Rear-mounted stop signals on new busses are intended to keep children safer.
When the provincial minimum wage rises on Jan. 1, 2018 to $14 per hour, that hike, according to the Ontario School Bus Association, will mean driver shortages will get "substantially worse."
For parents across Ontario, that will make an already serious problem that much worse.
While that wage will become the least the law will allow most employers to pay its workers, Chris Harwood, vice-president of the association, says it's a cost the association just can't pay afford.
He says long-term contracts previously negotiated with the Ontario government don't take the wage increase into consideration.
Listen to Harwood's full audio interview with the CBC's Conrad Collaco by clicking the image above, or read the abridged and edited transcript below for a text version of the conversation
