Ontario pays $320K in legal fight over its cancellation of basic income program

Ontario pays $320K in legal fight over its cancellation of basic income program

Ontario Premier Doug Ford exchanges words with former NDP leader Andrea Horwath during Question Period at Queen’s Park in Toronto on July 31, 2018. After battling five years against a class-action certification process, the Ontario government has paid $320,000 to the law firm spearheading a lawsuit against the Ford government over its decision to cancel a guaranteed basic income pilot project.

Last month, Ontario Superior Court Justice S.T. Bale certified the lawsuit, filed in 2019, that seeks $200-million in general damages of behalf of 4,000 people who enrolled in the project.

On Monday, lead counsel Stephen Moreau will appear at Queen’s […]

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