Father Raymond J. de Souza: Doug Ford was wrong to axe the basic income pilot

Father Raymond J. de Souza: Doug Ford was wrong to axe the basic income pilot

We know what happens in Ontario when the government changes its mind and breaks contracts with large corporations. Dalton McGuinty’s gas plant cancellations cost the province some $1 billion, not counting the cost of prosecuting McGuinty’s officials for their role in trying to cover it all up.

What will happen to those low-income Ontarians who signed up for the government’s three-year pilot project on a “basic income,” sometimes called a “guaranteed annual income” or “negative income tax”? The new provincial government cancelled the pilot program this summer. It had begun in April 2017.

In Lindsay, Ontario — one of the three […]

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