Critics of basic income ignore benefits of investing in struggling Canadians, ‘astronomical’ cost of poverty, argues Senator Pate

ISG Senator Kim Pate's Bill S-233, the National Framework for a Guaranteed Livable Basic Income Act, passed second reading in the Red Chamber on April 18.

ISG Senator Kim Pate says critics of the possible costs of a guaranteed basic income often ignore the ‘downstream savings’ for the health-care and criminal justice systems if more Canadians are lifted out of poverty.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY STUART BENSON

April 25, 2023

With a bill to enact a national framework for a guaranteed livable basic income before the Senate, ISG Senator Kim Pate says critics of such a program ignore the long-term benefits of investing in Canadians so they can rebound out of poverty, and the “astronomical” cost ...

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