COLUMNS: Basic income is basically a failure

COLUMNS: Basic income is basically a failure

In case you missed the fine print contained in the power-sharing agreement between the NDP and the Green Party, there is a clause calling for a ‘basic income’ pilot program that should have been a part of the new government’s first budget.

That deadline came and went without any mention of basic income in finance minister Carole James’ first provincial budget delivered last February.

The concept is fairly straightforward. It guarantees all low income citizens a basic income without any strings attached.Who pays for basic income? Well you would of course, starting with the $4 million dollars the government announced last […]

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