Liberal leadership hopeful Michael Coteau is pledging to reinstate Ontario’s basic income pilot project, which the Ford government cancelled after promising to keep it during the 2018 election campaign.
Coteau, the MPP for Don Valley East, was involved in the pilot project as a cabinet minister in the Wynne government, and said the three-year study put Ontario “ahead of the game” on strategies to offset the effects of poverty.
“It was a shame to cancel that research that was being conducted,” Coteau said in an interview Thursday. “Everything is changing so drastically around us that understanding the basic income and being […]
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