Ontario Superior Court justices blasted the Ford government Monday for saying participants in the now-cancelled basic income pilot project were wrong to expect the study to run for three years.
Despite signing documents that said they would receive income for “up to” three years, it was not a “guarantee of three years,” government lawyer Christopher Thompson argued before the three-judge panel being asked to overturn the decision to kill the project.
But an incredulous Justice Fred Myers took aim at Thompson’s legal parsing of the English language.“Are you here to suggest that the Liberal government under (then) premier (Kathleen) Wynne didn’t […]
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