Trivers takes government to task over inaction on basic income pilot for P.E.I.

Trivers takes government to task over inaction on basic income pilot for P.E.I.

FILE PHOTO: Brad Trivers, Conservative MLA for Rustico-Emerald. Trivers challenged Family and Human Services Minister Tina Mundy on what steps have been taken to make such a pilot a reality in P.E.I.
“This tired Liberal government basically shelved the idea of a basic income project when Ottawa wouldn’t pay for it, even though the federal government did offer support through data,” Trivers said during question period Friday.
Mundy wrote to the federal and Social Development Minister Jean Yves Duclos in February asking for an update on the possibility of a pilot for the Island.
Duclos’s response was that his […]

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