As the populous province of Ontario gears up to test the idea of a universal basic income—basically, free money for being a living human being —another, much smaller Canadian province is standing up and bravely saying, “ Me, too! ”
On Tuesday night, the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, or PEI, passed a motion urging the provincial government to forge a partnership with Ottawa to establish a basic income trial on the island of 147,000 people , which is on Canada’s Atlantic coast. According to the language of the motion , this is because the Members of Provincial Parliament […]
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