International researchers shocked by cancellation of Ontario’s basic income pilot project

International researchers shocked by cancellation of Ontario's basic income pilot project

Ontario Social Services Minister Lisa Macleod ended the Ontario basic income pilot project three months after enrolment was complete. (Chris Young/Canadian Press) My report in Finland on the cancellation of Ontario’s basic income pilot project was met with stunned belief late last month, when I participated in a panel with representatives of basic income experiments from Finland, the Netherlands, India and Scotland.

On July 31, three months after enrolment was complete and before the first annual followup survey could be conducted, the planned three-year experiment was cancelled.

Nearly a month after the announcement, participants in the experiment still had not been […]

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