Two years ago the government of B.C., then dependent on a New Democratic parliamentary coalition with the Greens, commissioned an expert report into the possibility of a basic guaranteed income for residents of the province. This was a gesture toward meeting a Green demand for basic-income research. If you go back and look at the public confidence-and-supply agreement the parties signed, it specifically requires that B.C. “design and implement a basic income pilot” and fund it in the NDP’s first budget.
We have since all seen how little the text of the B.C. orange-green pact counted for when it came […]
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