Month: January 2017

Considering we see neither the NDP nor the GP officially calling the governments out on the flaws in their welfare-upgrade plans, I rather doubt we’ll see anything but rhetoric come election time. The Pirate Party of Canada in fact had published their proposal just prior to Elizabeth May coming out with remarkably the same plan (which is OK, it’s an obvious approach and even if she got the idea from us, we put it online so that people WOULD steal it! 🙂 ) only now that there are plans in the media that clearly are not UBI, where is May? Is the media just not covering what they’re saying? I’m seeing nothing from either of them gaining any traction on social media, yet plenty from Australia, Scotland, Finland, France …

My concern us that the idea is to save money, not address poverty.

The problem with not doing it right is that it won’t reap the real benefits. In our winner-take-all system, subsequent governments don’t continue good work done by their predecessors (why #Mincome hit a brick wall) but in this case, if the LPO does it wrong, they can look forward to the NDP & Greens (at least…maybe even Conservatives) campaigning on doing Basic Income right.

But I hope we’re wrong, too, because done right it would be amazing.