I was reading Senator Segal's arguments in the paper the other day, and he's been advocating that for a long time. I listened in on the earlier panel, so I heard some of Jean Swanson's provisos, things you need to take into account. So I think the idea of a guaranteed annual income a lot of us would support, but the devil is in the details, and we'd have to make sure that it's set, and we'd want to have some input into what is a reasonable threshold, who wins, who loses, and how it is paid for. Those are all key questions.
It's not a bad idea, and certainly replacing a plethora of small programs that some families get and some don't, and some know how to get and some don't, and some work against each other, or get clawed back too early... We really do have a bit of a dog's breakfast of programs now, and they're inadequate, and people are falling through. it's not a bad idea, but it really needs the community's help in putting it together.