Thank you.
When you look at basic income or any social program, it's important not to look at one individual case and say, oh, you know, there's this family who's benefiting unfairly. You have to look at the bigger picture. I work with hundreds of people, low-income people, who aren't making anywhere near $80,000 a year, who critically depend on supports through social housing, and who could substantially benefit from a basic income.
The other side is that when we're talking about how we can afford that, unfortunately in Canada, through various forms of corporate welfare and through tax breaks for some of the wealthiest Canadians, we're effectively giving huge subsidies to some of the wealthiest Canadians who can afford to pay much more. That's where I would argue the bigger weight on working Canadians is coming from, rather than from the few low-income Canadians who may be misusing existing programs.