Madam Speaker, the member was talking about basic income. As he knows, and as has been brought up by various people in the House, there is a growing movement to study basic income to see how it could be implemented in a country like Canada. We have heard a lot from the Conservatives that this would call for x billion dollars, but they never seem to talk about the savings that might come from the fact that a number of different programs could be amalgamated into this one single concept.
I wonder if the member would take the opportunity to address some of what I see as falsehoods, as they relate to only talking about the costs without talking about the savings and the value added for the people who could be recipients.