Canada’s Ontario government cuts basic income project short

Canada's Ontario government cuts basic income project short

A man holding up Canadian dollar bills A Canadian province has said it will scrap a basic income pilot project just months after its launch.

Ontario’s newly elected centre-right government, led by Premier Doug Ford, announced the termination because it was "not going to be sustainable".

The three-year project was initiated in April 2017 under a previous government.It was to test whether basic income is better than current social assistance programmes.Provincial Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod said on Tuesday that the Progressive Conservative (PC) government wanted to focus resources on "more proven approaches".How and when the pilot project will be wound […]

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