Some have called it a slap in the face to workers in B.C., others have called it a first step - albeit one that is excruciatingly tiny.
Whatever you call it, the government's hike to the minimum wage of 20 cents an hour won't significantly change anyone's financial circumstances.
If you're looking at how much difference it will make, it will hardly buy you an extra cup of coffee a day. And that's not a latte at Starbucks.
The minimum wage will be $10.45 an hour come September.
It is the first hike since 2011, and future regular increases will be determined by indexing the rate to B.C.'s consumer price index.
The latter move is another tiny step in the right direction.
But the truth is, keeping the minimum wage at such a low amount merely perpetuates a virtual social class system of underpaid female workers in the retail and service sectors of B.C.
Those at the lowest end of the scale can surely not support a family, or even pay for good housing on $10.45 an hour.
The other workers who are relying on this wage are also older workers who have had to go back into the marketplace to try and survive in their "golden" years.
Yes, some of these workers are students living at home.
But some of those students are trying to pay for rising tuition fees and not be a burden to their families.
It's not that we don't have empathy for small businesses. We do.
But the majority of businesses who benefit vastly from keeping the minimum wage down are large chain operations, not mom-and-pop stores.
Surely, the government could have at least phased in a higher minimum wage over a couple of years - say $10.50 in September 2015 and $11 in September 2016?
According to B.C. Federation of Labour stats, if the CPI goes up by two per cent a year, it will take until 2034 to reach $15 an hour.
Seattle has already moved to $15 an hour.
By then, a cup of coffee will probably cost $30.
