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Navigating Universal Basic Income Security and Social Inclusion in a Post-Pandemic Environment

  • 21 Jun 2021
  • 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
  • Webinar

Against the backdrop of the global pandemic and the long-standing commitment to alleviating poverty and improving social inclusion, this 75 min webinar will explore the role that a basic income guarantee could play. It will consider:

  • What is the overall concept and how does a UBI work in practice?
  • What are the lessons learned from Canadian experiments and global UBI research and initiatives?
  • How can governments sustain and improve upon the income security changes introduced in response to the pandemic?
  • What are the administrative, policy and other challenges?
  • What is the scope for innovation and experimentation?
     

Recognizing that this approach could involve a longer-term transformation, this meeting will discuss the opportunities and challenges for governments to build upon recent policy changes and introduce a UBI more directly into public policy making and delivery.

 

Speakers:

Dr Evelyn Forget (Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba and author of Basic Income for Canadians)

Norm Helfand (Social Policy Consultant and former Director of the Government of Ontario’s Income Security Policy Branch)

Dr Kwame McKenzie (CEO of the Wellesley Institute, Member of the National Advisory Council on Poverty, and former Advisor to Ontario’s Basic Income Pilot Project)

Hon Hugh Segal (Matthews Fellow in Global Public Policy at Queen’s University, author of the discussion paper Finding a Better Way: A Basic Income Pilot Project for Ontario, and author of Bootstraps Need Boots)


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