Lindsay will feel the impact as province scraps basic income pilot program

Lindsay will feel the impact as province scraps basic income pilot program

The PC government is scrapping the basic income program in spite of an election promise to keep it

About 2,000 Lindsay residents who had a little extra money in their pockets had “the rug jerked out from under them” as the new Conservative government cancelled the Liberals’ basic income pilot program.

City of Kawartha Lakes director of human services Rod Sutherland was already hearing from several social service agencies in Lindsay on Wednesday (Aug. 1), a day after the government announced the cancellation of the program, which was about halfway through its three-year test period.“It is disappointing we are not […]

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