Some Toronto social activists see a basic income program, expected to be launched as a pilot in the provincial budget, as a simple, no-strings way to give the city’s poor more freedom and financial support.
Others see it as a trick, dreamed up by a desperate Liberal government trying to look like it’s taking action on poverty when it really isn’t.
“For them, primarily, it’s a means of stalling until after the next election,” says John Clarke, an organizer of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty,On Thursday, April 13, the New Democratic Party’s Leap faction staged a basic income debate at the […]
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