1. It appears you cannot read a graph. The change from 1998 to 2021 was not double - it was six dollars which is partially accounted for by minimum wage increasing taking the lowest out of the equation
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/14-28-0001/2020001/article/00006-eng.htm
2. See here for an article to break the stagnation down for you
https://globalnews.ca/news/3531614/average-hourly-wage-canada-stagnant/
3. Did you completely miss where a mod already asked to keep on topic earlier on this page? Due to that I am not responding further in this convo
Yes your right those wages in your sites are adjusted to cpi. That means they adjust the wage based upon inflation.
So they are not real wage numbers.
You cannot say wages are stagnant and prices are higher and then site a cpi adjusted reporting to prove it.
Statistics like this are manipulated like this all the time to solicit a desired proposition.
Yes things cost more what you should be asking is why. Your purchasing power is not stagnant because wages have not kept up. There stagnant because the cost of things have continually rose.
So raise wage to meet some idealized number. What then the cost of stuff will go up again to reflect that increase cost. Then raise wages again, and the cost of stuff goes up again
What is it that has driven prices and cost of living higher continually?
It’s taxes the below 100000 earner in the states depending upon where they live and commute can be approaching 50% of gross income taxed when you combine state, federal, property, gas and energy, sales tax and all the other various fees and charges.
Half a fucking year of work to feed one of the most wasteful and incompetent entities recognized today.
Regulations and business taxes have driven the cost of goods and services even higher.
Taxes to receive electricity at your home, taxes to have a phone and internet,
Taxes to regulate how fast we drive and in some locals how much we drive.
What is the one constant we all can mostly agree on? Government is mostly inefficient and ineffective at managing itself.
Why is it we all turn a blind eye to the most wasteful, questionable, and often times corrupt entity in our society? That one entity in our society that “consumes” the vast majority of our income. And I say “consumes” because government produces very little in return for the major consumer of our income.
I had an argument with a checker as a gas station. She was pissed her rent went up. I pointed out did she consider what her landlord might be paying in property taxes. “We’ll not that much”
I pointed out in our local it might be approaching 1/3 to 1/2 her rent payment.
Then she argued well landlords shouldn’t be able to factor their property tax into her rental payments.
I just walked out it was a losing battle.
Sure it’s expensive, I’d say student loans today could easily be classed as indentured servitude. There exorbitant and wasteful and they they have interests structures on them on the back end that approach usery.
In the US those student loans are not a product of greedy corporate bankers.
But a government managed and enforced system.
The abuser and drain in our economies is not business, it government.
In Canada I suspect the problem is even somewhat worse.
So raise minimum wages again. It makes no difference, the cost of everything will just go up against….. rinse and repeat.
Go after the root cause of the inflationary system.
But message me on here if you want. 
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