100 Canadian Business Leaders Urge the Government Not to Scrap Basic Income Project

100 Canadian Business Leaders Urge the Government Not to Scrap Basic Income Project

Why Global Citizens Should Care

When Premier Doug Ford’s government announced in August that it would be cutting Ontario’s basic income pilot project, advocates, officials, and recipients pushed back. Now, Canadian business leaders are doing the same.

On Thursday, Floyd Marinescu, CEO of C4media, a software and conference company, sent Ford and Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod an open letter, asking the government to continue with Ontario’s basic income project.The letter was signed by 100 Canadian businesses, ranging from investment companies to breweries to technology companies and more.Launched last summer, the basic income project was supposed to be a three-year […]

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