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There is no economic or moral justification for the poverty afflicting millions of people in Canadaone of the richest places on earth. In this timely, passionate, and convincing book, Jamie Swift and Elaine Power invoke the powerful vision of basic income to inspire a fundamental rethinking of poverty and how to fight it.

JIM STANFORD , economist and director,
Centre for Future Work

This book should be required reading for every current and aspiring politician.

PAUL TAYLOR , executive director, Foodshare Toronto

An interesting and timely book on what basic income can mean to so many peoplea leap from the realm of necessity into the realm of freedom. Jamie Swift and Elaine Power vividly capture the struggles and dreams of the precious working class in Canada, allowing people with experiences of poverty and aspirations for self-betterment to speak for themselves and make themselves heard.

MOHAMMAD FERDOSI , co-author, Southern Ontarios
Basic Income Experience

Anyone interested in social justice should read this book. Swift and Power trace the emergence of the idea of a basic income in Canada and globally. They focus on how the Ontario pilot made a real change in the lives of those who participated. Using the words of participants, they tell a story of hope. Some see the cost of a basic income as out of reach. However, reading this book will convince you it would be money well spent!

WAYNE LEWCHUK , co-author, Southern Ontarios
Basic Income Experience

For forty long years, Ayn Randblessed politicos have preached that the greatest good belongs to those who achieve the greatest gain (even if by theft or fraud), so labour pools and capital flowsefficiently. But the COVID-19 pandemiclike the Great Depression nearly a century agohas proven the free market a hoax. Theres no way for democratic societies to achieve Freedom, Security, Justice, unless citizens demand that governments return renminbi (the peoples money) to the people, in part by providing a basic income.

GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE , E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian
Literature, University of Toronto

In this timely contribution, Swift and Power make a powerful case for basic income as a transformative poverty reduction strategy with the potential to reinforce a welfare state apparatus eroded by decades of neoliberal policies. The authors use the personal narratives of former OBIP participants to illustrate in vivid detail how basic income can change the lives of those who receive it for the better.

TOM MCDOWELL , department of politics and public
administration, Ryerson University

The COVID-19 pandemic has surely taught us that we need societal resilience. This book adds to the growing body of evidence that only a basic income as an anchor of a new income distribution system would provide us with that resilience.

GUY STANDING , author of Basic Income:
And How We Can Make It Happen

In the not-too-distant future, Canadians will look back and try to remember how we made possible a guarantee that everyone would have an income sufficient to live a modest life with dignity. This wonderful book captures the stories of the tireless activists and real basic income expertsthose who tried to survive with the broken social systems of the past. It documents the opportunities lost when Ontario cancelled its prescient basic income guarantee experiment, but it also captures the hope and optimism that will ultimately prevail.

EVELYN FORGET , author of Basic Income for Canadians:
From the COVID-19 Emergency to Financial Security for All

This urgent case study brings to life a grassroots movement whose time has come. Swift and Power write passionately from the inside, shining a vital lens on Ontarios fight for basic income.

JOHN GREYSON , queer filmmaker/activist

In a most touching and compelling manner, the authors underscore the vital role that the Ontario Basic Income Pilot played in the lives of participants. They also identify how a guaranteed livable basic income could help address current economic, social, and health crises, as well as the massive systemic inequality laid bare by COVID-19 and the patchwork of federal, provincial, and municipal responses. In addition to challenging myths and discriminatory attitudes of critics and naysayers of various political persuasions, the authors discuss how everyone will benefit from basic income initiatives, in no small part because of the ways they provide insurance against current and future unpredictable life events.

THE HONOURABLE KIM PATE , C.M., Senator for Ontario

THE CASE FOR BASIC INCOME

THE CASE FOR BASIC INCOME

FREEDOM, SECURITY, JUSTICE

JAMIE SWIFT & ELAINE POWER

FOREWORD BY DR. DANIELLE MARTIN

BETWEEN THE LINES
TORONTO

The Case for Basic Income

2021 Elaine Power and Jamie Swift

First published in 2021 by

Between the Lines

401 Richmond Street West, Studio 281

Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8 Canada

1-800-718-7201 www.btlbooks.com

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be photocopied, reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise, without the written permission of Between the Lines, or (for copying in Canada only) Access Copyright, 69 Yonge Street, Suite 1100, Toronto, ON M5E 1K3.

Every reasonable effort has been made to identify copyright holders. Between the Lines would be pleased to have any errors or omissions brought to its attention.

Cataloguing in Publication information available from

Library and Archives Canada ISBN 9781771135474 EPUB ISBN 9781771135481

Cover design by Pascale Arpin

Back cover photograph by Pamela Cornell

Text design by DEEVE

Printed in Canada

We acknowledge for their financial support of our publishing activities: the Government of Canada; the Canada Council for the Arts; and the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Arts Council, the Ontario Book Publishers Tax Credit program, and Ontario Creates.

To the 4,000 courageous people who took a chance on the Ontario Basic Income Pilotand whose good faith hopes were shattered when a Progressive Conservative government arbitrarily and prematurely cancelled it.

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

Nelson Mandela

CONTENTS

Dr. Danielle Martin

George Elliott Clarke

A Good Idea Goes Viral

A Brief History of Basic Income in Canada

Basic Income Comes to OntarioBut Briefly

Lindsay: The Saturation Site

Hamilton I: The Freedom to Live with Some Dignity

Hamilton II: Thinking Further Down the Road

Hamilton III: New Choices

A Provocation to Freedom

The Case for Basic Income

Foreword

Dr. Danielle Martin

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale.

Rudolf Virchow

At the height of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, I was worried about a lot of people.

As a family doctor, I knew that the impact of the virus would be felt in different ways by different patients in my practice. An 86-year-old retired lawyer was living alone and found himself cut off from his kids, grandkids, and social circle. He knew he was at higher risk of getting seriously ill, but longed for the simple pleasure of a meal with friends or a hug from a loved one. A young woman with a history of anxiety, pregnant with her first baby, was terrified of giving birth in the hospital, knowing that people with the virus were being cared for in the same building.

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