Universal Basic Income, Canada, and the Lesson of COVID

What UBI Is, What It Isn’t, and What Canada Accidentally Learned

Universal Basic Income has always occupied an uncomfortable place in public discourse. It is too practical to dismiss outright and too disruptive to adopt casually. For decades, it has lived in the margins of policy debates—raised during moments of economic anxiety, studied in pilot projects, then quietly shelved once political attention shifted elsewhe…