Thread by @Learning2GetBy, From 2018:Liberals looking at national basic income as way to help Canadians [...]

From 2018:
Liberals looking at national basic income as way to help Canadians cope with job instability https://globalnews.ca/news/4777313/liberals-national-guaranteed-income/

Liberals looking at national basic income as way to help Canadians cope with job instability

The Trudeau Liberals haven't shut the door on a guaranteed-income program in their search for ways to help workers adapt to an unsteady and shifting labour market.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4777313/liberals-national-guaranteed-income/

Trudeau has always supported UBI

PC in Ontario squashed the program there; thanks @MacLeodLisa

Also thanks to @PierrePoilievre

Pierre Poilievre, who had some harsh words for Ontario pilot on which the report was based https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/what-would-a-guaranteed-basic-income-cost-canada-just-43-billion/

What would a guaranteed basic income cost Canada? Just $43 billion. - Macleans.ca

The Parliamentary Budget Officer modelled a national program at the request of federal Tory Pierre Poilievre, who had some harsh words for Ontario pilot on which the report was based

https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/what-would-a-guaranteed-basic-income-cost-canada-just-43-billion/

We can even go further back...
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau votes during the party's biennial convention in Montreal on Feb. 23, 2014. Delegates endorsed the principle of a basic annual income. https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/02/27/how_can_we_not_afford_a_basic_annual_income.html

How can we not afford a ‘basic annual income’?

What is most needed now in Canada is a basic income guarantee for working-age adults.

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/02/27/how_can_we_not_afford_a_basic_annual_income.html

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