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Minimum Wage Earlier this year, Ontario’s Liberal government announced it would launch a pilot project to study guaranteed minimum incomes (GMI) as social support. A recent history of a base wage by Steve Brearton


Millions of dollars spent on a 1988 report into Ontario’s welfare system that rejected a GMI for low-income residents. “We think ultimately a [GMI] … is too passive [an] approach to meeting people’s needs,” the report states


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5 Canadian Royal Commissions and reports


recommending some form of GMI between 1971 and 1985. The governments of Brian Mulroney and Pierre Trudeau both examined the implementation of such programs


10 Billions of dollars in annual costs to


implement a GMI system for all Canadians, according to a 1991 report released by the Economic Council of Canada


46 Percent of Canadians voicing their support


for a GMI in a 2013 poll. Quebecers were most likely to agree with the policy and Albertans least likely


194 Physicians asking Ontario’s Ministry


of Health in 2015 to implement a basic income guarantee as a “sustainable program that provides health benefits to lower-income Ontarians”


1974 Year Manitoba provided residents of


Dauphin with a “mincome,” or supplement equal to 60% of Statistics Canada’s low-income cut-off. The five-year pilot project, which cost $17 million, lowers hospitalizations and improves educational outcomes


12,000 to 15,000 Appropriate dollar amount for an


individual GMI, according to Conference Board of Canada chief economist and senior vice-president Glen Hodgson in 2011: “It would be a means of providing material income support without governments telling people how to run their lives”


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