The parliamentary budget office estimates that annual payments under a federal minimum income program would amount to $16,989 for individuals, while couples would receive $24,027. Last week my colleague Andrew Coyne wrote in this section about the Parliamentary Budget Office’s new paper on the costs of a federal-funded guaranteed annual income (GAI). He is an enthusiast, and was pleased to learn that the “Ontario model” now being tested — in a regional experiment that got underway less than six months ago — would not be as costly as one might think.
The Ontario plan is giving randomly selected low-income working-age […]
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