At a conference last month in Hamilton, Ont. proponents from across North America got together to talk about efforts to implement a basic income guarantee in jurisdictions in Canada and the U.S.
Marie Burge of P.E.I.’s Cooper Institute provided an update in terms of her province’s progress toward a basic income pilot project.
"One of the points that I made — it’s a failure for P.E.I.," Burge said. "The government so easily backed down. I think they were sincere in the beginning, and I still think they’re sincere. But they backed down as soon as the feds said, ‘we’re not providing […]
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