A version of this podcast appeared in Basic Income Earth Network and the Huffington Post
Offering a guaranteed annual income to reduce poverty and improve health is not a new idea in Canada, but it is once again on the political radar.
Dr. Evelyn Forget and Dr. Danielle Martin explain why Canada should consider implementing a basic income.
Professor Evelyn Forget is a health economist at the University of Manitoba. Her re-examination of Mincome and ongoing work on Guaranteed Annual Income is supported by CIHR and SSHRC.
Danielle Martin is a family physician, Vice President at Women’s College Hospital and an advisor with EvidenceNetwork.ca
Interview by Mélanie Meloche-Holubowski, journalist intern at EvidenceNetwork.ca, and journalist with Radio-Canada.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
