Comment on A Universal Basic Income Is Being Considered by Canada's Government
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 11 months agoThe Minister must develop a national framework for the implementation of a guaranteed livable basic income program throughout Canada for any person over the age of 17, including temporary workers, permanent residents and refugee claimants.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
After reading this document, I feel that it is still ambiguous. However 88 billion (the cost estimate in the OP article) divided by the population of canada is 2200, which I think wouldn’t be considered a livable annual income, so I think what they’re talking about must have some kind of means testing.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
If you remove kids under 17 it gets closed to 3000, but you might be right. It seems the idea is to make it a specific amount based on region.