Sen. Yuen Pau Woo, facilitator of the Independent Senators Group, says now is the perfect time to pilot a basic income program in Canada. (Justin Tang/Canadian Press) There’s no time like a pandemic to test out universal basic income in Canada, says Sen. Yuen Pau Woo.
Woo, a B.C. senator and head of the Independent Senators’ group, recently asked the Parliamentary Budget Office to analyze the potential cost of providing a basic income to all Canadians for six months.
The PBO says the project could cost anywhere from $47.5 billion to $98 billion, depending how much the government claws back […]
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