P.E.I. basic income project a federal partnership worth supporting

We can keep playing whack-a-mole with our social support priorities, or we can move towards a data-driven study providing the information required to address growing poverty, food insecurity, health-care costs, and increasing income gaps.

Current poverty reduction policies focus on program-targeted supports, but the result is that these combined programs do not raise people out of poverty, writes Liberal MP Sean Casey.

Opinion

BY LIBERAL MP SEAN CASEY

March 12, 2026

Canada has been disrupted by many issues which have led to the need to prioritize the development of our economic infrastructure and create a more resilient society. Why can’t this priority include reducing, or even eliminating, poverty? It need not be an either/or choice....

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