Canada’s Ontario to Test Universal Basic Income This Year

A discussion paper drafted by former Canadian Senate member Hugh Segal laid out what the program will look like, and recommended testing it a rural area populated by indigenous people.

“There is no reason why a coherent pilot project testing the net benefits of a Basic Income to society in general, and to those living in poverty in particular, could not be launched before the end of the present fiscal year in Ontario,” Segal wrote, explaining that, “Testing a Basic Income is a humane and useful way to measure how so many of the costs of poverty (in terms of […]

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