Guaranteed Livable Basic Income in Canada - Forum

Originally Published: December 29, 2021 Source: For The Future So roughly 8 million Canadians received CERB during the pandemic. The official statistic as of October 3, 2020 was 8,899,170 but that included EI recipients. However, a Basic Income in it’s lowest form based off 75% of the poverty line ...

https://inclusioncanada.ca/2021/02/10/press-release-un-experts-challenge-canada-over-human-rights-violations-in-bill-c-7/ FOR IMMEIDATE RELEASE February 9th, 2021 OTTAWA, ON – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, the Independent Expert on the enjoyment o...

Back on June 22, 2021 the Liberal Government introduced a bill called Bill C-35 the " An Act to reduce poverty and to support the financial security of persons with disabilities by establishing the Canada disability benefit and making a consequential amendment to the Income Tax Act " Offi...

We need a Minister of Permanent Disability and Poverty Elimination

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What a complete let down that the 2022-23 Budget didn't help those with Disabilities like it was supposed too. This is completely unacceptable and is going to delay assistance to some for an additional year, causing much grief. I just don't get it. What did you like or not like about the Budget tod...

Published April 5, 2022
Source: NewmarketToday - https://www.newmarkettoday.ca/local-new ... ys-5223298

Hey, do you have an Instacart list? Perhaps a Paypal.me link?
Do you think that people can help you out? Then it doesn't hurt to try right?

Philanthropists? I hope your out there and have fun today

Do you think we missed one?
Then reply here. It's that simple.
We all work together towards the same goal.

1 in 4 Canadians expect to use or already use charitable services this year, CanadaHelps finds

Published: April 5, 2022
Source: CBC News - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ ... 93?cmp=rss

Published: September 23, 2020
Related: Canada Disability Benefit
Source: Gov't of Canada - https://www.canada.ca/en/privy-council/ ... anada.html

Canadians with disabilities are twice as likely to live in poverty than those without disabilities, a situation that has been made even worse by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. By addressing the longstanding inequities that lead to financial insecurity, hardships and social exclusion faced by...

In the September 2020 throne speech, the federal government promised to establish a monthly Canada Disability Benefit, which they promised again in the May 2021 budget. In June 2021, the Canada Disability Benefit was tabled in parliament. https://twitter.com/CQualtro/status/1407401403425996802 This...

Some references to start: Social Assistance Tables - https://www.glbi.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?t=64 List of Who Supports - https://www.glbi.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?t=72 What Formula does GLBI.CA Use Officially? - https://www.glbi.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13 Why is there a Household limit? - https://www...

Liberal MP Julie Dzerowicz says her push for basic income has traction among her caucus colleagues, including a number of cabinet ministers. Dzerowicz introduced a private members’ bill this week, Bill C-273, which calls on the federal finance minister to study guaranteed basic income models and de...

Ahead of next Monday’s 2021 federal budget being presented, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has planned conversations with the opposition party leaders this week, talking first to his Conservative and Bloc Quebecois counterparts on Monday. Up first was Trudeau’s lunchtime chat with Conservative Leade...

The Liberal Party just passed a basic income resolution. So what now? Liberal Party delegates voted to pass not one but two basic income resolutions at their national convention that ran from April 8-10, making basic income the governing party’s second most important policy issue. For those in supp...

With a smattering of nays from the floor of the House of Commons, the federal NDP’s latest effort to pressure the Liberal government to implement a guaranteed livable basic income was defeated. But while the non-binding motion required unanimous approval, meaning it never stood a reasonable chance ...

From Greens to Conservatives, it seems everyone has a version of guaranteed basic income (BI) that they can support. There is confusion, however, over the objectives of BI and very different views on what is feasible. The debate on BI has advanced with the recent publication of a study commissioned...

Where do I find the list of all the Government officials who support GLBI?

You can find it at: https://www.forthefuture.ca/who/

Madam Speaker, I imagine my Conservative colleague will take some solace in the fact that what the member for Winnipeg North said was not true. In fact, the government has taken the advice of the Conservatives and cancelled the Canada recovery benefit program. It has created a Canada worker lockdow...

Madam Speaker, I want to pick up on something the parliamentary secretary just said. He talked about this piece of legislation and its intent, in his words, to create “disposable income” for people. We have gone from providing supports to people to protect their lives and livelihoods to now providi...

The Trudeau Liberals appear to be warming to the idea of a guaranteed national minimum income as they search for ways to help Canadian workers adapt to an unsteady labour market. A guaranteed minimum income means different things to different people, but at its core is a no-strings-attached payment...

More people are asking “what is universal basic income” – and this collection of UBI studies, projects and organisations will help you answer this question

Published: February 9, 2020

Source: https://www.gooddollar.org/what-is-univ ... ding-list/

A basic income would not necessarily mean that people would work less. This is the conclusion of a series of behavioural experiments by cognitive psychologist Fenna Poletiek, social psychologist Erik de Kwaadsteniet and cognitive psychologist Bastiaan Vuyk. They also found indications that people w...