The minimum wage in Quebec is rising Sunday to $10.75 an hour, up 20 cents.
The increase comes out to an extra $8 per 40-hour working week.
Groups fighting poverty say the increase is not enough.
Several groups fighting for workers and against poverty are demanding a minimum wage of $15 an hour. The FTQ union has also launched a broad campaign to promote that increase.
Employers' organizations, meantime, believe hiking the minimum wage to $15 would hurt the economy and employment.
"Of course it won't benefit McDonald's and the banks but it's a way of sharing prosperity from the bottom, not only from the top," said Quebec solidaire MNA Amir Khadir.
With a report from La Presse Canadienne
