While Ontario Premier Doug Ford and the Progressive Conservative government continue their efforts to scrap the three-year basic income pilot project, a proposed class action lawsuit filed in a Lindsay court Monday claims the cancellation of the project is “negligent” and a “breach of contract.”
Lawyer and social worker Mike Perry is taking on the case pro bono and is representing four plaintiffs from Lindsay, Dana Bowman, Grace Marie Doyle Hillion, Susan Lindsay, and Tracey Mechefske, who are all participants in the income project and receive on average $1,400 per month.
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