Activists protest the end to the basic income pilot project by Ontario Premier Doug Ford and the Conservative party. In November 2017 people lined up for hours in Lindsay, Ont., in hopes of registering for Ontario’s basic income pilot program.
The program instituted by the Liberals of then-Premier Kathleen Wynne was to provide payments to 4,000 low-income people from select communities across the province for eight months. The pilot project came to an end with the election of the Conservative government in 2018.
William Winston, a 51-year-old struggling with physical and mental illness who participated in the program, says the move […]
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