This post is based on a talk presented on August 24, 2019 

at the 19th Basic Income Earth Network Congress in Hyderabad  

In August 2016 I set myself the goal of getting Basic Income implemented in Canada in my lifetime (I’m now 65). My immediate goal was to get the ruling Federal Liberal Party to put the issue on the platform for the October 2019 election...

I am announcing today the founding of the Black Swan Society whose mission is to provide the federal government with an all-inclusive, zero net cost, Basic Income dividend plan to implement starting in 2020.

This social dividend is a plan for the middle class, and for those working very hard to join it. Our social safety net is crumbling. It is inefficient and...

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Yesterday, at their National Convention in Halifax, the members of the Liberal Party of Canada adopted Basic Income as official party policy. This is the third time that the grass roots membership has voted in favour of a resolution supporting Basic Income. This year's resolution follows similar successful resolutions from 2014 and 2016.

The reali...