Senator Kim Pate is behind a senate bill to develop a national framework for a guaranteed livable basic income. It is currently being studied by the Senate’s Committee on National Finance.
Pate told Nation to Nation host Annette Francis that one of the big reasons she introduced Bill S-233 was to start a discussion about what kind of model should be looked at to help people get out of poverty.
“When you provide enough resources, enough for people to live on, people get housed, they get fed, and they get out of poverty faster, they get out of homelessness,” she said.“When […]
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