Episode 11: Hope and Betrayal - the human stories and human cost of Ontario‘s cancelled Basic Income Pilot

<p>Originally Aired October 6, 2020</p><p> </p><p>______</p><p> </p><p>There cannot be two people better placed to speak about Ontario's Basic Income Pilot than Deirdre Pike and Jessie Golem. Created by the Ontario Liberal government in the final years before it lost power, and canceled (contrary to assurances to the contrary) by the incoming PC government in 2018, the Basic Income Pilot was intended to provide hard data on how a basic income based on tax returns, replacing the mishmash of benefits currently on offer, could work to transform the lives of people living on lower incomes.</p><p>...