Bill C-273 (Historical)

National Strategy for a Guaranteed Basic Income Act

An Act to establish a national strategy for a guaranteed basic income

This bill is from the 43rd Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in August 2021.

Sponsor

Julie Dzerowicz  Liberal

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Second reading (House), as of June 14, 2021
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment requires the Minister of Finance to develop a national strategy to assess implementation models for a guaranteed basic income program as part of Canada’s innovation and economic growth strategy. It also provides for reporting requirements in relation to the strategy.

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-273s:

C-273 (2022) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (Corinne’s Quest and the protection of children)
C-273 (2016) An Act to amend the Customs Act (marine pleasure craft)
C-273 (2011) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (cyberbullying)
C-273 (2009) An Act to amend the Competition Act and the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (right to repair)

Financial Statement of Minister of FinanceThe BudgetGovernment Orders

April 22nd, 2021 / 1:25 p.m.


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Green

Elizabeth May Green Saanich—Gulf Islands, BC

Madam Speaker, it is an honour to take the floor to speak to my colleague from Davenport.

I did get up this morning at 5:00 a.m. B.C. time to watch Biden's climate summit, so I will inform my friends in the House that, officially, Canada is a laggard. The United States government has announced it will go to 50% below 2005 by 2030. Our Prime Minister has announced a much weaker target.

I wanted to ask my friend from Davenport if, in reading the budget, since she has been a champion on basic income and her private member's bill, Bill C-273 calls for a guaranteed livable income, she was as disappointed as I was not to see a reference to moving to a guaranteed livable income in the budget?