By Beryl Wajsman on June 30, 2014
The Basic Income Canada Network organized a conference over the weekend at McGill advocating for a guaranteed national income plan. The conference showed the practical path to getting it done. We need to, and can, do this.
The broad principles for a Guaranteed Annual Income were first proposed by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, future UN Ambassador and New York Senator, when he served under President Nixon. They came within a few votes in Congress of getting this done in the early 1970s. A GAI would replace other social security programs such as welfare.
