Lisa Macleod, Ontario’s minister of social services, makes an announcement on welfare rates at the Ontario Legislature in Toronto on Tuesday. Ontario’s new government will cancel the province’s experiment with a basic income program, minister Lisa MacLeod announced Tuesday.
The pilot project, which reached full enrollment in April, was supposed to last three years.
"I don’t know if I should feel anger or despair right now," participant Jessie Golem told HuffPost Canada. "I feel like the rug was just pulled out from underneath me."The 29-year-old previously worked three jobs to pay her bills in Hamilton, Ont. Basic income allowed her to […]
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