Not necessarily. It's possible that with a lower minimum wage, Canada's unemployment rate might be even lower. The best you can hypothesize is that all things being equal minimum wage does/does not negatively affect unemployment numbers. Obviously the economies of Canada and the US are vastly different.
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This is a vast, vast oversimplification.
By your logic, Canada should be seeing massive unemployment as our minimum wage is 20%-30% higher in most provinces than most states.
The reality is that Canada's unemployment rate sits at about 7.3% in August compared to the 8.1% rate in the United States.
Not necessarily. It's possible that with a lower minimum wage, Canada's unemployment rate might be even lower. The best you can hypothesize is that all things being equal minimum wage does/does not negatively affect unemployment numbers. Obviously the economies of Canada and the US are vastly different.