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Ontario to test guaranteed-income program amid warnings about costs, effectiveness
Posted: Aug 30, 2016 5:00 AM ET
The long-debated idea of a guaranteed minimum annual income for Canadians moves a small step closer to reality this week.
Former Conservative senator Hugh Segal delivers a report this week on how the "basic income pilot" announced in Ontario's February budget might work.
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He's quick to dismiss suggestions that guaranteed incomes foster laziness.
"For all those good folks on the right … who say that if you pay people to do nothing, they will do nothing, I remind them that 70 per cent of the people who live beneath the poverty line in Ontario … have jobs.
"They just don't earn enough through minimum wage to be above the poverty line," he said.
Former Conservative senator Hugh Segal delivers a report this week on how the "basic income pilot" announced in Ontario's February budget might work.
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He's quick to dismiss suggestions that guaranteed incomes foster laziness.
"For all those good folks on the right … who say that if you pay people to do nothing, they will do nothing, I remind them that 70 per cent of the people who live beneath the poverty line in Ontario … have jobs.
"They just don't earn enough through minimum wage to be above the poverty line," he said.
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Link: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/minimum-income-hugh-segal-ontario-budget-1.3740373