What is Canada’s timeline with GLBI?
So your scared about Guaranteed Livable Basic Income ruining the economy, making people lazy, it costing too much, reducing our kids to couch potatoes, or you want to do your own research. Either way, your looking for a list of links and information and I’m here to give you just that. From the left to centre to right there is many opinions about Basic Income in Canada. From coast-to-coast-to-coast it’s clear that a solution needs to be made to address poverty when it costs over $80 billion a year to deal with it. But how. Well this could be one option that also helps a lot more working class Canadians than you think. Pay attention to Scenario 3 in the PBO Reports. You’ll see.
We’re going to assume we’re looking into a Federal program from 2018 to current.
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February 2020
Statement: Senator Kim Pate addresses Guaranteed Livable Basic Income
March 2020
Study: McMaster University – Southern Ontario’s Basic Income Experience
July 2020
PBO: Costing a Guaranteed Basic Income During the COVID Pandemic
September 2020
Opinion: Data Visualist representation of Basic Income Worldwide
November 2020
PBO: Update: Five-Year Cost Estimate of the Guaranteed Basic Income
February 2021
House of Commons: Bill C-273 introduced
August 2021
House of Commons: Bill C-273 defeated when Parliament ended
December 2021
House of Commons: Bill C-223 introduced – An Act to develop a national framework for a guaranteed livable basic income
Senate: Bill S-233 introduced – An Act to develop a national framework for a guaranteed livable basic income
January 2022
Petition: e-3786 launched
April 2022
Petition: e-3991 launched
July 2022
Petition: e-3987 ends with 683 signatures
August 2022
Petition: e-3991 ends with 1,845 signatures
April 2023
Senate: Bill S-223 passed second reading
May 2023
News: False claims proliferate on Canadian universal basic income bill
October 2023
Senate: Senate Finance committee meeting on GLBI
November 2023
Senate: Senate Finance committee meeting on GLBI
Data: Basic Income and the Labour Market: Labour Supply, Precarious Work, and Technological Change