If Ontario won’t see sense, Ottawa should save the basic income pilot

Promise made. Promise broken. In honour of Premier Doug Ford’s mantra on the campaign pledges he has kept, it’s worth examining a vow that was so easily dismissed.

Ontario is almost halfway into an innovative three-year experiment, created by the previous Liberal government, to see if providing more money to impoverished people will improve their job prospects, health and quality of life. Protestors at a rally at Lindsay’s Victoria Park on Tuesday to decrying the provincial government’s decision to prematurely end the basic income project. It seemed worthwhile to the Progressive Conservatives just a few months ago because the party […]

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