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

Finance committee  I can provide it for 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

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  You've asked some hard questions. Yes, absolutely, a number of people...there are a lot of different models of a GAI out there. Most people who are seriously talking about this in Canada right now are talking about a negative income tax model or a refundable tax credit. In ter

Finance committee  The difficulty with doing it on a provincial basis is that there is a big difference between provinces in this country. If you're talking about Ontario and Quebec, you can possibly talk about this provincially. If you're talking about P.E.I. and Manitoba, the story changes a litt

Finance committee  I can send that.

Human Resources committee  Thank you for inviting me to speak to you today. Changes in the global economy over the past 40 years, and most recently the financial shocks of 2008 and the COVID-19 pandemic, have undermined a lot of the institutions that Canadians rely on to keep the world a reasonably just p

Human Resources committee  I think that EI is intended primarily to concern itself with maintaining a commitment to the workforce. The difficulty, when we're dealing with very low-income workers and precarious workers, is that we don't have that regularity of commitment. For example, when COVID came along,

Human Resources committee  EI can work extremely well for some people, and as long as it works as a social insurance system there's no reason to talk about replacing it. We can transform that system to make it work for the people for whom it works. I think that a basic income captures those people who si