KITCHENER — The country needs to come up with a better way to help those going through financial hardship, Kitchener council signalled Monday, voting in support of a motion for a universal basic income.
“The economy is going to be flat for quite some time,” predicted Coun. Bil Ioannidis, who brought forward the resolution.
Unemployment has reached unprecedented levels, with more than a million jobs gone in Canada in March, he said. Federal pandemic relief is estimated to cost about $82 billion so far, while the federal Parliamentary Budget Office estimated in 2018 that a Canada-wide basic income would cost about […]
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