It's all in the design. The working income tax benefit is not unlike a wage supplement. For a government and for many analysts who wish to see the labour market functioning without supports from the government, it would be actually better to make sure that you are not actively intervening in market forces, for example, actually pouring hundreds of thousands of temporary foreign workers into the bottom end of the wage pool, therefore actually suppressing wage growth at the bottom end. All these great things we can do—through an enhanced WITB and actively working against the way the market itself would raise wages—seem to be kind of working at cross purposes. It's over-intervention, from a governmental point of view.
On November 25th, 2013. See this statement in context.