Finance critic takes issue with Ontario model informing guaranteed basic income report

Finance critic takes issue with Ontario model informing guaranteed basic income report

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre. iPolitics/Matthew Usherwood Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre says the guaranteed basic income (GBI) report released yesterday by the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) is all well and good for discussion purposes, but it doesn’t address how or where Canada will cough up the cash needed to pay for it.

This, he says, is the fault of the Ontario framework it’s based upon.

“The problem is not with the PBO, the problem is that the proposal that the office calculated it on has a gaping financial hole. The PBO did a great service in explaining how big that hole is […]

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