Finance committee  That's right.

Finance committee  That was the intention, and among primary earners there was little reduction in terms the number of hours worked. The reductions were among teenagers and women who reduced the number of hours they worked in a specific way associated with childbirth.

Finance committee  It would certainly be possible with a new pilot. It wouldn't be possible given the information that was collected—

Finance committee  The new pilot, absolutely.

Finance committee  Absolutely. That's a big potential benefit.

Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  That's an interesting question, certainly among the researchers. When this project was introduced in 1974 there was a belief that Mincome was a pilot project that would be rolled out across the country by the end of the decade. It was seen as very much like Medicare, and a lot of the conversation I'm hearing now about guaranteed annual income is much like the old conversation about Medicare.

Finance committee  I can provide it for you.

Finance committee  Thank you very much. I'd like to thank you for giving me this opportunity to come and talk to you all today. I'm an economist. I'm a health economist at the University of Manitoba. I'm here with a very simple request today. I'm going to ask you to set aside a very small amount of money in this budget exercise going forward so that you can work with the provinces to facilitate a series of guaranteed annual income experiments, or pilots, across the country.