Ontario’s basic income pilot end date coming soon, minister says

Ontario’s basic income pilot end date coming soon, minister says

Lisa MacLeod, Ontario’s Children, Community and Social Services Minister, talks with the media after Question Period at the Ontario Legislature in Toronto on Thursday, August 2, 2018.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young TORONTO — The provincial government says cheques for participants in the basic income pilot will continue to be sent after August, but won’t say for how much longer after that.

The Tories announced last week they would end the basic income pilot project — a program they had promised to keep during the election campaign.

Since then the government has come under intense fire from the opposition parties and anti-poverty groups […]

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