Ontario Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod speaks with the media after Question Period at the Ontario Legislature in Toronto on Thursday, August 2, 2018. Ontario has pledged that there will be a “lengthy and compassionate runway” before the province’s basic-income pilot project comes to an end − a program on which 4,000 low-income people have come to rely.
Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod announced last week that Premier Doug Ford’s government is cutting in half planned increases to social-assistance rates this year and had decided to cancel the basic-income pilot, despite a campaign promise to allow the three-year experiment to […]
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