The idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) has always made sense. That is why it has attracted such broad backing from sometimes unlikely supporters.
Conservative thinker and author Milton Friedman supported it, as does Canadian Conservative Sen. Hugh Segal and Martin Luther King.
But we now know one thing we didn’t before COVID-19. UBI works. We know that because the federal government quickly realized a crisis basic income was essential to cushion the pandemic’s economic impact on millions of Canadians.The government came up with the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), $2,000 per month to Canadians suffering pandemic-induced job loss.CERB has […]
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