Not all provinces automatically index the minimum wage. When we launch the program and ask the Department of Finance for funding, our only figures will be for the current year and not for the coming year. If all provinces had this automatic indexation, it would be easier to take the indexation into account in a budget request to the Minister of Finance. However, this isn't the case.
I can check with my team to see whether there are other possibilities. The issue is that we can't predict what most provinces will do.