Скачать или смотреть PEI advocates Calls on Liberals to Back Basic Income | Press Conference Highlights

February 20, 2024 — In a press conference in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, advocates called on Liberal leadership candidates to endorse the implementation of a Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI). The event featured Trish Altass of Coalition Canada, MP Sean Casey, and Jillian Kilfoil, Executive Director of the Women's Network of PEI, with former MP Wayne Easter moderating. Speakers emphasized the success of PEI's basic income pilot project and its potential as a model for national adoption. The press conference also highlighted the upcoming ACT BIG conference in PEI this June, aiming to further discuss and promote GBI initiatives.

MP Casey said the Island is well-suited for a basic income pilot thanks to its size and demographic diversity.

"We have urban and rural communities, a place where we have a Francophone minority, a place where we have Indigenous communities, a place where we have both advanced and primary industries," he said. "All of those things are transferable in other parts of Canada."


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