A professor from the University of Manitoba feels a standardized income may be beneficial in the long term for Canada.
On Monday, the Ontario Liberals announced a three-year pilot project in Hamilton, Lindsay and Thunder Bay to see if providing residents with a basic income will improve social indicators like health outcomes and education.
Evelyn Forget, a health economist with the University of Manitoba has actively been studying the similar experiment that occurred in Dauphin from 1975-78 and what comparisons can be made.
"What made Dauphin unique is that the invitation essentially went to everybody who was living in Dauphin and the surrounding region during the period, they were all given the promise if they wanted to participate in the experiment if their income fell below a specified threshold they would receive a top up from the government."
Forget has been conducting research on the project since 2010, and found that there were many benefits to Dauphin's mincome experiment.
