Basic Income To Cost $43B

A national guaranteed income program would cost about $43.1 billion a year and benefit 7.7 million Canadians, the Parliamentary Budget Office yesterday calculated. The report followed a 2017 Senate vote urging that cabinet investigate such a plan: “It doesn’t cut to the key question of behavioural impact.”

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