CEOs, representing diverse sectors across Ontario’s economy, gathered at Queen’s Park today to call for the reinstatement of the province’s Basic Income Pilot. The press conference launched an open letter signed by over 100 Canadian business leaders, urging Premier Ford to continue the pilot and prepare Ontarians for seismic changes impacting their economy.
Accounting for 1.4 billion dollars in combined annual corporate revenues, these CEOs represent a new voice in the growing chorus of communities, activists, and academics calling for the program’s preservation. Long understood as a pro-growth, pro-free-market solution to poverty eradication, Universal Basic Income (UBI) also has the […]
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