A Conversation with MPP Kathleen Wynne: Guaranteed Livable Income and Lessons from the Pandemic

Click here to access more information about MPP Wynne's political career.

For more information on Guaranteed Livable Income:

Click here to access the Perspectives document on Guaranteed Livable Income by Team Pate. Click here for Bill C-223 and here for Bill S-233 on guaranteed livable basic income.

Click here for a new year's statement and update from national guaranteed livable basic income groups Basic Income Canada Network, Basic Income Canada Youth Network, and Coalition Canada, basic income – revenue du base (Coalition Canada).

Other resources mentioned in the episode: 

Click here to access the Wynne Government's Basic Income Pilot Project discussed at 1:48 and 14:10.  Click here to access Basic Income Canada Network's Signposts to Success: Report of a BICN Survey of Ontario Basic Income Recipients.

Click here to access Ontario's 2021 "Right to Disconnect" legislative initiative (Bill 27, the Working for Workers Act) discussed at 9:59.

Click here to access the Ontario Liberal Party's news release related to including a four day work week in their 2022 electoral platform, as discussed at 10:40. Click here to access an article which discusses the Zorra township's four-day work week pilot program, which was afterward permanently implemented.

Click here to access Hugh Segal's Bootstraps Need Boots, discussed at 22:12.

General topics discussed in the episode:

See the 1:40 minute mark for a discussion about the new and evolving labour laws and economic support measures being brought in, including in the context of the pandemic.

See the 10:40 minute mark for MPP Wynne's commentary about the possibility of a four-day work week, and about the evolution of workplace expectations.

See the 14:10 minute mark for a discussion about the social and economic benefits of a Guaranteed Livable Income, and the idea of such income as an "investment".

See the 21:17 minute mark for a discussion about guaranteed livable income in PEI and relevant lessons from the pandemic.