Ruth Westcott, a Thunder Bay-based activist said people living with low income and in poverty felt devastated "when the [federal] government announced that they believe that $2,000 a month [the equivalent of the Canada Emergency Response Benefit] was the minimum that a person needed to survive, when they knew that people on social assistance in Ontario were making far less than half that." (Logan Turner / CBC News) Before she was selected to participate in the Ontario Basic Income Pilot in April 2018, Thunder Bay resident-turned-activist Ruth Westcott’s life was "out of control."
"I was living in a trailer park […]
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