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) Ontario’s Conservative government is “winding down” the basic income pilot project put into place by the former Liberal government.
Launched in 2017, the program was slated to run for three years and paid some 4,000 low-income Ontarians up to $16,989 a year, $24,027 for couples. The only string was a 50% clawback on additional earned income.
Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod argued giving away money “with no strings attached” fails […]
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