Eggleton and Segal: COVID-19 presents lessons in how a guaranteed basic income program could work

Fifty members of the Senate of Canada, almost half the chamber, are calling for a basic income plan to ensure that, in these challenging times, no one goes without the means to acquire the necessities of life. This is not a new endeavour for Canadian senators. Fifty years ago, Sen. David Croll called for an overhaul of our social safety net, saying: “We are pouring billions of dollars every year into a social welfare system that merely treats the symptoms of poverty, but leaves the disease