The patchwork has to do with a series of categorical programs for people with disabilities, for families with children and for seniors, and there are only very meagre programs for the working-age population. They're largely left out.
A basic income is what we propose to do about it. This is, at its full implementation, a universal benefit that has no conditions and, in a sense, is an entitlement and a right of citizenship. It eliminates the kinds of problems we saw with COVID when existing programs were inadequate and new programs were put into place. They needed to be put into place, but there were many inequalities in those new programs.
For example, if we look at the CERB and the CRB, they didn't apply to people who may have had additional costs because of COVID but hadn't earned at least $5,000 in the previous year. There were people falling through the cracks, so a basic income, by definition, eliminates most of those cracks by having a single program structure.