Ontario and Manitoba have led experiments that provided a basic income to recipients. Could Newfoundland and Labrador be next? (Graeme Roy/The Canadian Press) It sounds like fiction, at first blush: hundreds of dollars appearing in your bank account every month, for no reason other than being alive.
However, Newfoundland and Labrador is taking the first step toward making a guaranteed basic income a reality.
"A Tory senator wrote a book on why we should do this as a country," Labrador West MHA Jordan Brown said on the assembly floor last Wednesday, in reference to basic income advocate Hugh Segal ."This crosses […]
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