Obviously, if we had $20 million or $30 million today this is an area we can possibly explore, but we don’t have that kind of funding available to us to date. At the same time, as I stated earlier, we are making some changes effective April 1, 2015. We are proposing to increase our overall food benefits under income assistance programming. This is from a recommendation and also suggestions from the clientele, the general public that it’s time that we change our programming, and we’ve done that in 2007 and again in 2015 to meet the needs of those individual clients. That’s what we’re doing as a department. We provide directly to those individual clients with a subsidy that’s available to them.
Jackson Lafferty on Question 726-17(5): Guaranteed Basic Income Proposal
In the Legislative Assembly on March 2nd, 2015. See this statement in context.
Question 726-17(5): Guaranteed Basic Income Proposal
Oral Questions
March 1st, 2015
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