The Regent Debate: Hugh Segal – The Case for a Universal Basic Income

The Regent Debate: Hugh Segal - The Case for a Universal Basic Income

In this special series of Intelligence Memos we present the opposing arguments made at the C.D. Howe Institute’s inaugural Regent Debate earlier this month. Four prominent voices, Janice MacKinnon, Conrad Black, Paul Begala and Hugh Segal, sparred over the following question: Should Western democracies establish a universal basic income? Today: former senator Hugh Segal in the affirmative.

I will be humble in my presentation except to say this: Janice (MacKinnon) made some very good points. None of them relate to the issue at hand. The issue at hand is that democracies survive because there’s a basic sense of fairness […]

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