Basic Income Canada Network is a unique national organization dedicated to ensuring everyone can meet basic needs and live with dignity.

YOUR SUPPORT MATTERS!

By adding your name, you help make our message stronger. Each signature helps to build momentum and places basic income on the radar of politicians, the media and fellow Canadians.

What Is Basic Income?

A basic income guarantee could completely change the way you make decisions and live your life.

HOW CAN I HELP?

Basic income movements are happening on local, provincial/territorial, national and international levels.

HOW CAN I LEARN MORE?

We’ve developed resources to support informed action by all Canadians.

Groundbreaking report shows how Canada could fund a basic income

As the need for basic income grows, we are often asked how Canada could best design and pay for it. To answer that, we asked a team to model some fair, effective and feasible options. Our report, Basic Income: Some Policy Options for Canada does just that.

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what we stand for

We want a basic income implemented in Canada, one that is grounded in principles of universality, adequacy, non-conditionality, autonomy, dignity, and economic and gender equality, and that works in synergy with public services. We stand with people in Canada calling on their governments to make basic income a reality.

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California budget has $35 million for basic income programs

May 17, 2021

The Toronto Star California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to use a sliver of the state’s massive budget surplus to give poor people money each month

Universal basic income to be tested in Wales

May 17, 2021

A universal basic income scheme is to be trialled in Wales, meaning adults, regardless of their means, will receive a regular sum of money. The

Now More Than Ever: Jamie Swift and Elaine Power Make the Case for a Universal Basic Income

May 12, 2021

OpenBook.ca A universal basic income isn’t a new idea, and there are mountains of evidence to support its efficacy, including studies showing that individuals receiving

Making the Case for Universal Basic Income

May 7, 2021

The Tyee “The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain, is floating in mid-air, until it is secured for all of us and

Who controls the basic income narrative?

April 30, 2021

Leah Gazan Canadian Dimension I put forth Motion 46 to address the need for a guaranteed livable basic income in Canada. It is time to heed

Guaranteed Basic Income isn’t just about reducing poverty

April 29, 2021

Ottawa Citizen From Greens to Conservatives, it seems everyone has a version of guaranteed basic income (BI) that they can support. There is confusion, however,