Finance committee  For a quick answer, right now in Canada 37% of workers are precariously employed.

Finance committee  The beauty of basic income is that it provides a mechanism whenever the nature of economies or jobs is changing. The movement towards robots and AI is a particular example. Another extraordinary example is the prediction that green jobs are going to be growing at a huge rate in

Finance committee  It's impossible to overstate how important that is. Lack of income leads to so much mental and physical hardship—that's mental and physical damage to their health. I just want to focus on food insecurity alone for a moment. In 2017-18, 4.4 million people in Canada were living i

Finance committee  You're asking a lot. I'll try to get this in in as short a time as possible. One of the things we have learned from CERB is that governments can respond quickly. When governments need to, they can respond quickly. What we have also learned through the CERB is that people have

Finance committee  Basic income advocates in Canada support an income-targeted basic income, which goes to people who most need it. We do not support giving it to everybody.

Finance committee  That's correct.

Finance committee  That's correct.

Finance committee  We strongly support the statement that anyone going into basic income should not be worse off. As a matter of fact, in the research done on the one-year Ontario basic program, which was at 75% of the poverty level, everyone stated that they were better off because of it. If and w

Finance committee  Yes. We have a very large youth network across Canada, but that's a sentiment that applies not just to youth but to any sector of precarious work. Arts is another one, actually. There is very strong support for basic income from the arts community.

Finance committee  There is no evidence to support that statement. Actually, on the contrary, the research that has taken place both in Canada and internationally indicates that, generally speaking, there are two categories of people who remove themselves from work. The first is women who choose to

Finance committee  If you look at the PBO numbers, they come in at about $85 billion. The previous one said $80 billion. Again, that's looking at 75% of the poverty level. There are many ways to finance that. You can look at the tax credits, as the PBO did. That comes out to net zero. Basically,

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am pleased to present today on the topic of a basic income guarantee. I would like to acknowledge MP Dzerowicz’s private member's bill, Bill C-273 and MP Gazan's motion 46. Mr. Chair, if a basic income support system had already been in place, a more e