Finance committee  I have to find it here. I have the report from the Special Committee on Poverty. I don't want to give you inaccurate information, but those—

Finance committee  Absolutely, yes. I just want to note, though, if I could very quickly, that was really a starting point for a more complete costing of basic income. Of course, as a provincial standing committee, our capacity to fully cost out every detail of what a basic income would entail was

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Morrissey. That is exactly the right question. In fact, evaluation needs to be taken into consideration at the start of any demonstration project and throughout it. That is absolutely critical. What we often think of when we think about the evaluation with basic

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Blaikie, for that question. There is always a question that comes forward when we talk about basic income, and that is what the cost is. It's a difficult question to tackle, but it is something that was tackled first on this island during the Special Com

Finance committee  Thank you. That is another question that always comes forward: What will be the impact on our labour force participation? As you noted, in the Mincome experiments, which was one of the most extensive examples of basic income experiments that we've seen, we saw that most groups

Finance committee  Absolutely, and of course, as we all know, Prince Edward Island is the smallest province. We have a population of just over 170,000. It is really the ideal place to test out what a basic income could look like at a provincial level. As I noted earlier, the interaction between p