada its the same anywhere you go I can understand why they want to raise it, I mean here for example there are no jobs besides fast food, the industries went away and this city is a piece of crap that one day will implode in on itself as it is trying to attract retirees and all the young people move away due to lack of jobs. It will get to a point where nothing in the city can run and it will shrink to a small town size. Here, at least, no one who works at fast food is a teenager, or even a young adult. Its a sad realization that in many places, these sorts of businesses are the only work to be had for anyone, as the general population gets poorer (and dumber)