Last Thursday, Victoria City Councillors voted on whether or not to endorse the Union of BC Municipalitity’s (UBCM) resolution to explore a Universal Basic Income (UBI) in BC. Mayor Marianne Alto, who introduced the motion, acknowledged it was being brought forward as a followup to a resolution that the previous council had made in 2016.
The idea of a universal minimum level of income support for all Canadians was first recommended by the Croll Committee’s report in 1971. A strong case for guaranteed income in Canada was made again in the Macdonald Commission’s 1986 report and in several of its […]
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