The Progressive Conservatives’ decision to cancel the basic income program is very shortsighted. People don’t realize the benefit to recipients of this funding. The program was to see if it is cheaper in the long run to offer a basic income as opposed to welfare.

The basic income program was an experiment to see what it might look like when potentially thousands of Canadians lose their jobs to automation and robots in the next 10-15 years. What will become of them?

I read that European countries were watching this study closely. Maybe we could ask them to kick in some money to keep the study going.