Ontario’s minister of community and social services, Helena Jaczek, has been attending consultations across the province about testing a guaranteed income to alleviate poverty. (Kate Porter/CBC) More than 100 Ottawa residents gave their feedback Tuesday night about Ontario’s plans to try a different approach to alleviating poverty with guaranteed incomes.
"We have an opportunity to right a system that is, in my opinion, quite broken," said Carissa Davis, a single mother who attended the consultation session on Coventry Road. Carissa Davis finds the current social assistance system too focused on policing people’s finances. She believes a guaranteed income would empower […]
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